File Size Remaining High In Frame One.

High Quality Images - Low File Size, How?
Hey guys,
I hope this is the proper forum to post this. My question is how can one create high quality textured images, such as those done by deepcode1 on 24-7media projects (Rosas, STZ, etc...exquisite work btw), and still keep a amazingly low file size in flash?

Thanks in advance for any responses.
DC, if you are able to enlighten me personally, that would be more than awesome! Keep up the inspirational work. Congrats on BS award.

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Check Boxes / Input Text Remaining At Next Frame...
All,

Is there a way to have input text and/or check box (ui component) information remain when you move from frame to frame.

I am trying to break up a long form into multiple pages, then submit at the end. When you fill out information and go to the next page (next frame), the information reverts back to its default settings upon returning to that frame again.

Suggestions welcome...

Thanks in advance,

Jason Clark - clearprompt

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Check Boxes / Input Text Remaining At Next Frame...
All,

Is there a way to have input text and/or check box (ui component) information remain when you move from frame to frame.

I am trying to break up a long form into multiple pages, then submit at the end. When you fill out information and go to the next page (next frame), the information reverts back to its default settings upon returning to that frame again.

Suggestions welcome...

Thanks in advance,

Jason Clark - clearprompt

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Preloader Mask Remaining In Rest Of File
I hope this isn't bad form, but my problem I originally posted in the Flash MX forum has evolved beyond the original post, and I felt that this was probably more of a newbie question that was just getting in the way of the problems of more experienced users over there.

Best way to explain would probably be just to show you:http://members.citynet.net/gasana/ I finally got the preloader to animate properly and advance to the main page, but it appears that the maske the preloader was using is now visible and stuck on top of everything else. Here is the actionscript for the animated mask:

onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.stop();
dO = 3.6;
r = 209;
function addslice(O)
{
x1 = r*Math.sin(O*Math.PI/180);
x2 = r*Math.sin((O+dO)*Math.PI/180);
y1 = r*Math.cos((O)*Math.PI/180);
y2 = r*Math.cos((O+dO)*Math.PI/180);
trace(x1 + ":" + y1);
with(_root.mask)
{
moveTo(0,0);
beginFill(0x000088);
lineTo(x1,y1);
lineTo(x2,y2);
endFill();
}
}
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("mask",0);
this.setMask(_root.mask);
_root.mask._yscale = -100;
_root.mask._x = this._x;
_root.mask._y = this._y;
oldLoaded = 0;
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
{
loaded = Math.ceil(_root.getBytesLoaded()/_root.getBytesTotal()*100);
if(loaded>=100){
// Goto action here
_root.gotoAndPlay("IntroStart");
}
for(i = oldLoaded; i < loaded; i++)
{
addSlice(dO*i);
}
oldLoaded = loaded;
}

Any ideas why this would occur? I explained in my first post, when it comes to actionscript, I'm at the mercy of the tutorials. It was hard enough learning the basics of drawing in Flash, and now that I've become fairly competent at that, actionscript is there to cause more headaches!

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Strange Frame File Size
I have a simple two scene .swf, the first scene is the preloader (frame 1 empty, frame 2 actions, frame three gotoAndPlay 2). The second scene (main scene) has an empty fram on frame one and the content on frame 2. Problem is that when I view the bandwidth profiler and show streaming, the preloader does not show itself until about 90% loaded. According to the bandwidth profiler frame 1 is a about 120kb (causing a long delay in the preloader) and frame 3 is only 17kb. I know that my .swf is only about 17kb in total.
Does anyone know what is going on???
B.T.W, the .swf is part of a series of .swf`s being loaded into an _parent .swf and the _parent.swf is also loaded from a main move. If you get my drift!

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Publishing Your Website To Match The Exact High And Size Of Your Movie
I would like to publish my flash movie so when people visit my site it opens to the exact demonions of my flash movie and nothing else. Is this possible?

