When I try to Flash on Mac, only an outline of images appear, paint bucket will not work to fill any of ovals or rectangles. I can see the images have been imported but will not appear on screen. Same program works with PC but will not work on Apple. Is something not activated? ...more >>

Hi! I have some embedded videos that look great in a swf, problem is that they keep looping. Thank you!...more >>

I'm having difficulties trying to publish a graphic I made in flash to a gif for web (logo) use. I've tried grouping, turning into a symbol putting a transparent box behind the image etc and then publishing the thing to a gif, selecting transparent, to no avail. it still has a white box behi...more >>

(Using Flash 8 Professional) Hi, I have a Flash movie comprised of two scenes. The first scene is fairly complex, with over 20 layers. I want to add a preloader to the front of this movie. In searching on the web, I found one forum where the solution was to add a new scene containing the prelo...more >>

Hello, I have this input field that a user types into, and then presses a button launching this actionscript: on (release) { getURL("http://www.donjworks.com/"+_root.textInput, _blank) } This does launch a new window, but when I leave the field blank this appears in the address b...more >>

I have 2 animated masks. On the stage in flash they work fine when I run the animation, but when I publish the movie, the second mask doesn't do anything! when I turn the mask layer back into a regular layer it works fine when published and the movieclip animates fine. The movie clip does in...more >>

We have a navigation.swf file which we want to include in different html pages. These pages are all in a different folders. I read on Adobe Tech note that html and swf files should be on the same folders. Is that means we have to have all our html files in the same root folder, where we have o...more >>

okay i might be just completely stupid but i need help. Ive been creating interactive floorplans (if you dont know what that means its a floorplan of a house that you can take away and add things to the floorplan with a simple button. its simple stuff, just a long process) Well anywho, ive ...more >>

I would like to have a preloader for eah photo that i have in a gallery. I have seen this done before, but i havent found any tutorials or know that much about scripting to figure it out. Essentially, this is what i want to happen... The movie opens, preloader loads first picture. Click...more >>

When I import a JPG using loadMovie(), the resulting image is completely discolored, I'm thinking inverted. How can I remedy this? The actual JPG file is fine....more >>

I have a Flash item that I cannot figure out: I have 2 boxes (1 image and 1 text/background, side-by-side) that I have converted into a single Movie Clip. I want the text/background to be hidden until the user rolls over the image portion, at which point I want the text/background to "slide ou...more >>

How do you insert a movieclip into another movieclip? :confused; I am following a tutorial at http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2006/11/18/flash-game-creation-tutorial-part-2/ and i need to insert a movieclip called hero_hit into my other movieclip, hero ...more >>

Here is a site I am working on. http://www.powersourcestudios.net/cgentile/ Rollover the menu. A brown box appears. This is where the sub nav will be listed upon rollover. Now rollover 'macro.' Notice how the brown box goes away? Yeah, thats not supposed to happen. The brown box is...more >>

Hi, We are trying to port an application from desktop to Windows CE 5.0 (FP7), the problem is that everything which uses the localConnection class doesn't work. Is that a limitation of Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC or is that me who doesn`t know the "tricks"? ;) Other Flash movies (pub...more >>

Hi- I am brand new to this and am trying to figure it out on my own with no manual, so it's a little hard understanding everything. First, I have made a flash file of 5 photographs. I have them fading in and then have the second fading in at the same time so that there is no blank frame. It ...more >>

hey i realy need some help... i have problems with getting my buttons working, i have done it many times before but in this case it wont work. i have written the following action: _root.html1.onRelease = function (){ _root.boks.gotoAndStop("html"); } were html1 is the instant nam...more >>

I did a search on this forum for "opacity dynamic text" and came up with nothing, so I apologize if this has been covered before. I have dynamic text boxes with scroll bars on a page. I made a Movie Clip of all of them and I am fading from 0 to 100 opacity in the timeline. When I scrub the...more >>

I am looking for a solution to hosting a SWF on one server that loads SWF's from another Subdomain. Currently the movieclips will load, however their functionality will not work....more >>

Hello: Basically I have an animation in the first frame and I don't want it to repeat everytime users refresh the page so I use SharedObject to check for existing users and bypass the animation. However I keep checking on different computers as new users, it still bypass the animation. W...more >>

:confused; I recently begun learning Flash, let?s say I have 2 years experience. So being a member of NAPP I assume there has got to be a National Association for Flash Professionals. Well, evidently there is not. I am hoping that some one here can prove me wrong and direct me to it. If not a...more >>

Hope someone can give me a quick hand: I have a flash intro page at http://www.rocketfireworks.ca/intro.html (i feed into it from a few sites here or there but it is not my index page). Anyway, the flash works a-1 in firefox but not in IE. Not sure why, although I'm sure it will end up bei...more >>

Why some of my Flash movies turned into garbage when published as animated gif? They look drastically from the swf. Could someone tell me what is the cause and possibly how to fix it?...more >>

hi my question is can you create an entire web page using flash? When you finish everything in flash, you know adding buttons, pictures and some text, Do i just put the movie code in the plain html file and that is going to be all?. The html file is only going to have the movie code. What are...more >>

Can anyone please tell me how to disable the reminder that keeps coming up for the updation of the Flash Player version installed on my computer? I do not need to update to a newer version of Flash Player. ...more >>

Just installed Flash 8 on my mac book pro (os 10 .4.9) but the option to export to .flv from quicktime pro is not coming up in the menu. Does anybody know why this is not appearing. The component is installed but not showing up in quicktimes pull down menu. Any help would be great, thanks ...more >>

:confused; Hi, I have a swf in a simple HTML file. The swf plays a movie. The action script is simple and looks like this: var movieConnection:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); movieConnection.connect(null); _root.movieStream = new NetStream(movieConnection); _root.movieStream.se...more >>

Hey guys, I was wondering if i can make a flash video that can display a website? like to view google.com through browser made in flash/ tnx...more >>

Hi all, I have a site http://www.rallytorque.com which is built using flash, with each component (navigation, content, sub navigation) loaded into levels. I have had a user on OSX 10.4.3 using Safari 2.0.2 who has said they cannot see the navigation, call to action and logo (all of which...more >>