how to build and structure a full flash website using the OOP approach. I have an idea of how to structure an application using the MVC design pattern, but I cannot put things together in order to structure a whole website.
View 4 RepliesI have a question on Flash structure "best practices". I am wondering which is the best way to go about designing a full website in Flash.I have seen the tutorials provided by Kirupa and others, but nothing answers the question I have. My question is this: How do I combine what I can do in actionscript and use the Flash timeline also? Or should I even try to combine both?
Ideally, I know we should use actionscript to design Flash pages, using CreateEmptyMovieClip, etc. That way the pages are truly dynamic using external images and xml files, and the entire Flash movie is only 4-5 keyframes. However, I cannot accomplish all the tasks in actionscript.I can do many things using Actionscript, write functions, tweens, filters, etc. But obviously I cannot do everything. Many things I want to do are easier using the Flash timeline. For example, a navigation bar which slides in from the outside once the entire page loads. I know the AS to make the nav bar slide in and out, but I cannot use AS to draw the nav bar in the way I want it (two layers of buttons with a line in the middle).
What is the best way to go about designing a site in this manner? Should I use the first few keyframes for the things I can do in AS, such as loading global variables, loading external data, etc. Then use regular Flash animation tools (keyframes & timelines) for the rest?
What is a good structure for a complete Flash website. ex.
1) Index.swf ( which is just a container and loader for the actual SWF site content)
2) Main.swf (the main content of the site that gets loaded in by Index.swf)
Should the index.swf load in several SWF's , like navigation file , news reel file , etc....Also , if anyone know of a web site that has this information or knows of a book that covers this material ,
I saw a post from circa 2006 on Kirupa, regarding the best way to efficiently structure a flash website. I'm wondering if this has changed? Should I be coding everything in document class... using xml.... using only external swfs as my 'pages'? an anyone offer advice or a resource on the best way to organize contemporary clean and efficient flash websites?
View 2 RepliesI'm using the code below to allow a user to download a file.The problem I am having is that, if the file is located at/images/english/and I say I want to download it to myDocuments instead of having an images saved in MyDocuments /MyDocuments/1.gif.it creates the same folder structure as the file that was downloaded and saves it here:/MyDocuments/images/english/1.jpg.This isn't the whole code, but I think I included all the stuff relating to downloading files
View 1 RepliesI'm kinda new to flash but i managed to create a structure of my website, do frame break ups, do layers and frames for content and so on.The thing is, when i create a text box, convert it to a button and, use a goto option and select the frame i want it to go to...nothing happens. Design view clearly shows that it's a button but when i played a test movie, buttons didn't work at all. I could highlight them but that's about it. Even when i click on them nothing happens.I tried publishing in HTML but no luck either.I use flash 10 with actionscript 2.0 in Adobe Flash CS4.[code]
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to figure out what is the best way to structure a simple interactive presentation in Flash -
home_mc // contains buttons hbtn1_mc
page1_mc
I have labeled frames on and off to allow for animation of pages elements. And in the root timeline the actionscript is as such:
this.onLoad = function () {
this.home_mc.gotoAndStop("on");}
this.home_mc.hbtn1_mc.onRelease = function () {
this.p1_mc.gotoAndStop("on");
this.home_mc.gotoAndStop("off");
}
But it doesn't work!
I seem to run into compile issues in Flash Builder when I import 3rd-party libraries at the wrong level in the directory structure. For example, sometimes I'll import a library one level too deep into its directory tree, and the package explorer ends up excluding the prefix root-level package, usually "com." or "net.". Even though the content of the source itself doesn't change, this will cause compile errors.
Thus: Is it a 1) convention or 2) language requirement that a class's package structure (e.g., "foo.bar.Class") must match its path location (e.g., foo/bar/Class.as)?
If it's a language requirement, why is it a requirement? Wouldn't that overdetermine the package structure, since it is already specified in the source code and quite happily consuming the first three to eight columns of each line? If it's not a language requirement, are my compile errors just a result of Flash Builder enforcing the convention?
I have a full screen Flash Website Click Here The problem i am having is that they wont play at all in FireFox and wont work correctly in IE but they play just fine in Chrome. Does anyone know of a fix or anything i can try?
View 2 RepliesI would like to know if you could tell me how to mke a full website Flash XML? what i need to do? I'm beginner and i need to learn it ASAP!
