It doesnt matter which browser I use, once I download the installer it starts then tells me I dont have enough memory. I have more than 17 gigabytes free. the only difference I can see between me and the gal the next cube over, is that my local drive is F not C. anyone else having these proble...more >>

Hey! I've got a flash file which acts as the main menu for a program I'm developing. Everything works fine from the main menu however when you click to return to the main menu the whole main menu file reloads. Is it possible to use loadMovieNum( ) to go to a specific frame within the main s...more >>

I am having trouble getting my buttons to activate a movie and/or 'lable' to show when buttons are rollOver. I have tried using reference pionts and a swap window to the left od my button panel. I just can not get it to work like usual. I am tying to have my pop-up appear on a layer above a...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to get an image (xray machine) to drag over a man to reveal his x-ray. Sounds simple, have got mask to drag over image but without the 'magnifying glass' image to move with it, and have got magnifying glass to move with it but then mask moves around and only reveals same pa...more >>

I am new to flash. Can the Adobe Flash player play an external flv file directly? I tried and it can't play. It looks like the flash player can only play swf file. How does the flv file get played by the Adobe Flash Player? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi fellow flashers... Ok this might seem really stupid but, I cannot get the controller to show up on my FLVs even tho the swf skins are in the same directory on the server. If I test the movie in flash, it's fine, but those files are coming from my local drive. I can't publish or export m...more >>

On Scene 1 I have a movie clip symbol. Inside the movie clip symbol are button symbols that are being animated. Basically I want these buttons to fly on to the screen and then the user click on one of these buttons and go to a frame label within the current scene (btw there is only 1 scene a...more >>

I got the mask to reveal underlying image but it shows the same part of image when dragging. How can I get it just drag button with mask in it? I have movie clip with button which is empty circle and mask same size solid colour centred over it, at the bottom of this movieclip is the background...more >>

Hi, I've done a magnifying glass in flash but now wanted to use a mask to drag looking glass over an image of a man so that when its dragged over it anything within the glass(circle) reveals an image of his x-ray. Thought this would be simple enough but can't work out. is it possible to dr...more >>

Hello Flash Group, I am a newcomer to flash. I can almost understand actionscript, and even do fades and transformation tweens to make things go from small to big and big to small. Flash makes nice rectangles and circles, etc with the drawing tools. I have not found a way to make an ar...more >>

we recently had a flash header done for a site of ours. The header looks great in flash player 9; but blurry when viewing in ie7 or firefox. This is most noticeable in the logo and pictures. Does this have anything to do with the export setting from within flash? Any suggestions welcome. ...more >>

Hi! I?ve a problem with publishing: I have created a lot of scenes which have some buttons which bring us to other scenes. Each scene begin with a play (); frame and each button has the action: on (release) {gotoAndPlay ("Scene",1);} Well, It has been publishing ok and playing ok until ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash and I have a problem. I'll try to explain the best I can... I created a site and when I test the movie at 1024X768 it looks fine. I wanted to see it in a higher resolution so I bumped up the res on my monitor and tested the movie again. Now, I can see items that are of...more >>

i updated my flash player and after that my video wouldnt play for example youtube videos now i try reinstalling the player i try checking if my javascripts are ebalbed and it was so is there anything alse i can do to make it start workign again? ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to create an archive page for the past issues of a newsletter. I've tried creating one with CSS, which looks fine in Firefox but tweaks out in IE6. So I'm trying to create an archive page using Flash. I'd like to create a page similar to the AIGA Design Archives page: ...more >>

Some PCs where I work are not permitted to download files - so I am trying to download FlashPlayer 9 onto my Flash Drive to install on the machine - but this download site will only let me install it on this computer. How can I just get the download exe file? Thanks! ...more >>

I'm a new webmaster, so this may be basic toy you, but I can't figure it out... I have a website running with an embedded, very simple SWF file to flash text on the site (www.radix-group.net). I upgraded to the trial version of Flash CS3, editted my FLA file, re-embeded it in the html using ...more >>

Am I missing a step? I have a movie clip created from a jpeg by importing the jpeg to library. Dragging jpeg to Scene selecting and Convert to Symbol (movie clip with exports set and Named). Both the graphic and the movie show in the library, but only the bitmap shows the picture in the previe...more >>

When Flash is inserted into my template the following code appears: <script type="text/javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca b#version=9,0,28,0', 'width','1024', 'height','120', 'src','../floating_ball...more >>

Hello, I am developing a .NET site which has a Flash banner and a pop up module window that returns search results. once I added Adobe's javascript solution to disable IE border issue the Flash clip is always above the everything. without the javascript it works fine but then i have that ...more >>

Hi, Can any one help me by in developing the Section 508 compatible flash course ? My shell loads the inner slides dynamically ? Is there any tutorial which contains examples as my current requirement? How can I judge that my course is fully Section 508 compatible? Any help will ...more >>

I'm just starting out using Flash and need a little help. I have about 20 video files I wish to make into a single interactive flash video. The root video has a number of different regions of interest, and what I would like to do is click different parts of the root video and then load ano...more >>

Do anyone in here know whats Listener? I would like to know more about it....more >>

does anyone know if there is a version of flash compatible with windows ME?, if so, where can i find it?...more >>

I've got some actnioscript that I need to emulate in C#. Unfortunately I can't quite work out what type the variables are (as you don't seem to have to declare them in actionscript). This is the actionscript, which is to choose an rgb colour based on a input 'a'. Can anyone help? getNewC...more >>

That's it in a nutshell. On my computer, I can see the whole thing. The trouble is on a few computers - and I've verified that they have Flash Player 9 - the video itself doesn't display. I get the surrounding frame and the other artwork I've included in the SWF file, even the audio of the ...more >>

Hi there everyone (posted this earlier on my browser but didn't seem to come thru, so apologies if this appears twice) I have created a component variable called booleanCondition which contains an expression like (a || b) I would then like to perform a conditional statement like: a=0; ...more >>

Hi Been searching the forum to see if anyone else has come across this issue. Validating a page with w3c which has the flash detection script that publishing directly from flash to display the flash. w3c is chucking it back as not valid xhtml due to the doc declaration. The reason it is...more >>

Hello, i'd like to download the trial flash mx 2004 professional version, but i'm not able to find a site from where i can download it. Does someone know one? thank you Giulio...more >>

I have a .swf file saved to my computer and I want to change the speed of it without opening it in an editting program to change the framerate. Is there an easy way, or easy to use program that could do this? Thank you. ...more >>