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Alpha image problem
Posted by SRSS#02 at 1/11/2005 11:54:40 PM
Hi, I have made a header for a site in flash, when you go over the titles (news, links, etc) an image appears in a certain place, i have made it so the image appears from alpha set to 0 to 100, so it comes smoothly. However there are 12 titles, therefore 12 images, but only the first six appe...more >>

Good Broadband Video Size
Posted by Tsquared at 1/11/2005 11:11:10 PM
I have seen some very beautiful and impressive Flash/Sorenson Squeeze video on the web. I use a broadband connection and I?m not sure how big some of these files are. I would like my video to have similar quality and load times. Does anyone have a range or file sizes for good video with aud...more >>

pages loading too slow
Posted by thomknight at 1/11/2005 10:20:35 PM
Hi, can someone help? I have a site using different swf. files in html pages. the pages are loading too slow and I have a pre-loader in the first ten frames. the pre loader wont show up when the page is loading. thanks for your reply ...more >>

Help with SCREENS - username + password
Posted by Steele Imaging at 1/11/2005 10:01:10 PM
Have have my screen set up... Application Home Client (nested) Success (nested) Fail Demo Contact So the basic is... a client should enter the username and password on the Client Login screen... piece of cake. I know how to use the IF / THEN.... but what I...more >>

Bookmarking a CBT
Posted by M&M2005 at 1/11/2005 9:34:40 PM
I'm a Flash newbie, I just finished (or so I thought) my first CBT that is approx. 150 pages. I created each page as a scene. This was suppose to be a CD based CBT but now the client wants to put it on their Intranet page and they want bookmarking. Help, please! Should I create a sepa...more >>

Basic Preloader
Posted by Sebhughes at 1/11/2005 8:54:06 PM
I do i make a basic preloader in flahs with how many kb left and the time etc? please help Thanks in advance ...more >>

random thoughts
Posted by ronchicago at 1/11/2005 8:36:31 PM
i have currently have three little swf files. 1) endless loop with a clear button over it. i can change the info on this swf with a mouse clip. 2) endless loop with a video clip in it. i would like to put clear button on it similar to 1) but that is another problem "button button" i have p...more >>

button button
Posted by ronchicago at 1/11/2005 8:24:32 PM
hello, this is so simple it is driving me crazy. i made a transparent button. it is in my library. when i open a new file for a test and drag the button on the stage it is light blue and i can latch onto it, code it, etc. the current file i am working on, everytime i drag my clear button ont...more >>



64bit flash plugin: PLEASE!!!
Posted by enti42 at 1/11/2005 8:20:29 PM
just recompile it, will you? it's not that hard and the amd64 folks (like me) really want to use it....more >>

Banner making
Posted by Sebhughes at 1/11/2005 8:04:42 PM
i am making a banner for a friend and i want text to come in and got how do i get the text in the same place for each word ...more >>

Keyframe name, keyframe anchor
Posted by adrianTNT at 1/11/2005 7:58:51 PM
When you name a keyframe you can set the label type as "name" or as "anchor". Can anyone please explain waht is the difference ? I never used it as "anchor". Thanks. -Adrian....more >>

scrollPane doesn't scroll
Posted by cheathamlane at 1/11/2005 6:35:53 PM
:confused; Hi there: I have a scrollPane attached to a movieclip which is dynamically populated with duplicated movieclips. These duped MCs contain dynamic textfields, which get their info from XML via PHP. The duplicated MCs are placed vertically one after the other, and the scrollPane mas...more >>

a weird thing about keyframe
Posted by narF_le_hot at 1/11/2005 5:50:36 PM
Since I do a lot of animation with flash, I've sometime felled on a very strange problem with keyframe and I'm wondering if it's a bug, how does it happen and how to correct this problem. As you can see on this first screen shot http://pages.infinit.net/narf/snap_1.jpg there is 2 keyfra...more >>

