Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I'm mentioned this a while back, but no one ever had any clue. When Flash is
opened for the first time, and I go to file/import to stage (or library), the
import dialog box takes about 10 seconds+ to appear. Any attempts to import
items afterwords are successfully done quickly. ...

Please excuse my infancy with flash but i need help again. I have been tring
for 3 days now to figure out how to do this. I have simple text on a page. I
want to click on it and have it pull a img up to view it. Just the image itself
no window or background. Any help would be ...

example, how do you make a wheat field look as though the wind is blowing on it
in Flash? Anyone with direction to a tutorial, or knows how exactly I could do
this would be much appreciated!

I hope this isn't a serious issue, I can't seem to find the polystar tool, I
googled the issue, as it turns out, I'm missing the tools folder and
configuration files....how can I get these files added to my version of
Flash....as it turns out the file that I'm missing is named...

I was working on a flash header for my up and coming website and all seemed
well till i previewed by pressing ctrl+enter.
I was working on most of the project previewing over and over again in the
workspace, while doing that the flash animation was acting the way i wanted it

Hey all, I am importing images into the flash stage/libray and I am getting a
distortion. I was wondering if the is a pixel aspect ratio that I am not aware
of. I have imorted before and have not had this issue any thoughts?
Thanx MRD

I am trying to make a "growing" arrow:
A small arrow:  -------> would extend to -------------------------------->
I tried with shape tweening and shape hints and it works fine. The problem is,
if I try to duplicate the layer to use my arrow elsewhere (in another movie), I

I stumbled upon this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Flash-Widgets-ActionScript-Firstpress/dp/14302158
44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215922827&sr=8-1
at amazon.com, it is for Flash CS4 and it scheduled for release Sep. 24, 2008

I created a preloader component .
And I used that in a Flash document, but if I open swf with Sothing's
programs, I can see my component ActionScript code.
I want to hide component code.

I lost a file I'd worked long hours on. I'm using Flash 8 and Windows XP. Went
to save my file and got an error message that said the file was read only or
the disk was full, and to save it with another name somewhere else. I tried
that. Tried changing the name, tried changing ...

Good day everyone, I am trying to create a blank movie clip and place it on a
layer on my root movie, however it won't work?
I think it is the original blankmovie. Can someone walk me through creating a
blank movie clip to load others into.

i want to know if loading a picture from a server with a swf, (to show it on
the web browser) is slower than loading the picture normally (showing it with
img tag).
thank you for your answer

i have a general question regarding the use of transitions with photos. i've
just completed my first flash base site and it seems to take way too long to
load up (i have a preloader to load the entire site after the splash page). it
is a photography based site, so primarily ...

I have a flash file that contains 4 buttons, each of these buttons has an "up"
setting and an "over" setting and I have it so that in the "over" setting it
plays a sound and animates a light beam going across it, which works, however,
whenever I launch the flash file, it ...

I am new to flash and dreamweaver. I am trying to create a website where a
banner appears to have photos moving across the screen as in the following
website: http://www.nlsd122.org/
Can anyone give me a simple explanation on how to do this?