Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I have white text on a black background and have made the text selectable.
Unfortunately, the user can't actually see the selection because it is black --
same as the background. How do I change the color of the highlight for
selectable text?

This is for a countdown.  Can anyone tell me what is wrong with it?  I get 5
errors when I try to veiw it.
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
    var today:Date = new Date();

Trying to make the FLV playback black area white or transparent, because there
is a black flash that shows up when play the movie. I am trying to alleviate
this by changing the black area to another color or alpha.

Is there any way to use flash to show html? Something similar to an iframe if it can't display it naturally. Maybe something could be accessed externally in the browser?

hi
i am creating an  flash file for text editor / format  in that i need  basic
text editing functionality (bold,Italic,underline,alignment ect  ).
please give me any idea  or example .

I need to connect two SWF files
What I mean?
I have two SWF files
First is the menu

I would like to create a flash movie containing a page flipping
catalogue.
what is the best solution around?
I already tried pageflip (http://www.pageflip.hu/) and I found it nice

Hi all,
I am new to Flash and ActionScript. I am trying to create a series of buttons
along the bottom of my page which display different text boxes when my users
rollover these. I can't seem to hide the text as part of the over, so if

I've never posted anything before so I hope I'm in the right place!  Just
wanted to know if anyone could help me out with this query.  
I created a flash slide show image gallery, following the tutorial step by
step from the following link:  

I have this website that I'm working on that has these rollovers that go to
different places.
If I click on one of the rollovers, I want an image gallery to appear over my
exisiting navigation.

I'm new to Flash so perhaps someone can help me.  I'm interested in making a
similar flash effect as the one on this page
http://www.firstorlando.com/Home/Tabid/52.aspx  It's a scrolling set of
announcements but also allow you to click on an announcement to get more

Is there any way to see where all instances, movie clips, buttons, etc. are
used in a movie?  Sometimes I see a reference in AS and I think it would be
easy to just have some sort of directory so when I see an asset linked, I can
easily find where it is within my movie.  For ...

Not sure if this is the right forum to post in.
I downloaded a pre-made flash photo slide show. It loads an xml file with
image locations and displays them accordingly. The file works fine as a stand
alone SWF, but when I place it into an html (xhtml 1.0 transitional, placed

I've checked the tech support questions and can't seem to find any help
regarding the matter.
I've been watching full episodes of shows on the abc.com website. Last night
the episodes were working fine as they had been for the past few days. When I

I recently downloaded an Adobe update and now I get an error message on my
desktop.  A box appears and states "Could not find Macromedia Flash".  I have
tried to redownload Adobe Flash and it appeared successful, but I'm still
having trouble.  Any help would be appreciated.