Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I have through years maintained a site which was created in flash 8. Now I have
installed Flash CS3 and the file size of the swf-files has increased
dramatical.
The .fla file has still the same size, but the swf is much bigger in CS3. The

I'm working on a menu bar and I found some code lines that might help me...
thing is I don't understand few lines: _root.link != page and _root["btn" +
_root.link]
Please help me if you can, I need this done right now

I'm using Flash 8 and I've used the radio button component. I have 4 instances
of a radio button. The radio group is named radioQ1 and the instance names are
q1a q1b q1c and q1d. I cannot find out how to find out which option has been
selected when the continue button (btnQ1) is ...

My son is taking a Flash class at the local college. The lab computers all run
Flash 5. We have installed Flash Professional CS3 on his computer (Win XP). He
would like to edit .fla files at home and still be able to use them in class.
Unfortunately, the only option in the "Save ...

How long would you suggest that it would take to create a Flash intro that has
a steam ship moving in from off-screen towards a port, then panning over and
zooming onto a ship already docked that is having freight containers loaded
onto a semi-truck that drive offs, which then ...

I have the book for flash 8, but I purchased CS3 (so, flash 9, correct?)
Obviously I knew there'd be changes and updates and the like, and I've been
able to go through the tutorials and work out what was given on the CD, and
now I'm making my own. But there's a problem, I can't ...

I imported a logo into Flash 8, and it has a white box around it. How can I
remove the white space in Flash, or if I have to do it in another Adobe
product, how do I do I export it so that it will import into Flash without the
box. Thanks.

I have a problem with loaded SWF's and hitTests that use X & Y. We're using
content that originally was loaded into a Shell SWF at 0,0. All hitTests worked
fine.
Now we're creating a new project where this content loads in a window area

im using flash since macromedia flash 5 when i used flash cs3 and worked on a
real project and every time I work
on it I becomes bigger like the movie was only 30 sec and the size is 91mb and

I'm interesting in teaching Flash animation.  I have a decent amount of studio
experience (given how long I've been in the field) and I used Flash a lot at
home but my official training was in Classical Animation and Flash was only a
small crash course so I'm more or less self ...

It used to be that you could create multiple entry points to a single SWF using
a sitemap. For instance, you could define url such as
http://www.example.com/store?product=100 and have that url return HTML content
with the description of the product for SE consumption, and then ...

i have a page where i want to have a thumbnail picturegallery.. aswell as an
thumbnail swf-banner-gallery
when i click one of the picture-thumbnails i see a larger version of the
picture..

I have exported my flash animation as AVI format.
The AVI doesn't show the motion in the movie symbol. I looks like the AVI
format cannot read those movie symbol. I see the image of the first frame, but
doesn't play the movie symbol.

Is it possible to change the default flash icon of the application generated by flash when a file is published as a projector? for pc and mac..

I have been reading about MS Silverlight and how it may give some pretty stiff
competition to Flash. Any Flash experts care to comment?... (particularly
regarding the relatively steep learning curve required by the latter...)