i think my noobish question is simple... I found this cool custom xml menu online at http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/custom_tree/page003.php, and i was hoping to use something like it on my HTML webpage, but im not quite sure how to make it so that when i click a sub-item, it will...more >>

Ok very very new to flash. I am trying to develop a website for my photography business. I am currently using Golive (Im using this instead of dreamweaver because Im more familiar with adobe programs) 1. Whats the best book for me to learn flash? 2.Is there a book for using flash wit...more >>

i've got a jpg conundrum. i've got ten jpgs in my image directory, and i set up ten thumbnails with invisible buttons, with scripts like on (release) { holder.loadMovie("../images/1[2,3,etc].jpg"); } jpgs 1-9 load up fine, but when i click the thumbnail for 10.jpg, it loads up a whi...more >>

i'm wondering how to make an invisible holder movie clip for loading externally stored jpgs. i've made other sites where the holder mc's sat on a solid background color, and i could make them invisible just by making them the same as the background color. but for this site, the background i...more >>

hi all - i'm starting to work on a new site that is going to feature a number of jpgs which are going to be loaded dynamically into a holder clip in the index swf. i'm wondering if there's a way to get those externally stored jpgs loaded into the browser cache while the viewer is looking ...more >>

Hi I have a button in my flash program and I want add a link to my program... I want open link where i press my button.but I don't know how can I do it... can u help me? regards. ...more >>

Im intrested in finding out how other flashers go about getting their sites listed in search engines. I know about meta tags and the other forms of getting listed, but what happens if i create my entire site in 1 movie file? Are there any best practises for good listing results? ...more >>

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Web site template that has a flash component. I have no experience whatsoever with flash and am looking for someone to do some basic mods for me (text changes, links, etc...). I am willing to pay someone for their time. Does anyone know where I could ...more >>

Hi there: I've put together a nice slide presentation using non-antialiased text. Everything looks great in the original file and swf. However, when I use a loader component to bring this swf into another movie, even with the loader positioned at 0-0 and the original movie at 100% natural...more >>

i have made a few flash videos but cant seem to find out how to stop it from looping in other words i am wanting to make a movie that plays once the just stop on the last slide so i can type on the last slide created by (me) or something like that so it just stops on the last slide please help...more >>

Hi all, Would you please take a look to my website. I'm sorry, it's a french one, but I'd like to have some feedback about it (speed, global design...). Thanks for your help. olivier www.coolprint-fr.com...more >>

I'm sure some one else out there is having the hassle as me here . . . When I import a Freehand file on to the stage and choose to MAINTAIN TEXT BLOCKS the leading on the text has a mind of its own and changes . . . WHY ? HOW DO I RECTIFY ? I THOUGHT THEY WERE MEANT TO BE SEAMLESS IN INTEGRATI...more >>

I am developing a roulette game in flash and the GUI has to be in 3d.Using flashmx2004 I found means for creating only 2d objects please help me to create 3d images....more >>

I've been asking the same question in other parts of the forum and have yet to find anyone that can solve the issue I am having. When constructing a full flash website that utilizes an "index.swf" as the background to the entire site cna ther be more than one tier of pages or .swf's that use ...more >>

Hi I'm kind of new to Flash and web design. I am building myself a page as I learn. I created a Flash movie that ends with starting a new web page. I wanted the transition from movie to page to be seamless. Check it out and tell me what I have done properly and what I can improve. Thanks for y...more >>

I've created a website with a flash menu and different pictures that slide into a box depending on which page is loaded into a main content iframe. I really liked the effect--not having to reload the flash menu and sidebar with each page that loads--but after much work, I've found a pretty hu...more >>

im new to flash mx and I would like to know how to animate two stick men fighting each other. Would also like to know how to set the keyframes to make the chracters run and walk by using the timeline. How do you set the keyframes out, do you make them single frames or do you have a number of...more >>

I am working with an FLA website template that I purchased.....after some tinkering, I seem to have gotten the hang of things, but I'm stuck on a major, and relatively basic, issue..... Seems that the template has the core content for each of the site's pages placed in one single layer, la...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbee in flash. My boss wants me to make a "scrolling pictures" for our company website. I don't know how to describe it exactly but this website shows what I mean: http://www.impaxlabs.com/ (the scrolling pitures above the pulldownmenu) I reallty don't know how to make something l...more >>

Ok, there are all kinds of transitions I am thinking of using for the buttons on a website, but I am thinking of simply having it fade from light-green with black text, to dark green with white text. My fade looks great, I used a movie of the fade on the over screen. Now obviously when I tak...more >>

Look at the block of texte below: "abcdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyzabcd" How to make sure that it displays exactly like that in dynamic feld? I tried to enter it in my code: locate_txt = "abcdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyzabcd" B...more >>

http://www.uline.com/Catalog_View.asp?INDX=B Very nicely done! I'm wondering if this is done with White Paper? Thoughts?...more >>

Hi, how do i make the photo gallery, see sample link below: when you rollover small image you get bigger picture....thank you http://signquest.com/services_auto.html...more >>

Hello, Ive just about completed a small site for myself and would like some constructive criticism on it. I know its pretty basic but im still fairly new to flash site design. http://www.alanwallace.co.uk Cheers Alan ...more >>

I need to get a stand alone flash player onto a pc. Where do I get the SAFlashPlayer.exe (for windows platform?). Thanks! Tim...more >>

Hi All, I have a made a menu which has submenus and it is placed above the flash banner. But when i put this code WMODE = transparent into the HTML code of the flash banner, the menu comes on top. but the cursor in the input fields of the form in the same page blinks faster than usual. When i ...more >>

So I've been drawing some graphics in flash for my movie, but I'm getting really irritated by the way they work. I'm used to Illustrator and most of the tools are the same, but they don't work as well. Is there a smoothing I can turn off so that when I draw with the pencil it doesn't reshape a...more >>

I'm looking for a sample or tutorial that basically rotates through photos, rotates through some text and has a .mp3 file playing in the backgroud. I want the .mp3 file, text and photos to be editable outside of the file... so basically upload new photos with the same name and they will automa...more >>

Ok first i want to apologize for all the miss spelling im gona write. (i think i did it again, LOL) Ok here is my situation. I made a dynamic flash movie (basicaly a website in a flash movie) and now i wanna integrate it in a HTML (or w/e do you suggest). The problem is that i want it to b...more >>

I posted this to the General forum last week but got no response and thought maybe someone here might know the answer: I've got some mc's that are a bunch of text that get loaded into mc's with the ScrollBar component. This seems to work fine. At various points within the text, I've got so...more >>

I have a presentation that consists of 2 swf's. One has all the sound files and the other has a preloader and the text/jpegs. Everything works correctly when I test the movie or hit F12. However, when I simulate download OR upload it to the server it doesn't work, the preloader works fine, ...more >>