Archived Months
July 2003
August 2003
September 2003
October 2003
November 2003
December 2003
January 2004
February 2004
March 2004
April 2004
May 2004
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
December 2004
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
all groups > flash (macromedia) > october 2006 > threads for thursday october 26

Filter by Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Flash Player Problems
Posted by samimarwan at 10/26/2006 11:40:00 PM
Attempted to watch a news report but was prompted to download Flash Player for free. In the Adobe downlaod site, I had the option to downlaod Flash Player. I removed the option to have Yahoo Tool Bars. After clicking download, the flash Player bar read "Flash Player Successfully Installed. ...more >>


Very simple Flash Video question
Posted by dcrawford at 10/26/2006 9:21:05 PM
I have exhausted Google/Online help etc. for a simple solution. I would simply like to: 1. Have an .flv play 2. When the .flv is done playing, go to the next scene. I've put an event cue point at the end of the flv... now what? where to I put the "nextScene" and what event do I use to...more >>

links work in swf, not in html
Posted by Steve Zavodny at 10/26/2006 8:15:09 PM
I have a nav bar which is a movie clip. Page links are associated with the buttons in the movie clip. This movie clip is inside a fla page. The links work when I make the SWF. When the swf is placed in an html page, the links do not work. What could be worng? I have done this many ti...more >>

Morphing
Posted by susansmoot at 10/26/2006 7:26:49 PM
I have created an object that starts as a circle and changes to a boat. It works until I try to attach it to a motion guide path. How do I attach it to the path and still keep the morphing?...more >>

Flash Based Tour Dates - Help!
Posted by willy_t at 10/26/2006 6:59:39 PM
We have a client that is wanting a flash map of their tour dates such as is on this site: http://www.johnmayer.com/tour Has anyone seen something like this and could lend some expertise on the best way to build that, or is there a developer that would like to do this for compensation? ...more >>

Flash Video Encoder Version Update
Posted by LTU Online at 10/26/2006 6:51:48 PM
I have version 1.0 of the Flash Video Encoder. This came bundled with Adobe Web Bundle (Macromedia Studio 8 - including Flash Professional 8 and Adobe Creative Suite 2). I need version 1.2 or above in order to include metadata so my .flv files will play in Captivate and on web pages. How ca...more >>

multiple actions on one button
Posted by nidhim at 10/26/2006 5:35:27 PM
How do I make a button do these two actions/behaviors? I want to be able to click (hit) the button so it plays a movie and then go to a URL after the movie finishes. I am guessing this involves adding two behaviors/actions to the button but how do I define the order etc? I want both these b...more >>

Flash movie shifting problem in IE
Posted by ChrisSWP at 10/26/2006 5:17:38 PM
Hello - this is an issue that has been confusing our staff for the last two months. On our elearning site, flash movies are shifting sigificantly down to the bottom right corner of the screen (it should be centered) so that only the top left (1/8 worth) is visible. It occurs completely at...more >>



AVI converted to FLV shows up as white
Posted by purefusion at 10/26/2006 5:07:33 PM
I'm trying to convert a short avi file into a flash video format for use on a sign language video website, and the test video (test.avi) is showing up as white with no navigation controls. That's the same whether I view it with flash viewer, import it into flash 8 or embed it as media in dream...more >>

Sound off/on actions
Posted by 4anewbie at 10/26/2006 4:36:03 PM
My goal is add a sound clip to a webpage with controls that allow visitors the option of hearing the clip. The clip is a speech 2 minutes in length. So far I've created 5 buttons; sound off, sound on and volumne controls. Everything seems to be working nicely except for one thing. When the pag...more >>

Clearing FLVs when stopped
Posted by Bruce White at 10/26/2006 4:21:12 PM
When an FLV is finished, the first or last frame of the video (depending on auto-rewind parameter) remains on the stage. I need the playhead to return to particular frame marker when the FLV is finished, or at least clear the FLV from the stage at the frame containing a stop action (following ...more >>

Change size of square four times
Posted by millja at 10/26/2006 4:21:01 PM
I have a square in 4 different keyframes. The size of this square is to change depending on the input the user has given previously. How can i change the size in such a way? Do i have to use actionscript or is there another way? Thank you very much. ...more >>

A little help if you will
Posted by ROORvsB at 10/26/2006 2:39:55 PM
Hi, I have created a flash movie to go on my page that ends with three buttons. Wach button points to the same page which hasn't been a problem. The problem I have is that each button relates to a different bit of info on the page and would like to have the pae open on the correct bit of...more >>

Flash Video created in 8 Stuttering, how do I fix this
Posted by shuandiprod at 10/26/2006 2:38:03 PM
Any advice would be appreciated! I imported Quicktime video files into Flash 8 Encoder and created FLV/SWF files for web viewing. The videos are now stuttering- they play then stop, play then stop. repeatedly. Can anyone suggest a different encoding method or something to fix this? You can...more >>

flash website video player
Posted by Newsgroup User.. at 10/26/2006 2:18:26 PM
Hi, I have flash pro 8, I import a video file wmv (windows media video file), I select a frame (skin) and then let it process. Flash then produces the player skin, flv video file, and the swf. I open the swf file, and everything is working. But when I upload all three files, they dont work. ...more >>

