It is probably really simple and I am just missing it... I built an intro page that has sound. I attached 3 other movie files to the intro to play when the appropriate button is clicked. The sound from the intro will not stop playing when the other movies are loaded. I can't seem to figure it...more >>

Nobody replied to my last post. If its unclear please say so but I need help with it asap. I created the site on my mac and it loads fine in safari but when i test it on a pc in ie the buttons arent interactive unless i first click on the swf. When the mouse rolls over the swf it shows a bo...more >>

I want to have a flash movie with a transparent background play on top of an html page. I have done this by placing a Flash movie with a transparent background in a layer in Dreamweaver. The problem I'm having is I can't click any of the content (links) below the layer. Is there any way around...more >>

Flash Site address: www.designsbytroy.com Hello! I'm having a crazy problem with my Flash site. I had some basic links (nothing fancy). They linked to other pages (on same timeline) with "goto" behaviors. They were all working just fine but for some reason now they dont work properly righ...more >>

how do I ensure that my flash website always appears in the centre of a browser? is it possible to make this happen in flash or do I need to edit the html? thanks Jonny...more >>

how do I add tags such as my name and profession to an website made completely in flash? I have submitted my site to google and it has a decent number of hits but only comes up in google if i type in the address as my search. any ideas? thanks Jonny ...more >>

Im sure this is an easy fix but Im very new to design. I have a swf embedded in an html file and when I test it on my mac, everything is fine but when I go to the site on a pc I have to first click on the swf to activate it so I can use the buttons. How do I avoid this? (Im using dreamweav...more >>

Hi all. I am putting togther a site and I am looking for some Java code that I could place in the falsh script to block the sound from the site I am linking to in a Pop Up window. Any ideas? ...more >>

please visit and review the updates of my site.. and give some suggestion...thanks and good day! RaymondRamy http://bizgraphix.com...more >>

Is there a button or something that I am missing that would easily mask out what is beyong my set scene size? or do I always have to make a strange mask and spend time to line it up?...more >>

On some flash websites the zoom in out feature is turned off on the movie. How do you turn this off so right clicking doesn't allow this? Regards,...more >>

Hello i am designing an adult website (don't worry there's no nudity at all in this page yet) and part of it requires a members section login etc. - here is the header : http://www.mastacraft.com/brianna/header.htm - Basically i want to know how to make it so when someone clicks the link - vid...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use an 800px X 250px Flash object that I created as a header graphic to be placed directly above my main horizontal menu. I am placing this object as a Server Side Include (SSI) at the top of every page in the site. The problem I've been experiencing it that every ti...more >>

Hi, I want to make two radio buttons in my flash site, how can I solve that? thanks for any response......more >>

Hi i have this flash site o.swf, http://www.sendspace.com/file/z3l29f but I want to know how can I make the site available with an .html extension? thanks for any response... ...more >>

Hello! I design my website layouts in Flash, before I pass them on to my programmers who chop them up and turn them into HTML and CSS. I prefer Flash over Photoshop because it is so darn easy to move around and organize things, plus it works better for my kinda thing, web-related pixel gra...more >>

I am playing a flash animation over some non-flash elements on my web site, using CSS. Is it possible to hide the flash when it is done play? If not, does anyone have a suggestion of how I can have my Flash play and then vanish when it is done? Thanks. - Bryan P.S. - If at all p...more >>

Hi, I'm designing a Flash website and I want the stage to fill the viewer's screen, similar to www.s-w-h.com. I've always designed flash sites with one particular size in mind, never for multiple screen sizes. I know there's a Stage.onResize property I can use, but I'm sure there must be a l...more >>

Hello - Crazy idea but is there a way to make a swf bg transparent so the computer desktop shows thru? Thanks for your input. D2...more >>

Hi there. I am using Flash MX 2004 and would like to find a resource that will help me create a fast preloader. Some of the ones I am seeing are asking me to create 40 frames worth of preloaders, and some other preloaders are not working in MX 2k4. Thanks in advance for your help. (P...more >>

Hey guys, please let me know what you think about my site. www.emoneydesigns.com Also if you go to my portfolio page and click on commercials my stuff is running kind of slow. Can you tell from looking at the site why it would be running slow. I exported them from quicktime as an .flv and...more >>

I've been asked by a client to use a particular font on a job and it so anti-aliased it looks really fuzzy... even at 14pt.. epecially on monitors with low resolution. I don't want to use dedicated flash fonts. Does anyone know a way to improve this? yours hopefully John ...more >>

Hi All, I've been working on this site for over a year in my spare time. Its called formatpixel and is an online publishing app that allow's users to create their own online fanzines, magazines, brochures, portfolios, presentations and more. Published projects can be embedded into your own...more >>

Hi all, I'm a new Flash programmer learning the trade by helping my friend, a musician, with his personal website. He wants to have a couple of his songs on the site, but I can't find a way to add them so that the user can control the playback. I'm sure this is a really basic question, b...more >>

Hello everyone, check my websites out and let me know your thoughts: http://www.deplaya.xom.mx/flash_page.php http://www.deplaya.com.mx/semanasanta/2007 http://www.lasantanera.com http://www.ideasdelmar.com Cheers Gorka ...more >>