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High Frame Rates?
I've been working on a project which incorporates a number of quick masking transitions. At 32 FPS (which is what I usually work at) the transitions look choppy to me. When I extend each transition from say 10 to 20 frames then bump the frame rate up to 60FPS (exceptionally high) the look is improved quite a bit.

I would love some feedback on what others are doing. I generally don't touch frame rates that high. How have your experiences with high frame rates panned out?

Thanks.

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Preloading At A High Frame Rate
Hi there, i'm creating a site in flash which has a section for large external thumbnails. I want the movie to load each thumbnail before showing the first one. So say there are 4 thumbs, 25k each. It loads all four, one after the other... then goes on to display the first thumb in place.

The code I have for this is here...


PHP Code:



_root.onEnterFrame = function() {

if (!preloaded) {
    if (thumb_holder.getBytesLoaded() >= thumb_holder.getBytesTotal()) {
        showThumb++;
        if (showThumb >= 5) { //There are 4 images to load
            showThumb = 1; //Show images from start.
            preloaded = true;
        } else {
            loadMovie("thumbnails/"+showThumb+".jpg", "thumb_holder");
        }
    }        
    preloadInfo.picloaderStat = "Loading: "+showThumb;
    preloadInfo.picloaderBar._xscale = int((thumb_holder.getBytesLoaded()/thumb_holder.getBytesTotal())*100);

}
}




Now, this is my problem... if I put this into a movie which is running at 12fps... it works perfectally, however the actual movie is going to be running at 24fps, and this just kills my script. It skips all of the thumbnails, except the last one. 20fps is as low as we wish to go, and the problem still occurs.

It is not the prettiest of scripts, but surely the frame rate should not matter? Is there any way to do it?

I have a feeling it's to do with

PHP Code:



if (thumb_holder.getBytesLoaded() >= thumb_holder.getBytesTotal()) {




It seems like it's ignoring the >=, and proceeding to load the next image in line :shrugs:

Thanks

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First Frame Of Movie Registering At High Filesize
i use one sound in the movie, which is inside a movieclip (start, 9999 loops).. the sound IS NOT initiated by a soundattach command.

the first scene of my movie is nothing but a preloader, without any symbols or shapes, only scripting.. yet in the export report, the first frame registers at about the same filesize as the sound file used within the movie (which, ironically doesn't even appear until scene 3)

i have changed MP3 export compression settings to lower kbps rate, and surely enough the first frame of the movie registers at a lower KB size as before.. so this is definitely related to my sound..

question is, why does a sound, which is started within a frame in a movieclip in scene 3 register in scene 1?

i have even deleted scene 1 (preloader) altogether, but that's of no use.. the 500KB or so filesize then registers on the first frame of scene 2.. (mind you the sound i speak of doesn't appear until scene 3 anyway)..


what is causing this? anyone any clues?

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Effect Of Creating Movies Using A High Frame Rate
Hi All

I was wondering if anyone knew the implications of creating movies using a high frame rate to be run on older machines?

Should you generally stick to a default 12fps? would running at say 40fps cause mega troubles for displaying the movie on an older pc?

Thanks

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Scene File Size Huge Compared To Seperate Movie File Size?
I have a flash movie with multiple swf files imported into different movieclips throughout. Each of the imported movieclips is a seperate scene of the original movie. The thing I found out is that if I copy all the frames of scene 2 for example, and paste them into a new movie. Then publish the new movie as a swf. The file size is much smaller than the scene 2 swf when published from the original movie. Does anyone know why?

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Blank Key Frame Remaining Blank
I thought I was in the clear after I solved my FLV problem, but now I am trying to add content at a key frame and the key frame remains blank after putting the text in this case on the stage, any thoughts on why this is happening?


Jared

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How To Create A File Of High Scores
Hi,

How can i create a file with high scores using flash.
For example : thre is some text filed in a movie where the user will inter his name , how can i write this data to external file ( open an existing one or create a new one ) ?

Thank you.


eldar52

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Getting A High Resolution Image From A Fla File
I have the source to a fla file. I would like to get a still image from the video in in as high quality as possible so I can make a print. Playing the file I can zoom in quite a bit but the only way I can figure out how to get a still is a screen shot which is sub par quality. Any suggestions?

