ALL Read PLZproblems With SWF Files From ImageReady CS

What Is Imageready And How Do I Use It?
What do I need to know about image ready, what are it's main features, and how is it used in creating say an animated sequence, like a gif banner ad?

Thanks.

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ImageReady SWF Is Way Too Big
Hi guys,

I need serious help with a Flash movie that I exported from Adobe ImageReady yesterday. See, I didn't think the movie size would be 29 MB until I actually looked. What's a good program to optimize Flash movies?

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What Is Imageready And How Do I Use It?
What do I need to know about image ready, what are it's main features, and how is it used in creating say an animated sequence, like a gif banner ad?

Thanks.

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Transparency From ImageReady?
I have a logo which I would like to use as a mask in Flash....meaning that the letters in the logo allow the photo beneath to appear through the space of the letters in the logo. I exported the logo out of ImageReady. But that method saves the logo as a big block...somehow with only the letters being visible...the background of the logo is transparent. That's perfect, but when I go to make a mask in Flash with that logo, the whole block masks...I just want the letters to mask. Does this make sense? if so...anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks!

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Flash And ImageReady Animation
Hi,

Have a problem, don't know if this would be in settings or if there could be another way to do it. I'm trying to export the flash animation as .png (or .jpg) sequence and import it on imageready as 'folder as frames' then save it as a .gif - though this method doesn't work since when imported in imageready and played it within the app, the animation is slow. and when saved as optimized as .gif it is more slow...

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[F8] Exporting Layout From Imageready To Flash Troubles
well i've created a header image im working with for a client and i can't seem to understand why when i go in image ready, file, export as swf saves everything fine except the fonts and the transparent items on the layout.

The transparent items are full opacity and the fonts are blurred and such.

Should i just create solid shapes for the transparent items and then do a alpha instance in flash and create the type in flash or what? Heres what i'm seeing. I unchecked preserve appearance, hit lossless 32 and tried checking and unchecking dynamic text and still the same results. Thanks guys.

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[F8] Read Files In A Dir
is there a way that flash could real all the files in a directory? and create a list of them?

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Read From Xml Files
hi guys,

I'm new to flash but i need to do one little thing urgently.

I want to display records on my page. The data should be read from an XML file. Only three fields are there - Date, Localion, URL.

How i read in the data and display? Could someone show me an example so i can use it as a reference for my project.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Cheers!

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Read From .ini Files With Flash?
Hi, in the application I am working on my Flash movie has to read data from an .ini file.

I have always used XML in order to store data and have no experience reading from a regular text file.

I am trying to use LoadVars() in order to read the file.my problem is that LoadVars() seems to be very limited in handaling large text files. I've tried to load data from a file and then trace it like this:

PHP Code:



var loadVar = new LoadVars();
loadVar.onLoad = function(){
trace("this:"+this)
};
loadVar.load("data.ini");




but the output is:

D1025%2C1026%2C1028%2C1032%2C1040%2C1056%2C1088%2C 1152%2C1280%2C%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%23Format%3D8%0D%0 AFormat%3D24%0D%0AMode%3DOnetime%0D%0A%23Mode%3DBa ckground%0D%0ADelay%3D200%0D%0ACalibrationCycles%3 D7%0D%0ASaveAlsoInRoot%3Dfalse%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bcamer a%5Fdef%5D%0D%0ALEFT%5FBACK%5FCAMERA%3D3%0D%0ARIGH T%5FBACK%5FCAMERA%3D1%0D%0ALEFT%5FFORWARD%5FCAMERA %3D2%0D%0ARIGHT%5FFORWARD%5FCAMERA%3D0%0D%0A%0D%0A %0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bmodem%5D%0D%0AComPort%3D3%0D%0A%0D% 0A%5Bcamera%5Fsettings%5D%0D%0ABrightness%3D140%0D %0ASaturation%3D200%0D%0AExposure%3D235%0D%0AGain% 3D140%0D%0AWhiteLevel%3D200%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bcamera%5 Fauto%5D%0D%0AThresholdFor255%3D500%0D%0AThreshold ForSunny%3D5000%0D%0ARed%5FLevel%3D60%0D%0ARThresh oldCount%3D3%0D%0ARThreshold1%3D200%0D%0ARThreshol d2%3D10%0D%0ARThreshold3%3D0%0D%0AGainForThreshold 1%3D140%0D%0AGainForThreshold2%3D235%0D%0AGainForT hreshold3%3D240%0D%0A%0D%0AGainForBlack%3D255%0D%0 AGainForWhite%3D60%0D%0AGainForSunny%3D60%0D%0AExp osureForBlack%3D255%0D%0AExposureForWhite%3D235%0D %0AExposureForSunny%3D235%0D%0A%23ExposureForSunny %3D190%0D%0A&onLoad=%5Btype%20Function%5D



