anyone know of a good resource for banner development tips and tricks - mainly in regards to image optimization, external imports and filesize reduction. Its been a while since i have looked into smart ways to pack more clarity and quality into flash banners and wanted to reach out.
View 0 RepliesMy trouble is that my project is taking more and more time to be compiled.My preocupation is how to speed up this compilation ?I used now a SSD hard disk and a quad core CPU.Do you think that purchasing an I7 core will speed up the compilation ?
My fear is that it does not bacause Flash CS5 will not take advantage of the multi core.
Is there a hardware configuration someone can advise me ?
As I get into more advanced ActionScript, I start wondering about ways I can write things more quickly. For example, this code
ActionScript Code:
button1.onRelease = function() {
//something
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I've been building Flash web sites for a long time now, as a freelance developer. I usually work alone, and so I'm the only one that touches the production work I do.Since I'm in this working position, I don't get a lot of exposure to other styles of flash production. I was wondering if any of you have examples of the best ways to produce high quality flash websites. I'm not talking about huge team projects, but small 40-50 work hour sites.[code]
View 2 RepliesAre there any standard practices for Video encoding, streaming, etc?
View 1 RepliesI have a website that has a Flash banner. For devices that do not support Flash (like iPads) I want to display an image instead. What is the best practice to deal with this situation? Should this be handled from the front-end with JavaScript?Should this rather be handled from the back-end? (I am using Java on the back-end)
View 1 RepliesI have a bit of Flash experience, did a full featured movie player, other stuff in AS3 and got plenty of programming skills in other languages, BUT now I need to create a multi paged website. Quite easy, a few pages, some animations here and there, nothing fancy, got all the graphics.
But time is short on this one, so I need some advice about good practices (pack everything into one main MC or make separate swfs and load them in, etc.), where to begin, or what kind of book should I grab to make the job pretty.
I have a pretty simple flash banner(using flash cs4) that I want ot make clickable.I am assuming I have everything correct, because when I "test movie", everything works as expected.Now comes the odd part. When I export movie, the clickable portion no longer works. Along the same lines as soon as I save the .fla file, the "test movie" no longer works.I have recreated this about 10 times now and everytime the same result. now I have it open on my computer, because as soon as I save it will no longer work.
My actionscript(3.0) code is as follows:
link_btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sgurl);
function sgurl(Event:MouseEvent):void;
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and yes I have a button with an instance name of link_btn1
I am doing an overlay flash banner which sits on top of a flash site. Within the overlay banner I have a moveclip called 'imageHolder' which needs to call the same image thats in the flash site.
I have this code which allows me to directly control the movieclip in the flash site from within the flash banner. var img:MovieClip = takeoverContainer.getImage();
img._scaleX = 0.25; (for example) The problem here is I only want to copy the movieclip so I can see the same image in my banner as I do the Flash site, I do not want to manipulate the main flash site in anyway.
COuld anybody write me a piece of code that will duplicate/mirror the moveclip in the main flash site inside a movieclip within my flash banner so I can see the same image?
(From a creative perspective 'imageholder' is a smaller version of the image which is animated over the top of the main flash site) I am happy to pay for an hours work if somebody could help (via paypal if you like). I am in desperate need
I am trying to make a flash banner with a picture on the right that is covered with blinds and opens when the page loads. Then on the left side of the banner I have some text that I want to fade in after the picture loads and stops, I don't have a clue as to what I am doing wrong I can get the picture to loads and the blinds to open, but when I attempt to add the text fade in to it I no longer have my picture, although the text fade-in works fine. I am rather new to Flash and I have been work ing ont his for 3 days with no luck.
View 10 RepliesWhat I am trying to do, is to make a flash banner that links to more than one URL. I have looked around for a solution for this problem of mine, but haven't found a thing. I've made banners before, linking to only one URL and that hasn't been a problem. I tried to copy/paste the AS stuff from one layer to another, but that just gave me an error message: 1021: Duplicate function definition
Google pointed out this forum when I was looking for a solution to that problem, and I tried mixing numbers in the buttonClickHandler among other things. Sure enough the error went away, but I still can't get the .swf to to work as I want it to. Now it just exports and lets me know that there are buttons there, but they don't take me anywhere.
I'm attempting to create a flash ad banner (728x90 leaderboard) which, when clicked on, loads a new frame that expands to fill the view port with a 6 page flash form. I'm not sure how I would go about loading a whole new window off of a banner which has already been predefined to a stage size of 728x90. I understand that if it were an expandable - I could merely make the stage larger, and knock out the transparency within the html/css. Here's an example of what I'm trying to do, but it was done with css/js, [URL]
View 1 RepliesAnybody know how to create the tooltips show on this website URL...The tool tips will appear when you mouse over the word "location" that is highlighted in blue on the web page. The tool tips will follow the mouse where ever it is within the blue highlighted area.
View 1 RepliesI was wondering anyone had suggestions for ways to chart data easily from a mysql database. I am working on a website composed totally in Flash.For example: a football database, a user may enter a players name and then a graph shows the goals scored over time.I have looked into google charts, fusion charts and opencharts and they seem to be ok if you are making a html page and will create graphs for you..
