Alright, here's what I want to do: I need to create a menu system like you would find on window's explorer (start>run>explorer) that expands as you click on the button. Not only that, but I want it to ease all of the other buttons below it out of the way. I'm going to use it to have a l...more >>

hi im relativley knew to designing websites in flash and i hav a really nooby question i want to be able to link from one scene to another - ive used the tutorial but i cant get the actionscript to work and im no entirely sure how u add it to a button any suggestions anyone ? ...more >>

Can anybody go to my site and see what's the problem with the soud loop? please? I import it to the library, then to the timeline, then I change it to loop from the propertise panel .... but still you can hear the pause http://www.qatar-wifi.com ...more >>

Hello everyone. I am not exactly a newbie, but I am having some problems wrapping my head around this one. I have actionscript expirience mostly from using Flex at work, but not much expierience in *scripting movement* in the Flash IDE. I have a client who wants a particular type of navig...more >>

ve got my project almost completed. Now i'm facing with another challenge as usuall. I dont know why this has to be so complicated, ive been searching for the answer and still nothing yet. I have components that i want to send the values or info to an email address, a form. Needs to link to ...more >>

I am a student trying to design a web site for a school project. I want to make a Flash intro than only runs once and then freezes on the page till the user clicks another page. How do I do this? Ashridge ...more >>

Im pretty new to flash, although I do know how to use it pretty well. If you go to www.pixtar.net.tc , i have made an opening intro before you enter the page. But I also made 4 more intros that I want to show on the page. How do I make it that a different intro plays every time you enter the p...more >>

Hi, i am making a portfolio for all my illustrations and have a nav bar that enables the user to select between the images. each image is in a seperate movie with a starting bar preloader. i want it so that when the user clicks on a link, the new image loads over the top of the previous image...more >>

I am stuck trying to create a certain button on my website. Basically I would like to have the buttons set up so when my mouse hovers over it. Users can click on it "immediatley instead of exactly pin pointing the mouse in the right location of the button. To fix this issue i know that when ...more >>

I'm trying to make something like a word search, you know where you find the words hidden in a jumble of letters. Well anyways, i want to make it so that when you rollover one letter, it turns red if its not part of a word, however if it is in a word, it turns blue. So, i have to make a media ...more >>

How would I go about createing a fading image rollover in flash for my website? I know how to create it in html, but want to learn a new way to do. I have 11 Images, and I have placed them in the timeline. I want the movie to end on the 11th frame so the user can press the image to enter my we...more >>

Can someone shed some light on the snap to grid? I have been messing with this for a long time and I can't get it to work. I am merely trying to snap my verts to the grid when i'm drawing with the pen tool. The verts don't even draw close to where I am clicking. Sometimes when I click to make ...more >>

I posted this earlier on macromedia.flash but just discovered this newsgroup - sorry for the duplication. Here's my question: I'm just creating my first all-Flash web site and wondered what the prevailing strategy is: I've found some tutorials that advise you to break up the web site into ...more >>

Hmm . . . I posted this in General, but maybe I'll get more of a response in here. Anybody that can help me will be loved forever, ok, maybe just thanked profusely. Here's my problem, sounds simple enough, but I'm still new: Ok, I've made a text field for a website, and I was wondering if th...more >>

Hello- How do you reference a child screen movieclip? I tried various versions of this; This code is setup in an MC on the presentation slide. _parent.GeneralStats.popuptext.Turbine = "Turbine "+result.items[0].wtg_ID; GeneralStats = Child slide name popuptext = MC in GeneralStats s...more >>

Ok this is probably really basic, but i'm somewhat of a newb. I'm trying to make it so that when i rollover a button, it changes color and stays that color. Right now i can make it so it changes color, but then when i roll the mouse off, it just goes back to the original color... ...more >>

i was wondering how you could make it look like someone was drawing something. Like if i wanted to draw a line, but wanted to make it look, in the animation like it was somebody drawing it. I dont know if you know what i'm talking about, but if you do....could u help me? ...more >>

I cannot import EPS images into Flash. Every time I get the following error message: "The EPS file was not completely understood. Part or all of the file may be missing." I have tried using a Freehand EPS, a Photoshop EPS and an Illustrator EPS. I know my Illustrator and Photoshop files are o...more >>

I cannot figure out what is wrong. My flash won't load on XP in IE 6. http://thewindtamer.com/images/GotCooker300.swf But in the page it just sits there loading endlessly and never arrives. I have run into this on so many XP computers.:confused; ...more >>

I've been programming a while, but I'm new to flash. I have MX 2004 and never seen previous versions. I've read a couple of books (application development from macromedia press and SAMs teach yourself in 21 days) so I feel comfortable with the basics. I have really only one question, which con...more >>

I develop a sipmle web presentation with few flash animations and I can see them but no one alse can't see. Here is my web adress www.mreze.tk At the bottom of the index page I put first flash, but what I do wrong. Thanks ...more >>

I know this will sound so simple to most of you, but can somone help explain how to set an email link from my flash web page. For example when you have a "for more information please contact...(button) info@someplace.com. Thanks ...more >>

I've checked out the documentation on this, as well as the forums, and I can't seem to find someone who has a similar problem. I just started delving into Flash MX recently, so I could be simply missing something. My flash pulls text from a file into a dynamic text field. I set this text ...more >>

Hello, My name is Mariana and I've just joined in the hope that you can help me with the following issue. I am making a very fancy header for a website, this header is totally made in flash while the rest of the design is done in html with DW. The size of the flash file is width:770 and he...more >>

