Flash :: 3D E-commerce Shopping Experience

Shopping Cart/E Commerce Info......
Ok, i know there are probably quite a few shopping cart threads, but i have a need for a little specific info so here goes...

I know you can either design your cart within the flash site, or use a link that goes to an external merchant ie. Paypal. But what im wondering is when you go to paypal they give you examples of the HTML code you would use to create a button, but how exactly would you posistion that in flash? If i build my site entirely in flash, then publish it, i know it creates the html code, But at that point if i just copy and paste the html that paypal provides, how can i posistion the button exacly where i need it? I guess what im asking, is if there is a way to "overlay" html on top of flash? Basically i build all my sites in flash and just publish as i dont know much HTML. So I suppose its just an HTML site that has flash embedded in it? And if tahts the case how would i create HTML buttons or forms etc over the flash part? Any info would be awesome, and or a link to a really good tutorial for creating your own shopping cart system entirely in flash. THANKS!

What Is The Best E-commerce Shopping Cart For Flash?
Does anyone know about Flash Cart? I need a reliable shopping cart for a small e-commerce site, but needs to be in flash. I was curious if anyone could send me in the right direction.

Thanks!
ZG

Someone With Experience? - PLeaSE HELp
Hey, whoever might be reading this i need desperate help! I basically need to have 4 (four) balls that go up and down a length of a stick when the mouse clicks on them and drags, but they have to stay in order. Kindof like an abacus. i am planning on putting it on a site. |-----O---O---O---O----| If you don't understand or you have an answer for me please write back! I'm desperate! and include all the action script everythings if they exist... or whatever else. thankyou PROFUSLY!
xxx
soph_13

Please Help... I Have Some Experience In Flash But This Is Beyond Me
Ok... here's the deal:

VERSION: FLASH 5

I've been fiddlin around in Flash for the past few days and Ive created a movie with a button at the end of the movie in a separate scene that is meant to be used to enter a website. How do I make the movie loop on that frame until a user clicks on the button?

@#$% First Sound Experience
Hi-
-i'm trying to place some background music on my page. I've been reading the tutorial at http://www.kennybelew.com and am having much trouble. I can get the sound to play, and that's fine. I'm tryin to make a button that turns the music off if playing=true, and back on if playing=false.
I figured i'd start with the basics and just see if i can get the music to stop just on a button press, but i cant even get that to work!!!

here's my script:
on the first frame of the sound layer:

Code:
mySound = new Sound();
mySound.attachSound("darkTunnel");
mySound.start(0,999);
playing = true;

a few frames down, i have a simple button with the following script:

Code:
on (press) {
mySound.stop();
}

and that doesnt work! I have tried just about everything i know to do and cant get the sound to stop!!

help?

FLA is available at
http://www.mykrob.com/helpFolder/mykrobDesign.zip

thanks,
-myk

I Want To Do This...But I Have No Flash Experience
Hi,

I got a copy of Macromedia studio MX, but I have no idea at all how to use it. I want to do something like the followiing web site

http://www.rayoflight.net/

Click on Spring, summer, fall, etc....

That is so freaking awesome.......I have been using Frontpage to design site, but this site is incredible.......I never knew doing something like that was possible.....Anyhow I want to lean how it is done........I have no experience with flash MX (even though I have a copy)........HELP

Thanks,
Mazen

Email me at:
mbasidiq@hotmail.com

CPU USAGE, Your Experience
I wanted to ask you what your general experience is with FLASH and CPU usage?

for best performance...
Do you think if you have 10 swf's. loaded into a main better
than
Having the content of the 10 swf's together in one and loading that into the main?

I have done testings but don't quite get any difference.
What is your opinion,experience?

No Flash Experience
Okay, I have a decent amount of HTML experience but love Flash sites. I'm looking to learn to do web design using Flash and am wondering if there are any VERY basic tutorials on starting a website. I've gone through all of the tutorials on the site and know that it would have to be a movie but I'm looking for a little more direction. Maybe someone knows of a good adjunct site that could help. My goal is to get into e-commerce web design with Flash. Also, could anyone tell me if it's possible to incorporate MS Access into Flash sites? Thanks for the help.

Experience With AnimationPackage?
Hi,

have you got any experience with the SUPER COOL AnimaptionPackage?
http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/animationpackage/

I have no problems with using the classes on the timeline where the classes were imported - but I just want to import them on _root and then create scripted animation from other timelines.

