hey there all, I have a movie clip that has a few layers and a button on one of the layers. on the button I have this code: on(rollOver){ gotoAndPlay("over"); } on(rollOut){ gotoAndPlay("out"); } Now, this mc is on the Main timeline and has an istance name "home_btn". I ...more >>

Hey there. I apologise in advance for being slightly computer illiterate :) You technological whizz-kids scare me (: Anywho, im having trouble installing flash player. It downloads fine, but when i try to install it it freezes up. It states that it is Searching Macintosh Harddrive. It fre...more >>

Good day all! I've got three flash files on the homepage of> http://winterslippers.com they are in there own layers and they work fine when I goto test the homepage. Yet when put the homepage live on the server, I don't see the flash files. Anyone got any ideas?? ...more >>

Is there some way I can make this look smoother? All I did was a very basic movement - 2 keyframes, the image starting at the top and ending at the bottom, and a motion tween. but it looks a bit jittery. And I don't want to make it any faster than this. Is this just a limitation of the softwar...more >>

I trying an old version of Flash and trying to determin if it will be worth it to use and I've run into a problem that I don't understand. We have a site made with .asp. I mad a flash file and went through the publishing with no problem, but here is where my problem started. I have the fil...more >>

Hi I need help with a flash guestbook from the beginning to the end,I've searched the web and can't find that much. A good tutorial would be great. Thanks Stew...more >>

Ok, here's the problem. I am making a Flash website in MX 2004 Professional 7.2. I want to embed my Blogger blog into the flash website. Is this possible?...more >>

I created a Flash banner that I need to play once a day. I found the attached code to make the banner play the swf just once - no time factor involved. I put the attached action script on frame 1. The flash banner/movie animation is 373 frames long, with a preloader in the first 8 frames. I h...more >>

T-Shirt manufacturers are using a Flash App. created "Design Window" to allow one to "design" their own T-Shirt: 1. Select Style of shirt 2. Select color 3. Add type in selected color 4. Add (upload) custom art or choose from stock art (shown on site) 5. Move all objects around on shir...more >>

Hi I'm just using flash for the first time and need to know a few things before getting started, would really appreciate some expertise. Firstly what pixel dimensions would be a preferable size to work at if i want to export to video i.e final cut pro/premeiere, I'm attempting to create a ba...more >>

I am new to Flash and have published a simple flash website to provide some basic info. When I view it on my Mac or other Macs it works flawlessly. However, most the people (actually all the people) who will be viewing this site are on PC's. When I tested it on a coworkers PC it comes up just ...more >>

Hi, We have an app which uses XMLSocket class, the question is: when should we close the socket? Is there any event which is called when the flash movie is closed? How do you guys release resources?? Cheers ...more >>

www.toughfloors.com...I'm new to Flash. I placed the video, and it let me choose which controller .swf to use, I chose "SteelExternalPlaySeekMute.swf", and it shows in Flash, and when I preview it in Flash. But when I publish, and upload, I get just the video, not the controller. The SteelEx...more >>

I'm using Flash Pro 8. I'm working on a flash app where some introductory type pictures fade in on the screen then after that is complete, I want to place a menu on the left side of the screen. The menu sort of "builds" the buttons and they slide into their final position. I want the "picture ...more >>

Is it possible to increase the scriptTimeLimit beyond 15 seconds in Flash 9? In Flex, you may set the scriptTimeLimit on the <mx:Application> tag, but I don't see anything in the documentation about how to set this in ActionScript 3 / Flash 9? ...more >>

I'm going through some video tutorials on www.gotoandlearn.com (good tutorials) and to progress further in the tutorial I need to convert a piece of video to an flv file that is version 1.0 or higher so it says to allow the scrub code to work. Anyone know where I can find a good version/ f...more >>

Hey all - I have to make some flash banners for Turn, and their flash specs tell me I need to utilize a clickTAG. This is what it says: clickTAG support: Turn utilizes the industry standard clickTAG parameter to ensure all clicks are recorded properly. Each ad may only contain one click d...more >>

Hi, All the Flash related documents in the Adobe website seem to relate only to Flash CS3 and their sample code doesn't work with FLash Professional either. Does anyone know where they keep the old documentation and sample code for Flash Professional? I am not sure what parts of the new C...more >>

Hi, can someone summarize that biggest differences between the two? The Adobe website doesn't show Flash Professional anymore, are they not selling it anymore and instead have they upgraded everything to Flash CS3? thanks ...more >>

