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Annoying Html Text Field Problem.. SO SIMPLE Yet So Annoying
this is annoying..
FYI: all other text loaded into text field is fine except for certain scenarios such as:

#1
I have a multi-line html text field
i load an external text file into the text field for its content
the text in the file is simply

Quote:

<img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

PROBLEM: NOTHING APEARS

#2
I have a multi-line html text field
i load an external text file into the text field for its content
the text in the file is simply

Quote:

<p><img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

or

Quote:

.<img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

>NOTICE the elements before the img tag.. it seems flash needs a character or something before the img tag to show the image

PROBLEM: image finally appears (so does the dot).. but it's totally OUT OF LINE and EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT FIELD...

ya guys got any clues re the above 2 issues???

please help. or at least point me to the right direction..

tea

additional info:
site is here: http://www.latherrinserepeat.co.uk/main.php (click on PARTIES)
im using flash mx 2004

Annoying Flash Ads
i know i shouldn't be asking...

but how do people make those flash ads that pop out of the flash area. i've seen them for movies sometimes. When you go to yahoo.com sometimes they'll have one.

does anybody know what I'm talking about?

Help Me Get Rid Of Annoying Flash Dialog Box
I have created a flash picture and put it up on web site. I use flash to prevent people from stealing pictures. However if you right click on the picture link below. You will see that the "About Macromedia Flash Player 5" dialog box comes up. How do I get rid of this, since it is not in the action script that I created

http://www.hobby.com/dunebuggy.html

This does not do me any good, since the user can go to the macromedia site, download a free version and then save all the pictures he wants!

If I am able to get rid of this box, the user will not know what kind of file this is, and therefore be unlikely to find out its a flash file.

The idea is... I want to prevent people from being able to save, print,cache any of my pictures.

please reply here....help!!
wgannon@ix.netcom.com

Ugh Flash MX Timeline Is Annoying
Im sorry but I just don't like the new timeline controls. I need to get a project out fast and Im having difficulty adjusting to the new timeline. Im used to Flash 5...but when I go to preferences, I don't see an option for using the Flash 5 timeline (like Flash 5 had the option of using the Flash 4 timeline). Can I use this somehow?

One of the things thats really getting on my nerves is that I can't just select keyframes and delete them with the delete key. Whats up with that? I have to right click now. Im having a difficult time selecting keyframes etc...Im just so used to the old way this is messing up my workflow, and until I can learn the new timeline, I need to use the old one.

Thanks!

Flash 5 - Annoying Buttons
I've recently found work arounds for this problem, but it has come
to my attention yet again, and thus I hope to find an answer . . .

How to get an MC element other than a button, to disable a button
that is underneath it?

Scenario:
If I have a screen with 6 buttons, and want a large popup MC vector
shape to appear on top, how can the buttons underneath be disabled
for working?

I'm familiar that many people build their buttons from MCs with
actionScript, but they take alot of time to build properly (even
using existing templates).

Anyone found a workaround for the humble button's flaw?

Flash Problem Thats Annoying Me...
This may sound stupid but flash is getting on my nerves. When i create a new movie and start doing the work for some strange reason the first frame off every movie i make ends up 20 - 40kb's in size and the only thing thats on that frame is my preloader thats just a simple bar. Has anyone come accross this problem before cause i really cant for the life off me work out what the hells causing this. I dont mind file size in my movies but the preloader doesnt show untill about 50kb's into the loading because off this problem and its really bugging me as i said. Anyone got any advice on this at all ?? I dont really want to post any fla files but i can link them on my server and send a pm or email with the address.

All help here is appreciated.

Thanks, Mental

I Found A Very Annoying Flash Bug
onClipEvent (load) {
this._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._alpha += 2;

}

When i use this code to fade in graphics in flash, after a while whatever movieclip or graphic i have fading in on the stage dissapears off the screen,....

yes dissapears!,...it's very frustrating, anybody have any idea what's going on?

@#@$%#$^!!

