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Flash Update Not Recognised
Every time I go to a website with an item on that needs Flash to play it I am told that I do not have an up to date version and I must download it. I do so, and receive the on screen indicator that the update has been downloaded, but the download does not appear to be recognised and websites still give me the same message. Thus I try again to download with the same result, and so on....

At the moment I am completely unable to play anything using Flash because of this problem.

Suggestions appreciated!!

Flash Recognised By Search Engines
Hello ..i been having troubles with trying to get my website on the top 10 links of certain search engines on the web.,.. I know full flash websites are a bit difficult to find on search engines, but i was wondering if anyone can tell me how to do certain websites get on the web on the first results, and others dont... Is it who ads the "keywords" first?

Is there any way that i can make a full flash website included on the first 10 results of a search engine?

Thanks for your time and patience.

Flash Text Recognised In Search Engines
Hi,

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is Flash 8 (or will Flash 9) text recognised by search engines?

I love developing sites in flash but everyone wants html so it's good for SEO - I'd love to be able to develop in flash and have the text picked up by the search engines.

Thanks for any help,

Richard

[F8] Flash Text Recognised In Search Engines
Hi,

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is Flash 8 (or will Flash 9) text recognised by search engines?

I love developing sites in flash but everyone wants html so it's good for SEO - I'd love to be able to develop in flash and have the text picked up by the search engines.

Thanks for any help,

Richard

Text Area Of Animated Flash Button Not Being Recognised
Hi there,

Hoping someone can help.
I'm creating an animated flash button using a movie clip as the "over" state, and graphic symbols for the other states. The button includes some text in all states.

When I publish the button, mostly everything is OK (the movie clip activates on rollover) but the movie clip doesn't activate when rolling over the "text" area of the button.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem - I want to make sure that the whole button area can activate the rollover movie?

Thanks for your help.

Ginny

Flash To Be Recognised Be Yahoo And Google Search Engines...
Hi... about a couple of months ago news came up that yahoo and google will be able to recognize flash content....any idea when is this going to happen?
will it recognize information from the swf file like text etc?

Thanks in advance

Browser Display Size Of Flash Movie / Need To Have Browser Match Movie Size
Hello,

I am having a problem getting my flash movies to come up in the broswer w/out any extra space around the movie. I have published all 3 ways out of flash, and even made may changes to the Dreamwever file with no luck.

Is it possible to have my movie pop up and the browser be 600x440 w/out extra background?

Please send help!

Thanks,

xcaliber_1

Chr(10) Not Being Recognised?
hi,

when using coldfusion forms i usually use the following code to recognise a line break in a text field:

#Replace(Trim(Form.message), Chr(10), "<br>", "ALL")#

i have created a flash form and the form variables are passed to my coldfusion template but for some reason it is not recognising the chr(10).

i have tried setting the flash input field to html but this sends through unwanted tags such as font and paragraph.

can anyone help?

Getting The Variables To Be Recognised.
Hi,

I've just started doing dynamic stuff in Flash MX.

My problem is as follows:

-Ive created a text file with name=value& etc etc data.
-I've loaded the variables.
-I'm trying to dynamically reference the variables by writing them to a text field via actionScript.
-It don't wanna work.

If anyone could look at the two source files:-

http://freespace.virgin.net/gav.petz/testfile.fla
http://freespace.virgin.net/gav.petz/data.txt

I can get the 'Name1' field to explicitly refer to that variable, however the loop function won't work in concatenating all the test data.

Anyone help?

Many Thanks,

JB.

Variables Not Recognised - Please Help
Hi all,

I'm writing my first bits of as at the mo, but have run into a problem.

The variable height in the for loop of the following code is not being recognised further down the script, and I can't fathom why.
there is a text box set to height on the main timeline which shows the value of the variable, so it's coming out of the loop, but not being recognised.

myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.load("menu.xml");

function handleLoad(status) {
status ? makeMenu() : trace("Error parsing XML.");
}
myXML.onLoad = handleLoad;

