Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I'm by no means a Flash whiz. I use it from time to time to create relatively
simple animation for the web. A current project at work requires that we create
interactivity into the Flash page. Mainly, I just need to create buttons that
when clicked will play different sections of ...

Hey All,  I've new to Flash and somewhat of a dimwit !!!  I'm trying to embed a
simple slideshow into a movie and being rather lazy thought it'd be a good idea
to download a template.  All the files are mxp and I haven't a clue where to
save these.  I've visited sites that ...

I am just beginning to learn Flash for work. I want to make a slide show for my
parents' anniversary. Should I do this in Flash or is that making it more
difficult than necessary. I'd like to use it though to reinforce what I'm
learning ? I'll most likely have to run it on a ...

I've got a client who has a HTML site on a laptop for a presentation and
within this site he's wants a link that attaches to a AS2 .swf that I've
developed.
The thing is it he wants it to link to specific area of the file and not to

I'm sure that the following will be silly simple to 99.9% of the users here so
here goes...
On the sync of a tweened layer I have stream>repeat>1. What I want is for the
tweened layer to play through once then have it go to another page immediately

You probably know lots of sites are built with frames, and I do not mean the
normal frame in flash, I mean a frame to another URL.
I was wondering, can I create such frame in a flash file?
Thank you, Gal.

Can someone please please help me.  I have a very simple Flash movie where I
want to insert a random background image every time the movie plays or the
web page is refreshed.
I found the following script online but need a step by step idiot¹s guide

There are known issues with Flash CS3. Notable of these are the publish crashes
on all platforms. I find it completely unacceptable that Macromedia > Adobe's
perspective on patches is typically 'a paid upgrade will patch the program'.
This is completely unusual in the industry ...

Hello,
I'm extremely new to flash and am trying to code a flash tool for my website.  
I can code the first page ok, that comes up when the website is loaded, but
need to have a secondary screen that the user can bring up by clicking a

Trying to use timeline fx, but I sometimes don't get a preview, instead
get an actionscript error (while the effect window is open).
It usually complains about not being able to find something.  What's up?

I am working on a Flash movie. It worked fine until two days ago. I added a
video to the movie using import video. When I uploaded the html and swf to my
web server, the html became corrupted. I took the video out of the FLA file and
it is still corrupted. My Flash CS3 ...

I'm new here , just wanted to ask you a question.
last years I had an old flash player that was standalone and I run flash games
and other swf files with that.
but not only me , I see lots of other people want that old standalone flash

It's weird but when I open the index page I created with Flash the movie is
invisible. When I right click sources I get the coding (I hope it's all there).
And when I go over that actual flash area and right click I get the little
about flash window.

xml command to load swf in holdermc pleeaassssee
im trying to have xml file load swf into a loadMC
cant figure this out
so button name would be:

Im trying to switch over to using swfobject 2 to display my flash. I seem to
have everything in place apart from having my site centered. I only want it
horizontally centered.
Here's my current code.