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Flash 8 Pro Issue Interval Issue
Hey, I've been working on my site for a few weeks trying to get it all just right, and I'm making it import text, to text fields from external documents, I've been using loadVariablesNum() and createTextField() to post the text onto the flash document.

ActionScript Code:
//0x393c39;

this.createTextField("forum_box",this.getNextHighestDepth(),212,3,162,120);
forum_box.wordWrap = true;
forum_box.border = true;
loadVariablesNum ("forum_txt.php", 2);
function ftv() {
if (_level2.forum_txt != undefined) {
trace(_level2.forum_txt);
forum_box.htmlText = _level2.forum_txt;
clearInterval(ftt);
}
}
var ftt:Number = setInterval(ftv, 100);

this function keeps looping, it is in a frame that is only called once, i tested this by placing a trace at the very begining , just to see if it would echo it to the output screen more than once, It seems my interval isn't stopped by clearInterval(). if anyone can see my issue here it would be greatly helpful.

Thanks

[CS3] Still Having Clock Time Zone Issue---and Dynamic Text Box Issue
I'm trying to do a clock that displays another time zone. The problem I'm having is that instead of running on a 12 hour clock, its on a 24hr one.

any insight as to how I can change the time?
Currently the clock is displaying
23:00p-Jul.22

I want it to display 11:00p-Jul.22

var dayText:String;
var dateText:String;
var monthText:String;
var AmPm:String;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
var myDateate = new Date();
//var sec:Number = myDate.getSeconds();
var min:Number = myDate.getMinutes();
var hour:Number = myDate.getHours();
var day:Number = myDate.getDay();
var date:Number = myDate.getDate();
var month:Number = myDate.getMonth();
//var year:Number = myDate.getFullYear();
//sec = sec<10 ? "0"+sec : sec;
min = min<10 ? "0"+min : min;

//AM/PM
if (hour>12) {
hour = hour-12;
AmPm = "p";
} else {
AmPm = "a";
}

//day
if(date == 1 || date == 21 || date == 31) {
dateText = date+"";
} else if(date == 2 || date == 22) {
dateText = date+"";
} else if(date == 3 || date == 23) {
dateText = date+"";
} else {
dateText = date+"";
}

//month
if (month == 0) {
monthText = "jan";
} else if (month == 1) {
monthText = "feb";
} else if (month == 2) {
monthText = "mar";
} else if (month == 3) {
monthText = "apr";
} else if (month == 4) {
monthText = "may";
} else if (month == 5) {
monthText = "jun";
} else if (month == 6) {
monthText = "jul";
} else if (month == 7) {
monthText = "aug";
} else if (month == 8) {
monthText = "sep";
} else if (month == 9) {
monthText = "oct";
} else if (month == 10) {
monthText = "nov";
} else if (month == 11) {
monthText = "dec";
}

//display
dateDisplay.text = hour+":"+min+ AmPm + "-" + monthText+"."+ dateText;
};

AS3 - Flash To Php Back Flash ... I Can't Figure Out Whats The Issue
ERROR MSG

Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables$iinit()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader:nComplete()

MY AS3 CODE

Code:
public class UpdateCMS extends MovieClip {

public var article_id:Number;
private var variables:URLVariables;
private var request:URLRequest;
private var loader:URLLoader;

public function UpdateCMS()
{
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
}

private function init(event:Event) : void
{
this.insert_btn.stop();
sendAndLoad();
}

public function sendAndLoad () {
request = new URLRequest("http://localhost/JOURNAL/cms_update.php");
request.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;

variables = new URLVariables();
variables.article_id = MovieClip(this.parent).article_id;
request.data = variables;

loader = new URLLoader(request);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, dataLoaded);
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.load(request);
}

private function dataLoaded (e:Event) : void
{
var vars = new URLVariables(e.target.data);
title_txt.text = vars.title ;
article_txt.text = vars.article;
}

Code:
MY PHP CODE

PHP Code:

