Does anyone know a way to switch the image you are using as a symbol later in the development stage? Lets say you edit an image in Fireworks, then convert it to a symbol, then copy and paste it into Flash and use it throughout the movie. Is there a way to later on change the change that image ...more >>

Hi I have searched all over the web for this problem, but I have not found a solution. I have a huge problem with macromedia flash embedded in ie7 using all my processor power. Some pages that I have used often before have become completely useless now because of this. When I run a page co...more >>

Hello, I have been trying to resolve this problem for quite some time now, when I try to installize the flash player 9, it starts downloading, and a green and white line with a F symbol above it comes across, then it dissapears and at the top left part of the box is a red square, a green circl...more >>

Picture: http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3994/tabsg0.png I created a page with two columns of input text fields. But it's not working exactly how I want it to. When the user fills in a line data in the first (white) column and presses TAB, it jumps to the second (yellow) column. My inte...more >>

On my wedsite I have four flash.swf movies that load as soon as the page opens. I would like to change this and have the movies only load when the user clicks the play button. Can someone point me to how to do this? thanks ...more >>

Hi, I can't use Hebrew in flash studio 8, it stucks every time i try to use it... just won't publish the flash video. Please help......more >>

I have a large flash project that need to load faster. I've read, and understand the concept behind loading a main swf and then loading content (using loadMovie) only as the visitor moves from page to page, to break up the wait. However, a major detail escapes me... To benefit, do I need...more >>

Is this easy to do ? http://www.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Create-t-shirt/Designer-59/...more >>

Hi - im getting a site together with a contact page controlled by php, i have the usual input fields eg. name, telephone etc but im trying to add 3 radio buttons to give the client an option of how they would like to be contact eg. by email, mail or telephone. When a radio buttons is selected...more >>

I've created a movie clip. I then duplictae the clip in the library, and rename it. I was under the impression that if this is done, the new clip is now completely independent of the original clip. Seeing that this was not the case (I changed a photo in the new clip and when I tested the sc...more >>

Hello, I made this flash program, and I would find it very useful If it acted like a normal program... like there is a shortcut on the desktop that links to a little window that pops up playing my flash program. Is this possible??? Many thanks, -Donald J ...more >>

I created a movie in Flash CS3, and uploaded the swf/flv files to my server. Everything plays fine in all my test browsers, but the client says she is seeing a 'flashing red icon' where the movie should be. She's viewing on Mac Safari (Flash version 9.0.20). Searching through this forum,...more >>

If you use a media display component can you change the contentPath like you can with the Flv Playback Component? I want to play some random MP3 files on my site and this is the only way I can think of doing it. ...more >>

Hi. Whenever I try to export from Flash cs3 as quicktime the files frame rate (29.97 FPS) is different in the exported quicktime. (eg, 30.30, 27.86, 20.5) Can anybody recommend how to fix this?...more >>

In Macromedia Flash Professional 8, when I click "File" - "Import" - "Import Video...".. Then browse for a video, open it, then click "Next"; it immediately closes down Flash 8 without asking if I wanted to save the project. I had done over two hours of work on it and it was all lost! All I ha...more >>

I have made a photo gallery using the newest version of flash and using AS3, however I have very little knowledge of xml and html, and am struggling to learn. How easy is it to apply xml to a normal flash gallery? What or where is the best for learning xml? ...more >>

Using this technique: var textVar:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); textVar.load("about.txt"); textVar.onLoad = function() { _global.dyn1 = (textVar.headline); _global.dyn2 = (textVar.details); my_mc.dyntxt.html = false; my_mc.dyntxt.htmlText = dyn1+" "+dyn2; }; The dynamic text p...more >>

Hello, I posted this yesterday, but my post seems to have disappeared... Im making this game, inwhich you are packman, and you run around shooting ghosts (original, eh?). Anywho, when you kill ghost 2, ghost 1 goes along with it. Now, I realize you can solve my problem just from that...more >>

Hello Does anyone know how to make a animation on a button when you put your curser over or click the button longer then just a few frames. in other words to extend the over or down parts of the button animation. Thanks a lot. ...more >>

Hello, I am having an issue with flash buttons and adding a url to them. When I set the behavior for go to URL on release the flash animation of my button (which is a movie clip) stops working in the browser and in the flash preview. When I remove the behavior it starts working again. It s...more >>

Hello all, maybe Flash isn't capable of moving jpgs around too well? 'Cause my results are pretty bad. I was hoping to export some little Flash anims into an iMovie project, via export to QT. I have a jpg base layer, nice high-res photo. I want to move other jpgs around over the base-layer sti...more >>

Hello I have been trying for a long time to find a code to pause all the item in an animation at once (sound, animationd, etc) and all the ones i did find were confusing and nobody walked me through how to stream the sound, or whatever its cald where you not only put it in the frames but you...more >>

I imported a 30 second sound clip (.wav) to the library and added it to my document following the directions in Flash 8 help: Using Flash / Working with Sound / Starting and stopping sounds at keyframes. The Property inspector for sound has a drop down menu with 2 choices: Repeat, and Loop. I ...more >>

Hi there, As the subject suggests I'm having problems with an embeded SWF file, whereby if I open the HTML file containing it locally - the movie loads fine, but if I access via a webserver it doesn't. I currently have two SWF files... one (intro.swf) which preloads and then dis...more >>

SWF to AVI Converter : Convert any Swf Flash media into an AVI video. Uses any available codecs, no install and full flash actionscrip support. Last but not least, it's FREE. Download: http://www.jadeware.net/dev.html Julien MEYER JADEWARE -- Game Programming Docs, Code snippets...more >>

