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Flash 9?
Posted by bobau at 10/31/2006 11:58:12 PM
I'll go to the Flash class next spring . I'll buy the flash mx software soon but When will adobe will release the flash 9 soon during Spring? If so What month? Thanks ...more >>


yourminis.com
Posted by alexgoowy at 10/31/2006 11:43:33 PM
We are planning on officially launching [b]www.yourminis.com[/b] the week of 11/6 - but to do that we need your help. We would love it if you could visit www.yourminis.com and try it out - and then provide as much feedback as possible with what you liked, what you hated, which functionality...more >>

fuzzy type for 2 years now
Posted by Steve Zavodny at 10/31/2006 9:56:37 PM
I've been fighting fuzzy type for 2 years now on buttons especially. They are static text, perfectly on even coordinates, anti alias off (the sharper way). Certainly others must know the final answer on this by now? Please Flash 7 Every button is made the same way; sometimes they are fine,...more >>

Flash 9 Crashes IE 6,7 and Mozilla on XP.
Posted by Katte_Kevorkian at 10/31/2006 9:36:10 PM
I have XP Pro, but have seen now, more than once, Flash 9 crash IE 6 and 7 as well as Mozilla, on more than one machine. Rolling back to Flash 8 doesn't help, because the websites that don't use it (i.e. myspace, youtube) are accessable, but not to the fullest. Uninstalling and reinstalling do...more >>

Flash Database Website
Posted by jt0001 at 10/31/2006 8:20:39 PM
Hello, I was looking into a couple of things: (1) Links or resources to websites that utilize multiple Flash video movies (YouTube) into one webpage for inspiration. (2) Advice or guidance on setting up an environment like this from a production standpoint or from start to finish. Thanks f...more >>

allow visitor to disable flash plugin when viewing site, cookie for next visit
Posted by ricecrispi at 10/31/2006 8:16:20 PM
i have a website, where parts of it have flash animations. through auto detection, these flash animations are backed with a jpeg for those who does not have flash plugin. however, i want to give those visitors with flash plugin an option to choose if they want see flash or not. and also coo...more >>

Downscaling FLV video
Posted by Ultragroobie at 10/31/2006 6:35:25 PM
Hi. When i'm trying to play a 700*XXX-sized video in a 540*XXX video box, the file get's oddly scaled, and not the same, smooth result i would get with a local video file. Anything i can do with this? ...more >>

Update players for mx
Posted by cpowens at 10/31/2006 6:30:45 PM
Update the contents of your Flash MX\Players folder with the new version of Flash Player 9 ...more >>



combine video/standard buttons
Posted by Deaf Mike at 10/31/2006 5:38:16 PM
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/temp/flash8/ http://www.signcommunity.org.uk/index.php hi - i'm trying to make buttons like the above UK version. a guy here really helped me but it seems like i need a little more help. go to the top link and you'll see what i have. i tried putting t...more >>

Changing computers
Posted by A--l---e--x at 10/31/2006 5:34:31 PM
Recently after installing Flash along with Studio 8 onto this PC, i've been thinking about purchasing a new PC, but is it possible to transfer the Studio 8 on to my new PC aswell, as it requires a one use activation code? ...more >>

seamonkey on suse 10.1 x86_64 the flash player does not run
Posted by paolom65 at 10/31/2006 4:48:40 PM
Y have installed seamonkey browser on suse 10.1 x86_64 Y have installed flash player 7 for linux package .i386.rpm but Y does n' t run. Does it exist flash player 7 for x86_64 and where? how does it run? ...more >>

flash nav with framesets
Posted by James Kurella at 10/31/2006 3:44:28 PM
Hi, wondering if I can set up a flash navigation system in a frameset and have the swf link to the navigation pane in the frameset. Thoughts or ideas? Has anyone doen this effectively? I'm not able to figure out how todo this with the flash help, using creative suite, flash 8 and dreamweaver ...more >>