Disabling Flash Due To Annoying Ads
I have removed Flash player from multiple computers due to annoying advertisements. Although Flash and presentations created using Flash can be very entertaining, I do not feel compelled to support a program I cannot disable when necessary.

Please provide a way to disable this program so that I don't have to uninstall it to avoid very annoying advertisers such as the one who uses dancing shadows...I don't know what they sell, but I do know they keep getting more and more annoying and would never buy products from a company that goes out of its way to be so obnoxious.

Argh Annoying Flash
Hi there, what I am trying to do is have a main page (stage) where there are 3 buttons and once clicked they will display a text box.

now I have created 4 buttons, and I have also created 4 movie clips. The movie clips are on the main timeline as are the 4 buttons, I just used a small white box so I could access the movie clips. now within the movie clips I have the text block and the following action script on a seperate layer

stop();

this._parent.superman.onRelease function = () {
gotoAndStop(20);
}

and I get the following error

**Error** Symbol=text1_mc, layer=text, frame=1:Line 3: Syntax error.
this._root.superman.onRelease function = () {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

Can anyone help me?? I 've been at this **** thing for 5hours now and I am starting to get really frustrated / annoyed with this as I cant figure out what is wrong with it

Annoying Flash Problem
It's not really a problem, but I was just messing around with flash and I turned on something.

It like outlines an the object.

Does anyone know how to turn it off?

Thanks

Annoying Flash 'odd' Behaviour
Evening Guys,
I am having a very fustrating time with doing the simplest of tasks with flash. I am using flash 5 and I am trying to simply fade in an object. simple.

I create a blank key frame on my time line and then paste into place my graphic. (I have tried this everyway almost possible). I then alter the alpha setting to 0%. 15 frames later I insert another blank key frame and paste into place the same graphic. if I then twen this shouldnt flash just fade in the graphic?

When I click on create motion tween, it is replacing my last frame (which is the full and exposed graphic) with the same as in the first key frame. Or if I do it tye other way and create the motion tween before setting the alpha value, flash moves my graphics, without me (knowingly) telling it to.

I have done this numerous times before, a while ago, and am getting really annoyed that I cant get it to work properly again.

Can flash be unpradictable in the way it works? Or is it user error?

Please can someone tell me how they would do it so I can copy it.

Cheers

Wazz

Have To Click On The Flash To Activate... Annoying
this is going to drive me insane... it's probably something stupid and i just dont know.

here is an example - http://www.slopesbbq.com - you have to click in the flash area first before you can use the navigation. is there a way around this to disable this function?

anybody? :-D

thanks!
seth

Annoying Flash Design Tricks
To go in the same catagory as "music that plays automatically on page visits", I want to add this. The newest fad of laying transparent flash ads on top of page content really makes me angry! Especially the ads that are set to "float". So, no matter where you are on the page, there they are blocking your view of the content you came to read! It might not be so bad if they actually disappeared after a few seconds, but to have to close them manually is a joke, not to mention that most of them contain a "tracking cookie", that is basically a spyware device. Even clicking the "X" to close, sets the cookie.
This goes into my book of - Bad Web Design Practices-.

[F8] Flash Won't Wait For PHP To Process.. ITS ANNOYING =[
myData = new LoadVars()
myData.load("weather.php")
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){

trace(this.weather);

} else trace("Error loading data")
}

onMouseDown = function(){
trace(myData.weather);
}

/////// PHP //////////

Php reads Weather.com using file_get_contents, parses it out, then echos

"weather=" whatever here it parsed out and then "&"

So eventually , if PHP ran alone, it'd read

weather=[temp]47[/temp][low]32[/low]&

Thats all well and good, but the damn Actionscript doesn't wait for it to parse it out and stuff, it just comes back with an Undefined unless I remove the actual work the PHP is doing which would make it pointless..

this is driving me mad, can anyone help?

Very Annoying Focus Problem In Flash
I had this problem in Flash MX 2004. Now I am using Flash Pro 8 and the problem is still there.

