Flash :: [F8] Problem With Flash Slide Presentation.

Flash Slide Presentation Help Please
Hi im trying to build a simple training simulation using the slide presentation method in flash, ive got all my background images and nav buttons on the first presentation slide, ive also got a text area set to dynamic that i want to use as step numbers which changes when the user moves to the next slide, also i want to be able to disable the next button on certain slides so the users has to interact with the simulation.

Im have no luck doing either of these simple tasks, can some one please point me in the right direction.

Flash 8 Slide Presentation
Hello- I am using Flash 8 and a slide presnentation format. I am creating a computer based training module. I have buttons created that go back and forth through the slides of the whole presentation. How do I disable one of those buttons on a specific slide until a certain frame? Is it possible doing the slide presentation?

I am also trying to figure out after the slide presentation is gone through once, if the user decides to go back through the slides, how do I make the slides replay? As of right now - they are stopped on the last frame in the slide.

Thanks!

Flash 8 Slide Presentation
I am using Flash 8 slide presentation template to make a computer based tutorial. I have searched all different kinds of forums etc. and haven't seen much help for slide presentations. I have 2 questions:

1) Once a user plays through a slide, if they try to go back, the slide does not play again. The movie for that particular slide will stay on the last frame. I would like for everytime the user goes in a slide for it to start from the begining. How would I do this?

2) On the parent slide of the presentation, I set up my two buttons with the following script:
code:
on (release) {
var screen = null;
var target = this;
while ((screen == null) && (target != undefined) && (target != null)) {
if (target instanceof mx.screens.Screen) {
screen = target;
} else {
target = target._parent;
}
}
if (screen instanceof mx.screens.Slide) {
screen.rootSlide.currentSlide.gotoNextSlide(gotoAn dPlay (1));
}
}

On the child slides, I would like to disable the button for 5-10 seconds. How do I do this if the code for the buttons are on the parent slide?

Any feedback or information would be very very appreciated!

Thanks!

[F8] Flash Slide Presentation
i'm using the flash slide presentation for a slide show. one thing i noticed about the slide presentation format is that once the .swf starts all movie clips start rolling in the presentation. so if you have a clip on the 3rd slide with rotating images once you start viewing the presentation by the time you get the to 3rd slide you will have missed the first bunch of images in that clip.

i also have some video on 2 slides played through an flv player. the 1st one works and the second doesn't. can't really figure out what the problem is.

so if anyone uses the slide presentation format i'd really appreciate some help... thanks a lot.

Flash Slide Presentation
Hi
i new to flash slide presentation
i have a master slide name "presentation"
and two screen below it.

1.slide1
2.slide2

on slide1 : on the 1st frame i have a animated movie clip.
on slide2: on the 1st frame i have a another animated movie clip.

now i noticed something that in slide1 and animated movieClip keep on looping , its pretty obvious because i didn't put stop(); at the end.
so i put stop. same thing i have done with "slide2" , till here its WOW!! now

once i press the right arrow in the keyboard it takes me to the "slide2" but the animation on the 1st frame of the slide2 seems to be ended. that mean animation has been already played before.

i guess i am doing some mistake somewhere.... any body can help me out??

Do u think any luck???

Flash Slide Presentation
I am wondering if anyone knows why my loader doesn't seem to work in the Slide Presentation when it works in a regular Movie? I am under the impression that you can do the same things in the "Slide Presentation".

Any Ideas?

Flash 8 Slide Presentation
I am using Flash 8 slide presentation template to make a computer based tutorial. I have searched all different kinds of forums etc. and haven't seen much help for slide presentations. I have 2 questions:

1) Once a user plays through a slide, if they try to go back, the slide does not play again. The movie for that particular slide will stay on the last frame. I would like for everytime the user goes in a slide for it to start from the begining. How would I do this?

2) On the parent slide of the presentation, I set up my two buttons with the following script:

on (release) {
var screen = null;
var target = this;
while ((screen == null) && (target != undefined) && (target != null)) {
if (target instanceof mx.screens.Screen) {
screen = target;
} else {
target = target._parent;
}
}
if (screen instanceof mx.screens.Slide) {
screen.rootSlide.currentSlide.gotoNextSlide(gotoAndPlay (1));
}
}

On the child slides, I would like to disable the button for 5-10 seconds. How do I do this if the code for the buttons are on the parent slide?

Any feedback or information would be very very appreciated!

Thanks!

Flash Slide Presentation
Hi to all,

please any one help me on flash slide presenation...how to do with slides in flash, can any one provide me sample file for this...

