Recently all flash has been playing super slow on one of my Mac (G4 800mhz) This seems out of the blue, no recent installations etc.. same old stuff, but now flash plays at a crawl in all browsers. Any suggestions on how I can fix this?? ...more >>

Hey, I know this topic has been up a couple of times before, but I need help with my preloader. If I check it by itself then it works perfectly. My problem is that I can?t make it work with another movie clip. The syntax I m using looks like the following: I want to connect my preloa...more >>

Hi All ...anyone have any idea how Adobe created the cool CS3 cube nav i have been searching the web for days now searching for some help & all iam finding is , extension's & totally 100 % driven AS2 iam figuring, that it was created with Photoshop's 3D engine & then frame by frame an...more >>

THE PROBLEM: i've got an error with a EXE file output from FlashMX Crashing upon startup. It appears whenever someone running Windows XP opens my .exe projector, a black DOS window pops up for just a second then crashes. They said it is giving them some rapid error message that is imposs...more >>

I just downloaded the free trial version of Flash, and I was all excited to start learning until I was thwarted within seconds by a problem that must be really simple to fix, but i can't seem to figure it out. I want to import my vector graphics from Illustrator, but they do not seem to b...more >>

I have a regular hyperlink to a website in flash using the code attached: I also have a textbox in the flash movie that is populated with the text: ?SearchField=11111 The text in the text box should be part of the hyperlink so when you click the link it should take you to: http://www.my...more >>

I'm going to be creating a presentation for my company that displays the new site and features. NO interactivity. I was curious if the best method of execution is the same as creating an animation on the timeline or would the "slide presentation" feature benefit me more? I'm not sure how to ex...more >>

Downloaded a trial copy of Flash and cannot install it. Message is something about "close Internet Explorer" and try again. I currently have no occurences of Internet Explorer and still get the same message. I would like to try the product before purchase. Thanks! Patrick ...more >>

Hi guys. I'm making a Website and I'm wanting to add some flash to the logo. It's a site in progress, so please no "This/that link doesn't work" comments. The site is at http://www.arcadiaconsoles.com The big white space on the left hand side is where I am going to add some small pictu...more >>

I am trying to create thumbnails for my video files so that when visitors click on the thumbnail, it loads the movie in the same window for all videos. Can anyone please point me in the directio of a tutorial or provide ideas, I have two flash 8 books but they do not cover this. An example...more >>

Hello, I am using cs3 and AS 3.0, I have a dynamic text field which is getting its values from an external XML file. My problem is that I cannot seem to animate the text field, I put it inside a MC and still recieve the same results, it seems to bypass the motion tween. If anyone can help ...more >>

Hi guys, new beta of Flash 9 codename "Moviestar" was released, o course you all know that. Personally, I'm excited about the support of h.264 in new version of Flash becouse video quality will go up and file size(and data rate) will not change! What do you think about the future of ...more >>

Hello everyone! I was making my app in Flash MX (AS2), but after company's decision I had to transform it to AS3 (in Flash CS3). Some bugs i've made without any help, but I have not really serious problem - I can't find solution for this bug: 1152: A conflict exists with inherited defini...more >>

I'm trying to create a simple 'quiz' with 7 questions, each worth 0 or 10 or 20 points. Each time a person hits "yes" they would get points. If they hit "no" they would get zero points. Is there a way for flash to add up all the points and give a total score at the end? I'm using Flash 8 on a ...more >>

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to determine which version of adobe flash was used to create a particular .fla?? I'm wondering if the version of macromedia flash I have will be capable of editing this .fla- but I'm at work now, and was wondering if there was a quick way to check t...more >>

some 'tall' glyphs needed for Turkish (imagine a capital I that then has a dot added on top of it) get the top chopped off by the TextField when large character sizes are used (same happens in a TextArea component too) for instance in a text field that is 360 pixels high, with only a single ...more >>