The problem is that, when you are doing stuff in the actionscript window, and then test the movie, OR switch to another application (like a webbrowser, wich I do constantly for reference and stuff), then when you close the test movie, or come back from the other application, focus is always on the scene, instead of being on actionscript, where it was when you left it.

This is so annoying, and I cannot understand why they would make it like that.

Anyway, does anyone know some kinda fix for this? A setting somewhere that I never came across or something.

Eliminate Annoying Flash Of White?
**SOLUTION FOUND: SEE POST OF JAN. 14, 06**

I thought a preloader would do it, but I think it makes it worse: I am trying to get rid of the annoying flash of white that occurs just before my web page displays the .swf file.

Here is what it looks like now.

By the time you see this, I will probably have removed the preloader.

I tried to search the Forums for this, but "flash of white" was the best search string I could come up with, and of course the word "flash" yields about a kajillion results.

Thanks for any tips...

SL

Annoying Flash Border In Explorer
got a problem with the annoying border thing in expolorer in flash.

i have solved it with use of javascript, which i got off this site somewhere, but cant find the page now.

but that doesn't work in opera. nothing appears, even with <noscript> content, nothing comes up.

is there a way of making it work in opera??

as the normal and object works fine in firefox and opera without that annoying border. but of course explorer has to be different and annoying.

anyone got any ideas?

Help? - Simple But Annoying Flash Problem
Hi, I have a flash file that contains a jpg background with a simple movie clip of a rotating circle. Nothing fancy, no action script or anything, just a background image and a rotating movie clip.

The problem, is that if you play the movie without the rotating circle the jpg background looks fine. However, when I place the rotating circle movie clip on top of the jpg background, the jpg image gets all distorted.

The flash file is attached in a zip file.

Could someone take a peek and give me a suggestion?

Thanks much!

Most Annoying Flash Splash And Site
I nominate www.theadstore.com. Bonus points for the highly obnoxious behavior of automatically maximizing the browser window (on IE anyway).

Can Firefox Disable Annoying Flash Ads?
Hello from York, UK

I unfortunately have a lycos eMail account which is riddled with the most annoying flash ads. Is there a way to disable flash ads when using Firefox?

Really Annoying Flash Setting Problem. Help....
So you know how the mac menu used to work? You click with the mouse, HOLD IT, and WHILE HOLDING IT, you have to go around the apple menus and submenus?

Well, i hate it, and it happened to my Flash. When i choose the color picker, i now have to hold my mouse button while i choose my color.

I know its tiny and retarded problem, but really gets on my nerves!

i want to be able to click, release, then look at my beautiful colors, then maybe click and type in some #FEC493.... etc

can you help please?

Flash CS4 - Annoying Ctrl Button
I have just recently bought Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and I love it. However, there's this small thing that bugs me. Every time I press the Ctrl button on my keyboard in Flash, the hand tool appears, is there any way to change this? It appears when I press Ctrl+G, Ctrl+C, etc. Thanks in advance.

Those Annoying Flash Ad's That Float Over Web Content...
I need to have an animation fade into html content that is behind it in the last frames of the animation, and then allow the content below it to be usable. If I make the page in css/xhtml I am sure I can sit a flash layer on top of the web content, but I am not sure how to make that content below surfable. I was thinking that the technique used for those annoying adds would be perfect.

Thanks for your time.

I'm so excited about this forum!

Annoying Flash Context Menus
I've been developing an application that uses context menus to give users most of the control over the interface. I've been creating these context menus using the Flash 2004 Context Menu class, which is great, and makes things really easy.

One niggle, though: the application uses <a href="asfunction: etc."> within textfields to launch pretty much every command that isn't in the context menus, and every time a user attempts to access a context menu near one of these, a Macromedia-generated context menu appears instead with the options 'Copy Link' and 'Show Link'. This is a bit stupid because;

a) the <a hrefs> aren't really links as such, so these options don't do anything anyway
b) They block access to the context menus I've created.

Does anyone know how to suppress these automatic context menus? It's really irritating...

