Flash :: Firefox Vs Flash WHAT THE HELL

I Am In Flash Hell Please Help
I have just spent months working on a site, but my resolution is set for 1280x780, yet when others view it, it is way too large on their screens and the whole site does not fit their screen.

I was told to go into publish settings and change to 100% but the nightmare is I just discovered I was designing in pixel size properties, not inches, and now when i viewed actual inches, the site is like 13 inches long!!!

Please PLEASE if anyone knows of any way I can just reduce the size of the stage and all of the objects on it as a whole so i can make the entire site smaller in image size to enable it to be viewed by others, please let me know, otherwise i shall have to start from scratch...

i am such a damned fool

Im In Hell And Flash Wont Let Me Out
Please HELP!!!

I am working with a mc controler for scene1. I am only using one scene. within the controler is a series of buttons that tell to go to a frame if on a specific frame. However it only wants to work once, meaning that only one string of code works and it doesnt recognise the oposite string telling it to go to a different frame if on a specific frame.

Here is the code that I am working with.

on (release) {
if (_currentframe == "topview-blackstop") {
}
_root.gotoAndPlay("finishing");
}

on (release) {
if (_currentframe == "blackdiamondspapack") {
}
_root.gotoAndPlay("blackdiamondspapack2");
}

I triple checked all of my frame names.
Any ideas?

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flash Menu From Hell
Hello all, I'm looking for some assistance with a 3-tier menu system I've built. I have the finished product, which I'll post for you to view, but it's clearly not the most logical or efficient way of doing it. As you'll see, the menu consists of 3 columns and 7 rows, equaling 21 cells in total. Each cell has an invisible button filling the entire dimension of the cell which has code on it that not only controls that cell, but all of the surrounding cells as well. Reason being, when you rollover one of the buttons in the first column it expands the links in the second column, and so on. That said, I couldn't use a 'onRollout' command due to the fact that once you rolled your cursor off of the button in the first column to move onto the links in the second column, the links in the second column would disappear. But, what I've found with this approach is that, due to the fact that this menu is being nested within a hybrid site, anytime you roll your cursor off of the left, right, or bottom with the menu tree expanded, it will remain expanded until you rollover any of the buttons in that flash file that tell it to collapse. Consider this problem #1. The second problem, which you'll notice I've gotten to partially work, is that whenever you are in a particular section of the site, that link should be highlighted within the menu..which often times requires the menu to remain expanded. This is obviously done by passing a variable between the HTML and the Flash files (you can view what code I've thrown in there in an attempt at getting this to work, in the first keyframe of the _root of the attached .fla).

I have, what I would consider to be, a mid-level knowledge of Flash. So, with that said, I know there's probably a way of controlling the functionality of this menu entirely by AS, but I haven't a clue as to where to get started. I would assume it could be done by tracking the coordinates of your cursor..whether that's the easiest, or most intuitive way of doing it, I'll leave for you to decide.

I greatly appreciate anyone who is willing to take the time to look into this for me. However, if you are one of the few who are brave enough to tackle this beast of a menu, then there are a few things you must know before beginning.

1) As mentioned, the most important thing is to make sure that when you are in a particular section of the site (i.e., 'Clients -> Markets') that the menu remain expanded to that section and the respective link remains "lit".

2) Anytime you roll your cursor out of the menu area it should default back to the highlighted section you are in, as per #1.

That should just about do it. If you need anything else from me please let me know. Again, much thanks to anyone willing to look into this for me.

I'm In Flash MX 2004 Hell
Hi Guys,

I haven't used my version of mx2004 for sometime. Today I went to open the programme and nothing happened. I've tried reinstalls, various fixes on the web, reinstalls - nadda.

I click the icon, the egg-timer icon appears for about 2 seconds then nothing. The only thing running in the Task Manager after that is Macromedia Licensing.exe.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Rob.

I'm running XP and using COMODO Firewall Pro - and yes, I tried turning the firewall off

Flash Form Hell
Ok I need help on three things...

1st I have a multiple Flash forms that all go to the same database via php I am trying to figure out how to have a predetermined "Value" to on of these fields... www.expoships.com then "Collectors" then "Invitation Request" Once you choose what type of collector you are a drop down form comes up. I need a way to make the first field or "type of collector" to be filled in and send the different pre-filled fields to my database...I know this is a complicated explanation but I don't know how to ask it any simpler.

