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Convert .fla or .swf to a print file?
Posted by nancee1013 at 1/5/2007 11:46:13 PM
Our reviewers want to see online courses in a print format. Is there any way to export a Flash course (all frames) into a PDF or other printable file? The only way I know is to screen capture each frame (ugh!), which is inefficient at best. I downloaded the trial version of FlashPaper, and t...more >>


Flash player 5 file .ocx
Posted by merlothebest at 1/5/2007 11:44:49 PM
Non riesco a disinstallare il file swflash.ocx di Macromedia Flash Player 5.0.42.0 Se vado ad eliminarlo si ricrea automaticamente. Di conseguenza non mi installa la versione nuova di Flash Player. Come posso fare ? Grazie,Alessio. ...more >>

Faulty Branching
Posted by carpfanny at 1/5/2007 9:49:31 PM
Here's the problem. My movie has 13 scenes, which can be accessed by the thirteen titled buttons that appear on the home page. Okay so far? When I test movie (or export as .swf) the first four buttons work fine. The fifth skips to the appropriate scene, then freezes after four or five frames...more >>

FLV component paths problem
Posted by michaelknauf at 1/5/2007 8:36:18 PM
So I've got some quicktime movies I ran through the Flash Video encoder to generate FLV files. Then I made a flash movie that very simply let's you select one of the movies and play it. http://www.frenchwoods.com/images/activities/video/videos.html -- this works fine. then I try to...more >>

Request: Flash Player needed
Posted by Elton at 1/5/2007 8:22:04 PM
Hello, I need to know what is the lastest version of the Flash Player will run under Win 95? Thanks! ...more >>

[Flash Player 9 Mac] Right-click destruction!
Posted by abeall at 1/5/2007 8:09:44 PM
Has anyone else noticed that right-clicking with Flash Player 9 freezes the player visuals? Doesn't matter what you do afterwards, simply right-click anywhere on the player window, and you're done seeing and redraw updates. Same results on 4 out 4 Macs tested. Anyone else on a Mac have the sam...more >>

Which FPS for Smooth Animation?
Posted by JiggyxJ at 1/5/2007 7:31:00 PM
I'm a new flash user and I'm having trouble making a simple animation (small bitmap single color airplane motion tweened to move across the background) for a website. FPS is set to 21 but when i test the movie, the animation is choppy & not smooth at all. If i try 60FPS, it's very smooth but...more >>

automatic publish
Posted by Caurj at 1/5/2007 7:20:44 PM
is it possible to publish many files ? changing the publish directory and the flash version? thanks....more >>



Flash displays accurately ONLY on some browsers!
Posted by ObsoletePower at 1/5/2007 7:16:40 PM
I have a flash animation that is on a website I am working on and how it is set up, I have the movie on the left and text on the right. The text on the right has a certain color background. When the animation ends, the background of it is supposed to fade to the same background color as the te...more >>

Import QTVR into Flash
Posted by wilson1978 at 1/5/2007 6:39:18 PM
Hi all, Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, apologies if its in the wrong one. Anyway, I was just wondering if it possible to import QTVR movies into Flash like you can with regular Quicktime movies, what QTVR has is controls that allow the user to 360 a movie, just wondering if it i...more >>

.unloadMovie() Question.
Posted by exboywonder at 1/5/2007 6:28:18 PM
I have an XML photo album that I'm building which displays thumbnails based on a combBox selection. The thumbnails are generated via createEmptyMovieClip within a movieClip with an instance called thumbnail_mc. My problem is... once the thumbnails populate and another selection is made fro...more >>

xml script
Posted by noddy man at 1/5/2007 4:59:12 PM
Hi all would someone beable to help with xml external file script for creating an mp3 player. I found some tutorials on how to do so much but am nowlost on how to do the remaining buttons. So far I've created a play/pause toggle button and a next button. What I'm tring to do now is finish...more >>

vanishing mc
Posted by johnwad at 1/5/2007 4:32:35 PM
I'm stumped... I have a movie that has a movieclip of objects moving. At the end of the mc, I have it stop. When I place this mc on its layer and view it in "preview scene or preview movie" I can see all elements of the movie and the mc does its thing (moves a ball across the screen)....a...more >>

Button inside a button
Posted by ???789 at 1/5/2007 3:56:41 PM
Hi there, I?ve started doing a homepage and would like to get a menu bar or what its called to get animated. I know that it?s not possible to create it with ordinary buttons, because then you have to do buttons within buttons and that will not work. So how do I do it? Anyone? Please watch ...more >>

Best SWF or ActiveX Preload Script
Posted by rmiman at 1/5/2007 3:56:18 PM
What's the best javascript I can use to preload Flash files so the user isn't required to click or press the space bar to activate the movie?...more >>

Problem exporting QuickTime file (*.mov)
Posted by Twinbird24 at 1/5/2007 3:54:44 PM
When I try to export my Flash animation as a QuickTime movie (*.mov) in Flash 8 Professional (or in Flash MX 2004, doesn't matter) an error appears stating that an error occured because a required QuickTime component could not be found. I have Apple QuickTime v7.1.3 (QuickTime Player v7.1.3)...more >>

Components
Posted by scooby11206 at 1/5/2007 3:22:46 PM
When I open the component box I do not have the option to drag FLVplayback into the stage. I want to import a video to put on frontpage and I need that selection for it to work. Any information would be good thanks. ...more >>

Need help before head explodes! :)
Posted by redge x at 1/5/2007 3:19:50 PM
Hi there, I'm hoping someone can help me. I've placed a sub-menu button in a movie clip. This movie clip is inside the 'main menu' movie clip and that is then placed on the main stage/scene. I only have one scene. What I want is the the sub-menu button to take the user to the main stage/sc...more >>

