how to work with XML? with a Photo Gallery?Tried to change the image
Before(Still Working)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<photos>
<photo>
<thumbnail>s_flashmo_175_01.jpg</thumbnail>
[code]....
I've recently made a simple standalone SWF in a projector format. It contains a button which links to a PDF ..
on (release) {
getURL("cd/manual.pdf");
}
On PC this works fine (although it does open in a web browser rather than Acrobat). On Mac this link does nothing except open Firefox which refuses to open the PDF. The PDF themselves are fine and if clicked on at the source just fire up Acrobat (in Mac and PC).it's possible to force a file to open in a certain App?
I am new to the world of Flash, but we have several videos in flv format and it seems that Flash cs4 creates a SWF file specific to each flv.We want to use the same swf or "skin" for all the videos, so we only want to have one swf file for all the flv's and just control what is being launched in the html.
View 1 Repliesi'm just learning Flash at a local college and my instruction is not being very helpful, so i'm hoping someone can help me. I need to insert a "start" button that will start the movie. I have the button on a layer called "startButton". I inserted another layer and called it "stopMovie" - this is where I add a keyframe on the 1st from and the last frame and then add a actionscript to stopmovie on both frames.
The problem I'm having is when I select the 1st frame of the layer where the button is localed, I go to the actionscript window/global fuction/timeline and then I want to select "play" but the system has it grayed out so I can't select it. My only option is "goto". But that doesn't work. All I want the funtion to do is start playing when I click on the start button.
if I drag a component out on the stage, and run, it will work. I can drag the sliders for example. But if I change the settings for the slider,and then run the movie, I will not be able to drag it.
View 9 RepliesI have a simple button and in the "down" frame of the button I'm pasting a url Link under the options in the properties tab. For Target I selected _blank. This doesn't work for me. This was my second option after my first didn't work either. Its a really simple file and I can't figure out why it won't work. I am using Flash CS4.
View 6 RepliesThe targets only work and will go to the specified page in my ie browser. Does anyone have a fix for this. Code below.[code]
View 2 RepliesI have some old projects I made while in school that were made using flash MX. Is there any way to get these updated to work in cs5, or even cs4,
View 7 RepliesI have a school assignment and I only have CS4 at home, where as in school CS3 is available. If I save the file as CS3, will it work perfectly fine at school?
View 1 RepliesI cant find any conflicting assignments in keyboard preferences.
View 6 RepliesIm trying some AS3 for the first time. I have a mc without a instance name, sitting inside _root.first_mc.2nd_mc and its timeline I have a frame label at frame ten called "on" and at frame twenty called "off". in the first frame of its actions I found a peice of code that is meant to replace the old onRollover etc.
[Code]...
I run the code and I get no errors, the code isnt actually functioning. Do I have to do full mc naming instead of .this? Or am I doing something else wrong?
I guess the best way to explain this is that I want to animate the text so that it types itself. I tried using a mask so that it slowly uncovers the text, but for some reason the code for the button that I inserted at the beginning of the flash seems to somehow prevent the mask from working, so the text just appears there and doesn't move or anything.
View 4 RepliesI am loading 4 external SWF's inside a Master Movie file. I've got 3 of the 4 working. The last one is giving be fits and I can't see the problem. I am housing the external SWF's inside a manually created container (AS2). This last button is being a rebel and it's driving me nuts. I've checked and double-checked to ensure the instance name matches the button name in the code....as well as the name of the external swf. It's all correct, to me. The .swf is in the same folder as the .fla, by the way.AS2 code:
stop ();
jukebtn.onPress = function ()
{
[code]....
I did not get any trining on it. (I hope I did not ask too complicated of a question there.)
View 2 RepliesI am new to Flash CS4 so I may be doing something stupid. I created my assests on Photoshop CS4 and imported them into flash as flash layers. I followed a training video by Paul Trani about creating a first website. I have several pages in my site, home, about, contact, photos etc. I created navigation buttons for the homepage and they work great. However on my other pages I created different buttons as they are in a different place and have some additional buttons that the homepage does not have (except the contact page has common buttons to the homepage). I put the homepage and second page (contact) actions on frame 1. I then created a new keyframe at frame 20 where the rest of the pages uses common buttons. I then changed the language in the action script so as not to conflict with the frame 1 action script. I had trouble making the second group of buttons work so I created a new actions layer (actions2) and they work, except.