Those Annoying Transparent Flash Movies On Msn Or Weather.com
you know those annoying flash movies on msn.com or weather.com that are completely transparent.. how do they call them with out the chrome window much like the one that this web page is in. do they use a chromeless window? Its not that publishing setting is it.. never works for me.
thanks,
dp

Annoying Pop Up Error Messages In Flash Player 9
Hey,
I make a lot of content for Flash that is user controlled. However, because of this, users often cause problems.

When the new flash player finds an error it displays a pop-up window with the error inside it. This makes for a really bad experience. Is there any way of turning these messages off?

Thanks

Flash 'pane' Transition For An Annoying Client
I have a client who is asking for all these things to be similar to his friend's site which is very annoying. He is asking for a flash 'pane' transition like at this site:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yhu6q

How can I do this transition with flash? The site I am designing by the way is at http://jabinteractive.com/complete/, which I think looks better with a calm fade transition.

Cheers.

Adobe Illustrator Files Into Flash - Really Annoying Problem
Hi People

I'm having real trouble importing Adobe Illustrator Files into Flash!

It imports them but just misses certain parts out. This is really annoying as the files are Company Logos!

Has anybody else shared this problem? It's really annoying!

But more importantly does anybody know a way of importing Adobe Illustrator Files into Flash without pieces of them disappearing?

Is it best to do them as .AI or .EPS?

Hope someone can help!

Cheers,

Deadhands

Flash Question-annoying Thing With(probably)simple Answer
Ok, so say I have one movie clip, which is a simple black box. I then create 10 instances of this box on the stage, and give them instance names like b1, b2, etc up to 10. Now if I double click any of these instances, I can edit the movie clip, but say I was EACH of the instances to be different, how can I achieve this without having to manually create a duplicate, 10 times and reposition them all?

is there a way to change all of them to their own movie clips?

Seemingly Simple Yet Immensely Annoying Flash And Php Proble
i've been having a hard time getting flash to read the output of a php script. the php seems to output name/value pairs ok when accessed in the browser but flash is getting the variables as 'undefined' when i try to trace them.

just to test my setup i followed the simple example here - http://www.heaveninteractive.com/web...th-php-part-1/ - but it still gives 'undefined' for both trace outputs.

if i trace (evt.target.data) i get

Code:

%3C%3Fphp%0A%0A%24returnVars%20=%20array%28%29%3B%0A%24returnVars%5B%27username%27%5D%20%3D%20%22John%20Doe%22%3B%0A%24returnVars%5B%27email%27%5D%20%3D%20%22johndoe%40hotmail%2Ecom%22%3B%0A%24returnString%20%3D%20http%5Fbuild%5Fquery%28%24returnVars%29%3B%0A%0A%2F%2Fsend%20variables%20back%20to%20Flash%0Aecho%20%24returnString%3B%0A%0A%3F%3E

so i can see the values in there, but flash is unable to access them.

as you can tell i'm not the most experienced as3 bod. any ideas my fellow scripters?

Annoying Flash Bug-Static Text Box With A Link Won't Format Properly At Runtinme.
Hi all - i've been trawling the web for at least an acknowledgement of the annoying way Flash claims you can put a link into a static text field, but when you do it renders as though it were dynamic - i.e. doesn't fully justify, doesn't keep your margins. Am i the only person who is annoyed by this or am i doing something wrong.

In more detail; i create a STATIC text box on the stage, fill it with some text, fully justify it and test the movie - fine, nice fully justified text. However if i then select a word in the text and put an http link in the box in the text properties inspector, when i test movie, the text appears as left justified. I understand about dynamic text fields in mx2004 being unable to fully justify themselves (and flash 8 player with very little penetration - anyone know it btw?), but i can find no documentation explaining this behaivour for static text fields.

Has anyone else encountered this? Am i doing something wrong? I jus need some acknowledgement that this static text bug exists!

Please!
fred.

Annoying "white Flash"
Hi there,

There is a "white flash" on the page where my flash file is loading in.
I have a black bg so it's pretty in-your-face. Everything is set to black as far as backgrounds go..
Please take a look at the source and tell me if I'm missing something here. Or maybe it's something I'll have to live with.
boutiquefinn.ca
thanks~!

