Ive spent a few hours looking through search results and honestly Im at a loss. I apologize if this hits a nerve with people who have been asked this a lot but I could really use the help. I have a flash swf that I am publishing out to html. When its published out to a HTML my SWF looks g...more >>

Hello, I have a text box. Whenever the user presses space... a counters increases by 1. I have an offscreen button with actionscipt: on (keyPress "<Space>") { box = box + 1 } However, when the user is typing in the input textbox... and they press space... the counter increases.....more >>

I don't really know anything about Flash at all... I was creating a project mostly just using the built-in Fade Transition and the Expand Effect with the occasional motion tween. Everything was working great until I added a motion tween that followed a line. After that, if I put a pictur...more >>

Hello, I'm creating a small Flash object. I have four URLs that I want to display and dynamically change through Flash, but I'm not sure how to display these pages. I tried creating a dynamic textbox that displays html. I set a variable and put an iframe there pointing to the url I want...more >>

I need help opening a flash presentation that was created for my business. I has a .exe extension. It was created as an cd business card. I want to host this presentation on my website, but my site does not allow me to upload .exe files. How do I change this to a different file type. It will n...more >>

Hi there! I was hoping someone might be able to help me or point me in the direction of help! I'm not sure if I'm asking a really stupid question! I'm also not sure of what I'm asking for is called so I've looked at existing examples on the web to illustrate my questions. I've come ac...more >>

How do I go about linking a button within one Flash movie to another Flash movie inside the same window using Flash 8?...more >>

I have text on a banner that is moving from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. While it's moving the text is real chopping and does not look good at all. Anyone have any suggestion?...more >>

I need to be able to use the < and > symbols in an eternal text file that I'm loading at runtime. I'm using Notepad to author the text. Thanks, Mike...more >>

Hellow fellas, I am having solving a flash 8 problem with a new website I am making. I have created a small movie that animates my logo across the front of a flash header. The movie is complete and saved to the computer but when I preview it in my browser it continues to loop over and over wit...more >>

I have an HP CD/DVD combo drive on my PC - OS XP, Pentium IV & Intel motherboard. For some unknown reason, neither Windows Explorer nor the Cyberlink DVD player would recognize the insertion of DVDs in the drive for playing, asking me to insert a CD/DVD in the drive. The DVDs which worked fine o...more >>

Okay, yes I know I'm going to get flamed here. Yes, I realize that I am no master of the code. Yes I realize that there are people in this field that are INFINITELY more intelligent than I am. So please save your breath (or your bytes). I am NEW to flash and yes I am NEW to javascript....more >>

'Lo gents. I wonder if its possible to get an object - in my case a logo - to dance to the rhytm of music. i've got some nice samba that plays when the page opens and am trying to get the logo to "dance" to this music. I Appreciate an answer ...more >>

Hi there, I have a couple of questions about this forum. I've been posting for a while, and am curious about a few things. First is, what's a newsgroup user? I've seen many, but would like to know how and why you become one - also, why newsgroup users don't see edited posts. Second, Ju...more >>

I would like to find a tutorial on how to make a Flash Tutorial like http://www.alwaysonline.net/demos/DirectAdmin/Add%20New%20Domain.htm or something similar. Any help would be greatly appreciated! ...more >>

Hi. I've got a movie with 5 layers that is 50 frames long. Is there an easy way to stretch the whole thing out to say 200 frames without going in and editing each layer on the timeline? The reason I ask is because there are multiple keyframes and it's sort of a pain to go in and spread out ea...more >>

I recorded narration and converted it to aiff. I have ppt images that I'll convert to useful format. I want to create a Flash-based online presentation with images changing at specific audio cues (basically a linear presentation -- player controls and interaction are not primary considerations...more >>

Hiya, I'm putting the finishing touches to a little interactive movie I've made that features several buttons. At the moment, a label appears at the bottom of the screen explaining what the button that is being rolled over is, but I'd like to change this, so that a little label appears to...more >>

Just started working with Flash and I noticed when I publish a page that I'm working on Flash creates a HTML version as well. What I am working on will be placed within an existing site which is all html. Not sure the reason for the additional html page and what to do with it. Sorry if I'm a b...more >>

Ever since I upgraded from IE6 to IE7, on web sites with Flash content I'm getting a message box that says "We're Sorry! You need to update your Flash Player". When I click on the link it takes me to the Adobe Flash Player Download Center. I Click on "INSTALL NOW" and it says "Adobe Flash Pl...more >>

I have installed Flash professional 8 on a Vista Ultimate system and this is what happens Unless I set compatebility-mode to Windows 98/Me and Run As Administrator Flash woun't even run (it stops when trying to load fonts) But set as above it opens - and it will open a new file - but it ...more >>

hey all, i'm having a little problem i hope you can help with. i had to pick up someone elses job, but theres a playback problem. http://newsite.resortvacationcertificates.com/home.asp its 3 smaller files loading into a shell swf. something is going on causing the files to load very slo...more >>

Hi, I've run into a bit of a problem layering an embedded video player on top of a flash object with HTML. The situation is that we have a flash object, which is the background for the video player in a containder div. On top of this, we have another div that contains the video to be p...more >>

Hi there! Is there a way i can convert, automatically, without pressing or doing anything, a Fla file to swf? The goal here is to create an fla file that reads some information that is being updated from a text file and with an hour interval convert into swf file. Is this possible? I could reall...more >>

I made a flash file and used a logo that i designed in photoshop. Since I put the jpeg in the flash file it has become pixelated when I preview it in a browser. does anyone know why this is, or how I can fix it? ...more >>

I've created a few flash sites, but when they're played on a LCD monitor, only a black screen appears, but when youroll the mouse over the area, it only shows a box outlined in white. On very very few LCD monitors, you have to click on the image first, then click it again to get the imagine to...more >>

Hello all and thanks for all the help you've given me with questions I've had in the past. I'm experimenting with the Slide Presentation feature of Flash v8. It's been slow but I'm making progress and now I have a new challenge. I have several slides and nested slides. Each slide is only ...more >>

After installing the flash player my movie will not play. In control panel it shows the program installed. I have gone through all the technotes and besides messing around in the registry nothing has worked. Why can't I see the movie after flash has installed? This happened overnight. I h...more >>

Hello, I've just been learning about Flash decompiler's and was wondering what kind of encryption protection is available in Flash 8 professional. If none, will there be something in the next version that will protect decompiler programs from ripping the raw source files from my flash work? ...more >>

On the some flash sites, if you click to link outside, and then you close the opened link it shows a message to click anywhere to load site again and the music stops when you link out to the site. How is this done?? Also, let's say you have a video and when you click to play it, you want the m...more >>

I'm using this code to rotate a movieclip nmaed character, it works fine except when its placed inside a movieclip, i'm guessing its something to do with the _root object. any help would be great. _root.onMouseMove = function() { var xdiff = _root._xmouse-_root.character._x; var ydiff ...more >>

Hi. I would like to know your opinion on wether you should build a main.swf with all the content for a website or if the content should be divided by several ..swfs that are then loaded into the main.swf. I know this largely depends on the kind of website, the amount and type of content, e...more >>

The problem is iam not able to display text with special characters 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 >>

Linking to a PDF from a standalone Flash movie doesn't seem to work if a web browser is already open on a Mac! We've tried this on 4 different machines and it remains a problem.. Any ideas ?? Thanks ...more >>