Professional :: Loaders Won't Show When Published As .EXE?
Aug 25, 2010
My main project loads an external .swf ("room") depending on which button the user clicks. Once that external .swf ("room") is loaded, the viewer chooses a ("demo") .swf to view. For each button click, a loader is to appear showing the viewer that the desired room or demo is loading. All of this works fine for the web...please click the link below to view. The problem exists when I try to publish as an .EXE. We'd like to send these out to prospects on CD and thus I need an .EXE to autorun when insterted in a PC. I've publised the main .SWF (overhead map) as an .EXE and burned a cd containing all necessary files. Now when the user clicks a room and then a demo, the loader that shows up fine on the web does not appear.
I'm including a video with it's controls into a frame in flash.When I try it and publish it as SWF the control bar of the video shows but when I publish it as a .app for mac or a .exe for windows and run itthe video shows but not the controls
I'm using the FLVPlayBack component to show the video
I received a flash file of a slider to change out one of the photos. I was able to change the photo but the published file won't show any of images. Here is the link to the file Test.fla .
It uses two greensock classes as well (included) which weren't included when the client sent the file over so I had to find and download it myself. It outputs "-440.6 1" which is over my head.
Here is the AS.
Code: import gs.TweenMax; import gs.easing.*; var randomNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*3);
I have a couple of Image Loaders, the images that they call are bigger than the components themselves but have turned on scaleContent to ensure that it fits and scales to size. This works fine across many platforms but i've found that on some systems it displays the imported image at it's true size rather than the actual size of the component.
i am facing problem with internet explorer and google chrome, viewing my flash document. When i test my flash document on IE, it simply does not show my flash work at all. Instead this show up:
and on google chrome i have just click on screen for it to show otherwise nothing happens.
I have imported all my images into flash using photoshop and the quality looks really good and crisp in Flash, but when it comes to exporting, testing or publishing the animation the images either appear pixeley or blurry. I have gone through all my file settings and everything
I have been using CS4 for about a week, getting used to it from CS3. I just noticed that I published a file in Flash Player 10 and do not see an AC Run file in the folder yet the swf displays.I uploaded to my server and it still display?
I produced an ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 10 swf in a newly downloaded CS5 (trial version). The file loads fine in both Chrome and Safari on my computer. But when I open it on another machine I only get five animated dots - ..... - in a "wait while loading" manner. The swf never starts. Same on my brother's computer.
My browser has Flash Player 10,1,52,14 installed along with CS5 (swf works). My other computer claims to have Flash Player 10,1,53,38 installed (swf doesn't work). My brother's computer has Flash Player 10,0,45,2 (swf doesn't work).I've tried various publish configs such as on/off xml meta data, on/off hidden layers, embed minimal or more of my font etc.When I configure for ActionScript 2.0 and/or Flash Player 9 my animation breaks totally.
I want to take a simple published animation and put it into SONY VEGAS. However, I only want the character (I've created a symbol for it) and not the big white stage. My goal is to get the animated character on top of all my sony vegas layers, but the stage is blocking all the other layers. Is there some kind of setting that can make the stage transparent when publishing as a SWF?
I have a simple static text MovieClip that is masked in the timeline the traditional way - layer above the text layer has a rectangle and that layer is set to mask. This looks fine in the timeline while authoring. As soon as I publish it as Flash 9, the text disappears
I have made an animation, when i veiwed it as a preveiw in flash CS4 it works fine.So I published it as both a HTML fie and SWF.The HTML file runs perfectly fine, but the SWF file is missing almost all of the illustrations and the play button at the begining, the sounds all work fine however.
I have created a small flash move 40px x 40px and placed a movieclip in the centre of the stage. When I publish the file it positions the movieclip to the right of the published window. When I trace the movieclips x and y the movieclip position is correct. It almost looks like there is some sort of margin around it. Flash CS5
I've created a startup screen for a CD and have published it to exe format. When it plays from the CD however, it opens in a Flash Player 10 window. I am wanting to create a standalone splash screen without the Flash Player bar along the top.
My flash design crashes! I published everytime I finished few steps. First few publications in html/ swf were okay, but after a few new steps the things all went wrong: the button went missing, the whole did not stop at frame1 as in my action script, some of the images went missing. I then deleted new steps hoping to get the thing back to normal, but it remained. After every futile effort I did (restarted pc, republished, saved as...), I suspected that there are BUGS whether in flash or in my pc, I did an experiment by simply creating a new layer and inserting an image in the layer, I published, and this time all the images has gone!
I am trying to publish a flash file onto a website but once I post it there it keeps looping. How do I get it so that it doesn't loop? I have a feeling it's a setting in Flash that I have to find before I publish it but I don't know where it would be or if there even is one.
I have six Scenes, each scene has an imported FLV file.I have a 6 button menu that works fine when clicking from one scene to the other.The problem is is that videos 1 to 4 play fine when I switch to the scene, but FLV files 5 and 6 just stay paused at frame 1.If I test the Scene using Ctrl+ALT+Enter, the Scenes work fine.But Only if I either hit Ctrl+Enter to render the whole project, or if I publish the file, do the FLV files pause on frame 1.All 6 videos are coded exactly the same way.
