I see a great effect that could be used for a variety of things at http://www.burberry.com/AboutBurberry/History.aspx Any ideas how this is acheieved?...more >>

Could anyone give me the code for an MP3 player for Flash CS3? The back-end actionscript code. Or could anyone give me a brief tutorial on how to setup an MP3 Player?...more >>

Hi Everyone, I would like to know if anyone knows how to fade a movie embedded in a Flash file to fade out when it's finished playing? I'm not that great with scripting, and I tried to see if I could do it, but the action scripting has changed so much. Please help! Thank you in advance. ...more >>

I did this stopmation movie worth of 322 pictures of 640x480. However since my computer is really bad when I try to publish it it says "not enough memory". So I saved it onto a flash drive and brought it to a school computer and try to compile the flash movie into a .swf on the school computer...more >>

I'm building an application that needs very accurate screen display and printing. I discovered several things in Flash that don't work as expected. A very annoying thing is the unwanted change of text flow in a dynamic or input text when: 1) scaling or 2) printing. An example: I have a ...more >>

Hello, I am receiving the "Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager - Global Security Settings" message on a couple of my client's sites. I develop in Flash MX. Is there a way to avoid having this message pop up? Is this something that I am doing while creating the FLA/SWF or is it a br...more >>

Hi. I'm not a Flash developer, so please excuse this question if it is sophomoric. Someone created a .swf file for my site that transitions multiple images in & out. It can be seen here: http://www.shadyladylighting.com. The problem is the images seem to abruptly move/jump as they are in ...more >>

Hello, I am receiving the "Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager - Global Security Settings" message on a couple of my client's sites. Is there a way to avoid having this message pop up? Is this something that I am doing while creating the FLA/SWF or is it a browser setting/flash player s...more >>

Any known compatibilitiy concerns? I am going to use a company to devlop a flash wrapper and there platform is MX2004. We are considering buying CS3 inhouse to do any changes updates etc.etc. my concern is that they are using a old format that may be outdated? I am wondering if anyone fami...more >>

Hi all, I have created two identical rollover systems for a navigation section. The first one works great, displays its contents and disappears when mouse rolls out. The second almost does the same, except it keeps the contents on display after the roll out event happens.! Which is not wha...more >>

Is it possible to export only the contents of a library to an external folder for later importation and use. I seem to spend loads of time re-doing the same graphics and buttons over and over again. I would like to export to a folder and then selectively import from the same folder as requir...more >>

In Flash 8, I could script a button this way: button1.onRelease = function() { img_mc.gotoAndPlay(1); } How would I do something similar in CS3?...more >>

Using CS3 in a standard AS2 Flash file, When doing: Select all; Copy Frames; Then pasting in a new empty Flash Slide Presentation, with the exact same stage size, in Frame 1 of Slide 1using: Paste Frames; All of the newly pasted contents are offset, as if the center is at the to...more >>

When I open a page that has an .swf animation embedded, Internet Explorer shows a dotted frame around it when I pass my mouse over the animation. When I click a link of the Flash animation, the click only activates the animation. To effectively click the link, I have to click it a second time. H...more >>

Say for example you wanted the top half blue and the bottom half green. You could change the document background to blue. To create the green part, would you have to draw a shape to the edge of the stage? Would you be able to draw a line then fill the bottom half to the edges? Thanks. ...more >>

Creating a small flash file. Button within a movie clip in scene 1 is suppose to link to Scene 2, Frame 1, but it's linking back to Scene 1, Frame 1... Have tried to trouble shoot, but nothing seems to work... Anyone care to help me out? Thanks! ...more >>

I need to import a SWF and make it clickable on the fly. So I tried making a button, then overlaying the button with a movie clip. Then loading the swf into the mc. But once I load the swf it becomes unclickable. Any suggestions? ...more >>

All the answers I've seen for this one are old so I'm hoping it has changed. If not ... GET WITH IT ADOBE! :) Can I load an animated GIF into a SWF on the fly (loadMovie) and get it to be animated? I know it seems to load just the first frame in but is there anyway of programming or anyth...more >>

I am sorry if I am overlooking this, but this is hard to search for in the manual. If i want to go to an object, or keyframe, and transform it ...scale it, etc. and change color, or apply a transition... in other words, change more than one thing at a time, and I need to do this to a number ...more >>

hey guys, how do i open a new workspace but with transparent background? thanks...more >>

I am getting to the point of pulling all my hair out, because I cannot figure out what I did to get this to work previously (but it did work and I cannot get it to work again). I have a simple row of text that I created in Illustrator and imported into Flash as a group of compound paths (b...more >>

Hi, I have a working semblance of a beta flash player I created (through the help of course of Lee Brimelow from his website). You can see a working copy of my flash player at the following link: http://www.cogvent.com/coolvideos.php My end goal is to be able to control the flv playe...more >>

Hello, Javascript function if called from flash 8 swf published for player 8 and above do not respond While if I publish samke file for player 7 and below they work fine. This is some security isssue I understand but exactly what is the reason ? I require to publish in flash8 becoz of the ...more >>

i am a little confused, because i have 5 choices to use tween classes, and i need someone to recommend me the best method. well, i have: 01.Zigo / Laco 02.mcTween by Zeh Fernando 03.Caurina Transitions by Zeh Fernando 04.Fuse 05.mx.transitions built in Flash Kit ...more >>

I have a problem with cursor positioning in the ActionScript editor (Flash CS3 on Windows Vista). The cursor is automatically moved to the first non whitespace character when moving up and down in the source code. This is extremely annoying, especially when selecting code section for cut&p...more >>