Anyone with input on this?

Sambo

Experience In An Rpg Game
hey,
im making an rpg and i have a problem with xp, i can make xp go up and down and stuff, but i cant get levels to work. can anyone tell me whats wrong with this script?
code:
if ((exp >= 20) (exp <= 70))
{lvl = 2};

(and no there are no mistakes with the path)

thanks

Does Anyone Have Any Experience With Slideshow Pro ?
Okay, I'm searching for a fully customizable .swf photo gallery and stumbled across slideshowpro.net. Does anyone have any experience with Slideshow Pro? To what extent is the layout / design customizable? Is the current version compatible with Flash MX 2004 ?

Any help appreciated.

Just Want To Share Some Experience
I had some problem with AMFPHP, actually all of my works, when tested on the remote servers, seem not to work on everything exept IE. And finally my last site worked only on my computer.

While checking my server logs I've found that when users tried to enter my site, their browsers hitted the strange 'mysite/crossdomain.xml' file. I've asked my help panel about 'crossdomain' and in five seconds the mysite/crossdomain.xml had been created with the following inside:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*.mysite" />
</cross-domain-policy>

Doing this helped me. I never met the same as mine problems here, but maybe it could help someone.

Rpg Levels (and Not The Ones W/ Experience..)
as some of you may or may not know from my last couple posts, im currently making a tile-based rpg in flash. i have the map working. but after the map is drawn, the main character (which all of the following code is in) goes under neath the map. it has something to do with the depth of the tiles. but i dont know how to make the depth of the main character on top.

PHP Code:

onClipEvent (load) {
    _x = 10*32;
    _y = 10*32;
    stop();
    up.gotoAndStop(2);
    t = 1;
    map1 = [[2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2], [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 2, 5, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 2, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], [2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2], [2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]];
    for (drawx=0; drawx<10; drawx++) {
        for (drawy=0; drawy<10; drawy++) {
            duplicateMovieClip(_root.tile, "tile"+t, t);
            _root["tile"+t]._x = drawx*32;
            _root["tile"+t]._y = drawy*32;
            _root["tile"+t].gotoAndStop(map1[drawy][drawx]);
            t += 1;
        }
        drawy = 0;
    }
}
}

a little help would be appreciated. i dont think this problem is that hard...

QT VR Experience In Flash 8
Dear List

I'm looking into possible solutions to create a quicktime VR like experience in flash 8 (tilting, panning, zooming, hotspots...).

So far my favorite seems to be this one: http://www.pano2qtvr.com.

Has anyone any experience with this? Are there any newer / better ones out there? Any extensions? Components?

Any advice or insight appreciated.

Thanks

Stephan

Client Experience
Hello,
I've got my first client and have had to build an MP3 player for his web page and I'm wondering how much to charge him.

It streams in external MP3's, XML.
Because it was my first time building, debugging and testing it, the total hours worked were about 10.

I have also worked on javascript code to launch the player.

Anyone getting paid for doing flash for clients?How much should I charge?

Best,

BRb

My First Experience With Writing OOP With AS3
So Ive been reading Object Oriented Programming for AS3, and it makes sense. I wanted to try a script, as I should really apply what I have been learning. My script doesnt work, but I wanted to post it on here and see if I could get some feedback. I wanted to build a Mp3 player, very basic - one I could pull into my flash file and instantiate the class with an mp3 that loads in from the .fla. Here is my code, am I off to a good start?

Code:
package {
import.flash.media.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

public class SoundPlayer extends Sprite {

public var channel:SoundChannel;
public var mp3File:URLRequest;
private var snd:Sound = new Sound();

playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, SoundPlayer);

public function LoadSoundClip(mp3File) {
snd.load(new URLRequest(mp3File));
}

public function SoundPlayer() {
channel = sound.play();
}

}
}

Help-Anyone With Dreamweaver MX Experience
I'm implementing the Maccromedia Flash Detection Kit using Dreamweaver MX. It was working fine, but now when I go to Behaviors>the original "Macromedia Flash Dispatcher Behavior" is no longer there. Instead, there's a Behavior called "Macromedia Flash Detection Behavior." I reinstalled the the Behavior from the kit in Extension Manager again, but that didn't eliminate the problem. I'm using the 30 day trial v. so I can't uninstall & reinstall Dreamweaver...up a creek without a... Any suggestions??????? Thank you.

