Hi all, I'm trying to get it so the web page loads and a flash movie then plays overtop of the page. Any ideas how to achieve this? Many thanks Kiwidesign...more >>

I'm just learning flash using Flash MX pro 2004. The Flash "help" refers to sample files such as "document_start.fla" Where can I download these samples from? ...more >>

hi there! this is my first post to the Flash forum. i hope you all are as nice and helpful as the Dreamweaver people! ok, i created video that's about 1 minute long in Windows Movie Maker, and exported the file as a .wmv that's about 10 MB. then i take it into Flash to add a graphic to the...more >>

I'm about to buy either a 20" or 24" iMac and am wondering how well Flash works with multiple monitors under OS X. I'm coming from Windows so I really don't know what I'm getting into. My 2nd monitor is a 17" so I'll obviously be running different resolutions on the monitors. Any issues with t...more >>

Basically, I am using the flv player component. I want to play an flv and when it is done, I want a new one to play. How do i do this? I've added a cue point at the end of the first flv....and set it to event. But how do I use this cue point and tell it to do something once it is rea...more >>

Can anyone tell me how I can make my movie clips turn off when someone rolls off them? Please check out : www.stephanieerdel.com/headermov.swf When you roll off my movieclips the sub-menus still stay open and I would like them to close. The rollOut command closes the whole movie before...more >>

How do I change the visibilty from true to false with 1 of 3 dynamic text fields in a movie clip that is looping. The problem is when you hit the button that would hide the text field, it instantly appears again because the movie clip the text field is in is looping. I need to keep the text ...more >>

I have a simple one-page website with a single FLV player inside a single SWF inside a single DIV. I'd like to add a scrolling list of titles that when clicked will play the related video in the FLV player. What action would that be called so I could search for it? And any pointers to a tutori...more >>

is there a way to save a txt or a xml file from flash to the server? ...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a button in Flash. I need it to open a new window. I tried: on(release) { getURL('http://www.atlands.com', _blank); } It still opens in the same window. What do I need to write instead of _blank ??? Thanks for help Jana ...more >>

I am a beginner to Flash. After serveral weeks, I finally created a Flash movie for our website. I need a preloader so my users do not get bored and skip the introduction. All the tutorials I've seen tell me to create a separate swf file and link it to my main swf file. I did this and have a g...more >>

http://www.krug.ca/ As in the fade in of the photo. Any help or tutorials would be much appreciated. Thank you...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to use the tab key in my flash site to change between textfields but on IE I'm having a problem that when I click on the tab it changes to the url area of IE (where you write the sites url) and leaves the flash area. Someone know how to fix this problem? Thanks, Die...more >>

ok, so i've made two, multi-frame, animated graphics. i open a new "button" symbol. place a static version of the graphic in "up" frame. put one animated graphic in the "over" frame, and the other animated graphic in the "down" frame, and then defined the "hit" area. now, i want to play one...more >>

I am new to using flash and want to know if it is possible to serve flash file without having the client need a flash player plug-in? Or better yet, what happens when a flash movie is streamed? I am trying not to have the content accessible to the client machine but have the client be able t...more >>

Can someone please download this and test it to see if it comes out different on their comp..? It plays perfectly fine when you press enter in flash 8 but when I publish everything comes out wrong !! Why is this someone please help ! http://files-upload.com/308120/portfolio.fla.html Ple...more >>

Hi, I have this video that I have converted to an flv. I want the first five seconds of the video to loop once and the rest of the video to loop once and then the whole video to be looped. How do I do that? Can someone help me on that? Thanks ...more >>

Hello to anyone who might help... I am creating a completely dynamic flash site (example problem: http://www.playdown.com/testing/testing.swf) that's pulling all of its information from xml files. Everything was lovely until I tested it in Firefox and Safari. They don't load the images!?! I ...more >>

This is driving me nuts, I'm wasting so much time having to completely replace text shape tweens just because of a spelling mistake. I've placed text, broken apart, applied shape tween. Then I want to edit the text. I've tried Select All --> Union, I've tried Edit in Place (though often ...more >>

Reading the "Adobe Classroom in a Book" books for Dreamweaver and Flash, I noticed that what Dreamweaver calls a "Flash Element" sounds an awful lot like what Flash Professional calls a "Flash Component". I tried using Flash's Help, but the Help panel is blank--I can't see anything or search f...more >>

Could someone please shed some light on this problem. I've created a page with a flash gallery, and when I first visit the page, the gallery displays fine. However when I refresh the page, (usually just once, sometimes more), the gallery appears to the right hand side, rather than in the middle...more >>

Hello, I just wanted to see if anyone had any tips for me. I have Adobe CS3 FLASH Professional and I run the installation and the first message that comes up is "Please Close Internet Explorer, before Setup can continue" Thing is, is I have internet explorer closed, and all applicat...more >>

Basically, I have 5 external swf movies. I want to load them on another swf container one after another, with the container being able to detect the last frame of a certain movie and load the next randomly. I can load them easily by individually assigning the length of each movie into the...more >>

Hi Apologies if this is a very basic question. I have built a dreamweaver site and embedded a .swf file (a slideshow of photos created in flash) into the page. When I view the page online, the .swf file takes a few seconds to load, and while it is loading I get a white square where ...more >>

I have created a header gaphic with a logo on one end and text (motto) on the other end. I would like to fade in the RHS text over a period of say 3sec after page load. I have Flash 8. Anyone give me a lead? Thanks for your time. ...more >>

Hi im using dreamweaver in fact but im importing flash video and ir runs only flv format im uploading vidoe files to the website and i want to convert all formats to flv dynamiclly other people recommend me "import linked media. You can link quicktime videos dynamically and play them ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating a virtual tour of my site and i have a couple of things i'm stuck on. I've done an intro, and after that 6 buttons roll in which you can click on that open up videos. I need the end of the intro to now be 'frozen' or looped or something. How do i do that? I've worked out ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create this effect of when you rollover the text the images light up. http://www.jackmorton.com/us/work/portfolio.asp Can anyone point me to a good tutorial please? Many thanks Rhian ...more >>