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 >>

This is only happening here and there, not on every copy of IE. Of course, the problem machines are w/ our offsite sales people, so I can't troubleshoot right in front of the machines. Instead of displaying the video, just the FLV icon displays on in the browser. URL for problem video: ...more >>

Hi, I have photo galleries loading via an xml file. Right now, it stops at the last photo. I would like it to "loop" back to the first photo instead of stopping and vice versa for the previous button. Here is my code for next and previous buttons. Thanks! function nextImage() { if (...more >>

Hi...I have situation with my preloader. I am loading audio from an external folder. When I click on the audio a preloader loads the audio and upon completion plays audio. My problem lies in that when I test the movie everything works as expected. I was joyous. BUT, once I view the actual...more >>

How do you merge two shapes so that they cannot be separated? Like with the brush tool with default settings, individual strokes become merged and are no longer individual vectors. I want to accomplish the same thing with shapes and lines. ...more >>

How to run fullscreen script in frame 1 of the flash file so that when we open it in browser , it automatically open in full screen.. could anybody help me on it.. this is for flash cs3...more >>

I have a mc on stage. Dynamically i duplicate them to make new instances mc1,mc2 and so on then randomly place them on stage. I have a target image on stage. Now I want if any of the mc (mc1,mc2 ....) has hit the image then that particular mc must change color and dissapear. How to do that. ...more >>

Is there a way to, when I have finished this wonderful drawing in Flash with transparent colors, to keep them when I export them from Flash to Illustrator as an .ai or .eps? I'd like my images to be scalable and rezizable (to be able to be really BIG) when I deliver them. Please help! I...more >>

I'm trying to make the passage to as3 but I'm having some problems cause sometimes I simply didn't get it... Have done a movie that contains 4 movieclips. 2 movies for english language, 2 movies for german language After language selection in the welcome screen I instantiate the 2 movi...more >>

I have a project that was originally published in Flash 8 as a windows projector (exe). This file was then linked to through a website (it is all on a USB stick). When it is clicked in IE 6 a security warning comes up with "run..save..cancel." When you click "run" a second warning comes up wit...more >>