I've got an html page with two flash movies. The browser window shows two white boxes, each the size of the two movies instantly before loading the movies themselves. Is this avoidable, please? http://hoopsamerica.ushoops.com ...more >>

Hi fox ........ nice to see you all anybody help me please ? I build a whole flash website. and when I publish it ... the htm file is been produced ( main.htm for example ). First Question : How to make the flash site in the center of the screen inside the htm file ? Second Question: ...more >>

I am have minimal technical skills so I need "Help for Dummies" here! On my website, I have a flash file (a slideshow) that always worked fine in both Explorer and Firefox. No problem. I recently switched webhosts and reloaded my site. Now the file can be viewed in Firefox but is blank in...more >>

I wonder if someone may be able to help me with a problem I am having. I am constructing a portfolio site to showcase my artwork. I have one main flash movie, here there are three buttons which launch a small browser each containing a movies that display the different works. The Main movie...more >>

I would like to create the border animation effect featured in the attached link. Could I get some advise. If it's a masked animation how would I create it with a frame. I tried but am lost. Please advise http://www.onclipevent.com/v02/base.html null Many thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have a site designed in ASP .NET. I'd like to redesign it in flash, but I would like to get some opinions first. Here is what the site does: -asp .net/vb .net front end with sql back end -basic form for logging security incidents -has spellcheck -lots of datagrids, datepicker, timep...more >>

Hi group, I'm pretty sure that my question was asked a lot of time here, but I didn't find a posting so far, so I decided to ask myself... I'm quite new to flash (used it years ago) and only have basic knowledge of action scripting. I'd like to make a gallery like this one: http://www....more >>

hi, im new to flash so im completely rubish! I know how to make banners and stuff but im trying to make a header for my site and also a menu bar, but I dont know how to make animations react to mouse movement and clicking.....can anyone help, I also want to create a header like the ones aon th...more >>

hi all, any recommendations on this order form, other than a slow open, any thing i should change? i value any opinions. https://www.theinfoagency.com/index.evaluation.html Todd...more >>

Hi I've just started using Flash MX (I've used Flash 5 for too long ...). One of the new features that I've heard of in MX is that it is possible to dynamically load jpg pictures into the movie, without putting them into the swf file. This will make the swf file a lot smaller, and (maybe) make i...more >>

I've in the middle of a flash course and would like to create the border animation effect featured in the attached link. Could I get some advise. http://www.onclipevent.com/v02/base.html http://www.onclipevent.com/v02/base.html Many thanks ...more >>

I'm fairly new to flash, so my appologies if I'm asking a very simplistic questions here... I've been working on a Flash website where I have one main movie as the site, and when you click on buttons it loads the content into a section of the original movie. I can do that fine, but I'd like ...more >>

Simple question: How do you rotate images in flash? There are a few things I need to rotate, the basic concept is a turntable... I need the tonearm to swing across... and the record to play... i.e. spin round... All help will be greatly appreciated... ...more >>

I've been trying to create a nav bar for my site for quite some time. I know how to make a simple rollover, but i've been trying to make a movie clip rollover scheme. I know how to make the movie clip, and i know how to make the button, but i dont know how to make them one. could someone help ...more >>

Hey, just started using Flash... Rest assured I have viewed the tutorials and stuff before coming to ask these questions. I have just started designing a web site using Flash and come across a few problems. I have managed to get my basic design to fade in and stuff, also got it to stop as ...more >>

:frown; Hi can anyone help? ive just uploaded my flash gallery to my site but it doesnt seem to load. all u can see is my background image which says loading but it doesnt load the images. i can skip through the pages but without the images. it works fine in dreamweaver and flash until...more >>

I did the browser check thing, with two separate files at http://theWindtamer.com/ So apparently, it verified that flash was installed and it was version 6+ and sent the browser to the flash page, but then blocked the flash animation. How does the first flash_detection.swf file get through ...more >>

:confused; I am very confused!...Now that I have built my website (all in flash) how do I upload it? Please bear in mind i am a complete novice!! Thanks. ...more >>

I am stumped. I've read through the help files, searched the forums but I can't find find out how to animate color change of a "home made" button. I have made an image in Photoshop, saved it as a gif and imported it into Flash MX. The help session explains the animation steps with a pre-...more >>

I have not seen this happen, but I have had several reports that my Flash animation is not showing. If you go to: http://TheWindTamer.com/ there should be a flash animation to the right of the text. For some people it is just blank white space. I have tested it in Opera, IE, Netscap...more >>

Hi, I've just finished my new portfolio site and am looking for some feedback from anyone who would care to share. The site is at www.mmurad.com Thanks....more >>

Hello Everyone Can some please help I am trying to edit a previous Fla file and change a scrolling header from one domain to another but i cant find a tutorial anywhere can some please tell me how to edit the fla so my domain will come up instead of theres. i opened the fla file typed in my do...more >>

How do I get a Flash movie to automatically go into the web page....I don't want to have to use an Enter button...more >>

:frown; I create a button.....it acts like a button - I make rollovers - everything seems cool. Then, I simply try to add a getURL action to it on (release) { getURL("blahblahblah.html"); } And when I export the .swf file the Output window pops up and says "You can only apply...more >>

Hello, I've existing DHTML menus on my site and am adding some Flash, but the Flash appears over the menus. What's best practice for layering drop-down menus over other Flash elements appearing on an HTML page? Regards, Pete ...more >>

I am currently making a website for my class, it is for the moment at http://www.HeavyHead.co.uk/HoFroHo/hofrohomain.swf The idea is that the class will upload swf files exported from illustrator into set folders, with a set name like a series like group1.swf group2.swf etc. As there is t...more >>