<?php
  include('includes/conn_mysql.inc.php');
  include('includes/corefuncs.php');
// remove backslashes
nukeMagicQuotes();
// initialize flag
$done = false;
// prepare an array of expected items
$expected = array('title', 'article', 'article_id');
// create database connection
$conn = dbConnect('admin');
// get details of selected record
$article_id = $_GET['article_id'];
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM journal WHERE article_id = $article_id";
  $result = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());
  $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

  echo "title=" .urlencode($row['title'])."&"."article=".urlencode($row['article']);
  ?>

Complex Audio Issue..or Maybe Just Syntax Issue
what's up peoples. I'm building a new site for my studio and having some audio issues i can't explain very well, so here goes:

I've got an external .swf successfully loading into _level6 of my project with it's own audio. and from reading thse forums, i know that if i want to control the audio independently of other audio, i need to attach the sound object to a seperate movieclip, which i'm doing and I can control the audio just fine. However, when i click to load in a dynamic image into a dynamicly loaded movieClip, the volume button no longer works. Both the soundobject's mc and the dynamic mc's are being loaded into the nextHighestDepth() so i don't think one is kicking out the other. Here's what i've got:

Code to attach the soundObject when the section starts:

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("soundstage6",this.getNextHighestDepth());
work_sound = new Sound(soundstage6);
work_sound.attachSound("myaudiofile");
work_sound.start(0, 999);
Code to control the volume:

Code:
this.testVol.onPress = function () {
this._parent.work_sound.setVolume(0);
}
Code that loads in my dynamic images:

Code:
this.testLoad.onPress = function () {
_root.attachMovie("infoClip", "infoClip", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_alpha:0, _x:491.1, _y:193.9});
}
that testLoad button does severl other things when clicked, but when i comment out that particular line of code, the volume control button contines to work. I'm sure this has something to do with the fact that all of this is occuring on _level6 but i have no idea why or how to fix it!!!

Anybody have any ideas? Sorry for the long and complex explination!!

Mac Textinput Issue + New Player Fullscreen Issue
Please inform me if I am a total idiot,... but it appears that holding down backspace while in a TextInput on a mac will only delete one character rather than deleting chars as long as the button is held down. I have tried making the simplest project consisting of only a base sprite and a textinput, and it fails (i thought i may have been preventing the event from bubbling or something.) I tested the movie on PC and holding down backspace works fine. Is this a known issue? and so I just have to extend textInput?...

Also, it seems like when coming back from fullscreen in a swf embedded on a page causes some flickering of the swf content upon resizing the browser window, 3 people I know have also encountered this problem.

Thanks for any help,

Chris Laan

XML In Flash Issue
I put the following code in the flash movie.

doc = new XML();
doc.load("rdins.xml");
function LoadID () {
DisposableXML = new XML();
TempXML = new XML();
Idlist = new Array();
DisposableList = new Array();
Idlist = doc.firstChild.childNodes;
i = 0;
while (i<=Idlist.length) {
if (Idlist[i].nodeName.toLowerCase() == "post") {
DisposableXML = Idlist[i];
DisposableList = DisposableXML.childNodes;
ii = 0;
while (ii<=DisposableList.length) {
TempXML = DisposableList[ii];
if (DisposableList[ii].nodename.toLowerCase() == "ident") {
idtext = DisposableList[ii];
}
ii = Number(ii)+1;
}
}
i = Number(i)+1;
}
}
doc.onLoad = LoadID();
gotoAndPlay ("display");

Any Ideas on why it wont work? i've checked the XML file and it's set up correctally, at least i thought so, heres what i have in it in case anyone wants to see.

<?xml version="1.0" ?><RndIns>

<Post>
<Ident>1</Ident>
<Time>time</Time>
<Body>body</Body>
</Post>
</RndIns>

I'm Lost , Please help!!

I Know This Isn't A Flash Issue...
I know this isn't a flash issue but it involves a flash site. I made a site entirely out of flash. Now what I am doing is making an html page in dreamweaver so as it will be searchable in search engines. The problem comes when i assign an event in the behaviors panel, my only option is 'onmouseover'. I was shown some time ago how to resolve this issue and make it an 'onclick' event but have since forgotten. Again, I know this isn't directly a flash issue but i'm sure someone out there has encountered this problem. Any and all help would be appreciated.

