I am just learning flash, started yesterday, and I am wondering if a host server tells you it can stream flash video, do you need to put the "<object classid="clsid:....." codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab# version=9,0,0,0" in your code or what? ...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new to Flash, and I'm trying to create a preloader. I drew a simple rectangle with a stroke and a fill. However, when I select the border of the rectangle only one side is selected. What do I need to do to select the entire rectangle stroke border and not just one side? ...more >>

Hey, I basically want to make a flash banner with a mp3 file embedded which plays when you press a button, I managed to embed a mp3 file, and its playes, but it just plays automatically, i want it to be able to start when i press a button and stop when i press a button. Is this possible, o...more >>

Does anyone know how to do CD Authoring that can playback Flash content and Video, using Flash Pro 8? I also need this CD to be Mac and Win compatible. Director does this, I know, but I am wondering if anyone has had success with doing CD authoring in Flash. Many thanks in advance for your...more >>

I am looking into using anchor tags for the first time and I am thinking I cant use them for this site because I am using xml and other variables that are being passed in on the first frame but maybe there as a chance that it still works. So I would like to know the best ways to use anchor tag...more >>

Since Flash CS3 imports PSDs, should I continue importing PNGS and JPEGS? I am importing Transparent PSDs and find the published file swf size is a little smatter than when I import transparent PNGs. What is the rule of thumb with Flash CS3 and importing? Thanks for your help. ...more >>

My main swf is the UI (or the shell) in which the other swfs will be loaded. In this shell, there is a play/pause button, but this button only successfully affects the top timeline in my loaded swfs. In other words, if i want to pause the animation in a loaded swf that only has one frame on t...more >>

How do you turn off image smoothing or antialisaing in Flash CS3? Have a look here to see what flash does: http://www.c1nz.com/notworking.png The green is what it should look like, the red is what Flash makes it look like. If I select 'Fast' under the preview mode, it shows perfectly but...more >>

I'm developing a browser-based CD project that uses some Flash. I am trying to link to a webpage from the Flash application by calling a Javascript function that uses window.open(link). I did this to get around the issue I was having with Flash accessing the web from the CD on a PC. But this s...more >>

Hi, I have this script on my next button. It works for but it POSTS multiple times (upto 270posts) to my database. What do I have to do to make it post only once? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. on (release) { nextFrame (); btn_next._alpha = 50; btn_next.enabled = fa...more >>

please see the link http://www.opal-stone.com in the top menu, click 'video' to open the video page. then move the mouse over the 'products' link in the top menu. you can see that the products drop down menu doesnt display properly due to the flash image on the video page. please help me to tr...more >>

Hello. I am hoping someone can answer a question for me regarding Flash Projectors. We are trying to build something for CD use and are running into a problem when trying to view them on Mac OS X machines. It seems that unless the user as admin rights on the machine the file won't open. ...more >>

I've been searching around the web and coming up confused. I am using the FLVPlayback component to deliver progressive-download video in Flash 8. I want the component to download more video before it starts playing so the playback doesn't get ahead of the download and hang up. I would h...more >>

Hi, I'm using Flash Pro SC3. I'm not able to get my swf animation to open an external URL from the last frame. I created a "Skip Intro" button and added code that works (see code below): skip_intro_btn,addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickHandler); function buttonClickHand...more >>

People. A new client of mine gave me the contract to look after his Flash site - already built-up by someone else. He wanted someone local. I can get by pretty well in Flash. However, his latest request is to update a simple text. But I cannot find this silly text nowhere! I have the fla...more >>

It says "must close all browser windows before installing" or something like that but i only have 1 internet explorer opened...more >>

:confused; I have a Flash CS3 (AS 2.0) image gallery that first loads all the image URLs and reference IDs into an array from an XML file. It then retrieves the selected thumbnail URL from the calling PHP file as a default using loadVariables. Once the user is in the SWF, they can navigat...more >>

Hello everyone, I wonder if someone might have an idea on how to do the following? I want to Get one ComboBox to populate another and then send the results as part of an email form. I've got the rest of the form working using php, just not the ComboBox bit. Any advice will be greatly a...more >>

Hi, I have a variable named "Hanif" in the frame 1 and its value is "test". Then I created a component myself. When I Drag my component to the scene I want to trace Hanif from frame 1. But the result is "undefined". How can I do that? ...more >>

o.k., so i'm trying to find new ways to do old tricks. i know how to manage images and text with xml and load them into a flash player for creating dynamic flash players that are easily updatable. however, i want to try doing this another way. i want to be able to use the loadMovie function to...more >>

Here are the details. I am using blackboard which is an educational platform to create online classes. It supports flash. I made a flash movie using flash 8 and exported the movie. I very simply dropped it into the blackboard page. It shows up on IE but not on firefox or safari. Please help be...more >>

I've got a file which has a flash video (flv) file in it, now I want to convert it to mpeg or avi or any standard movie type to play on a website without it getting restricted due to intended audiences filters blocking .swf files. I tried changing the publish settings, but it just gave me the ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how you get your flash site to fill the browser regardless of size, is it done with actionscript or is it on the html side of things. Here is an example of a site that does it well. http://www.ragnarokexperience.com/index.php thanks Gav ...more >>

Apologies for the cross-post. But it would be great to hear what people are keen to see in upcoming versions of the Flash Player and the web plugins. The original (pre CS3) article is http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashteam/archives/2006/08/feature_request_2.cfm. I would personally like ...more >>