Flash :: Anyone Fancy A Challenge?

Anyone Fancy A Challenge?
I need this solving its bugging me, and I can't see where the problem lies.

I have a flash movie that loads in some XML and CSS, but I want the text to fade in, now this works fine, to the extent that it fades in some text from an xml file, but although I am loading in the CSS it doesn't seem to work. I have put a trace in and it shows that it has loaded. The problem is I don't have a stripped down version small enough to fit on this site, so I will need to email the files. Anyone who is willing to help me will receive my gratitude and I will be forever in his/her debt.

My email address is info@nicktoye.co.uk

Many thanks in advance

ULTIMATE CHALLENGE ->Take Up This Challenge If U Think U R Gd Enough<-
use the minimum amount of code to open up an external video clip like .mpg or .mpeg using a flash projector(*.exe).
U can use the following s/w that i had uploaded to help u...

or u can d/l @ this link
http://www.ampsoft.net

U can post / upload your codes to show how Pro u r...

ULTIMATE CHALLENGE->Take This Challenge If U Think U R Pro Enough<-
use the minimum amount of code to open up an external video clip like .mpg or .mpeg using a flash projector(*.exe).
U can use the following s/w that i had uploaded to help u...

or u can d/l @ this link
http://www.ampsoft.net

U can post / upload your codes to show how Pro u r...

Anyone Fancy This?
below is a small project I am trying to do. However I do not have a great deal of experienec with Action Scripting, therefore I am looking to out source it. Feel free to take a look, and I am willing to pay, obviously. Paypal etc. If you are interested, send us an email and I can send you the brief again with the attached images.

The Project

The ultimate aim is to display text messages in a timeline of animations.

To begin the user is presented with 10 text areas that they can enter around 5 lines of text. (see example_text_input_screen.gif) Each area represents a separate dynamic text swf file i.e. Text Area 1, when text is entered here, it will also change the dynamic text field of text_1.swf.

Each dynamic text file is called “text” and are numbered. (see folder_and_contents.gif). I will be creating these dynamic text files. Howvere please create an example dynamic text file that works with the project.

The areas that have had text entered and are wanted to be played are then selected (radio button, or switch). The user can choose how many text areas will be displayed, simply by pressing the ON/OFF button.

Once the areas have had the input text entered and turned on (radio button or switch) the user then presses the Play button.

The swf file then fills the screen and starts to play the “Text_1”. (see example_timeline.gif), the player then plays two swf animations (anim_1 and anim_2), one after another. Then again the next selected text file is then played followed by the next 2 anim files. A text file is played at the start and after every 2 animation files.

The animation files will be changed regularly, therefore I want to be able to drop into a folder a number of .swf files. These .swf files will be basic timeline based animations. E.g. an animation of a ball bouncing. These files can be named or numbered anyway needed. Also if needed these files can have action script in to perform the next operation. Please supply and example. I will create these animations. I only need the ability to drop them into the folder. These animations will be called “anim_1” etc

To escape the full screen mode, the user will need to press esc. Or a certain area of the screen, whatever works really.

Well Thats Fancy?
Anyone have any idea how this was done.. I would like to do the same for a future banner.... roll over the banner playing starwars.

Thanks!!

http://www.ebanner.nl/

Fancy Nav Box
how would this have been created? and coded??
http://www.wilkhahn.com.au/
the big box area

Fancy Buttons
I want to make a button that has a popdown menu when you rollover with the mouse

|-------|
| BUTTON|
|-------|
|
|
------Button
|
------Button
|
------Button

How do I do this?

Fancy A Quickie?
Sorry this is probably somewhere in the help files, but I couldn't find it...

how can I change the font size of a dynamic text box with the html tags enabled? I tried <font size=20> but this didn't want to work.

Thanks

Fancy Flash
I'm trying to create a fancy, flashy splash page for a website, along the lines of the intro seen here:

http://www.abdullahbakhashab.com

I'm familiar with Flash 5, but for this project chances are I'll be using MX, I know this involves a lot of actionscript, and other things - some of which are NOT my forte, but I just need a very general idea of how to go about doing something like this.

