Flash Controls Not Showing During Movie Play

Flash Flv Movie File Doesn't Play In Dreamweaver With Controls
Hi, my swf files plays great with the external Mojave play controls, but when I import the swf into dreamweaver and publish with the all file places and setting correct, the external controls don't show although the swf file is the size it should be with the controls.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get the controls to show?

Thanks
Stoo

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Controls Not Showing Up On Page, But Showing Local And Via Direct URL. Why?
Hi everyone,

I'm new here, but a Flash guru I work with said this was the best site for Flash questions and answers.

My understanding of how FLA, FLV and SWF files communicate with each other is somewhat limited, but I get the general concept.

I turned an 11 minute video clip into a FLV file and it looks great (320x240, 30 frames, good audio settings). I then brought it into Flash 8 and chose the clear control overlay and then saved the FLA, the main SWF and the control SWF. I have all four files. All in the same folder. Locally, and on my web server.

Here's the catch. If I double click the SWF file locally, or enter the URL directly, I see the control bar. If I access the page where the SWF is both Object and Embedded, there is no bar. Because I can see the bar locally in Flash Player, and with three browsers (Firefox, Safari and Opera) with a direct URL to the main .SWF video file, I know the coding from Flash 8 was solid and the files are communicating properly. Therefore, my hunch is that I need to add a line of HTML or swap out some parameters in the page source. I see no settings in GoLive (which I know pretty well at this point) that reference controllers or secondary SWF files; i.e., the control bar SWF.

The file is both "embedded" and an "object" when I put it into the HTML layout in GoLive.

Any idea what I did wrong? I know it's one of those simple settings somewhere, but after eight hours of going back and forth, saving and resaving, I'm pretty frustrated. My web software is Flash 8, Flash Player 8 and GoLive CS2.

Any guidance is appreciated. This one stumped my Flash buddy too.

Thanks to all, and I hope I gave enough info. I usually tend to type WAY too much stuff!

Gary

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Flash Controls Not Showing On Web Page
Hi-

DW8 and Flash Pro 8.

Import Flash video and adding controls.

Here is the problem:

If I create the .swf files for the movie and skin and then save them to the same directory as the Flash video file and then view the .swf file everything works fine.

If I then create a web page using DW8 and insert the Flash into the page and save the web page to the exact same directory as all the other files and then view the web page in a browser, it works fine. However, if I create a new web page in DW8, save it to any other directory other than the one where the .swf and .flv files are located and then view the page in a browser only the .flv Flash video portion of the movie will display in the browser--the controls are missing. However, if I browse directly to the .swf file and avoid going through the DW8 generated web page the Flash movie displays properly with the controls in the correct location. My question then is why will DW8 not show the Flash movie with controls if the page is located in higher level directory than the .swf and .flv files and yet browsing directly to the .swf file with my browser works just fine? I have checked the path to the .swf file in the DW8 source code and it is pointing to the correct directory location. This is so strange--why will it display one way and not the other? Any ideas?

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Controls Not Showing Up For FLV Player (Flash 8 Pro)
I followed the Flash 8 LiveDocs instructions for creating a media player with the new FLV movie component.

Everything works fine on the "Published" page, with the skin SWF and movie FLV in the same directory as the HTML file that contains the embed.

However, when I copy/paste the same exact OBJECT/EMBED into another page on the internet, specifically a blog post on my website, the controls/skin never show up under the movie file... but the movie plays through just fine. ( I do change the references to the SWF file... see below).

And yes, I have uploaded the skin file...

You can see the correctly working version at this URL:
http://www.fourfivetwofour.com/playg...ntitled-1.html

If it helps at all, when I do the OBJECT/EMBED from my blog post, I change all instances of "Untitled-1.swf" to a direct path, ie "http://www.fourfivetwofour....../Untitled-1.swf".

Is that perhaps what's causing the problem? And if so, how do you get around that?

Again, the only problem is the player controls/skin not showing up.

Sorry to act like such a n00b... Web/graphic design is what I do (since 1997), but I've delayed learning "mad" Flash skills until recently.