Well my homepage buttons work, all of them. I can even go to my contact page (which share the same buttons with the homepage) and then go back to the home page. I can also go from the homepage to the other pages and those buttons work... UNTIL I go back to the home page or to the contacts page (the pages that share buttons) then those buttons NO LONGER WORK??? It seems like once I committ myself to one group of pages (I consider myself having two groups of pages based on the sharing of buttons by each group) it disables the other group.
For some reason I can't get my buttons to link to a URL. The file was created in Flash CS3 and I'm working in CS4. I'm still a newbee. Seems by the time I finally figure Flash out, it's time to learn it all over again. Getting familiar with AS, but still have along way to go. Anyway when I apply either these scripts to a button the url launches without ceremony or not at all when I preivew it. Probably something brain dead, I'm sure.
AS2.onRelease = function() { getURL("http://www.http://www.linkedin.com/connections?trk=hb_tab_cnts.com");};
AS3linkedBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);function mouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.http://www.linkedin.com/connections?trk=hb_tab_cnts.com));}
Errors: Line 2 - The class or interface 'MouseEvent' could not be loaded. Line 1 - Statement must appear within on handler
I have a movie that I have been working on.There is a simple animation/intro and then a main frame with several buttons set up to jump ahead to other frames.There are 4 buttons and they all work just fine and go to the respective frame with no problems.
My problem is in trying to add a button to one of those frames. I can't get any button to work on any of those frames at all. I tried to add a "home" button that jumps back to the main frame, but that wouldn't work. So, I tried to copy the main frame and move it ahead on the time line but that didn't work either. I tried to add buttons for the other frames as well and no button would work (regardless of where it was referenced) on those other frames.Here is the error message I keep getting:
Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
I've recently downloaded the Flash CS5 and we wanted to upgrade license, but we experience VERY bad problem.Steps:
1. Create blank FLA AS 3.0 movie.
2. Add to first frame (stage), for example, TextArea component and name it "xxx".
3. Set in "Properties" window in "Component Parameters" tab:text - "hello world"maxChars - 10
4. Add script to first frame with next code:[code]
SO NUMERICAL PARAMETERS DON'T WORK! I not a new to Flash. Have worked more than 5 years with this. Also we've tested such behaviour with latest (downloaded today and yesterday) packages from OFFICIAL url...we've tested this behavoiur on different machines, with different operating systems.
I'm trying to create a portfolio site and I'm running into some problems. I've built my main site on the timeline and all my buttons work fine the AS is very simple:
function goForward(event:MouseEvent):void {
if(currentFrame == totalFrames) {
gotoAndStop(1);
} else {
nextFrame();
}} next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goForward);
But when I make Movie clips of a scenes with buttons in them (children?) to try and simplify the site, AS doesn't seem to recognize the instance name for the button in the Movie Clip. I get an error message:
1120: Access of undefined property next_btn.
I've put an invisible button over the mc and given it the next_btn instance name and it works although I would like to fix the buttons in the MC properly. Is it better to condense a site into movie clips and single frames or should I just have a long linear timeline that spans many frames?
I have been trying to work out my flash button. But it just doesn't work.. In flash, I made a button symbol. I did the four stage.up, over, down and hit. And I set the actionscript
on(release) {
getURL("[URL]","_blank");
}
When I tested the movie, it said 1087: Syntax error: extra characters found after end of program.
10.1 Does not work with SisM760gx chipset. I know its an old chipset for this notebook. I cant get fullscreen when watching youtube movies or something else.. The pixels stays dead and with strange colours. I know I can uncheck the use hardware acceleration , but the quality of the video get a lot worser, so i dont think this is a solution. I reinstalled the flash 9 and i got the problem "solved".. Is there plans from adobe to work on this issue for older platforms?
