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Flash CS3
Posted by chrisf671 at 9/17/2007 11:41:04 PM
As yall all know the new flash CS3 has come out, i still have the flash pro 8 do yall think it is worth it to upgrade or should i wait for the next version so i dont go blowing money. Please leave comments. Thanks a lot. ...more >>


Export images from .fla file
Posted by Marje at 9/17/2007 11:37:38 PM
Our client has brought us the original fla file used to create his current site which is an all-Flash site. He would like us to recreate his site in HTML so that viewers will have a choice of sites to view. How do I export the original images out of the flash file? (Flash CS3) Also...more >>

Running Apache and Php on mac
Posted by jac87 at 9/17/2007 11:15:46 PM
Someone can help me to configure my mac fto create PHP pages... i have to enable the php module in the terminal following this article: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/php_macintosh.html But i can't go beyond point four because i dont know how to uncomment the following li...more >>

Flash Compatibility
Posted by 5864312 at 9/17/2007 11:12:12 PM
Is Adobe Flash CS3 Professional compatible with any web creation software other than Dreamweaver?...more >>

Animating characters
Posted by chrisf671 at 9/17/2007 10:53:44 PM
Hello, Im new and ive been getting better at flash animations but the main thing that bothers me is i see all flash animations with really goon movement in arms and legs and walking im wondering how the make it pivot where you need it to and how to get them to walk so smoothly, basicly can a...more >>

IE7 not playing well with my Flash pages
Posted by yesdream at 9/17/2007 9:11:43 PM
Hello, i created a couple websites and thought they were working in netscape, safari, firefox, and even IE7 on "MY" computer. THEN.... some of my friends alerted me that some (albeit a minority) were having problems viewing when using IE7. 1. One one site on a friends computer, www.affo...more >>

Text Animation Presets?
Posted by DragunX5 at 9/17/2007 9:07:13 PM
Hello there everyone, Ive just purchased Flash CS3 and i can not for the life of me find the option for the Text animation presets and effects. Does this version still have them or did they scrap it? Any help is appreciated. Thanks ...more >>

please help me :(
Posted by woody4n at 9/17/2007 8:55:12 PM
hi all I'm new in flash and I really wanna learn about it. can I find here tutorial subjects for beginners? if no please link a good site for me. thank you all ^_^...more >>



bullet character in imported TXT file
Posted by Nate C at 9/17/2007 8:02:06 PM
I am importing an external TXT file into a dynamic text box in my SWF file using Actionscript (see AS below). I want the text to read as a bulleted list. I tried typing the bullet character (Option + 8 on Mac), but this gave me Yen symbols when I previewed the movie. Then I tried the ...more >>

Urgent - Objects limit?!
Posted by IaguCool at 9/17/2007 6:42:01 PM
I did what was said in my previous topic: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=19 4&threadid=1300123&enterthread=y But now, when I reached even higher number of items (more parts of the object, about 500), the problem came back in a similar way: ...more >>

Loading text from a .txt file
Posted by BruceCSI2 at 9/17/2007 6:39:51 PM
I want to do something that should be VERY simple, but due to Adobe's insistence on using #$%^ing tutorials instead of just providing step by step instructions, it's very frustrating to figure out how to do it. All I want to do is load the contents of a text file into a dynamic text field...more >>

Animated Images
Posted by jeffuk123 at 9/17/2007 6:34:04 PM
Hello I'm looking to create a sequence of images in flash which follow on. For example, the following website http://www.hello-telecom.co.uk/ demonstrates just that. http://www.hello-telecom.co.uk/ Would flash allow me to do this? If so, I would really appreciate where I can get a...more >>

Scalabale flash Sites
Posted by ariel_ro at 9/17/2007 5:55:04 PM
Hello all. I would like to know how are scalabale flash sites done in flash like http://www.mediastuttgart.de/swfaddress/. I tried to change html <object> tag's parameters regarding the width and height but the results were not what i expected. Besides, there has to be some ActionScript to ...more >>

help quoting
Posted by annatriant at 9/17/2007 5:54:03 PM
Hello all I have been asked to create an interactive storyboard and have no idea how much to quote. you can see the unfinished swf and fla files http://feralinternational.com/flash/flash.html I am also having problems specifying the areas i want to print - please have a look at the f...more >>

Resize everything in a complex Flash website but keep textsize as it is.
Posted by aquastealth at 9/17/2007 5:16:46 PM
Im trying to make my website a bit larger and all vectorgraphics turn out great if I simply choose bigger output in publish settings however my text gets blurred so I need to change the size of my original layout in order to keep the size of the original text. Problem is my webpage is very com...more >>

Sliding Menu
Posted by bernie_nmsu at 9/17/2007 5:14:02 PM
I have gone through numerous tutorials and I am still struggling to make a vertical menu that slides the main menu buttons down to fill in the sub menu buttons or data. I can pass on the fla if someone can look at it and let me know what I need to do to make it work. This is the first projec...more >>