I will need to read each line in the text file separately and retrieve the data. thought about using String.split() and try to loose the unwanted text but I think it would be too messy.

is this possible with Flash or maybe I should be looking for a JavaScript based solution?
any ideas?

Thanks in advance
LeoBeer

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Read Text Files
Hi,

How can i get flash to read a whole text file on the click of a button, without actually modifying the text file itself.
The textfile is being generated froma script and i cannot change it.

Can i get flash to open the text file instead?

Please can you send me a working example

Thanks

umarK

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When I Read PHP Files.. It Won't Run The Script First.. Why Not?
I have a PHP file called uAut.php with
--------------------------


Code:
<?PHP
$user = $_COOKIE['user'];
$sid = $_COOKIE[$user];
echo "&u=" . $user . "&si=$sid";
?>


--------------------------

I was originally using SESSION but it wasn't working so I thought maybe that was the problem and it wasn't..


I've been using


Code:
var rl:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
rl.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
trace(rl.u);
}
}
rl.load("uAut.php");



That returned


Code:
" . $user . "



Then I tried this..

Code:
loadVariables("http://localhost/TVG/uAut.php",_root);
_root.onData = function(){
trace(_root.u);
}


That returned Emtpy...


If I had the PHP code say u=Test" . $user, etc etc.. the last code would return Test..

Asin its reading the value but not processing the $user.

If I visit the page, it clearly returns it just fine..


What is going on?

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Read/Write INI Files
I am trying to find out how to read/write ini files. The only info I have found so far is with the use of fscommand which doesn't seem to work. Can someone point me to some useful reading material?

example below that is not working:

function writeValue(resultvar, file, section, variable, value)
{
fscommand("Arg", resultvar);
fscommand("Arg", file);
fscommand("Arg", section);
fscommand("Arg", variable);
fscommand("Arg", value);
fscommand("INIFile.SetVal", "");
}

var resultvar = "_level0.rc";
var file = "c:\alert.ini";
var section = "section1";

writeValue(resultvar, file, section, "road1", "1");
writeValue(resultvar, file, section, "road2", "0");
writeValue(resultvar, file, section, "road3", "0");

Thanks

Andrew

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Is There A Way To Read How Many Files Are In A Folder With AS?
?

Since I dont want to set up a DB for such a tiny task, I was wondering if there's any way to do this!

If not in AS, in PHP?

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Read Name Of Files From Directory
hi:

i´m working in a project that need to use the names of the files to load .JPG into a MC, if in the directory are 5 files, the movie loads this 5 files, but if i erase 2, then the movie only loads 3, my principal question is how can i acces the names of the files in a directory?

tnx

Plutarcomp

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How Can I Read Data From .dat Files In Flash ?
Hello
Actually I want to know that how can we write variables from flash in *.dat files from input feilds and then again retreive data in dynamic text feilds on demand ....The best example of which I am trying to do is phone book like we enter data in seperate feilds and then again get it back on demand even after turning of the computer ?