Can you install Flash on another computer
Posted by Caillie at 10/31/2006 2:48:14 PM
I recently purchased a DVD with various children's games on a DVD-ROM bonus disc. However, when we tried to play it, it said we did not have the current version of Flash. However, I do not have internet at home, so I cannot download the new version straight on to my computer. I do however h...more >>

Bug in Projector?
Posted by maumaumi?s at 10/31/2006 1:10:14 PM
What is wrong with my Flash 8 Projector? When I make a simple movie, which loads another movie to a level, Projector does not play that external movie, but same files in browser with html work fine? But when I copy the files to another folder, Projector will work. There's no logic in worki...more >>

asigning variables from a movie clip?
Posted by james Gray King at 10/31/2006 1:08:11 PM
I have got a movie clip acting as a button at the moment. when i click it I would like it to assign a variable... the reason being I have multiple buttons, all will make the scene reach the end of the timeline, but then depending on which button you hit, they will jump do a different scene. Th...more >>

Inserting movie in Frontpage
Posted by lifespantoo at 10/31/2006 3:02:13 AM
I have created a Flash movie by converting an avi in Flash and publishing it with the swf and html. When I insert the html into my Frontpage document, the movie is there but not the controlers. What am I missing here? ...more >>

sometimes IE not showing all the pictures because of a flash movie
Posted by lesovici at 10/31/2006 3:02:07 AM
Hi, All my .asp pages are UTF-8 encoded (on the HDD and within the code with CODEPAGE=65001 ; served by IIS5) here is a piece of header: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" co...more >>

installing flash
Posted by please help!!! at 10/31/2006 2:14:40 AM
I am not able to view youtube videos or google videos. I think I might have deleted the flash plug in? Im trying to download it again and It says at the bottom (1 item remaining) and nothing else happens.....please help! What am I doing wrong?!!! ...more >>

Timer Function
Posted by SkyeMaqueen at 10/31/2006 1:01:25 AM
Is there a way to create a timer which tells how long a flash movie has been running? Also, does anybody know of a way for the timer to stop upon the movie screen being clicked on? Thanks to anyone who can help. ...more >>

Download Progress Bar
Posted by AnimatingArtist at 10/31/2006 12:57:06 AM
I have Total Training's DVD on how to use Flash 8 Pro and I have gone through their demo three times and have not succeeded creating a download progress bar. Please help....more >>

Adding link to Graphic
Posted by Steve Schone at 10/31/2006 12:16:56 AM
I'm sure this is very easy but I'm not finding an intuitve way to get it done. How do I add a URL to a graphic? See the Support tab at this site http://www.netpro-solutions.com/ar_80009.swf I need to make the offline help link active -- I have the URL but how do I embed it? Thanks. ...more >>

SWF won't display correcty???
Posted by cis4life at 10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hello, I built a simply flash file, and when I test it locally (ctrl + enter) it shows up correctly. Even when I double click the produced html file, I see the swf correctly. If I move it to the web though and access it via my browser, its not showing up correctly at all? Whats causing ...more >>

Flash MX 2004 PC Version on Mac via "Parallels"
Posted by phon at 10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi there, working with Macromedia Flash on a PC for years was pretty cool, but now I'm planning to buy a Mac. It would be cool to know, if I can install a lizensed PC Version of Flash MX on a Apple Macintosh with the virtual desktop "Paralells" and if the PC Version runs on the Windows on th...more >>

Encoding on dual core
Posted by afszs at 10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM
hi, video encoder only uses one cpu of my dual cores. Even if I got more than one video file in queue. That is really bad. Two instaces of the encoder can't be started either. Any workarounds fices, future promises? ...more >>

I.E. 7 and Shockwave
Posted by Wayne Doo at 10/30/2006 10:46:21 PM
:sad;...more >>

