I've designed a site in Flash and publisehd .swf files. Here's how I've arranged it: index.htm loads index.swf services.htm loads services.swf etc... When the index.htm loads, the Flash design loads up fine. When I click on Services, the Flash loads, but the Flash image loads much smaller...more >>

Hi all, I'm using movie loader objects to have a website with a series of menu buttons along the bottom, each of which then loads a new movie with the content of each page into the object above, on an 'onClick' command. But I want the 'home' sub-movie to load in automatically when the mai...more >>

Hello, If you guys could please explain to me how to be able to make a succesfull comments form for my website. My comments form is under my contacts page and i just need a simple one, this seems simple but I've just started. So if you guys could please explain and give me a little walk th...more >>

Hi, I'm self taught and have been working with flash for about a year. I recently came across some sites that seem to be using flash as a background to their html files. http://blink182.com If someone could tell me how this is done or point me towards a tutorial, I would be forever gr...more >>

Hello, Have this website, where I inserted a flash animation, and want the flash animation to be clickable and go to an specific URL that I'm creating (dinamically)... Thanks, :cool;...more >>

Hi I am trying to ascertain what is a maximum file size for homepages and other pages on Flash sites Right now, a Flahs site I am developing http://www.sweetybomb.com is stalling on Apple Safari browser among others The homepage is 300kb, which I thought was small, but I guess need...more >>

Help! I just finished building a project for a friend and went to put it to the server and test it on different machines and browsers when low and behold, there's a large white space where the .swf is supposed to be. I have the flash 7 player installed on all testing machines so it's not tha...more >>

Hello, to all, I am one of those guys who self teaches on most everything. yeah the wife hate the fact I have 7 motorcycles in the back yard and only 2 run lol... Ok I have flash website templates, that shave various very neat effects,... I am for now only attempting to modify the text,......more >>

http://www.geocities.com/zander155/cc.fla Im new to flash, but to "get my feet wet" Im making a website for my parents business. I try and link the button to the next scene, but can someone tell me why mine doesn't work? ...more >>

The flash video I have created is not tremendously big... 5,094MB for the edit file, and 79KB for the video that I upload to the webpage. My problem is that the audio doesn't go with the video when it's uploaded to an html page... regardless of whether its on my harddrive or the server, yet t...more >>

Hello everyone... I am currently dabbling in little bits of FLASH web design but i really am struggling. I have a few questions which i hope can be answered. 1. I opened by site (sliced in Photoshop) in Flash MX. I proceeded to add text and make rollovers and a small animation on the ban...more >>

i want to create a preloader screen that starts with an outline and gradually fills up with colour (to demonstrate the percentage) until complete.......here is the link for the image that i want to use.... http://www.whoistim.net/1.html how would i do this? if anyone can help i would be gr...more >>

I am developing a music site called http://www.sweetybomb.com I am having chronic problems with the site working okay at 1st in most browsers, but am having 2 similar issues: 1) Activating all the links never works as the Flash site either stalls on a frame or stops working altogether...more >>

Ever since those crazy frog adverts I've decided I've had enough of Macromedia Flash. The moving adverts are incredibly distracting. I actually have to stick bits of paper on my PC screen sometimes, so I can read in peace! I assume this distracting character is presented by Macromedia as a s...more >>

Hello, I am hoping someone can help me. I have a website (www.moniquewiley.ca) and the buttons on are being very glitchy. When I test it in Flash (version 5) everything works fine. When I load it to the internet the buttons go to different sites and some of them you have to click on more t...more >>

I want to add a sound to my Flash website. I have done it through the library > sounds. However I wish to add a song by REM which I have saved on my Pc how do I go about doing this?...more >>

I want to take buttons (images I created) and have them drift across the page and into place on a dreamweaver website. How can I do this? I know how to make the animation in flash but how can I make it occur once (instead of looping) and act as a layer over top of the existing webpage and have...more >>

I hope someone can help me. I am new to flash and am in need of assistant. I purchased a Flash Template on line and saved it to my hard drive. I am trying to edit the bitmap pictures in the flash portion , I need to change them and add the text to the pages. when going to the help menu it sa...more >>

Hi everyone. I was wondering how accurate the simulate download settings are in flash. I have a 4MB swf file (..it used to be 25M - so I am learning a bit on this form) and it is taking my progress bar 31 seconds to get to 100% using T1, 56k is taking about 10 minutes. What can I do to get...more >>