PHP/flash Issue
I have built a form in flash which points at a php file and places the info in an mysql database on my site. When testing on my server it all works nicely.

However when the swf collecting the info was placed on the clients server it no longer fed the info into the database....

The code on the submit button in the swf is pointing at the php script on my server (which is php enabled) but sitting on the clients server(which is not PHP enabled).

What I'm trying to find out is if it makes any diference in this instance that they are not enabled for php - since the php script is actually on my server?

All that is happening is the client server is firing off data collected by the swf at a PHP file - not actually processing it
Or if there is any way round this. The client server does have some server side processing capacity... just not php!!!

Apologies if I'm being naive - but have had to go to pop up HTML forms to collect the data and they don't look anywhere near as good as my flash form did!

Any help appreciated
Thanks
m

ps here is the code on the submit button

on (release){
if (checkboxfemale.selected == true) {
Gender = "Female";
}

if (checkboxmale.selected == true) {
Gender = "Male";
}

if ((!Email.length || Email.indexOf("@") == -1) || Email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
} else if (!FirstName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter your first name before sending";
} else if (!SurName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter your surname before sending";
} else {
loadVariablesNum("http://www.markwaterfield.com/MailPHP10c.php", "0","Get");
EmailStatus = "Sending... ";
}
}

Ie Flash Issue
i have a flash file that i want to scale 100% in the horizontal/width postion and fixed in the vertical/height but it does not work under IE it work fine in firefox and safari

anyone know abou this and can shed some light on this issues or work arounds

thanks
terry

[F8] Flash 8 Swf Issue
I designed this flash movie and it always skips about 10 seconds in. I'm not sure what it is exactly but I can't fix it. Can anyone help?

So I Have An Issue With My Flash
so I don't know if I'm doing something really stupid, but.

Flash works when you go to www.acousticom.com

Flash does not work if you go to acousticom.com

... Glitch? I use all directory links ("flash/blah.swf") and not anything else... so what am I doing wrong? Both flashes are associated with XML files.

PHP And Flash Mx Issue
Hi im new to this forum, however am impressed with its content.

I wonder if you guys/girls can give me a hand. I have a text field, variable name is var_text. I then call a php script which loadVariablesNum("./php/test.php", 0, "POST");. in this php script i alter the text field variable
print "var_text=1@"; ok this WORKS

now i create a movie, and cut an paste the text field and butotn which activeates the php read. when i click th button in the movie the variable is not updated and remains blank ?????

Is this because of some referrence problem i cant work it out. I know the php script is being called as later in the scipt it adds fields to a mysql database.

HELP

Thanks

Drew

Can Someone Please Help With Flash Issue In IE?
Hope someone can give me a quick hand:

I have a flash intro page at http://www.rocketfireworks.ca/intro.html (i feed into it from a few sites here or there but it is not my index page). Anyway, the flash works a-1 in firefox but not in IE. Not sure why, although I'm sure it will end up being an obious mistake. The problem probably lies in the html on the page, I;m guessing.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Thanks

Flash Issue
I am having an issue where sometimes Flash works on a website I go to and sometimes it doesnt. On some of my servers it does and some it doesnt. Any Ideas?

Issue With Flash 8 And IE7
I have a page that contains a Flash movie that is an flv player. There is a
short intro and then there is a list of videos. Clicking on a video link
plays the video.

When viewing the page in IE7, when any nav link on the page is clicked
(there's a nav in the header and a left hand nav), it starts the first flash
video downloading although it doesn't play and the page will not switch to
another page until the entire first video is downloaded. Any body know what
is going on and how to fix it? The nav links have nothing to do with the
flash player on the page.

Thanks
-mark

Flash Pen Issue
When i was using pen tool, i encounter a problem of path not closing... I use a pen to drawing something, but when i wan to close the path with two point connected( It have show a small circle indicated that path can close) it seen to be cannot close and the point was just resided next to the starting point.

I have encounter this problem many time, hope someone here can Halp me....

THX

Flash 8 Issue
I am working on a site in Flash 8. During testing I have noticed if a user have Flash 7 Player installed they can still see my site but it is all messed up. On my splash page I do inform the user they need 8 but most will probably have no idea what they have. So I want my swf to determine if they have the right version of the player. If they do have 8 it will play as planned, if not it will go to a certain frame that tells them they need to upgrade. Is this possible? and if so how.