Button
Posted by gw77 at 10/30/2006 10:41:26 PM
I have a my test movie working but would like to control start with button. I have added a button time layer and button from the components. The button is on the screen. How do I get it to start the movie and then stop movie and wait to push button to restart? Thank you for help ...more >>

Loading html pages slow
Posted by MichelleTen at 10/30/2006 9:33:08 PM
Here's a site that I'm working on and I have it set up to go from one html page to another. On some computers the second page loads right up but on others it goes very slowly. I tried adding a preloader but it doesn't seem to help. I'm not exactly sure why, but my guess is that it is because i...more >>

Flash Video Problem
Posted by mandy_joy at 10/30/2006 8:57:04 PM
I am having trouble with a flash video. This is my first time attempting this and I am pulling my hair out trying to get it to work. I have converted a wmv to flv and then went through the tutorial to make a swf and the corresponding swf skin. When I tested they worked fine. These are all ...more >>

Work Area Blues
Posted by TDotCom at 10/30/2006 7:54:25 PM
This may be a really base question for some, heck most, but I am looking to deal with the issue of work spaces showing during the playback of a SWF or Flash movie (executable). I have tried using the FScommands (keep in mind I'm a designer first, not an AS programmer) to enclose the movie ...more >>

Rotating Video
Posted by phillyj at 10/30/2006 6:18:20 PM
I have a few small videos (<5 secs each) that I am trying to place in my Flash movie, each placed on the stage at a slight angle (20 degrees or so). The problem is, when I do this, the video quality gets extremely degraded. The only solution I've come up with is to convert the video into an...more >>

Newbie: Auto play of slide presantation
Posted by Gil at 10/30/2006 5:51:15 PM
Hello, I have created a slide presantation in Flash 8 (using silde presantation document type). How can modify it to auto play forward (without spacebar press or using the navigation buttons) ? ...more >>

Hoe to clear flash cache
Posted by eh936 at 10/30/2006 5:37:31 PM
How is it possible to clear the flash cache ? Can you do that by right clicking over a flash player movie or image and choosing Settings and then moving the slider bar over to the left side which reduces the storage to 0Kbs ...more >>

Uploaded swf files to website
Posted by Liramos21 at 10/30/2006 4:13:10 PM
I have two questions; I just uploaded my swf file to my website and the file appears as a link on the index page how do I get it to open up directly into the file? The file is smaller than the window, how do I resize the file so I don't see the animation entering the stage and all the negat...more >>

help for
Posted by flash_thegame at 10/30/2006 4:10:31 PM
hey, when trying to install macromedia studio (flash) 8 for my m8, it came up with some system admin message saying that admin has some thing to stop installation, my m8's genuine copy, an it wont install. please help if ya know wots wrong here, thanks alot. ...more >>

Navigation Issue
Posted by Dennis_JM at 10/30/2006 3:05:14 PM
I?ve done Flash since the early versions but this one has me stumped. I?m using a standard action on a button that should advance to the next scene. On the first four scenes it does but won?t advance past the fourth scene but only returns to the first frame of the fourth scene. This in MX 2...more >>

Flash 8 - people can't view my movies
Posted by Cactus Woman at 10/30/2006 2:30:52 PM
Considering that not everyone has Flash 8 player, should I be saving my movies created in Flash 8 in, say, Flash 6 or 7 format? What's the most popular version people have? Don't want half my audience not to be able to see my flash movies otherwise it's a total waste of time!!!! Nor do I want ...more >>

