I'm designing a brief Flash animation as an 'under construction' banner for a future website. When I remove the completed SWF file from the folder with the sound files, the sounds are absent in the SWF. I import the sounds directly into the library, so what am I doing wrong? I'm sure I'm ...more >>

Hello every body ! Can anyone help me please about moving sliding panormic image 1000x400 px inside a visible area of 450 x 160 px by the mouse position in this visible area !? I mean : when i enter mouse in the area the image should slides easingly horizontaly and verticaly according to the m...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create parts of my site, that can be dragged around the site, but I can't get it working. I've already used this code: on (press) { startDrag("_root.mc_test",true); } on(release) { stopDrag(); } But it didn't work. Can you help me? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Greetings. I have several swf files that comprise chapters of my movie. Towards the end of one swf the user has a choice between two different swfs. One choice is a dead end. I have a "try again" button and I want the user to go back to the end of the previous swf. How can this be done? ...more >>

Hello, i would have your opinion about my portfolio : http://www.creation3d.org thanks a lot Nico ...more >>

Can you explain me how to deal with the problem when I use a dynamic text field in a movie, which is under mask layer. The text just does not appear, but all other elements in the movie are in place? When I use the same movie without the mask layer - the text I dynamically load is visible! ...more >>

I've developed a flash interface for the intranet at my company. One of the buttons links to a web page in our Agile document control system. The link works from the Test Movie in flash. But after publishing the flash file to html the link does not work in the browser on the intranet. The ...more >>

Firstly, I'm new to flash, so need a bit of talking through, or to be pointed to the right tutorial to help me here. Here's the need: I have created a button for a website that jumps up 7 frames and back down 3 (total of 10) frames and changes color when your mouse rolls over it (OVER)....more >>

Check out the following link to an amazing site: http://www.pixelranger.com/ Pls tell me how do u think he made his logo shine when entering the site. notice that the buttons also shine when u rollover them. i know he probably used a mask in the shape of the logo and made a white line move...more >>

If you look at the studios section of http://www.milkstudios.com you'll see that they have a "Quicktime VR"esque 360 degree animation of the room. I know that this would be possible with Flash alone but was wondering whether anyone knew whether I could embedd existing QTVRs into an .swf ? ...more >>

Flash has its components and one of them is the button, is you all must certainly know that when you press it the border becomes green and all the other compoents have some green effects. My question is how can I change this to become the colour that I want? (I would prefer a 50% Alpha Blue to...more >>

I'm not which route to go down, create my movie in Flash using different scenes or create lots of different swf files and call the movies into one template? Please can someone explain the advantages and disadvantages of both ways? Thanks ...more >>

Hi Guys! I have an image with certain key areas that i want to be able to be highlighted when moused over. i'm guessing i will draw something over the image to map out where the highlight occurs... ? Thanks. H ...more >>

HI I want to make a splash page that has the little message "loading" displayed on the page until the main splash image is loaded then the main image is displayed. Could you point me to a tutorial or some instructions on how to do this. Thanks -- Larry Dunbar ldunbar@axs.net ...more >>

I realise someone will come back and say 'it depends on what you're doing', however if I'm going to set up a portfolio site how would YOU recommend I think about doing this? i.e. In the past I have created new scenes like About Me, Work, Contact and linked my buttons to these seperate scenes,...more >>

I have this vector path: <img src="http://newmedia.kent.edu/liz/demo.gif"> I would like to create an animation where this path appears to be drawn out on the screen. I have played with masks and motion guides but I can't seem to find the right combination to create this look. Any ideas or re...more >>

I'm trying to create a mailto button that traps if a user doesn't have a default mail program. The logic is that many of the users of my web-site don't install Outlook or Outlook express, and use something like hotmail or MSN mail directly from a browser. What I would like to be able to do is to e...more >>

I have made a preloader for my site having a dynamic text field for the percentage. The font I have used in that text field is very uncommon. So will the people be able to see that text in the font I have used if they dont have the font in their computer? If no, how can I make them see the tex...more >>

