I am totally new with flash. I am using the following tutorial which I believe I followed correctly. http://www.flash-game-design.com/flash-tutorials/advWebsite-flash-tutorial.html I have edited the site just a bit adding my own graphics and colors. The problem is that when you first view...more >>

A co-worker has a simple Flash gallery that shows his paintings and he has "Next" and "Previous" buttons for clicking through the gellery. He has placed a "stop" command when each painting is at full view, and actions assigned to the Next button to "gotoandplay" the following frame to fade in ...more >>

Dumb question probably, but i am just learning all of this. i want to create an intro page to my site giving visitors the option of viewing the flash site or html version if they have slower dial-up. the site is set up with multiple scenes and publishing the site creates only the one html file...more >>

I have followed a tut from http://www.flash-game-design.com/flash-tutorials/rotatingGallery-flash-tutorial. html I followed it to the T but to no avail - I have played and adjusted - tweaked and now I am at a loss? went I play it - the thumbnails are not clickable and they do not rotate? th...more >>

I create a website in flash professional 8, with screen size 710 x 610 pixels. When I view it in "test movie" it looks good. But when I published from a host site it diaplay smaller. What did I do wrong? Any ideas? Thanks in advance! dafu ...more >>

I recently created a web site on one of my servers. The address is http://intindo.no-ip.org. Problem: When you access the site through the external IP address, the flash files won't load properly. But if you load it from the localhost, it works fine. Can someone please help me figure o...more >>

hello, how is everyone. I just got my degree in graphic design, and i wnat to focus in web sites using, of course Flash, however i'm not sure which path to take for a master. I've seen a great program in New Media at the Academy of Art in San Francisco,CA, or should i go for computer sci...more >>

I'm looking for some feedback here... I had planned to use Access as my database and link it up with Flash with an ASP file... is this a good way to do this... should I reconsider and use Excel and utilize XML and link it up that way....or is there a better alternative... My database will stor...more >>

Hi Guys, well, 2 questions, I have a movie of 1024 x 768 with a gradient background, idea here it's to have that movie as a background of the entire site, and full window size, this is, if the size of the windows is 1024 x 768 will fill that entire space, same thing if it's bigger, now I have ...more >>

hi, im trying to create a form which is made of two input text boxes, i have made this form and would like to be able to have the "input text" tranfered into an access database, however i dont have a clue how to do this, i would apreciate any help, try keep it simple im quite new to script...more >>

If i want to creat a site for a standard display of 1024 x 768, what is a good size for my flash document? How do i get a site to load in the centre of the browser? what can i change in my puplish settings? ...more >>

Took me a few years to get a website I really liked to call my own. Any opinions? http://www.smple.com...more >>

I'm working on a movie that I have included text in a font not commonly loaded on most people's PCs. It looks great MOST of the time on my PC, (of course, since I have the font installed), but about half of the time the text reverts back to Verdana font while I'm working on it, and once I'...more >>

I have been tasked with modifying an existing flash 8 movie. The client needs a BOATLOAD of images added, photo gallery style. I knew this would be a problem, but I was hoping against hope that it would still load in an acceptable amount of time. Well, just as I expected, it takes FOREVER ...more >>

Hi All, I've never encountered this problem before. Here goes.... A simple rollover for a button. Threre are two things that happen on rollover. One is a movie clip with a simple animated line. Two is an image that should display. Problem is, the image shows up black every time on every link...more >>

I would like put the .swf on html and the background of swf will be transparent. Can I do this? Thank Wpks...more >>

Here's the site: http://www.sonybmg.com/ I want to duplicate the animation in the top. How's this done with flash? Better still, are there templates or pre-builts out there that I can purchase? (crunched for time). I'm using flash 8. Thnx. ...more >>

hi, i've created a products movie clip. when you mouse over the products button, the movie clip has a sub-navbar tween horizontally out of the movie clip. when the subnav is done coming out and stops, i have buttons that appear that i would like the user to be able to click on. everything...more >>

http://www.mastacraft.com/downloads - the files: header.fla header.swf http://www.mastacraft.com/downloads/header.fla http://www.mastacraft.com/downloads/header.swf Basically i am trying to find out how i make these buttons active - i tried applying this code: on (release) { getUR...more >>

Is there an easy way to find out which objects in the library are no longer being used in a flash 8 movie?...more >>

hi all hope u like it http://majedali.com any comments ...more >>

So I made a site look like a folder, with paper you drag out for each section. Basically the whole peice of paper is a movie clip, and when i click on it the actionscript makes it drag, and when i release it stops the drag. But when I put a text box with a scroller on it, or anything that ...more >>

Someone please tell me there's a way to change the line spacing in text boxes (flash 8) joe...more >>

Let me know what you guys thinkl of this site: http://www.limevacationrentals.com Cheers, Gorka www.AquiGorka.com...more >>

hey, ok so i have a main timeline and a few labeled frames in the main timeline. I gave the buttons in the movieclip menu i have instance names and targeted the corresponding frame. I put the code for the linking of buttons to the frame label one after the other in the actions pane for all 7 b...more >>

IN FLASH MX, I set my screen resolution to 760px (width) x 560px (height). My monitor screen resolution is 1152x864. It looks fine at that monitor screen resolution. HOWEVER, the website looks h-u-g-e on monitor screen resolution 1024x768. It looks elongated on monitor screen resolution 1280x7...more >>