2nd once the submit button is pressed how can I automatically clear all the fields.

3rd when someone hits submit how can I automatically send the date to my database?

I know this is a lot to ask but if anyone can help with anything it would be great.

Flash Menu From Hell
Last edited by apodixis : 2005-12-28 at 14:13.

Hello all, I'm looking for some assistance with a 3-tier menu system I've built. I have the finished product, which I'll post for you to view, but it's clearly not the most logical or efficient way of doing it. As you'll see, the menu consists of 3 columns and 7 rows, equaling 21 cells in total. Each cell has an invisible button filling the entire dimension of the cell which has code on it that not only controls that cell, but all of the surrounding cells as well. Reason being, when you rollover one of the buttons in the first column it expands the links in the second column, and so on. That said, I couldn't use a 'onRollout' command due to the fact that once you rolled your cursor off of the button in the first column to move onto the links in the second column, the links in the second column would disappear. But, what I've found with this approach is that, due to the fact that this menu is being nested within a hybrid site, anytime you roll your cursor off of the left, right, or bottom with the menu tree expanded, it will remain expanded until you rollover any of the buttons in that flash file that tell it to collapse. Consider this problem #1. The second problem, which you'll notice I've gotten to partially work, is that whenever you are in a particular section of the site, that link should be highlighted within the menu..which often times requires the menu to remain expanded. This is obviously done by passing a variable between the HTML and the Flash files (you can view what code I've thrown in there in an attempt at getting this to work, in the first keyframe of the _root of the attached .fla).

I have, what I would consider to be, a mid-level knowledge of Flash. So, with that said, I know there's probably a way of controlling the functionality of this menu entirely by AS, but I haven't a clue as to where to get started. I would assume it could be done by tracking the coordinates of your cursor..whether that's the easiest, or most intuitive way of doing it, I'll leave for you to decide.

I greatly appreciate anyone who is willing to take the time to look into this for me. However, if you are one of the few who are brave enough to tackle this beast of a menu, then there are a few things you must know before beginning.

1) As mentioned, the most important thing is to make sure that when you are in a particular section of the site (i.e., 'Clients -> Markets') that the menu remain expanded to that section and the respective link remains "lit".

2) Anytime you roll your cursor out of the menu area it should default back to the highlighted section you are in, as per #1.

That should just about do it. If you need anything else from me please let me know. Again, much thanks to anyone willing to look into this for me.

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HTML/CSS/Flash Hell......p
I have an HTML page with the following:

1) A Flash animation (simple rollover stuff)
2) A background image for the page (in the <body> tag)
3) A "bunch" of navigation text links which have a style that changes the background color of links on hover (a.myClass:hover{background-color: #999999;})

Now for the bad part....
When I have these 3 things on the same page, the performance of the CSS link rollovers is TERRIBLE...a very noticable lag on the rollover effect when moving from link to link.

When I take the page background image away....it works fine.

When I take the flash off the page...it works fine. (btw, I tried numerous flash .swf's and all produce the same result)

All three on the page.......

Anyone seen this before? Anything I can do to the flash, HTML, or CSS to help?

Helllllllllllp!

What The Hell Is He Talking About? *Flash Question*
Ok, so I'm redeveloping a site (because it looks horrid) and my client has asked me to do it in a way that the search engines can get in and pick up the info.

Um, isn't that what metatags are for?

I'm only doing the flash for this site... I won't be scripting it to put it on the web.

Am I missing something here?

Why The Hell Does Flash MX 2004 Have A Windows Xp GUI?
What the hell is wrong with Macromedia? This really pisses me off. I have a beautiful OS and I have to sit here and and look at this ugly ass GUI. WHY? Why didnt they make the MAC version of Flash blend more with OSX? I cant believe it. These ugly buttons and scroll bars. I feel like Im working in XP and its killing me.

Other than that the app truly rocks!

Flash 8 Class Caching HELL
How do you uncache class files in flash 8? or turn off class caching altogether? The class caching system is simply awful!