I am running Windows 7/64 and Master Collection. I've created a clip of DV NTSC footage to test F4V publishing. Done this many times with CS3 and flv files but this has me stumped. I can successfully view the video and web page locally in IE and Netscape but on upload to my server I have the menu and placement right but no video appears. I created the clip in Premiere Pro CS5 and exported to F4V/FLV best quality. Opened an Actionscript Media DV NTSC template in Flash Pro CS5 and imported the video which I had pre-placed in my root web folder locally. I then exported the swf and saved the fla. All files were then in my root folder and the scrpts in the scripts folder. In Live View in Dreamweaver CS5 all looked fine. In each browser locally the video played as expected. Once all files were uploaded the video was not visible.
I created a flash file that contains a flv file inside. After I published it on my Mac in both html and swf format and it played well. But when I copied all this folder include the swf, html and the source flv to test on a pc it played well but the video part (flv) was blank. So I copied the .fla file to pc and published again, then it works fine (including the flv video part) on both pc and Mac. All the settings were same while publishing.So I wonder what's wrong with publish from Mac side? I work with Mac and so it's very inconvenient to publish my work on PC.
I have an MP3 file in Flash 5.5 that I have edited in the properties panel of the frame where the sound is...I basically cut a couple seconds off the beginning by editing the timeline. It plays fine when I'm in Flash, but when I publish the movie, the sound is published unedited.
My main project loads an external .swf ("room") depending on which button the user clicks. Once that external .swf ("room") is loaded, the viewer chooses a ("demo") .swf to view. For each button click, a loader is to appear showing the viewer that the desired room or demo is loading. All of this works fine for the web...please click the link below to view.
The problem exists when I try to publish as an .EXE. We'd like to send these out to prospects on CD and thus I need an .EXE to autorun when insterted in a PC. I've published the main .SWF (overhead map) as an .EXE and burned a cd containing all necessary files. Now when the user clicks a room and then a demo, the loader that shows up fine on the web does not appear...the button stays in the down state until the demo .swfs loads and then the demo appears and plays.
I'm making an image gallery and am loading about a dozen thumbs that load a larger image when each one is clicked. Works just great so far. But, as expected, there's a little pause before each corresponding large image is displayed.I'd like to eliminate the wait, if possible, so here's my question: As a matter of preference or programing style, whatever you want to call it, do you guys usually load ALL the images first, thumbnails as well as large images, before displaying anything on the stage? Or do you just load each large image when necessary, after its corresonding thumbnail is clicked?Sometimes I see very cool Flash sites that have the percentLoaded line or twirler displayed for what seems like a long time, but then each screen (MovieClip) after that displays fairly quickly and I'm wondering if that's what's happening - all, or at least a LOT of the images are being preloaded
Edit - managed to find an answer to this by using _parent instead of _root
I've got a swf loader that loads a swf obviously but in the swf that's being loaded I have a button inside of a movie clip which I use...
Code: on (release) { _root.gotoAndStop("page1"); }
When viewing the swf file on its own this works perfectly, however when it gets loaded into the first file it no longer works because the root has now changed to that first file.
I am making a web page and i have to load in to main page swf multiple swfs that represent background. First there is a gradient swf than swf with snow particle system. My question is what would be best practice to use one loader for all different swfs that are in the background or should i use different loaders for different swfs?Here is what i mean:
1.) var loader:Loader = new Loader();
I use this loader to load first gradient swf and after it it has completed loading i use same loader to load snow swf.
2.) var loader:Loader = new Loader(); + loader = new Loader();
I use this loader to load first gradient swf and after it it has completed loading i set it again to be loader = new Loader(); and than i use this loader to load snow swf.
3.) var bgLoaderGradient:Loader = new Loader(); + bgLoaderSnow:Loader = new Loader();
I use it to load gradient swf and than i make new loader,
bgLoaderSnow:Loader = new Loader(); to load snow swf.
So what would be best way to do loading of the swfs.
I have a project that needs 4 levels of zoom, each with its own image loading in. So, to make things easier on myself, I made an array of the Loaders, so I can instantiate them and hide/display them when I need toHowever, this doesn't work as I had expected. I.e. (using just two level for simplicity):
Code: private var photo:Loader; private var photoLarge:Loader;
I am trying to load an image, with descriptive text and a back button on the click of a thumbnail of the image. I am using a MovieClipLoader instance to do this.
Here are my problems: I tried loading the image, with the text(which is within an external swf), using the same loader, but since I am placing them dynamically, depending on the dimensions of the image, I need to pass variables between the two. The image loader is taking longer than the text (obviously) but I need the dimensions of the image before I can place the text. How do I do that??
2. I tried using two loaders, with separate listeners, and the problem once again is that the text loads before the image, and is hence placed with default values instead of the values derived from the image. The code is within onLoadInit(). Is it possible for me to get the dimensions of the image from onLoadStart()???
3. There is a back button within the text.swf. I want the image and the text.swf to be unloaded when this button is clicked. How can I achieve that? Can I call loader.unloadClip(target), from within this? Will it recognize the variable?
I would like to know how to simplify this code. I would like to put the minnions into an array of loaders but everything I try does not give me the correct access. I would like to use for loops to put into the array setup.
package{import flash.display.*;import flash.events.*;import flash.net.*;import flash.net.URLRequest;import rebarr.*;public class Shrink extends MovieClip{ private var pictures:XMLClass = new XMLClass("xml/thepics.xml", "the pictures"); private var setup:Array = new Array(); private var minnion1:Loader = new Loader(); private var minnion2:Loader = new Loader(); private var minnion3:Loader = new [code].....
