Question for the night: I am using Thunderbird to read and write in this newsgroup, but I often get the feeling that the postings here are available elsewhere, too, maybe in form of a forum or something... Am I right? (Yes, Walter *g*) --- Christian Scholz-Flöter...more >>

I'm using Flash 6 video player. There's no reason for me to use any higher. I have a serious problem though. It hogs ALL the download bandwidth and doesn't let ANY other button presses work. (I've tried publishing as Flash 7: still same problem.) For example... I have it on the fr...more >>

A cool http://www.teckmagazine.com/reviews/software-reviews/adobe-flash-cs3-review.html...more >>

I am a long-time user of Adobe Flash, Reader, etc., but for the last several months, every time I've gone to a web site that uses Flash, I am instructed to "Download Flash"; I do so, I view the Flash item and then the next web site that needs Flash tells me that I need to install it again!! T...more >>

Is it not possible to feather and soften the edges of an image on a transparent background in PS3, and then import it to Flash as it looks? I have done this with PNG24 and Flash still kills the edge to where it is hardened with no feather. Please advise. Thanks ...more >>

I downloaded a trial version, but when I install, it only install Active X and Flash Player, it gave me a message that 3 other programs did not get installed. When I try to open CS3 Flash software it's not there only Br is there and Flash Player. Anyone encounters this problem? thanks. L...more >>

V!P and dzedwards were a big help to me yesterday but now I've come up against something else... I've got 3 music buttons on a page. The code that I have plays and pauses each button perfectly. But if I have Button 1 playing and I click on button 2 (without stopping button 1 manually), and...more >>

Hi there. I've been adding sound effects to a little cartoon I'm making. I would like to know if Flash 8 will let me alter the volume of the wave file AFTER I've put it into my cartoon. It seems a little long winded to turn down the volume in another program (ie Audacity) It just seems it wou...more >>

Hi there. I want to be able to pre-load a movie clip or audio clip after a onRelease function. Right now I have audio playing onRelease. How do I script things to get the audio to preload from a Loader movie clip or script? Thanks for your input. Luke snd = new Sound(this); snd.onLoa...more >>

i have a drop-down flash menu and i would like it to be centered on my page. i use dreamweaver. when i put the code in, it automatically puts the flash menu to the left, and the drop-down submenus are layered (they will fall over any text that is underneath the menu). now, when i center th...more >>

I'm looking for some cool free flash video skins. Anyone have any leads?...more >>

I am looking for someone to do some flash work on a templatesbox template. template PF066 at www.templatesbox.com I need to add an additional button to the index template.It now has across the top: about, service, solutions,contacts and I need to add a new button . I can do some flash work but...more >>

Basic question, probably, sorry, but can't find anything in the help files/knowledge base. I'm using Flash Professional 7.0. I wanted to import a 400 x 300 pixel animation into flash as a sequence of frames. It does this fine, except it resizes the images for some reason to 192 x 144. ...more >>

I would like to make my textarea?s border invisible. Unfortunately, I suck on Flash :(). This should be rather easy shouldn?t it?...more >>

Hello everyone, I am trying to populate a Dynamic Text with data from a remote database. I have no problem populating the Dynamic Text with the data from the remote database if the Dynamic Text is placed in the main timeline using the following code. loadVariables ("php/attorney.php",...more >>

I created a flash projector project for kids which will be distributed on CD. I have a question about replacing the default logo with a custom icon. I used Flash CS3. How would I go about doing this? The CD will contain contents for both Windows and Mac. I would appreciate any help/advise...more >>

I run a website for a local football team. I was thinking about creating a flash movie that would display a football field with all the positions listed on it (i.e. QB, RB, TE, etc...) When a person overs the mouse over each position, it would bring up an image of the player (or players) that ...more >>

This is my first day with Flash. At some point, i must have dragged the wrong bar. Now I can't access the playhead in the Timeline panel. The eye, lock, and third (?) icons are located at the far right of the panel instead of directly after the name of the layers. It is impossible for me to dr...more >>

Hello everyone, I am trying to load some TEXT from a database into Flash. I have created the php file and have no problem populating a Dynamic Text with the text from the database. I am using the following code for doing so. loadVariables ("php/attorney.php", ""); The problem is wh...more >>

The trial of Flash CS3 cannot be installed properly. Every time I open the file, it first tells me to select a location to extract the files to, then while it is doing so, an error message pops up saying: "A problem occurred while extracting the archive. Please try downloading the Adobe Flash ...more >>

Hi This looks like a helpful forum and I hope someone can give me a few pointers here. I'm trying to create what I imagine for most flash users is a pretty basic effect but Flash is something I use infrequently. It's a banner with a backgrond color, an image and some text. The idea is that t...more >>

Hi My problem is that I'm getting frames showing incorrectly in my timeline window. They aren't shaded like the others previously in the same file yet they definitely have content in them which is visible on the stage! Also I've noticed when scrolling backwards and forwards the lines above t...more >>

Hello there, I have a problem that is driving me crazy! I have a php file which creates an xml string from a sql query. The problem is that I need to use a variable from an swf file to create the query. All this should happen when i click a button on the swf page. The xml file is created no...more >>

I would like my text to always be at the bottom of the component it lives in. More specific a textarea or label. How could I acheive this? I have not found an easy way....more >>

