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quicktime embeding settings
Posted by Fiory Asghedom at 1/3/2006 11:47:25 PM
I am looking for recommended settings for imbedding qt into flash. any help would be great...more >>

IE and Flash Player detection script
Posted by poetic noise at 1/3/2006 11:33:26 PM
I'm having difficulty viewing the content on Microsoft IE - on 2 separate computers at two different companies. On all other computers it works fine. Recently one person reported no problem and then visited the site 30 minutes later and had the same problem. It seems that on the "trouble"...more >>

Removing Frames from Flash Video
Posted by shortshire at 1/3/2006 10:56:16 PM
Hello Everyone, I converted an avi to an flv file using the flash video enconder and to shorten the length of the clip I tried to remove frames. There is where the problems lies, i tried highlighting specific frames and removing them with a right click and the only frames that were remove...more >>

Real Time Flash Editing
Posted by Oddcast at 1/3/2006 10:36:54 PM
I'm a Video DJ. It's performance based on the fly (or at least, partially ) visual editing. I'm very tired of the abstract visuals that most VJs tend to use, and I'm also looking to expand beyond video sampling. I really like the capabilities of flash, but as of now I can only make flash anima...more >>

Flash Presentations and Cool Effects
Posted by Sinnthetik at 1/3/2006 10:32:07 PM
I'm curious, for those out there who regularly produce flash demos/presentations (with little or no interactivity), how much script do you use compared to tweens? I am aware that for online versions, it's best to cut down on file size and processor load as much as possible, but any recommend...more >>

Extracting bitmap images from my fla library
Posted by ntbush at 1/3/2006 10:28:38 PM
I've got a slideshow fla with about fifty bitmap images in a movie clip (each image in a separate frame). My client doesn't have her source jpgs, but I want to use a different slideshow - a component - that requires jpgs. Is it possible to somehow extract images from the library, and send t...more >>

Sound Object Issue
Posted by Sinnthetik at 1/3/2006 10:02:11 PM
Flash MX 2004 - presentation/animation I am triggering sound effects via script, and they play fine, until I add a loop. This loop is faded in and out via script, and all sounds that occur after this loop is triggered either do not play, or play at a lower volume. The presentation loops, a...more >>

Someone Please Help!
Posted by Johnny3Pointer at 1/3/2006 9:51:46 PM
Hello, I just tried to download again today (January 3rd) this time from the Flash Exchange and I'm running into the same problem. I have a Cable Modem, and I just checked the speed to make sure that isn't the problem and its going very fast (2.7 megabits per second). The download ...more >>



Apply one soundtrack to multiple scenes?
Posted by lee marrs at 1/3/2006 8:43:22 PM
I have an animation with 5 scenes to which I want to add one musical track, which would just run throughout. How? haven't been able to find any mention of this anywhere. Need URGENTLY....more >>

help us to turn our page
Posted by nazilagolestan at 1/3/2006 8:32:41 PM
to make a site for our masterII Geomatique, we started to make the first page of acceuil like a book, but I do not know how I can turn the banner page. does that want to say at the time one clik on the boutton to enter, to return in the following page, the page of book turns?Text nazilagole...more >>

Flash HTML editor
Posted by Dinghus at 1/3/2006 8:19:01 PM
This has probably been asked and answered before but I can't find it. Is there a flash component or something that allows online HTML editing? I want users on a site to be able to build their own HTML pages but want the editor to be in Flash if possible. ...more >>

editing a scroll pane
Posted by BullocksTroy at 1/3/2006 8:08:34 PM
I have a scroll pane in many different keyframes. I want to change the width, but when I clicked on it in the library to edit it, it said I need to create an instance to edit the parameters. a) how do I do this? b) If I do this, will the parameters I change only apply to that one keyframe?...more >>

how can i learn animating?
Posted by musty2004 at 1/3/2006 7:55:26 PM
hi everybody! i am new in this forum and i want to learn animating and other things that i can do with Flash..and i need some saple files about basics of Flash and learning kits..can u help me pls?? thanx a lot.. ...more >>

autoclear input text
Posted by JenniferAF at 1/3/2006 7:31:20 PM
Is there some way to autoclear an input text form onFocus or onClick in Flash? I've searched all over and can't find a way to do this. I may simply be framing my search wrong. thanks, Jennifer...more >>

Buttons Partial Hover
Posted by Deep Snow at 1/3/2006 7:09:36 PM
How can I make a button that will hover on only when you mouse over one part of it but not the other? I am trying to make a button that shows text in another area of my scene on rollover... I just dont want the rollover to be active when you mouse over the place where the text will apear... ...more >>

Penetration of Flash 8
Posted by jsevlie at 1/3/2006 6:56:03 PM
I'm trying to find a recent statistic that shows the market pentration of Flash Player 8. Does anyone know of a resource for this? Macromedia's page only shows to version 7: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration ..html Thanks. ...more >>