Even using Control-> DELETE ASO FILES the classes are still being cached and my changes are not being compiled. Wow this is hell please help

Flash + PHP + MYSQL + Newbie = Hell
OK....here's what I'm trying to do. I want to basically click a button and it populates on dynamic text field showing all the fiels in my one table called players (it's for a hockey league). So I have a database called 'stats' a table in there called 'players' and a bunch of fields (i.e. name, goals etc)...I wrote a .php page with the following code
PHP Code:
<?php

   //Set up constants
   define ('MYSQL_HOST', 'localhost');
   define ('MYSQL_USER', 'myName');
   define ('MYSQL_PASS', 'myPassword');
   define ('MYSQL_DB', 'stats');
   //If we fail to connect
   if (! mysql_connect(MYSQL_HOST, MYSQL_USER, MYSQL_PASS) )
   {
      die('Failed to connect to host "' . MYSQL_HOST . '".');
   }
   else
   {
      echo 'Connected to mysql server ' . MYSQL_HOST . ' as user ' . MYSQL_USER . ' ';
   }
   //Tell mysql which database to use
   mysql_select_db(MYSQL_DB);
   echo 'Database ' . MYSQL_DB . ' selected for use.';

   //Select entire table
   $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM players');

   echo $result;

?>

** As a side note when I view this page in a browser I get 'Connected to mysql server localhost as user myName
Database stats selected for use.'' So that part looks cool.....

Now for flash....here's where I get stuck....I have a new flash file open with 2 layers. On the first layer I have my dnamic text box and on the second an actions layer. I give the dynamic text box a variable and instance name of 'content' and on the actions layer I assign the following:
PHP Code:
loadVariables("http://localhost/script.php", "this", "GET");

I test in flash and nothing.....I know I'm missing stuff....can any1 help? What I really need is for someone to show me the proper code. What do I have to name the dynamic text box instance and/or variable?

How The Hell Do We Make .exe Files As Links In Flash 5
How can we make .exe files as links in flash 5 and how to make flash movies in which the links are files from the hard-disk like exe files.
I tried /file.exe but it opens the browser with http://file.exe written

Flash Site Not Working In IE7 But Ok In Firefox(Newbie To Flash Websites)
So i have created a simple 4 page flash site with CS3 as an actionscript 2.0.

My website works just fine in Firefox but does not work at all in internet explorer. Does anyone know if this is a Flash issue or Internet Explorer doing something weird. Feel free to check out my source file on the site.

I created the layout in Photoshop then imported it into Flash. From there all i did was hit publish. Am i missing a step?

The site is here
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-shawn

Flash And Firefox
firefox gonna get it's own player?
cause shiz ain't workin' right...

Flash And Firefox Help
Luckly I decided to install Firefox to ensure my websites are compatible with Firefox and IE.

Using the code generated by Flash MX, my title bar and table of contents do not show up. Both of these are done with flash as they will be dynamic as soon as I know everything is compatible.

You can see the site here:
http://www.toadwarrior.com

If you viewit in IE, it should look fine.

In Firefix you should only see the html with no flash showing.

Anyone know why it's doing this and how to fix it?

Flash In Firefox
Ok, this may have been answered a million times, as I can't be the only person suffering at the hands of flash in firefox. In which case, i'm sorry and can someone just point me in the direction of the appropriate thread.

I've been building a few sites in the same way I always have. 1 Main swf, that loads in external ones for content. This works fine in IE, but on firefox it just ignores the loadMovie commands.

An example of it not working can be seen at www.koruqi.co.uk

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Andy

Flash & Firefox
I can't seem to get my flash movie to start-up in firefox.
I want the movie to start playing after the html page is fully loaded (ie. after all the jpgs are loaded). I added an onLoad even to the body tag:

onLoad="MM_controlShockwave('title','','Play')"

ie. where 'title' is the id of the object for the flash movie.. which is set to 'false' not play..

This works in IE, Netscape4.7 but not in Firefox?
I updated my Firefox to the latest version 1.06, still no go..

Does Firefox understand the command: MM_controlShockwave?

Flash For Firefox
I've created a site that works in Safari and IE, but when I view it in Firefox, it's tiny. Can anyone help?

Firefox And Flash
In firefox, my site http://www.knoxmachinery.com/new/index.html does not resize, even though the html says 100% width and 100% height...