View 4 RepliesScrolling my page with a flash movie, so that the movie disappears out of the visible area of the browser, effects, that the movie does not work.
I don't understand that ! Is it a bug or is there another reason
For this website I've put a preloader on the 1st frame and the site on the 2nd.I've tested the site after having created a small animation which makes appear the main menu, a logo and an image.Everything did work good, so I went on building the site.Now that I have created some pages I've tested again the whole site and the preloader doesn't work anymore.Testing the site on the "ctrl+enter" window and simulating the download I have a white background (both the preloader and website background are yellow) then I see the preloader for a fraction of second and suddenly the site appears.
Publishing the site on my web space the background is correctly yellow, but the preloader doesn't appear, the browser's loading bar stops at half then the preloader appears again for a fraction of seconds and suddenly the site appears (tested on Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome and Safari, same behaviour with all of them).It looks that the preloader is become part of the site and that there is an invisibile preloader.The setting in: Publish settings -> Flash -> Script Settings -> Library Path -> Default Linkageis set to "Merged into code"the same happen if I set "Runtime Shared Library" and "Custom Preloader Loop".
Code Snippets won't workEvery time I try to attach a Code Snippet I keep getting this error:***Notes from Customer***10/13/201020:55:30When I have a object on stage, and I try to add code snippet, I keep gettingerror message: The following JavaScript error(s) occurred: SyntaxError: missing ) after argument listI've watched video(s) on adding snippets, but it won't work for me like it
View 1 RepliesI am just starting to use flash.
I designed a flash site with Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3.0.
I am using this simple preloader, basically I learned from a tutorial:
stop();
//PreloaderloaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, updatePreloader);
function updatePreloader(evtObj:ProgressEvent):void{//container for the progress of the site (download)var percent:Number = Math.floor((evtObj.bytesLoaded*100)/evtObj.bytesTotal);preloader_txt.text = percent+"%";if (percent==100){ nextFrame(); }}
make it refresh properly in explorer 8, as it works well once, but if you refresh, it stops working, and stays on 0%.
I am trying to get my Trebuchet font working for several different styles in a single fla. I am using Flash CS5 and AS3, but I mustpublish it in flash player 9, so TLF-text is out. I am really confused and irritated by this.The fields are placed on the stage manually and must be able to handle htmlText.I embed all 3 fonts in the library but it doesnt work. If I only use one of the fields, and therefore only one style, it works great.
View 3 RepliesWhen I test the movie my hyperlink works fine, but when I publish it, doesn't work. I'm not experienced with ActionScript. Here are some screen shots of what I got...
View 3 RepliesI have a movie that I exported from PremierePro CS5 into flv format and imported into Flash CS5. It opened a player and I followed the steps with local external video playback component. Fine, it plays in the test movie. I saved and exported to another PC where I want to put the file into a Dreamweaver (CS3) page to upload to our site. The trouble is when I test the file on the other PC, it only opens a blank swf page with no player.
View 3 RepliesI created a photo gallery using flash and I can't get it to work on my web page.I am using Flash CS5 and Dreamweaver CS3.If I just open the html file (the one Flash created when I published it) it works just fine but, when I put the Flash video on the page I created in Dreamweaver, it plays, but without the images.
View 12 RepliesI can't get a simple fade to work, despite research and trial & error.My procedure (FYI):
- I create a layer just for this fade object.
- I drag a .gif image from the Library to the stage in this layer.
- I convert it to a symbol (tried Button & Movie symbols.Graphic symbol not an option because I need to reposition the object programatically).
- I select the first frame in this layer, select the symbol, and set its Alpha to 0%.
- I select another frame in this layer and Insert Keyframe.
- I select the symbol again and set its Alpha to 100%.
- I select the range of frames from start to end keyframe, I right-click this range, and I insert a Classic Tween (I've tried Motion Tween as well).
Bottom Line:
-When I try Control --> Play, the fade works perfectly.
-When I try Control --> Test Movie, the fade never happens and the symbol remains invisible.
Why would the fade work in Play but not in Test Movie?What step is missing/wrong in getting this fade to work?