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Flash 8 File To High Quality Video
I am a audio/video person that is new to Flash (8). I have a 6 minute Flash 8 file that I would like to convert to a DVD ultimately. When I export it as an avi file the avi file does not open in any of my video editing or dvd authoring software.

When I try to export the Flash 8 file as a Quicktime file I get a message stating that I need to set the publish settings to Flash 5 or earlier. I did that but now get a message that some Flash 8 features not get converted, plus system doesn't finish creating the Quicktime file anyway, it hangs up for a VERY long time.

Any guidance to help me convert this Flash 8 file to a video file of excellent quality would be appreciated. I searched the forums and only found instructions to do this using Director, which I do not own ...

Thanks in advance.

drp80

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Best File Type For High Quality Typography
Putting together a portfolio of graphic design examples, so type quality is critical. File size not an issue (for CD distribution) so including fonts (lots of 'em, and complete character sets at that) is, I assume, OK.
1. Best way to motion-tween typography for smooth, sharp SWF
2. Best way to capture page images? Originals may be raster or vector, from composition (InDesign) or PDFs of page layouts. Why do PDFs degrade on import?
Point me to some examples with ideas how they were done?

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Loading High Scores From An ASP File (refresh Problem)
I am finishing up a game where high scores are recorded into a database. I have everything working (the reading, displaying, and recording of the scores), except I'm running into a refresh problem with the scores..

When you first enter the game, the high scores are displayed (top 10). Then you enter your name and begin playing.. after your game is over, your score is recorded to the database, and then the scores are shown again (theoretically, so you can see where you ranked with your score that game).

However, the scores do not refresh. Even if you get a high score, the scores shown after your game are not recent, they are the ones that you saw at the beginning of the game. This happens forever (every time you retry playing) until you refresh the whole movie.

I'm loading the variables from the ASP file (which formats them correctly into pairs using = and &) using the following command:

LoadVariablesNum ("http://www.myserver.com/getScores.asp?game=GameName", 0);

I have 2 dynamic text boxes for each score (10) - one for the player's name, and one for their corresponding score. So, as soon as the LoadVariablesNum command gets the values, it is automatically displayed in the input boxes.


Hopefully I explained this well.. if not lemme know

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Need To Play A Sound File In High Speed Loop
Hi,

I need to play a sound file (mp3/wav) at in a high speed loop. What I did is:


Code:
var tick:Sound = new Sound();
tick.attachSound("Tock2");
nInterval = setInterval(someFunction, 200);

function someFunction():Void {
//move my shape one step...
tick.start();
}
What I do in the interval is that I move my shape for one step, and play that "tick" sound. This sound file only a few milliseconds, it's just a "tick" anyway. But after a few iterations, the tick sound starts getting out of sync.

Can anyone help me with this, or tell me an alternative way?

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Unchecking Export In First Frame For Components Does Not Reduce Frame 1 Size
Hey all...

I have a movie all finished up, but for some reason, frame1 is still 56K...I have deselected all "export on first frame" checkboxes, but it seems the component export classes are still loading in frame one...even the Flash help says to simply uncheck export in frame 1 in the linkage settings, but it still is not working...any ideas?

I googled it and it seems a lot of components tend to mysteriously use frame one even with the export option unchecked...if anyone has any info on how to remedy this, please let me know. Thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind...I found out after some more diggin that components will ALWAYS export in the first frame, REGARDLESS of if you have unchecked the option to do so or not. I had to go into the Publish Settings and click the "Settings" button found next to the "ActionScript Version" drop-down box on the Flash tab, then simply manually change the class export frame from frame 1 to frame number 2...

I explained this in case someone else runs into this same problem down the line.

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Why Use Flash Video When It Bumps The File Size To Outrageous Size?
I have imported a flash video into my flash movie. I have run the .mov in sorenson squeeze and have it nice and small. As soon as I import it into flash (because this is the only way I know to do it in order to run a video in flash) now I have 1024 frames and a HUGE .swf file.