// Build menu headings
function makeMenu(){
myItem = "clip";
myTrack = "tracks"; myX = 0;myY = 0;

for ( i=0; i<myXML.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
title = (myXML.firstChild.childNode[i].attributes.id);
linkswf1 = (myXML.firstChild.childNode[i].attributes.linkswf1);
linkmp3 = (myXML.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.linkmp3);
_root.track.attachMovie(myItem, title, i+10);
thisItem = this.track[title];
thisItem.title = (title);
thisItem.download.linkmp3=(linkmp3);
thisItem.listen.linkswf1=(linkswf1);

thisItem._X = myX;
thisItem._Y = myY+=(thisItem._height);
//thisItem[i] = [thisItem +i];
//thisItem[i].index = i;
height = ((i+1)*(thisItem._height)); //the offending variable

thisItem.listen.onRelease= function () {
openSwf(this.linkswf1);
}
this.track.thisItem.download.onRelease=function(){
openLink(this.linkmp3);
}
}

}

function openLink(linkmp3){
if (linkmp3!=null){
getURL(linkmp3,"_blank"); }else {
trace ("Link does not contain a URL");}
}

function openSwf(linkswf1){
if (linkswf1!=null){
_level0.holder.player.sndurl = (linkswf1);
_level0.holder.player.playSnd (linkswf1
}else {
trace ("Link does not contain a URL");}

}
var heighttracks = height; //where it's not being recognised
var maskHeight = mask._height;
var minY = mask._y-maskHeight/2;
var maxY = minY-(heighttracks-maskHeight);
//var maxY = -300.5;
//var minY = 24.5;
var speed = 10;
var scroll = 0;
function contScrollUp() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.track._y<minY) {
this.track._y += speed;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
function contScrollDown() {
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.track._y>=maxY) {
this.track._y -= speed;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
index=0

Could someone please help me?

Here's the file.
media

Sprite Not Recognised?
Hi,

i've been trying very slower to build a site and got stumped on why the EventListener doesnt recognise my sprite called menuBox - the stage listeners work fine, but when the mouse moves over the menuBox it doesnt recognise it - anyone know why?

code: package {
//imports here//

public class Inquizard extends Sprite {

//var's here//

public function Inquizard() {

init();
}
private function init():void {
//sample code goes here

stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;

menuBox = new Sprite();
addChild(menuBox);

menuBox.graphics.lineStyle (.05, 0xffffff, .3);
menuBox.graphics.beginFill (0xff0000, 1);
menuBox.graphics.drawRect (-100,-10, 100, 10);

cornerShading = new Sprite();
addChild(cornerShading);

//cornershading//

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDownStage);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onMouseUpStage);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMoveStage);

menuBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDownmenuBox);
menuBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onMouseUpmenuBox);
menuBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMovemenuBox);

addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);

}
public function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void {

menuBox.x = stage.stageWidth/2;
menuBox.y = stage.stageHeight/2 +140;
menuBox.width = 200;
menuBox.height = 40;

}

private function onMouseDownmenuBox (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse down - menuBox");
}

private function onMouseUpmenuBox (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse up - menuBox");
}

private function onMouseMovemenuBox (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse move - menuBox");
}

private function onMouseDownStage (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse down - stage");
}

private function onMouseUpStage (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse up - stage");
}

private function onMouseMoveStage (event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace ("mouse move - stage");
}
}
}

_Globals Not Being Recognised Between Movies
I'm using Flash MX 2004 pro and have a base movie loaded by Director. I am then loading different movies, title, menu, options etc into the base movie. My problem is although I'm setting my variables as _global they are not being recognised between the movies. I used exactly the same code in the previous version of Flash and it worked perfectly. Please help.

'ESCAPE' Keypress Not Recognised?
I have this piece of code:

ActionScript Code:
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL)) {
if (!gamePaused) {
gamePaused = true;
} else {
gamePaused = false;
}
}

which works perfectly as expected. Why does the exact same piece of code not work for the Escape key? i.e:

ActionScript Code:
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.ESCAPE)) {
if (!gamePaused) {
gamePaused = true;
} else {
gamePaused = false;
}
}

It works for every key I've tried, except for Escape. Any ideas?

