I import a graphic into the library. I click on the layer/frame where I want my graphic. I drag the graphic onto the stage. I convert the graphic to a button. I highlight the newly formed button. "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it.." I tab over to another project, rep...more >>

I'm trying to set the bg of a an swf to transparent...my problem is it doesnt seem to work when you impliment the Adobe version of the Active content fix (AC_RunActiveContent.js). Has anyone figured out how to pull it off? ...more >>

Hi, I am an established and very old filmaker in England and now at the age of 80 I would like to make short Animated cartoon story films. I have a trial of Flash 8 Professional but cant seem to understand all the jargon . I have downloaded many hundreds of Tutorials and not one of them tell...more >>

I have a movie that when it finishes playing I want a function to happen. It is a tutorial movie and I want to require the viewer to watch the whole video before they can click on the html to go to the next page. How do I do that? Thank you. ...more >>

Here it is. I have two videos: bending.flv and lifting.flv (I also have them in swf format). I want the user to click play and for the videos to play one after the other, basically combining the videos into one. However, I need to add a screen that says the second video is coming up af...more >>

Hi, i just wanted to know if there is a way not to let flash compress the quality of audio file when SWF is published. When i import an audio file (size 135 KBs, sample rate 32 KBPS) and i publish the file (with settings, 32KBPS, Quality Best), the published SWF file size is 127 KBs and the ...more >>

I somewhat new to Flash and am using CS3. Not sure why this isn't working. I have an animation that I want to play in between navigations. Here is the code that I am using. The first part is the code within the animation and the second chunck is what I have in the main timeline. these ...more >>

I have an invisible trigger which on a mouse over makes the main timeline play. As the timeline plays a button fades in over the trigger. Everything goes ok until you put the mouse over the button & (i think) the trigger thinks you have moved the mouse outside of it (when you havn't). I fixed ...more >>

Thank you for reading, Here is the problem... I'm designing a site for school, and I've got a weird problem. On a PC everything works great no problems at all. On a Mac It seems as though the it's using the pc 7.0 plug-in. What I mean by that is if I switch the settings on my pc and run it on ...more >>

I don't do flash on web sites normally, but I have one customer who needs a self-running slide show similar to the one shown here. http://techdefenders.com/ I have no idea what tool made it. When I search, I find hundreds out there from $50 to $299. Again, I'm not a flash author, and may ...more >>

:confused;http://www.rbmuk.com/flash/easing_menu2.fla I'm really struggling to work out how to add a different URL to each of my buttons. See the attached. Any help appreciated....more >>

Hi All, I'm looking for something I can use to create timelines for a web application I'm building. When I say "Timelines", I dont mean the "flash timeline". I mean something like this: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/50/images/site/timeline-small.jpg I've seen and used lots of handy flash ch...more >>

Hi There, I have the following items on the stage in the first keyframe :: 1) ScrollPane with instance name: "sp" 2) input text with instance name: "addClass_txt" 2) button with instance name: "add_btn" with label "additem" I have 2 movie clips in the library: "rowParent" , "empty" ...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to load in a .swf file (via an external html page) dynamically using an Ajax script (loads into a div) and while it works with the ol' <object> method of putting flash in an html the .swf file won't load if I try to load it in via javascript (either SWFobject or the ...more >>

I can't believe this program is still so buggy. I'm running Flash CS3 on MAC OSX 10.4.9. I'm just inputting percentages for a graphic in the Transform pallette and it keeps changing the numbers in Hz scale when I enter the number in Vt scale, or vice versa. With or without constrain checked it...more >>

Hi. If anyone can help I will buy them a beer, maybe several. I am attempting to make a link to an external website by converting a text box to the link. Does that make sense? I have converted to button, symbol and graphic etc and nothing is leaping out out me which is obvious. I have even...more >>

I have about a half hour's worth of content that I'm working with for a linear presentation. My initial thought was to break it up into seven or eight scenes and work on those individually. The problem started when I got about halfway through - viewing the swf, the animation ceased right in th...more >>

Amateur and beginner here. In need of few explanations and help from experts. Really appreciate your time. I have created simple slide shows movies to present 2 to 3 fading jpgs. I inserte them in my pages using Dreamweaver. Average size of the swf file is 200 KB. My page backgrounds...more >>

I need to create a slider that runs on about a 30 degree angle to move across a picture i've been supplied. I can create everything about the slider, even make it move horizontally or vertically [only] but don't seem to be able to make it run along a particular line that's on an angle... do i ...more >>

I made a scrolling menu that responds to the mouse pointer, and now I think I need to add an if statement to the script so that the menu can't scroll off of the screen... I just don't know exactly how to write the if statment script, and can't seem to find an example of this particular thing i...more >>

I've searched everywhere, and there is not one good answer to the question: "How do I use a Flex AS3 Class Library in Flash CS3?" So I decided to come to the source :) This question has also been asked on this forum twice, but got no answer. Any help on this topic will be greatly appre...more >>

I am using Flash MX. I read on here about how to embed a font (Library > New Font...) but I'm finding that the font I've (supposedly) embedded isn't appearing correctly on any other computer that does that have that font installed. To be precise it's a pixel font I found on the web that a...more >>