Any ideas/suggestions/pointers would be very helpful

Thanks in advance

Sid.

Isn't It Fancy Or Fussy To Do That ?
Hi ,

I am going to stick an external file (no matter a text file or an action script file) to my flash file. This external file will be put in different directory of my computer. My idea is that when people copy my swf to other computer, my flash file will stop automatically (because without the external file). Isn't 2 fancy to do that ?

Or can you suggest some way not to let people read my flash file in other machine ?

Fancy Words
Please help me make a really cool title to make my new movie stand out think of anything tell me the script so I can copy it I use Flash 5 e.g a wavy pattern black and white use 1 layer! It is gonna be called True Crime and with small letters streets of L.A I will b very grateful thaaannnkkkzzzzzzzzz!

[F8] Fancy Menu
Having only done basic actionscript, I'm trying to move up in the world, and I'm having difficulty. With every other internet techology I've taught myself, I start by deciding what I want, then figuring out how to achieve it, but for some reason I'm on a serious mental block here. Can someone get me jumpstarted?

I need a menu with 7 graphical items:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

where the item to the farthest left is largest in physical size. if someone clicks on, say, "5" in this example, 5 will scroll to the left, getting larger as it does so. As it scrolls to the left, 1,2,3 and 4 with drop off one at a time reappearing instantaneously in small size on the right of the menu. So, after someone has clicked "5" the menu will look like this:

5 6 7 1 2 3 4

Can't get my head around where to start this, or how. Any thoughts, ideas, or questions? I'm using Flash 8.

Thanks for reading this message.

Fancy Flash Ad - How Did They Do That?
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle....leID=185301021
In the top right corner. This is fancy Can anyone offer any hints as to how they did that??

Fancy Preloader.
Since flashing i've been creating all my sites with simple bar, percentage preloaders which has been all well and good. However, these are begining to look a little boring and i notice when looking at some sites that the preloaders appears to be small movies playng inline with the value of the loading.

ie. clock hands moving signifying the progress made etc

Does anybody have a link to a tutorial which would explain how this is done, i imagine it requires a 100 frame movie and some actionscript to perform, but that's the extent of my knowledge.

Thanks all.

Too Fancy For Gotoandplay( )
hi evreyone

am making a language selection for my site web
its need to be fully in AS ( cause am too fancy for gotoandplay( ) )

what i want is the selected language move to a point while others disapear

thx evreyone for help
u can dl my source where i comment better my problems

Fancy Scroll Bar
Hello,
I would like to create a scrollbar that imports external SWF like this site:

http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/#...folio/preview/

I had created something similar in AS2 but now I would like to start from scratches in AS3 to built something a bit more "professional".
can anybody help me to get started??
thank you

Fancy Movements, Is It AS?
http://www.ninjacruise.com/5hiver/blanco.htm

press info

the tantacles that swiths around.

Have an AS script for similar movement?

lets say i want a plant to move like this.

Wich program should i draw the plant in?
Fireworks MX ? photohop`? og just in flash MX?
Freehand MX?

flash rox

Those Fancy Flash Ads
take a look at this page and wait, an advertisement for a movie with Nicole Kidman should start....

http://www.channel4.com/film/

this is done in Flash and is shown in the center of the HTML page....

anyone know how?

Is this a simple thing of making a flash movie (swf), background transparent, placing it in a div, then positioning the div on the page.....is that simple or is there more to it?

** sorry if I've answered my own question but I just want to be sure **

Fancy Menu
Having only done basic actionscript, I'm trying to move up in the world, and I'm having difficulty. With every other internet techology I've taught myself, I start by deciding what I want, then figuring out how to achieve it, but for some reason I'm on a serious mental block here. Can someone get me jumpstarted?

