What is the difference in creating flash games in authoring time compared to straight action script. eg is one faster on performance than the other or they both are as good as each other with things you can do etc. ...more >>

My simple Movie Clip fades text from white to black between frames 1-10, and black to white frames 10-20 with stop. On the main time line is it possible to use this movie clip as a button by telling it to: for example and i think i might have made this up... on (rollOver) { _root.gotoA...more >>

Hi all I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks and I'm thinking of finally buying a Flash 8 Actionscript book and get my hands dirty. I'm wondering if you have some tips on which book to buy. I've stumbled upon these books: http://www.amazon.com/Flash-ActionScript-Bible-Joey-Lott/dp/047...more >>

Hi, I'm desperately trying to get a Flashplayer (SWF that plays FLV) into an HTML-Email. It only has to work in MS Outlook... On one system (Win2k with IE6) I managed the Player to load by changing security settings, but it doesn't play the FLV - although Player and FLV are in the same pla...more >>

Is there a way to seee if the mouse is focused in the flash player? I am using _xmouse and _ymouse and as soon as the mouse is out of the player it seems to just keep that last position the mouse was in inside the player. ...more >>

Need Help with embedding a swf file into another swf file?...more >>

I'm creating an interactive program for one of my employer's clients, but the client most likely doesn't have FlashPlayer on his computer to play the file when he receives it. Although I don't believe I should have to deal with it, my employer wants me to figure out a way to "package" the play...more >>

The rest of the presentation works beautifully. Then the last screen I have a link to my website. When I click on it: "Macromedia Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. The following local application on your computer or network: ......ya da yada.swf is trying to c...more >>

I need clarification on these. When you select "protect from import" is this preventing people from opening file? And "debugging permitted" it brings up a password field, asks for localhost or IP (what do I put here -- the web address or machine with what syntax ie www.web.com or machine pa...more >>

setting the advanced permission to deny EVERONE write access to the ocx controls is a shining example of the heights of arrogance and ignorance which software suppliers can attain. what a waste of time tracking this down, simply to delete a control that NO OTHER ADOBE METHOD WOULD DELETE. ...more >>

I created an .swf that I dropped into my website. It fades from one photo to the next as the timeline progresses. As each photo shows up you have an opportunity to click on it to go to another site. I tested this on my MAC in FF and Safari and it works great. Then I went into Parallels an...more >>

Hi, I've written a large RIA in AS2 with >10,000 lines of Actionscript in various class files. I could really do with the performance inprovements of AS3 but there seem to be very few resources or books out there to help. Has anyone found any good guides to converting projects to AS3? Wh...more >>

Hi all, Greetings, and apologies if this has already been posted. I have put together a Flash learning CD-ROM with a multiple choice quiz at the very end. In the absence of PHP (because it is a CD-ROM and there is no PHP server), how could one generate an HTML (or similar) page of correct/in...more >>

Where do I begin with something this weird? I'm on a Windows XP laptop. I meet the minimum requirements. I downloaded the trail version of Flash Professional CS3 today. I ran the executable, which extracted files onto my Desktop. I went into the Adobe CS3 folder it put on my laptop and ra...more >>

I have some flv's embeded in my website and I want to be able to navigate between them without the playback bar dissappearing when I switch between videos. I'm currently doing this with buttons navigating to the frames where each flv is located. Thanks ...more >>

I purchased a template that contains the .fla file. There is a library with all pictures, symbols, etc. I need to edit a movie clip in the library that contains pop up text. How do I edit the movie clip. ...more >>

I want to play, stop or start simultaneously the same flash movie (presentation) installed on multiple computers connected to a LAN. Do you have any idea how to do this? :smile;...more >>

Hi all, The past few weeks for me have been quite stressful and tiresome (run off my feet, literally) and now I have a new headache. Basically a few days ago I was asked to encode a few videos for someone and did so, no problems. The problems however started when they wanted the videos ...more >>

I am having a serious problem importing PNGs into Flash CS3. I am importing a 320x240 32Bit PNG sequence rendered out of Adobe AfterEffects 7.0 into Flash CS3, and all the PNGS are being imported with the size of W:907084.8 px and H:680313.6 px, and when scaled down there's a major defect in...more >>

I am trying to do 'zoom' animation, but the scene complexity (> 4000 lines) means I only get around 10 frames per second on 'high' render quality. Is there a way to programatically set the quality to 'low' while zooming in, then set it back to high afterward? ...more >>

This is something new that has started happening and I am not sure why. I noticed it cause flash started running very slow and when I look at ram usage it is sometimes 200mb and over. This is know is not right. So I looked at the file and its size and found that is was 1mb, way to large. ...more >>

I'm creating a form in flash that is basically a quiz that I want to send on disc to certain clients and have them click a button to submit the form to me to be graded.. I'm not sure how to get the form to send to me? Is there a certain script that sends the form with the answers attach...more >>

What is the difference in creating flash games in authoring time compared to straight action script. Iis one faster on performance than the other or they both are as good as each other with things you can do etc. ...more >>