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FWIW, the problem was that I had not added:
MattVid.isLive=true;
To the beginning of the as. And I needed to use source instead of
contentPath (as2).

Hi I need to build an SWF with a FLVPlayback component that gets its
FLV source from flashvars pased in at runtime via javascript.
This is the code I am using on the page:
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../../js/swfobject2.js"></

Hiya, please have a look at my .fla, you can get it from:
http://antonycartwright.somee.com/pleasefixme.fla
Whats wrong with it? Ive been messing about with it for about 2 hours and i
still cant solve it. Does anyone know what to do?

Hi there, I am hoping to get the word out about an urgent hiring need
for a FTE Flash developer/designer who has experience with Social
Media, standalone Flash deployments (CD-ROM or Kiosks) and rich media
banners.  Please see the description and contact me asap, if you are

I am working on a flash app someone else has written and it uses up
all 32 audio channels.
Does anyone know how to prevent that from happening?
The app is a simple video player, it has a menu with 5 buttons, each

I'm having trouble running the Flash10 ActiveX add-on in a Vista/IE8
environment. The page I want to display says "Done, but with errors," on the
Status Bar, and the error report goes a bit deeper into programming than I
know how.

Ok.  So I am using a flash template that I have altered quite a lot.  It has
video thumbnails with a preloader at the beginning.  The preloader at the
beginning was slow though so I wanted to put my general demo reel so it would
play while it was loading but stop when the site ...

Does anyone know how to create the effect of text being written? For example, someone writing a letter, where the words seems to flow out of a pen, developed one stroke at a time? I can't find an example of this on the web, but it would seem to be a common effect. I tried writing ...

I'm totally new to Flash and have downloaded a template for our website. It
included the source files, some of which were Photoshop .psd files that I
recognize as the main pages from the flash template. Basically, the site

The flash movie located at the link below has Flash zooming and panning
effects, however, during the zooming and panning the images lose quality
and they seem to almost vibrate and are not smooth at all. How can I
make the images appear nice and smooth as they motion tween?

I managed to this the last time but for some reason I can't get it to work this
time. I published my last flash site by creating a .swf file and a .html,
everything was fine and I uploaded the items and when I typed the web address
ending .co.uk it automatically started the web ...

Hello. This might have been covered here previously, but the search thread
function is down currently.
I was wondering how to create a full screen, looping video background for my
site EXACTLY like the one featured here: http://www.fuct.com

- Easy to use
- Actionscript 3.0
- Content (Movieclip, Html text, Jpg, Png, Swf)
- Smooth scrolling

I'd like to see the flash player or a projector file to be
centered on my monitor. Using Flash 8  Actionscript 2.
I've read countless forums and tried several examples
to no avail. Almost every example is for web browsers

Does anyone know an easy way to create an autoplay button in screen mode that
automatically advances screens in the presentation after a set amount of time?  
My guess would be to activate a next frame behavior after a getTimer
function...  something like this (where firstScreen ...

I am trying to change the type and size of the font in my Flash exam's
multiple choice question, turn the check box text into multi line and
I would like to skin the buttons (reset/check answer)... how do I do
this?

I'm making a game in flash 7 and basically it works when I test it in
macromedia flash and it doesn't when i export.
it is a platform game that features 2 character so far, some stick
figure and some flying guy. you are the stick figure and control with

I was surprised when I couldn't find a flash animated odometer / generic
counter when I needed one for a new site.  So I built a fairly flexible one
from scratch.
Since this group has helped me (a lot) in the past, I thought I'd share (with

I am trying to figure out how to convert an XMLList that I retreived from an
XML instance back into well-formed XML in Flash CS3. Here is what I am doing.
- I have an XML document loaded and I am displaying the contents in a datagrid
component (which is working well).

I´ve just completed a little test for making a tree component with custom
icons / bransch.
However, i can only get my first branch to show custom icons.(links -
document) I figure I need to make a nested loop to Iterate over

Hi, I´m developing a site, (http://www.gen-studio.com/avelart2/), and I´m using
a swf to display a set of thumbs that when clicked show an item and its
description on the browser, those items might be images or video, everything
works fine with the images.

i have a datagrid control that i have filled up with arabic data generated from
a database. my problem is:
1- Data are aligned left. i need the text to be aligned right
the below code will not do the trick the content of the datagrid will not be

I know enough about xml to be dangerous.  Does anyone know of a source of for
adding  deleting / editing xml files using Flash where I can see examples that
actually work?
Free is better but I'm willing to pay.

Hello Community:
I am not a flash wiz, rather I am a coldfusion developer. I have attached a
flash banner that reads two attributes from a XML file: image and link. Image
is the image that my flash movie will display and link is the link that will be

I have a large application that makes heavy use of Remoting.  I'm using
actionscript 2.0, since my application has to work in the Flash7 player.  All
my remoting code seemed to work beautifully, but when I started testing my
movie outside of the Flash authoring environment, I ...

actually I want to launch the execution of a php script but without waiting
for any response.. so after I called that php function, I want to be done with
it and be able to make calls to other php function(s).
Maybe it's not possible but I want to be sure.

    i have an flash website and i have made an page images slide show. there
is some three small buttons and in side of that buttons is a big box when i
click on small box the Image 01apears in big box. there is total 3 boxes and 3
images,and the problem i have to add 20 image ...

We are about to embark on a major, long term project which requires
Flash/Database connectivity and Flash Remoting seemed the perfect way to go.
Having just acquired Flash CS3, I encountered some difficulty since there is no
Remoting Components package available for CS3. I did ...

I just started using flash and I have some problems. I can say that if I know
how to do the following, I could do what I do for my project.
Can anyone make me a scheme explaining how can I do the following:
A server is counting from 1 to infinity (increase every 100 ms for ex).

   I am relatively new to Flash development.  I am writing a RIA for the
University of Florida and I am looking to use Flex with remoting.  The problem
I am currently having is obtaining the Flash remoting components.  I have
download the components package in an MSI file listed ...