View 1 RepliesI am desiging a flash website with the intend of having the pages (background) filling the whole screen on every browser like
View 2 RepliesI have tried putting fs command for full screen for my Flash site, but that only works if I open the SWF on its own.
If I try opening the Flash website thru my browser, a warning pops up that Flash is trying to comunicate with the browser.
I would like it when a person goes to the website, that the website will automatially open up as a full screen website. No tool bars, address, navigation etc., like a DVD movie. Just the whole screen covered by my Flash site and it does not rescale. The Flash site is the same size as if there is no full screen.
i have a site entirely built on flash. its basically an e-magazine with lots of textual data. i need to implement a full text search where the user enters search terms in a text field and i need to highlight the occurrence of this search term within the textual contents inside this e-magazine
in a way its similar to what you do within a browser search or pdf search where after typing your search term they highlight all occurrences of this search term within the webpage / pdf document
what is the best way to do this? any ready component / solution / code available?
I want to make a full flash website, and the news section would be my facebook wall. But I can't find any help or tutorial to how can I do this in flash AS3. I found an example how to embed the Facebook wall on HTML website or blog, but not for flash.
View 8 RepliesI waqs wondering if someone can point me in the direction of a good set of tutorials for making a full website in flash cs4.
View 2 Repliesi'm recently creating a full browser flash website. the important thing is: the stage.height should never be smaller than 768px because things are cut then. but how to tell actionscript not to make the stage.height smaller than 768 onResize? i've tried the following things, but they don't work:
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I know people would have asked this question many times, but i have a different problem. I want to make a fullscreen flash website like now my design is a bit different, i want my background to be full screen (i don't mind if its not to proportion) but the text on it should not stretch in-proportionately
View 1 RepliesI have scoured this site and other sites for the basics on how to plan and create a full screen flash website. None have quite exactly what I was looking for however.[url]....The images take up the entire monitor even on different monitors, but the crispness of the images is always consistent.
View 2 RepliesI'm currently making a website that i would like to be full size, whatever the resolution/window size is. Whenever i search for help i just get tutorials for fullscreen mode which is not what im looking for.
an example of what i'd like is this: [URL]
Whatever size you make the window - the flash file is stretched to fit.
I am making a website. Client's requirement is full browser will be flash but content will be fixed. There is a line in the header which will scale full browser.k the attached rough layout. Red border will be removed. Now it is a guide of flash movie. I need to make white line in the header full screen and rest of the movie fixed size. Scrolling no problem.
View 2 RepliesI was wondering if i can convert all my flash websites text into HTML so that flash can get it from external .html files.
View 6 RepliesIn my flash site there is a video player that I want to have an option of switching into full-screen mode. It's the video player that needs to be set to full screen, not the whole stage. How would I go about this?
View 2 Replieshow do you setup a full Flash web site, do all files including linked docs go in one folder?. are you suposed to use the publish pannel? The Flash site i am trying to create is to be used as an intrenet site that resides on the server how do I name links to doc in that folder?
View 1 RepliesHow can I make my flash website to view it in FULL SCREEN MODE as in the following website?
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im trying to make my flash website full screen inside the users browser, is there any way of doing this to the flash file inside the index file? Ive found it hard to find this info online as i dont mean properly full screen, just full screen inside the browser.
View 3 Replieshow I can make a 95% black MC cover everything on the website page (full screen onResize) so I can present an externally loaded image by itself? I have seen this done before in a few flash portfolio websites but I can't seem to find the solution on any previous thread. I may have missed some threads. is there an actionscript that can do all of the above without having to resize an MC?
View 4 RepliesI have built a couple of sites in Flash, however, I have a problem with a current site I'm working on. My client wants various photos to fade out in a "checkerboard" fashion, which I am doing via its own movie clip and adding in the appropriate area on the main timeline. However, when I add a blank keyframe on the following page to add a new movie clip (with the next set of pictures, the timeline starts playing through the entire website, not recognizing stop actions or frame labels.
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What size should be my flash website stage, so i can use the website in full screen (100%) [swfobject 2], in a way that it will be seen fine on any monitor size?
View 2 RepliesFinding the code in AS2 to make picture be only full height like [url]...
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to add a button to my website to make it full screen but it doesn't seem to be working.
I followed this tutorial [url]...
but it talks about editing the html file code? whick I did but doesn't seem to work?