Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I am new to flash and I am starting with Flash MX 2004. I was wondering if I can get a website link to a good training video that helps in creating flash files.
Thanks,
Kash420

First off why do we have to use flash, ever!  The updating of adobe products
never works, each time the updater starts up, and then fails installation. its
also never clear which update we need, its simply just a list of updates on the
updates page.

I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The
procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and
changes the symbol a bit (making it a little narrower), and repeats that
process in a series of frames. When I tried this, any ...

No doubt the Flash veterans here will read this and chuckle "silly noob" to
themselves, but as someone who only uses Flash occasionally, I'm having some
problems.
I made a simple little animation where a bit of text is typed out, one

Hi guys, back again :confused;
I'm trying to copy a button which is a movie clip.  Only thing is that no
matter which way I do it, I fail.  I try to rename the buttons and then refer
to the new ones in action script but I am really messing it up.  I've included

I'm using the file ClearOverMute as video controls for my .flv
How can I amend ClearOverPlayMute.fla (Action Script 2) so that the initial
state is Mute, and the user presses the audio button to hear sound?
I'm not a scripter, so clear instructions would be much appreciated.

We are creating a drawing application. As usual, it has a canvas and all
the necessary tools. We do have an option viz. canvas size which allows
to have larger canvases. However, when the user chooses larger canvas,
the application size remains the same but the canvas now has ...

I have use stop actions on each frame to make the audio stop and wait, but the
movie still jumps around when it plays online. It works okay locally, not sure
how to use a preloader on each frame so that all the audio will load before
each frame starts to play. Please take a look ...

Which is the best flash 3D engine?  
Away3D? Papervision? Alternativa3D?
what advantage do they have?

Hi, can anyone tell me if it's possible to keep  buttons from still being
active when they are behind other objects such as movie clips or shapes. I have
a popup box that is made visible when a button is clicked, but all the buttons
behind the popup box are still active and make ...

I have a client who would like to be able to click on an area on her site so
that she can add company news without having to ask for me to update the .fla
file each time. I know there is a TextArea component that would make it
possible for her to change it, but then anyone can ...

Hey Guys,  here goes again....  (my last post crashed out)
Ok, ive made a movie instance (a little animation of the word "create").
Now I want to duplicate this and change the animation to the word "dream" and
so on...  etc etc.....

Hi there. I'm creating a website in Flash CS3. The FLV video in the center of
the page utilizes one of the stock video control panels in the video encoding
process (SkinUnderPlayStopSeekMuteVol.swf) . Upon testing the movie, both in
Flash and uploaded on my server, the controls ...

Hope this is the right place to post since dreamweaver supports flash and adds
its own code....
I have an html page with a flash movie embeded in it. This site is older so it
is sitting in a table. Then I have another flash movie that is floating in a

When I copy a sprite from Photoshop,
http://i35.tinypic.com/4ugwaq.jpg
and paste it in Flash, it has a green background,
http://i34.tinypic.com/2hpr3x5.jpg