My client is complaining that several of his potential clients are unable to see video on the website and the site itself runs sluggish. I thought that maybe this issue relates to the "Active Content Update" that Microsoft released several months ago for Internet Explorer. Does anyone know ...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a Flash based application and I was posed with a question - where does Flash stored it's data, variables, etc.? Is it on the Hard Drive? In Memory? Thanks, Trevor...more >>

I have a gallery with a menu that is a row of thumbnails (horizontal--right to left). And a button on each side of the tumbnail menu---and of course when you click on the right button the menu scrolls to the right and vise-versa for the left button. The code I have on the buttons is pretty...more >>

I've run into a peculiar problem with a Flash subpage (several of them actually). On all of the following pages the header text for the garments shown (the bold text on the top left with the drop-shadow) will have sections cut off the end or the beginning as if there were a transparency la...more >>

Hi everyone. I did a search already and didn't see an obvious answer. My question is: Can I target an earlier sub-version of the Flash 8 player? Meaning not 7 but 8.0.22. I currently am exporting version 8.0.24. I work at a large corporation with locked down destops and they want me to ...more >>

i am trying to pass info from a swf to a asp file with out oppenimg a new window. i am using [b]xml.sendAndLoad("upload.asp",xml);[/b] but i am getting a new window Thanks for all the help ...more >>

Okay...So first off, here's a link: http://www.drugfreeaz.com/test.html I am working on the Drug List Drop Down in the white section up top. I inserted the flash and because I have other flash components overlaping within the HTML, I changed the wmode to transparent. Anyway, it all seems...more >>

I'm trying to figure out how to put some thumbnails into a sort of box list. As an example http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/lostandfound/index if you click on any of the episode from the "Episode" button, you will see on the right hand side that there are a bunch of thumbnails and each one of ...more >>

Yes, I am most likely over-confident that I can get what I want to do done, but I have high hopes! I am building a new site, and I am planning four flash elements for the entire site. This is a wee bit presumptious in that I dont really know flash yet, I do have the flash bible, and I am ...more >>

Hi, I have a Flash file and it uses Mac fonts, however, I work much better using Windows. I'd like to do my Flash development on a Windows machine, but I need to use the Mac fonts. Say buying these fonts for Windows is not an option...can I embed a font within the FLA so I can develop on Win...more >>

Here's the scoop. I'm just starting to work with Flash Professional, and this is what I'd like to do. I want to have a bunch of phrases appear and then fade out one after another. So basically I want to start with one phrase, have it appear on the screen, and then fade out, and then have a...more >>

How do I "scroll" text in a flash presentation. I want the text to move slowly over background pictures and then fade out until a new text appears. reidarT ...more >>

I have recently redesigned my website and need to make several mp3 files available for playback. I'm a voiceover talent, and I need to have my demos readily available to those who visit my website to hear my work. I built the site using Dreamweaver (there's a little bit of Flash content t...more >>

:confused; I am having a headache with some clips which contain text. Please see the following... http://www.virtualentourage.com/www/main.htm I have selected the text so it is aliased for readability and still it looks awful when exported and viewed on a PC. I am a mac opereator and it appear...more >>

Hello... I really hope someone is able to help me with this problem of mine... The thing is that I can´t hear any audio on my Flash MX nor my Flash player. I really don´t understand why. I´ve tested several movies and sites that I know that have working audio on them. I just realised this pr...more >>

I need to get my movie to goto a certain frame after 15 seconds, i'm a bit new at actionscript and was hoping someone could let me know how...more >>

I have just started updating my site and I purchased a Flash template for the home page. I'm a photographer not a designer. Thinking of adding some Flash elements to one other page. One effect that I'm interested in trying on another page is what looks like a flash...as in photography, goi...more >>

" Wrong number of parameters; getURL requires between 1 and 3. getURL(); " hava a number of scenes, and nona of my get url works, seems to search for asked URL's in my root folder, NOT online, any ieas what the problems might be ???? All the best ...more >>

I am so completely lost on all of this, I don't even know what applications I need to do what I want to do... I want to be able to have video clips "built in" to my website, so that they automatically play when the page loads- and/or play instantly when a play button is pushed by the viewer. A...more >>

Hi All I need a help in database integration. Actually I have a site www.soniktechnologies.com. I want to display company products and projects like below mentioned url from out database: http://www.oxidev.com/web-development-work.html How can I integrate it with flash. Please ...more >>

i am trying to put a list of video titles on the left side of my page and the flash video to the right, so that when the user clicks the linked title the page doesnt change, just thevideo changes. how do i do this? here is an example of what i am going for. http://www.commondeer.com/Videos.h...more >>

Hi, I have little separate .swf files acting as buttons on a web page. For some reason occasionally when you go rollover one of these buttons, it wont react as if it doesn't have focus. So you need to actually click on the .swf for it to gain focus, and therefor initiate rollover. Is ...more >>

Hello all, I' really hoping someone can help me with this problem. Here is the site that I am currently working on: http://rflonline.com/test_site/index.html What I'm trying to do is this. In the Contact and Subscribe section of the site I'm trying to get the checkboxes to properly s...more >>

Hi i'm making a banner ad and i need the first section to loop 5 times and then go through to the end frames, i'm sure this isn't that complicated but i'm kind of a newb at actionscript. I'm trying this at the moment for (var i = 1; i<=5; i++) { gotoAndPlay(33); } gotoAndPlay(1)...more >>

The problem is iam not able to display text with special charecters like @, ?, ! dynamically using asp. Its working fine with simple text without special charecters. Iam taking the values from asp into a dynamic text box in flash. Iam getting undefined in dynamic text box when using speci...more >>

Hello everyone - I'm relatively new to Flash Actionscript so bare with me... I'm wanting to create a simple(?) looping slideshow with approx 10 images. The images will be masked so as not to display the full image and have to scroll right to left in a continuous loop with approx 3 visible ...more >>

Hi there, While installing my very expensive Flash Media Server 2, I get a problem, I can't realy fix... ---- # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4) # ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly ../fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.s...more >>

For some reason, I cannot delete anchor points in Flash. I have tried both the subselection tool and the pen tool. Does anyone have any idea what gives? ...more >>