Professional :: Align To Key Object In Flash?
Aug 27, 2011I understand pretty well the align panel but I can't find a "align to key object" like Illustrator's . Is there a way to do this? .
View 5 RepliesI understand pretty well the align panel but I can't find a "align to key object" like Illustrator's . Is there a way to do this? .
View 5 RepliesIm working on a system that loads text from an external source and scrolls the information across the screen. I've figured that part out but what I need to know how to do is get the loaded elements(which are textboxes in movie clips) to align to the right of each other respectively when loaded since they all will have different widths based on how much text is in there.
Example: [Loaded movie clip with text here number 1][Loaded movie clip with text here number 2][Loaded movie clip with text here number 3]
i have a swf object in my page, and i want it to have 100%width (entire screen) but i want the swf to be aligned to the left. with the following code it gives me the 100%width but the swf is aligned to the center of the page, is there a way to change the alignment?
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://localhost/arquitectos/flsh/menu.swf?" height="120px" width="100%">
<param value="http://localhost/arquitectos/flsh/menu.swf?" name="movie">
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I am really confused on how to keep the parent 'canvas' sprite aligned to the centre of the stage with the 'registration point' changing with it's children being added. I am guessing that some calculation of the initial registration point is needed but I just cant work it out
View 1 RepliesIn Flash CS5, none of the align buttons work (in the align tab, in modify > align, or with ctrl + alt shortcuts). Right now I have to take the stage width and object width and put in the x and y coordinates manually to align objects.
View 2 RepliesWhen I do Publish settings (HTML tab), I would like to set it the way that my swf would be floating in the middle of the screen.However, I always end up with my website being "stuck" on the left or right side of the screen.These are the settings I have done, which result in the site being placed on left side of the screen:
TEMPLATE: Flash Only
DIMENSIONS: Match Movie
PLAYBACK: none is checked
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I used the publish feature of flash but it does not seem to center the SWF in the browser. Why is there a centering feature on the publish settings under HTML tab if it does not center the SWF? It only works if you set Dimensions to Percent but that exposes the area beyond the stage and i don't want it to be seen. In addition that causes some movieclips to be improperly positioned. The Flash Alignment should have been disabled if the Dimensions is not set to Percent. Perhaps a simple script that centers my swf file in a browser..
View 3 RepliesI use the following code to horizontically align my swf on screen. How about vertical align?
View 4 RepliesI have a button (a simple rectangle) and I create a new layer and place text on the first keyframe while in Button Symbol Edit Mode. I now want to align the text in the center of the button. I drag over both the text and the button to select them both and than I open the Align Panel and I choose to align in the center. However, it is not aligning the text in the center and it is also moving the button to the left.
View 7 Repliesfor example the rotational points of clock arms that are not in the center or edge of the arms to get aligned to the center of the clock face?
View 2 RepliesWhen using the Align tool to align to objects to each other, but not the stage, how does Flash choose which item remains stationary and is aligned to?
View 1 RepliesI have a stage bigger than the size of a browser, and I have a camera to navigate around the area.Now when I click on a button, I will have something pop up blocking the whole browser, like a lightbox effect with another box on top of the blocker.The problem now is, when the blocker pops up, its position is not on the TOP LEFT corner of the browser. I've tried stage.align, but it would makes the camera or other object on stage position run.So is there any other way I could get the blocker to position according to the browser, not the stage?[code]
View 1 Repliesmy align function has stopped working. I am using CS4, so I tried downloading the trial CS5, but it doesn't work there either. So, what am I doing wrong?
View 10 RepliesI am having a problem with my text alignment and I can't figure out a way to correct this. Unfortunately, I'm using a mac with CS3 and a Windows computer with CS4, so it could either be an OS difference, a version difference, or a software bug which I can't figure out.
Update: I downloaded a trial CS4 and the problem persists. This seems to be a mac issue. For some reason, the text on my Mac with CS3 are not in the vertical center of the text fields. This causes a problem with my "align vertical centers" alignments, meaning I've had to do the alignment by hand to get it to look right. When I moved my file to my laptop to keep working on my project at home, I noticed that the text alignment was correct on my laptop, causing all of the text placement throughout my document to be off. This means that I can only work on the one computer and can't bring the project home to work through the weekends. I have made an image showing the difference of how the text is aligned on the two versions, and a sample of how it affects my project when i bring it between computers.
