OK, so I am working for a court system working on CBTs. We have been building our content in Flash and assembling the SWFs into Authorware and publishing to CD. As we have limited bandwidth and budget at the Courts we don't have an LMS, we built that functionality into the CBTs in Authorware (...more >>

I am working in Flash CS3. I have a Flash animation question concerning secondary animation: I want to animate the body of a bird as well as the secondary motion of the the wings. The body is translated in straight line across the screen. However, his wings will be flapping independently but a...more >>

Hey guys I need some help, does anyone have a clean interactive flash map of the United States. I really have absolutely no idea what I am doing with flash, but I am sure that I will figure it out. In a perfect world, this map would be one color and the roll over would effect just that st...more >>

I am making a video that will enlarge to full screen using the new Actionscript 3 Flash CS3. There is no bufferTime in the Component Inspector for the FLVPlayback Component. How do I increase the bufferTime for the component? ...more >>

It's a bit tough trying to describe what I'm trying to do, but the actual act of doing it is probably a matter of a couple of clicks. I'm trying to make an animation of a stick man walking. There are two layers, one is the background layer, the other is the stick figure's layer. I want to make...more >>

below i am using this pre-loader, which works great, but there is one problem. It takes forever to load to entire movie. The .swf is 5 mb. Is there a way that i can add something to the code or something to make the pre-loader load faster or quicker? This is the website that i am working on....more >>

This is probably a very basic question, but going through all my old Flash work didn't help me remember... I have my animation starting on the main stage with an image fading in. when that is done playing, at the end i want it to go to a movie clip on the stage and play it from frame 2. wh...more >>

I'm new to Flash--I'm trying to make a slide show presentation where the first slide has bits of a graphic and then more bits are added in subsequent slides. What is the most efficient way to do this? Many of my images are organized with layers in Illustrator if that's helpful (all CS3). Tha...more >>

Hello, I'm having a problem upon publishing a Flash project created with Flash CS3. Basically, upon rendering the project to a swf file or projector file using flash player 9, I'll get the problem of random parts of text not appearing, as if the filters are making it not render properly ...more >>

Hi, I'm wondering if there a way to lock the file location of an swf so that relative links don't get broken when importing one SWF into another. I'm importing one flash movie into another via loadMovie. The loaded movie has links that work when it's run by itself but get broken when it's...more >>

Hello, I need to be able to totally disable access to the Adobe Flash Player Settings small window accessed by right clicking on the flash while it is playing and then choosing settings from the menu displayed after the right click. This access is a security issue and that is why I need to b...more >>

Hey everyone, A buddy and i were talking about if it was possible to add a swf for your machines desktop background. I have seen animated backgrounds before but never put much thought into it so we tried loading a swf and it didnt work... does anyone know how to create on of these? Th...more >>

Hi there... I have a project that will be using well over 100 audio clips. I have done a little previous work with audio in flash but not to this extent. I am wondering if anyone out there has some ideas or favorites they have used regarding Audio in Flash. I also am hoping to get maybe s...more >>

Everytime I draw a line using the line tool it groups. Is there any way to reverse or stop this from happening? Thank you, Richard...more >>

I know that you need a shape for tweening but I am not sure how to convert a graphic that I import into the library to a shape so that it qualifies for tweening. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dave ...more >>

I am trying to learn what I thought would be something really simple, to create a hyperlink on a button. I found this tutorial <http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/hyperlink.htm> but cannot get past step v. I am using Flash CS3 and I guess the tutorial is for a different version... When I cli...more >>

I have created Flash movie with graphics incorporating JPG background and 1 pixel vertical and horizontal lines. The background behaves good, but the lines are blinking (or floating, depending on the image resolution and the document dimensions) despite of the different settings and movie for...more >>

Hello, I have a movieclip in my main timeline and in it a variable is specified on a frame and used to load the correct color image in a loader. example:// color = "blue"; paintloader.load(color+ ".png"); In my main timeline on frames this variable is changed (color = "red";) When ...more >>

Hey, Having trouble with an FLV file uploaded to a content management system. For some reason the FLV file isn't showing on the HTML page. I think maybe the relative path from the swf file to the flv file is wrong. Is there a way of changing the relative path for the FLV file? thanks ...more >>

I have never created a website before and I want to know if Flash will help me accomplish my goal. I am having a devil of a time locating tutorials and books that can help me learn what I need to know in Flash CS3. Most of what I find is for Flash 8. I have yet to find any tutorial to make a...more >>

Hi All Can anybody help me? I basically have a mc in my library that I want to appear on the stage, multiple times wherever the mouse is clicked. I assume it will take the x & y co-ordinates of the mouse, duplicate the mc and place it where the mouse is clicked. I am just not sure how ...more >>

hi all, i want flash to write data from the flash to a text.txt file in the HD. i dint wanna use PHP, CGi or any other server script maintainin a server. I want to write it using AS. can i do this? F5 had fscommand to save files right? but MX doesnt support it. What options do i have? Does A...more >>