Flash :: Basic Design Question

Software Recommendation For Basic Flash Design?
Hi,

I'm fairly proficient in Photoshop/Illustrator CS2 & have some background in web development.

I have a need to frequently update an SWF file that consists of font laid over photographs, each one linked, as part of a slow transitioning slide show on a website.

I don't anticipate having a need for advanced animation with vector art.

I'm looking for a flash editor/creator software with the fastest learning curve based upon the knowledge & compatibility with CS2. Second priority would be budget... but I'd sooner spend the money on a product that gets me up to speed faster, so ease of use is the priority.

Recommendations?

Thanks!

HelpHow To Make A Design Page For T-shirt Design Website
Hello..I would like to make a design page that user can design his Tshirt online. It should have the functions like, adding pictures and text on the Tshirt, and the user can modify the font of the text and the position of the picture. After design, the whole information should be sent to the database for producer usage. Therefore, could any one have some good suggestion or source code for these purpose or any good links.

There is a similar function link. http://www.99dogs.com/custom2.html It is the whole process of the design and contains flash. So could any expert help me to achieve these functions in my design page. It is urgent and very important for me. Many thanks in advance!

Flash Design Methods, (what Is The Best Way To Design The Overall Site?)
Hey guys, i am new to flash and so far I have seen a couple ways that you can develop sites. one is to have a main timeline and load swfs into it. and the other is to put everything on the main timeline. I was searching for an article that would give me the advantages and disadvantages of both. anyone know about this?

Basic Basic Email Submit Form
I want text in a one line input box to be sent to my email address by clicking a button in flash. How can this be done?
Greg
I want people to be able to submit their email address to me.

Basic Basic Email Submit Form
I want text in a one line input box to be sent to my email address by clicking a button in flash. How can this be done?
Greg
I want users to be able to submit their email address to me.

Basic, Basic Problem In Animated Btns
I have spent HOURS and DAYS working on a project for an online Flash 2004 class. I've searched threads on this subject in this site but none address it. I guess I'm too new to understand 90% of what's posted! I've viewed a couple of tutorials but just can't get it! Here's one of the problems. I've tried all kinds of ways to do this, but I just don't get it. I'm sure all of you are shaking your heads over my inability to "get it" but I'm putting my pride behind me and asking for help!!

Book: Essentials for design Level One by Dwayne J. Ferguson, Proj. 7, Challenge 1, "Creating a Fading Animated Button."

1. Open scifi_button.fla from folder (this shows the hangar door)

2. Use the Selection tool to select the hangar door. Drag the hangar door into the Library. Name the new symbol "hangarDoor_symbol" and choose Graphic as the Behavior. Click OK.
===I'm okay up to here

3. Press the "F8" key and create a new movie clip symbol. Name it "hangarDoor_mc."
===Where should I do this? Duplicate in the Library? And what do I do with the hangarDoor_symbol on the Stage?

4. Drag an instance of the hangarDoor_symbol to the stage.

5. Add a keyframe to the movie clip Timeline on Frame 10. Move the door to the top of the guide.
===Do I create another layer and move the mc into frame 1?

6. While still on Frame 10, decrease the Alpha of the door to 20%.
===There's no place in Properties that brings up the color box. It just shows a sound box.

7. Choose Motion Tween from the Property Inspector. Scrub the Timeline to ensure that the door animates.
===I went to Frame 1 and did this, but nothing showed in the frames in between!

8. Return to the main Timeline. Click the Preview button in the Library to play the animation.
===I thought I WAS in the main Timeline!!

9. Press the "F8" key to convert the door on the Stage into a button symbol. Name it "hangarDoor_button."
10. Double-clicki the hangarDoor_button on the Stage to enter Edit mode.
11. From the Insert>Timeline menu, add keyframes for each of the button states.
12. Choose View>rulers. Draw guides around the shape of the door on the stage.
13. Click the Over state keyframe and delete the door graphic. Replace the graphic with an instance of hangarDoor_mc from the Library.
===Why is all this necessary.

14. If necessary, move hangarDoor_mc into position within the guides, so it matches the placement of the other states.
===What? I go to onion skin outline?

15. Return to the main Timeline. Choose Control>Test movie to try your button.
===This is a joke!

Flash Cs3 Basic Tutorial Basic Download
somebody knows some book or tutorial complete for download of the flash cs3
with exercises and for beginning?
send the links
thanks
Marina
:)

[FCS3] Basic (i Mean Basic) AS Tutorial (2 Or 3)
OK, I have absolutely no idea what i have to do when it comes to actionscript. I dont know why you would use } or : or ; or, well, anything, and I have no idea what the functions of it are. The onlt thing i know is the stop action, and even then i just do [ESC] S T - so i dont know what im typing to make it stop.