Is this just me, or does everyone have this problem, and how do I fix it?

Thanks

Flash/FireFox Bug
Hi everyone,

A part of banner in my app is a small animated flash (v8) right underneath which there is a large table. For some freakish reason, in Fire Fox (not IE) thin black lines appear exactly underneath the flash and only underneath it. The more you scroll the table, the more lines appear.

I am actually a designer , but its up to me to figure out whats wrong or my flash piece will have to be an ugly gif... Does anyone here have any idea if this is a known issue and how to solve it...? Thanks!!!

Flash In IE And Firefox
Anyone expereice differences while playing Flash in IE and Firefox?

I am working on a book flipping project. Each page flip is a 12 frame-by-frame flash movie, I used a global page number to control which .swf file to load. truning page back is done by embedding a back_control mc in the frames. It works fine in IE turning the page forward and backward, but in firefox, I can only show the page flipping forward, the backward is skipped, no frame-by-frame movie. What went wrong? Could anyone give me some suggestion on what to look for? How can I get this fixed? Thanks!

Here is the link to the project. Thanks!

[F8] Flash And Firefox
Hello,

Okay, so I have a site that works fine when viewed in Internet Explorer but when viewed in Firefox is becomes much smaller. What can I do to prevent this.

thanks

FireFox 3 And Flash
Hello

I am currently working a html page that has a FLASH piece embed into it and a div that shows up when an error has occured durring a search request.

The popup works just fine in IE but in Firefox the pop up is showing up under the FLASH. I need it to show up over the FLASH in Firefox.

Ive pasted the code that I am using to embed the flash piece and div tags below.

Can any one see what is going wrong? or point me in the right dirction to figure out why the div is showing up under the flash piece?

Thanks

Code:
<div id=layer1 style="z-index:0; padding:0px;">
<object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="156" height="100" id="quotes" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/fc/flash/timeupdater.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="/fc/flash/timeupdater.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="156" height="100" name="timeupdater" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</div>

HTML Code:
<style>
#errorBubble {
z-index:99999; display:none; position:absolute; top:38;
.top:-74; left:664px;
}

</style>

HTML Code:
<div id="errorBubble" onclick="hidestuff('errorBubble');" >

Div content goes here

</div>

Firefox And Flash
Hi, My site is published in Flash 2.0 or lower. I have recently installed the latest flash player, but my site doesn't work in Firefox on my mac. I have tested Safari and Opera, and it's okay. Also I have tested Firefox and IE7 on my PC and the site is fine.

Is anyone aware of Flash issues with Firefox? Or is it just my computer?

thanks
-Sean

Firefox 2.0 And Flash
Hi,
I have a problem, as the header and summary suggest, with the Flash video popping up instead of embedding in the web page. I am not sure what is relevant, but I have Windows Vista - Ultimate, on a brand new Dell XPS 410. The browser is Firefox 2.0 and I just downloaded Flash 9.4.45.0. I also have Flash MX 2004 installed, but am not all that proficient with it.

What do I need to do to get rid of this annoyance?

Thanks in advance,
jake

Flash And Firefox...
iÂ´m trying to put a flash as a menu inside a html, it was working fine with all most browsers just not for firefox.... i really donÂ´t know what to do any more, i ve tried al the codes that, people trying to help me out post to me but..... i follow with that missing....

if someone could help me i will be really happy!

i put the menu in a web page at www.alexdelrei.com it just show the first set of frame in firefox it is a menu that when you click at the name it just turn the name..... is simple!! the code that iÂ´m using now is:

ps: iÂ´ve got label for the frames: (home, servicios, clientes, acercade and contactar)

Attach Code

and like that for the others.... just changing the value

Attach Code

var url = _root.url;
{
_root.gotoAndPlay(_root.url);
}

and for html:

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[

var so = new SWFObject("flash/final.swf", "menu", "100", "475", "6", "#FF6600");
so.addVariable("url", "servicios");
so.addVariable("dummy", "hola"); // this line doesnÂ´Â´ do anything
so.write("flashcontent");

// ]]>
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[

var so = new SWFObject("flash/final.swf", "menu", "100", "475", "6", "#FF6600");
so.addVariable("url", "clientes");
so.addVariable("dummy", "hola"); // this line doesnÂ´Â´ do anything
so.write("flashcontent");

// ]]>
</script>

Flash For Firefox
HELP...does any one have a solution for trying to install flash in Firefox..? Switching from IE, and it only hangs and says it cannot because Firefox is still running... Thanks

Flash And Firefox
I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this, sorry if it isn't.

