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Dynamic Text - Not Dymanic as a Symbol?
Posted by Peter Mayhew at 6/27/2004 11:33:38 PM
I have a movie with some dynamic text which scrolls across the screen. The text is loaded from an external ASP file. This works fine. However, when I create a symbol of the dynamic text box, the symbol does not update. Any suggests on how I get around this? ...more >>

Please help
Posted by virinder at 6/27/2004 11:30:57 PM
Hello all, me name is vee and i have just recently been introduced to flash, only working with the tool for a year now but need some help. Please help. I know flash can write and read from files externally, my question is this. If I was to create a user interface using flash with HTML, ...more >>

Please help
Posted by virinder at 6/27/2004 11:28:24 PM
Hello all, me name is vee and i have just been introduced to flash, I have been working with the tool for a year now but need some help. Please help. I know flash can write and read from files externally, my question is this. If I was to create a user interface using flash with HTML, inc...more >>

music - weres it comming from????
Posted by fugu3 at 6/27/2004 11:18:54 PM
hello, i am starting to make a flash movie that has music, an mp3 song, i loaded it into my libary then got a button to load & play it, now i uploaded this to the internet site and when the page came up the music played.... what i need to know is, were is it getting the music from, is it embed...more >>

music - weres it comming from????
Posted by fugu3 at 6/27/2004 11:18:51 PM
hello, i am starting to make a flash movie that has music, an mp3 song, i loaded it into my libary then got a button to load & play it, now i uploaded this to the internet site and when the page came up the music played.... what i need to know is, were is it getting the music from, is it embed...more >>

Building Legacy Business Applications ?
Posted by VirtualProgrammer at 6/27/2004 10:14:55 PM
Folks, Is Flash components (buttons, combo boxes, selection lists, text input fields and especially data grids) mature enough for building legacy business applications such as [say] an accounting package ? My intitial impression is that the Flash IDE is quite primitive as compared to [...more >>

Designing for other browsers
Posted by Superfly1611 at 6/27/2004 9:27:50 PM
Hi, My flash movie does not work in any browser other than IE. I've visited other sites using browsers such as Firefox and Opera and they display fine - it's just my movies that don't want to work.. Could someone suggest possible reason for this? ...more >>

waving flag animated gif ...please help..
Posted by emilio at 6/27/2004 8:43:31 PM
Subscribe Flasher Hi everibody!! i'm an aprentice in flash, i've quite no idea about action script and i ask you help cos i'd like to build an animated gif of a flag waving whith the wind but looks very hard to do.... I even saw that most of this gif 's look like made by corel or programs like...more >>



Bitmap Distortion on Flash
Posted by petrodollar at 6/27/2004 4:32:52 PM
Hi, It's a long time I'm usinf flash now, (since Flash 2), but I still wonder why there's no possibility to distort the imported bitmaps (JPG...) like any other vector shape... You can scale, you can bend, you can rotate, but Macromedia developers never include the DISTORT OPTION, A...more >>

Pulse Effect
Posted by Superfly1611 at 6/27/2004 4:15:10 PM
Hi all, I'm designing a small flash movie for a banner to my site. I was browsing another site and I saw a flash movie with what looked like a "pulse" effect on it which gave me a great idea for part of my flash movie. The pulse effect i'm talking about can be found in the main banner of ...more >>

Making white transparent...
Posted by zouha at 6/27/2004 3:54:54 PM
How can I make white color transparent in Flash? I have a gif image and I want to make the white color transparent. In Director there were "background transparent" command. Is there something like that in Flash? ...more >>

setting fontcolor for some htmlText problem
Posted by vinZ at 6/27/2004 3:08:59 PM
Hi there, Anyone knows why this ain't workin' _root.indigatortxt.htmlText = "Blabla" + "<fontColor=0x00FF00>" + "<b>" + selectedNode.attributes.label + "</b>" + "</font>" + " blabla."; cheers, vincent ...more >>

MX 2004 & Windows ME
Posted by Mitchv at 6/27/2004 1:16:47 PM
I downloaded Flash MX 2004 trial version last night and to my surprise when I went to install, an error popped up saying it was not compatible with your operating system. I use Windows ME, and I've looked a little bit around the site, it says it should work with Windows ME. Can you guys help m...more >>

