Hi all, I have just bought Studio 8 (wicked) and have republished my main index page using the player 8 settings with the flash player detection. Now for some reason it has messed my CSS settings right up (calling from an external css file i created) and now the formatting is gone to pot. An...more >>

I am looking for a way to animate the stroke along a curve with actionscript. This curve would grow out of the starting point and "draw" itself out. If anyone has done this before, any tips would be greatly appreciated. Even pointing me to a website with tutorials would help a lot too. I am w...more >>

What I want for Christmas is an answer to this question. Can flash turn a picture drawn in flash into code that would create the same thing. I know you can look at all the values of it and do the same thing but is there a way you can do this with a press of a button :confused; Merry Christ...more >>

I wanted to arrange my Action Script when I saw this error: http://test.flashchaos.net/chaosb/captivate/flashbug.swf...more >>

Does anyone know how to graduately change the color of a movieclip when je move to one side of the stage. What I mean is that when you move to the right slowly with your mouse that the color of the movieclip slowly turns to a specific color. Same thing when you move to the left. Any ideas?...more >>

I've modeled - prepared cut scenes for a 3d animation that I'm importing as chunks into flash (FLV files). Now, I'm wondering how to create an effect similar to: http://www.mediaboom.com Upon clicking a section the cut scene will activate. At the end of the animation I need it to c...more >>

i want to get data from text file (txt) but, i want for ex: in get line 4 in text file.... sample: i have this txt file: Mehmet Mustafa Huseyin Halil Recep Advar and i want to get data from line 2 and write a dynamic text box in flash. what can i do? ...more >>

This seems like it ought to be simple, but I can't find a tutorial about it anywhere. Here's what I'm trying to do: I've got five input text boxes on the stage and one dynamic box. I want the user to input numbers in the 5 input boxes and then I'll calculate the average and display it in the...more >>

I replaced jpg and text tool elements on the stage with placeholder blank clips, which I used calls to MovieLoader.loadClip() to popluate. Is there an easier way to achieve the same goal ? If not currently, does Adobe have a plan to add this functionality in the future ? ...more >>

i have two swf (main and external) in the main there are 2 scenes. what i want is that the is button on external.swf file, on the click event ot that i want to load the scene 2 of main.swf file, i tried a lot but every time its loading the scene1.swf ...more >>

Hello everyone. I have been going crazy tryign to get a flash 8 file i made to open links in a chromeless browser but it refuses to open one. I thought maybe i was doing something incorrectly but after saving the file as a flash 7 or lower it opens them fine. The only problem is when saving ...more >>

Ok, i've checked out the forums, nothing. read the docs that came with the software, cute the examples are done using flash mx and not flash 8. i need a good example on how to set up an email form with name, email address, and the masage/body. it needs to be one that is complete, works, and wa...more >>

Can someone tell me step by step, how to make a symbol follow my cursor using actionscript? I've already worked out how to hide my cursor but I can't get it to actually follow the 'invisible' cursor around...basically, I want it to look like a different cursor to the standard windows triangle....more >>

Please help me, heck even if it's just posting to bump this thread to the top. View the code below. I am trying to take this variable and remove all of the enters/returns, and replace them with "%0D", the URL encoding for an enter. Every time I do this, it outputs undefined. The code seems f...more >>

I've been given someone else's site to do some work on and I'm pretty new at Flash, so please bear with me. I've needed to create a copy of a 'privacy' page called page6 (clip) in the Library to use for legal terms and conditions. I duplicated the existing privacy page by right-clicking on it ...more >>

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I am having troubles getting text to fade in my flash movie. When I use symbol edit the text fades just like I want it to but when I test the movie the text stays solid. Also when the text leaves the work area it does not disappear. How do I solve these problems?? thanks ...more >>