I need a menu with 7 graphical items:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

where the item to the farthest left is largest in physical size. if someone clicks on, say, "5" in this example, 5 will scroll to the left, getting larger as it does so. As it scrolls to the left, 1,2,3 and 4 with drop off one at a time reappearing instantaneously in small size on the right of the menu. So, after someone has clicked "5" the menu will look like this:

5 6 7 1 2 3 4

Can't get my head around where to start this, or how. Any thoughts, ideas, or questions?

Thanks for reading this message.

Fancy Shine Effect
Hi,

I need to make something like a gold shining effect out of this text (as attached) ...I've seen tons of cheezy effects , does anyone have a good tutorial , example in flash or even after effects example of this? I need something that looks good and there are no restrictions on type of shine as long as it has that goldy feel.

cheers

[F8] Fancy Image Gallery
Hi I was wondering would the image gallery seen here (if you click on any of the screenshots it appears) be created via flash and if so could anyone give any pointers on how one would go about doing it?

Fancy New Image Show
Ive noticed a lot more sites using this...

when you click on a thumbnail (or link), the screen fades to almost black and the image appears in the centre of the page.

a very "web 2.0y" look but could someone shed light on this technique?

How Do I Make A Fancy Drop Down?
Hi,

I need to make a drop down list with graphical back grounds on each item, the item's text and link come from an xml file and when one rolls over an item an image appears at the top of the drop down.

Now, my suspicion is that the standard drop down component is not quite up to this level of customization so I reckon I should create my own.

How does one do this with Flash 8? Is it a matter of attaching a movie clip for each item and having a button on each item that says stuff like 'on rollover then highlight this'??

Cheers, CN.

New Fancy Cursor Can't Click
I have just made new cursor for my flash movie, and put this code into an actions layer:

MyButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,doMenu);
Mouse.hide();
function onMove (motion:MouseEvent):void {
kursor.x = mouseX;
kursor.y = mouseY;
};
stage.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove);

Function doMenu is in another place, it works, I checked with normal cursor. But MyButton is unclickable with this new cursor. What can I do?

Fancy Text Input
Here's a little experiment I did to create a more visual input field. Also, the code is pretty flexible, so that it can be used for practical things as well.

http://stars.meido-online.com/Stars/text_input/

The source can be downloaded by clicking the Flash symbol in the upper-left corner.

Other sources and experiments can be found on:

Meido (+) Stars

Tell me what you think

Fancy Animated Preloader
Does anyone know of a tutorial explaining how an effect like this preloader is done? http://www.sprewellmotorsports.com/

It's the same preloader on all pages what I am most interested in is the animation of the actual bar.

Fancy Animated Masks
I am looking for a tutorial describing how to do an effect like the mask that appears when you click on a new section. I am trying to figure out how to make different types of effects so a simple tutorial would be beneficial.

http://www.crossfadeonline.com/

Thanks guys.

Fancy Button Work
hello.

i am fairly new to flash and hopefully this is not a totally dumb question...

i am trying to make a button that expands and contracts smoothly when someone pushes it. i did the tutorial on this site for something like that but did not find it was exactly what i was looking for or i have some questions on it.

i tried making a movie clip and making the circle expand and contract and then put this in a button but it was not working.

i tried the tutorial where one ends up with a movie clip and then programs it and it expands and contracts smoothly but then it goes to a URL - i tried changing this to going to gotoNext Frame but that was not working.

Can anyone help me on this?

- Olivia

Fancy Flash / Html
Hey guys, i was just wondering if someone can help me create a really nice look on a html page.

This is what i mean, pls visit this link frist !!

http://www.cruciallimit.com/chapterOne/index.html

How would i go, by trying to do something like this, ive seen it in a few sites, and i think it gives it a real classy look!

I know its probably more of a html question, but just in case someone knows it here

Fancy Text Output
Does anyone know how to produce a text output going left to right, one letter at a time like the Flash animation in http://www.exploremarsnow.org/? Thanks

How Do U Make Those Fancy Curves?
ei, i wonder how you make those fancy curves like those in 2A? those solid curves that meet with each other...

any form of suggestion if highly appreciated. thanx

How Do You Make Fancy Scroll Bars ?
i've tried and failed !

