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How to make a MP3 Player in Flash?
Posted by ttdevelop at 5/10/2005 9:23:51 PM
I've tried almost every single open-sourced Flash Mp3 player online, but the problem with all of them is, they don't work all the time, sometimes they can't even load local songs, sometimes they load the song for too long. I wonder if anyone knows how to make a good mp3 player that will have.....more >>


can i do this?
Posted by alanwallace4 at 5/10/2005 8:44:55 PM
Hi, im a newbie. ive made up some buttons in flash and was wondering am i able to link them up to an object in dreamweaver. For example, on release of the button (let say the contact button) i would like to trigger an animated layer (just moving from the side of the page and enlarging to the ...more >>

Convert screens to frames?
Posted by glist at 5/10/2005 8:43:27 PM
Please help in converting a fla file built with screens into a fla file with frames? If I publish the screen file into a swf file and then import it, the whole swf file goes into the first frame of the new movie. P. S. I need to do this because I cannot figure out how to do a progress bar ...more >>

Creating a Visited state for buttons in flash website
Posted by Michael Asimov at 5/10/2005 8:32:41 PM
Subject says it all... How do I create a visited state on a button in flash. I'm doing a movie real with little squares that willmove someone anywhere throughout the slide show. If someone skips around I'd like for them to no which boxes they've already been at. Thanks Michael ...more >>

Navigate by Keyframes?
Posted by loozle at 5/10/2005 8:31:22 PM
This is my second weeke using Flash and so far so good. I am recreating a powerpoint presentation in flash. So I've gone through and set up all of the 'slides' and the animations in them using flash and they work fine. I now want to add navigation to let the user go forward backward, etc. ...more >>

How To Move Loaded Movie on Stage
Posted by NickTheNickname at 5/10/2005 8:09:20 PM
Can anyone help me position a .swf movie loaded onto the stage with the loadMovieNum script? How can I control where the movie appears after loading, short of placing it inside a dummy movie and loading that? Can this be done with actionscript? I found the _x and _y properties, but I thin...more >>

Is there a pause then play command?
Posted by mattyshack at 5/10/2005 7:54:06 PM
Is there a way to pause on a frame for 4 seconds then jump to the next frame? As opposed to making that frame stay on for 48 frames (@12 fps)? I know of the stop and go to and play, but how do you hold on that frame? ...more >>

*NEWBIE* Buttons wont work in test
Posted by resqbull123 at 5/10/2005 7:17:32 PM
I am creating a simple timeline event. The buttons placed into the stage work fine when simple button functions are enabled, but when i go to test the movie, the buttons fail to work or ever be recognized. Any ideas, know its probably something simple, just missing it. Thank you t ...more >>



How to make Flash Slide Presentation Autoplay
Posted by gwennabeme at 5/10/2005 6:21:49 PM
Anyone know how to make a Flash MX 2004 Professional Slide Presentation Autoplay? I found some info in the "components" for the Media Controller, but it looks like you have to be using video for that to work. I want to take out the buttons, and have each slide last for a particular amount of...more >>

How to open a Powerpoint document through MS power point (not IE)
Posted by sunnypal123 at 5/10/2005 6:16:11 PM
Hi, I need to create a button that, when clicked, opens a powerpoint document with MS Power Point program. Currently, I use the fscommand with exec and the path but the target documeny opens with Internet Explorer How can do that? Thanks in advance Sunny Pal ...more >>

Sound-effect in flash
Posted by The-Hawk at 5/10/2005 5:45:03 PM
I'm making this page for a band I know in Flash. I have used the program before, but I don't have great skills inn it. I've thought about having the bands practice-room as a menu. The instruments are linking to a other part of my page. In the background I always want one of their songs p...more >>

Anyone seen a music player like this?
Posted by robbie at 5/10/2005 1:51:30 PM
http://www.greatpixels.com/music/musicplayer/index.html I found this site through another forum think the player is really cool. I've tried e-mailing the guy with no response. I'd love to get my hands on it or something similar. Thanks ...more >>

Flash files lost! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by ced--ced at 5/10/2005 8:56:59 AM
Hi, I have had a major problem on my computer and it seems that I have to reinstall Windows on it. Now, I don't know yet if all my files on the c drive are lost or not but if it's the case all my fla files for a website are lost!!! :( But, my website site is online so all the .swf's are sa...more >>

dumping imported jpgs in cache
Posted by David Brewer at 5/10/2005 7:43:44 AM
Is there a script to dump from cache imported jpgs into flash. Example: Frame 1 imports 01.jpeg, frame 10 imports 02.jpg, frame 20 imports 03.jpg so on and so on. When the last frame is reach the flash loops back and start all over. By the time the last frame has been reach new jpgs hav...more >>

how to translate data from flash to custom application
Posted by whereisthedog at 5/10/2005 6:22:44 AM
i want create a application and embed a shockwave flash object to insert a "swf" file with vc++ and now i want to translate data from flash to the main application but i search this problem for a long time by internet and i cant find a anwser for it how can help me ???? ...more >>

Using Flash to search in documents?
Posted by TimiH at 5/10/2005 5:42:40 AM
I'm creating small Flash .exe projector for a CD-ROM that will be eventually containing around 300 PDF files. It it possible to write a function in Flash to allow the user to enter a Keyword into a text field and then perform a search on all the PDFs, returning a list of those documents which...more >>

Flash text not rendering in IE/PC - Web standards-based site
Posted by Bramden at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello. We're putting up a Web standards-compliant http://www.2ateegolf.com/ that renders the Flash intro and the Flash components on the individual sub-pages great in Safari/Firefox for Mac and Firefox for PC but *not* on IE 6.0 for PC. is this a Flash issue or an XHTML/CSS issue or both? ...more >>