View 1 Repliesim building a product menu that loads a bunch of images through xml and uses one movieclip instance for the texts.URL..So far my code loads the 5 items and gives them 600px of space in beetween. This way i can use next/prev navigation. But the problem is when i reach the last one, it should loop, so that after the last one should come the first one again. And same in reverse for the prev-arrow.I have all this code inside a movieclip that im now controlling with the arrows:[code]And i cant get my head around that where should i include the looping, in pseudocode: "if picture x <= -600 reload it as the last picture && if picture x >= +600 reload it as the first picture"
View 1 RepliesI am new in flash AS3 and I have made a little game. I want you to make corrections, optimize script, give advices how to make something easier. Also, in left down corner, there is score text and try this: take 100 score, than hit enemy, than take 200 score and hit enemy again. you will get error. I tried everything and can't get rid of this error. upload_score.php is working fine:[code]
View 0 RepliesAny tips on building a better mouse cursor?The basic implementations of a custom mouse cursors I've found to be incredibly unresponsive. Does anyone out there have any tricks on how to structure the code so that a custom cursor actually updates its position in a more responsive manner?[code]
View 3 RepliesI am trying to create a flash banner ad that loads when a page loads and gives the user the option to minimize it. When the ad is minimized, I wanted to leave a box (that could also function as a mini version of the larger ad)that could be clicked and reload the ad if desired.
I have been struggling with how to do this. I tried creating two movies, one for the main ad and one for the smaller box that remains after the ad is minimized. I inserted the object code for the larger ad into my html and it loads and will load the smaller ad then the button (for minimizing the ad) is clicked but the smaller ad loads in the area defined by the object code for the larger ad. I am not sure how to work around this.
I have done a lot of research and havn't found not much how to do create a floating banner in FLash.
Some codes i have found
<object
classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com
/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
width="400" height="300" id="movie" align="">
<param name="movie" value="movie.swf">
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I have a panel movie clip that contains six buttons, this panel movieclip also contains a tool tip movie clip for each button, the tool tips just reside inside the panel movie clip not inside the buttons. When the buttons are rolled over I want the tool tips to appear, alpha from 0 to 1 using Tweenlite. Rather than repeating the event handler code I have used two arrays, one for the buttons and one for the tooltips.
So I need to tell flash that when button 2 for example is rolled over, make tool tip 2 appear. The code I have is below, I think I'm nearly there but this errors. Am I right to use switch?
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I've found a hand full of examples on dynamic sound utilizing the SampleDataEvent... however, I'm looking for any tips / info on wrangling that beast.
I'm looking for anything beyond producing a simple pitch machine - more info than just creating a glorified pitch-changing audio oscilloscope.
Right I have created a flash banner ad and taken it into dreamweaver, I thought I could just link it to its website easily in DW but I can't.
Do I have to set the url in the flash doc, if so what do I do
i spend ages getting to know how to use flash, and make a banner and the bits that are animated have black boxes over them when i publish.
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We are moving to a new platform and will have a flash banner on the home page that will be changing frequently with new promos, etc. You can find the flash banner at http:[url].....I need to be able to update the swf file and have it immediately reflect on this new home page, but it only seems to be updating on the non-secure URL in Firefox and not at all in IE.
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to loop a Flash Banner ad. I added the code to the first and last frames on a separate action layer on the main timeline, but it's not working.
I'm using actionscript 2.0/CS4.
I have a stop action on the last frame of the last text movieclip that plays. And it seems to get hung up here. When I remove the stop action it just loops that movieclip and not the whole animation.
This is the code I'm using in the first frame of the main timeline.
> var counter:Number = 0
And this is the code I'm using in the last frame of the main timeline:
> // if its being used on the last frame use a stop(); action on the top line
> if (counter < 3) {
>counter++
> gotoAndPlay(1)
> }
I have flash as part of the adobe suite but am yet to have a real go at it. If I was to buy a third party flash banner say with a size of 100x250 and wanted to add text to it so it would then be 100x350, is this an easy process?
View 1 RepliesI have a banner I made which has an xml file that needs to be uploaded with the rest of the files. here is the code
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i want to use xml and flash to make a banner like the one that tv.com is using so when i want to change the image or the content of the banner, i can do that by changing the url of the image and some text in the xml file. what do i have to do with flash, actionscript, and xml? is there any open source that i can use?
View 1 Repliesid like to know the action script code i need to add a url to my flash banner,ive found this and it works,but i need it to open as a self window and not as a blank
digilink_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myButtonFunction1);function myButtonFunction1(event: MouseEvent) { var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.digilink.gr/fullmoon/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=advsea rch"); navigateToURL(request);}
where abouts can i add the _self so it opens within the web page?
I am creating a banner for a website, and I need to load an external swf of scrolling images that sits behind the layers in my flash banner. A similar example would be the website: [URL]..I have created managed to create everything in this banner except the scrolling images, so I have an external swf file that needs to load into my flash banner project.
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