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I've Answered About 20 Q's And All The Answers Are In The Help Files - Read On....
Guys, just press help when in flash and go to the Actionscript Dictionary or Reference. Failing this type some of the code your trying to use into Google.com for example if you're trying to learn how a hittest works and you know this much -'IF(THIS.HITTEST' type that into the search and you'll be surprised how easily you will find a resource.
You simply wont learn if you just ask ppl to work it out for you..

Here's some usefull places to go:

Here at FK, of course.
http://www.actionscripts.org
http://www.ultrashock.com
http://www.were-here.com
http://www.virtual-fx.net
http://www.actionscript.com
http://www.flash5actionscript.com
http://www.macromedia.com
http://www.tek-tips.com

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How To Read Duration Of Wav Files In Flash?
Hi All!

Got a stumper here:

I need to find the length in seconds of wav files that I am playing in flash

How can I do that with actionscript?

Thanks In Advance!

Mark

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How To Read Querystrings In Flash Files
I made a movie clip with a few links in it and a text box. I want to change the contents of the box based on variables from the querystring. Can anybody guide me how to do this?

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Gettin Flash To Read From .txt Files Help.
HI,
Im having terrible difficulty trying to get my flash to read text from a .txt file.

Could some one please send me just a simple .fla file linked to a .txt?

Either email aidanmack@another.com
or attach it to a post.

thank you very much

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Read + Edit Txt Files From Server Using PHP
Greetings fellow flashers,

I want to know if somebody can help me with a php script that can make users edit txt files from the server when online.

I am not good at programming, so is there somebody who can help me with a simple PHP script?

Kind regards from the Netherlands,
Blackdoor

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How To Read HUGE Text Files.
Thinking of creating an online Boggle type game in Flash (MX or 8) but ran into a few problems and maybe could use some ideas.

The list of possible words is huge, 100,000 words, about 300K zipped up and 900K uncompressed.

1. Can Flash read a compressed text file? Maybe zLib or gzip compressed file?

2. How to possibly deal with a list of 100,000 words, when thats too many to just put in an array?

Just looking for possible ideas from everyone, a place for me to start looking.

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Need Ez Way To Read/write Files. New 2 Forum
Hi, I'm trying to make a simple Flash file editor, but I've been away from MX for a while, and I'm very rusty.

I want to be able to browse a server directory , a subdirectory of where the .swf resides, and display a list of file names. From there, I want to be able to open the file and have its contents appear in a text box.

I can't figure out a simple way to do either the list, or the opening of the files. God, please don't make me build a perl/xml file parser, I'm too out of practice.

Please send any good ideas or monetary donations to:
Poor man walking.
danb@jobhq.ca

Thanks for any help you can give.

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How To Encrypt Files And Read Them In Flash
Hi guys!

Im doing an app for some clients and it uses many folders to push content to flash.

The app is in Flash.exe.

Question 1: Can i encrypt in some way the folders so that the user cant go and explore all the stuff inside it?

Question 2: Can i, in some way, get all the folders inside a big one so that the user cant acess all the data ?

Question 3: Is there any way to make the folder password protected and have flash to open it?

Thanks!

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Read All Mp3 Files In A Specified Directory And Then Play Them
I have a mp3 player that plays 3 different mp3 files and it works good enough I suppose, but what I would like to do now is make it read all mp3 files in a specified directory and then play them. That way I won't have to specify individual filenames and locations in my code.

So what I need to know is how to read the all the mp3 filenames in my target directory to an array so I can include them in my playlist.

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How Can I Let My Flv Player Read Files Dynamicaly?
hi guys,
I hope u r doing very fine
well...
I have a custom flv player, and I want it to be playing video files (.flv of course).
dynamically from database
let me explain it more

my website is done with ASP.NET 2.0, and I have 2 pages, the first one has a thumbnails for the available videos(which is an aspx page, I mean no flash in it, when the visitor clicks on a certain file to play, he will be moved to the second page that contains the flv player to play it.

well, my problem is how I can let my flv player reads the URL of that file to play it ???

every thing is working just fine except for that, I'm really stock in there.

