Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / October 2007

Hey guys,
Im trying to link an external text file into my flash, I can do that no problem
http://www.freewebs.com/flashtestsite1/test%203.swf
But when I go to display it on another site I cant get it to work. What am I

Ok, I am so very confused I am hoping there is a simple explanation. I have a
Dynamic Text box called debug which references the variable Class, I have a
flashVar.txt file that loads the variable, it's entire contents are:
Class=[I]This is italic[/I].

I am using Flash CS3. I am importing a Quicktime video into Flash through File

Here's the problem, though. I need this video to be transparent. It appears
that all videos imported into this method have a black background. It makes

Hey I created my flash website with Multiple scenes for each category/page. The
problem I am having is placing the movie inside of a Button.  When I put the
movie clip inside of the button (I wanted a cool rollover effect) it won't jump
to the frame, but before I but the movie ...

I need the answer to fixing this video without filtering though the massive content on the FLV subject.
Help!  9-1-1!
http://redclaygallery.com/video.html

Just curious about distributing standalone Flash Players. I want to have one
available on a Flash CD.
Is there any legal repurcussions for doing something like that? Is there a
Terms of Service I need to review to do this?

I have a flash project with quite a few buttons which worked fine before.
However, a problem began when I added a text box to the project. After the text
box is clicked on and gets the focus, the buttons don't work properly. The
first press works OK, then when I release, the ...

Hi --
I am creating a Flash based application and would like to update the
controls to the color scheme in use on our website. However, the process of
going into each control and updating ALL of the elments is very time

We are desperately trying to export a Flash movie as a looping movie for a
client to use on a 20" monitor at a trade show. We keep trying a combination of
settings to keep the resolution of the exported QuickTime movie as high as
possible, but so far our efforts have resulted in ...

I have 5 movie clip Buttons on the main timeline, each of which when released
is supposed play a movie clip, also on the main timeline.
Each movie clip is a page of the website, and is placed on its own frame
(frames 69 to 73) and has a stop action assigned to it.  I've labeled ...

Does anyone know of a good rss Weather widget that will not only display text,
but the appropriate weather image (sun, rain, etc.) like weather.com has? I'm
not familiar enough with XML to parse out data. Any help you can give is
appreciated!

I have a page that contains a Flash movie that is an flv player. There is a
short intro and then there is a list of videos. Clicking on a video link
plays the video.
When viewing the page in IE7, when any nav link on the page is clicked

I'm able to create an exe file from a flash project, but it displays the
Flash player menu and window's bar.
Is it possible to hide the player menu and just to code everything
inside the exe (i mean play, pause buttons, or interactive menu) ?

Hello.  I'm making a banner ad in Flash.  I want it so that anytime a user
clicks anywhere it will launch a website.  Do I have to put a big invisible
button over the whole stage, or is there a better/easier way (using
actionscript, maybe) to just code the movie so that anytime ...

Right, for day's now I've been trying to get my email form in flash CS3 to
work. And it just isn't doing it for me. I'm not getting it sent to my email.
Can some one please just spell it out for! My server uses php4, my email
address is correct in the php code, the input boxes ...