Mobile Development
Posted by Michael Pace at 10/30/2006 1:48:09 PM
I noticed in some trade mags that Flash technology is being used for rich content development on Mobile phones. I have a need to provide a semi-rich presentation that is feed by a data stream from a bluetooth device. I need this for smartphones that may or may not be windoews based - such as N...more >>

prevent a FLV file been catched
Posted by Hong_2007 at 10/30/2006 1:04:30 PM
Hello, as we all know that when we play a flv file on the web, for example playing a file on YouTube. The file will catched on "Temporary Internet Files" folder. Is there a way to prevent a flv file been catched? Is using Flash Media Server to streaming a video file via rtmp the only solution?...more >>

swfobject flashvars
Posted by LTbese at 10/30/2006 3:42:18 AM
So...I'm losing my mind here and I'm hoping someone could help me out here. Currently I have the following code implemented on the page I am embeding my flash. I'm having issues around the initial variables being passed in. I am using the sendAndLoad in my flash movie and I'm receiving t...more >>

How do you use the keyboard to play sound from a button?
Posted by dasaimedia at 10/30/2006 2:14:16 AM
I am building a site for a client who wants to be able to press a keyboard button such as the "up" button and have it play an instrument sound. I am fimiliar with html and css coding but i am not that great at actionscript. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could show me what I woul...more >>

.eps to Flash presentation - Illustrator or Freehand?
Posted by Walloompoom at 10/30/2006 2:05:35 AM
I'm at the point where I think I need to purchase Illustrator or Freehand. I have an eps file with hundreds of parts that I need to translate into a Flash presentation. I need to know what the best method is. Any advice? ...more >>

adding scene causes movie to fail
Posted by songseeds at 10/30/2006 2:04:54 AM
I have two movie clip symbols - each has 61 frames. On the main timeline I have 2 layers each with a single keyframe. One has a static background, the other has one of the movie clip symbols. When I test the movie clip 1 it plays fine. I've got a stop at frame 61 and it works great. If I ...more >>

HTML to control Flash MediaPlayBack component?
Posted by jason mathews at 10/30/2006 1:38:42 AM
I have an mp3 swf (Flash MediaPlayBack component) playing (autostart) when a visitor comes to the page. I want the music to stop once anyone clicks a link on that page (all links are set to target _blank). Any way to add a behavior of some sort to stop that music once a new window is opened? ...more >>

Html in flash
Posted by Chrisrff at 10/30/2006 12:15:29 AM
Hello, I have a website, and always loved making sites with flash. Is there any way could import html in flash? What I mainly want to do is add iframe into flash, so I can have another webpage in my swf. I am not skilled in html, but I can always look to google. Thanks, Chris ...more >>

Html in flash
Posted by Chrisrff at 10/30/2006 12:15:29 AM
Hello, I have a website, and always loved making sites with flash. Is there any way could import html in flash? What I mainly want to do is add iframe into flash, so I can have another webpage in my swf. I am not skilled in html, but I can always look to google. Thanks, Chris ...more >>

loading sequence of SWF files
Posted by garrycrowfoot at 10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
I want to play a sequence of SWF files smoothly. I created a main FLA file and used loadmovie to play the first SWF file. When that file ends, I want to play another .SWF file, but I just can't figure out how to do it (on the timelin in the main FLA file ? as a series of action scripts?). He...more >>

Continuous sound between pages
Posted by Atomic at 10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I've done a search of the forum with both 'audio' and 'sound' but nothing jumped out at me, so I'm going to ask... How do I had fluid sound *between* pages - ie, no breaks in the sound? Thanks, Bruce ...more >>

FL8 Workspace Layout on Dual Monitor
Posted by Marcus Barker at 10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, Whenever I save my workspace layout (Flash pro 8), after restarting Flash the layout does not reappear as I saved it. All palettes and windows appear on the main monitor. Is there a solution to this problem? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Marcus...more >>

Export Bitmap
Posted by alzan at 10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
I trying to make a goose talk in flash. In photoshop, I separated the various pairs of the goose mouth. When I import them into flash they come in with a square frame. How can I get the frame removed??? I just want the mouth shapes. Thank you! ...more >>

Help displaying
Posted by Bushido at 10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
At http://www.stlshowcase.net/index1.htm, you'll see the SWF player is not loading. Any help with getting this jukebox running will be appreciated!...more >>


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