I hope u really guys could help me cos I really need help

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How Can I Read External COLDFUSION Files?
Well, me and my brother are working on an intranet service and we're are trying to creat a flash page that can read external Coldfusion files. Anyone has an idea on how can i do that?

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Can I Read And Write To Files Using Flash?
i want to make a comment box and save and display the comments... if im able to write to a text doc then i could just do it that way..

any ideas?

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Read Text Files Into Flash
Is it possible to load text files into flash using a component? Making it easier to edit the text files rather than having to edit the fla.

I have been trying this with the ScrollPane and Loader componenst which is what I am looking for but this only allows you to load swf or jpg. Is there any component etc for me to load basic HTML or text into a scrollpane?

Thanks in advance for any help,
jonny

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Read / Write Text Files Tutorial?
Hi There--

This appears pretty basic, but I've been searching tutorials for a while and haven't been able to figure this out.

I'm on Flash MX. I want to make a simple form that my client can use that will write text to a text file.

I would like to read the text file into a dynamic text field. I would like to not make the text a variable because I'd like to use the same text as a server side include into a straight html file as well.

Perhaps the form could write two documents? One that has the variable and one that doesn't? Could it write an xml document that could be read by both the html page and the flash page?

I don't want the client to have to type the file more than once.

I'm also confused about whether I need to use PHP or XML or both.

This _has_ to be possible. I'm guessing that the reason that I haven't been able to find any tutorials on it is because it's so obvious to everybody else.

Any help will be greatly appreciated and you'll have terrific luck for a week if you do.

Thanks,

Lee

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Read, Write, Create, Delete To .txt Files
Dream FX Media repled to one of my posts:

To store and retrieve data from a txt file you will have to use file permissions.

To my knowledge, you can only read, write, create, and delete, and add to a .txt file but not rewrite over existing data.

If your intentions are to rewrite content stored I would reccomend using a database (mySQL) to allow for that flexability.

But what I want to know now is how do you read, write, create, and delete, and add to a .txt file but not rewrite over existing data.

thanx

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How To Read From Multiple Xml Files And Display In One Window?
Dear all,

I have a photo album located on http://biosynthesis.blogspot.com. Latest post.

I have this idea of incorporating a drop down list that let's users select what albums they want to view in the SAME flash screen without opening a new page.
That is, by selecting say, a different album, flash will load the respective *.xml file that contains the photos.

Unfortunately i have no idea how to code it. Could someone please guide me?

Thanks.

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Can Flash Read The Files Names In A Folder?
I know variations of this have been covered, but all involve a naming convention for your images...

Is there a way that we can direct flash (or XML, php, etc) to see all the items in a folder and grab their file names?

Basically, I'm creating a portfolio gallery that will have different folders on the server, and random images in the folder. If there are 4 items iin the folder, I need flash to create 4 buttons, then when each button is pressed, in a new iFrame, load that .jpg.

Any ideas?

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Can Flash Read/edit Local Files
Hi,

I want to know if Flash has the capabilities/permission to write on local file.

What I wish to do is:

- Write to a .doc file OR
- Editing ID3 Tag of music files

Thank,

turb

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Can Flash Read The Number Of Files In A Directory?
I am currently working on a project and need to get the total number of files in a directory.
So for example, when the flash program first starts up, and if there are 5 files in the directory, it scans the number of files and returns the value 5 into a variable that I can manipulate.

Is Flash even able to do this? I've looked around, and I can't seem to find an answer.

edit: I don't know why I used the code tag....I guess it should be the question tag.

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Read/Access Objects From External SWF Files
I have for weeks been trying to access/read objects from external SWF files without any success.
I load SWF file into my Flex application, but how do I go further to access all objects of that MovieClip?
Is there any way to parse all objects of loaded MovieClip(SWF) in order to read the text?