Importing Music Into Flash
Posted by EmmaPearce at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I am using a PC with WinXP and need to download music into Flash to accompany an animation. However, I am finding this extremely difficult as Flash doesn't recognise Windows Media Player format. I am pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong?) that Flash will recognise Quicktime format but ...more >>

Flash Projector is a Classic app under 10.4
Posted by D_Arislan at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Tossing this out there in the hope that someone has this happening to them or has seen this. Not sure what happened, but Flash 7.2 is suddenly publishing its projector app files as Classic apps instead of OS X apps. I know they're just Carbon apps so I'm not sure why the flag is suddenly swi...more >>

Sync Local HD and Site + Publish to Site By Default
Posted by john.gooch at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
How do I tell Flash to publish movies to Site by Default? It appears the default is to publish to the same location the .fla file is at. Also, I have a folder called "Devel" on my c: drive and would like to somehow "sync" the site files with those files. i.e. I devel/test on my HD ( except ...more >>

All in one Flash Media Solution
Posted by extremeguy at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hey all I have a website with audio files and video clips on it. I would like to have a system where The audio and video files play in my website. I thought I could do this with Flash MX 2004. So I need a flash media player. This thing has to play .mp3, .wma, .mov, .avi, .swf, .mpeg (.mpg)...more >>

Need Help With Dynamic Content in Flash
Posted by WebIslands at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello All, I just started messing with using External Text for updating web sites (I know...). Anyway I am having a couple of problems that I was hoping some one could help with. 1. I know there is a siple solution for this... (For someone else). I have been using Dynamic text in ...more >>

Building Forms with Flash V2 Components
Posted by At Velev at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Flash V2 Components are meant to make forms easy to build in Flash, and they do - as far as the FrontEnd goes. However how do I then link the components to my PHP script? With text fields it's easy as you just assign it a variable and then you pass those variables to your PHP script with l...more >>

Action Script Help
Posted by Roland13 at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, :confused; How can I use action script so on keypress escape it will go back to scene 2 while currently I am in scene 4? so this is what I have so far: (not actual script) on, keypress escape, go to and play If you could please help me from there, it would be much appreciate...more >>

Multiple Quizzes
Posted by FunkyFermin at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I tried to create multiple quizzes on the same scene. The problem is the first quiz results are displayed in the results frame of the 2nd quiz. I also tried created 3 seperate flash files, File 1 is the first quiz, File 2 is the 2nd quiz and 3rd file is the loadmovienum, It works but the resul...more >>

Newbie, my animation always loops
Posted by Lyndsey Hamilton at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I created a simple animation that spells out my name, but I cant get it to stop looping. I want it to spell out the name, and then stop doing anything. Obviously a very simple problem, someone please take pity on me and give a dog a bone. ...more >>

Windows Projector
Posted by starguy2 at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am a newbie and i am not sure how to ask this, But here goes. First: I have discovered how to use loadmovieNum. I made an interface with 3 buttons and added the Actionscript to load the app. SWF , to each button. also i guess i should say that i have 3 .swf file that load when you cli...more >>

Flash Detection Question
Posted by JasonBarr at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I have an opening page on my website that asks the user to download flash if they do not have it. I want to have a small flash graphic playing on this page over a jpeg if the user already has flash. if the user does not have flash, I only want a jpeg to show up in its place. Is there a java...more >>

Flash button html code
Posted by stevey1022 at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I'd be really grateful if somebody could post the html code for the get flash player button, so I can link my website to macomedia....more >>

Preventing Caching in Flash Player
Posted by Loopkit Pro v1.0 at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Have a Flash site that is bringing in XML data and displaying it in a target area. In fact, http://www.growupgreat.com will show you the entire site that was developed. Users are having a problem caching old data and browsers are not displaying the correct updated data. Obviously, this is bein...more >>

Making a rollover button that also changes text
Posted by WebSly at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am trying to make a county map that when you mouse over each county it changes color and the county name is shown off to the side. Does anyone know a step by step way of doing this?...more >>

Flash mouse
Posted by NGfan at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
how do i make a mouse for my flash movie, that when they scroll into the box that it brings up, it turns their mouse into the one i made?...more >>

Valid architectures with FlashMX
Posted by brynbstn at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I'm just starting to research building reports with FlashMX. I want to embed the .swf files in my ASP/HTML website. These files need to pull data from an Oracle database (9.2). Do I need Flash Remoting to do that? The .swf objects will not write data, but OLAP style drilling would be cool ...more >>

movie palys extra sounds when 18th scene is added?
Posted by roml at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hello All, I have a Flash MX movie with 17 scenes that work just great, but with the addition of the 18th scene, it misbehaves. Each scene has a movieclip ? taking up one frame - in it that reveals the text onto the screen, with a humming sound. These movieclips do not have anything in ...more >>

Smooth page transitions
Posted by Andrehe at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
I am trying to get smooth page transitions between movies. The transition into the movie is quite clear to me and I also manage the transition out on the timeline. The bit I can?t get my head around is the programming in action script to embed the ?logic? to go from page to page using the tran...more >>

mysql flash
Posted by Anasta at 5/10/2005 12:00:00 AM
Can anyone help with extracting a record from a database and showing it on click of a button. I have nearly no experience with flash and actionscript and literally need to do this 100s of times, at the moment i am using php and want to see if i can covert to flash to overcome the page refresh p...more >>


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