Thanks much,

Four

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Play Back SWF Movie With Controls
I would like to import SWF movies into another SWF host movie that has playback controls like the media or FLV playback components. Note: these are not video clips embedded in a SWF but simply SWF animations.

These media components don't seem to accept SWF movies as a format. Are there any ready made solutions or do I need to use custom controls? Can you point to any examples or templates that would help?

Thanks!

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Keyoboard Controls To Play / Stop / Pause Movie
Hello,

I am attempting to create a presentation in Flash.

I will be creating flash movie animations but would like to control them just by a click of a mouse button or by pressing some keys on the keyboard.

eg. N = stop ; M = play ; space bar = pause.

Can someone tell me how I would do this?

thanks,
andrew

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[FMX]Play And Stop Controls For Dynamically Loaded Movie
Hi

I'm sure this is an easy one, but i can figure it out.

i got a swf, which i've dynamically loaded into an mc called pitch_mc . After loading it want flash to stop the file from automatically playing, then have play and stop buttons that trigger the movie.

Could ya point me in the right direction? I can load movies fine, but i havent used transport buttons yet :S

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[FMX]Play And Stop Controls For Dynamically Loaded Movie
Hi

I'm sure this is an easy one, but i can figure it out.

i got a swf, which i've dynamically loaded into an mc called pitch_mc . After loading it want flash to stop the file from automatically playing, then have play and stop buttons that trigger the movie.

Could ya point me in the right direction? I can load movies fine, but i havent used transport buttons yet :S

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Flash Video Play Does NOT Display Controls
I am using Flash Pro 8 - putting FLV files in SWF files using Flash Pro 8 and then "publishing" to Html and SWF to a location on my hard drive.

When I display the webpage from my Hard Drive from where ever on my hard drive I initially published to from Flash 8 Pro - everything works fine - videos play and video control bar shows and works.

When I publish this website to web server the video displays and plays but NO Video Controller Bar (at bottom of the video) shows at all.

Symptom: when I make an Html, SWF and FLA file into a folder on my hard drive and display them in the browser the video control bar shows. When I copy those three files into the hard drive website in FrontPage, the video shows but the video control bar does not.

So, I re-made the Html, SWF, and FLA files and put them directly into the FrontPage website (on my hard drive) then everything works fine when I use broswer (IE 6 or Firefox). z

But, when I publish the hard drive website to the remote website hosting company, the video control bar disappears - everything else works fine (video shows OK just no video controller bar.)

My guess is that the SWF file has a non-relative URL reference concerning the video control bar and when the three files (Html, SWF and FLA) are moved to new location then that non-relative address rears its head.

I should NOT publish from Flash 8 Pro directly to remote webserver as it has FrontPage Extensions and does not like to talk to FTP changes to website not coming from FrontPage client.

is my guess right? What to do?????

david@skyborough.com

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Why Arn't My FLV Controls Showing Up?
My FLV controls arn't showing up when I publish the movie with these settings: windowless, transparent

How do I get them to show up?
This is what im working on:
http://www.condiffphotography.com/video/investlinc.html

Thanks!
Austin

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FLV Skin A/V Controls Not Showing Up
I've searched through all the books and can't find an answer for this one.

I have a couple of video clips loading to the stage via loadExternalMovieclip. The video clips were imported FLV's, given skin styles, and exported as SWF's. When I open the SWF's directly in FLash Player, all is well -- the controls appear and work fine. But when they are loaded into an empty, placeholder MovieClip, the skin does not appear!

?????

For example, www.dreamlogicpictures.com. If you click the TRAILER button, the video loads and plays, and my custom CLOSE button works, but the A/V controls, which are in the SWF, are nowhere to be found.

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FLV Controls Not Showing Up [some Places]
i have an flv that i just imported into flash 8 and all that. trying to make this a quick job. so it exports, it works just fine. i uploaded all the necessary files to the server, and the html file created by flash works just fine. if i copy that exact code to my webpage that i want the video in, it plays, but the controls don't show up. all the paths are the same, how could this happen?