So what is the point to using flash at all...or am I doing something wrong. Is there a better way to handle video within flash??

Thanks
Fitchic77

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Making Canvas Size And File Size Smaller
Hi guys,
I made a flash projector file recently for my company,
Its 1024 * 768, and a pretty big file size, but we had it burned onto dvd so that was ok....

However now I want to make it 250 * 250, cut the filesize down, and put it on the companies web site....

Is there any way i can do this in flash?
can I do it in Premiere/ After effects...
Any other places

Thanks
Stefan

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Preloader Size Doesn't Match File Size.....
Alrighty, my preloader says that my filesize is 242kb. MY ACTUAL filesize is 179kb, according to flash and windows. Is there something I am missing here?
Why is my preloader giving me garbage?

www.paulhanak.com is the site.

Here is the code:

Code:
totalBytes = Math.round(getBytesTotal() / 1024);
loadedBytes = Math.round(getBytesLoaded() / 1024);
percentDone = Math.round((loadedBytes / totalBytes) * 100);
if (_root._framesloaded >= _root._totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("start");
}
Thanks for any help! This is mind boggling.....

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Rollover MC's Remaining
Hi folks,

Having a bit of bother...

What I want to do is to have a list of buttons down the left hand side, and when someone rolls over them, a movie clip with text and an image appears on the right hand side.
Simple... but I want the movie clip to remain there until the person rolls over a different one, so that if the mouse isn't over anything, the last rolled over one is still there.

Can anyone help (very detailed!) or provide a tutorial / file in which this has been done?

Much appreciated

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Time Remaining...
was wondering if anyone could help me here... i'm kinda sick of using percentage loaded when using preloaders, and was wondering if i could use 'time remaing' displayed in seconds?

so for example:

26s remaining

dunno if this is possible, which is why i'm seeking some help/advice, but i just thought it could look aesthetically pleasing

cheers in advance
paro

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Time Remaining
Hi!

I want to put time remaining in my preloader...whats the script for that?

Thnx!

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Time Remaining?
Hi!

I`m making or atleast trying to make a pretty advanced preloader in which I have all kinds of info about the loadning process! I wanted to put a time remaining block too but then I realised I haven`t done that before and I don`t know the action script...

Can someone help?

Thanks a bunch!

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1 Item Remaining
Hi folks,
I'm having a little problem loading some Flash files here: http://www.landscapeservicesinc.com

The files seem to load completely and work fine, but the browser gives the message "1 item remaining" instead of "Done", no matter how long I stay on the page. If I refresh the page it shows "Done". This only happens on the pages that have more than one .swf file, like the home page. Does anyone know what I've done/not done here?
Thanks

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2 Items Remaining
I have a page loading 2 flash files. The files load, but in IE the status bar reads "2 items remaining" and just hangs. The flash loads and runs but the status bar just hangs. This doesn't happen in Firefox. I've been searching on this and I've seen that if you have files/directories named "ad" or "banner" that could be a problem, but that doesn't apply here. I have the files in a directory called "flash" and I tried moving them to the root directory. Any ideas? This the object code for one of the files.

CODE<!--url's used in the movie-->
            <!--text used in the movie-->
            <!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
            <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="165" height="600" id="navDevel" align="middle">
            <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
            <param name="movie" value="flash/navDevel.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="flash/navDevel.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="165" height="600" name="navDevel" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
            </object>            

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Time Remaining
iF you visit this INTERNET WEBSITE you'll see on bottom the lock showing the TIME REMAINING to the next event. How can I make that? I think you change the value of starting, if you want to start in 18 days or 10 days or 20days.. I don't know... Thanks for the help again!