I basically want to search SWF files as if it was PDF files. FlashPaper2 has this function and its only 1 SWF files so some how it must be possible. I just have no idea where to look or where to start.

I can get the text out of SWF using swfstring or swfdump - but that is almost useless as it cant be used to mark words with "live" search...

SWF example
http://dev.rb.no/pdf2swf.swf

Thank you

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Flash Standalone To Read/write Text Files?
Hi: I have a flash form that I want my customers to install or use from a cd. I need them to be able to type in their personal information and for this to become permanent and read by the flash form every time it loads. I also need to save the input of this invoice each time it is printed on the local client computer. No web connectivity is present. Can I use flash as an interface to do this? What scripting language can I use to communicate with flash...read and write text files, and enable flash to display the results of a query to this text database (which would populate the records of an old invoice)? I tried this first using an access standalone app which crashed 40 % of the systems. I would like to use flash as the interface, but I am not sure how to do this without using html. Again, this needs to be a standalone distributable application. Any suggestions of samples of similar text file database manipulation with flash?

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Create/Read/Write Text Files In Flash
Hi to my Haiku Masters,
Guys i would like to know if is it possible to CREATE .txt files into a predefined directory from inside flash instead of creating them outside flash and then do the READ/WRITE operations

Raj

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Can Flash Dynamically Read Swf Files From A Directory? [renamed]
is there a way to have flash read swf from a directory dynamicaly. so if you add a new one it reads it and you could have a next and previouse button to dynamicly browse throught them.

this way you could just upload new swf and it would automaticaly add it to the set so when you hit next at the end it would read the new one.

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Can Flash Dynamically Read Swf Files From A Directory? [renamed]
is there a way to have flash read swf from a directory dynamicaly. so if you add a new one it reads it and you could have a next and previouse button to dynamicly browse throught them.

this way you could just upload new swf and it would automaticaly add it to the set so when you hit next at the end it would read the new one.

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Getting Flash Video Players To Automatically Read Files?
Hello.

I'm working on a project where video files will be uploaded to webspace and then a Flash player needs to automatically notice the file is there and play it.

I was looking at this Flash video player for the front end...
http://flowplayer.org/

How would I get something like this to automatically detect new files on a server and play them? Is there a special Flash video player to do this? Being able to stream the files would be great...

Any info/tips/experience would be greatly appriciated.

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Can Flash Read HTML Files To Extract Information?
Hi,

I'm trying to create a special kind of crawler that reads the HTML pages on a website to extract certain kinds of information, such as headings and copyright information.  This information could be generated by a database, so would be contained on the same place on multiple HTML pages, or might be different depending on the webpage.  The information that is to be extracted will need to be sent to a database on a central server, along with other information, which will form the basis of a special kind of search engine.

The pages that will be read by the spider could be from anyone, and the person that sets up the spider could be using any OS, so the spider needs to be cross-platform. I am guessing that having a Flash movie is going to be the easiest way to make everything user-friendly, and cross-platform.  The user would setup the crawler within a special Flash browser, which would record all the relevant information needed to crawl the pages with the user settings.  However I'm not certain that Flash is going to be capable to do everything that I'm looking for.

The things that I need to know are:

1)  Is Flash capable of reading HTML files, to extract some information from them?

2)  Is Flash capable of saving information internally (as strings, variables etc), so that it can be used or exported later?

3)  Could it be set up to highlight certain parts of HTML code, such as a table, or a paragraph, so that users would find it easier to know which parts of the HTML they were extracting?

4)  Can Flash run iterative processes, so that once one page has been set up, pages with a similar structure can be extracted automatically?

5)  If Flash can do 4, is it possible to select a percentage of similarity, so that pages with similar, but not identical structure, could be dealt with automatically?

6)  If Flash couldn't be automated to scan multiple pages that have the same layout, then how easy would it be to export some variables to a spider written in a conventional computer language, which would then do the searching?

