If I create a button using the rectangle tool in the resulting .swf the mouse becomes a hand when it moves over the button. But if I create a button using the components panel it remains a pointer at all times. Is it possible to get the mouse to become a hand when it moves over a button create...more >>

I created a movie file in flash 8 and published the document with the html file publish settings for plugin detection and to center my movie in the middle of the html page which worked fine. But I am now using Flash cs3 and taking advantage of the new code for plug-in detection. I have put the...more >>

I have tried many ways to achieve the flashy photo effect in flash, where the picture flashes and then appears! its on many professional sites. I cant figure out how to do it though....more >>

I'm a newbie and I'm having a problem with some flash movie-clip buttons. I've done as written in the Flash 8 Visual Quickstart Guide by Katherine Ulrich, but when I publish, the little critters just play and play...just looping the three states. Whassup? ::confused; Also can I get a criti...more >>

I am working on a site, it is currently posted at fylmd.com. I am a real beginner. I am well aware that this site could easily be html, but I much prefer playing with flash. On the trailer link of this page, I have a video. I want the video to load, when the page goes to the video, not at the ...more >>

Just wondering why my flash menu and banner shows in firefox perfectly but in IE its all disabled? Please tell me theres a simple snippet of code to add somewhere so IE will trust my non threating menu bar and banner. Ive searched other places and no one seems to know why this happens. ...more >>

Does anyone know how to get rid of the pesky, ugly frame that surrouongs SWFs in Internet Explorer? I see that others have been abloe to deactivate it, but this fundtion does not appear to be part of the standard FLASH menu itmes or publish preferences. Anybody??? :-( ...more >>

OK guys, I know I must just be missing one step here. I am working on a flash site, and I have a button I am trying to link to a movie clip and for the life of me I can't get it to work. Any help would be great. Here is the .fla file. The button I need help with is in the portfolio scene frame...more >>

I am making a very simple site with one timeline. This seems so simple but it isn't working: i created a mc that contains several buttons with over states. I placed the mc in my navigation menu with an invisible button to close it when user's mouse moves off. Where do I link the buttons in th...more >>

help me the code is not working on(release) { getURL("javascript:alert('hi')"); } working with flash player 8 and IE 7...more >>

My flash application starts to run slow after about 3 hours. If the reboot the sites server it runs fine again for 3 hours then runs slow again. Any ideas?...more >>

Today I made the background of my Flash Header for my website transparent. After that my site became extremely slow (10-60 second response and can't do anything else in the browser while your waiting). I know exactly what it is that is causing the site to be so slow. It is when I use this html...more >>

What do you think about my site? www.linkx.ro This is my first site in flash8 so please be understanding:)...more >>

This is a new site created by me in flash. Just looking for some feedback http://www.levelten.com.au thanks in advance...more >>

hello please help me my web page contains two frames in which one frame is loaded with flash content and the flash content contains a link to another page my problem is that when the user clicks the link the page should loaded in another frame of same window(as this window contains 2 frames)...more >>

Hi guys, I am working on a new myspace profile in flash. I have it all done but I am getting output errors from flash . The errors are all on links that link to myspace functions such as "Message Me". I am guesing this is because the myspace URL uses questionmarks and other such symbols...corr...more >>

How do I link a pdf file to a button so it opens when user clicks?...more >>

Hi - I'm using setTextFormat to apply Verdana to a textField and then embedding the font. But Verdana is a font common to Mac and PC. Must I embed it or is naming it good enough? TIA your input. JL ...more >>

I embedded a swf into an html/dreamweaver document and cannot see it. I have no idea why, since the same document is visible on another URL. Can I avoid this by using the swf instead of an html document named index.html? If so, how do I direct the host to use the swf as the index? Here ...more >>

Hello guys. I have an issue about flash. I creating an animation. Everything ok but one thing. I trying test my movie in flash its not showing completely. Also i saving and trying outside flash but this time i can see outside of the stage. Can you show me a cause for this? I asked it to one ...more >>

Hi - Is it possible to make a textField created with Actionscript to FADE IN? I've used the attached code to fade in movie clips - but it's not working with a text field. The text shows fine, the scroll bar and all the usual arguements work. So how do I make it fade in? TIA your inpu...more >>

Heya. I'm having troubles with a pre-loader. It seems that it only appears once it has reached 60%? Im not really that good with my actionscript but any help will be appreciated. http://www.cafealive.com/test/cafealive_interface.html ...more >>

Hi, I using a simple scrolling text box .fla that I got off of flashkit.com and started customizing it with a mask over the text area. The mask seems to look fine in the viewer but when I test it the text is not there. I've deduced it to a mask problem. It all seems so straight forward ...more >>

Hi All I have designed this website using flash components (www.beddingcentres.co.uk) i am wanting to know several things. 1. on the entry page on PC's oyu have to click to activate this. how can i jut make it play 2. is there a way that flash plugins/players will automatically detet...more >>

I have a site designed using external movies. The intro is an external .swf file that I load in with the loader component. When I preview within Flash everything looks and works beautifully. When uploaded to the WWW the intro movie's music plays at a normal rate but the animation itself mov...more >>

Hi, this really puzzles me... How onLoadInit and onLoadComplete listeners actually work? It is a photo slideshow, I am creating at runtime image holder and then centering its registration point to the center of main stage, then I am loading an image into it using MovieClipLoader class, then ...more >>