Thanks & Regards

Satish Kumar Rajula

Flash 8 Slide Presentation
I have figured out how to work around this problem, but I would still like to know why, when I load pictures into a Slide Presentation document, the first screen of the slide show always shows blank, even though there is a picture there, and it starts with the second picture. I also put all the pictures into "slide 1". That is the only way I could make the slide show work. I like the convenience of quickly loading pictures for simple slide show. Is there a better way? Thanks.

Flash Slide Presentation
Hey hi

I am trying to make a slideshow/movie with the slide presentation feature. I use flash cs3 on a mac, but I don't think that matters ?

I have put all my photos I am using onto into individual slides. I have set cue points.

When i test it, nothing happens. It doesnt go to the next slide.

I am trying to redo the opening on mogullife.com but with more photos and a different song. I have done exactly what I want done on a keynote presentation, but when I export it to flash, the transitions will not work, so I am here.

Can someone please point me in the right direction? You can message me on here or on ichat or on myspace or email or call or snailmail. Anything. I really wanted to do this soon.

Thank you in advance for any help.

samantha
myspace.com/samanthadarling

Flash 8 Slide Presentation
Is it possible to sort slides with actionscript in a *Slide presentation?

*mx.screens.Slide

Flash Slide Presentation
Hi

I would like to make a slide presentation, using flash mx pro. I want to load a txt file externally but want to assign an animation point wise.

Is there possiblity of loading a single text file and assinging multiple variable (ie point) in the text file

eg line1=Headline
line 2=subheadline
line3=copy and so on
Please guide me in this regard

also how to navigate between two slides.

thanks

Milind.

Flash Slide Presentation To AVI
Hi,

Please help!!!!

I'm trying to export my flash slide presentation to AVI to burn eventually to DVD. My problem is that I can create the file but whn I go to play it on my windows player it won't play and shows that it has no time 00:00:00. Does anyone know how `to fix this or of another way I can get this down to DVD.

Thanks,

Luke.

Flash MX Slide Presentation
I'm just getting to grips with MX Slide Presentation. I've got a number of slides, with content and graphics and I can navigate between the slides using buttons.

What I am having problems with is adding sound. My sound seems to play right accross the slide show, and when I drag a sound onto the stage, there is no icon to represent its presence. I can get the sounds to stop by using the behaviour on the buttons that move slides. Are there any good tutorials on using sound in the Slide Presentation part of MX 2004.

Cheers

John

Flash Slide Presentation Question
Has anyone used Flash MX and used the slide presentation option. If so, is it good? Is it just like PowerPoint or does it have some increased functionality? Any opinions on this would be much obliged. Thank you.

Flash Slide Presentation Templates?
hey everyone, I need to make a like 10 slide presentations in flash, in a few days, so im wondering if there is a site to download templates for this purpose.

THANKS!!

Flash MX2004pro - Slide Presentation
I have a project that I think would do well in a slide presentation format, which looks like a new feature for Flash MX2004pro. But after looking thru the Help section, I am no closer to figuring out how it works.

1) Anyone know where I can find a good tutorial or sample of how to create a Flash slide presentation document? (or maybe someone who can explain it simply?)

2) What is the benefit of using the slide format, as opposed to just building it as a regular .fla doc?

3) (And this will show you that I am not a scripter type...) I used to use the 'tell target' command to control Movie Clips. But I can no longer find 'tell target' in the actions menu. What is the proper/modern command to control a Movie Clip? For example, if I had a button that I wanted to code that upon release, to tell a MC instance 'doggy' to go to frame 4 and stop, what would that scripting look like?

Luv yall on Flashkit!
boomph

Preloader For Flash Slide Presentation Help
I'm looking to add a preloader to a Flash Slide Presentation. The Macromedia Help section notes that you can't add a preloader directly to a Slide Presentation since it is a screen based document and all screens are located ont he first frame of the root timeline. However, it also notes that you can circumvent this by loadiung the saved screen-based presentation swf into a preloder flash file.

I am having trouble doing this. Basically, I followed a tutorial about creating a preloader on this site, which works fine for a regular movie, however, when I try to add a preloader while loading an external swf, one of two things happens, the external swf never loads or I never see the preloader and it's as if there wasn't a preloader at all.

Currently, I have a 2 layer document set up.

First layer is "preloader" and the layer has the following actionscript with it: stop();

My Preloader symbol has the following actionscripting associated with it:

onClipEvent (load) {
total = _root.getBytesTotal();
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
loaded = _root.getBytesLoaded();
percent = int(loaded/total*100);
text = percent+"%";
gotoAndStop(percent);
if (loaded == total) {
_root.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}

My second layer is "content" and is 2 frames in duration.