 
I know of a plugin for Internet Explorer called WebTweezers that is a good example of highlighting HTML for a user to extract, but it can only deal with pages individually.  Another program called Visual Web Task has a more comprehensive selection of search facilities, but is not very user-friendly, costs a lot, and is platform-specific.  I need something that is easy to set up for any user, can run the same search on multiple pages, and can be read on any platform.

Any comments, or answers will be most gratefully received.

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Dynamically Read Files From Folder And Display As Clickable Icon
I'd like Flash to read a list of files (MP3's in one folder and JPG's in another) and display them in a scene as clickable icons. Does anyone have an example? Thanks.

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Flash READ What Files Exist Within A Directory ...Without USING SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING
Hi,

How can Flash read what files exists in a sub directory on my server without using server side scripting becasue this is going to be an online/offline product.

For example:

I need the Flash application to read what files are in a sub folder within the main folder where the swf sits on my server:

For example:

www.multimediaprogrammer.com/mainapp/pics/

Contains

1.jpg
2.jpg

I want Flash to tell me files 1.jpg and 2.jpg are in the pics folder?

MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR THE HELP!!!!!

Debra

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Must-read: How To Batch Convert Image Files To Swf (for Image Galleries)
Sorry for cross-posting, but I thought this was important.

If you ever need to create an image gallery in Flash using loadMovie(), read this:

Last night, I was trying to create a Flash image gallery where each of the images are loaded dynamically using loadMovie(). As you know, this is usually a very painful process, since you have to create a movie for each of the image files, adjust the size of the movie, import the picture, set the quality, test, adjust, etc. etc. A conservative estimate of 5 minutes per picture gives us a whopping 2 hours for a gallery of 25 images.

Well, Fireworks 4 allows you to export to swf. Using its javascript API for extending, I was able to create a command where you specify the files to convert, the output dir, and the JPEG quality for bitmaps, and with that info the command batch converts all of the files to swf. The total process takes about 30 seconds!

Here's how you can use it:

Copy everything between these lines (not including the lines) and paste it into an empty NotePad:


Code:
//Batch export to swf; a script for Fireworks 4
//By Patrick Mineault
//patrickmineault@sympatico.ca

function checkForPC(){
if(fw.platform == "win"){
return true;
}
else{
alert("Sorry, this script works only with Fireworks 4 for Windows

" +

"If you would like to help me make the script compatible for the Mac,
" +
"please contact me at patrickmineault@sympatico.ca");

return false;
}
}

function noWindowsOpen(){
if(fw.documents.length == 0){
return true;
}
else{
alert("Please close all documents
before running this script");
return false;
}
}

function getDocs(){
alert("Select the image files
to batch convert to swf");
theDocList = fw.locateDocDialog(50, ["kMoaCfFormat_BMP",
"kMoaCfFormat_GIF",
"kMoaCfFormat_JPEG",
"kMoaCfFormat_PICT",
"kMoaCfFormat_TIFF",
"PNG"
]);

if (theDocList == null || theDocList.length == 0) {
return false;
}else {
return true;
}
}

function getExportPath(){

alert("Please choose an export folder");
thePath = fw.browseForFolderURL();
if (thePath == null || thePath.length == 0) {
return false;
}
else{
return true;
}
}

function getJPEGQuality(){

fw.dismissBatchDialogWhenDone = true;
var notFinished = true;
var result;

while(notFinished){
JPEGQuality = prompt("Non-vector objects will be converted
" +
"to JPEG's during the export process.