Hi, I guess this must have a simple answer. I don't know it, though. I need the browser's url window to show the name of the website instead of the url of the current page. Is there a simple way to do that? Thanks, D ...more >>

As it says in the summary i need help customizing my animation to screen resolutions avoiding pixelating. I have created high resolution images which i want to turn into animations and having exported the images as PNG files (to maintain their transperancies), i have found that unless i set ...more >>

hi, I have started a gallery type thing with images loaded in with XML, i want it so when the user rolls over the images a larger image is loaded in in main window. I have loaded the images in but cant get a result with the rollOver....any ideas...here is the code...It should be easy and i...more >>

I'm building a photography website for a friend. First (in short) I'm debating whether to do some of the site in external SWFs, or if there's a more efficient way to just have it all in one SWF (and just have preloaders on larger sections). Details: [b]Homepage[/b] > Preloader; load 5 im...more >>

heres what I want to do- I want to create a flash movie on the web that people can import their own jpegs into. For example have a body in flash and then you could upload a jpeg of your own face onto the body. Is this possible? Another example would be a t-shirt onto which people could im...more >>

I am having trouble figuring this one out and would appreciate any help! Basically what I want to be able to do is move a drawing from one corner toward the center of the stage, as it approaches the center of the stage, change shape and then change direction to an opposite corner. Can an...more >>

cud u pls help me...im having trouble doing a simple page.....ive made a a simple text button inside a movieclip linking to another external page, but it doesnt work......whenever im testing it using the 'test movie' or whatever u col it(hope u got it)...its functioning well but when i publish...more >>

Hi there i am in need of some serious advice as i have spent a day and a half on this problem, anyways here is the problem i am having, i am building a text heavy site and on some of the frames( not all) i am getting a couple second lag before the text appears. Unfortunately the timing of ...more >>

what i am trying to do is this, have people click on a link on my website, then have something appear when they click on it. to give you an example, if you go tohttp://www.atticusclothing.com's website and look under where it says updated news, or something like that, in the top left corner. y...more >>

I have a Flash navigation banner. The navigation banner contains seven buttons. Each button when clicked goes to different frames in the Flash movie. So, the first interaction is to make the movie to go to a particular frame, which I was able to do easily. On those frames, I also would like to...more >>

Can a .SWF file load and open / embed another SWF file from another server? For instance, if an animation at www.example1.com/a.swf would try to display another animation from www.exaple2.com/b.swf inside its user interface? ...more >>

I tried to search for htis, but didn't find any solutions. I made a new page with a SWF in it, but it doesn't showup in IE7 when I view it. I have other pages that work, but just not this one. Any ideas? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head>...more >>

I am tweaking a Flash template I purchased. It is a very complicated site with 1 Scene and many many Movie Clips. Each of the differeny pages are different movie clips. I I have encoded my Video correctly, and played it correctly on a seperate flash document. However, on the webtemplate I...more >>

Well everyone seems pretty nice around here. Hopefully I wont get yelled at for asking "dumb" questions. I know absolutely nothing about flash, but I have a web template that i really need to be edited so I figured I would give it a try. Out of all the files on this page http://www.adobe.co...more >>

Hi, I'm sorry if this topic was talked already. Can anybody give me a solution to avoid the page being cut when opened on Firefox? Width is fine but the height doesn't show in 100%. Thanks, D...more >>

I built a 100% flash site with tiled framing but I have a problem. My flash was built 766 x 750 pixiels. When viewed at resolutions greater than 1024x768 the webpage looks great but anything less than that it looks like @#$@. I know most people probably view at 1024 x 768. Is there anyway to a...more >>

Hi, I have an external text field formatted through an external CSS with images, links and text in it being brought into a website in flash. The trouble is when the mouse is moved over the link the text nearby the link in the published flash page moves down a line. Anyone know why its doi...more >>

Hi, I am have troubles developing a menu that is similar to the navigation of this website http://www.bestcommunities.ca/. If anyone has a tutorial for this, or would be able to point me in the right direction on how to create a similar menu, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, Does the latest version of flash (8) improved enough to make flash sites more SEO friendly? anyone has any tips? thanks in advance! ...more >>

I am in need of someone that can re-create an effect that I found on another site. Take a look at this site: http://66.ufc.com/66.html After the main page loads, click on the "ANALYSIS" tab in the upper left. I need someone that can re create the effect of the person on the turntable. ...more >>

I am in need of someone that can re-create an effect that I found on another site. Take a look at this site: http://66.ufc.com/66.html After the main page loads, click on the "ANALYSIS" tab in the upper left. I need someone that can re create the effect of the person on the turntable. ...more >>

I want to create an icon in my flash file. I would like use this icon just like an html download link. So that when you click, or maybe double click, or right click, you can "save-as" to your computer. I am basically creating a simple flash version of my ftp. Any advice? Thanks! ...more >>

Hello everybody Iam new to web designing and please help me how to insert a flash into the webpage directly without embedding the flash that is without using <embed> tag so that page becomes flash itself otherwise we have to click to activate the flash content this should not happen the f...more >>

Please try this site navigation maybe you can helpme jairozeledon.com...more >>