Disable zoom feature on right click
Posted by thetrueeddie at 6/27/2004 1:13:56 PM
Hey I tried to search for this as I thought it would be fairly common but with no joy! Just wondering how to disable the zoom feature on a flash movie when it is right clicked/ctrl clicked to stop people zooming in? ...more >>

Flash MX: Drop-down menu?
Posted by maximuza at 6/27/2004 12:28:51 PM
Hello there, Does anyone know any good source files or tutorials for making an easy/awesome, customizable Flash drop-down menu? Something that perhaps is similar to http://www.mediatemple.com or http://www.macromedia.com. Thank you very much! Maxim P.S. I'm a designer and not much ...more >>

Motion Guide Not working
Posted by Sonicrockz at 6/27/2004 11:08:51 AM
I'm new to flash and I have an idea of a quill running over my text I have written to give the effect of writing it down. I will come to how the text fades in later as it goes over it, but I cannot get the quill to follow over the motion guide I created. I followed that tutorial Macromedia has...more >>

problem tabbing between text fields
Posted by UR_Kilnme at 6/27/2004 10:16:38 AM
I have an SWF that is imported into a movie clip called contact_mc. When a user clicks on the Contact button at the top of my main movie, the movie clip contact_mc will appear and the focus will be on the first input text field desired. However, my problem lies in this, when me or anyone presse...more >>

Imported PNG file looses pathed text
Posted by WallisMartin at 6/27/2004 9:36:24 AM
I have a PNG file that has text that is curved along a path. During import I have two options for the text. Rasterize gives me a very pixelated image (it looks choppy and down right ugly). If I keep the text editable, it looses the path information. Any ideas on how to bring the text over ...more >>

Justified static text reverts to Align Left
Posted by WallisMartin at 6/27/2004 9:20:27 AM
I have stumbled onto an interesting feature (bug?) in Flash MX 2004 Professional. I have a flash presentation with static text that is justified yet when published returns to Align Left. The workaround is to convert the text to graphics, yet that significantly increases the size and ...more >>

fdcommand() problems HELP!
Posted by frustratedandconfused at 6/27/2004 9:11:20 AM
Alright... this is really driving me crazy. I cross-referenced my code with the Flash MX help, the Flash TechNotes Tutorial and some third-party tutorial, and they all seemed to check out. Maybe I'm missing something so here is the code: in the SWF: on (release) { fscommand("message",...more >>

swf alignment in mozilla
Posted by ade_in_london at 6/27/2004 8:58:34 AM
I am using the same preloder swf for many different pages in a flash site. The preloader is the same size as the largest page. Some of the pages are smaller, so I am setting the swf HEIGHT in the HTML (object and embed tags) to match the content size. I wish the part of the preloader that ext...more >>

how do i get button border to be transparent
Posted by radicalcyborg at 6/27/2004 8:10:03 AM
I got mx2004. I have made a flash button over a body background as a .gif , There is an unwanted border popping up around my button.Any ideas?? ...more >>

How to replace the pictures only ... ?
Posted by Beatleman at 6/27/2004 8:04:09 AM
Hello all. I'd like to know how to do the following. Let's say I have created a Flash (MX) movie with 6 pictures of a person, all sized 100x100. Each picture is on it's own layer and fades in, stays for a couple seconds and then fades out and the next one does the same and so on. I know how...more >>

Opening Text in flash
Posted by IMDaNuBe at 6/27/2004 7:16:47 AM
Here's what I have: I have a navigation menu and I have a dynamic text field on the right. When I click on, say "About Us", text will appear. These text are saved in ".txt" files outside so they load into the dynamic text field. The problem with this is the the texts are all the same. ...more >>

Loading - Unloading external images
Posted by Mborman at 6/27/2004 5:13:33 AM
I am attempting to creat a slide show presentation that uses nextFrame, prevFrame script built into level 1 buttons. I would like to have the movie pull the JPEG's from an external file to keep the file size of the movie small. I have a movie holder that I am using to load the external images....more >>

saving xml data on iis server
Posted by moyoxxx at 6/27/2004 2:36:57 AM
write i know how to save xml data on an iis server using flash, but every time i run the script the xml data does not appear on the server, is there a special asp script that i have to initiate on the server for this to work ? Code for the submit button on (release) { // A. Constru...more >>


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