Is there any tutorials that will take me from being a person who knows f**k all about AS (but a fair bit about Flash) to a person that knows a fair bit about both. All the tuts I have consulted so far have either been so basic that you don't need AS, or a "basic" AS tutorial, which I have no idea what is going on in them, because they are not basic [for me].

Thanks
Alex

Sorry if there has already been a million post like this before, but they probably all have stupid titles, which I can't be bothered to sift through.
Maybe a post like this should be stickied, because i'm sure its not just me who is an AS idiot?

Thanks again

Some Basic, Basic Instructions About FMS.
Hello everyone,

I am trying to make a Multiplayer AS3 based game. Can anyone kindly guide me to some BASIC BASIC tutorial about how to send variable to the FMS, and read something back?

Its about 3 days now and I can't find anything. I tried my hands on Red5 at first, but then I discovered that it was even harder to understand. The samples in Red5 were in AS2 and would confuse me more if I tried to translate them to AS3. And the samples found inside the FMS server don't work

I tried to make google find me a hello world tutorial for either Red5 or FMS, and tried alot of different ways to convince Google to find something but it didn't.

Please guide me on how to get started with FMS OR Red5, as Red5 is still an option for me.

All I need to transfer is the x and y location of one movie clip to another. Simple. That's the only thing I am wanting to do right now.

Any help in this regard will be appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

Most Basic Of Basic Questions
i just need to know how to do a navigation in flash...i have a lot of images so the most streamlined it can be the better...
for example, i want a series of buttons
and when you click one button, several come up, and those are buttons for images...nav, sub-nav.......ive been looking all day on how to do this, can anyone help, or direct me to a sight to help, or show me where i can download a sample file? im really desperate, deadline soon, nails bitten to the core, just need a simple website

Basic Basic Question
hi there,

i have an mc, with an on press event which should tell the main timeline to go to the next scene and play, but it doesnt work

any reason why?

on (press){
_root.gotoAndPlay('Main','start');
}

so basic, so iritating!

chers all

jamo

How Can Use Flash Within Visual Basic Or Visual Basic.net.
Can I use Flash as my interface for applications created in Visual Basic or Visual Basic.net. I would really appreciate help from anybody.

Web Design Help...
Hi,

A friend of mine has asked me to set up a simple website for him using Flash. I haven't done any design work in over a year and so my memory is a bit rusty. I've searched through the tutorials looking for some answers, but nothing quite fit. So, can anyone here suggest a good canvas size for setting up the movie. I changed my default to 800x600 some time ago and it doesn't quite look right. What size would you recommend and what publish settings should I use for ensuring a good fit on different monitors, browser sizes, etc.

Also, my friend is really keen on maintaining the functionality of the "Back" and "Forward" buttons on the browser toolbar. About the only way that I can think of doing this would be to publish each page as a separate Flash movie, but this seems like quite an awkward, and slow, way of doing things. Any suggestions?

Thanks very much for your help!

Design
Hello everyone.

So,I'd like to make a flash site but the only problem is I am not really good in design ... The question is : Could someone make a cool design interface for me ?

- Tommy Gunn -

Web Design
I was wondering if anybody could help me find online tutorials for web designing tips. I want to know how to make animated instances and how to make hidden animating menus with links on them that are also roll-overs. Thanks if you can help, I really appreciate it.

IE Bar Design
can anybody tell if it is possible to chance the color and layout of the IE bar (blue bar top of the window)
Can i do it in flash (ationscript) or do i need java ....

can somebody give me a direction?
thankz
>envoy

For XML Design
I am new for the XML.... so can someone help on this?

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=366580
Cheers

Web Design
wHICH WEB DESIGN SOFTWARE OTHER THAN FLASH MX WOULD U RECOMMEND THAT CAN IMPORT AN EXPORT FILES WITH FLASH MX?

Web Design
I bundled up a program in flash so that I can use it for my personal favorites and programs i use on my computer.

What I would like to do is incorporate internet explorer so that it executes this flash program. I am having trouble getting IE to resize to its dimensions so that it fits snuggly in place and a person is unable to resize the window. Also i would like to remove the standard buttons IE has.. as well as removeing the title bar as well if at all possible.

I have attached a sample of the image:

Thanks!

Web Design
any web designers based in toronto looking to design a website $500...
no flash involved...scripting html and javascript

Please Tell Me How To Design
hello viewers,
this is santosh from india. i need some help in flash that is i want to create one calculator in flash i have html version calculator please see that calculator the calculator link is http://aboutforex.com/pivot.html please tell me how to design that calculator in flash and in that calculator i will give high, low and close values then i click on calculate then it will displays Pivot Point and R1 and R2 and S1 and S2 please tell me how to design and in this calculator i will use pivot formula that formula is as follows:

Pivot point = (H + L + C)/3
S1= (2 * Pivot) – H
R1 = (2 * Pivot) – L
S2 = Pivot – (H – L)
R2 = Pivot + (H – L)

if anybody design this calculator and send to me in fla mode please help me sir.

regards,
k.n.v.santosh

About To Design . . .
Im about to design some websites in flash. One being my portfolio, and the other being a website for a band.