I made the file on the mac (CS3) first, and so the alignment is designed to look correct on there. When i bring it to the PC (CS4) the text shifts down, placing it back in the center of the text boxes and ruining the alignment. When I publish the file it keeps the formatting of each system. IE - publishing on the mac makes the final product look like it does on the mac, and publishing on the windows computer makes it look like it looks on the windows computer. The file published from the mac has the mac alignment on both computers, and the file published from the pc has the alignment of the pc on both computers.
Just to clarify, the way flash handles text fields on windows / cs4 is how I imagine it should be. I made the file on mac/CS3 however, and so when i said "ruins the alignment" I should have said "fixes the alignment problem, but breaks my alignment which was made to compensate for the problem I was experiencing."
Interestingly, I could find no solid data on what "align to stage" is in the built-in Adobe Help. What is "align to stage" and how does it work? I thought maybe it was a thing to align a shape to center on the stage, but no. I can select the shape, select "align to stage", and the shape doesn't move.
View 3 Repliesit has been a while since i used flash. I have just started to try and put a flash piece inside a web page and i am having problems getting it to align to the top of the page. I checked to see if something in my code had padding, <br>'s or any thing else that might be pushing it down but I can not find what the problem is. I placed a simple image file above the flash and it aligned up to the top of the page where I am trying to get the flash file to be. I tried changing all of the align="middle" code in the lists below but that didn't work either.
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I am trying to create a scroll text box with two columns appetiser menu. The dimensions are 675 px wide and it doesn't matter what the length is as the scroll text box should be able to scroll down as much as needed, but the width is important. I have arranged the text in the scroll text box as so -
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In all CS5 programs (Flash, Fireworks, etc.) the align buttons don't align my imgaes/objects/movieclips; they don't do anything.
View 2 RepliesI have embedded a Postcardviewer Gallery into my Flash site, by using this code in a MovieClip [code]...
but the problem is that, if you try to drag in the browser window, buttom right corner, you can see that the SWF (url..), doesn't stick to the rest of the site.
I have run into a new problem in trying to get my flash site to expand properly. I am trying to make it liquid-like by anchoring things to the right side. I don't want it to just scale, as it alters the dimensions or shows a border. The problem is that I have an animation ( a wave that moves in from the right and then back out to cover/reveal the pages). The problem is that I can't seems to get that animation to work with the anchoring techniques i've read, as it is a tween and not a contained movie object alone (I need the tween so that I can control the wave coming when the user clicks a button)
View 17 RepliesI have an actionscript that loads images for a slideshow. The images are different sizes and overlays in the slideshow top left justified. I would like to center the images. Below is the actionscript. What do I need to add to it and where?
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[URl]..i wanna know how he did when resizing the browser all the child are still in there alignment?
i think its about no_scale in different child and stage.
I made this 3d object with Illustrator and I would like to make a small SWF of the object revolving with Flash. No need for interactivity. Is there a simple way (accessible to a layman such as myself) to go about it?
View 9 Replieshow can i align an image to center in a flash frame with actionscript 2.0? i'm trying something like that but it doesn't work.
imageContainer._x = (-(imageContainer._width - Stage.width) / 2);
imageContainer._y = (Stage.height - imageContainer._height) ;
I have a .swf movie that I would like to center on a page....and also align it to the top of the page so there is no space whatsoever at the top of the page.
View 2 RepliesI hav a flash website that i want to align in the vertical center of my browser....
i used all possible combos of publish settings in flash cs4 but it dint publish my webpage in center ....
give me a html code i can put in my index.html so that my flash object aligns itself in center .
trying to get my SWF to fullscreen a movie clip and center it on the screen. I have been working with this for a few days now and havent gotten very far. Here is the code I am working with
Code: Select allgoFullScreen = function(){
if(Stage["displayState"] == "normal"){
_root.MPVideo._x = 0;
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click projects button(# 2 from left to right in the toolbar) => click one of the cubes, it will display severa small windows. on topright most, there is a minimize button,
View 1 RepliesI have a flash video/audio player that I pass different source files, but it becomes glitchy after changing the source file. How can I, via html/javascript, reinitialize the flash object?
I am using swfobject.js along with the ExternalInterface Actionscript 3.0 class to communicate between the two. I tried just setting the data attribute of the flash object to the name of the swf that it already was using. This actually does reset the object, but, after doing so, it can no longer communicate back to flash.What is the method that I should use to simply reload the flash object as though it was the first time it was loading?
I'm trying to get my clip to stay at the left of the screen on stage resize, but it isn't working. This is my code:
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);
function resizeHandler(e:Event){
circleMenu.x = 0;
}
Obviously that doesn't work, but how do you get the global zero X position. When I resize the window, my clip moves along with it.