Thanks

A 3d Flash Issue
hey all!

ive got a question.

I saw this site http://www.chromazone-imaging.co.uk/flashindex.html

i was wondering if someone could tell me how they made this background.

greetingz bart

XML & Flash Issue
I walk through and downloaded the Photo Slideshow Using XML and Flash tutorial here at kirupa.com (published Dec. 28, 2004). I modified it to use on a site I am working on: cplace.org/index_new.html

I am trying to reference a .swf file as the first thing to load and then a sequence of images. When I preview it out of Flash is seems to work just fine, but when I actually load it to the web, it gets stuck on whatever the first image. I tried removing the .swf file from the .xml file but then it just gets stuck on the image.

Is there something I am missing or is there something in the actionscript code that is causing this? I am included the actionscript below, which I copied from the tutorial.

Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

delay = 6000;
//-----------------------
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlNode = this.firstChild;
image = [];
description = [];
total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
image[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
description[i] = xmlNode.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
firstImage();
} else {
content = "file not loaded!";
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("images.xml");
/////////////////////////////////////
listen = new Object();
listen.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.LEFT) {
prevImage();
} else if (Key.getCode() == Key.RIGHT) {
nextImage();
}
};
p = 0;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
filesize = picture.getBytesTotal();
loaded = picture.getBytesLoaded();
preloader._visible = true;
if (loaded != filesize) {
preloader.preload_bar._xscale = 100*loaded/filesize;
} else {
preloader._visible = false;
if (picture._alpha<100) {
picture._alpha += 10;
}
}
};
function nextImage() {
if (p<(total-1)) {
p++;
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
slideshow();
}
}
}
function prevImage() {
if (p>0) {
p--;
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[p], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[p];
picture_num();
}
}
function firstImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
picture._alpha = 0;
picture.loadMovie(image[0], 1);
desc_txt.text = description[0];
picture_num();
slideshow();
}
}
function picture_num() {
current_pos = p+1;
pos_txt.text = current_pos+" / "+total;
}
function slideshow() {
myInterval = setInterval(pause_slideshow, delay);
function pause_slideshow() {
clearInterval(myInterval);
if (p == (total-1)) {
p = 0;
firstImage();
} else {
nextImage();
}
}
}

Help: Flash And XML Issue
Hello!

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have created a flash movie that has an xml menu, but for some reason the .swf doesnt play when it is placed in my webpage. It plays as a standalone .swf file though.

It is i put in a status property and its showing that I have error -9 which is: "A start tag not matched with an end tag" BUT the XML parses.... makes no sense.

It's weird, just the xml menu doesnt show. Can anyone help with this?

Flash/PHP Issue
I have a movie
that allows the user to drag and drop objects onto a graphic and then I have
a save button that calls a simple PHP script that wights the position (x and
y axis) variables of the dropped objects onto into a text file. The problem
is that when the PHP script changes the header back to the movie page so
that the save is transparent to the user it doesnt display the new position
of the object. Im using the following segment of code to get the variables
out of the text file even though it doesnt display the correct position
reliably.

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("target_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
loadVariables("test.php?nocache="+random(999999), target_mc);
function checkParamsLoaded() {
if (target_mc.done == undefined) {
clearInterval(param_interval);
_global.xFromFile1 = target_mc["x1"]; //stores x value from
file
_global.yFromFile1 = target_mc["y1"]; //stores y value from
file

hellox1 = xFromFile1;
helloy1 = yFromFile1;

setProperty("_root.ball1",_x,hellox1); //set x axis
setProperty("_root.ball1",_y,helloy1); //set y axis
}
}
var param_interval = setInterval(checkParamsLoaded, 100);

Flash Issue Help
I have a issue with a flash project that has stumped my developers and i need real help.