I have a FLVPlayback in a movie clip called samples movie. Its embedded into another mc. I also have the ClearOverPlayMute.swf in the same folder as the flash movie. When I demo the movie in the flash pro all works but when i publish to the website it doesn't show up when I mouse over are set ...more >>

OK..here's my problem: I've created a Flash movie that plays two different movie clips simultaneously. I've created Pause and Play buttons for the movie clips that work fine. The actionscripts I use to stop and play the movie clips are the following: to play: on (release) { mo...more >>

I would like to get two MovieClips to talk to one another. One MC is my navigation MC (navMC). When I click on a button within navMC, I want to go to a label (slide1) on the root timeline where my second MC lives (mc_slide1). Then have mc_slide1 gotoAndStop on a frame label inside it. navMC ha...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for a flash xmlSocket example chat or any other in flash 8. Apache is my server on localhost. I'll appreciate your inputs, Dhiraj ...more >>

I want to put an action on a frame in one movie clip that affects a second movie clip. Basically, I want the last frame in one movie clip to tell another clip to go to and play a specific frame. Can someone show me the proper actionscript for this? Thanks Mark ...more >>

I am totally new to Flash I want to make an animation for a class project. I need an object in my animation which looks like this picture http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/bwn/WMSN/Pictures/robot.JPG Can someone guide me how I can include this in my animation so that it looks real. ...more >>

I'm using an FLVPlayback component with a custom seekbar (just modified colors on the one provided). The video is played on frame 5. There's also a button on the screen that skips back to frame 1 (menu screen). Playing the video works fine, but once I skip back to the menu screen, the seekb...more >>

I am using Flash 8, progressive download method. I have bunch of links pointing to different SWF / FLV files. Each movie opens in new window. The stop button stops the movie, but it doesn't stop the download, even if I close the window, the download stream continues in the background. After op...more >>

Hello i have a problem with exporting and i need the flash fast. I can export into a .avi perfectly but dreamweaver doesnt support it. Everytime i try to export it in a .swf it exports it into my last saved one. I have been trying to fix this problem for days. I deleted all signs of the old fi...more >>

hi i have a web page with 3 frames (2 rows and the second row has 2 columns) and i using this code: on (release){ getURL("wyyandel.html", target="fra3"); } I want to open wyyandel.html file in the second column of row 2. I called this frame "fra3" and thats where i am targeting but it ...more >>

I have Arabic text in an swf which I want to convert to a graphic or bitmap (so that it's no longer recongised as text). The text is used only as a background (for artistic purposes) but when it's viewed on some other computers it is displayed as normal Roman characters (I suppose if the Ara...more >>

I was looking at the new Flash CS3 course at Lynda.com and I noticed that there was no Form Application in the templates section. Is this true? If so I will have to retrain all my non-flash people on a new way to place their content. Anyone have any further info on this subject.................more >>

When creating animations I start with the final image and then animate the elements into position e.g. If I am animating the word FRY onto the screen then I would place the artwork for the word on screen and then create 3 seperate movies to animate the F coming from the left, Y from the right ...more >>

Hi guys. Is it possible to convert flash [b]swf image to JPG, PNG or JPG on fly[/b], using actionscript, and sending the result to another server side script for later processing? Short explanation: -The aplication has module for uploading images, -merge it with existing templates ...more >>

Integrating databases and external information with Flash is a brand new avenue I need to explore, and I need to make sure I choose the correct method - ASP, Coldfusion, Flex, XML etc - do these all do the same thing? Which one is going to make most sense to a designer with a designer brain. A...more >>

I am just starting to learn Flash as my current role gives me the opportunity to learn and do what I want with the job. Its Great. However I am learning from web tutorials and have no-where to go when I get stuck. Was just making an image a weblink. (easy for HTML) when I run the test prog I ...more >>

Hi I have just start using flash and have created with some help from here (thanks) my first flash movie. just a few jpgs moving around the screen but hey thats where it starts! I would like to learn how an image flies in, in effect from behind the camera, and then fly out in reverse,...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to load thumbnails and photos using xml. Here's my code. Right now the first 2 images are loading, but I don't know how to adjust it to add more. Thanks! for (z=1; z<=_root.thnCount; z++) { this.createEmptyMovieClip("z"+z, this.getNextHighestDepth()); } // var ow...more >>

Whou to create a flash movie with background transparent? Does a Flash movie can contain transparency once it has published on site? How to? Help me plz.....more >>