Like the title says, I'm completely new to Flash; I'm a C++ developer who's had a big fat pile of .as files dumped in his lap and has no idea what to do with them. Thus, my apologies if my question is unclear; I'm not even sure how to go about asking this. What I've got is basically a "ga...more >>

Hi All, I need to have a Word document available to view/download from a Flash website and to be honest, being a relative newbie, I don't have a clue! I've done a seach and I have interrogated the help files but to no avail, please help. Regards Jim C ...more >>

I need the text typed into the input text field to show up in a fixed size dynamic text field and for the the font size to automatically scale up or down to fit the size of the dynamic text box. Can this be done? ...more >>

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone knows what the problem is. It takes forever to publish a simple movie I created and I'm just wasting time. The reason I need a published movie is that I can load it into another one, so I can't test it on its own and need a published one. The Flash ju...more >>

A webdeveloper has used Flash 9 on my clients website. I didn't want him to do it because it's only a month old. We're having all kinds of problems with people no being able to download or just flat out won't do it. Developer said it can't be moved back to Flash 7. I would like to em...more >>

I bought a template to create a website for my girlfriend. It's source is .fla . I have mac OSX 10.3.9 and the template vendor says I can 'make do' with Flash MX-6 . I guess that's Studio 2004 (of which I only need the Flash portion). Unable to find a reasonably priced solution. C'mo...more >>

I have made my movie clip and now I want to nest it into a button. I am not sure what code I need to use for this and how to nest it. I want, when a person rolls over the button for the movie clip to run. When they roll off of the button the movie clip stops. When they click on the button it t...more >>

Hi! Does anyone know where I can find an open source tutorial to make an events calendar or where I can find some source files for one? By events calendar I mean a calendar that will highlight dates where events are planned to be taking place - highlight is controled via xml. Using Flash...more >>

I'm using Flash 5. I have a map of the county and city that shows all the WIC sites with triangles. The map is a .jpg - I imported it into the .fla file I am working on. How can I make each of those triangles link to smaller maps that show the neighborhood maps for the individual WIC sites? ...more >>

I understand how to combine a simple flash file into another, but my problem is the files I am trying to combine have multiple scenes. How would I do this?...more >>

i'm looking for a simple way to create a no-frills flash slideshow. currently, i'll put my images on a layer and use frames to expand the timeline so each frame is left on long enough for viewing. is there a simple way where i can just put 15 images on 15 frames and then use a simple pi...more >>

Since I started using CS3 I sometimes get the following error: Error creating Flash movie file. Be sure the destination file is not locked or on a locked drive. Also, check that the file name is not too long. It doesn't happen all the time, and I haven't been able to figure out what ca...more >>

Can anyone tell me why my dynamic textfield shows undefined on IE 7.0? I am loading php date script. Also contact script not working. Both work fine in Firefox, Safari and IE 5.2. Weird part is same script works fine in IE 7 for another site I created and I used EXACT SAME code. AS Code...more >>

Does anyone know of a way to send video (or Flash Video) embedded within an html email so that it does not trigger the Active X security warning? Sending the file as an attachment is not an option. The main objective is to have the video ( of Flash Video) start playing when the email is ope...more >>

Hi, I have a problem trying to insert a Flashvar from an external text file. In the line below you see the line (<embed FlashVars="bt=text file info here&cl=lightblue") to display the contence of the text file or another file format like an XML. <embed FlashVars="bt=text file info he...more >>

I have done this before, but this time it is not working. Can anyone take a look at this file and tell me why my button will not play the mc on the rollover. I only have animation on the "main" button. Flash 8 version http://newnie.com/index.fla.zip flash 9 version http://newnie.com/...more >>

Ok, I have never published a Windows projector (stand alone) file, but I have published to SWF b4 and many times. I followed the directions in my Flash MX book, and created the Windows projector file from my Mac, but when I tried to view it the file just sat there and did nothing. What am...more >>

Sorry for the silly question without spending 100's of hours working with tutuorials :-D How do I take an flv encoded video and preview it in the timeline to add keyframes to sync a slide/graphic or text bullet to the video ? I am looking for a way to sync my slides to the video.... I assum...more >>

:frown; I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out why my PNG files which are 791px x 567px in my library resize themselves to 593px x 435px when I drag them to the stage! Dragging GIF or JPG files to the stage does not resize them. What am I doing wrong... this is driving me nut...more >>

for some reason my embed flash media acts like a link.. the file has no link seems to be a bug in the embed coding in flash 8. can someone help www.dottechservices.com...more >>

Hi! I have a somewhat unique problem seen as i can't find anyone else who has experienced it. Roughly 2 weeks ago i upgraded my graphics drivers to 7.4 (That is ATI catalyst 7.4) to make a new pc game work properly. Since then ALL flash that i view will crash my system within a matter of m...more >>

Hi, Presently I'm in developing a game simulation for my client's network machines, where I've need to save game data as per machine/user specific. So, I preferred to use SharedObject for storing data as the game can also be played offline. Now the problem is, the client's company does...more >>

Hi, We're using Flash 8 on Win32 and created a projector from an .flv originally encoded from a QT movie. Works great on our machines, but when the client got it, the movie just stayed black. Any ideas? I've uploaded a QT for him to use for now, which is alot bigger than the 1.6Mb of...more >>

Hi, How do I embed fonts in flash? I have some text loading into a dynamic text box. The rest of my text is static. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks! ...more >>

hey guys im still pretty much a beginner to flash and im having this situation if u guys cld help me please. Sorry if this has been mentioned before i clndt find anything related. I have made an intro for a site using flash and now added a new layer and imported a sound file into it. Now f...more >>

Hello! I have a flv file and want to integrate it into a website in this way: By calling up the website the first frame of the file is shown (no autostart, no flash menu). To start it, a html link should be clicked. That´s it but I always fail to realize this. Can somebody help me here plea...more >>