I work for this company, and my strength has always been design for print materials. I'm trying to teach myself web design/programming, and talked my boss into letting me re-do our company site: http://www.smggo.com Your input/criticism/feedback is more than welcome! (Note: a couple pag...more >>

Hi there, I am currently trying to create a flash entrance to my site. So far I have converted my video into a swf file...and embed on a page (haven't accomplished much) Problems and questions I have: First there has to be someway to for the video to have text on it or something that al...more >>

Hello, On a website, I have a DIV wiith a SWF in it I want to have a button on that SWF, that will do a MC.loadMovie in a movieClip located in another DIV. how can I do this ? Henri...more >>

not sure which forum to ask this....so this question may appear in other forums as well. I have a web page that I built in DreamWeaver using CSS. On this webpage I have a .swf file embedded in one of my <div> tags. When the user hits File>Print, I want only the .swf file to print and not...more >>

After a few hundred hours, I finally got my flash opening to work right on my landing page. In the process I started to create an alternate pic for those visitors who don't have Flash installed. I decided to make it an animated gif and was quite surprised at how small the file was (66KB vers...more >>

Does anyone know how this is done?...more >>

Hello Dears, please visit this site its my design and i like read our comment plz http://www.madaenalnour.com thx...more >>

does anyone know how to controll the root timeline from an externally loaded movie clip? I have loaded a movie clip, which has buttons on it that I would like to controll the main original website timeline with. something like this.parent.parent? thanks a lot harky ...more >>

I've created a movie clip (bouncing ball) in flash, and made it a button with 3 states. up= ball still over=ball bounces down= go to URL....... Im having problems with this, have tried this code below but does'nt work? ANY help please!!!!!!!!!!! Ball.onPress = function () {...more >>

One of the major problems with developing an entire site in Flash is that search engines don't scan Flash. You would think there is some way to get around this. Does any one know if it's possible to have Flash say kick out something that a search engine can scan of something along those line...more >>

I'm not all that comfortable with Flash yet, but all I'm trying to do is link a button to Scene 1. I've found several wordings of ActionScript to do this, and, when I check the syntax, first it says the code is fine and then, sometimes, it says: **Error** Scene=sc3 FAQ, layer=btnhome, f...more >>

whatups, im tryin to create a preloader for a sample that i have to show to my superiors this afternoon at 2pm eastern time. the sample i have is really choppy. think it may be playing choppy because it needs to load first. I have some flash experience, but not with setting up a website...more >>

hey guys I've just made a new website www.dega-designs.com/movie1.swf can you please check it out and critise it?? thanks. your help is much apriciated!!!!!!! ...more >>

I have made a basic bit of flash where there is text as buttons, they change colour when the cursor goes over them. With some of them, I want secondary buttons to appear below (sub menu)...how do I do this? Many thanks in advance! ...more >>

I just designed a neat little page that would be so great for our office if I can make it work but I'm stuck on something that maybe I should have known in the first place. /:-) I created a Flash In and Out board for our office where staff can click on little balls under columns headed "i...more >>

ON the home page I've created, the buttons I used with the code in my previous thread ("two questions about HTML publishing and buttons"), I added an on rollover action to the actions layer of the main timeline (not the movie button timeline) so that on rollover, a picture would change accordi...more >>

I've made a home page with three buttons. The action to go to another page on release is below: // on release go to photo page // stop(); photobtn3_mc.onRelease = function() { getURL("tanskiphoto.html", "_self"); }; ...more >>

Hello, Wondering if someone can help. I am using Flash 8 and in flash the loadmovie function is working fine when I test my movie functionality. But button clicked to load another swf in the same html page, it doesn't. I am using : [CODE]on (release) { loadMovieNum("peruvian.swf",...more >>

I completed my site a few days ago and it was running the way I wanted it to ecept that I noticed that it was a little slow loading. If you started clicking other buttons before it was loaded it would start going haywire until it was loaded. I thought, hey why not add a preloader so people kno...more >>

I have a site with multiple pop-ups containing information, forms,etc... right now the pop-ups come up in the exact center of the stage... but I'd like them to be in the upper right. How do I do that? Here's what I have to bring up the pop-ups now: on (release) { _root.popup_pressed =...more >>

hi, im having trouble with embedding a specific font in my preloader. flash only lets me use device fonts (arial, courier etc.), if i try to embed the characters, it wont show anything at all in the loader. http://www.legendid.ee/tallinn/preloader.html http://www.legendid.ee/tallinn/p...more >>

Ok Guys- So I have put up a trial of my flash website- www.nicksdesign.com/flash I'm new at flash- as this is the first project I've done in flash, and the problem is... I put the file in a simple HTML file in dreamweaver, and i published the files, tested them on my computer, and it...more >>

Hi I am pretty new to flash and am wanting to create a navigation bar. What i want to do is when you rollover a menu item (text) that item changes colour and the other items change colour to gray...like they have faded out. i have tried this by creating each item as a symbol and changin...more >>

I have a swf file running in a cell of a table, my idea is to have a movie with individual sections coresponding to individual pages on a site. what i wnat to do, if possible is have some form of command line a page, so when a page is loaded it automatically moves to movie to a specific fram...more >>

I,ve created a very simple button with only an up and over image. when I test the movie, even if I move my mouse slowly on the button, the over image flash on and off very quickly as if it detect the button but then reset. Then I need to roll over the button to get it to blinc once again. Even...more >>