I designed an interactive website, which has a movieclip intro ending in buttons, the timeline should stop when the buttons appear. these buttons activate other movie clips which also need to stop again and give button options. I went to Actions> Movie Control>stop and have followed the help ...more >>

Can any one tell me i if I can have different page's in a flash site different size's? ie. home page is 600px tall and a wine list 800px tall, meun 1500px tall and so on..... In the same folder? Or is my best bet to have them all at separate urls? Any help would be great!! Have a good ...more >>

when i'm in flash on my Mac at work, i cant scroll through the Layers of the Timeline, i have to grab and drag.. on my PC at home, i can use the scroll wheel to scroll through the Layers of the Timeline... does that make sense? I'm not very knowledgeable on a Mac, so is there something i'm mi...more >>

I am having trouble adding multiple .swf videos to my webpage. When I toy with this code, I always end up having to click to play the other .swf videos. Any help is appreciated. <SCRIPT src="swfobject.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT> <STYLE type=text/css> body { background-col...more >>

Hi there, Please check this screen cap of a "corrupted" Flash CS3 swf : http://www.fairtraderugs.com/corrupted_swf.png Can anyone tell me why I'm getting these horrible white "gaps" appearing in the published SWF(image on the right), but NOT in the original FLA (image on the left). A...more >>

I am making a Flash drop-down menu to go on a HTML page. When the user hovers over one of the choices, information about that button choice is supposed to appear in a section of the HTML page. Is this possible? I am not sure where to begin with this, and don't know the correct terminology to...more >>

I am tinkering with some ideas for a demo reel I am making, and wanted to know if it is possible to use a usb controller (like an xbox 360 controller) in a flash movie to simulate a game? I hope my question made sense, and any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...more >>

When launching Flash Professional 8, the following application error is generated: 990: Flash.exe - Application error The instruction at "0x6172676f" referenced memory at "0x6172676f". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on Cancel to debug the p...more >>

How do I open a SPECIFICALLY sized browser window from the swf file. I know how to open one up, but how do I get it to open at a certain size with no scrollbars or resize handles?...more >>

Am I the only person who is consistently frustrated by Flash's bizarre implementation of snapping and constraints? Try the following: Open a new Flash 8 document, type the word "ALIGN" in a new textbox. Choose any font you like. Now, we're going to create a copy of this word, and we want...more >>

I am trying to use mutiple instances of the UIScrollBr component in a movie. It works fine if I publish to flash player 8 actionscript 2 but if I publish to flash player 9 only the 1st instance works. The other instances just show a white bar - no scroll. All instances are in different frames...more >>

I've created a simple video object using the 'New Video' option in the Library panel to dynamically load different .flv's when the user clicks on the link. When the videos come up there is no skin. How do I customize the video object and/or use the video components. Every time I try and use th...more >>

How does one take a QuickTime (MOV) file and convert it to FLV? I can neither import nor open video files in Flash CS3 (they're all grayed out)....more >>

Seriously, does anybody have the first clue as to what the following error message means: Error #2044: Unhandled skinError:. text=[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2124: Loaded file is an unknown type. URL: http://www.sebts.edu/SkinOverPl...more >>

My presentation is like a slideshow and the images are all loaded in my library and draged and drop onto the stage, which they all can be viewed just fine. All are jpeg and relatively the same file size, nothing really differant about them, but when I preview or publish the presentation, 3-4 i...more >>

i go to File => Open => swf it opens just fine, but then when i resize the window everything grows or shrinks with the window. what's that about?...more >>

:brokenheart;When I went to download page for Flash Player 9.0, the web page sent me to install Flash Player screen. I do not want to install flash player directly from web. I would like to save it first in my computer before I install to another computer. ...more >>

Help. I need to create a Flash Pop Up window within Flash. The problem is that this is a presentation that is not running with a browser so no HTML is used. How do I create a pop up window within Flash without using a browser? Any help you can give would be great! Thanks. :confused; ...more >>

We use a pipeline that requires us to publish flash files as either Flash 6 or Flash 7 files. Everything has worked great until this week when because our supplier can no longer obtain Flash 8 for us we where forced into bringing in copies of Flash CS3. We have found that some files Publis...more >>

ive been trying to make a simple button but theres text on top of it! i need the text there but its stopping the hit area of the button when the mouse is over the text! can anyone help with this?...more >>

I have a main swf (which I'm calling a wrapper). This wrapper simply has 3 buttons that load 3 separate movies into the main stage. Each button contains a little snippet of text and a thumbnail. The 3 externally loaded SWF's all use txt files to set text variables. What I'm hoping to a...more >>

Hi I have been trying to figure out how to embed an rmtp url in an swf file for it seems like years. I want to stream to a flash player from a flash streaming server, and I don't know how to create the swf needed. Can anyone help? I would enormously appreciate it! I'm using Flash MX 20...more >>

Is anyone else having a problem with Flash CS3 workspace configurations? On a dual-monitor setup (PC), it fails to remember the location of the palettes from session to session. It also fails to display all the palettes in the correct location after saving a workspace then re-loading it. For exa...more >>

Here's a real basic question that I can't get my mind around. All we want to do is create a slide show movie with stop - forward - rewind buttons. An example would be a site like this one: http://www.tileroofing.org/tileroofing/index.aspx We've done a movie with photo dissolves but not with ...more >>

I haven't gotten a chance to use the new Flash yet and I was wondering if it had an autosave feature or an auto-backup feature. I've lost a lot of hours from forgetting to save every few minutes, so i was hoping that this may be featured in the new version of Flash, and if it isn't they may w...more >>

Just a quick one. Want to add a background image to the html of a flash site so the background image can scale and the content of the flash site not scale. Any ideas anyone?? Thanks all!...more >>

Hi, I have a copy of the Flash 8 Bible from Wiley, which I have not gotten around to reading. I am now using Flash CS3. Are the differences between Flash 8 and Flash CS3 too much, or will the book be helpful. I think the book uses ActionScript 2, but Actionscript 3 is available now, and th...more >>

Hi , transfer a swf to mc or pic , the swf will distortion ! the steps : 1 in Flash8 , Load in a swf to the state or base (in fact motion is transfer swf to pic) 2 then the cycle in the formerly swf is filled with black color ? but not all the cycle ? I really don't kn...more >>

Hi all, I created a slideshow with two slides. slide1 and slide2. on slide1 there is an animation. I would like to go to slide2 once the animation ends (at the end of the timeline). But when the animation ends, slide1 will restart from frame 1 and gets into a loop. Is there a way to make ...more >>

Hi, I,m having a problem with flash. I've done a simple flash viewer that dinamically loads external images in PNG format via loadmovie. The viewer works fine if the PNG has a small size but when I try to load a big file (3000x4000px) it won't work... is this a flash bug? ...more >>

Hi, Strange one that I haven't come across before, I changed ordinary text to a hyperlink in a flash movie that I'm creating and when I export the text does not appear, If I take the hyperlink off then I am able to see the text again Has anyone seen this before? ...more >>

A client of mine has all these product logos that have a thick 10-point outline around the text. When I import these logos to Flash I always want to convert the outline to a fill, because otherwise when I use alpha to fade the logo in and out during transitions, half of the outline (typica...more >>

Hi, I am in need of some urgent (but most likely, very simple) help! I am a new flash user and have recently purchase a flash template, in which I hope to replace existing bitmaps etc with my own files and then upload to my website. I have tried to replace existing files in the libra...more >>