Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

just wondering if anyone can provide some insight to a current issue i have
with my movie clip buttons. i have created the button to appear in its over
state while viewing an entire section within the site (just to let the viewer
know where they are). now, when moving to a new ...

How do I get control over how the ComboBox displays it's items upward or
downward (after opening)?  It appears that when I have a certain amount of
items, then it automatically goes upward.  If I have less items than it goes
downward.  But I'm not sure if this is directly ...

I am new to Flash but have used Swish,  where it was possible to fade an image in and out.  I cannot work out how t do this in Flash? Can anyone help please?

So I have a flash movie at 900 x 600. How can I deal with widescreen
monitors that are NOT set to their maximum resolution? Anything less than
max stretches the swf. Iv'e tried all the publish options as well as HTML to
resize the browser onload. Isn't there anyway to just always ...

I want to put together an online video documenting conference events.  The
video would for the most part contain static jpeg slides from presentations
running alongside the recorded audio - slides changing as they did in the live
show when controlled by the speaker, in line with ...

I can't find out how to make a banner that has a panning background image
with 2 stationary images (one left and one right) in the foreground and text
in the middle.
Is there a good "How do I...." site for Flash CS3 that will show newbies

hi guys, i'm using the print() function in my project. It works perfect while
i'm testing the movie from inside the flash document. But when i run the swf
file and try to print anything, the paper comes out empty !!! how does that
come !!! i tried also printAsBitmap() and the ...

I have placed a swf fle on my page and need to link that to a URL. I have tried
the parameters but it will not accept a url. I have tried using behavior but no
help. Any quick answers, I think this is easy but I am stumped.

Everytime I try to install flash player 9 on my laptop, it says it successfully
downloads, but then I go to put in a cd that requires flash player, and a
screen pops up saying i need flash player 9. Can someone please help me?

I set an image to be a draggable element. ( this means the cursor becomes a
hand obviously ). What I want is to make one portion of this graphic a button
so the user drags the image into view and then clicks on the area of the
graphic that has a button to navigate to another ...

In Firefox I am having an intermittent issue where sometimes the draggable
objects in my flash file slide under each other and don't recognize their
droptargets. This only occurs sometimes and is usually fixed by reloading the
page. Is there in issue in Firefox that prevents ...

I know there is a way to anti alias images with AS2.0. I've seen it before, but no idea what the code is... Something with the bit code.

Dear Flash Team,
I used to be an avid developer of shockwave flash videos way-back-when, and
really loved where ActionScript was going.  Now that Adobe owns Macromedia, and
we're approaching version 10, I really have to ask... Why are connections to

Im trying to simulate dragging or scrolling of a web page in an iphone. I know
some of the code to create the click and drag but i dont know how to constrain
the dragging to just horizontal and vertical.
any help would be great!

I am new to design flash, can anyone give me clue what software is used to
create flash with slide bar to show 3D picture like this:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/vostrodt_200mt_popup?c=us&cs=04
&l=en&s=bsd&~lt=popup