I recently installed Firefox because everyone told me it was much better that IE. But I need the Flash Player plugin. However, when I try to install it on Firefox from the Adobe website, it brings up a page saying that the installation has been 'blocked by your Security Zone Policy.'

I haven't a clue what this means, apart from that it won't let me install Flash Player. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Flash On Firefox
Hi,
I'm sorry if this topic was talked already.
Can anybody give me a solution to avoid the page being cut when opened on Firefox? Width is fine but the height doesn't show in 100%.
Thanks,

D

AS/Flash And Firefox
What's up peoples,

My galleries won't display correctly in Firefox. The Flash publish settings are 100% Width/Height, No Scale. Firefox version is 0.9.3. The galleries in question are:

http://chris.crashed.net/slidegallery/slidegallery.html
http://chris.crashed.net/resizegalle...zegallery.html

chris

Firefox Vs IE, BUT Flash Only ?
Hello people, Im walking into a WEIRD problem about Shared Objects.
I made a flash movie (simple one, just to tell people about the shared object thingy), but there I saw something new, when I look at the swf in FF, the cookie dont work, but in IE it workes 100% perfect.

if you look at http://vintage.sitemasters.be/tutori...itieCookie.swf , in IE or FF, you will see the problem, in IE it remember the position, but in FF it starts back in the middle....
(the text in the swf say "drag the ball, and refresh page")

anyone ? plzzzz.... beqause this is not an m$/other thingy, but 100% flash.

Firefox And Flash 100%
In IE, it displays fine as a flash file placed in the middle of the screen. However, when I tried to view the same file in Firefox, the flash file got cut off in half and stay at the top of the screen. Anybody knows how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

Flash Firefox Bug
I have made a photo gallery which works fine in Internet Explorer but in Firefox I have to click on the thumbnails at least twice for them to appear in the main window and sometimes they dont appear at all....

I have heard that there is some sort of bug in firefox with flash. Does anyone know anything about this and how it can be resolved?

aly_ve

Flash & Firefox
I have a problem while designing the site. I put my flash to my site but firefox does not play it but IE does. what do you think the problem is ?

Flash/firefox/css Bug?
Hi all, I'm getting a strange bug with a flash file on my webpage when viewing it from a firefox browser on PC only. Anyone ever experienced anything like this:

http://www.senoformalwear.com/indexError.php

I'm not sure whether it's a css or flash issue. I think it's a CSS thing.

Any thoughts?

Firefox/IE6 Pop-ups From Flash
i've had a look through these forums (and others) and not really found a proper conclusion.

What is the best way of excecuting a popup from flash that doesn't get interfered with by firefox and/or ie6?

The javascript method seems like firefox would knock it out whereas some people seem to be able to get the getURL target:_blank method to work

is there a third option using an html link in a textArea or textField with a target="_blank" as well or is this not supported?

it would be really great to get your experience on this

thanks
obie

Firefox Vs IE Regarding Flash
I like firefox it has some nice features by default. But it seems with flash it's not so nice, my site that works fine in IE is kind of slow in Firefox, was in Moziila also. I am thinking maybe there is some problems with my site, but i have no errors or jams on IE or in Flash itself, so i am thinking it just browser/player problem. I tried some other sites and saw also some slowdowns, is it browser problem or bad player for FF.

Firefox & No Flash....
Since firefox is going to run that NYT ad soon, I wanted to let everyone know:

**Firefox does not ship with flash. **

So unless you have an older version of firefox, anyone who downloads FF will have NO flash. not 5, not 6. none.

If they run that ad and get even 1-3% response, think of how many people will be set back....

I know, it will place a crappy install plugin screen, but.... (it makes your design crappy and makes every user have to install flash - which is a hassle for average users)

I think we should be emailing FF to include flash in the ff installer.

The design community, after all, is one of the major supporters of ff and many of us have donated money to the cause.

Flash is important to our community and we should try to have ff implement it.