My website, www.shopadf.com, has a diamond search, and we are implimenting a new flash diamond search.

the flash search was at a version 1, at: http://www.shopadf.com/Rahul2_content.html

the flashs search w/ version 2 with issues:http://www.shopadf.com/Flashsearch.html

1. Checkboxes are not working properly (not getting checked)
2. On selection of round diamond on the first screen database retur ns above 5000 records which I am not able to show in the datagrid. No records appear after several timeout expires messages
If there is a way i can attach or email it that would be great.

Im not sure what can be done on this site, but if someone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. Valentines day is coming very soon.

Flash 8 Issue?
Hey guys

I´m got some probs with a scroll-component.
I wanna use scrolls that I used in MX.
But I´m getting this errorcode:

**Error** Symbol=VScrollbar Component (Simple 2),
layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1:
The class or interface 'xm.components.VScrollbarComponent'
could not be loaded.

**Error** Symbol=Align Component (this), layer=Bounding, frame=1:Line 4:
The class or interface 'xm.components.AlignComponent' could not be loaded.
//

is there anyway to "import" the xm.compo...?

Would really make my day if someone
could help me out with this one.

Cheers

An Issue I Have With Flash 8....
I love the new version of flash, but I have a tiny issue with it. The new text handling feature that allows for different settings to help readability is a really nice feature but.... If I use those fuctions and publish the site in flash version 8 (which I am using AS methods etc that should still work with flash player 7) anyone using flash player 7 will not see any text at all on my site!!! I discovered this when working with a client that has flash player 7 on their machine and was really suprised when I heard from them they could not see any text on the site I was working on for them!!!

I know what most of you are thinking and I am as well.. Just publish your site to flash version 7 but it seems kinda funny that macromedia (adobe whatever) would give us this great feature but would make such a usability issue. It seems to me they could have come up with a way to just show the text the old way without the new text rendering features when a site is viewed with an older flash player.

What do you guys think? Any work arounds to still use this and publish to verion 8 and still allow others with older players to still see the text? It's a shame that people that have flash 8 will not get to see the better text quality because of this issue.

FLASH + CSS Issue
hey guys..

im trying to break a html multlined textField with the break tag <br>... and it is working perfectly until the time i use a CSS stylesheet on that textField.

it seems that CSS isn't compatible with the break tag... anybody can point me a workaround for that?

thanks.

Flash And IE Issue
Hi guys,
Just completed this website for a friend using flash 8, the problem is that the website doesn't appear to look good in IE version 6.0.2900.2180 in Windows XP? What can I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
Andrew

Anybody Ever Have An Issue Like This In Flash
Hey,

The problem only occurs when the flash is online. if i run it from my own computer it works fine. The issue is with the loading of the images (and sometimes the text).
The images and text are not included in the flash file and are called in by actionscript.

I am thinking that a possible answer might be to move the actionscript code higher up in the list of lables or to write each line of actionscript code twice that loads images.

Anyway, i am not really looking for a solutions so much as advise for the future. What i really want to know is if it is a common issue and is Flash generally unreliable for loading in external images. There seem to be a few other issues with the .swf file since it went online.

The link is: petronamusic.com/web

Flash And ASP Integration Issue...
There is no easy way to explain this so I am going to post the code here to see what you all think....

Here is the simplified asp code:

<%@Language="VBScript"%>
<%Option Explicit%>


<%
Dim dbrecord, dbconnect, fvar(100), lvar(100), i

Set dbconnect = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
dbconnect.ConnectionString = "DSN=test"
dbconnect.Open

Set dbrecord = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
dbrecord.Open "users", dbconnect, , adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable

i = 0

Do until dbrecord.EOF
fvar(i) = dbrecord("fname")
lvar(i) = dbrecord("lname")
Response.Write "fvar" & i & "=" & fvar(i) & "&lvar" & i & "=" & lvar(i) & "&"

i = i + 1
dbrecord.Movenext
Loop

response.write "fvar" & i & "=" & "eof"

dbrecord.Close
Set dbrecord = Nothing
dbconnect.Close
Set dbconnect = Nothing

%>

This outputs the entire list of users from the database to Flash; the eof at the end lets flash know that that is the end of the list, so it can stop the loop inside Flash. Now what I am trying to do is take these variables and set them in a dynamic list box, via a loop, so that the list is always updated when the app runs. I have a function that creates a string that is identical to the variable name, however can I use these to reference the variables that are already in flash via ASP?