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How To Get Time Remaining?
I've gone through Lee's video tutorials. Then I've tweeked at NetStream.time property into the code and have successfully gotten an elapsed time text field. I'm in circles on how to get a TIME REMAINING text field. What do i divide into what to get a countdown? Here's what I have that gives me a time elapsed:

Code:

function checkTime(ns:NetStream) {
   var ns_seconds:Number = ns.time;
   var minutes:Number = Math.floor(ns_seconds/60);
   var seconds = Math.floor(ns_seconds%60);
   if (seconds<10) {
      seconds = "0"+seconds;
      }
   controls.timeElapsed.text = minutes+":"+seconds;
   }


Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Chris.

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1 Item Remaining Error
Hi,

I wondered if anyone has experienced an issue with a flash movie where an error is displayed in Internet Explorer's status area (bottom left of browser window)? The error reads '1 Item remaining'.

The movie appears to load correctly and all associated files are uploaded so any advice on this would be really appreciated as I'm struggling to work out what the problem is.

To view, please go to:
http://www.sodadesign.co.uk

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How Do You Display Remaining Time In An .FLV?
Hi, I'm having a really hard time finding documents on how to display remaining time in an .FLV video. I've tried to mess around with the video components but I've yet to find a solution.

i'm using flash 8 and any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

Derek

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Time Remaining For Video
So I'm trying to create a time remaining countdown for a movie clip (that houses a video). The clip is merely 30 sec, and I want the countdown to start at :30 and count down to the end, but I can't seem to get it to work.

If anyone can help me, or point me to a helpful tutorial, that'd be keen!

Many thanks,
HM

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AS2: Classes Remaining In Memory?
I've got a project that use 5 movies, within those movie's I've got a custom textfield control that allows the designer to drag and drop a MC onto the stage and link up the textfield to an ID an XML file. When the movie plays it autosizes and grabs the text content from the XML file. So - all that works

So, I'm using a single AS2 class and linking it to a movieclip within the library using the AS 2.0 Class field, and this class is used in all five movies.

A new requirement has come up where they want to play all 5 movies in sequence. Not a problem I thought, a simple wrapper movie using MovieClipLoader to load the movies in and a bit of logic to determine when they've finished.

The problem is that the first movie loads in fine, the second movie loads in but use the content from the first movie? Almost like the loading in the movie somehow keeps the class in memory. Now as part of the sequencing code I've tried unloading the movie before loading the next one in, e.g. removeMovieClip() and unloadMovie() but nothing happens. And interestingly, if I rename my AS2 class and path everything up to a different class name - it works!

Does anyone have any idea on how to 'completely' remove a SWF from memory (and thus its classes). Here's the loading and unloading code...


ActionScript Code:
// Vars
var mSequence:Array;
var mSeqPosition:Number = 0;
var mSeqLoader:MovieClipLoader;
var mTimerInterval:Number = -1;
var mCurrentMovie:MovieClip;

// Create the load listener
var loadListener:Object = new Object();

/* Used to start the sequence from the beginning
 */
function PlaySequence() {
    // Add the appropriate elements to the play sequence
    mSequence = new Array();
    mSequence.push("movie1.swf");
    mSequence.push("movie2.swf");
    mSequence.push("movie3.swf");
    mSequence.push("movie4.swf");
    mSequence.push("movie5.swf");   
    // Load the first element
    LoadNextMovie();
}

/* Loads the next movie in the sequence
 */
function LoadNextMovie():Void{
    // Cleanup the previous timer and movie if app
    if ( mTimerInterval != -1 ){
        // Clear up the previous timer
        clearInterval(mTimerInterval); 
        // Remove the previous movieclip
        // mCurrentMovie.removeMovieClip();
        mCurrentMovie.unloadMovie();
        mCurrentMovie = null;      
        trace("REMOVED PREVIOUS MC" );
    }
    trace("LOAD: " + mSequence[ mSeqPosition ] );
    // Create the empty mc
    mCurrentMovie = this.createEmptyMovieClip( mSequence[ mSeqPosition ] , this.getNextHighestDepth());
    mCurrentMovie._lockroot = true;
   
    // Create the clip loader
    var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
    mcLoader.addListener( loadListener );
    // Load the appropriate clip
    mcLoader.loadClip( mSequence[ mSeqPosition ] , mCurrentMovie );
    // Create the 'has finished' timer.
    mTimerInterval = setInterval(  this , "HasTheMovieFinished" , 500 );
}

