I am finishing a project for animation class, and i am using the adobe free trial of flash in cs3. At school we only have flash mx 2004. is there a way to make my animation, flash mx 2004 format, so i can open it at school? It only gives me the options to save it as flash 8 or flash cs3. i ne...more >>

Knowing the right question to ask is critical for getting a good answer. Too bad. I can't even think of the right question, since I don't know what they did to make this work: http://www.group94.com Any ideas or tutorials? I know the video is small (about 208x160), but how do they get ...more >>

I having porblems publishing Pngs...whe i go in and set the Publish settings I click on PNG and then change the dimensions click OK and save the file but when I publish the png still retains the stage size.....any suggestions..thx ...more >>

I am using the current line in my flash file to get it to fit to the size of the screen when the movie plays.. fscommand("allowscale", true); the thing is that when I try to run this same file on server.. the line fails to take effect on the web browser.. any suggestions?? ...more >>

I have pasted some AI CS3 art into Flash. I then need to export as Flash 7. I get the error that some of the art is not supported in Flash 7. Enhanced strokes are the culprit. But I don't know how to get rid of the enhanced strokes wihtout deleting the strokes themselves. How can I conve...more >>

Hello, I am new to flash and am trying to publish a small flash piece to a website. I am using CS3 Pro and AS2, but I hit publish on the presentation (called Index) and use SmartFTP to transfer the .js file, the .html, and the .swf file all onto the server, but I still receive a warning th...more >>

helooooo! ok, so i have a somewhat simple problem (or so i think): i want to create a simple little animation where i have a jetplane flying across a background, and two little jet streams behind it. so far, my plane is an MC, as is my jetstream, and i'd like to make the stream blur as the p...more >>

Hello Been trying to place our new Flash navigation system on the site and all kinds of problems - I manually placed it on our index page - http://www.enhancedwireless.net/index.html (under the banner) - and it works fine... BUT the rest of the pages are a server side include, <!--#inc...more >>

Hi, Ok im trying to create some simple buttons, and they seemed easy enough: roll over and they fade to black, roll out and they fade back to white. Only problem is that the Up state (what im using as the roll out) loads when the buttons appear on the timeline but id rather they didnt as t...more >>

whenever i test my scene it plays really choppy. my interface contains blends. could this be the cause? if so, any recommendations on how i can keep the interface that i have and get it to play correctly? ...more >>

I have a FLA with several movie clips that are motion tweened. When I scrub the timeline or use the Play command all of the clips are displayed and work appropriately. Using the Test Movie or Publish command, not all of the clips are displayed. I can't see any difference the clips, but ther...more >>

Ok. So I have a file that was originally created with Flash 8. The file was opened in Flash 9 and published. The problem is that the text that I have in there is being cut off when published (publish preview only, The full publish works fine so far). I've narrowed it down to being a proble...more >>

CS3 is adding a bunch of js code and an extra file when I publish. Most of my client reviews are just simple pages that are published to my desktop then dropped in my ftp utility (transmit) and uploaded to my client review site. In 8 this was very easy, in CS3 all this extra js means more wor...more >>

Hi there. Here is the situation: I am importing external data (only text) from a XML file, but when I type a "%" (percentage char) in XML it does NOT display in the SWF... why ?? What is the best practice to achieve this ? Thanks in advance, ...more >>

I have a movie that I want to have a white background, so I changed the stage to white, but since the pasteboard (all the area outside the stage) is also white, I cannot see where my movie boundaries are. Is there a way to change the color of the pasteboard to something other than white? On my...more >>

I have built a portfolio site in which one swf loads into another. I have them in the same directory and they work absolutely fine on the web. However when I go to play the main movie in a desktop flash player, the 2nd swf will not load into the main movie...it just shows the loader compon...more >>

Hi there, I've just added some external swf.'s to my site which contain various slideshows and galleries which now don't work at all. I understand that all the paths in my external swf.'s containing _root will assume that the main timeline is now the _root movie, so I wondered if there mig...more >>

Hello, I created a website in flash and uploaded it to the web. When you access it on the web, the page does not scale to fit the size of the web browser. I heard there is a code that allows the web page to rescale to fit the browser window. Do you have any idea where to find the code a...more >>

I am trying to install Flash Player 9 on my G5 Mac running OS 10.4.9. However, the installer always gets stuck at [b]Items remaining to be installed: 4[/b]. I wondered if it was getting stuck replacing something from a previous version of Flash. The uninstaller gets stuck as well. I have repai...more >>

I'm very suprised I theres not an obvious answer to this question to be found. In AS 2 I would often write most of my code in the main timeline, and then refer to it from various other movies etc. I dont seem to be able to do that in AS 3? how can I do it in AS 3? For example if i had a fu...more >>

I have this variable: thn.enableActions = true; I want to have this set to true on some of my buttons, and false on other buttons. How would I add this? Here is the code for one of my buttons: menu_three_mc.onRelease = function() { stick("menu_three_mc"); enable(false); fadein(...more >>

I have tried installing the trail version of flash cs3 on 2 machines. On my laptop, xp, 6 months out of the box, I get a "Session has dependencies that cannot be satisfied" error right away. On the desktop, an older machine, which I did have the public beta 9 install and running, it take...more >>

I'm having trouble with the most recent Flash player (9,0,45,0). When displaying moving bitmaps, the player sometimes shows horizontal noise lines across the image. This doesn't happen on all platforms, but it does happen on my customers', so I've got to figure it out. It happens in the OS ...more >>

I'm completely over this annoying fade thing... does anyone know how to disable it?...more >>

Hi there. I've imported a FLV file with audio into a Flash file. When previewed as a swf, the audio works, but when exported to "Quicktime Video" (not the "Quicktime" setting) the audio doesn't play. I've double checked my Quicktime settings (ie the audio isn't Disabled, and i've tried...more >>

Hey, i have never had a problem with flash until now. I have made .swf's of this file heaps of times before, but for some reason, it will not make any more ..swf files. When i try to create the .swf file, i get this error... Error Creating Flash Movie. There was not enough memory availabl...more >>

Does any Adobe product converts PowerPoint presenations to Flash files or do Ihave to use only other 3rd party applications? ...more >>

Hi I bought a web site template with a Flash Menu in it, I can modify the link and change the name of each button no problem, but if I want to add a button at the end by copying it and paste it ..... everytime I'm trying to modify the name or the link for this newly created button it modify ...more >>

I am loading a text file into my textbox, so my text is dynamic, now if I put a link into the text file like <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php"target="_blank"> Read More Here </a> then this link will work, (home page) but if I need to go to a page like this <a href="http://www.iol.co.z...more >>