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Please Help... Text Links
Posted by MikeDe at 12/31/2003 10:40:12 PM
Could somebody please help me out with these text links. I have been trying to figure out how to get it to work the way I want. I write some text and then go to actions and getURL and put in the website, but when I do it like that you have to have your mouse actually over a letter. Is there any way ...more >>

OT: Happy ...
Posted by Laiverd.COM at 12/31/2003 6:53:48 PM
.... no, a VERY happy New Year to all. Make it the best of all so far, and .... happy and creative Flash coding http://www.laiverd.com/2004/ John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- RESOURCES http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_se...more >>

!! Site Check!! ---- Video messenger
Posted by Berzy at 12/31/2003 9:15:24 AM
hey guys this is a site i put togeather as a beta. http://www.iberz.com let me know what you think and how i can improve it and how I can improve it to make a real version any suggestions would be appreciated. also if you have a camera i'd appreciate if you signed the video guestbook on th...more >>

Web Design
Posted by Neapolitan at 12/31/2003 2:06:23 AM
I have downloaded a FLA. template file and want to use it for my own website. I am a beginner with Macromedia Flash as I've tried to avoid it using programs like Swish, Koolmoves and others. I find Flash 5 - MX to be way too complicated. However, I am now forced to use it and I can't seem to d...more >>

site check [tell me what you think]
Posted by jemac2003 at 12/31/2003 1:33:39 AM
check out my new website and see what you think. there are two flash links to other flash sites i've posted before, and two html sites to look at. let me know what you think about the interface and suggestions on how to make it more flash creative (remember that i'm not an expert and if you sugges...more >>

How much might a web site like this cost me?
Posted by innerdream at 12/30/2003 11:43:08 PM
http://www.tamanvanscoy.com/ Keep in mind you will have to optimize photos in photo shop. Cheers Inner Dream Records ...more >>

Slide show with digital photos
Posted by okasaki at 12/30/2003 10:07:45 PM
Flash 5 Dreamweaver 4 I have about 15 digital photos saved as png files thru fireworks which I have placed into a slide show in flash. No problem getting it saved onto my site in dreamweaver and will put. The problem I have is that when I go to pull the page up on the web from a separate cpu...more >>

Need some to make a flash for me. Will pay!
Posted by Edo-Hopar at 12/30/2003 5:27:24 AM
I need a flash file for my site. http://www.novelty-bills.com. Please check out the website, let me know what you think would look nice, and how much. Thank You, Edgar cyber_hye@hotmail.com Referring URLs http://www.novelty-bills.com ...more >>



Flash website questions
Posted by Ellania at 12/29/2003 6:02:13 PM
Hi! I am planning to rebuild my website in Flash and your advice would be very helpful. Here are some qusetions. 1. Should I build a Flash template with many frames or is it better to use loadMovie action for separate movies? I don't want my website to load for hours! :-) 2. Which font siz...more >>

Flash page not loading
Posted by mattmurdock at 12/29/2003 8:27:55 AM
After I've successfully uploaded my web page, the Flash movie embedded with it dosen't seem to load. I've checked my site on my friend's computer only to find out that it wasn't my internet connection that has the problem. I've lessened my Flash movie to about 1.8MB and still it won't load. I als...more >>

External jpg file in Flash movie
Posted by jokke-svin at 12/28/2003 5:53:53 PM
I 've just bought a webcam which uploads an image to my server every 30th second. Now I'd like the flash movie to link to that image on the server: http://www.jokke-svin.dk/jpg/webcam.jpg Is this possible? Thanks JoKKe ...more >>

resize issues - an 800x600 window fits movie on pc but not on a mac
Posted by fetdirect at 12/28/2003 4:32:18 AM
I am having a problem making the browser tightly fit my flash movie. On a pc I can size the window properly but on a mac the width and hieght are slightly off,, what can I do to make this work on both computers both the mac(OSX) and pc(W2K) are using Internet explorer pc (ie 6.0) mac (ie 5.2.1...more >>

how to change all fonts used to symbols
Posted by jemac2003 at 12/28/2003 3:09:40 AM
help anyone, i'm in the middle of a project and discovered that i have used unusual fonts that are most likely not installed on most machines. my question is, how can i convert all the type into actual objects without having to go and convert each and every letter? is there a way to select all th...more >>