/* Checks whether current movie has finished
 */
function HasTheMovieFinished(){
    // Get a reference to the current movie
    var mc:MovieClip = this[ mSequence[ mSeqPosition ] ];   
    // Have we reached the final frame?
    if ( mc._currentframe == mc._totalframes ){
        // Move to the next movie if app
        if ( mSeqPosition < ( mSequence.length - 1 ) ){
            // Increment the position
            mSeqPosition++;
            // Then call the Load Next routine
            LoadNextMovie();
        }      
        else{
            // Just clear up the timer
            clearInterval(mTimerInterval);       
        }
    }
}

loadListener.onLoadStart = function( target:MovieClip ):Void {
    // Prevent the container from playing
    target.stop(1); 
}

loadListener.onLoadInit = function( target:MovieClip ):Void {
    // Start the movie playing
    target.play();   
}

// Start the play sequence
PlaySequence();
stop();
Cheers - M

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1 Item Remaining In Status Bar
Here is what happens...
I created a website in Flash 6but when I open it in Internet Explorer, the message "(1 item remaining) Opening page

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I Item Remaining In I.e. - Swf Files
HI all hope your all good. Bit of a toughy for u to get your heads round. (its a little long but its a tester for u real webmasters)

i.explorer. active x controls - swf files load but the i.e browser still says 1 item remaining. cause <object> tags. My site has an email form that uses php to send to a mail server. this works fine on all browsers except i.e. due to the fact it can't excercute due to the page has not fully loaded.
SO
Use deconcept swf object, I hear you all cry. Problem being is this.

My site is based in flash. In flash it has a stage width of 430 x 430pixels. But the file has an actual area of 1482 x 1482 pixels (this is for background image and any imported swf files bigger than 430x430). Then the swf file is then put into a html page with a a setting of center, WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%". SO the browser always centres the swf and no matter how big the browser is made displays all the flash. for example your browser is 1024 x 768 you will see the swf stage 430x430 but also all the background detail which will fill the remaing browser space, giving the site greater impact.

Then i use the i.e update to stop active x sillyness.

"<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.uyrproduction.com/ieupdate.js"></script>"

But this doesn't stop the 1 item remaining bug. (give me strength)

So swfobject is the all browser answer to all my problems. but unforunately when set to w100% h100% (as below)

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("mysite:-).swf", "A pint to the man who can solve this "100%", "100%", "6", "#000000");
so.addParam("quality", "high");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

it only displays the 430 x 430 flash stage and not all the background info as mentioned before. I've put the setting to the actual pixel size i.e.

var so = new SWFObject("mysite:-).swf", "A pint to the man who can solve this "1482", "1482", "6", "#000000");

alas, this the right size but not centered and has scoll bars, boo. tried all sort of java script to sort it out but to no luck.

the person who can help will be in my good books for ever more.

Cheers

Bob

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Time Remaining Becomes Score
Hiya

I want to make a scoreboard for my flash mini game but so that the time remaining becomes the score (so the quicker you do it the more points you get!).

I have created my timer as a movie clip with a dynamic textbox with the variable name timer. This is then dragged onto the main timeline and given the instance name of countdown,

The following code makes it work:


CODEcountdown.onEnterFrame = function() {
    this.timer = int(30-(getTimer()-startTime)/1000);
    if (Number(this.timer) == 0) {
        gotoAndPlay(108);
    }
    timer = 0;
}

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Simple Time Remaining
Hi. I've used used MX for a while, but am new to Flash 8 and using FLV's. I can get a video to play with the provided controller skins, but would like to get a "time reamining" to display somewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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File Size -- Does Size Really Matter
I got this site and most of you already know about it - I have been trying and trying to crunch it -----

QUESTION:
what is a decent file size that I should be aiming on - no bare in mind that the site has imported graphics and sounds --> the lowest I can get it is 398KB ---> and that's with the sound being horrible ->

what is an ideal site usually? 250kb ---> is that even possible? I mean - sound - graphics - should I just quit?