Anyone Have Experience With Precache
Does anyone have experiece with Precache(ing) files into the Cache folder. I know this may not be a Flash thing--- but in doing this Flash project I am working on-- I have encountered a great problem.

http://www.nesteggdesigns.com/Movies/kitchen.swf

If you click on the Refridgerator - the first time the "signed movie clip" loads--it is PAINFULLY slow. Once this image is in cache- it works beautifully. The video clip that Flash is importing is only 354k--- so it shouldn't be so slow--but the first time it is. Only a few of the buttons are working right now- Ref, Crackers box, Microwave---try them. And if you last til they load, go through and click them a second time and see how it should really look.

Anyone have any suggestions how I could speed up loading of the indepedant movie clips the "first" time?

Hope this makes sense??

Anyone Here Have Experience With ExternalAPI ?
I'm reading that ExternalAPI is the preferred method of communicating back & forth with javascript functions on the container page. But both of Adobe's own examples DON'T WORK. In IE 6.0 it reports a JS error, while in FireFox it just doesn't do what it should.

Any help would be appreciated.

Do You Have Experience With Time?
Hello All.

I am trying to figure out how to remove data from an XML generated Array based on the current date.

Each XML section has a begining date and an end date. I want the node to be removed if the date is outside the begining and end of the listed dates.

My thought is to use the Splice Method, but I am not quite sure how I would go about that.

Any thoughts, suggestions or tutorials will be very helpful.

Thanks! :?

Restarting The Flash 5 Experience
Hey,

I took a break from FLASH 5, but now i wanna start it up again. But this time i'm gonna start to use ACTIONSCRIPT when doing almost everything. I used to tween using the motion tween option etc...but now i will try to use actionscript to move things around and enlarge etc...

Is this a good idea or not?...Is it best to use actionscript to do things like tween and enlarge or what?

Neway, my main question is 'Where can i find a maual of some sort to help me learn ACTIONSCRIPT?

Possibly dowmnloadable?

The tutorials here are good, but i wanted a whole wad to enable me to learn the things i want easily...

Thanks in advance...

Mike :|

If only...

Flash MX And Music- Does Anyone Have Experience With It?
Hi, everyone I was curious if any of you Flash MX experts use Music in your work, and if so please reply to this post with a URL where I can check out your work, as I am trying to learn all about Flash, Animation, Flash Mx and how to put it all together with Music. Therefore, I would really appreciate if any of you talented people can show me your work that you have done using Flash MX and music, Please reply with a URL of your work or sites that use music with Flash Mx, and if you have any suggestions on where I could learn more about how to incorporate Flash MX and Music- I would appreciate if you could also give me some valuable input on that topic. Thanks and Peace to all!

Jay Berlinsky

Leveling And Experience Points
I'm trying to make it the way so when the character gets a specific amount of exp, he levels up, and I'm also trying to make it the way that when the character kills an enemy, he recieves a specific amount of exp, but I just can't seem to figure out how to, so if theres somebody who knows, please tell me.

Anyone Here Have Experience Creating Forms?
I'd like to set up a form in Flash and have the data dumped to a CSV file to be imported into my contact manager. I'm very, very new to Flash and don't have the slightest idea how to make this work. Any thoughts?

Experience += 20; Doesnt Work? :S
Code:
experience += 20;

cant get it to works, also tried to combine with Number and im all out of combinations, still doesnt work, _root i have also tried, nothing seems to work..
anyone got a suggestion?

(It just adds like, 100 to 10020, not 120 like i want it to..or it just 100 to 20...)

Common Realtime Experience™
Hi all!

i have a movieclip "instant" with two frames: "frame1" and "frame2" with stopaction on each. They are on root on a "realtime.swf"

--
After i have transfered this file on my domain

i want to press a "button_btn" that tells the playhead go to "frame1" to "frame2"

This is an actions that will take place on *ALL* machines connected to this webservice instantly.

is this possible ? if so, im thankfull to hear about it

any comment appreciated !

--

Fully Interactive Experience
Hi guys...