Activating Sound On Button Click Event
Posted by Skisy at 9/17/2007 3:47:09 PM
Alrighty then....I'm very foreign to flash script as I'm a VB programmer, but I need to do a few things on flash for a particular part of a project I'm doing. First things first Flash Script is so weird! The synatx is odd because the use of brackets which confuses even me, however once I got m...more >>

Zooming images
Posted by artdoggy at 9/17/2007 3:12:36 PM
What is the best way to prepare an image to be resized in flash for a zoom, pan, scan effect? I have noticed that flash does not scale images up very well so I am guessing I need to import the image at the maximum size I will use and then scale it down through motion tweens? Any advice on ...more >>

Swap symbol on multiple frames
Posted by artdoggy at 9/17/2007 3:10:54 PM
Simple flash interface question. I have created an animation that took some time to do. My client has finally sent me a hi res version of the image I used. Is there a quick way I can replace the low res image with the hires across all the keyframes in the animation? I don't want to select each...more >>

UIScrollBar Problem
Posted by lolotov at 9/17/2007 3:07:05 PM
I've got a dynamic text box that updates it's content from an XML file everytime a 'section' button is pressed. I noticed some odd UIScrollBar behaviour: When a section is first loaded that extends beyond the text box bottom, there is a scroll bar, and when I click to load into a section that ...more >>

wma files
Posted by amv5520 at 9/17/2007 2:46:04 PM
I can't import an .wma file into my library. I am using CS3 and I get a "problem reading the file" message when I try. I know I can use mp3 and .wav files but am new to Flash so don't know if I can't use this type of file or if I am doing something wrong. Do I have to convert it to a differ...more >>

Which Flash to buy ?
Posted by Will_3 at 9/17/2007 2:21:56 PM
What is the top of the line Flash product to buy? I see Flash CS3 Pro ... does that come with everything ? I thought the products packaged in the 'Creative Suite's' had some features left out... It's darn confusing :) Thanks for any kind assistance. ...more >>

font used in masked component is not rendered
Posted by ritpas at 9/17/2007 1:28:01 PM
Hi, I developed a formular using components (Button and List), that formular is masked and all the fonts used used by my components is not displayed. When removing the mask, the component's title are displayiing properly. How can I render the font of my components when masked? Is the...more >>

Sound and Flash CS3?
Posted by FlashRenaissance at 9/17/2007 12:44:27 PM
Hello group, I did five voice overs. I saved them as WAVE, MOV and AIFF. I am importing the five voice overs on to a timeline as AIFFs. I am trying to make the keyframes work when the each voice overs starts and stops. I am having a hard time because one voice over starts before the previou...more >>

FLV not always autoplaying
Posted by Dog at 9/17/2007 9:38:08 AM
hi all, i'm producing streaming movie for a client... published the file as an swf and put this in a popup html page... autoplay is set to true in the FLV component.... the weird thing is that the autoplay is very very erratic... on some computers it autoplays immediatly, on other almost id...more >>

Using The Work Area Like A Camera?
Posted by ~Quaay at 9/17/2007 4:12:27 AM
Hey everyone. Okay so I'm doing a flash project for Uni. I am making a sequence with a treasure map and Xs and dotted lines & what not. The only problem is that the Map is about 2 times the length of the work area. Usually I would just key the map to move up wards, but I have multiple laye...more >>

bobbing graphics, sizzle-y movies
Posted by charltonrom at 9/17/2007 2:11:36 AM
Hello, new user; all I want to do is move an imported jpeg over another, and I can't even seem to do that! I'm moving the jpg slowly over another jpg template.I have fairly small size jpegs, medium res layers. When I run the motion tween, the moving jpeg does this weird bobbing-cork thing as...more >>

Music still playing
Posted by chrisf671 at 9/17/2007 12:57:58 AM
If i have a music loop on the menu, and i click to go to the next scene it finishes the loop its on even if i go to the next scene which doesnt have that music on it? How can i make this stop? Thanks ...more >>

undesired frames
Posted by photomann102 at 9/17/2007 12:17:20 AM
I'm trying to remove a frame from the timeline. When I cut,remove,or clear the undesired frame another frame is forced to the left and the object remains on the time no matter how many times i cut,remove,clear. this is very frustating and I'm schocked that this bug like problem is not well do...more >>

Have I missed something?
Posted by aquastealth at 9/17/2007 12:00:00 AM
I love Flash but at the same time I really hate it. I know the program quite well but still I have to read for hours everytime I need to do anything new and out of the ordinary. Take the example with preloaders how hard could it be for Adobe to put in a wizard to help you create one that h...more >>

Performance Problems with Images
Posted by lichtpixel at 9/17/2007 12:00:00 AM
I'm working on an Image-Slideshow combined with an FLV-Player. So you can jump around in the slideshow exactly like in a video. Because i have to use the FLV-component (several reasons, let's just say my customer wants it this way) for controlling the slideshow, scrolling is a bit problematic....more >>


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