The first frame of this layer has no content or actions.
The second frame of this layer loads an external swf file and has a stop command:

stop();
//load Movie Behavior
if(this == Number(this)){
loadMovieNum("http://www.toddjokl.com/multimedia%20files/studentphoto.swf",this);
} else {
this.loadMovie("http://www.toddjokl.com/multimedia%20files/studentphoto.swf");
}
//End Behavior

Anybody have some suggestions? Thanks

Any suggestions?

Flash Slide Presentation - Fade-In?
I am using the "Flash Slide Presentation" file included in Flash MX 2004 documentation. The images don't fade in though they just appear.

Is there a way to make them fade in rather than just appear?

Please Help With Flash Slide Presentation Nightmare
Hi - could someone please help with my slide presentation nightmare?

I have a Flash Slide presentation. The presentation uses the Media Display to stream an audio track of narration (audio_pb is the instance name). In order to synch narration to the slides in the presentation i have used cue points. This all works fine.

In order to avoid empty animation frames within the slides i have used a pause function (wait(). However this has caused 2 issues which i am now pulling my hair out trying to resolve.

Each slide needs different amounts of time so i tried to define a global function on the main "presentation" slide and assign the time on each slide (ie wait(4); but this did not seem to be recognised by the slides. I have therefore used the following AS on frame 1 of each slide it needs to be on:

function wait() {
stop();
var myInterval = setInterval(function () {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}, 4*1000); // stop for 4 seconds
}

and then used wait(); where necessary. (This works fine even though its probably not the best way to do it).

The main problem that the wait(); function is causing is that i need to have a play and pause button in the presentation. I have added these to the first "presentation" slide and added the following code (again on the "presentation" slide):

function playFrame() {
play_btn.enabled = true; //enables play button
pause_btn.enabled = true; //enables pause button
currentSlide.play(); //plays slide at current position rather than going back to frame one of slide
play_btn.enabled = false; //disables play button so that it doesnt return to start of slide
}

play_btn.onRelease = function(){
playFrame();
audio_pb.play(); // mediaDisplay name
}

pause_btn.onRelease = function(){
currentSlide.stop();
audio_pb.pause();
play_btn.enabled = true;
}

I know the above is not the prettiest of code but i am a newbie and do not know how to write better actionscript (yet).

So, all of the above works until you click the pause button when it is on a frame that is using the wait(); function. When this happens the animation of the slide continues and then the cue point timing gets all messed up. I have tried to use ClearInterval within the pause_btn function but it didnt get me very far. It did kind of work but messed up the timing of the cue points as when the animation started again the time alloted to "wait" had been ignored.

I also tried to load the completed swf into an empty movie clip and add the play and pause buttons there but couldnt get that to work either.

Please excuse my ignorance and probably appalling code. As mentioned i am quite new to this and would greatly appreciate any help with this, before i lose the will to live.

Many, many thanks, zoe

Navigate In A Flash Slide Presentation
Hi,
I am using flashMx 2004 pro for a slide presentation. And I would like to know what should I do to navigate between slides with pagedown or pageup key, instead of key.right or left.right.
Is there someone who can tell me the way to do that ??

thanks

Using Flash In Presentation Slide Mode
I'm experimenting with using Flash in Presentation mode...where the layout is a series of slides. Why is it that although I have a sound file on the third slide of my presentation, it starts playing on the first slide when I launch the file?

Thanks in advance.

Question About Flash Slide Presentation
I am having a hard time with what's probably a basic concept in Flash.

I've made a slide presentation. I want each paragraph of text to appear one at a time, with about a one-second delay between.

First I put one paragraph on each slide. I nested the slides. So for example, if I have 3 paragraphs, I have 3 slides, none of which are siblings.

The result is all of the paragraphs appearing at once. I added a "fade" behavior to each transition and they all fade in at once.

My second attempt was to arrange them as siblings. In the first slide, I have paragraph1. On the 2nd, I have the paragraph1 and paragraph2 and on the 3rd, I have all three paragraphs.

The result is nicely timed paragraphs, but they are in slightly different positions, so the transitions are a bit jaggy. I pasted them in place, so I don't understand why they are not EXACTLY in place.

Do you know a better way to do this?? I hope my description is clear enough to follow. I appreciate your suggestions.

Preloader For Flash Slide Presentation?
Using a Flash Slide Presentation to act as a sequential-nav image gallery.

I'd like to add a preloader to the entire movie - but don't really even know where to begin - as the slides render off of the timeline somehow.

Anyone with experience on this?

Many thanks.

Preload Flash Slide Presentation?
Hello, i am a relative newcomer to Flash and Actionscript and am having a problem when trying to preload a flash slide presentation.