About to launch my new portfolio site, let me know what you think. The downloadable PDFs of the portfolio are only about 65% complete, but the online version and everything else should be good to go. The framerate on Macs is abysmal unfortunately (works fine on PCs), a problem I've noted in ...more >>

I have built a website and I want to add a Flash intro to the site. Should the intro.swf be emdeded into a .html page and rename the intro.swf file to index.html and then load the original website and rename the old index.html page to home.html or something like that? ....or how sould I nam...more >>

Hello- I am developing a full flash site. Through my navigation menu, and using ActionScript to replay another movieclip (clip 1) , and also to attach another movieclip (clip 2) to it that represents the menu item selected. My problem is that when you select another menu item, the replay of...more >>

Hi all, Just busy building a relatively small site in Flash for a customer, and the deisgn of the site (done externally) is constructed of nothing but images. The site is essentially a 4 page flyer/poster. I have imported these images into Flash from Fireworks and originally, I have the mai...more >>

Is there anyway to include javascript in flash? I am experimenting with an all flash version of a website for a game I play. I would like to include the current status of my Ventrilo server (voice chat) on the right hand (currently empty) rectangle. The test page can be viewed http://www....more >>

hi, im making a flash presentation, contains floating text and images, but the size is growing like hell, can anybody advise me on how to cut down on size, and where & how can i minimise the size of a movie/ presentation. ...more >>

hello...im new in flash and need little help... ii got flash site file(.fla) but if i try to open it with macromedia flash mx 2004 professional,it tells me (unexpected file format). so i downloaded some more free flash site templates and same thisn(unexpected file format). Can anybody he...more >>

i made a nav bar made flash and on my web site it haz frames how can i use flash w/ framea what is wrong w/ this button on (release) {getURL("http://www.google.com/",main); } thanks...more >>

i have seen on some web sites a move pops up on a HTML page w/ alpha and every thing just wondering how "thay" do it ...more >>

Can you help me with this,please.`I made intro for my site in http://www.geocities.com/dgcoders/ .If you looked at my site intro from netscape,it is not working correctly,but in firefox,opera and IE ,it is working,I don not know why?.And there is a pop-up menu in the right side,is ther...more >>

hi, i just want to know if there are any more timeline effects other than those given as standard! what i am looking for is to allow text to move across the screen (from left to right) in a linear motion. i also want this to dissapear when it reaches the end of the screen (left side) t...more >>

I have made an animation. It works properly when I test the movie in Flash MX 2004 but when I publish the movie it appears on the left side of the browser even though I have placed the movie in the middle of the stage in Flash MX.How can I make the animation to appear in the middle of the brow...more >>

Hi. I created a flash movie on my Mac from school. I put the finished .swf and ..fla files on a CDRW and copied both files to my Windows laptop. I am creating a website and incorporating the Flash movie. But when I load the file into the HTML document, the file is VERY small - 32x32 pixels. ...more >>

ok... for my flash applications i've been using this for email: getURL("mailto:" add recipient add "?subject=" add subject add "&body=" add body); .. is there a way alternate that will just send an email instead of just making a link that opens their email client and stuff? -thanks ...more >>

Hallo,did anyone have something to say to fix the problem about the transparency in firefox mozilla???Text...more >>

Can you help me find some good web hosting like 1G for about 10$ for month.I'll be appreciated.Thank you very much....more >>

I just completed a web site for an organization and the Flash on the page makes a weird shift between image dissolves. Also the Flash text to the left of the page causes the entire page to shift when clicked. Anyone know why this might be happening? http://www.sundaybreakfastmission.org/in...more >>

Hi, I have a customer who wants a Flash intro for his existing web site. The specification of the Flash part is straightforward except in the last few frames he wants the image to 'explode' revealing the web page beneath the exploding particles. Obviously, the web page must be fully loa...more >>

I want to open my site in fullscreen so I have created this script: <script language="text/javascript"> function launchFullscreen() { window.open('fullscreen.htm','','fullscreen'); } </script> </head> <body onLoad="window.open('fullscreen.htm','','fullscreen=yes')"> but...more >>