I keep drawing shapes on the same layer, overlapping them, and then trying to delete one of the shapes to cut a shape out of the first. This does not work automatically as Help says it does, I have to go to "Modify > Combine Objects > Union" to merge them, THEN I can cut my shape out. When is ...more >>

Hi all, I have adjusted one of the pages on my website using the new adobe flash cs3, I used exactly the same publish settings as before (in flash 8) and when I upload the page to the net, and try it I get the following error message: This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js Does an...more >>

I have my swf file embed into an html page and currenly have the background set to #000000. I want to change this to a jpg image that repeats for the entire background. I want the swf file to appear with a transparent background so the repeating image shows through. I have searched forum...more >>

OK - dumb question #2 for today: In Flash my new site intro movie plays normally and stops at the end like it should. I dropped it into my index page in Dreamweaver and after uploading the page I find that it keeps looping. How do I stop this behavior? Site index page can be viewed here:...more >>

Does anyone know how to reproduce the water effect used in this website: http://feature.parasol-island.com/ Is it accomplished using Flash alone or is it just a rendered loop composited in a 3D application such as 3dsMax and then embedded on the page? There are multiple possible scenes...more >>

I am publishing a simple Flash page in Flash CS3 and when I upload to my website www.ilakomedia.com I get the error message "This requires AC_RunActiveContent.js" and can't see my website, please help ...more >>

All I need is a mini Flash Player with just "Music On/Off" and with music bars, does anyone where I can find one? I also want one free too! If not, then could someone please guide me through making it in Flash? Cheers! :) ...more >>

I am trying to do a drop down menu in Flash 8. The menu drops down beautifully, but the buttons don't work. I have it as a movieclip. Within the clip I have action script on each of the drop down buttons: on (release) { //Movieclip GotoAndStop Behavior _root.gotoAndStop(25); //End...more >>

I accidentally caused a crash in Flash pro 8, by choosing to payback the animation, and slecting the zoom menu... It's currently open, but not responding, and i was wondering if there is any way of getting the work ive done on it... as ive (rather stupdly i know) been working for 7 hours on ...more >>

Even when I draw shapes using Object Drawing and leave it turned on, some shapes will randomly act as though I'm using Merge mode. For example, if I marquee-select several shapes on a layer and apply a shape tween, some of the objects will become split where I dragged the marquee box and the p...more >>

I'm having a very odd problem with text getting cut off in flash. Here's the problem, in a nutshell: I have a dozen or so words - each of which is a symbol with a unique instance name - on the stage. They all have an alpha setting of 0, and are stacked on top of each other. I'm changing th...more >>

i'm having some trouble displaying the above characters within my dynamic text field. i read this post: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid= 1269618 and tried the fix but i think i may have a different case. i am pulling in the xml with re...more >>

Whenever I try to use bickham font in Flash CS3 it crashes the program? I am pretty sure it doesn't like the l and/or f. I tried saving the file in 8 but it did it there as well. Sometimes it doesn't do it until I try to breakup the charachters. ...more >>

on different os and browsers, i, and some of my clients, occasionally are not able to see certain elements of a flash movie in a browser until they refresh their page. For example, i have an .swf with a few movieclips, some text, some graphics...most of the time everything shows up, but somet...more >>

I am loving the new Flash and especially the very noticeable increase of speed on my Intel mac notebook. However, is anyone else experiencing some weirdnesses with resizing windows? I have the Actions pallete sitting right at the top of the screen and use the windowshade behavior to open a...more >>

At some point during developing a movie, the stage shifted to be aligned to the left of my workspace. How do I get it back to center?...more >>

I am testing a trial version of flash cs. It seems that if i create a file with CS i cannot open it with 8, even if i change teh cs setting to save as a 8 ..fla. when i try to open it it gives me an error mesage about screens. Can anyone help???? ...more >>

Check out my test page at http://www.imirocks.com/IMIRocksHome.html In my main movie, I had three loaded movie that are swfs. Each swf has an embedded movie in it. The sizes of the movies are about 636KB. When the movies play all together the movements are jittery. I would like to play ea...more >>

I'm new to Flash and I'm trying to create a simple movie with rotating banners. When you click on the banners, I'd like a new IE window to open. I've inserted this code: target=("http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html"), "_blank"; for each banner with the appropriate page address. I've inserte...more >>

I would like to load an image and then gradually and linearaly change the image from black and white into a full colour image over a set period of time. I would prefer to not have multiple images preloaded each with increasing colour saturation; as this produces too large a file and isn't li...more >>

Hi, I am using 2 movieclip loaders to load external swf pages - both mc's are in the same location. I want one to disappear while the other loader is being used. I've tried using visible and enabled, but this doesn't remove the mc. When I try and reload a page that I've already been to,...more >>

When I try to export Quicktime movie from Flash CS3, the resulting mov file is skipping frames. i.e.: The movie is showing frame number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 15 etc... As you can see the frame number 7 is repeated 3 times and frame 8 and 9 are nowhere to be found...more >>

Hi Guys! My name is Rick, i want to create a picture gallery using as datasource a xml file, until now i can load each image from xml reading its path, i create a movieclip instance and load inside the jpg file, but now i want to create an onPress event for each picture to send popup using ...more >>

hi, i am just starting to use this program and was going quite well until all of a sudden i double clicked something and my timeline has disappeared. The window with the folders and layers are still there, but the timeline has vanished. I have tried looking in the help, and tried pulling the s...more >>

Can anyone help? I'm losing my mind I must be going crazy, but I created a simple php/flash submission form, and for some reason my 2nd frame (which has the message "Thank you for your submission.") keeps blinking as if it's just an endless loop between frames one and two. Below is my code...more >>

I would note that I recently read a report where, I believe, YouTube is going to the Apple platform. This I would have to consider as a major direction for this streaming video technology. Is this because the technology is better than Flash? I would have to say no. Well then why? In my op...more >>

Hi, When I receive a string from an external source, I want to be sure that for example "C:\new folder" the \n is NOT read as "new line". ("new folder" is just an example, it can be anything else though). When I use escape("C:\new folder") I get the following: C%3A%0Aew%20folder and i...more >>

Hello, i'm trying to make a IRC client, but when the server send me the PING command, i can't respond because i think it s IP is coded in integer and i think i need to convert it so i could open a connection and sent it the PONG command back without being kicked, thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have a simple html text I load in an html textfield : <p>paragraph 1</p> <img src="myimage.jpg" height="50" width="100"/> <p>paragraph 2</p> How do I do in order to prevent the html text from being wrapped around my image file? I merely want it to display "paragraph 1", then ...more >>

Hello! I'm starting on flash and I already manged to do some simple effects but i am not getting this one: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tutorials/adflash/flash_mask_tutorial_masking. php3 I manage to do the masking effect and I even see it action using live preview... But wh...more >>

I created a website for my company, and I am trying to improve it with flash. I can write webpages with html, but I am struggling to understand flash. I want to add a slide show similar to the one on this website: http://www.rac.com . I can't figure out how to allow the pictures to change...more >>

Hi there. I've put together a standalone application (.exe) displaying in full screen mode using Flash 9. I'm very pleased with how it's gone and can't rate flash highly enough. I even had to upgrade to 9 from 6 halfway through the project and found nothing but improvements - great!) ...more >>

I have to create a simple quiz. with basic yes and no buttons for each question. I want the yes buttons to create a 1 and the no buttons a 0, then add them at the end so I get a total ie " you got 16 out of 20". whats the scripting on the button to pass that number to the variable... or can an...more >>