-hroth

Annoying Little Bug
hi,

i have a flash movie with 2 scenes, the preloader and the movie.

by it's self, the movie plays fine (it's 3 keyframes, each key frame contains a movie clip)

but, when i add the preloader, the first movie clip is skipped! no matter what i try, it gets skipped!!! if i add 10 blank key frames in front of it, it gets skipped, if i stretch the first movie clips keyframe out, it still gets skipped!!!...

this is the preload code i use:

totalbytes = getBytesTotal();
loadedkbytes = Math.ceil(loadedbytes/1000);
totalkbytes = Math.ceil(totalbytes/1000);
if (loadedbytes == totalbytes) {
gotoAndStop("myMovie", 1);
}
frame = int(loadedbytes/(totalbytes/100));
tellTarget (_root.loader) {
gotoAndStop(_root.frame);
}

pleaseeeee help, this is so frustrating!!!!

thanks for your help.......

Annoying
action script table..

Why is it so big and annoying.
i have to max the size on it just to see the script.

Can I change it at all?

Ok This Is Annoying Me......
ok i write some text.....

press F8, make it a button, click export actionscript [so i can write actionscript into it] so i go into the symbol and i go to hit and action's and it say's i can't enter any action script into it.... ? this problem is really annoying me... i almost threw my keyboard into the monitor

Annoying...
ok i write some text.....

press F8, make it a button, click export actionscript [so i can write actionscript into it] so i go into the symbol and i go to hit and action's and it say's i can't enter any action script into it.... ? this problem is really annoying me... i almost threw my keyboard into the monitor

Annoying Bug Help
ello, i jus did this scene and it was working perfectly when i did the test scene button, let hte full movie load, and when i clicked this button the game reset!

so i couldnt sus it out, remade it from scratch. same problem! aaargh **tears hair out** how do i fix it? thx

This Is So Annoying - Please Help
i just got flash MX and the line tool always snaps to certain spots and i hafta pull it way off to change it and i can never get my lines quite where i want them
how do i turn this off?

This Is Just Annoying Me
Im creating a menu bar for my site but have been plagued by one problem. I have seen samples of fla. files where the designer/programer use one instance of an button for all the buttons in a menu bar and was able to have different text that was used in each instance of the button. Every time I try to change the text of one of the instances of my button the text in any other instance of that button changes. How is this done dynamicly?? If so what do I need to know to do this??

Annoying Bug?
hi.

i have just changed a few things on my website. i changed the colour of a few things and changed the look of my scroll bar.

now, when i test movie or view the html file, two things happen that shouldnt.

a part of the intro now "wobbles" sideways ever-so slightly (but enough to notice) when it should stay still and move up only.

at the end, i have 3 tweened boxes, all on different layers. they worked fine before, but now each one "hangs" on the last but one tween frame untill the end of the scene/intro. so instead of finishing perfect squares, they all hang on a slightly curved square till the end.

i've checked the all the moviclips and played on the stage, and it works fine. its only when i test movie or publish preview that it doesnt play properly.

this happend once before, but i cant remember why. i think in the end i had to change the tween slightly. even though it worked fine for months before hand.

anyone know whats caussing this? anyone heard of something like this before?

i'll try and upload the messed up file and post it here a bit later.

thanks for any help.

Annoying
Hello...

I'm currently building a flash movie, which comprises of 4 flash levels:

_level0 = Preloader & Base, from which all other movies loaded
_level1 = News Scroll & Background
_level2 = Dymanic picture load-in
_level3 = Navigation load-in

Which in effect loads one page... However, I need them to load as set out in the timeline of "_level0"... but this can't happen unless the preloader pre-loads all levels...

So now what I need to do is, to create a simple percentage load-bar preloader that will load all .swf movies on all levels before it plays back... Any ideas how this is done (im new to flash so please elaborate)?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

Cheers,

Media Monkey

Grr.. How Annoying
I made a function to get the distance in a x, y plane..