Stock Photography - Site Design Question
Posted by jb2k at 12/27/2003 4:33:41 PM
I'm sorry that this post is in the Macromedia.Flash (as well as the Dreamweaver) forum, but 1) i have learned a ton about dreamweaver, fireworks, and flash using these forums, and 2) most of the people who respond have great sites that I enjoy looking at and learning from. I am a presently wor...more >>

movie displays very small in Netscape 7.1; OK in IE on OSX 2.8
Posted by ZSR at 12/26/2003 4:55:01 PM
Hi all, Wonder if anyone else has encountered this and if so, how they fixed it. The movie's publish settings are: Flash Player 5 (although it was created in MX 2004 Professional) Dimensions are set to percent with 100 width and height. Scale is default thanks very much for your time ...more >>

Site Check
Posted by Luis at 12/26/2003 1:13:19 PM
I'd like to ask you to test the www.jular.net in various browsers y platforms (Windows and Mac). Especially the very begining of the movie where I put a FlashPlayer Detection, which is supposed to let you in only if you got the version 7 of FlashPlayer installed. I would be happy if you put yo...more >>

A Flash HomePage System like Windows
Posted by linxiflash at 12/25/2003 9:21:04 AM
http://www.xsxkj.com/linxi My First HomePage. Please give me a advise ! Thank you very much ! [please use 1024*768 screen and ie 5.5] ...more >>

Really new at all this
Posted by Trix4theRabbits at 12/25/2003 5:42:44 AM
All of you peoples who are much more experienced at this flash stuff than me can help me out hopefully...I'm a very beginner at flash stuff, and just started using flash mx pro 2004 today...so I have no idea what I'm doing. Is there any really good tutorials out there that can guide me though making...more >>

Button Sound quiet and not correct.
Posted by vnekic at 12/24/2003 11:11:48 PM
I created a button and inserted a sound (WAV) into a keyframe in OVER area. The sound is VERY quite and it doesn't even sound correct. My preview in the library sounds correct. I created a movie symbol and added a layer for sound..... same thing. What gives? Is this a bug? any help appreci...more >>

FLA Files Shrinks and Won't Open
Posted by Newsgroups eMail at 12/24/2003 12:55:12 AM
Hi, Thanks in advance for any assistance. I made and published an FLA file yesterday. Went to open the file today, and get an Unexpected File Format error, when I check the file, it now shows the file size as 576K, when it was 12MB! Can't open it, or edit it at all. I do have the publis...more >>

interface design poll & fullscreen question
Posted by jemac2003 at 12/23/2003 10:11:58 PM
i have two things i want to ask first when designing your interface, do you brainstorm by sketching out ideas with pencil and paper, or do you brainstorm directly on the computer? second if you sketch on paper, i would love to see your sketch ideas (more inspired by pencil sketches than digi...more >>

web statistics...
Posted by Bill at 12/23/2003 5:44:45 PM
Does anyone knows of a site where i can see current web statistics like screen resolution use.. Usually i work at 800*600 but i´m thinking change to 1024*768. Any nice site to show me the stats... Thanks. __________________________________________________________________ Mário Diogo ...more >>

Flash MX and audio
Posted by rlntex at 12/23/2003 7:00:52 AM
I am new to Flash but not to HTML or JAVA. I want to design an into to a site I have up but I don't know if it is possible to incorporate Flash with Audio. How do I insert a .wav, mp3, or other file in a Flash movie? ...more >>

Animation and Audio not syncronized when hosted.
Posted by APLB113 at 12/23/2003 4:55:54 AM
Hello. I made a file in flash. I had the audio and the animation syncronized, but when I hosted the file and went to view it, they were not syncronized. The music was either too fast or too slow when it was hosted, even though it was fine when it was viewed through the Macromedia Flash program. ...more >>

link in a scroll
Posted by Apitt at 12/23/2003 2:27:50 AM
how do i do a link to another scene (gotoandplay) in a scroll. is this posible i' ve tried adding transparents butons to the movie clip but this doesn't work, i dont know why. thanx ...more >>