Need help getting over my brick wall
Posted by ruckusrae at 1/3/2006 6:42:22 PM
The site for the next several questions is http://www.1224artdolls.com This site loads quickly and accurately on Firefox/Mozilla. However in IE it is sluggish and often doesn't load images. At first, I thought it was a download speed issue. But, now I've tested it on the same system with the...more >>

hot to play swf onHover?
Posted by big_dog_eastern at 1/3/2006 6:25:47 PM
I have created an swf movie, which I embedded to my site. I want my movie to play only once , just when the mouse cursor hovers over this movie area. I suppose i have to write a simple line of actionscript, I tried to figure that out , but i get lost in it. Can someone tell me whats the soluti...more >>

Loading JPEG from variable imported from a text field
Posted by Warren Bailey at 1/3/2006 6:12:47 PM
Hello. Im trying to import data from a text file to load relevant pictures and text from a txt file. The picture wont load, can you have a look at the below and see if you can help please. Textfile.txt reads as follows: picture1=picture1.jpg &text1=this is picture1 &ready=1; ---------...more >>

Post-Katrina ext problem
Posted by cmfr at 1/3/2006 5:37:15 PM
Just got my NMCI computer back and now none of the old .fla files will open. Keep getting "Unexpected file format." message. I had copied files to disk pre-Katrina that also won't open, same message. Tried opening them from my laptop, same message. I'm using Flash 6.0 r25, same on laptop. ...more >>

Finally Done...Please Test
Posted by AlexShields at 1/3/2006 5:18:08 PM
:D We are finally done and thanks to all who helped... Please check out http://www.danieljamesco.com/red5.html Follow the above link and then click on "our new site" once more. This page takes 2:27 to load and I am on a typical wireless broadband conection... it is cable but I never though...more >>

dynamic text box in MX UI ScrollPane
Posted by jessedudan at 1/3/2006 5:11:37 PM
Hello- I am currently using a simple dynamic text box on a single page to load the content of an external .txt file. The content of the external file has become too long for the size of my Flash page, so I would like to have the dynamic text field embedded within a ScrollPane component. ...more >>

creating a mask from a transparent png or gif
Posted by rfahrbach at 1/3/2006 5:05:39 PM
I have imported png and gif files with transparent layers to use as a mask. They must be converted to a fill for the mask to work, but doing so changes the transparent portion to white fill. I can erase the white from the fill, but - in addition to being quite tedious with some shapes - it s...more >>

Open Scene in New Window
Posted by Lucky Kitty at 1/3/2006 4:21:05 PM
How do I open a scene in a new window? Here' s the code I currently have on a button of scene 5. I'd like for a new window to pop open for scene 6 when the user clicks the button. on (release) { gotoAndPlay("Six", 1); } ...more >>

flash 8 - export movie - quick time - questions
Posted by zak_flash at 1/3/2006 4:07:45 PM
Hi. I made some flash animations that will (hopefully) be exported as a quick time movie. Flash 8 & MX would only allow me to do this if I first saved it as a Flash 5 file. The problem with this is I lost a lot of animation features that seem to not be supported by Flash 5. I have a movie cl...more >>

Why doesn't Firefox cache FLVs?
Posted by jdanser at 1/3/2006 4:04:23 PM
I understood that FLV's were cached if you set it up as a progressive download. And I was showing someone my video's in Firefox on a slow connection. I figured since the video would be cached, I could come back to that video and it would play from the cache. But it didn't do that in Firef...more >>

Problem with displaying Flash inside browser
Posted by de_seb at 1/3/2006 4:04:20 PM
Hi All, I have created the following application, but seem to have trouble with displying the full flash application inside a browser window. For some reason the bottom part of the flash file gets cut off by the browser, so that only the top half of the words are visible there. When you cl...more >>

Loading movies into memory from cd
Posted by EMACS01 at 1/3/2006 3:41:16 PM
Hi all i have just spent all day converting my single movie with 33 scenes into 33 movies with a single scene in each. I did this to help with navigation around the movies but have encountered a problem when my first movie autoruns from the cd it loads and plays and reaches the end of the scen...more >>

Sparkle effect
Posted by Scott Powell at 1/3/2006 12:41:33 PM
Hello All, I need to make a photo of some gems sparkle in Flash. Are there any tutorials on how to do this? Or extensions? Thanks -- Scott Powell Web Developer http://www.glweb.biz ...more >>

Process control Flash Sample Wanted
Posted by BrianM54 at 1/3/2006 12:25:25 PM
Hi I am looking at creating a demonstration of some process control i.e. operate a button and a light comes on and turn a voltage up and a valve closes. Is Flash a good platform to show this type of process and can any body point me to some flash showing any process control or anything s...more >>

