Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / December 2005

Dear Friends...
I have a flash file... inside i have a movie clip... Inside the movie clip is
a dynamic text box.... The text will not appear when I test the movie... If I
simply have the textbox on the main timeline, it's no problem...

firstly, make a button.
give it an instance name of butt_btn
make your movie.
give it an instance name of movie_mc

I'll get it out now, I'm a total newbie with flash..and of course, I'm
attempting to perform a difficult task as a first project.  A friend of mine
has a site, http://www.spytech-web.com, that includes a flash based logo.  If
you look at the logo, he has a spherical globe in ...

I've been trying to make a play button for my movies, but it dosent work!
I've added the action script and everything, and even used the toturiul in
the book! can somone please help me by telling me HOW???

I'm a total newbie at Flash - I'm learning it as I go along.  The question I
have is probably an advanced one, but I'll shoot for the stars.
Okay, I want to create a window that has a transparent background.  In other
words, I get to decide the shape of the window.  It's kind of ...

I am making a CDROM that has .pdf files included. I have managed to get the
pdf's to load, but they don't always load on top.  Is there some code that
tells it to launch the .pdf files on top (in front of everything else)??
thanks

I'm pretty new to Flash and I am looking to build a banner that fades in /
out 10 - 12 different quotes over time. What would be the best way of
approaching this without building a huge timeline? I can imagine making
10 -12 MC's containing the quotes (and transitional animation) ...

Hello-I'm quite new to flash-and web design in general-I need to find a
tutorial on making slideshows using Flash Professional-anybody out there that
can help me-or explain it to me themselves-any help will be greatly
appreciated!!

Here's a quick one....  How would you animate a 360 degree object rotation?  
Seems elementary, except that if you keyframe the object on one frame at 0
degrees, then on another frame rotate it 360 degrees, and try and tween it, MX
assumes that there is no change.  I've remedied ...

   I have not yet had a chance to really learn to use Flash, but have a
project where I know that I need something done in Flash.
   I need to create a 3D triangle, like a pyramid, that will have images on
each side.  I need the pyramid to be such so that the user can turn the ...

I made my dimension on my stage 320.0px by 240.0px. When I go to export it
to .swf it is bigger then the height and width that I wanted. How can I fix
this?
Here is the url to few the .flv, .fla, .swf:

Hey folks, I would like to create a survey using Flash MX, I have searched
FlashKit but couldn't find any movies or tutorials about it, I am almost
positive that I am not hte only one that want's one LOL, but I just can't seem
to find any info.

Very strange my dear brothers! And FRUSTRATING!!
Here's the whole of it:
In this website I am designing - the movie loads up and after the preloader
finishes, the interface movie plays with the background graphics and nav menu

Yeah the preloader loads, then it waits like 2-3 seconds before going into the
main movie.  Never used to do this?  Also, other animations suchs as movie
clips within movie clips also lag for like 3 seconds before going into their
animations.

Okay I got a short video on my timeline  of a person being interviewed
(inserted in timeline) I see it is like 800 frames long.
I want to try and make a "animated portrait" of the person.  That is, take a
few frames where they are beginning to smile and animate this elsewhere in ...