Object Variable Not Recognised
Hi,
I'm trying some old script to classes...I had a global boolean variable called subtitlesYes , which I want to declare as the property of an object...It has to be readable by several levels of swf's which are loaded and unloaded at different times.
I put this in an as file, in the same directory as the swf's :

class ipa{
    var subtitles : Boolean;

    function ipa( subtitlesYes : Boolean){
        subtitles = subtitlesYes;
    }
}

In the root movie I put in the first frame:

var dpp : ipa = new ipa(false);

and then later on a level 3 swf, I had this:

if( dpp.subtitlesYes == false){
           _level3.speech._visible = false;
};

then in publish settings for as2 I put the document level class path in; ie. the same directory path as where the swf's are stored. I've put the path into all the swf publish settings.
   And it all doesn't work though the compiler doesn't complain of anything...
   Thanks so much if you can help, silverswim

Video Class Props Not Recognised
I am building a video player using AS2 and publishing for V7. I have a video object (which is strong typed as Video in my classes) on the stage and am using NetStream and NetConnection to play an external FLV through it. I have also built a progress bar and in order to make this as reusable as possible I want it to set itself to the width of the video object and this is where my problem arises.
If I call videoObj.width it returns 0 and as I need the video object width not the encoded FLV width this would not do anyway.
If I call videoObj._width I get back the correct width but I also get the error message "There is no property with the name '_width'. This is also the case with _x, _y, _alpha etc. I can get and set the properties but I always get this error despite them being listed as properties of the Video class.

As the error does not seem to impact the way things actually work I could just ignore it but I would like to understand whats going on here so... any thoughts?

Cheers all

After Loading Swf File Input Text Var. Not Recognised.
The script below works fine on a stand alone swf file.

But if I load this swf file into a another swf file with progressbar/loader etc everything works except the Text doesn't change in Input Text var cm or kg.  The fuctioning stand alone swf file can be seen at http://www.eudv.de/Pages/page1.html

Any help would be grateful.
//var kg and cm in input text
onEnterFrame = function () {
    height = this["slider"].tape;
    weight = this["scales"].knob;
    if (dragging) {
        cm =((-210+Math.round(height._y/4))*-1)/100;
        kg = 21+Math.round(weight._x/3);
        cm2 = (cm)*(cm);
        bmi = Math.round(kg/cm2);
        if (bmi<=16) {
            loadMovie("images/critical.jpg", "Blank_mc");
        } else if ((bmi>=17) && (bmi<=19))

etc.

IE Browser In A Flash Movie?
Is it possible to embed a IE Browser in a movie?

Full Browser Movie, But Use Browser Scrollbar When Needed
Is there any way to make a full browser swf that, at a certain point, stops scaling to the stage and allows the browser to use it's native scrollbars?

For example, say my flash site has a top bar (it's y is always 0) and a bottom bar (it's y might be stageHeight - 15). Is there any way to tell the movie to stop scaling if the bottom bar's y is less than say 300, and from that point have the browser display it's scrollbars allowing you to scroll the content?

Using Flash To Open A New Browser Window - Exact Size Of Flash Movie?
Hi,

In Dreamweaver, I've previously used the 'open new browser window' behaviour from a link to display my Flash movies, and entered the .SWF filename as the URL to launch (this launches a browser window thatls exactly the size of the movie, no scrollbars, buttons etc). Can I do a similar thing with Flash's 'get URL' command, or does that only go to HTML/HTM files?

Cheers, Skratch

Any Way To Activate Flash Fullscreen Mode When Flash Movie Loads In The Browser
Hi all,

I want to activate Flash Fullscreen mode when flash movie loads in the browser. Without activating it through button clicks.

I tried for this using this type of code:

function goFullScreen()
{
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen";
}
goFullScreen();

But it is not working this way, it is working when I put this type of code:

function goFullScreen()
{
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen";
}
button.onRelease=function()
{
goFullScreen();
}

thanks in advance,
Vikas.

Any Way To Activate Flash Fullscreen Mode When Flash Movie Loads In The Browser
Hi all,
I want to activate Flash Fullscreen mode when flash movie loads in the browser. Without activating it through button clicks.
I tried for this using this type of code:
function goFullScreen()
{
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen";
}
goFullScreen();
But it is not working this way, it is working when I put this type of code:
function goFullScreen()
{
Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen";
}
button.onRelease=function()
{
goFullScreen();
}
thanks in advance,
Vikas.

Shaking The Browser While In Flash Movie
I have done the tutorial on shaking the browser and can make it shake by coding HTML. But what I REALLY need is to be able to shake it in a specific frame. The tutorial's command DOESN'T work........CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHAT DOES???

(I will be EXTREMELY happy if you could help me out)

Cheers.

