Hi I have a dynamic text field which is just one line of text. For some reason letters like g or p that go below the regular line of text get cut off. I have made the field bigger, and also played around with the _height Property but it doesn't make a difference. I have imported the fon...more >>

i have this idea of making a video guest book, where visitors can record short video clips with sounds from their web cam. but after some research, i can only figure out how to play back video from web cam, and produce a freezed snap shot. I dont know how I can record and store the video i...more >>

Guys, Beginning my own start up company and cant afford a designer to do the dirty work, so here I am. I have a number of on-line members who can each select an avatar .... each avatar can be customised with certain items ... e.g hats, different hairstyles, etc. Since I have only ever ...more >>

I have created a flash document that works fine and a flash animation separatly, i have pasted the layers from the animation into the other document but it is in the top left corner and i want it down the bottom, is there any way to move all 340 layers at a time or work around this? ...more >>

Greetings All, Is it possible to have more than one pic in the content path field? Say for example, i have several pics i want on the scroll pane. pic1.gif, pic2.gif, pic3.gif. Do i have to put them all in 1 movie clip? ...more >>

I have a Flash drop-down menu that is 800x200 pixels. It has a transparent background and drops down over the rest of my page, which is all html. In Firefox, everything under that 200px flash swf cannot be clicked on, including my form elements. This is not the case in IE6. Everything under the ...more >>

Hi, I'm relatively new to Flash MX, and I have a question regarding animation effects. Here is the backround info for the animation: for a school project, my group had to invent a product. The product is a hand soap that changes colors after fifteen seconds. For the product's website, I wou...more >>

I finally managed to creat my preload page, add it to my movie etc! Thanks to those who helped me! I created a webpage with GOLive CS2 and inserted my splash movie into it... I uplaoded the movie on it's own first and it works fine... evetyhting's ok... then in golive I put it in a table a...more >>

I would like my Flash .flv to display a particular frame (sometimes not the first maybe the 5th or 10th) -- I cannot find anywhere to do this in the DW embed utility, or in the Flash Video Encoder! Can someone please help? ...more >>

Hi all. Newbie post here. I created an animation of a stick figure in my flash project, then decided that I wanted to make it a symbol. Is there some way to make the animation/set of frames part of the symbol? When I select the layer and its frames, "convert to symbol" becomes dimmed (...more >>

I did a search, but I'm probably just not using the right search terms. When I select the gradient handle, sometimes it seems to inexplicably take up almost half of the page. How can I fix this?...more >>

I hate to be a pain, but I am really trying to learn a lot by following tutorials and this problem is reoccuring with every tut I try... I am following this tutorial: I am stuck on this (have redone it at least 17 times following verbatum but something isn't right): [b]Now come bac...more >>

I have a 3D model, and i can animate it, is there some way to have the object on screen, then press a navigation button and the model rotates in that direction? I had a few ideas, like for example when you press the button it changes scenes, or keyframes to a new set of animation, but is ...more >>

Has anyone ever heard of this problem? An interteractive program which changes its speed and then crashes when being used frequently? I have installed a program at a museum which, at a similar time of day, every day, speeds through it's attract loop and freezes on the same screen. There is a t...more >>

I have a variable called "managername". My movie calls upon data in a text document. The problem is the name of my flash varible is also part of entry name in text document. like this: myText_district=109 &myText_Ian=189 &myText_Dave=8 &myText_Ray=14 Is there a syntax that I can...more >>

Does anyone have any suggestions, tips, tricks, etc for making a DVD from a Flash video? I have tried -- exporting as an AVI file, then importing into Premiere Elements 3.0 with one of two results so far: an uncompressed AVI file seems to crash my system (the file is only 1 GB w/out audio an...more >>

I am sharing a font between two movies- Flash is not remembering the Import for Runtime Sharing URL. I enter in the address and close the box, and when I reopen it the URL is gone! Obviously my fonts aren't working either. I have been looking into this for a few hours w/out luck. Can anyone...more >>

I have a movie that I inherited that I think was made with Flash 5. I am working on a movie clip in it that scrolls almost 40 thumbnail images (now) horizontally using < > buttons. That's all good. I was adding thumbnails one by one and the movie clip area would expand to include them each tim...more >>

What is going on? I am writing text dinamicaly, for the first time and when i use the tag [LI]toget a bullet</li> it works fine as long as the line is short! If its too long and need a line brake it ADS a bullet at the line brake. Like [LI] writing a very very very loooooooooong line that ne...more >>

I am using the java script file AC_RUNActiveContent provided in the solution listed on this page. I am using the option External JavaScript solution 1: For single (or few) occurrences of embedded content http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html I removed the ...more >>

