Are there things the educational version of Flash can't do that the commercial version can? In particular, are there limits to what can be produced/outputted? Thanks....more >>

hi you all im haveing problems to open a new internet browser from my file. i use this code getURL("http://atropper.com/file _name.swf","_blank "); And i would like the new window to be open in the size of my file dimention which is 445X444 for this example. What am i doing wrong...more >>

Hi, I am using Flash 8 and I tried to open one of the sample files (animation.fla) that comes with the Sample.zip archive in http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/samples/ and I get the following error: "Undefined file format" I can't open any of those files. does s...more >>

I have just migrated to Vista (on a new machine) and all of a sudden, it is taking 2 - 3 seconds to go inside a movieclip for editing. I didn't have this problem in XP. Is there a setting where I can fix this? It really slows things down! Thanks, Brad ...more >>

Hi, I have created an array to display photos. When the user clicks the contact button, the photo fades partially, and the info appears over the photo. I'm then using a frame label to fade in the photo and fade out the info. The problem that I'm having is the array resets to the first imag...more >>

Hi, I am working on an interactive CDROM and I have a button that when I click information loads from an external txt into a html readable dynamic textbox. Everything works fine except when there is a "<" symbol in the txt flash cuts off everything from that point on. However when it encou...more >>

Is it possible to launch an SWF to a specific frame within the movie? For example, if I wanted to load the SWF, but start the movie on say frame 125, is that possible via a command in the object or embed feature of HTML? Gary ...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to have a flash section of the website extend over the html (non flash) section. For example, if I have a flash menu with drop-down sub-menus, can these sub-menus drop down over the html section, or do I need to make the flash movie large enough to accommodate the drop ...more >>

New to Flash, old to everything else. Wanted to put a simple 5 minute video clip on a site, in a flash file. I chose "import video", chose my video clip, which is labelled as a .mpg file. And when testing in Flash itself, video only, no sound. So I publish, upload, no sound again. Now, I'v...more >>

I'm using Flash 5 and in WIN 98SE it looks fine, but now I installer in a computer using XP PRO and a lot of lettering in things like the ACTION script is a very strange font and hard to read. How can I get it to look like it did in WIN98SE ...more >>

:confused; Help. I asked this before. Received an answer, and was unable to make it work. All i got was a blank white stage. I would like to be able to display bitmapped logos in a random fashion. If at all possible, I'd like to make them crossfade with the next logo. I was told to: "Plac...more >>

hi, im using the list component as a sort of menu for a project im working on. The user uses up and down to change between items on the list and selects it with enter. I then thought of an idea that i have seen other menus do and wondered if it would be possible to achive. i call the i...more >>

I am trying to make a mouse trail with a spherical white blur and a purple line that trails off in alpha. I have a picture of it at http://www.erawanet.com/images/mouseTrail.jpg Any ideas how I can implement this? Many thanks!!!! ...more >>

Hi, I'm designing a movie for a (huge) plasma screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1024x1024 pixel resolution. Should my movie be 1024x1024 pixels in size, or should I set the resolution to 1024? Confused! Thanks in advance.:confused; ...more >>

Hello. New to the Flash forum. (new to flash, too ;-) ) Am trying to design an animation with a circle spinning around the path of an oval. To make my job easier, I'm using Tweaning. I want it to go around the circle, but can't figure out how. Is this possible, and if so, how? Thanks...more >>

Installed Adobe Flash Player and now my browser encounters substantial difficulties on many of the websites I really need. I tried to uninstall it using the Settings/Control Panel/Add Remove Programs button but when I click on the Change/Remove button on the Adobe Flash Player program it does...more >>

I have a site with several flash buttons. I can see them in IE but not Fiirefox or Netscape. I have re-downloaded Flash Player. This is the page: http://trainedwhistle.com/Audio_Books.html. I have found references to the Flash Browser Detection Kit on this sire but none of the links work. can ...more >>

I have a movie that consists of many different sprites. I have the main movie frame rate at one setting. I would like to set a select few of the sprites to a different frame rate than the main scene without having to recreate the individual sprites. How is this accomplished? Can anyone he...more >>

I have a button, in which it animates in the 'Over' state. I want to click the button and an animation (array of objects (later buttons) casscade down the right hand side, nothing to do with the initial button) starts. Do I, a) Place the separate animation in the 'hit' state of the b...more >>

Hello, I bought an fla file that I have to edit so we can use on our comapny's website. The only problem is that I'm new at Flash and it seems to be very confusing. I can understand how to chane the file enough to add our photos to it but it seems there is a blinking effect that we don...more >>

I have installed flash8, and when I compile old version flash's files in flash 8 don't work the load of movies or sound. Somebody can help me, please? I think that problems are in projector (exe).......more >>