The code for the flash:

Counter = 0;
while ((("fvar" add String(Counter)) ne "eof"){
ListBox:NewItem = ("fvar" add String(counter)) add " " add ("lvar" add String(Counter));
call ("ListBox:AddItem");
Counter = Number(Counter)+1;
}
call ("ListBox:Refresh");

Can this be done? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Or can anyone think of a better way to do this? Is it possible to send an array from ASP to Flash?

Thanx in advance,

D

Critical Issue On Php & Flash
Hello everyone ...

I've got a slight problem, but I guess it's pretty hard to do.

I need to pass values to flash movie like this

flash.swf?var1=search.php?id=2&var2=index.php?id=3

now var3=index?id=3&action=bottom

I need the variable action=bottom to be inserted as it is into var3 along with the rest, but instead it's being taken by flash as a seperate variable ...

Please help, I'm totaly stuck!

Flash And PHP, Array Issue...who Is Up To It?
I have 208 movies, each with a name. when you roll over, it should show you the name. I want these names to be contained within an array that is built from PHP.

first step:
- building an array that can be referenced.

Done, it works.

second step:
- creating a php page that'll communicate wit me flash page.

Done, it works. I change a dynamic text box to say "done loading" when the php loop is completed.

Third step:
- Create the array in php and send it to flash.

I can't get it to work.

In the flash page, I am using the code...

loadVariables("returninfo.php", 0, "POST");

in my php page, i'm using a loop with two variables. the business name (bname) and the business id (bid).

on each run of the loop, it says...

print "&name[$bid]=".$bname;

the position of my business name in the array is indicated in the value of the business id, and there are no dupliucates.

Can anyone see my obvious flaw here? I can't....and I've been working on this for a long time.

- Jeremy

Is This A Flash MX Or Swish Issue?
Hello Swishers and MX'rs

As much as I'm learning to love swish, I need some help from someone who knows both flash and swish. Here is what's going on.

If you download 'www.maximillian.ws/test/external_txt_files.zip' and uncompress it, you will find 6 files.

External_Text_from_TXT.html
External_Text_from_TXT.swf
External_Text_from_TXT.swi
loaded_text.txt
load_from_txt.fla
load_from_txt.swf

In summary, the HTML file contains the swish SWF with the same name. This SWF loads the flash file 'load_from_txt.swf' which in turn loads the text file 'loaded_text.txt'. This combination allows you to do what swish does not support, populate a scrolling text box from a text file. It even supports font formatting in the text file. Pretty cool right?

OK – if you open 'External_Text_from_TXT.swi' in swish you will find that it contains one Scene called 'Scene 1' and in that scene you have 'MySprite' which makes the call to load_from_txt.swf. with the following command:

'Load Movie "load_from_txt.swf" in level -1"

and this works great.

Now lets say you do the following:
1) In Scene 1 insert a new sprite called 'foo'
2) Select 'MySprite' and do a cut
3) Paste Sprite 'MySprite into the sprite named 'foo'
4) Export 'External_Text_from_TXT.swi' to 'External_Text_from_TXT.swf'
5) Try and run it and it will not work

'MySprite' works perfect if it is in the root level of a scene but does not work if its within another sprite. To make this work – I'm not sure if the Actionscript in load_from_txt.fla needs to be modified in flash or something in the Load movie command needs to be changed in swish, but I'm lost

I've downloaded and installed a trial version of flash MX but have not had any luck getting this to work. Any takers?

The flash code I was able to find in the .fla file is noted below but having never use flash – I’m so lost

Actions for (No Instance name assigned) (Scroll down)
onClipEvent ( enterFrame ) {
if (lPressed) {
_root.MySprite.TextBox.scroll += 1;
}
}

Actions for (No Instance name assigned) (Scroll up)
onClipEvent ( enterFrame ) {
if (lPressed) {
_root.MySprite.TextBox.scroll -= 1;
}
}

Actions for Frame 1 of Layer Named Layer 1
loadVariablesNum ("text1.txt", 0);

Big Issue With Flash On A Layer
Hi all.
I'm currently working on a new site for the company, it's a flash/html hybrid but I'm stuck on a pretty big problem.

