Adobe Flash Professional CS5-5.5 Troubleshooting Legal notices Legal notices For legal notices, see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/legalnotices/index.html. A note to our customers Adobe provides this searchable PDF of archived technical support documents as a service to our customers who own and continue to enjoy older, unsupported versions of our software products. The information in these documents is not updated, and will become increasingly less accurate as hardware, browsers, and operating systems continue to evolve. Please be aware that these archived documents reflect historical issues and solutions for products that are no longer supported. Adobe does not warrant that the information in this document is accurate. Last updated 11/6/2015 iii Contents Using Flash to add sound to a Web page: an introduction . .1 Troubleshooting "Sample: Saving to MS Access using ASP" in Firefly tutorial . .2 Transparent background in a SWF file . .4 Tips for using Flash sprites in Director . .5 Tips for optimizing ActionScript in Adobe Flash movies . .7 Test Movie, Welcome Screen don't function correctly | CS5 with FileVault enabled . .9 Supported file formats | Flash Professional CS5.5 . 10 Slow opening transition when editing a symbol in Flash on Windows Vista . 12 Set variables in a Flash movie . 13 Re-create preferences . 16 Problems using Adobe Flash authoring across local area networks . 20 Pause SWF file | Specific number of seconds . 21 How to ''park'' a movie clip so it can be preloaded and reused . 22 OBJECT tag syntax | Flash Professional . 23 Multiple instances of movie clip with armature trace only one armature . 25 MovieClip coordinates off on first frame of 3D object | QuickTime (.mov) file | Flash Professional CS5.5 . 27 Manually remove Flash Professional CS5.5, CS5, CS4 . 27 How to make a simple clock in Flash . 33 Leading ampersand breaks text file parsing in ActionScript 3.0 . 34 Large Flash applications compile incorrectly | Flash CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 . 35 Known issues | Flash Professional CS6 . 37 Known issues | Flash CS5.5 . 38 Fonts rendered incorrectly | Flash | Mac OSX 10.6.7 . 40 Adobe Flash Publish keyboard shortcut (Shift+F12) is used by Mac OS X 10.4 . 40 Flash Professional CS5 known issues and bugs . 41 Security Update 11.5.2 | CS5.5 . 41 Flash Player 10, Action Script 3: Loader.unloadAndStop . 42 Flash OBJECT and EMBED tag attributes . 43 Flash keyboard shortcuts . 48 Error "Unexpected element/attribute" | Publish iOS application | Flash Professional CS5.5 . 50 Error "Could not find an Android device..." | Publish Android app | Flash CS5, CS5.5 . 51 How to duplicate a movie clip in random locations . 53 Differences between the Equality operator (==) and the Assignment operator (=) . 55 Creating a mask that follows a motion guide . 56 Creating advanced buttons . 56 Create a simple sound toggle | Flash . 58 Create pop-up menus | Flash . 59 How to create password verification . 64 How to create a color fade effect in Flash . 66 Create buttons | Flash . 66 Child display objects inaccessible after frame navigation | ActionScript 3.0 . 69 Last updated 11/6/2015 FLASH PROFESSIONAL iv Contents Characters missing from text in Flash CS4 file opened in Flash CS5 . 71 Can't install Android app | Flash CS5 CS5.5 . 72 Can't install an AIR for Android app to offline device | Flash CS5, CS5.5 . 73 Cannot type GB18030 characters in panels and dialog boxes . 73 Calling Flash ActionScript functions using Lingo . ..