Flash Movie Dimensions From Browser?
Is there a way to get the dimensions of the flash movie from the browser? Eg. if i set the flash movie to appear as 100% by 100% in the browser can i get the dimensions that it actually shows up as in flash? I want to use these dimensions to movie stuff around based on the size of the window.

Thanks

Browser Free Flash Movie?
Hello,

I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but Could someone direct me to a tutorial on how to open your site without the browser around it, like at http://www.biglime.com

I have searched the tutorials section, but I'm not exactly sure what this technique is even called..

thanks.

Flash Movie Won't Center In Browser.
Another fairly basic problem ... but I can't get my Flash site to center in the browser window.

My 'publishing settings' (in Flash) are set to define size by actual pixels; HTML alignment is set to "default" and Flash alignment is set to "centered," both horiztonally and vertically.

The dimensions are 700x400 and my monitor is 1024x768. I open the movie in my browser and it always appears in the upper lefthand corner.

I've tried playing with different settings, and I've even edited the html file in Dreamweaver to specify "absolute center" as the desired browser alignment. This has no effect.

What am I overlooking?

K

How Can I Center In My Flash Movie In The Browser?
How can I center in my flash movie in the browser? Similar to the way 2Advanced is setup.. is that using a table or maybe frames?

I am trying to use DreamWeaver to do this. Or is 2Advanced a popup? I dont want to do a popup.. because you have to have an intro page before the popup.

Any ideas?

thanks

.fe.

Flash Movie Not Right Size In Browser
Hi

Could someone please explain why my movie clip shows up almost 10x smaller in my browser than the size I actually created it in flash. I am embedding the movie into a table cell. I also need it centered on the page, its currently coming up on the far left.

I would also like the background of the movie to be transparent so that is does not cover the background image of my table. I found this code (below) on someone elses post - does it work, if so, where does it go?
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

Could anyone help?

Thanks in advance

Fitting Flash Movie Into Browser
Does anyone know what the conversion table is for fitting a flash movie into the browser? I made a full flash website at 800x600 thinking it could stretch nicely to fit 800x600 or even 1024x768, but i forgot all about the IE/NS menu (forward button, refresh button etc), so my flash is now actually too big.
It's ok cuz it was just a test page, so i don't need to know how to make that one fit, but for future websites i'm guessing i should make it something like 800x550 to actually fit?
So to make a long story even longer:
Can anyone tell me how to make flash fit the browser with menu OR how to open it in a NEW window that doesn't have a menu? (i've seen that a few times but i don't know how hard that is to do for a n00b like me)

Thanx in advance for any help!

Allow Scale For My Flash Movie In Browser
I am using Flash 5

i have three options when publishing my movie for scaling, they are:

default (show all)
no borders
exact fit

which of these will scale my movie to fit in browser window. I dont seem to get it to work via any of these. I would like it so users viewing on laptops dont have to scroll to view entire movie, but users on large screens can see larger version.

thanks for your help

Cesca

Important question:
Can a movie be scaled down from its original size, or only up?

? PLEASE HELP :flash Movie In MacIntosh Browser
I've made a shockwave movie and published at this URL : "http://www.artisticlubtigi.it/private/index.html"
Why is not visible on the MacIntosh browsers, while it's perfectly working on the PC's browsers ?
The server where's been published is an "APACHE WEB SERVER"
Can u please give me an help ???
Thanks in advance
Eduardo

New Browser Window From Flash Movie
Can anyone tell me how to make a new browser window appear by pressing a button in a flash movie?

I'm doing a flash site for a photographer and the images are around 300px high. I'd like to have a larger version appear in a new browser window (presumably, one just large enough for the image) when the viewer clicks the 300px version.

I thank you for any help.
dixter

Movie And Browser Sizing In Flash MX
How do I create my movies to fit exactly into my browser window, i.e. if I create a movie with blue or imaged background how can I get rid of the white border around it? I'm a beginner so please excuse my ignorance.

Centering A Flash Movie In The Browser
Hi - can anyone tell me how I can set a flash movie to display in absolute centre in a web browser? I need to centre one both horizontally and vertically.

I have managed to centre one horizontally in dreamweaver, by using the centre paragraph button, but am unable to set it to complete centre on screen.

Any ideas?