Basically im finishing the 3rd yr of my degree in graphic design and i am entering into the D+AD awards... my project is producing a website to demonstrate a day in my life..

what i have chosen to do is allow people to live my day... so they will experience the sorts of things that I have happen in my day and how it gets put togther but i also want them to see how aspects of the day affect eachother...

my site is going to make use of a range of objects for communication such as mobile phone, phone, computer (email+msn) etc ....also objects such as a cd player with a choice of tracks to play will be available...

my site will allow the user to know the time of day... my current mood (1-10) and my energy (1-10) displayed thru simple themometer style bars...

people will make decisions from what time i get up to wot i eat to what i do with my day...

everything the user decides me to do will affect the mood/energy + also time... so i need to understand how this is actionscripted...

also it will obviously all be based on time... so i need to be able to link this with the communications + decisions that cum up...

if the user sets my alarm early it will allow for more to happen in the day and if late then obviously certain things that ive missed out on by gettin up late wudnt happen...

if the user decides i should go shopping for 3 hrs... over lunch then it means they cnt be having someone cum into my room to ask to borrow something or ask me to go somewhere else...

this is reli hard 2 explain but my a.s knowledge is low and i dnt no where to start... obviously everything is affected by everything... if im reli tired and they agree to take me to the pub then ill get moody... where as if i was full of energy then id be reli happy...if theyve send me to the shops twice then ill be unhappy... if theyve not let me eat ill be reli tired n unhappy etc....

i reli need help! any1 who could try 2 help wud be reli reli appreciated

many thanks

martin

Flash & The User Experience
Would a user be turned away if they came to a website and saw the same 3-second animation every day before the info is displayed?

Are there any good articles out there that discuss flash user experience / usability?

.atom_jack.

E-commerce
Im creating an e-commerce site in flash 5. You can click on the product to insert it into a check-out basket (like the normal thing goes) Everything works but i do not know what to use to submit all the variables to my email. Do i use the loadVariable statement? but then what do i add to the url and target boxes? I don't have my own database - using hosting account with their server CGI.

E-commerce / Job App
Just woundering if the flash mx can do E-commerce?

Secound question , I know flash Can send E-mails or using a e-mail form. Do you think I can make a job app out if it as well, and have it submited to the office Manager?

E Commerce
Hi Everyone

I currently have a website set up using flash, is it going to be difficult to integrate e-commerce into this site? What are my options?

Thanks

E-Commerce
I finnaly got my flash site to work perfectly looks great etc. Now what/ how do I add e-commerce. Perl ? JS? Etc whats the best route ?
Needs to allow products top be changed in a matter of secounds and hold around 300 products.
Thanx
CT

E-Commerce
I am still not very proficient in Flash and rely somewhat on templates. Does anyone know of a good simple E-Commerce template?

Thanks,
Daniel Millican
www.s-films.com

E-commerce
Hello Everyone,

I have been asked to build an e-commerce web site and don't know where to start with pricing.

Could you tell me where to start and post some links to works about it?

Thanks,

Christian

No Commerce E-commerce
Afternoon all,

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial etc... to help me do the following please?

I am about to start work on a small merchandise section for a friend of mine. What I want to do is create a section that contains different families of stuff and the user can choose a family then a product and they will see a product profile with amount/size options and a add to cart button.

If the user chooses to buy a product it is added to the basket. When they checkout they are asked for various details and contact no etc... but they won't be asked for any credit/debit cards or anything - just contact details.

Then the contents of the cart and details of the user are sent to a specific email address. The people that can access these products will be known as the will have applied for user name and passwords to get to the products.
It is not a public area, hence the cart being email based.

Ideally there will be some sort of cart management to allow my man to keep the products up to date.

Is there any bells ringing for anyone? Anyone done this before?
Hope so

Any help will be great, thanks in anticipation

E-commerce
Hi all,

Are there any good tutorials for E-commerce such as shopping cart?

E-commerce
Anyone knows a good link or even a book that will show you how to put a shopping cart and everything behind it while using flash.
Thank you

E-commerce?
Last edited by adstudio3d : 2007-01-18 at 12:37.

My company is looking to have a store built, but I have no experience with e-commerce...
Can anyone recomend me to any good development companies that I can check out?

here take a look:
www.emersonradio.com/test/

Help I´m Lost In Scripting - Or Is It Just Lack Of Experience
Hy you guys out there !

Can anyone help me ?? I´m stock in a case, where I need to get movieclips to fade out. But I´m not clever enough to script this part.

Check out this site :
http://www.nicesound.dk

I want the enduser to click the buttons below, and then the individual movieclip needs to fade out !!! How do I do that ?