FTP File transfer for clients?? help!
Posted by lister110 at 1/3/2006 11:58:26 AM
how difficult is it to create a ftp upload through flash? The idea it create an secure area for clients to upload files and for us to download? the files will need to stay there recocognised file formats (as we have clients with Macs and PC's). A good example of this is www.adfast.co.uk though...more >>

How to save code from decompilers?
Posted by tiru.battu at 1/3/2006 11:29:07 AM
HI Using some decompiler softwares the flash script can decompile.There is no security for Actionscript from the Flash decompiler softwares. 1)How to come out of this problem. 2)Is there any way to hide the code from decompilers. Plz help me Thanks in advance. ...more >>

problem with next scene
Posted by EMACS01 at 1/3/2006 10:29:32 AM
this.createEmptyMovieClip("movieParts_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth()); var movieParts_mc_mclListenerbject = new Object(); movieParts_mc_mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) { target_mc.gotoAndPlay(_root.nextScene); }; var movieParts_mc_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieCl...more >>

Processor and Flash 8
Posted by Sjurggar at 1/3/2006 10:16:03 AM
I have a problem with my processor working to HARD when writing actionscripts in Flash 8. CPU usage is up to 50%, and the writing is therefor SLOW. Works on Windows 2000 pro (5.00.2195). Pentium 2,6 GHz, 1.047.216 KB RAM. Anyone having this problem and found a solution ??? Br Sjurggar ...more >>

SWF not loading?
Posted by _adrian at 1/3/2006 9:54:27 AM
I've placed a flash SWF into a DW8 .htm page but when I view it up on the host, the SWF doesn't load.. (the page and related SWF do exist on the host server) Thoughts on why not?? Thx here's an example of what Dreamweaver inserts into the page: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B...more >>

Button OnPress
Posted by Flashgroups at 1/3/2006 9:52:06 AM
Hi all, I got buttons which have the onPress function enabled. The problem is that Flash does not trigger the onPress function if the mouse isnt moved after the first onPress. Please help me how to solve this issues Thanks, Flash groups ...more >>

Flash Type Issues
Posted by kneemonkey at 1/3/2006 9:27:42 AM
I recently started using Flash 8 because I was unhappy with the font rendering on previous versions of Flash. I now use Flash Type, in my case "anti-alias for readability" with glyph embedding. I like it a lot. But I've discovered that users with resolutions less than millions of colors (3...more >>

Slide Presentations
Posted by sonofsheeds at 1/3/2006 8:56:00 AM
:confused;: I did a course on Flash Mx 2004 just before christmas and it was > great. I am plowing through a book and I have managed to recreate > everything it has shown me. > > I am now trying to develop video for my classes that will be followed > by a quiz. > > I downloaded this ...more >>

Problem opening Flash 8 Video Encoder
Posted by hazzzzzy at 1/3/2006 6:45:32 AM
It pops up the following error message when i try opening the program: A required system library did not initialize properly. Please ensure you have DirectShow 9 and QuickTime 6.5 or higher installed on your system Any ideas? ...more >>

Lost Keyboard Shortcut Ability
Posted by Poinkster at 1/3/2006 4:27:36 AM
Just had to erase my harddrive and reloaded my Tiger. After install, I had to reinstall all apps and some Apple Updates. After the updates, I am now not able to apply some keyboard shortcuts, particularily those using the OPTION key. I switched keyboards and check all my preferences to make su...more >>

DW8: Apply Source Formatting broken?
Posted by Ken Zenachon at 1/3/2006 2:23:53 AM
I was working on some pages with sloppy HTML today and decided to try Apply Source Formatting from the Commands menu. I ran it once and didn't like how it was formatting the TD tags so I went into the Tag Library Editor via Preferences>Code Formatting and changed the indenting options for TD. I...more >>

Can you change the scrollpane component?
Posted by ODBOFFlash at 1/3/2006 1:39:01 AM
I would like to modify the scrollpane component in Flash 8. Basically, I want to make the scroll bar disapper,making the scroller look like it is floating. Also take away the up/down arrow points and removing the outer line of the pane. Can this be done? ...more >>

flash.ocx causes ypager crash
Posted by fatballs at 1/3/2006 12:58:57 AM
thats it. Windows XP sp2 clean machine OCed cpu, AMD Athlon xp 2600 mobile brought down to 12x multiplyer and 200MHZ fsb for stability. Flash.ocx has an access violation when ypager/messenger is running...Yahoo messenger closes with the error "Yahoo Messenger has encountered an error and needs...more >>

Flash Help Wanted!
Posted by thehives at 1/3/2006 12:11:02 AM
Hello Please view teensinvest.com, which I have developed from a Flash template. The drop-down menu is apparently not working on some computers. So, to check whether it is the template which is faulty or the computers, I have been told I need to make a test page from scratch (it could be a...more >>


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