Hi, I'm trying to import another Flash file into my Flash document. What im trying to import is a file with script that handles email, so a "contact form", but i want this to sit in my original file? I've tried searching for: MovieClipLoader classes in Flash but with no luck. Bit of a novice h...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm desperately trying to emulate the accordion-to-text menu as seen on www.posttool.com. 1) I've tried to have my accordion opening dynamically upon text file lenght but I didn't. 2) Also I can't make the script load the xml text content (with html tags) from another xml...more >>

I bought CS2 right before it was packaged with Dreamweaver. So I bought Dreamweaver 8 right before CS3 was announced. (yes, there's a pattern here, I bought a new computer as a student right before USB was announced, and a new Mac soon before the Intel chip model was announced- I just don't ha...more >>

I am still using AS2.0 (I will get with the times eventually), and I have a series of links on my webpage that create empty movie clips and load SWFs into them. I have a button (a typical little "x" in the corner) that should close these clips, and it works when I preview it in Flash, but when...more >>

Can anyone see anything wrong with this dreamweaver generated embed code? It's not working - although the filenames are OK. It worked previosuly then some unknown change stopped it. Any ideas gratefully received Many thanks tp <tr> <td colspan="5"><script type="text/javascript"> A...more >>

Hey ok so I have this file I'm working on (http://www.geocities.com/zflategraff/index.swf)and I have 3 objects here. I have the dock_Mc that is the dock animation, I have the dock_Btn which is essentially just a hit state to activate the dock_Mc to animate (redundant I know, but not sure whe...more >>

Greetings! I'm trying to create a series of buttons that simply enlarge when you hover over them. When a button enlarges, it should just "overlap" another button, essentially hiding the overlapped buttons. However, what happens is this: http://www.ireallyshouldbewriting.com/TESTS/t...more >>

I've been given a job where I must integrate a Flash Template with XML files. Problem is I don't know where to begin learning how to do this. I've already downloaded a short and very simple tutorial from Community MX (written by Matthew David), and even though it gave me a little insight, it's...more >>

I want to allow users to drag a box to any location then add text (similar to an organizational chart). Is there a way to do this?...more >>

:confused; Things are going well except this project is making me feel like my head is going to implode. Here is the background: I took a stock flash slideshow from Istock.com, resized it, added my own photos, and fixed the bugs and it works fine. Problem is the slideshow occurs in one frame o...more >>

We have a flash drawing tool that allows a user to draw lines, add letters and manipulate their attributes. Is it possible to somehow capture what the user has draws and output an image? thank you very much. cynthia ...more >>

I'm on a Mac Intel G5. When I try to install it runs the installer and ends but I still cannot find the player anywhere in my system nor will it recognize that I have installed it in Flash in the publish options. Any help?? ...more >>

Hello, Having trouble figuring out what the correct actionscript for a button that is trying to access a labeled frame within a movie that is part of a larger movie. It works if I play it by itself outside of the larger movie, but I'm not sure how to get it to work within. This is what I h...more >>

For some reason, the time stamps and play bar are missing from my videos when I view them online, though they are there when I view locally. Rather, I should say they work intermittently. http://www.everwelltv.com/programming/sample_everwell.html Any ideas? http://everwelltv.co...more >>

I know this has probably been discussed a million times but I searched and I actually felt more confused than before. My flash file has all it's text converted to graphic symbols. I've read that Meta Tags are dead. I only use dreamweaver to center my site and change my title. What's th...more >>

Hey world, this is my first post in the newsgroup. I am not new to flash design and coding, but still far from being an expert. I wanted to know if anyone could recommend any books on integrating Flash and PHP? I am comfortable with PHP coding, but not too familiar with loading/sending varia...more >>

hi i am having problems with creating a mask in Flash 8. I have created the mask and stoke. I want a wavy line to gradually appear. The animation stutters and once the line has appeared it flashes up again. Something is wrong. Can you please point me in the right direction. Perhaps I can s...more >>

hi a couple of days ago i downloaded the trial of flash pro and when i get to the red installation screen it says: "critical errors found in setup -setup has dependencies that could not be satisfied". i have all the system requirements. any ideas? ...more >>

I've got a button that I want to play an audio track; play, pause and then play again. Right now, it plays, pauses but won't play again. I've got my as2 code in an Actions layer in the main timeline, I've got the audio in a mc, in it's own layer. The instance name is monkey7. Here's the code...more >>

Hi: I'm looking for a 3d rotating cube that I can assign 6 jpgs to (one on each side). Does anyone know where I can find one? Thanks! Peter...more >>

Thank God for actionscript because the flash preset effects are cheesy as hell! Anyone would be better off using Swish... ...more >>

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've followed all the directions from the web site for troubleshooting but nothing is working. I home school my kids and they really need the flash player to get to their on'line classes and for projects. I have windows xp. I've tried to contact support...more >>

Is there any way to load a file from the user's local machine into a Flash application without going through a server? I would like to be able to load an image directly but I suspect the only way this can be done is to first upload the file to a server (using FileReference) and then download ...more >>

I've created a mac projector and it goes fullscreen but you still see the application window. How can I make a mac projector NOT show the application window and just go entirely fullscreen? This doesn't happen with a windows exe file nor with .swf. The file runs faster and smoother as a projec...more >>

I am new to flash and I need to debug a movie from within a browser. I have successfully published the movie with "permit debugging" selected, embedded the movie in the webpage, and connected to it with the debugger. However, the lack of an SWD file keeps me from being able to set breakpoints....more >>

My flash movie is set to 100% width and height and it is working fine on my PC on IE 6,7, FF 2, Safari 3, and Opera, but on my Mac, the movie will not show up unless I change the 100% values to actual height and width values. Does anyone have any thoughts here? The link is: http://blause...more >>