I know it has something to do with variables, but I get confused. It seeme to me, that I can´t understand the logic of scripting vaariables.

It would be at great help, if anybody could tell me what to do !! And by the way, now that you are there: give me a comment on the generel graphic design.

My own opinion is that it is nice - but could certantly be bettter

Thanks in advance

Egander

Question For Experience Flasher On Uploading
im building a site where users can submit artwork (i.e. poetry, photography, graphic design....)
I have a series of user-input fields for a user to supply personal information about themselves. then i want them to upload an image if they are submitting visual artwork. is it possible for a user to upload in flash? or do i need to use another language for this besides actionscript? possibly perl?

thanks for your help

kenneth adams
http://www.ksushare.com/kadams/

Decompile Swf - Great Learning Experience
Hey swf decompiler's are in disguise a great teachers for flash newbie's like us . Through which we can extract the content and the most complicated feature action script too for our reference and through which we can learn how the action script is working.

Last wek i saw a blog of such help too http://pixeltechnologies.sirlook.com it has been great help to me .

Flash Media Server - Experience?
Hello all,

I have a quick question about FMS. Does the program run transparently on the server? I'm asking because I'm wondering if I can just upload a FLV file to the server and link it straight from my Flash app using myVideo.contentPath ="URL" and have it running or do I need to configure a bunch of things?

ANY comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

Anyone Have Experience With Flash Comm Server?
I'm at a loss. I've got a project that I'm trying to convert so that it works with Remote Shared Objects.

I haven't even begun testing because I can't even get the examples provided with the Flash Comm. package to function.

All the samples/tutorials provided are located in a directory of the server named "samples". In a directory named "apps" there are corresponding folders to each sample that contain the server side asc file needed to run the example.
The server side script is accessed from the client swf thru the netConnection by defining the URI property: e.g.
ActionScript Code:
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://flashcomsvr.mydomain.com/myFlashComAppName");
// interestingly enough the sample swf's define the rtmp path with as
"rtmp:/continuePathName"
When I try opening multiple instances of any of the samples provided to see if the client to server connection is made nothing occurs.

Do my client swfs need to be served from the FCS or can they live on another and reference back to the FCS?

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thank you.

Formal Flash Training Experience
Hello Everyone... I have been searching around for suggestions/experiences on Flash Certification courses, and certification test training material suggestions. So if anyone has taken any courses or has some good training material for taking the ACP test then please share!

Thanks in advance!!

Sharing Experience: Multiple MovieClipLoader
Hi!

It's been a while since my last post...

I just want to share with you my experience with multiple movieClipLoader.

In one of the project that I'm currently working on, I wanted to make a website that would load external modules, made in Flash (of course).

Concept

The concept is the following :

- When a user load the main site, 8 modules are loaded.

- Each one of them are loaded with the function attachMovie by creating an instance of a movieClip and gives it the name of the module to load (in a parameter).

- Each instances load the right swf according to the name of the module passed in parameter using a movieClipLoader.

Problem

While working on my local computer, it seems that some random modules were unable to load on a free server (50free.com). Sometimes it was 1 module that was unable to load, sometimes it was more... However if I made a refresh, everything was fine.

I first suspected the server being slow to respond due to the poor quality of the bandwidth of a free hosting service, so I changed to a faster server that I buyed.

Almost the same problem...

More modules were loading but still not all of them. The problem happened also at random time...

I checked my website on different computer and speed connection and noticed that on a really high-speed (like a cable modem that could download at 500k/s) the problem was not happening. But since not everyone (even I) have this kind of connection...

The solution

I finally found the problem. It seems that there is a maximum number of connection that your modem/computer/Flash/component can handle at the same time. I fixed the problem by putting my loading sequence in a function that requires an index that indicate precisely which module I want to load. I put the function in a setInterval and voila.

Here is the pseudo code:

ActionScript Code:
var index = 0;function loadModule(value){ if(value == 0){ //load module 0 } if(value == 1){ //load module 1 } if(value == 2){ //load module 2 } _root.index++; if(value > [my maximum number of module]){ clearInterval(loading_sequence); _root.index = 0; }}loading_sequence = setInterval(loadModule, "100", index);

I'm not sure that my AS syntax is perfect since I wrote this example by heart... but you understand the principle.

I hope that this will help a few of you who are hardcore programmers who try to load a bunch of stuff at the same moment as I...