I have a website that I have a image that shows up while the website is loading. It counts from 1 to 100% while the swf is loading. Something happend at some point and now that image doesn't show up until it gets to about 68% so for the first 10 seconds all you see is a blank page. My website...more >>

My site http://www.acottageflorist.net loads up pretty nice. The only thing I don't understand is that after the movie loads into the browser, it still shows in the browser that something is still being loaded. Here's another site I've done with the same issue. This site is nothing more t...more >>

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I couldn't find anything in the forums or in the help. Is it possible to create a mask that knocks out its silhouette from the below layer, instead of revealing the union of the two layers? Imagine using two circles of different sizes, and havi...more >>

Hi there: I have beel looking for this issue and can not find a good address: I need to load and unload movieclips which are on my library... (after clicking some buttons) How do I do it ? I have been trying loading as external SWFs and works, but this issue requires to be all in just in ...more >>

I'm playing around with importing video. It seems to work fine, but the skin doesn't show. I uploaded the skin SWF file, but it's just a video, no skin. In looking at the HTML, I don't even see a reference to the skin, but wasn't sure if it was just embedded in the SWF. Any help? Thanks Do...more >>

I want to do something like in this page : http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199700668&pgno=2 &queryText Look in the upper right hand corner where there is a page turning. Now put your cursor over it. Does anyone can give me info on how to do this ....more >>

I have a project that is 800x600. I am using the loadMovie command to bring in different .swf files that have .flv's. I want the .swf to load in a specific coordinate on the page. How do I do this? I could go back and place the flv in another 800x600 file in the correct coordinate and make all...more >>

I am trying to embed a .swf movie into my website, but I am having trouble writing the code. I want it to play in Firefox and Internet explorer, but I don't want people to have to click to allow active content. Please help! <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <st...more >>

Why we get flash default menu when i right click on a flash movie?. When i enable video bookmark (videomark). user is suppose to right click on flash movie and select videomark. is the flash default menu is customizable?. Please let me know. ...more >>

Hello, I am somewhat new to Flash. I have a web page I designed in Photoshop and there is part of an image that hangs over into an area I have reserved for a Flash video. The part of that image that hangs in the Flash I made a transparent png-24. I placed the png in my Flash movie and when I...more >>

Hi, How do you underline text in a flash movie? I do not understand the instructions given in the help section and am totally new to flash so any detailed help would be greatly appreciated. I have a graphic that I have turned into a symbol and want to add underlined text to it so it w...more >>

I have a movie with two buttons in it. Both buttons pop new windows and work fine. One of the buttons will work correctly everytime you click it. The other button will only work the first time. Can anyone help me out. Thanks very much in advance for your input. Here is the code I am using...more >>

In Flash, there is a FLV playback component that we can use to load an FLV to play, is there a component like this to load swf movies and play them? i also tried converting my swfs to video so i could use this component but my FLV's are a lot larger than the original swf. Is there a way to com...more >>

I have encountered this problem multiple time now. I create an entire flash site, with a main swf and separate swf's for each page. One of those pages is the contact page, which has a form including a combo box. The combo box functions properly when I preview that contact page swf by itself, b...more >>

Help please - I'm looking for a utility to combine with a site. The site is a shopping cart, with about 20 items. Each item has text on it. What I need to be able to offer is that when someone comes to the store, they type in their own information and are then able to preview their own text on...more >>

My boss wants to play a video in our lobby on a 50" plasma. I do 3D modeling and animations in 3ds Max and I am familiar with After Effects and Premiere. I have a ton of 3D animations at 720 x 480. The graphics department uses flash. The video needs to be a mix of 3D animations and flash an...more >>

I have a swf with UI ScrollBars on several pages. They work fine... except after I load an external swf into a blankMC. Then when I go back to any scene in the original swf the scrollbars no longer work. Does anyone know why. I have assigned seperate instance names to the srollbars, but this d...more >>

i have been using flash cs3 to change a flash file. i am new to working with flash & a little lost on what i am doing wrong as far as the publishing goes..... when i view the site in "publish preview" & i leave it with it's original name "main" it turns out ok. however, when i change the name ...more >>

Is there some reason why actionscript would act differently on a Mac and on a PC with the same plug-in? I have a bunch of links which aren?t working on a Mac and work fine on a PC. The odd part is that the same links work on different sections inside the same .swf. The plug-in (9) are the same...more >>

I made a Movie clip inside is a dynamic text field. I have assigned an instance name to the text field and embedded the font. On my stage I have two instances of this MC, but only one displays the text I tell it with code. Each MC has a unique instance name I afraid that the text field be gett...more >>

Hi, I am using the following code in a music player and would like to know how to set the sound level so when the page is opened you hear the tune without having to press play and move the volume slider ?? onClipEvent (load) { mySound = new Sound(); mySound.loadSound("http://www...more >>

Hello. I would like to create a similar effect that they have on this website http://www.laptoping.com when you click on an image whole page fades to black and in the middle a white box opens with image enlargement and close buttone. Does anyone have any how to do that? ...more >>

Hi there, I'm having a serious problem with line artefacts appearing in a SWF movie. They appear between exactly adjacent MovieClip symbols that should have no intervening space (most obvious when the adjacent shapes happen to be the same colour). My workflow is: 1) Take a PNG i...more >>

I am using a simple client login area on my site but they can create thier own username (it writes to a text file) this works fine but if they log out and go to a different section and then try to login again before they reload the page then it wont read the new file, this is the code I am using...more >>

Hi Folks, I have a project I am working on, where the customer requires to have a single file with data embedded in it. This is just fine, except that now, the SWF has reached 17 MB (and the .fla is 25 MB). There is no issue when playing back the file, but when editing in Flash, every time...more >>

In my timeline, all of my layers show correctly when I play it. But, when testing the movie, some of the layers are missing, also when exported.. Can anyone help me out with this? I've tried doing 2 different versions of almost the same animation but it keeps happening with different layers...more >>

Dear Flash People, I am a self taught Flash user working on a 1.25ghz eMac. I'm having trouble trying to centre my Flash project in the browser window. As far as I can see I have set the options in the HTML publishing options box before publishing, as per the manual I use, but it just wo...more >>

I'm still a newbie and need help. I have Flash MX and a flash website for a charity team. I want the user to be able to click on each team members name to "read more" as a small skinless window pops up containing the text about that person. What is the easiest way for me to do this? Thank ...more >>

I am trying out the Full-Screen mode and for some reason I am unable to type in an input textbox when it is in full-screen mode. Is there any particular reason for this? Regards, Richard....more >>