Hi guys, I'm getting back into using Flash for web development and graphics after a brief hiatus. Just wondering if anyone can recommend some decent Flash 8/9 books which focus on the general topics of graphic design, animation, video, actionscript etc... Many thanks ...more >>

Hello, I'm getting really frustrated with this because I don't know what is wrong! I created a flash file and tested it on my computer and once I uploaded it the text files I was trying to pull in would not load. I decided to go a different route and copy another flash file I used previou...more >>

Does anyone know how to limit the amount of times a button can be pressed? Or if it is possible to have a button, once pressed, to goto a certain frame inside the movie clip and stay there permenently, not just for the current visitor, but for anyone who visits the page after? If anyone ca...more >>

Hey guys, how would I slide a movie clip diagonally using a button? a sort of on release goto x. or y and it slides there? thanks everyone...more >>

so i recently upgrade to windows vista. and after installing flash(succesfully, no errors) I click on the icon and i get the busy mouse icon.. then nothing. I then check the TaskManager and there it is.. Flash.exe running.. but the actual IDE (Interface) of Flash never shows up. can someon...more >>

I have 2 wmv files. One is the audio and one is the video. I don't own any software that combines both formats maintaining perfect video quality. If I import the video wmv file into Flash (converting it first with the Flash video encoder) is there any way I can create an action that plays and ...more >>

Hello, I am new to flash and am editing a template. I figured how to edit mostof it, but there are two things I haven't figured out. One is how to change the menu. It is this template here: http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/15225.html If I change the text at the bottom it wi...more >>

Hello, I am new to flash and am editing a template. I figured how to edit mostof it, but there are two things I haven't figured out. One is how to change the menu. It is this template here: http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/15225.html If I change the text at the bottom it wi...more >>

The problem pic's address:http://s2.album.sina.com.cn/pic/55aee59a02001291 (please ctrl+c the URL ) In the pic,the B.swf has a label,the label's position is random? Then,the A.swf has a MovieClip named Mc1?and Mc1 loadMovie B.swf. We can see,the Label in the A.swf has a wrong position?it...more >>

hi guys, I am brand new to flash (8) and I have a question for you all. I have mad a flash video banner and I need to get it to loop back to frame 20 when it is over instead of frame 1. How can this be done? thanks -Christian ...more >>

I'm confused with how onCuePoint works. I've read the help files but still am not sure how to construct this. Here's what I want to do: FLV file in FLV Playback Component. I have cuepoints in the FLV. I have a movieClip instance called "slides" that is stopped on the first frame. When the ...more >>

When i ctrl+Enter to try and preview my movie it loads about 95% of the way quickly then just shuts down. when i try and debug my movie it says it does not contain actionscript, but i have ALOT of actionscript. is this a common problem? I need help. Thank you. -J ...more >>

hi there, i was wondering if any of you mac users out there could test this page for me. specificly, if one of the videos are clicked on, and the video loads up, are you seeing the play/pause button and the "scrubbing" bar where you can go to where you would like to in a scene? i see it but i ...more >>

I was thinknig about some smart flash pages which follows the complicated ActionScript (Maybe AS 0.9 !!).I think It's more reliable to have such a smart application than other medias. ( like the solid programming languages) It's because of visual impacts and dynamic contents and animated resou...more >>

I'm trying to play the online point-n-click game http://www.albartus.com/motas/. It uses Flash. I have noticed that some of the comments when you click on things are too big to fit on the game screen, so it just goes off the screen to the right and left, and you just can't see it all. It was...more >>

I'm creating a flexible layout in flash. I want the necessary elements to animate into place when the user has stopped resizing the window and released the mouse. Anyone know of an easy way to fire an animation when the window has stopped being resized? ...more >>

I'm trying to get the Yahoo weather working, but I'm running into a crossdomain problem. The path to the crossdomain file one of the Yahoo guy's gave me is: http://weather.yahooapis.com/crossdomain.xml And the weather information is being pulled from: http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forec...more >>