Need a fast preloader
Posted by dmc99 at 10/26/2006 1:53:51 PM
Does anyone know where I can download and modify a fairly basic, fast preloader for my website? Thanks, dmc...more >>

Flash 8 Video
Posted by dmc99 at 10/26/2006 1:52:20 PM
I've been reading how using Flash 8 video for the internet is the way of the future & helps reduce file size. Therefore, when converting your Flash 8 files to Flash Video, do you still have to be concerned with reducing your file size of your flash files prior to converting or does the convers...more >>

Reducing File Size of Website
Posted by dmc99 at 10/26/2006 1:46:36 PM
Can someone pls confirm that placing fonts you plan on using within your site in a symbol helps reduce the overall file size and also does using the shape modify and optimizing (smoothing) lines ie. vector points have a large impact as well? ...more >>

Loading XML Data
Posted by dpaultaylor at 10/26/2006 1:37:08 PM
Hi All I have a project where I want to dynamicly display some text fading in over an image. The text needs to be read in from an XML file. The XML file may contain any number of text records so I would like to cycle through them. So the basic logic would be read a record from the XML file...more >>

buttons using video
Posted by Deaf Mike at 10/26/2006 1:26:22 PM
http://www.signcommunity.org.uk/index.php hi - please see the above site. i created a test button months ago to see if i could pull off making buttons like this where the video plays when hovering over it. i don't have the files any more. does anyone know how to do this? thanks. ...more >>

Preloaders / progress bar
Posted by djp_phillips at 10/26/2006 12:48:49 PM
I have a few videos in .flv format on .html pages, th problem is that these videos can take over 20 seconds to load, I would like to add a progress bar so that people won't think that there is no content. How do I add a progress bar to a .flv ? ...more >>

Embed youtube video in Flash
Posted by sambobaggins at 10/26/2006 12:15:09 PM
Hello yall I have been approaced by a client to produce a Flash presentation for them. This is pretty run of the mill stuff, yet they want me to embed a video from youtube into the presentation. Can anyone help me with this? I have never linked to an online file before in Flash, and wou...more >>

Flash running slow in IE
Posted by medlington at 10/26/2006 12:09:12 PM
Hi, Im just making a flash movie for the home page on my website. Iv only just started the movie and it seems to be behaving badly in IE. It runs absolutely perfectly in firefox. http://www.atumstudios.com/webdesign/index2.htm at first i thought it was because i had several transpare...more >>

to next label in a flash movie
Posted by johk at 10/26/2006 12:01:56 PM
Hi, Is it possible to add a button in a flash movie that will take you to next label - independent of label name? Thanks Jonas...more >>

IE7 issues... ?
Posted by Mark Henry at 10/26/2006 11:06:49 AM
Hello! I've got a client that's looking for information on problems/issues/bugs with running Flash content in IE7. I've checked Adobe's site, but there's not much there (yet). Can anyone fill me in on what's not working, or point me to a resource or reference? Thanks, mark henry --- ...more >>

IE Issues
Posted by macrunning30 at 10/26/2006 3:07:34 AM
Hello, Maybe someone can help me out. My flash is having issues in IE but not in Safari or Firefox. What is happening is that the user has to click on the flash object first before the flash becomes active. In some instances people are having to click the close button 2 times. IE (windows by...more >>

movie clip _currentframe
Posted by lcsr at 10/26/2006 1:44:35 AM
I have two movie clips which look alike. One fades in and the other fades out. They both contain the same movie clip which dissolves pictures. I need the second movie clip to see what frame the first movie clip is playing of the picture movie clip so they will fade out on the same picture i...more >>

can everyone help me to do this homework?
Posted by rasaguys at 10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM
please design a stage with a picture of some landscape. add on the stage: 1. the sun moving from east to west 2. a clock some where in the landscape indicating the time which is synchronized with the moving sun 3. changing sky brightness synchronized with the moving sun I'm new in Flash,...more >>

.as file
Posted by prachis at 10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM
How to add an additional .as file to the existing .fla file? The .fla file already contains 11 .as files. Now I want to add 12th one!...more >>

Cue Points not highlighted - gggrrr
Posted by senin at 10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hey, I'm using Flash Pro v8 Trial, and I'm importing a movie, but when I go to Advanced Settings, my Cue Points menu isn't highlighted. What am I doing wrong? Please help. This is really killing me. Kai ...more >>

Bug in Flash 8 when using Strings Panel?
Posted by simonwoodward at 10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM
A problem with the strings panel in Flash 8 I have found is that, when working with 6 languages, if you save and close down your Flash file with the Strings panel hidden, and re-open the FLA and then view the strings panel/view your text on the stage (or open the xml file) that, in my cae, som...more >>

100% CPU usage on Mac OS X
Posted by somorgujo at 10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi there I'm using a Powerbook PB 1.5 with Mac OS X Panther (10.3.9) installed on it. And since sometime I'm looking for and answer on why most of the flash animation I see in the web raise the CPU usage on my machine to near or to 100% !!! Does anyone really knows why it's so? I read...more >>


DevelopmentNow Blog