I am having trouble getting text from my xml file to read correctly in my flash file. I am trying to read the <title> <?xml version="1.0"?> <news> <stories id='1'> <title>Leveraging Innovation<br> Business Courier of Cincinnati<br> February 16, 2007</title> <story>teste...more >>

I am creating a dynamic text field on the fly. I would like to be able to set the alpha on the text field to be 0, and then use the tween class to fade in the text. The text field will contain simple html tags like bold, italic, underline. I can create the text field, set the alpha, and fade...more >>

Hello, My browser started to crash sometimes when there is Flash content in the pages, so I decided to uninstall the Flash Player, but I'm still able to read Flash animations. How can I uninstall Flash entirely? Are there files to remove somewhere? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to flash and I'm creating a flash mp3 player and have questions about loading paths. I'm trying to find out if it's possible to load absolute paths that are outside the document root of my website. The reason why I want the mp3's outside the document root is because I don't wan...more >>

Hello. I would like to know if there is a way to place a movie clip (avi mov etc) and have the character in the movie appear in front of a different background in a Flash movie. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. Peter ...more >>

I am trying to establish whether or not it is possible to use XML to move my main movie clip to a different frame? Does anybody know if this is possible? any help greatly appreciated....more >>

I'm trying to embed this flash game on my daughters website, but it's telling me it can't publish the HTML because a tag is not closed. I've looked and looked, but I can't figure it out. Can you please help. This is the code that was highlighted saying a tag needs to be closed: <embed src=...more >>

I'm looking for software to load swfs. I have a series of swf banners I need to load into a web page. I'd like to load these externally with an xml file. Is there such software available? I am a web master and don't want to modify a flash file with a loader every week. ...more >>

I'm having trouble making transitions in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. Here's the error message: Exception in exportPreviewSWF: TypeError: instance has no properties Error opening URL 'file:///C|/Users/Lindsey/AppData/Local/Adobe/Flash CS3/en/Configuration/preview1.swf' Exception in rev...more >>

hello i need help with this animation i need to make i have a chess board and a simple form, lets say a circle, my problem is that i need to change the color of the part of the cell while the circle pass, so when the cicrle is in a black cell part of the cell becomes white and the next whi...more >>

Hello, My boss has a flash intro page. She wants me to be able to let her make special announcements for the viewers when neccessary. I believe having an external txt file that she can put the information on, and having that in Flash is the way to go. This way, if nothing is written in the ...more >>

Dont get me wrong I love Flash but I just wonder why some obvious things are just missing in such an amazing application. Some things just take so much unnecessary time and you have to do tedious research for hours before you can do such a simple thing as adding an rollOut animation to ...more >>

I need to know how long the flash video movie from this website takes to play when loaded onto a browser in the US. It takes about 30 secs to open here in the UK and I need to know if it is crappy hosting or just transatlantic congestion (it takes just 1 second to open on my UK dedicated server....more >>

Ok so I built this website in Macromedia Flash 8 and it looks great when I preview it but now that I am uploading it to my geocities pro account its not loading anything. Well let me rephrase that ... the index isn't loading anything at all. I click view and it shows a black page. Now if I vi...more >>

Does anyone know how to create a navigtion button in flash to use in Dreamweaver which wobbles when the mouse cursor is over it?...more >>

Hi i would like to know if Adobe Flash CS3 professional has better 3D modeling capabilities than the previous versions? Also is there a Flash 9 pro authoring software of after Flash 8 pro came flash cs3? ...more >>

I am trying to get a button to open a document in a blank window. It works fine with Firefox, however, IE has issues. Within IE, I was able to get the doc to open in self (thanks to Topic: Flash Hyperlink Button/Problems getting button working in IE7), however, when I change it to open ...more >>

I am not new to flash and this has me stumped. I have been using CS3 for about 5 months now and everything was fine. Then recently I opened a file and started working on it and everything was fine. I made a simple change and all of a sudden when I would test a movie nothing would show up ...more >>

Hello. I've got a question: I have a moveiclip loaded, and Frame 1 contains a function that looks like this: function returnValue () { return _root.main.intRank; } And with VB, I've loaded another clip on level1. When I use _level0.main.intRank; from the level1 clip it works fine. B...more >>

New to flash CS3, everytime i try to save or publish or even sample i get an error... Error Signature AppName: flash.exe AppVer: 9.0.0.494 ModName: flash.exe ModVer: 9.0.0.494 Offset: 00c5958f I could appriciate it if anyone could help me... ...more >>

We have 10,000 SWFs (and their FLAs), but need to create a JPEG of each SWF to see a thumbnail of them in a DAM. Aside from the very manual method (make screenshot of the SWF, resize it and convert it to a JPEG in Photoshop/Bridge) what are my options in order to either A) automate this pr...more >>

I was hoping someone would be able to help me, im not very experienced, but i learn pretty quickly. http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee229/icravespam/forum.jpg is a screenshot of my menu, it is a horizontal scrolling menu. Upon rollover, the icons glow red. I copied the actionscript from...more >>

I am sorry if this is really obvious. My knowledge actionScript doens't go much beyond "stop();" What I need to do is have my flash movie play to the end, and then automatically go to a certain URL, without having to click a button or anything else. I assume this could be done by attachi...more >>

I'm something of a beginner to Actionscript, so I followed EXACTLY the directions in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash to create scrollling text areas in my Flash site. The text does not scroll at all, and, on one of the pages, only one line of the text is showing up. Can someone help, ...more >>

I'm in a little bit of a pickle. I broke my ankle and can't get to my office where my actionscript book is. I need to put a simple button into an animation that makes the animation loop in reverse. Is there a function or method that I can code in to accomplish this? Everything is i...more >>