Check my clan's site
Posted by greedyman at 12/22/2003 9:45:22 PM
I decied that the clan i'm in needs a site. I'm not completed with it, actually I only just began. All I really have done is the layout for it. I'd like to get feedback from some people here about the layout and if it looks good or crappy, that kinda thing. Like I said, I just started it s...more >>

pictures out of a movie
Posted by Apitt at 12/22/2003 5:04:56 PM
does anyone nows how to create a movie were there are lots of pictures, and load them only when its requieried, i mean that i want to create an album and i want the interface to be as small as possible, so to do that i don't want the pictures in the librery, i want to load tehn from another place, a...more >>

Jumping to a scene in a new movie
Posted by swheller at 12/22/2003 4:34:21 PM
Hi, I have a flash movie that has buttons on it. When you click on any of the buttons it unloads the movie and loads a new movie in at level 0. The second movie has 5 scenes in it. I want to be able to click on the button in the first movie and get it load the second movie but going to a specific...more >>

Flash effect hard to get
Posted by xmlmagician at 12/22/2003 1:51:52 PM
Dear all Could anyone tell me who can i achieve a similar result to the www.nike.com website...i think that is very nice. http://www.nike.com ...more >>

How to create a scrolling timeline.
Posted by mimikuk at 12/22/2003 7:21:07 AM
What I mean is I want to set up a demo with a timeline whos bar scrolls as the movie plays. The user can then take that bar and move it back or forward to advance to different points in the movie. Can someone help me with this. I could just create buttons to move to different sections within a movie...more >>

! HELP : sizing my pop-up window : HELP !
Posted by Dysenterycal182 at 12/22/2003 12:31:16 AM
Hey, I am currently making my fourth website, however this is my first all Flash site. I have created my index page as an entry page and the main page opens in a new pop-up window. I want the pop-up window to be the exact size as the Flash document though. So i want my main page to be 550 x 4...more >>

Help. putting a movie clip on a background image. I can't get it to work
Posted by greedyman at 12/21/2003 11:53:10 PM
ok, i just started making a flash site for my clan that i'm in for rainbow six. I have a picture that I used for the background. And when i type out a lot of info, add pics, and that kind of stuff, then make that into a movie clip so it's scrollable, it goes behind the background image. I click...more >>

I dont get how people do this
Posted by GilesW at 12/21/2003 10:30:22 PM
hey, Ive seen flash sites which look like a normal page made with dreamweaver or somthing, but just in flash. heres http://www.skyworksinc.com/ or one: http://www.skyworksinc.com/ is it just a flash movie, and its the way they....I dont know :( thanks www.nuclearfusion.com.au ...more >>

Site Check!
Posted by Eff NO[at]SPAM CTJ at 12/21/2003 3:56:04 AM
Hello~ :D I've made 2 websites for these two associations... Check 'em cos Internet in my coutry kinda sux so sometime things aren't loaded properly~ :p The websites is in the refered URL... Tq! :) - Eff @ CTJ ;) A mind is a dangerous thing... Yet, it can also be a wonderful thing! :D R...more >>

360 degree Video Tour
Posted by brentlee at 12/20/2003 9:24:04 PM
Has anyone here successfully developed a 360 degree video tour with flash. I've seen a lot of them using quicktime or some third party product. Here is the effect I'm looking for: http://www.florida360tours.com/gallery/tours/thundercanyon.html Which is somehow derived from this image: http:...more >>

unexpected file format???
Posted by drifterlost at 12/20/2003 9:00:12 PM
recently i purchased a flash web template. when i downloaded it, the .swf file opened fine, but when i tried to open the .fla file flash opens then a default message reading "unexpected file format" comes up. then flash closes by itself and i cant edit the template. could some one please let me know...more >>