Basically i have a presentation that is quite heavy graphically and needs to be viewed on the web while the presentation is being given. I have exported all of the movie clips for use with actionscript via the linkage option and made sure they arent exported to frame 1.

I have 2 frames to the base slide of the presentation in order to run my preloader. I have tested this preloader in a regular flash movie and it works fine. When i preview the movie i dont see the preloader at all and in the bandwidth profiler it shows that there are only 2 frames regardless of the fact that there are 3 on the base slide. What i am wondering is --> where is the base timeline in a flash slideshow presentation so that i can add my preloader to it, or does anyone have an alernative method of preloading a slide presentation?

Problems Using Flash Presentation / Slide With IE
I have created a slideshow using the Flash presentation / slide component. All images are the same size. When the movie loads in Firefox, the slide show works fine. However in IE, the first image is loaded off center. The top left corner of the image is placed in the center of the screen. All subsequent images load fine. This is an intermittent problem as it does not happen all the time.

Has anyone seen this problem and know of a solution.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Calling An Fla From A Flash Slide Presentation
I would like to create a Flash Slide Presentation that would present a menu to the use so he can select from several "shows" in separate fla files. This allows for incremental deployment and easier maintenance.

I am new to Flash, so there may be an obvious solution I am missing...

How can I call an existing fla file from the time line in a slide?

Thanks!

- Ron

Flash Slide Presentation 22MB
I've created a slide presentation which was used at exhibition.
I have been asked to use it on our website its 22MB.
Is this going to cause a problem?

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Help On Slide Based Flash Presentation
I am using Flash to create a screen based presentation instead of Powerpoint. I want to add a simple automatic page numbers on each slide. What I tried to do is to create a new text field on each on(reveal) slide event. The text field gets the number of the slide simply from the name of the slide (slide0, slide1, etc.) . The problem I got is that the coordinates of the text field of each slide depends on the registration point of the slide. This registration point depends on the content of the slide (other components in the slide) .. So the location of the page number text field will be different in each slide.

I wanted to use a universal registration point for all slides which is the upper-left corner of the slide but It seems that flash does not allow to to do this !!

In an other trial, I tried to create a text field in the main screen (presentation) but I could'nt update it from the other screens !!

Any help !

Sami

Edited: 11/28/2007 at 10:13:50 AM by Sami1978

Flash Slide Presentation Mode
How to I use dynamic text and/or a progress bar to change slide information in this mode? Example: Slide 1 of 99

My template is in actionscript 2.0

Preloader In Presentation Slide For Flash 8
Hi

Does anybody know how to or is it even possible to create a preloader in a presentation file for flash8? I hope some one has the answer to this as i have tried looking every where.

Thanks

Edited: 12/19/2006 at 08:22:41 AM by ChimpyChomps

Buttons For Flash Slide Presentation
Hi I am new to Flash and I am creating a slide presentation that can be used for elearning. I have created 8 slides to start with and placed two buttons on each slide to go backward and forward. However; when I run the show although the buttons depress when pushed the slides do not change. Can anyone suggest what I have done wrong. I changed the buttons to symbols and inserted the following Code:

//previous button
on(press) {nextFrame();}

//next button
on(press) {prevFrame();}

Flash Slide Presentation Or Movieclips
Hey fellow shockers,

I just watched a segment from "Total Training for Advanced Flash Professional 8 Actionscript"

I'm used to working with movieclips and the flash timeline when creating a website but the presenter had another option; The "Flash Slide Presentation"

Does anyone have any opinions about this?

Flash Slide Presentation Loop Problem
I have created a slide presentation that will have a voice over sound track. When the sound track finishes i have added a behavior to move to next slide. I have added an action layer with a stop at the end of each slide. The presentation plays through as it should, but the problem I have is getting it to rewind and play again from the beginning. If I use a gotoFirstSlide behavior it is like the presentation is not rewinding because the intro music doesn't play and it only moves to the first 2 slides. I want it to rewind and play from the start, like it plays the first time through.

Thanks

[F8] Problem With Keyboard In Flash Slide Presentation. Pls Help
Hi,
I have a flash web made by "Flash Slide Presentation". And when I am going through slides I can use also keyboard left and right arrow keys. Is any script that blocks left and right arrow keys?

[F8] Flash Presentation Question - Going Back A Slide
I setup transitions for each slide and they work but when I arrow back to the previous slide it is just stopped. Is there a way for it to redo all the transition animations? The only as i have is just for the arrow keys to go through the slides.

