hello. im having a problem loading a sound file. I have a movie clip with an animation that is synced with a sound file. when the sound file is part of the swf, it wont load properly (in simulate download mode the animation will begin without the sound) and when I try to use loadSound (and loa...more >>

I have a flash movie I want to display on every page of a website. I've modified the movie dimensions and some other attributes a few times, and it's a pain to have to change the HTML code within the <object> tags on every page of the website when I do this. I'd like to be able to put the c...more >>

Hi, I created a website using Flash Pro 2004, using Screen base application. Because all my files are within the same application the file is 2.20 MB. The site takes too long to load www.jakertanner.com. How can I get a loading bar that loads the home page faster?. Since I am using screens, I ...more >>

hi every1, im ne to flash and i have created a very nice website, but i have one little problem, i donno what action to use in order to allow the user to send an email by simply clicking on the email address tag in the contact us page. it should open microsoft outlokk when its is pressed, th...more >>

Hello. Here is the situation: I have a horizontal bar on which several images keep alternating, four at a time, each occupying 25% of the bar's total width, as represented on the following scheme: +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | (a) | (b) ...more >>

I am working on a site: http://www.thaliasurf.com/thaliaSurf/ It displays (loads) fine in Internet Explorer, but not in Safari? Any suggestions?...more >>

say you have several thumbnails in a flash movie, and you want to set your .fla up so that when you click on the thumbs, a larger picture opens up in an outlined box on the same screen. how do you set up something like that? cheers, macron. ...more >>

i just installed my 30 day trial of macromedia mx flash and bought a flash template. when i open mx flash, none of tools show up. all i get is file view control help at the top of the page. i also can't launch the program without opening a flash file. if i double click on my flash shortcut, no...more >>

I don't get this. I'm using FLASH MX 2004 In author mode with enable simple buttons selected the buttons work fine. In test movie they work fine In publish (f12) they work fine BUT, when I try to test the scene they don't work. Yes, they are buttons linking to elements in that scene. Why is...more >>

I am trying to figure out if it is possible to add pictures in a dynamic text box. The text I have is scrolling with the tracklisting for an album, I want to place a picture of the album cover next to the text, but also want it to move with the text when it is scrolled. is this possible? if so...more >>

when i import bitmaps into a .fla, they come out looking grainy in the .swf doc. is there a way to prevent this? how?...more >>

http://www.x3studios.com/ In the above site, if you click on "portfolio" and then any subnavigation it loads a section in the main window. I like how the first section that appears, the subnav on the left moves out to the right to let you know where you are and continues the same functiona...more >>

I am just starting to learn flush and trying to find out if there is a way to bring an image on the screen from 0% to 100% transparency and than back again to 0%. I found a way to make it from 100% to 0% in Time Line Effects/Transform and sliding Final Alpha from 100% to 0% but can't figure ou...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to include a html file in a flash file? I want to make a flash website but i want to use html file as textfields because the layout is easer to optimise in HTML then in flash. I use flash 5 to create my website. Can somewhone help me? greeting Koen ...more >>

Hello, How should I proceed to put Chinese traditional text in a XML ? I made a dynamic menu and the client wants to have it in the following languages : Chinese and Corean. Pls help me. Thanks Henri ...more >>

hey everyone. is there a way to drag and drop movie clips (and snap them) along a path rather than within a specified area. thanx www.angrycow.net...more >>

Hi I am creating a website in Flash, I have contact page, when the user clicks on a map I want the map to open up in a fixed size opo up window and when they click on detailed version it zooms to a detailed pick of the map, how can I go about doing this? Hope someoen can help, thank you ...more >>

I am having a problem with my pre loader, I have it set up as the first three frames of my flash movie, the problem that I am having is that it doesn't show the image I have set up, or the counter until it gets to about 96% loaded. I would like to get it so that it shows the first frames whil...more >>

Hi Im creating a website in Flash, I ahve a loggo split into segments which i have created and made into buttons, however each segment is a import image from photoshop th shape of segments are curved but flash makes the image into a square even though it has transpaprnt parts and this is causi...more >>

Hi Can anyone tell how to create a flash menu with pop up horizontal menu just like the same as top of the site. When you click the menu, another horizontial menu appear. ...more >>

hello. I have a section in my site that has 'join to mailing list' thingy: theres an input textbox and a send button that when pressed sends the context of the textbox to a php file that writes it to a txt file. the problem is that whenever the button is pressed a new explorer window pops up. ...more >>

Is there any one site where I can go to have preloaders explained to me? I'm fine with basic and slightly advanced ones to load the whole movie but I would like to break-up my movies more to significantly improve loading times.:confused; ...more >>

Good morning group! I'm a new member in the group, and also a Flash beginner. I want to know how to build a drop down menu in a movie clip, which I can load in a different movie, a main movie and when people choose any option from this drop down menu, I can go to a specific frame in the main m...more >>

I'm attempting to stop only certain layers from looping, while others may continue to do so. I attempted at changing the Graphic properties by selecting the "Play only once" from the drop down menu, however, this still does not appear to stop the selected graphic or layer from looping. I als...more >>

Can anyone tell me if there is a quick and easy way to publish a .wmf file out of flash? ...or, do i have to go into another program?...more >>

I am building a website for an artist and I would like to set up the site so that when you click on a thumbnail of a picture (set up as a button, I would assume), the picture opens up in a smaller window of its own. I am having trouble finding any documentation on how to do this... any advice...more >>