Hi, I am planning to take the Flash 8 certification exam, but I can`t find any information about it. Could somebody tell me if there is a Flash 8 certication exam ? or it doesn?t exist? Where do I find information? Is it a good choice to take the Flash 8 exam or is it better to take ...more >>

Hi - I need to put the Spanish upper case N with the tilde as the label parameter of a button component. How do I do that?? TIA your help. d2...more >>

For a couple years now I've been making Flash demos that are embedded in an HTML page, for viewing online. The exact same pages also work offline, ie. from a CD, USB drive, or another PC's hard drive. Suddenly, that just stopped working! I've done all the troubleshooting and bug eliminatio...more >>

I've had Flash 8 which was fine with my Wacom tablet. However, now that I've downloaded Flash CS3 it's caused problems with my Wacom tablet even if I return to Flash 8. For example, if I double click on a symbol, a broken rectangular object appears and enlarges. I'm eventually taken to edit...more >>

I need some help: I have several nav buttons that I want to set a variable for so I can check it and go on to the appropriate frame. If button 1 is "blue" and 2 is "red", I want it to play on click, have the variable set, then check the variable a few frames later to see if it should go to key...more >>

I have been playing with flash for a while on a Mac but I have been dissatisfied. It is a pre-intel version and 1) it is very slow, 2) it does not support Soundforge, which I hear is quite popular and easy to use. Anyway, I'd like to get a PC but I'm not sure whether I need a standard comput...more >>

I want to load a externel .txt file into the input text field, so the user can start modify the text that has been loaded. Is this possible? Anyone knows how to accomplish it? //thnx...more >>

I would really like to find a listing of all the things that I can call on a FLVPlayback things like FLVPlayback.play FLVPlayback.pause I can't find anywhere that lists them all and I am getting sick of looking.... anyone out there know where I can find one? Also is it possible...more >>

I have a image gallery (slideshow) created with Flash and XML. My website uses a css/javasript dropdown menu for navigation. The dropdown menu is hiding behind the slideshow no matter what I set it's z-index to. Is there something in flash that lets me set its z-index? I could jsut drop th...more >>

I have a large SWF file that has about 50 portfolio bitmaps in it. I first had them all in PNG format, but that made the SWF file 3.1 MB in size. After laboriously going through all 50 png files and bringing them way down in size and making them all GIFs, my FLA file shrank dramatically, but m...more >>

Hi all, I recently designed my own website using Front page and Photoshop CS2 to show off my photos. The site wasn't too bad (see www.pumaknight.co.uk) but I want more!! Here's the question. I want to animate the galleries and use simple animation to make the site more appealing on ar...more >>

So I have a movie file converted to SWF for the web. Within the folder, I've also got another .SWF of the skin player along with a supporting HTML, that was automatically generated when I published the file. I have uploaded all 3 and when I type in: www.mysite.com/video/name-of-my-file-here....more >>

Hi, publishing projector for mac doesn't create a Hqx file on my pic. There is just a folder with cryptic files. Does anyone know a workaround for this? Thanks in advance....more >>

I don't know how to write a close function for UI windows component. This is what i did. 1) Dragged windows UI component to the library. 2) Dragged button from UI to stage 3) Gave instance name to the button as my_button 4) For frame 1, i added this actionscript //-------------------...more >>

Hey all, I have my site almost completed. It looks fantastic, it is sharp and creative and exactly what the client wanted... I am so happy with it... but I have a HUGE problem now... I have been previewing it right out of flash and it runs great. It wasnt until I simulated the download on a ...more >>

I hope that someone can help me! I have made a website with mx2004 trial version. And now I just bought Flash CS3. Now I would like to edit my website with CS3, because mx2004 trial has expired, but when I'm trying to open the old mx 2004 file, CS3 says: "Unexpected file format". :mad; ...more >>

Is it possible to set up several starting points in a flash movie and then add code that will tell the movie to randomly (or in a specific order) play at these different starting points? (this is what my client wishes for it to do) ...more >>

I have an issue with opening Flash 8 Documents that have been created with Flash 9. When I created a new file in Flash 9 and save it as a Flash 8 Document we are unable to open the file on a computer with just Flash 8. I have both Flash 8 and 9 installed and can view it fine in Flash 8. ...more >>

I have created a simple motion tween with a MovieClip created from a text phrase created in Flash and have tried to set the alpha index to got from 0% at the beginning of the tween to 100% at the end. Here is the problem, the tween works great, however the alpha value is not working AT ALL. ...more >>

Hello, I know flash very well. But I don't know how to make a timeline tool like the one used in this tutorial: http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/accessscience/demo/acs_feedback.html Heck, I'm not even sure if "timeline tool" is the right term for it. Anyway, I really need to learn how to ma...more >>

Hi All, I cant find any simple tutorials, can anyone help me and explain how to very simply, display one variable of text from a database as flash format (or a type of dynamic image)? Using CS3, and ColdFusion. I'm playing games with it and think i'm just name the variable wrong either...more >>

Hi thanks for viewing. Just want to make a movieclip go to a certain frame and play when a certain frame in parent movieclip is reached. Is this possible? surely it is... Many Thanks Frank...more >>

I just started using Flash CS3 (cool). But when I go to draw simple shapes on the timeline, I get jagged edges around corners (circles, or rounded rectangles). Why? I want smooth edges, just like I'm used to (I've used Flash for about 8 years, and know what I am generally doing). ...more >>

From Adobe home page -> Support -> Document -> Flash I found a "Flash Video Encoder User Guide" talk about this Flash Video Encoder. But throughout the Adobe web site, I can not find this product. Is it part of other product or it has another name? And how to buy/get it? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, thanks for viewing,. Is there a way of scripting a mc so that it will gotoandplay once another (nested within it) has got to a ceratin frame i know it could maybe involve .curentframe? but can't get that to work. Is the simplest way to start action of parent clip at the frame at which the...more >>

hi, well i have created a cd presentation in flash, i have problem with vedioload, when the presentation is in system the movie file is loading quickly but when i write the presentation it in a cd the movie(mpeg, flv) loads but it will take a long time to load why there is any other to loa...more >>

I recently switched over to a PowerMac and Flash CS3 from Flash 8 on a PC. I've been on a PC forever but wanted to migrate over to the Mac as XP and Vista and the headaches we all know about. So, within Flash you can "Test Movie" and a little test window pops up displaying your swf. It ...more >>

hi link: http://www.legendid.ee/GG_Banner_728x90.swf when the performers' names zoom in, it looks really smooth. How is this done? i assume the framerate is not much higher than 30. thnx, martin ...more >>