.....

Fancy Image Scrolling With Drag
http://www.sonyericsson.com/t310/flash.asp?lang=uk

many of the sony ericsson phone mini sites have this feature, and it is one of the things i have to do for my site. please look at the link above.

i have a chart, it's about 6000 pixels long, and like above, i want a small navigation bar, and you drag the box along the bar, and the big picture moves with it and "snaps in" at certain points.

then at whatever point in the large chart you are, you can click on buttons.

i tried cutting my chart into small portions and just having left and right arrows take you to the next section, but it is not as successful as the sony trick used above.

My chart is wider than the workarea in flash, so i can't figure out how to put buttons on parts of the chart that are "off the edge" of the flash work area. How did sony do this without chopping up the image? or if they did chop up the image, how did they put it back together? and how do they get the "snap" at certain points along the bar?

i'm assuming there's a tutorial or book that covers this trick somewhere cos i've seen it a few times. but i can't find anything on the net. if anyone can help or has hints to set me in the right direction i'd be very grateful. if you have any questons, don't hesitate to ask!

[if you have a problem viewing the link at the top, try
http://www.sonyericsson.com/t310
then select Europe / UK as your location]

Linking Into A Flash Movie - Need Something Fancy?
Hello. Does anyone know how to link to an html page with an swf file on it and have the swf open up to a certain frame number or frame label? as oppossed to opening at the beginning.

I divided my swf into five parts and i'm representing those parts on an html page and i have to have each part open to its corresponding section in the flash movie instead of just opening up the flash movie at the beginning.

i've posted a working example of this at:

http://6MonthsinCleveland.com/webmathematica/

oh thank you

h

How Can I Creat A Fancy Time Line Like This One?
Hi Gurus, Newbies, and all,

This might not be to right place for this question, but I didn't know where else to post it.

I'm trying to create a timeline like this one: http://www.doncesar.com/timeline/Flash/

Does anyone know if there's any tutorial or something similar I can refer to just to get started.

Thanks a lot

Goss

Fancy Actionscript Or Simple Nesting?
http://www.illumina.co.uk/

I had a look at this site today and was wondering...

With the flash banner, is that simply nesting mc5 into mc4, into mc3, etc or some clever actionscripting?

I know how to do that with 1 mc... have a button and on rollover/out it will grow/shrink.
But with that I see it's really smooth and also is keeping size with the other mc's.

If I were to do it with 5 mcs with rolover buttons... if I quickly rolled over and out... the mc would jump to starting the rollout keyframes. So the result would appear to be jumpy.

So, again I'm thinking there's some clever actionscript going on here.

Fancy Full-Screen Action
Hello everyone,

I was browsing the New York Times site and saw this full-screen slideshow. If you click the full-screen option on the bottom, it looks clean, big and beautiful! How are they doing this?? Any ideas?

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html...E/blocker.html

Fancy Animated Preloaders, How Are They Coded?
How are all the type of fancy preloaders that most good flash sites have now made?
I mean the type that animate like the 2advanced ones that everyone knows. For example the preloader moves into the frame grows in size then when loading is finished shrinks back and moves off stage before anything else happens. I know all this stuff is done by Actionscript but doesn't it affect all the preload code, and where would it be placed.
I really want to develop such a preloader not exactly sure what it will do yet, but i could do with knowing generally where to start if possible.

HELP : Embedding Fancy Fonts To Your MOVIE
Hello,

I tried to do what this tutorial for embedding fonts on your movies. http://www.flash-mx.com/news/archives/000136.cfm but it's kinda complicated.

Is there any other way in MX 2004 to embed FONTS to your movie so that other viewers who do not have the fonts can still see the way you are seeing the animations?