I have never designed a website other than in class assignments. And I had used dreamweaver. However I want my sites to look nice and animated.

My question here is, are there anythings I need to keep in mind while designing these sites?

Help With Web Design...
Hi this is my first post..

I am fairly new to flash, and I am trying to make a website...

The website has been put together in frontpage, and contains link buttons made in flash, and then an inline frame, which I want the links to control

Im sorry if thats confusing above, Its hard to word....

So basically I need the flash movie to control links in an inline frame on the same page.... I tried adding the following, to a buttons 'actions'

"on (release) {

//Goto Webpage Behavior
getURL("home.htm", "I1");
//End Behavior"

with : home.htm being the page
and I1 being the name of the inline frame

This found the page, but opened it in a new window

Please Please help me Im very desperate for this to work....

Thanks In advance, James

My Design
Hello Dears, please visit this site its my design and i like read our comment plz

www.madaenalnour.com

thx

Nav Design
hey guys, ive made myself the menu with slidebar that is featured in the tutorials but i have a few questions.

Once my buttons have been made how do i make it so on rollover they turn a different shade or colour, im novice in AS so would it involoe Onrollover?

Secondly, my object i have made for my slider doesnt seem to glide to middle of each button that ive made? can anyone shed some light on this?

i would appreciate any help

thanks

Kipper

Design Help
Can someone tell me how do they this?

http://www.illusionnewmedia.com/

Notice how "Reviews" text window opens up in the middle of the page. I am trying to create something like this.

Please...Please....help!

Design Help
I'm like the only person without an awesome flash/php/photoshop website. What's the holdup? I cant create a design! And why not? No imagination? I don't know. Maybe someone can give me some ideas. I might want to do a website similar to Neostream.

I'm not very good at drawing, although I'm working on my creativity.

I've been hitting myself over the head with a trout.

Any ideas, anyone. Something that you did to think up your design?

Web Design Name
im in the process of starting to design the flash site for my web design company but im struggling for a name any ideas ive thought of pretty crappy ones up to know for instance mirage web design and typhoon web design after my current site typhoon extensions

all ideas wanted

-Tom

p.s needs to be catchy yet professional

Design
I am building my flash site which will be called pro design and i need a navigation bar kinda thing but i want it cool anyone know where i will find cool pictures which i could use as a nav bar i would like to make sumthing like http://www.highctr.com but without making the hed like thing in flash I am open to other ideas as well its a professional site but i want it less pro and more fun

-Tom

Design Help
Yeah, well I lack skill to make a cool news posting thingie to my website.
It's currently working with a simple kirupa.com's external file loading
tutorial as a base.

But the look in the textfield is not right... say what would you do and
how.

Currently it looks like this:
http://www21.brinkster.com/hellstick/hs.htm

Web Design
I am trying to figure out how this website was created. Obviouly it was done in flash but I want to know how the box on the right was created. It's almost transparent and you can close or open it. I also waned to know how they created the all black background with the smaller box in the middle where all the action takes place If someone could help me out I would really appreciate it. The address is http://www.fox.com/oc/home.htm
thanks

New To Design
Hi, whats up? im really new to design. im really young too, im 13 years old. I was just wondering where to start. Do any of you teach lessons or anything? i wanna get as good as www.pixelranger.com , but yet i know that will take a while to acheive. Do any of you have any ideas on how i should start. i really wanna learn flash and Photoshop, so if anyone can help that would be awsome thx

Dustin

Im New To Design :)
Hey all, ive been tryin to decide if i should start web design, i found some nice colleges and stuff, but of course im very young so im not ready for that. I was wondering how to start off with basics with flash and photoshop , and any good sites with tutorails and such. Also, for those of whom are webdesigners for a carrear, is it a good one? can u make alot of money off of it (lol)? please help me if u can

Need A Little Design Help
My interface is based on symbols and i have got stuck...

What can i do for an about symbol?

I currently have a i for info but i dont like it...

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

[looking 4] A Design
I saw a long time ago before I grasp [as], a look that was pretty neat and now I like to try to learn how to do it.

It looked like this:
4 boxes with a circle in the the middle. the boxes were draggable and the circle would = the center of the boxes and when a box was dragged the circle would flow or bounce as it were to the center of these 4 boxes.

Something simular to this would be good.

Thanks. any reply would be good because I cant find any.

Help With Web Design
Hi.

Nice site design. Okay, I need your help.
So, I wanna make personal site, and I am looking for site template.
Can you advice some online store or other resource where I can find many site templates?

