I'm making a website in Flash CS3 and usually when I publish, I will go back to the HTML file and change the alignment, how far down the page is and the heading. When I do it this time and try and upload it, a pop-up says "This page needs ac_runactivecontent.js" what is going on and how can I ...more >>

I have a html site that I want to change to Flash. I like the fact that I can import live working mini versions of my web sites in html pages. Can I import a swf file into a main movie but change its dimensions to have the swf that might be 780 x 450 pixels appear in say just 550 pixel wi...more >>

I built a 5-tab accordion for an earlier project. Went back and added 3 more tabs--all of which contain graphics in movieclip form--and their contents appear and disappear. So, it's now an 8-tab accordion. The first 6 tabs display properly--the graphics within each tab are present. The bot...more >>

I am running Windows XP Home Ed. and am trying to download Flash Player. I am running Internet Explorer 7. I have cleared all the Internet Temp. Files and have all the browser windows closed. When I try to download it, I get the next window, which is suppose to have the install button, but...more >>

Howdy all, I have these beautiful images in Photoshop! Vibrant, Compelling , Beautiful! Then I bring them into flash as png or jpegs or whatever and all the colours flatten out and basically look like absolute crap. I have no idea what the issue is. I have tried export various differ...more >>

I have a Flash site that when downloading in IE, in the bottom of the window, the site seems to hang-up. I get a 1 item remaining messaage at the bottom of the screen. Everything in the site works fine and it appears that the whole site has downloaded based on the functionality of the si...more >>

What other factors can affect the quality of playback of an FLV from an HTTP server? Here's the situation... I have 3 machines here...2 of them will play an FLV from our site easily at 30 fps. SpeakEasy and DSLReports tests show our download rate at 5+MB at all 3 PC's. The 3rd PC can only ...more >>

This is what I have to try and get my button to change the movie clip tint on a clip that is 3 timelines above mine. What should this look like? _parent._parent._parent.crown.onRelease = function(colorchange = new Color(crown) { colorchange.setRGB(0x222222); } ...more >>

I created a project on Flash MX 2004 and I created a .exe but my end user can't see text members in some computers. I tried it it several computers and it worked fine but in some others I have this problem. I really don't have any idea what is wrong. Can anyone give me some ideas of what on ea...more >>

I am fairly new to flash/dreamweaver, and my firm just got our website handed over to us from the people that originally designed it. They said that they composed it in flash, but I can't seem to open the file in either flash or dreamweaver. I've got a .swf file and a .js file then the index...more >>

I've tried both popup window and getURL but nothing happens when I execute the following code segment. The trace functions tell me that I am properly entering the case statement. I just can't get the window to pop up. If I use the enclosed URL in a browser window it works. If I bind the ur...more >>

I have a flash file with two scenes. In scene #2, I have a movie clip, in this movie clip is a button. I'd like to be able to navigate to the main timeline in scene #1 when I click on this button that is in a movie clip inside scene #2. Am I limited by the scope of the button? Is this possible...more >>

I've been creating/distributing FLV files for quite some time now. We ran into the issue where the FLV would not play on W2k3 IIS servers, however we set the MIME type and everything works fine. Now we're running into issues where FLV are not playing on File Shares (not IIS server). Has anyone...more >>

All I want to do is create a UIScrollBar instance in a class. I've created an FLA, added the UIScrollBar to the library, set the document class path to the class file in the same dir, and created a class that simply creates an instance of the UIScrollbar. I get the following compiler errors:...more >>

I create catalog cds that use fscommands to run a variety or batch files to open pdfs, run programs etc... it worked flawlessly in studio 8 but now that i've updated to cs3 it appears to be broken. Were there changes in CS3 that would have caused this to no longer function? I've tried adjusti...more >>

Hello folks, I just had made a flash website but I would like to include an on-line form for visitors to be able to leave a feedback or comments about my website. Could anyone give me an idea about how to do this? Please keep in mind, that I am quite new in Flash and total dummie for Action ...more >>

The Research House in central London is looking for particpiants for a group discussion to take place on 21st May in the evening at our Wigmore street facility on the topic of Adobe. We are looking for Adobe experts in the areas of education and training; flash development; other software...more >>

Hi, I need some help to create a CD/DVD-Menu with several links to EXE- and video-jobs. I have no idea to build this application without scripting. Can anybody help me with some samples or templates? Thousend thanks for your support, wolvo...more >>

I have images of a cube that are different colors, but same dimensions. I import one by one onto my stage in Flash CS3 and then apply some alpha lighting and glow effects. There has got to be a more efficient way to do apply the same effects over and over instead of how I'm doing it now which ...more >>

Sometimes when I go to create a rectangle, the "No Color" dissappears is this a known bug and is there a fix? -Line...more >>

I found a great tutorial online that helped me build drop down menus off a movie clip, but have one glitch I can't seem to figure out. On the two Movie Clips that have drop down menus attached (Solutions & Portfolio), the rollOver works randomly when you mouseOff them going to the left and so...more >>

in CS3 I have jpegs and gifs along all with a background that is the same color across photoshop and flash, and it looks fine in the development environment, but when I make a swf file the colors shift and it no longer looks correct. I also get artifacts in the file when using a mask, horizon...more >>

I've recently purchased Flash Jester Creator to publish our company flash screensaver but we have found a major problem causing a buffer overrun with McAfee 8.0. On certain machines, after installing the screensaver, when you right click on the desktop, select properties and go to the scre...more >>

I am forced to use Flash because of client stipulations. I used Sorenson Sueeze to compress a QT animation codec movie. The result is appalling. On the assumption that I am doing something wrong, what is the procedure to obtain Flash video (.flv file) which is the same quality as QuickTime? ...more >>

I need to change the tint of a movie clip that is 3 timelines above the button that will make this funtion work. This was my guess but I was obviousley wrong. Can anyone help me? on (release) { with (_parent._parent._parent); colorchange = new Color("/crown"); colorchange.setRGB(0...more >>

Hello, I started working with a trial version on CS3 and am having some issues. The same movie that workes well in flash MX pro takes 5-10 times longer to compile in flash CS3, ands the file size in 40% bigger. It also lags a lot when playing FLV files and doing other things at the same ...more >>

I need a small suggestion. In a flash file i'm going to use 100 of sound files (MP3 format) in that movie. You know if I import all sound files to the movie then the movie will get slow and the final file size will increase. instead of importing sounds? keep all sound files to external fold...more >>

hey everyone :) it's a question i've long wanted answered. here's a real basic test swf: i've got two sample urls http://richtextformat.org/proofs/tabIndex.html and http://richtextformat.org/proofs/tabIndexSwfObject.html. the first uses standard object tag embedding, second uses swfobje...more >>

I've got a client who wants to have some animations added to their HTML enewsletter. I can see creating animated gifs but what is the current view with Flash elements within an HTML enewsletter? I haven't seen any Flash pieces within such emails and I'm sure there are a variety reasons for not...more >>

Hi Since yesterday carriage returns are changed by a kind of 'p' letter, tabs for >> and spaces for points in actionscript screen ... How can I change it ? what's happened ??? Thanks and sorry for my poor english! ...more >>