Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I am using Flash MX.  I have in my settings to have code hints automatically
show up in my actions panel.  How and when does this happen??  I cannot seem to
get it to give me any hints.  One thing I did was type in the instance name,
then a period, then onRollOut, to which point ...

Is there a way to get the info from Output without testing the movie?

Hi, I'm new to flash and this is my first attempt at the makings of a game. At
the moment it's just the beginning of a shooter. Here's my problem:
I imported an audio file (gunshot.wav) to play when you shoot. Without the
sound it runs very smoothly, but with it, it experences a ...

Hello to all and thanks for checking this out...
This is regarding a swf MP3 player I am trying place on my site.
http://www.denmasterstudios.com/portfolio.html
I preview the swf file in flash player on local drive = works fine

I'm in the process of making a myspace and this is happening to my flash...
myspace.com/benbridges552
The layers are visible as they fly off the canvas.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I know that i have the images of the text

I am having a problem with my Adobe Flash player in internet explorer.  I am
using 2 screens on my computer and I am trying to switch the player to play on
the opposite screen when it goes into full screen mode.  It used to do this,
but now I cant get it to play on the right ...

Hey everybody hows it going? Any help you could give me would be greatly
appreciated!
Here is my problem. I am working off a template and have been able to do
everything I want so far but ive run into a problem. Check my site to follow

I have a pretty simple little clip here to show different colours and views of
a chair.
However what I would like is for the clip to work such that if the user were
viewing the side view of, for example,  the yellow chair and switched to the

I have a site I'm working on.....
www/firstjourneypublishing.com
for some reason I can't seem to get the links to connect to the html pages I
set up in dreamweaver

I am creating an animation that involves a part where i plan to zoom into a
specific object on my stage. Now i know how to do this but the problem is when
i increase the size of the other objects on screen they grow in a different
proportion to the main object due to them being ...

Any tips (or software) on how to reduce the file size of JPEGs without
compromising the quality.  I have a flash ad that has 3 screens with photos,
but clients needs the .swf file to be under 20K.  I can only get it down to 28K.
I've done the following:

We are going to have a little flash application running on another electronic
device. A user will interact briefly with the flash app, and then it needs to
somehow disappear, yet still be available to the OS of the device so it can be
brought back up.

to the skin only! But, it's from an older version of Flash, and I'm now
wondering if some of the problems I'm having are due to code conflicts as I've
heard Action Script has changed.

Hello!. Actually I try to assign a instance name form action script.
Ok, in my stage I have a movie clip with some figure, inside of this movieclip
on a frame1, I add this code
trace(this._name);

I am working with Flash CS3 and writing code to handle HTTPRequests and I
noticed that at least on my computer Flash CS3 seems to cache an HTTPRequest it
makes when testing a movie.
Example: I create a basic HTML file with a simple key value string and test