Illustrator Export
Posted by jasonjam at 1/5/2007 2:56:15 PM
I am trying to export a vector graphic from Illustrator with a gradient as an swf and once I import the file into flash my graphic appears as a huge circle with the gradient. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to keep the integrity of my graphic and what steps I must take in Illustrator. ...more >>

Self Playing CD anyone?
Posted by ???789 at 1/5/2007 2:38:45 PM
Hi there, I´m quite new in the wounderfull world of Flash 8 and I have bumped into a small problem. Im about to export and publish a flash movie for a cd hand-out. I would like it to be self playing, that is that the movie will run as soon as the reciever puts it in his/hers computer. Does...more >>

Make whole flash element a linnk
Posted by maxelcat at 1/5/2007 2:16:31 PM
Hi I am usre this is a common question, but I can't find the answer! I am making my first banner add! I wnat the user to be able to click on it anytime to take to another page. HOw do I do this? I tried surrounding the whole thing with <a>...</a> tags like you would do with an image....more >>

Multiple fla files
Posted by scc1115 at 1/5/2007 1:56:27 PM
I want to know if there is a way to take multiple fla files and import them into a new flash document to create a whole new fla/swf file. I have 15 segments created in flash and want to only use 5-6 segments to create a whole new presentation. Any suggestions?? Is this possible?? ...more >>

Flash Context Menu
Posted by Coxdabd at 1/5/2007 12:46:37 PM
Hello there, I've managed to remove most of the objects in the context menu which is revealed when the user rights clicks in the SWF file. The piece of script I've used it: Stage.showMenu = false. However this also disables the "Settings" tab in the context menu when really I want this to ...more >>

how to make an image rotate?
Posted by flansha at 1/5/2007 11:41:20 AM
i want to make an image rotate any way i want, if i click on it and move right i want it to turn, like 3d animation, i want to be able to see the picture 360 degrees from all angles, if someone can help i would be very thankfull. ...more >>

Flash
Posted by Abel31 at 1/5/2007 11:38:44 AM
Hi! I haven't net connection. How can I get flash player. Thanks! Abel31...more >>

testing time
Posted by jupiter100 at 1/5/2007 11:12:23 AM
Hi there could you kind people thest the following flash video player for me. Should work on most browers. tested on IE, netscape, opera, firefox (pc) and safari, opera (mac) comments, suggestions all welcome. www.plotonline.co.uk/Plotmedia_video1.asp thanks ...more >>

video/audio out of sync when setting changed to stream
Posted by thedragon01 at 1/5/2007 8:00:55 AM
I had been making a flash and had the background music set on event. Everytime I tested it was fine, but a friend said that the audio would go out of sync on his system. I found i had to change the music layer from event to stream. That has seemed to make it worse, the frames are completely ou...more >>

External WebPages
Posted by robert.winter at 1/5/2007 6:37:19 AM
I know that I can display external text and movies etc. in my flash project. But I would like to be able to display whole websites, kind of like the frameset tag in HTML. Does anyone know of a way to do this? I have tried Google, but it is not working for me this time. ...more >>

No Text when Tree is exported to Flash 6
Posted by a little ant at 1/5/2007 6:35:47 AM
No Text when Tree is exported to Flash 6 Tree is ok for Flash 8 or 7 but when exported to Flash 6 there is no text although the data in the tree is clickable. Do we have to specify a font and import and link to it for flash 6 by any chance? I'm just using the default font as such _sa...more >>

Flash sucks since Adobe bought it?
Posted by whanbury at 1/5/2007 5:33:12 AM
:disgust; Is it me, or does anyone notice that now that Macromedia belongs to Adobe that it constantly needs updates? And I don't find any great new features in the new version. It seems like Adobe is now like Microsoft, becoming a clearinghouse for software companies and branding the products...more >>

How to extend the FLVPlayback or Videoplayer class
Posted by Theis Egeberg at 1/5/2007 5:21:11 AM
This is an interesting problem I've been working on for some time. I'm trying to extend the FLVPlayback class, but my problem is how to attach it later. I have extended it with my own class, and I can instantiate that class fine, but how do I get the playback to show? class .... import mx.vi...more >>

.exe application to reconect internet
Posted by gonchi120751 at 1/5/2007 5:16:59 AM
first of all im a noob so i dont know NOTHING about flash and this kind of stuff. I would like to create an .exe aplication to automatically connect to internet at a specific time, for a specific time... I have tried with windows task manager, but it doesnt work with the internet connection sh...more >>

What plugins is the Tree compatible with?
Posted by a little ant at 1/5/2007 4:19:05 AM
In Flash 8 the help files for the Tree Component have flash 8 Professional written at the top. Where does it show the compatible Flash plugins for the Tree Component. It is compatible for Flash 7 or 6 plugins? Cheers. ...more >>

Text Box Please Help
Posted by sgt carter at 1/5/2007 4:05:18 AM
Please Help!!! I'm currently building a website with Flash MX and I've run into a problem. I'm trying to make a feedback section where individuals who visit the site can type questions and submit them. The questions are then sent to my email address. Any information you can give me would be co...more >>

Help Concerning Saving Flash File
Posted by Shady17 at 1/5/2007 3:30:11 AM
Can someone please help me out here, this is what I want to do. I want to save a animation from a site, a .swf file. I want to than convert it to .avi and post it on youtube. Here is the site from which I want the file http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/?ref=splash I want to save on...more >>

creating email links
Posted by kevin raleigh at 1/5/2007 12:37:00 AM
I would like to create an email link in block of text Can anyone advise? Thank You Kevin ...more >>


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