" +

"Please enter the JPEG quality.","75");

if(JPEGQuality == null){
notFinished = false;
result = false;
}
else if(!(JPEGQuality >= 0 &&
JPEGQuality <= 100 &&
JPEGQuality == Math.round(JPEGQuality))){
alert("Please enter a valid value");
}
else{
notFinished = false;
result = true;
}
}
return result;
}

function batchProcess(){

fw.batchStatusString = "Exporting as swf... please wait";
fw.progressCountTotal = theDocList.length;

fw.setPref("SwfMaintainObjEditable", true);
fw.setPref("SwfMaintainTextEditable", false);

var numOpenDocs = fw.documents.length;

for (var i = 0; i < theDocList.length; i++) {

fw.progressCountCurrent = i + 1;
var theDoc = theDocList[ i ];

theDocWindow = fw.openDocument(theDoc, false);
fw.setActiveWindow(theDocWindow);
convertToSWF(theDoc);
theDocWindow.close(false);
}
alert("Done!");
}

function convertToSWF(theDoc){

var lastSlash = theDoc.lastIndexOf("/");
//This part won't work on the Mac, since there is no last dot
var lastDot = theDoc.lastIndexOf(".");
var name = theDoc.substring(lastSlash+1,lastDot);
var url = thePath + "/" + name + ".swf";

fw.setPref("SwfJpegQuality", JPEGQuality);
fw.exportSWF(null,url);

}

if(checkForPC()){
if(noWindowsOpen()){
if(getDocs()){
if(getExportPath()){
if(getJPEGQuality()){
batchProcess();
}
}
}
}
}


Save this as "Batch export as swf.jsf" in C:Program FilesMacromediaFireworks 4ConfigurationCommands. The next time you open Fireworks, you'll see a new item in the Command menu, "Batch export as swf". Just run it and follow the instructions.

The script works with gifs, jpegs, bmp, tiff, pict and Fireworks PNG. Note that for Fireworks PNG the paths are exported as vectors, not as bitmaps. I've only tested the script on Windows, it probably won't work for the Mac; luckily there's an if that checks for the platform.

Anyway, enjoy!

Note: If you can fix the incompatibility with the Mac (look at the comment in the convertToSWF() function), please either e-mail me at patrickmineault@sypatico.ca, or post a meesage below.
[Edited by pmineault on 06-17-2001 at 07:35 PM]

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Bought CS3 But Haven't Read My MX Actionscript, MX2004, Books. Should I Read Them?
I just bought CS3 and I am now debating whether I should read my Flash MX Actionscript bible, Flash 2004 Bible. I should have read them, but It's just hard to fit the time in.

Would I benefit from reading these books when CS3 is Actionscript 3? How much functionality is lost when scripting in Actionsript 2 and 1 as compared to Actionscript 3.

Would it be wiser for me to just learn Actionscript 3 properly and get a book on Actionscript 3 than waste my time on reading old scripting and technology?

Also is MC tween compatible on CS3, actionscript 3.

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Can AS3 Or XML "read" Files From A Directory?
What I want is for flash to grab files from a directory without knowing what files are there. I dont think it's possible with AS3 but I'm not too sure about XML, and if I can get it into a xml file, then i can ccess it from as3.

The concept might be confusing so an example would be if I had a mp3 player and I wanted to play files from a certain directory but not know what files were in that directory. I would assume XML can "scan" folders for files with a specified exstention and store that information in an array of somesort.

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Can't Read Swish V1.52 Files On Swish V2
I have installed swish v2 on my computer but i cant read my older files how can i change that?

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READ Mc.hitTest(mc2) Needed Please Read And Help
I've looked and looked but can't find one tutorial that works for hit tests.
player = g
box = box
I need a script for when "g" hits "box" "g" reboundes a bit
thx

see attachment if you are questioned about my stuff
DON'T LAUGH AT THE GRAPHICS! I'LL CHANGE THEM LATER!

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Importing Files/ Opening Files In Files/ Adding Files Into Scenes.
Alright Here is the deal.
I got some movies, which are seperate FLA. files, and I want to eventually add all these 4 seperate files, into scenes in one main FLA. file. How do I do this so that I have the symbols ect. I am pretty sure you can't just copy/paste.

Which FLASH** guru out there can lead me in the right direction?


greatly appreciated...

*g.guru.

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