Need Help: Flash files posting scores to an AICC LMS
Posted by Steve Hile at 1/11/2005 4:23:58 PM
Is anyone familiar with Witness Systems eQNow LMS or AICC standards working with Flash? We use the eQNow LMS and I was able to make Flash communicate an AICC compliant lesson with the LMS, but the score is not recorded within the LMS. My guess is either the scores are not properly recorded...more >>

music playing over itself
Posted by ricking at 1/11/2005 4:21:51 PM
Hey guys, another question about audio... I have a movie with an audio file playing. My mute on/off works fine, as does my stop button (which stops the timeline as well as the music using StopAllSounds()). However, if I'm at the end of my movie and hit the play button, my music starts playing...more >>

Coping layers to multiple scenes
Posted by jasonjam at 1/11/2005 4:12:56 PM
Hi, I have a flash movie with approx 20 scenes that all have the exact layer structure. I had to add a button that needs to be carried throughout every scene. This button consists of three different layers. Is there a way to copy and paste these three layers to all my scenes with keeping the...more >>

Trouble with loading webpage - video
Posted by ricksastar at 1/11/2005 3:24:30 PM
I have a webpage that has video on it. I have a preloader that is designed to play until the last frame of the Mainpage with the video is loaded. how ever when the page bgins to open the flash runs until the vieo is about to start. freezes for about 10 - 15 seconds then plays the video... ...more >>

Memory issue loading Flash?!?
Posted by DC Rich at 1/11/2005 2:42:59 PM
Hello All, I have a 148k Flash movie that occasionally hangs while loading. I don't have the problem locally, but when loading from the server over a LAN, it's awful. Is this a Flash issue, or a server problem? I don't have that problem with other Flash movies, so I'm guessing there's somethi...more >>

Answer for KapulskiDog
Posted by mxc at 1/11/2005 2:26:19 PM
Not sure i quite understand what you want to do with that .exe but...... There is a variety of 3rd party software some free and some not available for windows developers which help you to develop stuff flash cant do alone. You can find a lot of answers and links to 3rd party software on th...more >>

Media Component Behavior
Posted by digitaljbuer at 1/11/2005 2:09:27 PM
I am building a series of computer based training modules in Flash MX 2004 Pro, using slides and cue point navigation through the media display and media controller components. As a base template to begin this project I started with Dan Carr?s template, http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/f...more >>

- Newbie question re: Sound
Posted by Jon Yeager at 1/11/2005 2:05:56 PM
I just imported a MPG in an FLA... how do I delete the sound track? I want it to be silent. ...more >>

display actions
Posted by j2studio at 1/11/2005 1:36:38 PM
Is there a way or a window in which you can have all your actions displayed for easy finding?...more >>

add freames to movie beginning
Posted by j2studio at 1/11/2005 1:24:49 PM
I am rtying to add 20 frames to the beginnging of my movie to insert more content. The problem is that when I select all frames and layers of the existing content, then move them up the timeline, it adds frames to layers that previously did not reach the end of the movie. In other words if lay...more >>

Flash behaves different in Firefox/Netscape?
Posted by Jomaja at 1/11/2005 1:19:36 PM
My sites loadingbar (a loading 'pie', shape of a circle) should start at the top and complete a circle clockwise. But in Firefox and Netscape it starts at sometimes '2 o'clock'. I thought the Flashplayer looked the same regardless of browser and platform. Here's the link. http://www.jomaja.de/...more >>

flash search SDK
Posted by lester02 at 1/11/2005 12:51:18 PM
hi again, still looking for a possibility to get internal links between swfs out of the FLASH SEARCH SDK. IS THIS POSSIBLE??? and can I get other information like font-size, embedded pictures, etc.? I DO NOT NEED A SOLUTION! only need to know if this is possible... please po...more >>

Why is flash player sooo slow on macs??
Posted by Rossco G at 1/11/2005 12:32:25 PM
can anyone answer this?? why is it that flash player is sooo slow on mac's?? i've been a flash developer for years now and ever since i started flash player has always been slow on mac's i though osx would fix that, but i recently bought a powerbook latest and greatest and flash player still ...more >>

text glow
Posted by Dave at 1/11/2005 10:50:51 AM
I would like to place a glow around some dynamic text. Is this at all possible with flash? I have looked on the web and can only find a glow on text once it has been broken apart, which looks good, but I'm creating a percentage counter from 0 to 100 which needs the glow. Any ideas? Thanks ...more >>

