I have created a flash banner for a clients website however, a few of his users do not (and will not!) install or enable flash player for their browsers. I have created a jpg banner that I would like these users to see when they visit the website, however I am not sure what code I need to inse...more >>

I am going competely spare with shared font symbols. I have an application which opens several swfs and I want to use shared font symbols for the considerable bandwidth saving. I have correctly set up a share library with the fonts I require: 4 styles of one font - Helvetica Neue Extended....more >>

This is my very first forum post, so please bare with me. I am designing a flash website, and I am having trouble creating a special button. I created a button, and inserted my 'up' and 'over' scenes. (Up= A marble with a faded galaxy in the middle/ Over= the same as the up image, except I...more >>

Hi, I am having trouble finding this information. My biggest problem right now is that working in the timeline can be very slow- mainly because, most likely, I don't know some of the hotkeys. I am hoping someone can tell me how to do the following: -create a new frame for multiple layers...more >>

In my carousel there is a variable text field. I want to be able to put a link to a url within this txt field. Now, rumor has it that I cant do this because my XML file wont recognize certian charicters that are required for a tag. Anyone know a solution to this problem? Thanks http://...more >>

Im designing a site that will use several flash objects. How do I get rid of the ugly flash active boxes in IE? I tried using the ieupdate.js but it makes the site load twice real quick. Please help!! ...more >>

Has anybody seen this behavior before? I have the following code to load a movie. Should be simple enough. this.createEmptyMovieClip("my_mc", 999); loadMovie("ods3.swf", my_mc); When testing the movie (Ctrl-Enter) it works fine and the loaded movie shows up. However, as soon as I pu...more >>

Trying to figure out how to make the images in my carousel not jump around so much. Does anybody know of an effect, file type, flash setting or anything else that can help smoooth this out? Thanks fo the help. if you want to see what im talking about go here http://www.symbioticmeg.com...more >>

I've started doing some simple animation in Flash, however, all by a sudden I can't edit a shape when in the ordinary view. Instead I have to double-click on it and it will open up like it was a symbol. I have no idea why or when this happended, but I would really appriciate if someone could ...more >>

is there any way to get information from the FLV (maybe in the metadata) to find out about the codec, frame rate, kilobits per second, audio data rate, etc.. is there anything that can read that information? or can it be done IN flash? ...more >>

I'm an old LiveMotion user. I now have Flash with my Design Premium Suite and I'm looking for a good book or set of tutorials to learn Flash. Any suggestions?...more >>

I'm looking to increase the document size of a flash page i'm building - there are already several motion tweens built on it. When I increase the size of the document it increases horizontally only in one direction relative to the tweens. How can I get it so that the movie will increase in ...more >>

I have Flash animations created in Adobe captivate that I need to be able to show full screen without being framed by a browser window. From what I can see online, there is no such thing as a Macromedia/Adobe standalone flash player that can be downloaded from this site, am I correct? I also...more >>

Quand va sortir un plugin Flash pour les navigateurs des mobiles ? C'est pas simple de vendre un site web Flash si on ne peut pas le regarder sur un mobile. When will leave a plugin flash for the navigators the mobiles? It is not simple to sell a Web site flash if one cannot look it on a m...more >>

I know there are javascripts to preload images, but what about for a swf movie. I don't necessarily mean a preloader, just a script to preload the movie since it's a large file?...more >>

How can you take and uploaded video and convert it to a flv to display on a web site? I assume that this is what youTube does to convert all the uploaded videos to flv's for us to watch. Hard to believe there is a team of people waiting for a video to upload to instantly, manually convert it ...more >>

Hello, I seem to be having a problem with drawing. When I attempt to draw within one layer, each line I draw seems to become its own group. So in order for me to use the fill tool, I keep having to select all the lines drawn and make them one Union. It is a great inconvenience, and it see...more >>

I have been assigned with a conversion project, converting a CD-ROM based presentation with several FLV's throughout for Web playback.... All is going well with the exception that the FLV's are not playing from the web. I can run locally, however when I post to http - no go... Is there any adv...more >>

Hi We have a problem here that's proving hard to solve. Our comany has produced a new website that contains elements of Flash on each page. Every computer inside and outside of our office can see the flash elements in these page except for one consultant who uses a laptop. We've tried rein...more >>

Game Specification: Car Racing Game - using, up /down /right /left, arrows. Right and Left rotate the vehicle (make it realistic) up and down send the vehicle the way its facing. This game has its own place in a Game Website with already 45 other games. Problem: Hi, Im from A.C. On...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone help please ! I have an input field of a flash form to send mail, works fine... however in the mail i receive (or even when i just trace the value inside flash) I get something like: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#333...more >>

Hi Guys I have just created a flash movie. I have inserted the flash into dreamweaver and when somebody clicks on the movie I want it to take them to a certain page. If possible could I send you the .fla file and you can send it back with it all linked up as I have been getting annoyed wit...more >>

Is there a way to temporarily disable layers so that you don't have to completely delete them from the timeline when publishing a movie? Thanks for any feedback....more >>

In <param name="movie" tag, if i specity like below it is working fine. <param name="movie" value="../swf/xyz.swf"> Suppose my file xyz.swf is in some remote system name abc and in folder def. How to specify the path in that situation. I tried like following but it is not working <para...more >>

hi, I have a little video showing a text animation on a black background. The alpha channel is encoded. I want to integrate that video under flash but I want the alpha channel to be taken into account and I don't know how I can do that. After integrating the video, I get always that blac...more >>

Hello I'm a bit of a rookie at when it comes to flash, so sorry if this is a strange issue. I've created a project with 775 x 600 diamentions but one of the assests on it is a large JPG map (at least 4-5 times bigger than the canvas). I've then moved this JPG around the canvas to creat...more >>

Game Specification: im making a game and im having to track a users angle and the angle they face in changes what happens when they press the ,lets say up key. Problem: i need to know ho...more >>

Hi everyone. I have a flash file for audio captcha. All is fine except when using IE in the https: domain. The flash file calls a php script which uses a session to concatenate mp3 files that read out a code. I have tried calling the php file using a full path with https, a relative p...more >>

Please can someone advise how I may add a watermark to my Flash movie. I have created a watermark that will cover the whole video view but it will not be so dark that it can not be viewed, i have it in black and white and set the background of the image to transparent, using mircosoft photo...more >>

Hi All, I need some enlightenment on how can I achieve an "effect" of a blur layer that reveals its background partially. Something like the bar you see in http://uk.samsungmobile.com/mobile_phone/experience/swf/main.htm. Is that done by action script? All suggestions will be gre...more >>

I'm not sure if I'm the only one having this problem. I've experienced similar issue with Flash 8 on my Mac OSX. I was expecting CS3 will fix these but I'm wrong. The problem is: Flash will randomly crash when I try to open a FLA source, or when I try to publish the file to a SWF file. I...more >>

Anyone know of a way to make a simple email form that doesn't use PHP, CGI, or basically anything besides actionscript. One of our clients has a really, really, really basic server, and I can't get anything to work on it... just need to know something purely Flash driven. Ideas? Links?...more >>

Hello, I Have Mini-DV camcoder Sony DCR-TRV130 connected with my PC over FireWire cable. I have installed Linux Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my Desktop PC. Also i use FireFox version 2.0.0.3. I have installed macromedia flash player (plugin for FireFox) version 9,0,31,0 My Mini-DV Sony Ca...more >>