Hey i have a movieclip that is a sliding menu with a few different buttons on it linked to corresponding scenes. It doesnt seem to be working. I dont know if i need to target outside of the movieclip or what to get it to change to the different scene when the button is clicked on. Right now i ...more >>

I have a button with a movie clip in the over state. The movie clip looks like a camera panning up over an image of a person. so when you mouse over, you start at the bottom of his necktie and move upward toward his face. When you mouse off, I want the exact opposite to happen. If you are ...more >>

I will appreciate your comments: constructive ideas please, and any comment will be well received ... thanks in advance ! Visit here: http://www.gatodemadera.com ...more >>

This is a really dumb, basic question, but my inexperience combined with lack of sleep is making this difficult. I have a movie clip called "desc_sushi_saumon" who's animation starts at frame 2. On the same layer as this clip is a clip called arr2_main. I want to play "desc_sushi_saumon" f...more >>

I am trying to create a sliding menu in Flash 8 and am not very adept at actionscripting yet. I have been watching all the tutorials i can find and reading them as well. I have this file uploaded here : http://www.geocities.com/zflategraff/flash.swf Basically what im trying to do is have t...more >>

Hi, can you please help? I post this problem a while ago. My problem is: I developed a website in Flash 8 on the Mac. The Flash swf file is displayed via Dreamweaver doc. When I do a search and, when the site is found in Google, all the links used in the Flash swf file appears in the snipp...more >>

I'm trying make the mp3 sounds for my Flash movie the highest possible quality so that they actually sound like the original. I tried changing the publish settings and compression settings in both the File menu and the File properties in the Library but it was of no avail. I still the get a ...more >>

I've added mp3 sounds to my animation by placing them on the stage and positioning them in the timeline. But they don't correspond exactly to events in the animation and I need them to. How can you control more exactly when the sound is played? I've got some objects 'dropping' down to a fla...more >>

I've been designing my first website for the past few weeks and have worked out most of the kinks in actionscript and animation. My last major question is in regards to the many buttons I have needed to complete this project and the build-up of them in all of my movie clips. So far my button...more >>

I am modifying a Flash 8 movie. The fla can be downloaded here: http://www.cjreynolds.com/fuda.html There is a movie clip in the fla called "page1" with a text box with six menu items (Fuda Sushi, Fuda Maki, etc.). When the swf is run, each item has a carat charactor to the left that moves...more >>

I'm brand new to Flash 8 - I'm working on a complicated Flash 8 file, and trying to figure out how it works. To map the objects so I can trace which objects belong to which timelines. I've been putting a tree together in notepad, like this: OBJECT LAYER DESCRIPTION --------------...more >>

I am new to flash 8 - only used ver. 5 and MX, and I'm no guru when it comes to flash. Maybe I'm in over my head... I am updating a flash 8 movie. It's a restaurant site, with menus for different cuisines. The fla can be downloaded here: www.cjreynolds.com/fuda.html When I view the...more >>

I don't understand why it won't show up on internet explorer. It kind of annoying because internet explorer won't show my transparent images either. Plus it always makes the text bigger than it is supposed to be set at, but that I can't fix. Anyway, help? ...more >>

Can anyone tell me when creating websites in flash how to control the size of the browser window? I can't seem to be able to make a kind of pop up window that is a small size. ...more >>

I want to design a breaking news photo transitional like at this site, with the 1 2 3 and play button. http://www.time.com/time/ Are there any tutorials for this, I have been searching but unable to find. ...more >>

If I put a flash file for a game on our site, can someone else download the game on their site by embedding a link to it on their site? I am okay if they provide a link on thor site and peole have to come to our site to play it. But if they can play (or I guess download) on their site itself t...more >>

Hello to all, I am a Novice to actionscript so please bare with me? Unsure where my issue lies so I have posted this thread also in the Dreamweaver Forums. I have a Parent SWF (Main Menu) which plays an External SWF (Extended Menu) inside it from a button release. Works fine when testing & p...more >>

Hello people, Now then heres my problem: Stand alone exe sits on the desktop >> loads all its .swf's & XML data from a remote domain server >> they inturn load more .swf's & XML data into them from the same remote domain server Can you guess what happens next. "*** Security Sandb...more >>

I have a movie with 2 scenes. Scene1 is the intro and I need it to play while sceen2 continues 2 load in the background ...more >>

Hello, I believe that doing a fullscreen flash site (liquid) is the best way for you site to look good on a 17" or 30" monitor. But I don't understand what settings I need. I put the stage at 1024x768. However A normal users resolution is lower than this due to the brower windows and toolb...more >>

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Hello, we have builded a website using one IFrame and a Flash bar buttons around it. On IE7, some Flash animations play into the IFrame and others not. On IE7 (and only on IE7) some SWF play successfully into the IFrame while others start an infinite loop (the animation begin and restart...more >>

I'm designing a website on my MAC using and I've noticed that when I visit the site on PCs via Internet Explorer the SWF movie has to be clicked before it becomes interactive. I use Safari and that doesn't seem to be necessary but it is with IE. Is there a way around this? Anyone? Thanks i...more >>

I've done several flash websites but I usually design in flash and then import the swf into a table within an html page. But I really wanted to start doing the full screen flash websites so I did everything just right and then I published the site. It seemed to work fine on my work computer bu...more >>