ERRRRRRR
Low Key

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Image Size / File Size
Hi there,
I´ve got a little move which holds eight *png images. The final movie size is around 200 KB.
The images are too large in size anyway, so I did the following:

Scaled the MC holding the images to 50%: No difference in movie(swf) size.
Scaled the bitmaps in Flash down to 50%: No difference in movie size.

Is there another way besides open all the images in an external editor and scale them?

Thanks, Hendrik

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Bitmap Size - How Can I Know It's File Size In A .FLA ?
Hi there! thanks for taking the time.

Is there a way to know how big a bitmap
is (in Kb filesize) once imported into the library of the source FLA file ?

Sometimes I get flash tutorials with bitmaps embeded but I don't know
how to figure out how big they are? ...of course without comparing the FLA file before
and after I delete the bitmap from the library.

Thanks!

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Text Size/file Size
I just realized that the "Loading Data" text I use on the 1st frame of my movie preloader weighs in at a whopping 135KB! Even the static symbol file for the Loading Data text alone is 79KB!

Does anyone know of a way to bring down the file size? It seems like I could draw something similar at a fraction of the size.

I am using a simple static font (called JH Titles) at 28pt size and tweening the brightness -100 to +100.

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How Do I Add The Time Remaining In A Loading Script?
How do I add the time remaining in a loading script?

I know there is a way to do this some how, because I have seen it on various other sites, but this one just has me stumped. My current loading script consists of KB remaining, total KB, and percent loaded. Is there any tricks to set up time remaining, or is it just not possible with flash 5 action script?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

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[F8] Check For Objects Remaining (game)
I've got this game thingy that you guide a moving ball with anotherer and try to get all 169 squares. I will put a timer on it once I figure out my problem.

Can you help me with how to check to see if there are any more objects left so it will gotoAndPlay a "finished" frame.

I've been looking at a sace invaders type game that does that, but I can't figure it out. Hee's the fla

thanks

jorge

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How To Display Time Remaining In Preloader
Hi

Please I need some advice. I am making preloader that displays all kind of info and i do not know hot to make it display time remaining (until download finishes).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tnx in advance

regards

Luka

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Flash Won't Load, Just Says 1 Item Remaining
Hello,

I have severals flash movies on my website that work fine. I used the exact same move and swapped out the symbols and placed it on the site. I can see it in IE 6, some of my co-workers can see it in their IE 6, but other co-workers with IE 6 get a "1 item remaining" at the bottom of their browser and it never loads. I've republished, renamed the swf and sometimes it works for me and other times it doesn't. Any ideas?

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Items Remaining Internet Explorer
I have a Flash site that when downloading in IE, in the bottom of the window, the site seems to hang-up.
I get a 1 item remaining messaage at the bottom of the screen.

Everything in the site works fine and it appears that the whole
site has downloaded based on the functionality of the site. Has anyone else
had this problem, and do you know what the solution is?

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Any Way To Retrieve How Much Time Is Remaining For A Timer?
Hello Everyone,

I have looked at the Timer Class documentation and there does not seem the Timer Class provides a method or variable that returns the remaining time. I was wondering if there is a way to determine how much time is remaining after a timer has been started? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nilang

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Problems With MC Remaining In Scene After SwapDepth...
Hi, I'm trying to make a few movieclips grow when you rollover them and the shrink back down when you rollout. I tried using swapDepth to make it so each clip would stay on top. But then when I try to instruct its root movie clip to go back to frame 1 (which is blank with a stop command), it remains on the stage.. any auggestions?? Please help! THANKS!!

Here's the code for the movie clip to grow/shrink/swapDepths

stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (rewind == true) {
prevFrame();
}
};
this.onRollOver = function() {
rewind = false;
play();
_root.x +=2;
this.swapDepths(_root.x);
};
this.onRollOut = function() {
rewind = true;
if (_root.x>=0) {
_root.x -= 3;
this.swapDepths(_root.x);
}
};

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