I need some help on code to just have numbers count up from 100,000 to ?????? 1 count every 15 sec. THANK YOU - ...more >>

I am publishing a Flash file as an .exe so I can run it as a program on my computer. Does anyone know how or if it is possible to change icon that is published on the .exe file? Thanks in advance, http://29fivedesigns.com/ ...more >>

Trying to take this text out of a PDF made in InDesign CS2 and put it into Flash 8. Is there any way I can take the text out of there and put it into Flash without it taking away any/all/some of my original formatting? And while I'm asking, is there any way to keep the hyperlinks from the PDF ...more >>

Hello: I have a couple of movie clips and want to loop through them in an array for some event handlers. However it doesn't work. Can you please tell me why? ******************************************************** var arr_USstates:Array = new Array(CA,OR,WA,ID,WY); for (var k = 0;...more >>

Hi everyone... well, I'm trying a different tutorial for my preloader, but as with all tutorials sometimes the writer assumes you have intuition! lol! I am stuck on the simplest thing: 1) We'll start off by creating a new movie and adding three keyframes. To do this you can select the firs...more >>

Any ideas on how I can pause my .swf audio (using a "Pause" button, then hit a "play" button to either resume the audio where it stopped or at least restart that same audio segment? At present, if the scene is "paused" and then the viewer hits "play", the scene resumes at the stop-point, b...more >>

I'm a big promoter of web standards when it comes to (X)HTML and CSS. I like to write meaningful code that will work across each platform. This is where the question comes in: If I was to learn Flash and Actionscript, where would I start? I would want my code to be as meaningful and 'standa...more >>

Hi I have a flash file wherein the sound is palyed as background music. When the sound is played in flash, at the end of cycle it gets repeated & the sound cycle starts again. While starting the sound again the start frame & the end frame of sound does not match. Pls give us the solu...more >>

I have a combo box called class_cb, I am trying to use the combo box in a maths formula. I am trying to set that if the active selected combo box data = 1 then a text area = given number, if data = 2 then .... I can get flash to recognise the change i just can't seem to get the statement "...more >>

Hi. I'm having problems scaling getting my movie to fill a window. My website consists of one flash .swf (the intro) which calls the main page, which in turn calls all other sections of the website. I can get the intro to scale (when I publish it) but not any of the others. Is there a way ...more >>

I've learned how to mark flash movies lately in a class (Digital Graphics and Animation), but I think that's as far as the class goes. How are fully interactive flash games made? ...more >>

I have made this animation which uses 3 external jpgs http://www.prototype.red2design.co.uk/envisage/index2.aspx as you can see once it has gone round the 3 images there is a flash of white. I noticed it is actually the very first frame. there is a delay before loading the pics therefore it...more >>

Hello : Im not a flash developer. Im just trying to help my 2 year old son enjoy this web site better. He loves the Sesame Street website http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/ But teh problem is that in my 1680x1050 monitor, the flash part appears very small. I m trying to see if t...more >>

If you go to http://www.enhancedwireless.net/Company/what.shtml and see the current top navigation menu - well I want to redo this in Flash 8 Prof, so my question is - how do I do this and have it placed on all 70 or so pages without having to manually place the swf on all pages? Also, is ther...more >>

Hi I`m Interested in learn Flash I do not work in design or something like that, I hava a major in Psychology and what I want to do is to develop courses in Flash nothing quite espectacular but so much better than power point or any other tool to do a slide show, I thought it would be easy t...more >>

this page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/buildtest_comp_04.html Says the following: [quote]Create a Package A package is a collection of classes. For example, all of the UI controls are in the package called mx.controls. You could decide to use your company and/or depar...more >>

It appears that my scroll bar doesn't wan't to work anymore. All I've done is create a few buttons. If anyone is willing to take it a look at it? I'd be extremely greatful. Thanks, Nicko....more >>

Basicly what I am doing is using text imported using XML, and I need the links in the text to change color on roll over. From what I figure I need to use a CSS style sheet to do this? I have no idea how to write or apply this! Is there any knowledgable people that do!? Thanks for reading t...more >>

Can I make flash to save in a text file(or xml file or it doesn't matter some file) the input text from the user in some text field?...more >>

Hi there, I currently use Studio MX, and had to have a friend help me with my action script on version 8 for a countdown I created for my website. I am able to give my visitors the code to save the coundown to their myspace, etc, but they want to be able to save this to show on their desk...more >>

Hi I have an application uploaded ot server it takes some data with WSDL and show some graphics of this data and alerts etc. But I have a problem when I start the app from a browser (example : http://some-name:port/App.html) it doesn't start i just doesn't takes the data from the WSDL, I check...more >>