The majority of the site is in html, there's a flash layer on top of the site that will be/is home to our flash avatar. In an html layer there is a couple of text input boxes, where users can enter their details to message us. Problem is that the flash layer on top is somehow stopping the user selecting the text field, there's no such problem with combo boxes, or any other part of html, and the area in question has nothing in the flash layer.

You can see what I mean at http://www.c4multimedia.co.uk/html, the text fields are in the contact us section.
Has anyone seen this problem before, or can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks,

Flash Installation Issue
When I installed flash mx, the fonts on the properties inspector, the timeline and anything on the workspace that has a smaller font is not possible to read. It's very jumbled. Any ideas about solutions to fix this?

Thanks.

DreamweaverMX +flash Issue? :I
Hi.I m designing a site for a small company and i ve thought of using
a flash intro-like thing.I m new in flash so plz be patient if i ask something stupid

Heres what happens.I ve designed the movie.Originally theres a small movie called 'final.swf' that loads on top of it another movie that contains the intro,when u push a button.

When i load the final.swf on its own (without using dreamweaver to insert it to the page) it works fine and it loads the new movie on top,as you can see here:
http://www.second-wave.org/~blackhea...lash/final.swf

But when i insert it to a template i m using the new movie just wont load.
http://www.second-wave.org/~blackheart/ergal/index.htm
I m convinced its something to do with dreamweaver..some bug maybe??

I would really appreciate some help or some suggestions on that.
Thnx a lot for your time

Help With Flash/Director MX Issue
I have a problem. I have a Flash MX movie in a Director MX movie and all of a sudden I am experiencing this wierd issue.

I have a button in flash:

on (press) {
tellTarget ("_root") {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
}
on (release) {
getURL("Lingo: go "Start"");
}

When I play the movie in flash it works fine.

When I bring it into Director - I can see the playhead get the on release command and go "Start" but Flash won't go to frame 5.

I've been head bangin on this for an hour now! Any help appreciated.

Flash/Javascript Issue
Place this code in the first frame of a flash movie and publish...run the html and see what happens;

getURL("javascript:document.title='TEST TITLE';");

it should set the title of the browser window, but believe me, it doesn't.... any ideas??

Flash 5/MX Compatibility Issue?
Hi, since I hear many many reports about Flash 5/MX fla file being incompatible with MX 2004, I decided to ask those of you who have this problem to please upload your fla file here. I totally understand there are confidential data in your fla (probably why nobody uploaded so far), so if you please strip off those data down to something that you can share, that will be great.
I hear MM tech support say that they don't have any problem opening the problematic fla from people who have the problem (some customers contacted tech suport and sent the fla), so that makes me wonder if this is due to your system configuration or an actual MX 2004 bug.
Besides, keep in mind that it has been confirmed that the cracked MX 2004 has this incompatible file problem (not directed to anyone)
Please don't go off into a debate on whether MX 2004 is buggy or not in this thread, let's just try to share the fla, figure out what is wrong, and hopefully this can assist MM to fix the bug (if any) and release a patch that will benefit you and me.
Thanks.

Flash Navigation Issue
Hello Board,
I want to creat a navigation where when the user moves the mouse over a certain area the navigation will appear and then disappear when the mouse exits the area. I thought I would have a main clip with an onClipEvent telling the navigation movie to play.
I am having too hard a time figuring this out and would love some help.
Thanks!
Dustie

Flash MX 2k4 Pro Issue :: Searching
Is it just me, or whenever I search while in Movie Explorer, it doesn't always find every variable that I'm searching for?

For instance, I was looking for each and every instance where I used my own url - it had recently changed. Well, for some reason, I had not found every last one in all of the frames... I just found a stray one last night.

Am I the only one? Or am I doing something wrong?

feel free to treat me like a n00b on this one. I'm seriously scratching my head after I found that extra one last night.