Pre-Loader for an externally loaded .swf
Posted by Steve Dubbeldam at 1/11/2005 10:35:03 AM
Hey, I was searching the forum for this topic, but there seems to be a lot of confuzing options some of which don't work (according to some user comments) Anyways im wondering if someone can either tell me what to do, or point me somewhere so that I can just have a simple little "loading" MC...more >>

Motion tweening glitch
Posted by georget8 at 1/11/2005 10:27:16 AM
Can anyone help ? When I change from one symbol graphic to another in a motion tween the right hand half of the picture moves 1/10th of an inch to the right, so there is an annoying 'twitch'. Any thoughts ? ...more >>

How to change exe icon created by flash
Posted by venkatgrafix at 1/11/2005 9:41:26 AM
:confused;...more >>

Help Editing an FLA File will pay $$
Posted by shaw100 at 1/11/2005 8:06:54 AM
Hi - I'm not a developer not do i practice to be, but i/m posed a task that i must complete. My company just finished buying a website template on www.templatemonster.com. We have the PSD files, HTML Pages, and the FLA file. The FLA file is the NAV area of the HTML (Which we have the HTML as w...more >>

How can i pass a variable in FSCommand?
Posted by juanguion at 1/11/2005 7:47:05 AM
I need to pass a variable via FSCommand to my.exe file in the folder FSCommand, but for now i thing it's impossible, I try this: archivo = "shellexecute.exe" variable = "/f:asdasd.pdf" fscommand("exec", archivo + variable); don't work, needer whit this ARCHIVO = "shellexecute /f:....more >>

Screen Capture for Demo Movies
Posted by Yechezkal Gutfreund at 1/11/2005 6:04:18 AM
Is there anything people recommend for doing a screen capture of a session with a Flash Program (PocketPC) (320x240) that will result in a 4x3 (NTSC) format output, and can easily be post processed by Microsoft movie Maker of PhotoShop elements? Right now we have been using SOTI but the asp...more >>

Is this a datagrid?
Posted by complexity at 1/11/2005 5:46:47 AM
Hi all http://www.take40.com/index.php click ont he singles chart, one click on the scroll bar gets you one row per time down or up. Is this a scrollable datagrid, I want to learn how to do one like this. Any advice, tips, components would be great. ...more >>

page size difference
Posted by alanwallace at 1/11/2005 4:53:32 AM
hello, im very new to studio mx. using flash 2004 pro, when i "test movie" only the top right corner of my page is showing. i try to adjust magnification but 100% and "show all" are all thats available. the page is fine when im editing. when i first started the project i used Freehand to ...more >>

Using Flash button to open html text files
Posted by richpasq at 1/11/2005 4:13:00 AM
www.strengthinnumbersband.com there is an example of what i want to do. they have flash buttons opening text in an html box to the right... It doesn't look like they used frames either...if anyone can help me with the actionscript for this i'd appreciate it. thanx ...more >>

flash video timeline scrubber?
Posted by plizo22 at 1/11/2005 2:26:31 AM
I am looking for a tutorial or fla on creating a custom scrubber without a play or pause button.. just like how the video plays in the intro of this site.. http://www.bale.com.au/ http://www.bale.com.au ...more >>

How to make drop menu like http://www.brightbox.co.za/ ?
Posted by baciq at 1/11/2005 1:13:53 AM
Hi flash gurus Do you know any tutorial for that kind of drop menu ? Baciq...more >>

Help I don't understand "import"
Posted by Spam!? at 1/11/2005 12:37:23 AM
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone can clear my head, I'm having troubles (and have for a long time but have worked around them - but now I have decided that I should probably understand why I can/can't do somethings...) If I import a SWF file into another SWF file it always (as far as I c...more >>

animation and sound loop
Posted by Bo at 1/11/2005 12:05:40 AM
This loop works fine in one scene http://www.bodot.dk/dans-lyd.html But when I make a preloader scene and a loop-scene with a gotoAndPlay(1) - action - the loop stops for a short time.... Anyone knows how to solve this - thanks! -Bo ...more >>


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