I can?t get it to work
Posted by denziel at 12/20/2003 7:42:52 PM
I am new at Flash, however I develop a nice little Flash site. When I publish my site and upload it in Dreamweaver , it takes for ever to load; a friend of mine told me that I have to call up my images instead of trying to up load the entire site. I do not know how to pre load the files. Can...more >>

levels and internet??
Posted by pata de perro at 12/20/2003 1:52:17 PM
HEllo, I made a flash page to include in my website that includes levels, level o calls a movie in level 4 which in turn calls two movies in level 2. It works fine in flash, when exported to flash/html but once I imbed it in a web page in dreamweaver it no longer works, I can preview it with the pla...more >>

Visualy turning pages in flash
Posted by bunczy at 12/20/2003 1:35:29 AM
Does anyone know how to emulate the 'turning of a page' in a flash movie? I have seen it done where there is an online magazine and when the users click in the corner it appears as though the page is turning like in real life. Help! ...more >>

2 sep. movies on one HTML page. communication possible?
Posted by KaseiSol at 12/19/2003 9:31:23 PM
I have two separate flash movies on each HTML page of my site. One is the main movie for all the content and the second is basically a button movie. How is it possible for the buttons movies to interact with a seperate movies on the same page? I dont want to refresh or change the HTML page. An...more >>

turning off flash temporarily
Posted by Jme at 12/19/2003 7:59:55 PM
How can I turn off flash temporarily to see what others will see if they don't have flash installed, or don't have a browser that can read flash? Thanks ...more >>

Macromedia Flash Website Templates
Posted by Double Design at 12/19/2003 3:36:06 PM
Templates Mx! Here is the premier source for professional Macromedia Flash website templates. We create quality flash templates using the latest web design technologies. The most od the new website developers choose Macromedia Flash to create their own website. Here is the...more >>

site check, one more time
Posted by jemac2003 at 12/19/2003 2:22:49 PM
http://home.fuse.net/jmdesign/ check out both the flash and the html site. let me know what you think. any suggestions to do better? thanx, jemac ...more >>

resizing Flash question
Posted by Brian at 12/19/2003 2:02:39 PM
As a beginner I would like some advice on the following. If I change the width and height of a flash file in the DW 'Property inspector' does this cause any problems to the file when viewed in the browser. I have done this and don't see any immediate problems but I'm very new to this and would li...more >>

Site Check
Posted by peeko222 at 12/19/2003 11:25:57 AM
http://www.lewismultimedia.co.uk/xmas/xmas.html Referring URLs http://www.lewismultimedia.co.uk/xmas/xmas.html ...more >>

decubic's button
Posted by e3ven at 12/19/2003 11:13:24 AM
http://www.decubic.com/main.htm how do u guys create the navigation button ??? any idea? ...more >>

Fading dynamic text / bottom.
Posted by kafir at 12/19/2003 9:02:12 AM
I'm currently making a website where the menu text is a dynamic text. They work as bottom. The problem is, that I need the bottom to fade fra alpha 0 to alpha 90 when you click on the bottom. How can I make a dynamic text (not embedded) fade in and out?? It should function like the menu at the ...more >>

Can actionscript change a "Button's" "Behavior"?
Posted by jay_architect at 12/18/2003 9:11:32 PM
While a movie is playing in "level 0" a button is pressed to launch another movie in "level 1". Is there a way to change the button that was pressed from a "button" to a "graphic" using its behavior? Or is there another option? Thank you in advance for your help. j ...more >>

Works in Player, NOT in Browser?!?!?!?
Posted by BatteryLow at 12/18/2003 9:00:30 PM
I've been running into this problem left and right! I'm working with Flash MX and I'm trying to load an external flash movie ".swf" file into a movie clip symbol on my current movie. I've studied the tutorials from FlashKit.com and am using the actionscript they suggested, but it's not working in ...more >>

Editing links
Posted by dismisser at 12/18/2003 7:44:43 PM
i am a beginner with macromedia flash mx i downloaded a template to use for a personal website can anyone tell me how to edit the link on it? my website is silverbackjackal.com and i cant figure out how to edit the enter button to go to the rest of my site id appreciate any help on the matter ...more >>


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