Thank You

Fancy Percentage Bar Preloader In Flash 5
Hi,

I have created a Flash site using the modular method (external swfs loaded on top of another) and I am thinking about using a preloader for the intro page and the navigational menu. But, I currently have Flash 5 and so far on the web I've only seen preloader help for Flash MX. Does anyone have any links to sample preloader .fla's for Flash 5? Online tutorials?

The style that I am looking for similar to this website: http://www.boostmobileanthem.com/

BoostMobile uses the percentage% preloader

HElp HElp Help : How To Create Fancy Fireworks In Flash
hi ,,

how to create a fancy fireworks (particles).
thanks in futre

Fancy Scrollable Picture Gallery
Where is there a tutorial to build a fancy scroll picture gallery? Like the one that was used on the guggenheim site at one time. It looks like a film strip and moves left and right depending where your mouse is located over the pictures. I hope I am making sense.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}.

Fancy Mouseover W/ Dreams Of Bigger Things
Okay, now, I have a really cool page starting to develop and here is what I want to do. If you are looking at the file, (which in order to help me and really understand what I want, you kind of need to), there are 4 little circles that have followed a pathway around the edge of a heart. However, notice how small they are. There is no possible way they can show the text that I want them to show. What I want them to do is when someone puts their mouse over one, for the circle to grow to a oval big enought to show the word and when they take the mouse off of it, I want it to shrink back to original size.

How do I do that? :-) Small question, big answer, I know. If I can get one flash page done, everything will sink in and I'll be able to make another one easier. You know?

The bigger asperations consist of a click action. When said person mouses over said button and they click on the button, I'd like to make the button grow til it overtakes the page, revealing the next page, understand my goal? Please answer!

AIM: AntoinetteBrule
YIM: EternalLeftShoe
ICQ: 55544986

Thanks!

Rachel

Simpleton Pek Requires Fancy Email Signature
My mate has a snazzy email sig. which shoots across the screen explodes etc, I want one to. I figure swish light might be able to do this but i don't know how to import the snazzy sig i've made into my email signature in outlook. Any help mucho appreciated!

That Fancy Dynamic Flash Movie Resizing...
People...has anyody got a cool solution?
I came up with (a long time ago) with the DOM based solution to dynamically control the movie's size...adjusting it by directly changing the OBJECT tag style attributes.
This worked fine on Windows Systems...but naturally didn't work on Mac+IE....

About one month after I found out this "really cool idea", someone told me that macromedia was publishing instructions on how to dynamically resize da movie...(I've never found such article...anyway).

I've now given a look at the MM site and they are using the iframe tag...which is not so widely supported..
It looks like it's working fine for my IE6 sp1 (plus on the next IE6 sp1b)...and on NN7.1.

BUT Netscape doesn't support the onResize event...so naturally Flash doesn't automatically get to trigger the Stage.onResize() event. (this means that for NN - and Opera - I have to manually reload the page - through JSP - and have the width-height variables be passed to Flash through the movie's url).

Is there any cooler and more compatible way of working this out?
I've never used the div tag, which I don't really know much about, a side from the fact that it's something very flexible.

Any suggestion greatly appreciated..

by the way, I'll might post a link for Apple users to test!

A Fancy Preloader - Progress Indicator Not On 1st Frame.
Alright, I've seen this done before. I'm trying to make a fancy preloader for transitions between pages on my site, where the progress indicator movie clip is not on the first frame of the timeline, but rather on the 8th frame. I'm having an impossible time getting it to work so that the first 8 frames will play instantly and then pause at the frame with the progress indicator.

Instead what I'm getting is a long delay before anything is displayed, and then it'll pause at the progress indicator when the bar is already 3/4 of the way filled. The method I've tried is to dump the entire preloader animation sequence into a movie clip and embed it on my index.swf on level 0, with it set to Export for Runtime Sharing. Then I call it from that URL from within my site pages, which are on level 4. Logically, that seems like it should work... but the Flash player is still re-downloading the whole damn movie clip before it starts displaying anything on my pages.

If anyone knows a hack that could make this sort of thing function properly, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.