Flash Server Issue
Hi there

Is there a way to have a Flash movie on a website loading random swf files from a folder on a server. It is important that it does it randomly. The number of files on the server vary. Can I name theese as I wish?
Any suggestions (I don´t have Generator or similar server software because its a school project with no budget).

cheers
-kallle

ps: I´ve posted this on the macromedia forum also.

Flash / QT / Win2000 Issue
---[solved]---

I'm running;
Flash MX 2004 Pro

Description of Application:
It's a single screen menu projector (.exe) that opens external links (.pdf, .mov) with a simple getURL command thus opening them in a browser window.

The Issue:
Works fine in WinXP Pro. All external files open and perform as expected. In Win2000 (.mov) files fail to open and (.pdf) files take several minutes to open as apposed to seconds on XP.

Anybody have any idea what would cause this compatability/performance issue? The file was tested on multiple XP boxes with different configurations without incident, as well as multiple 2000 boxes with different configurations all having the same issues.

Please help if you can, any points in a direction are welcome. I'll do the digging if you just point me to the resource thank you.

---[solved]---

Flash Publishing Issue
I'm running MX2004Pro

All of a sudden my published files no longer have alpha effects. AKA: No transparencies.

Other files seem to work fine. However the two files I had open have lost their alph effects on publishing.

In the timeline/edit mode (non-preview) I can see my transparency effects and all the alpha channel settings are fine. Any explination for this?

I've checked all my publish settings and can't figure out what would cause this.

PLEASE HELP!

Flash In Browser Issue
Hi all,

What versions of Explorer did FLASH player get embedded? What version of player was it?

Jez

Flash 7 Component Issue
Hi

I am using AS2 and Flash 7. I have got a fla with a movie clip on the stage called holder. I then load another SWF into this movie using the following line

_root.holder.loadMovie("test2.swf", 100);

The test2.swf is made up of a flash 7 scrollpane which loaded a movieclip with a combo box on it.

The problem is that when you use the scroller or or combo box a green halo border appear around everything. And the combo box or any other componnets refuse to work. However if you load it on the root its fine or if you run the test2.swf its also fine

Is this a bug or is there someway to fix this?

Thanks
Benon

Flash 7 Issue With Components
Hi

I am using AS2 and Flash 7. I have got a fla with a movie clip on the stage called holder. I then load another SWF into this movie using the following line

_root.holder.loadMovie("test2.swf", 100);

The test2.swf is made up of a flash 7 scrollpane which loaded a movieclip with a combo box on it.

The problem is that when you use the scroller or or combo box a green halo border appear around everything. And the combo box or any other componnets refuse to work. However if you load it on the root its fine or if you run the test2.swf its also fine

Is this a bug or is there someway to fix this?

Thanks
Benon

Flash - Javascript Issue
I am trying to call a javascript function by using getURL. Here is the code and my issue:

function showNext() {
if (s1 == "true" && s2 == "true" && s3 == "true" && s4 == "true" && s5 == "true" && s6 == "true" && s7 == "true") {
feedback_txt.htmlText += "<br>Good work! You have finished them all. <font color='#ffffff'>Click Next to continue.</font>";
getURL("javascript:setVisibility('prev', 'hidden', 'navigationFrame');");
getURL("http://google.com","_target");
}
}

The first getURL("javascript:...") does not work at all. The other getURL is called and opens the web page in a window. The feedback text always works as well.

If I move the javascript piece outside of the if statement, it works just fine. When I move it back under the "if", it does not. Any advice as to why this does not work?

Flash In A Frame Issue
Hey everybody.
So I'm putting together this website, and I've got a page that has a Flash menu on it. The problem is, it's within a frame, and the background on that frame lines up with the background on another frame (or it should), and the Flash menu seems to be throwing it all off. I think it's because of this little 'border' of blank page that is automatically inserted between the Flash menu and the sides of the page.
So what I'm trying to find out is: is there a way to make the Flash menu line up flush with the outside edge? Based on what some kind soul told me on this board before, I'm thinking this is probably an HTML problem. I've already tried set it to line up with the top and left edge and gotten rid of all borders on everything, but no dice. I'm totally boggled. I'm sure there is something that I'm missing, but I have no idea what it could be.
Anyone have any thoughts? Come across this problem before?
Thanks in advance for any help!

-Colin