Code:
function getDistance(x1:Number, y1:Number, x2:Number, y2:Number):Number
{
return Math.sqrt(Math.pow( (x2 - x1), 2) + Math.pow( (y2 - y1), 2) );
}

then i added trace functions...

Code:
trace("1: " + getDistance(0, 26.3 + 10 - 10, 0, 26.3) );
trace("2: " + getDistance(0, 36.3 - 10, 0, 26.3) );
trace("3: " + getDistance(0, 26.3, 0, 26.3) );
trace("4: " + getDistance(0, 0, 0, 0) );

trace function 1 and 2 print this: 3.5527136788005e-15
3 and 4 act as expected.

Why? It's so... annoying... grr

Annoying
Cant quite work out what the problem is here but ill give it a go of explaining any way. I got this peice of flash working properly which loads in a swf into a empty mc then it does this that and the other all fine. when the swf is loaded from my hard drive (c:/desktop/whatever) to the empty mc it all works fine.... when its loaded in via the web(url) the code doesnt work but when i load it from my hard drive its fine - and its exactly the same ! cant work it out.

Really Annoying
In my browser (internet ex) i have too click on the flash control first in order to use it. It is so annoying i've looked everywhere to try and get rid of this, but i can't find the option anywhere to disable it. Can anyone please help me on this??!

cheers.

This Is ANNOYING Me.. Please Help.
Ok i have pretty much completed my webpage right, so.
I have made a page called "pics" and it's dimensions are Width=650px and Height=1500px and put my text and pics on it. When i tested it (F12) the page comes up how i want it. Comes up full screen and you have to scroll down to view all the pics and text. BUT when i convert it to a SWF it displays ALL of the pics and text on the screen.

So, when i go to my main page and click on the button that takes me to my "pics page". It goes to the "pics page" but the dimensions have changed so that the entire "pic page" is on the screen, instead of how i previously wanted it as when i pressed (F12) the first time. Where now the pics and text are too small to read because it is all squeezed onto the one page (so now there's no scroller)

Do u get me? I have tried to change the "Publishing Settings" but it's still all the same. Can some please tell me how to make it a FULL page? Just like the screen you are looking at now with the scroller on the right.

Jakatta...

Some Please Help, This Is Annoying Now.
I have a text file with a few variables. home1=3&home2=4& so on.

for what ever reason the for loop is not reconizing loadVarsText.home1, I've tried everything I can't figure this out.

Code:
stop();
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load("/flash/homes/inprogress/list.txt");
//Assign a function which fires when the data is loaded:
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("done loading");
for(var j=1;j<loadVarsText.home1;j++){
this["thumb1_"+j]._visible = 0;
}
} else {
trace("not loaded");
}
};
Thanx for your guys help.

Does Anyone Like Annoying Problems?
I have read that people are getting the same problem with what Im doing but Im going to re-post the problem with a link so that you can solve it for me.

I have loaded a swf into a movie clip but the actionscript doesn't want to work. Also if I load the movie on a level it works fine, but I need it in the MC.

this is the link to the 2 fla's:

http://www.xm2.com/problem/who_nav.fla
http://www.xm2.com/problem/who.fla

I would really love it if someone could help me.

Absolute Z

Annoying Problem
I have the following code on a button within my flash movie
====================================
on (release) {
_root.ableVid = true;
_root.choose.playerVid.gotoAndPlay(1);
unloadMovie (_root.vidHolder.webby);
_root.vidHolder._visible=false;
_root.choose.curSong="none playing"
_root.choose.playStopVid.gotoAndPlay ("start");
}
====================================

the line that i have a little problem with is
unloadMovie (_root.vidHolder.webby);

Everything works as it should within a browser but when previewed in the flash with ctrl+Enter i get an error message in the output window saying
"error opening URL" and then the path to the swf that i had previously loaded into the target - _root.vidHolder.webby

i have come accross this before and have ignored it as it does not appear to affect the workings within the browser.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Can anyone se anything in my code that i could adjust?

All i am trying to do is unload an swf from a target movieClip

Any views appreciated

Thanks in advance

gilesb