Hey, I was updating a flash site I made and somehow the scroll bar for my dynamic text field stopped working. Now, the update I made was just to add images in the main news table. So I had to set _visible properties for the text field, scroll bar, and images. Somehow, the scrollbar just stoppe...more >>

I need to take a list of clients and put it into a flash movie that the viewers can scroll using buttons. I don't need it to scroll by itself, I need the viewer to be able to control the scrolling. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make this work in Flash MX Pro 2004. Is there a...more >>

I am a programming and have deisgned an e-commerce site for a customer. I hired a flash designer to make a simple flash intro for the site. This flash intro is the first thing a user sees when they try to access the site. Next they click on the flash "Enter Site" link to proceed to the HTML ...more >>

I am making a website for my parents business. I want to make is so when you press a button it goes to the corresponding frame. I have 2 test frames. When I go to test the movie, it plays both frames. How can I get it to stop at the first frame? ...more >>

i want to try something in flash but cannot make it. for instance if i create two menus, one about and one contact. when i click on about, the movie shows itself. good... now, when i click on another link, i want this `about` menu to close itself, that is, show to the user that the 'about' ...more >>

I ahve designed a website entirely in Flash. I have tested it thoroughly and everything is running great...so far LOL I have performed all of the Publish settings, and published the file to where it is stored on my computer. My question is....and Im sure I'll appear quite stupid in asking....more >>

Hey... I have a simple problem that I can't see the solution in and I think you can help. I hope you will. I'm not exactly new to Flash, I'm just being a simpleton. I have five movie clips, each of which I would like to use a button. The actionscript I've written in order to achieve this...more >>

how do you put shadows on items again i knew but forgot it has been a while ...more >>

:confused; Hi all, I created a web site in flashmx, but when I upload it to the web it shows in the upper left hand corner of the window. Is there a way to center the movie in the browser? Any help would be appreciated! ...more >>

Newb to Flash. I've created a site that includes a menu bar that slides onto the screen and then needs to have pull-down menus for several, but not all, of the "buttons." I've created the first button and have created the pull-down state of that button, which works. the problem is that when...more >>

First, I make the layout in Flash, DO I just put this into dreamweaver? Or is there an Easier way to do it? As you can tell Im quite new at this.:confused;...more >>

On macromedias web site they have a button tool bar and the buttons have a transparent light over them on mouse over. how do they design this using flash mx. ...more >>

Anyone have seen the studio 8 kit ad on home page of macromedia.com?http://macromedia.com/ The word "studio 8" appearing in from behind the word "announcing". How can i do that? Thanks...more >>

Hey, I am VERY new to flash and I am attempting to make a navigation for my website with simple button rollovers. I believe I have done it all correctly (of course I could be wrong) but when I preview the movie the buttons don't show up and it only shows me the background. I've uploaded the fi...more >>

i am new to flash and am working on a website for a friend using only flash. i purchased the visual quickstart project book on building a website with flash and it has been pretty helpful. i was wondering though what would be a general ballpark figure for the max size of a flash file (for use ...more >>

i am new to flash and am currently trying to figure out how to link from one bit of text to another in the same space on the page...for an example of what i mean have a look here..... http://www.stephaneguillot.com/index_uk.htm in the bio section....where he has all the information.....the p...more >>

Can anyone tell me how to create a search field, such as the one on the Macromedia navbar, in Flash MX Professional? Thank you...more >>

hi how i can make the button invisible? Thanks .....more >>

Please take a look at http://www.flip-media.com Notice that the URL is www.flip-media.com Is there a way to eliminate the www.flip-media.com/#annoyingmarkers ??? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! ...more >>

Hi, I have five layers in my flash application, each layer contain image. How to control and do it: In some certain area, how to set so user can only see the top layer image. Is it a sample for this? Thanks. ...more >>

hi i'm a beginer and i want someone to tell me how i can make a header for my web site using Flash MX . this header will responsible for navigate the users that they use my site. so i need to know how i can create it. i want it to be simple just have links for all the site pages. and als...more >>

how could i make menu buttons control the main flash (contaning text pictures other) with out reloding the whole page?...more >>

i have a quick question... i have created a file in flash mx where i have sound at the opening frame. i have a layer that is titled actions and i placed the command stop. i have another layer for sound and i have the command to play. the problem is that on my computer (mac) everything works ...more >>

I am creating a new Flash project and am having trouble getting my submenu links to work correctly. They correctly load the other movie clip (energy.swf), however I cannot get them to go to and play the correct frame of the energy movie. I've listed the actions below: on (press) { if (...more >>