Code:

on (mouseDown) {

// GoTo Next Screen behavior
gotoAndPlay(11);
var screen = null;
var target = this;
while((screen == null) && (target != undefined) && (target != null))
{
if(target instanceof mx.screens.Screen)
{
screen = target;
}
else
{
target = target._parent;
}
}
if(screen instanceof mx.screens.Slide)
{
screen.rootSlide.currentSlide.gotoNextSlide();
}
// End GoTo Next Screen behavior

}

Thanks!

[MX] Flash SLIDE Presentation - Use Mouse Instead Of Keyboard?
Hey,

I am creating a 'powerpoint presentation', using flash's slide presentation. 2 questions:

1. I have a remote mouse that I use for presentation, but since Flash's slide presentation advances by keyboard's left and right, how can I change that so it picks up the left and right of the mouse instead??

2. In regards to transistions, Flash has behaviours that provide a weak array of transistions, is there anyway I can download different transistions? Ideally mac's 3d box would be amazing.. but beggars can't be choosers, just thought i'd throw the question out there!

Thanks for your help, i have this presentation on Thursday and would really love to use my mouse instead of the keys!!

Greg

[F8] Sounds Playing All At Once In Flash Slide Presentation
I am pulling my hair out. I am working on a presentation in flash 8 using the slide presentation screens. I need to add narration to each slide, so i am adding a different mp3 sound from the library to each screen. I assumed that the sound would play when the corresponding slide was viewed (e.g. sound 1 and slide 1) and stop when moving to the next slide, and the next audio file relating to the next slide, would then start to play. This happens after moving on from slide 1 to slide 2 (slide 2 has no audio), but from slide 3, the sound file plays but does not stop when moving to slide 4, and slide 4's audio file then starts playing while the previous audio file continues. its a big mess.

I added 'stop' script to each slide's timeline on the audio layer, but it is ignored.

someone please help, i have spent days on this. i thought slide presentation format would be easy.

Flash Presentation (dynamic Slide Show)
My goal is to convert a .ppt slide show into a program where the user can select the order in which the slides appear. I have been going through the help files in Flash and I have yet to see a way to do it easily. I think I could do it by keeping an array on the root of the order I want, then on each slide looking at that to see which one should come next, etc.... I'm thinking that there is an easier way. My original plan was to do it in regular "Flash mode" and not in the presentations, but I saw this option so I assumed that it would be easier to use it. Please let me know of any advice / tips, even if it means using a different program. Thanks!

How I Make A Button Go To The Next Slide In A Flash 8 Presentation
A school presentation has to be in for tomorrow!

Could someone please tell me how i make a button go to the next slide in a Flash 8 Presentation. Ive had a play around but with no luck

Any help would be GREATLY appriciated

Cheers Guys

Load External Swf Into Flash Slide Presentation
Good day all, here is what I am trying to do....

I want to create a slide presentation that will be played in Projector Mode.
The presentation contains 5 Slides
Each slides contains 1 external swf
Each swf contains a simple animation (a simple tween).

When the slide presentation runs, it start fine but when a slide play's ; the swf loads but keep looping ... it never returns to the main timeline... who called the swf.

QUESTION:
How do you create a timeline that loads multiples external swf play them individualy and then returns to the main timeline?

Example:
Timeline....
Slide 1 - load and play external swf
Return to main timeline.
Go to next Frame
Slide 2 - load and play external swf
Return to main timeline...
Etc...

What is the proper process for that?
Thx
Ben

Flash Slide Show Presentation Question
I have created a slide show presentation in Flash format. On some of my slides, I have animations that run when the slide first loads. However, as I do not want the animation to continue looping preventing the viewer from reading the slide, I used actionscript to place a stop action at the end of the slide animation.
The problem is that if the user uses the previous button in the slide show to return to the slide the animation does not run. It will only run again if the entire slide show is restarted. Is there a simple way to fix this?
Thanks

Problem With Keyboard In Flash Slide Presentation
Hi,
I have a flash web made by "Flash Slide Presentation". And when I am going through slides I can use also keyboard left and right arrow keys. Is any script that blocks left and right arrow keys?

Full Screen In Flash Slide Presentation
Hi,

It's impossible, that when I open a flash slide presentation swf file it starts exactly in full screen mode?

How To Control Sound In Flash 8 Slide Presentation?
I'm trying to create, in Flash 8 Pro, a slide presentation with an audio track (narration) on each slide. The sound files are mp3. If I attach the sound to each slide using the Properties window, all the sounds start with the first slide. I've tried several variations of ActionScript to load or attach a sound file to a slide, and start the sound, but none of them work. I've included a stopAllSounds command at the beginning of each script to enable the user to advance to a slide before the previous slide's audio is finished.

I'm new to ActionScript, and have not found anyone else who knows how to make this work.