I was emailed an .fla file from a client so I could take off the music. well when I try to open it a get this error saying that flash has to close down! can open other .fla files just fine! but this one I need to work on, I cannot. any ideas???? ...more >>

The problem I have is that I designed a website 800x600 (page size). When I publish the website in 800x600 screen resolution the website doesn't fit in the whole page (it stretches). I then designed the website taking up half of the 800x600 page and published it. It viewed full screen on ...more >>

i am currently working on a site using flash. My logo consists of a cube. The edges of the cube are very sharp and nice, but when i export the movie, the cube edges became crooked, and the lines ain't straight anymore. can anyone help me with this? ...more >>

Masking in Flash 8 seems to be a straight foward process. However, as simple as it is. When I apply a mask I can see the results when I scrub the timeline but when I publish the movie I cant see the object that is below th e mask. Can any one please help by explaining how to fix this phen...more >>

Im triginh to create a button inside a movieclip. That button must be a text with a specific text. And then, because there are a few buttons i want every button moved a few pixels on X. I want them on the lowest depth posible because i have a MC that moves hidding them. OK, my code is t...more >>

I have a site that uses frames with embedded flash movies: www.festante.com/firefox Firefox doesn't like my navigation system, and I'm not sure why. In my 'archive' section, I'm unable to navigate between entries - I cannot got to 2 or 3 from 1, etc. But if I open another window, then go bac...more >>

Ok so, I made a slide show in flash mx and then published it with the HTML settings at Dimensions: percent 100x100% and set at noScale. When I put the movie in a plug-in on the site then it makes it so that the flash thing is ridiculously small and there is the white area (it shows the entire...more >>

Hey guys, I've made a flash projector file that has buttons that open up .swf files on seperate browsers, with the help of the "On Release - Go to Webpage" Behavior. I have the actionscript set up so that it looks like this: on (release) { //Goto Webpage Behavior getURL("D:\\CAD\...more >>

I want to take a 3d office that I created and use it as a site. I have created camera movements that will coincide with a nav button. For example, when you click on contact us nav button, the camera will navigate around the office to the location designated for that specific request. I have...more >>

Greetings, Thanks in advance for your time... I just finished a very simple flash portfolio website for a friend over at: www.decdesigns.com from feedback, alot of people are saying they are having problems seeing it in firefox... can I have some feedback / ideas as to why this is a...more >>

Hey guys. It would be a waste not to ask for your professional opinions on this site. I've created it in a hurry to display some of my work on the internet, but it's definitely a work-in-progress. At present there is very little actual information to be found on it, except one little thi...more >>

I need to give my first "Flash" client a price. THe company requires I create a flash site that looks precisely like their packaging(both front and back). Some animation is involved, sound (character voice), a dynamic menu, some graphic art is required, and establish the company's present ...more >>

i'm unclear about the process for building simple preloaders for flash slide shows. when starting a new doc in flash, you have the option of creating a regular flash doc or a flash slide show doc - but if you create the slide show doc, the user has no options for adding scenes. is there anyone...more >>

Greetings! I am fairly new to Flash and I am designing my first website. I have some buttons that I have created that onRelease I want to go to a certain frame (1, 10, 20, etc). The buttons are linked to an AS file that contains all the actions so I don't have to keep repeating the script ...more >>

Well, It's a bit off topic but what the heck. As this is my 500th post in the forums I thought I'd mark the occasion by saying how much I have enjoyed racking them up. I know there's hundreds of users who have long surpassed this measly amount of posts (The likes of chris, stiller, tralfa...more >>

well, I don't really need all your help to design my website... but I have a troble because I want to do a Progressbar by myself... but I don't know how... Could you explain to me the way to developer a progressbar (not with a component, that is easiest) I want to learn step by step, as a tuto...more >>

vist this site http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/main.html or http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/ How would a junior designer like myself go about greating this illusion of spinning rotating Any suggetions! ...more >>

vist this site http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/main.html or http://www.fantastic4dvd.com/ How would a junior designer like myself go about greating this illusion of spinning rotating Any suggetions! ...more >>

I have created several .SWF files that play music tracks and scrolling text that describes track. I intend to have a forward and back button to load these files into my main flash file as a track list being controlled by a forward and backward buttons. Also a stop and play button. I can lo...more >>

I realize there are a few postings on font probs already. but mine has not been answered yet! I have embeded my fonts but it still does not render correctly. I am using Freestyle Script font. Help! Please take a look at site " http://www.degasmedspa.com ". Font is garbled. :confused;Text ...more >>

Hello, if you know PHP so you can help me :-) i need to make a button who "talks" to php with the get method you know like this: <embed src="button.swf?text=press here&amp;link=index.php" ...> and the button text will be "press here" and it will refer to index.php how can i do that? than...more >>

Hi all, I`m taking my first approach at a complete website for a photographer friend of mine. Now I`ve got 2 problems: First my buttons do not work anymore after you make a few clicks. And then my movies loaded via loadMovie() disappear although they shouldn`t. I checked instance names a...more >>

Hi, I'm a fairly new user of Flash. Currently I'm in the process of creating a website. I'm having a problem with some of the buttons though. What I want to happen is when you click on one button, 4 new buttons appear. Right now I'm trying to load them from the library and they are app...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem creating a movie clip button that links to another page (frame label). I've use the code on my movie clip: on (release) { gotoAndStop ("FRAME"); } However, it does not go to the page, Is there a way of getting around this problem? I've seen on ...more >>

i have a website that streams .mp3s that worked perfectly in flashplayer7, but flash 8 seems to have far more complex security system which means that the ..swf can't open the .mp3s on my website. everything works fine when i preview the movie in flash, but not once i've uploaded it. i've ...more >>

hi, I have a 150-frame timeline on my root movie i am wanting to allow the user to navigate the timeline 1 frame at a time by using the Key.isDown call I want to give them the ability go either 1 frame forward using the Up Arrow key or 1 frame backwards using the Down arrow key ...more >>

I have a feeling this should be so very easy. However, I just seem not be able to get it done. I would like some text to be used as an hyperlink. In the mean time the text should get another color when you hover the mouse over it. Please tell me how this should be done! ...more >>

How do you setup a flash page to fit in any browser window weather it be 800x600 or 1024x768 or what ever, what I mean is how can I make it stretch to fit like you do when you use a 100% table for "html" . I'm using Flasg MX Thanks, JHatley ...more >>

Hi there, I am a student in Hong Kong, SAR. Currently I am working on a project called FLABER. It is a pure ActionScripts 2 Flash RIA which can be used to build Flash web pages. I have used a whole year to develop it and I am glad that I have just lanuch my very first beta release. I...more >>

I am working on a website in which each linked page loads its own SWF into the main movie. Is it possible to load a movie into a level above the main movie without having to unload it upon loading another movie so that the user can navigate back to that page without having to reload it every ...more >>

I have done a drop-down menu and it works fine. But.... When the menu presents the drop-down part it is transparent to the background. And, when I load another movie that is a choice of the dropdown menu it is difficult to see the choices of course. Please help me with a tip on how I ...more >>

Hello, I am looking to create a flash site, similar to riverisland.com, in the sense that I would like once you have hit the enter button and your html page comes up with flash in it, that the html page automatically fits to the monitor dimensions. is this achievable??? thanks in advance, ...more >>

Hello I am new here. I have to design a CV (my CV) in Flash for my end of year project. If you have done one I would love to see it. (the end result) I need to include link to sound and songs too ( I am a music student) so could you help me to make this project self contained too. ...more >>