I need to learn how to create/generate a vertical nav system where, upon clicking a button, the nav expands to reveal the subnav for that catagory. My reference site is the beautiful www.mayakoba.com. Is this done through movies? Actionscript? Any guidance or referral to a software or...more >>

Hi I understand that in pre-CS3 Flash you had to embed the entire Chinese character set in EACH dynamic text field you wanted to use it in, blowing out the size of the FLA. I have a site where I want Chinese or English text to appear in dynamic fields based on a user's region - is CS3 better...more >>

Hello, I'm having a strange problem where, half way through a tween, a symbol seems to flash for about 10 frames during video playback (but not when I play the movie from the timeline). There are no keyframes in within the tween, and the symbol is a Graphic file with only one frame. Might ...more >>

What I want to do is to transition the color of an object to a different color gradually. In other words, in frame 1 i have a light gray circle. In frame 30, I have a dark gray circle. I want to show a smooth transition from the light gray to the dark gray. Can this be done with a motion t...more >>

Hello, I just open a new project in Flash. Set the dimensions of main stage to 1000x800. Than I created a movie clip symbol, which will be page1 of new website. Dimensions are 1000x800. There I import various graphics to design that page. When I import that page1(movie clip symbol) on the...more >>

This is causing me a problem with dynamic text, which does not appear in the movie (Flash 8 Pro in Firefox/IE/Opera) when www is not used in the address bar (simondavies.info - Projects page). Anybody? Cheers Tezza See also a post on 23/04/07 with Subject: What happens differently wh...more >>

Is it possible to view flash without having Flash Player installed? I ran into something weird today - I have an .swf file in an e-Learning program that I've publised through our LMS system. This file shows fine. However, I have a few files that I've created with Flash Pro 8 and they don't ...more >>

I'm learning Flash from a book called "Essentials For Design: Macromedia Flash 8" THE SHORT STORY Using the select tool, when I double-click an object to select it, it doesn't. What happens is that it produces a light-blue square outline surrounding the edge of the object and then "expa...more >>

Is there a way to copy unlink a duplicated scene so that changes made to one won't affect the other?...more >>

Hello, Recently I decided to use flash for a couple elements of a webpage I made for a friend. The Nav Bar and a short Video clip of her on the home page. I quickly found out that I needed to use the swfobject.js so the user didnt have to click once to activate the nav bar so I am using...more >>

Hi I am designing a photo gallery that exernally loads jpegs via XML. I have an actionscript that allows the jpegs to randomly rotate at an angle as they load onto the stage. The jpegs contain mostly logos that are line art. It works great but the images are pixeled when they are at an a...more >>

I have searched several places and can not seem to find any information on this topic. What I am looking to do is to retrieve the data from Objects in my flash file, write them to the local machine and then print that file. I have tried the FLfile object but can not seem to get it to work. Can...more >>

We want to create a talking head on our web page and use the green screen technology for our training videos as well. Which of the Adobe products available will work for this?...more >>

If I want to create simple Flash animations, is there any disadvantage (as far as the end user is concerned) with using an old version of Flash to create those animations (v. 4)? I just didn't know if there would be compatibility issues that would cause the Flash to not render correctly. I ...more >>

Hoping Chris or someone can help me with this one... I have a background image I'm wanting to scale to the Stage.height and Stage.width but, keep it in proportion to itself as well. For some reason, I can not figure this out. Here's the code I have so far... [Q]Stage.scaleMode = "noSca...more >>

I've created a Projector file on my Windows XP system that loads other .swf files. I need to generate the Mac equivalent: I can publish to an .hqx file for my main movie, but how do I convert the other .swf movies into a Mac friendly format? ...more >>

Maybe my question should have been how do I increase the size of the flash 8 stage so that my imported graphics, which are larger than the standard stage size, fit onto a larger stage. Hope that's not too confusing. ...more >>

I want to try out screen transitions and in 'Help' it says: "In the Behaviors panel, click the Add (+) button. Select Screen > Transition from the submenu. " I can't find the menu option screens and the listed transitions, does anyone know where this is? ...more >>

Does anyone know how to prevent text from being editable once published?...more >>

I'm new to Flash and having a problem with buttons that have text in them. My buttons with out text work great. Anyway, the problem is that when I create a button with text, the hand that shows up when the mouse moves over it, only shows up and the button is clickable only when the mouse is ...more >>

I am following some tutorial to create my buttons and when I did a very simple button that consist of a rectangle with home ritten in it. I followed the steps to creat the over image (the letters gets bigger) and then when I test the thing my cursor switch to the little hand one and the letter...more >>

I'm a newbie to using Flash (except for a stint using v. 4 years ago). I forget how to give an image a link. I'm just making a simple rotating banner and each time a new picture comes up, I want to give it a new link for the user to click on. Can someone help me get started with this? --...more >>

Greetings, can anyone please help me with a few Flash 8 questions? Would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to pm me....more >>

I have the following simple equation, the problem is that the answers are 0.000000000000002 out. var imp:Number = 6*25.4 var met:Number = 152.4/6 trace (imp); trace (met); 152.39999999999998 25.400000000000002 can anyone help me, i really need to get this working. ,Thanks ...more >>

My imported graphics are larger than the standard stage size in Flash Pro 8. How do I size them to the stage so they fit properly into my swf and html files after publishing?...more >>

I was thinking about a way to create a opening page for our club website. I would like to have some images fade in, and out, with sounds, etc, and give visitors a way to bypass that (if they want) and head right to the main page with info. So, based on that, is Flash the best tool to do so...more >>

I am trying to link two .exe projectors. is there specific actionscript to load/unload .exe as opposed to .swf files? (PC)>...more >>

when will we get the Flash 9?But not the alpha version....more >>

I have this little jsfl script which came from one of the contributors to this NG, works a treat for telling me exactly how many frames I have selected at a time, heavensent for "paste frames", a wonder why Adobe never incorporated such a thing into the interface. Anyway it worked fine in F...more >>

Can someone please tell me how to make these rollover buttons to get URL? The sample flash file can be viewed here http://www.leadstar.com.au/header_page.html and I have attached the code as well. Many Thanks. function setSub(state) { for (i = 0; i <= _global.menuCnt; i++) { ...more >>

hiya. I am using currentframe == 2 to find where something is on it's timeline, but I want to use labels now instead of frame numbers... what is the code for that? currentlabel obviously isn't the option I was hoping it was ;) . Thanks for any suggestions! ...more >>