It would be better if it will be free:)
I think many of us have personal sites, do you design it yourself?

Thx, Bill.

How To Design ?
Hi folks,
i am new to OO concepts, and i am pretty much impressed by flash, wanted to create a small game, description of the game was like ... it consists of Balls (movie clips) randomly bouncing on the stage, while creating these balls user have to input the Name of the ball, and when play begins he has to type a name and click on any one of the ball if the name of the ball is the same as the name the user typed, then he will got 10 points, otherwise he will lose a chance.
Actually what i want is, i want that inputed data from user will be stored separately, want to have a controller which will control the UI and input data. I have thought of the design given below but unable to think interms of OO can anybody help me on this ....

() [ manager ]
/
/
() ()
[ data ] [ UI ]

thanks in advance.

Help In Web Design
Hey, I just wanted to know if anybody could point me a web site or something where I can learn how to create a web site in Flash.

Thanks

Design Question
I'm fairly new to actionscript, so I'm trying to get a little direction on how to setup a project I want to start.

I want to allow monsters to run across a level that is composed of small blocks. The old arcade game Joust would be a good example. I want the monsters to continually be falling (gravity) but when they hit blocks they stand on them. Currently i just do a hit-test within the blocks and set the monsters y value to be offset of the blocks y value to get this effect.

Problem is I don't know how to make all the blocks have the same actionscript so that when I edit it, it applies to all the blocks. Do I need to put the script in a frame, and then call it from within the onClipEvent(enterFrame) of the blocks? This probably isn't the best way to do this. Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks.

Whats The Best Design ?
Hello Everybody,

I am buliding an application with a Menu navigation.
Selecting each menu item loads its own movie clip.

Certain interactions in the movieclip should cause suitable changes in the menu and vice versa.

The menu is always visible on the left hand side while the movieclips load on the right.

whats the best solution....?

should i:
1.use loadMovie and assign the movieclips suitable levels
2.use a generic movieclip with a fixed level and load othe other movies into the generic movie.

will appreciate ur ideas on this...

with thanks
kiran

Effect I Want But Cant Seem To Design.
I dont know if I need to do it in 3ds or swift, but I want the bands to move like they are rotating from the middle of this ball and I cant get it no matter what I do. http://www.anythingbutflat.com any suggestions?

Forum Design
I have just visited this forum page and noticed how everyone can write in and communicate with each other. Its obvious that this is the future of web design where everything is dynamic. My suspicion is that this was done with Macromedia coldFusion and Ultradev. Could someone confirm my suspicions as I am very interested to learn to develop web design at this level. As the learning curve is high I do no wish to emback on learning the wrong software, please advise what software was used to achieve this

Lounge Design
Hi I decide to make a class example like this site :
http://www.subscriberdirect.com/gq/l...ash/index.html

- Do anyone can help me on how to generate bubbles without creating all of them ?
- Where can I find some fonts with a Cocktail Shaker , glass and everything ?

If anyone got some .fla like this one tell me !!!

Mastering The Web Design
Hi Guys,

Beforehand thank you to everybody that helps me out and just reads it. Sorry for the length.

I will start from the beginning. I am a student at a University studying computer information systems. Our department of course like lots of them tends to fall behind the technology quite a bit. The programming languages that I have to learn right now to be successful are not those that we are being taught at the school. Being always cool about learning stuff myself I decided that I am going to learn stuff I need myself.

I am trying to obtain a close to complete set of skills for developing full dynamic websites for online businesses. I have VB.6 background and I am also going to learn principles of Java. Right now I think about mastering ASP.NET, PHP, MySQL, Actionscripting, XML. I know it’s not going to happen overnight, I will take it step by step. I already started working on my ASP.NET skills. I have basic Flash and intermediate to advanced HTML skills.

My dilemma now is choosing the step by step process to achieve an advanced set of web design and programming skills in a period of about 1 year(that's when I graduate). I want to be able to create full database integrated, artistic Flash web sites. Now, nobody can help me with my artistic skills. I either have them or not and I think I have some. I know I will have to use ActionScripting, ASP, XML, PHP and MySQL for dynamic purpose. But where to start? Should I purchase every book I can possibly find useful, or tutorials here and at other online resources can complete the missing?

I am looking at purchasing Hilman Curtise’s Book for flash as well as Flash FX complete reference; Flash 5 Dynamic content studio, Flash XML StudioLab, Dreamweaver Ultradev, Foundation in Coldfusion by friendsofed. I already have purchased SAMS ASP.NET tutorial.

Where should I start and how should I go about it further?

Appreciate for the help guys.Have a nice day.

Basic Design Question

How do you make it where a button slides a window open. But when you click on another button it closes that window and then opens a new window. Making it where each button always closes any open windows before opening a new one.