Flash Movie Does Not Work In Browser
Hi,
I produced a flash .swf from a Keynote presentation. I installed this in my Dreamweaver page. I preview and it works fine!! But, once I upload the page (I have uploaded the html., the .swf, the java script and css, the flash movie will not start, or in any form show, just blank!

I have checked that the files are in the same directory, both on my computer and on my server.

Please please help!!!

thanks

Centering Flash Movie In Browser Using CSS / Div
I need to center my movie in the browser (vertically and horizontally) but joy of joy I can't use any table tags, any idea how I can do this?

Regards
William

How Do Center Flash Movie In Web Browser?
Hi. How can I get me flash movie to be in the center of the screen regardless of the size of the persons web browser window? None of the publishing settings seem to do it. Maybe it's something I have to do in dreamweaver? Please help.

example : http://www.aandesigners.com/flash/v3/main.htm

Stretch Flash Movie To Fit Web Browser.
I can't achieve doing this simple thing :

I have a flash that resolution is 800*600, on small displays it's okay, but on an HD screen it looks very small.
Web browser resize function is not good, it's badly stretched and runs very slowly.

After searching; I found Publish Settings, Dimensions : Match Movie; changed it to 100% percent.
Things gets resized properly but now too much space is shown, as you can see on picture 2.

Original, working.

Stretched but showing too much.

Do you know how can I fix this ?

Thanks a lot ! :-)

Help With Centrering My Flash-movie In The Browser
well, the title may have said it already..... when you enter my site the flash-movie is in the top left corner of the browser, how do I get it to be centered ?

Regards, Soma

Centralizeing Your Flash Movie In Web Browser
Hi

I have finished my website on flash however when I go to File / Publish preview / HTML my movie is arranged in the top left corner rarther than being centered like Kirupa.com. To begin with I thought all I had to do was to go onto publish settings and make sure that under HTML tab the, HTML Alignment was: Default / and that scale was: Default (show all) / and finally Flash Alignment was: center Horizontal and Vertical. There obviously more to it! If anyone could help me I would be extreamly gratefull.

Thanks

Richard

Why Does My Flash Movie Run Slow In Browser
Hey guys does anybody know why my flash movies play so much slower in my browser than when I preview them via test movie?

How Do I Center My Flash Movie In The Web Browser?
How do I modify the .html file that Flash produces (when publishing) so that my flash movie is always centered? Now it is always Justify Left.

Here is the .html text:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=demo2_alternate.html" />
<title>demo2</title>
</head>
<body>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" width="80" height="80">
<param name="movie" value="flash_detection.swf?flashContentURL=demo2_c ontent.html&altContentURL=demo2_alternate.html&con tentVersion=7&contentMajorRevision=0&contentMinorR evision=0&allowFlashAutoInstall=false" />
<param name="quality" value="low" />
<embed src="flash_detection.swf?flashContentURL=demo2_con tent.html&altContentURL=demo2_alternate.html&conte ntVersion=7&contentMajorRevision=0&contentMinorRev ision=0&allowFlashAutoInstall=false" quality="low" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="80" height="80" />
</object>
</body>
</html>

Centering Flash Movie In Browser
Hi,

I'm new here. I've got a question that it seems to already been answered but I can't find it: how do I center a flash movie in the html page that shows up in the browser, horizontally and VERTICALLY ( this one is the hard part )?

Kind regards,

Kepler

Flash Movie With No Browser Header
If someone could help me figure this out, I would be much abliged. I cannot seem to get the effect where you have an html file with out the browser window. In the publish settings, I set the dimensions to 100% x 100%, the window mode to windowless, I tried the scale set to no border, exact fit, and no scale, but I can't seem to get it work. Please help.
INFERNOAPBTS

My Flash Movie Doesn't Appear In The Browser?
cant understand this... just spent all day creating a flash movie. i can play it as 'publish preview' and 'test movie', but when i insert it into my html doc and try to play it in either IE or safari it just doesn't appear??? do you need more info from me to advice where i'm going wrong?

cheers!

Flash Movie Out Of Sync In Browser
I designed a flash mx movie where text flys in to the beat of the music. It plays fine when I export the movie and double click it to play in the flash player, or hit ctrl enter in Flash to preview, but when I insert the movie into an html page in dreamweaver and hit F12 to preview it in IE, it's out of sync. The text seems to play slower than the music and doesn't hit the beats anymore. I designed the movie in Flash MX at 24 fps playback. Am I missing something?