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Slideshow Not Showing Some Controls - HELP
Hi!
I've developed a slideshow and zoom tool that works fine in my PC. It has a control panel where you may control images display and pages navigation. When I use it in my PC everything is working fine but when I test it from my Server some controls disappear (most of them belonging to the navigation panel). At first I thought I had not uploaded the final version but then I realized that if you refresh the page that's been displayed, controls are IN THEIR RIGHT PLACE and working fine.

It's a very slow server but I can't believe this is the reason for loosing some controls. Does anybody may tell me what can I do to solve this problem?

You may see a sample site using this tool at http://logiclinks.multiservers.com/slideshow/

Many thanks for your help.

Lautaro

PS: I've just gone to check it again and those pages I've navigated to before, are showing fine but the others I hadn't visited before only display those missing controls if you refresh your browser. Why does it behaves this way if the .SWF file is always the same?

Again, any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Slideshow Not Showing Some Controls - HELP
Hi!
I've developed a slideshow and zoom tool that works fine in my PC. It has a control panel where you may control images display and pages navigation. When I use it in my PC everything is working fine but when I test it from my Server some controls disappear (most of them belonging to the navigation panel). At first I thought I had not uploaded the final version but then I realized that if you refresh the page that's been displayed, controls are IN THEIR RIGHT PLACE and working fine.

It's a very slow server but I can't believe this is the reason for loosing some controls. Does anybody may tell me what can I do to solve this problem?

You may see a sample site using this tool at http://logiclinks.multiservers.com/slideshow/

Many thanks for your help.

Lautaro

PS: I've just gone to check it again and those pages I've navigated to before, are showing fine but the others I hadn't visited before only display those missing controls if you refresh your browser. Why does it behaves this way if the .SWF file is always the same?

Again, any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

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How Do I Get The Play, Stop, Volume Controls To Appear In My Embedded Flash Object?
Hello,
I want to show .swf or .flv videos on my website--like youtube.com. I want to use the standard Flash Player object embedded in a web page, however, I cannot seem to find the exact params that make the standard controls appear (ie, Play, Stop, Pause, Volume, etc). I just want to show a video and have the Play, Stop, Pause, Volume controls visible at the bottom. What do I need to do to get these controls to appear?

Here's my current code:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="

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Anyone Know Of A Tutorial To Create "play / Stop" Movie Controls?
I'm using FLASH 8 PRO if that matters. I would like to have a "Play", "Stop", and maybe even some volume control, too, but if I can just get the above 2 things, that would be awesome (so whatever tutorial that you know of that could help me in this would be spectacular!).

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The Best Way To Create Play "controls" For Movie?
Hi, here is one common question.

Which is the best way to create Play, FF, Rewind etc.. controls in flash. I have everything, (all animation) in one MC main timeline, and as one frame on the _root.

Please suggest, ...
thanks

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Drag Controls Override All Other Controls On Movie?
I have a movie that loads into the main timeline and can be dragged around using:


on (press) {
startDrag("");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();

}

That works great except that to close that movie again I've added a little button to say on press, unload movie.

Problem is none of the buttons or links on that page will work while it is being dragged around. How can I make the links and buttons work but still make the movie draggable?

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SWF Play Controls
I've got what I feel must be a very simple problem, but I haven't been able to figure it out and am getting very frustrated. So any help would be much appreciated.

I've created an animation for a website. So far so good. Now I need to add play controls like you can do for flv. How do I do that?

With flv it's very easy. However, I can't save my file directly to the flv format, and the swf file format is not supported for encoding to flv. In order to export to QuickTime, I have to set my publish settings to Flash 5, losing some important effects. When I export to avi at the highest quality settings, there is a significant loss of quality.

Which brings me back to the seemingly simple question: how do I easily add a play button AND slider to control my animation?

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Flash Movie Controls
If i have an HTML page with 2 seperate flash movies on it. Can one of those flash movies control the other one?

I want one movie when clicked to load a new SWF in place of a different movie without having to switch pages...

thanks!

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Flash Movie Controls
Hi there

My client has asked me to use "the standard" flash movie controls in their presentation.

I know how to do play/pause, but how to do volume, progress timeline, etc?

I know there is the FLV playback controls for video, but is there any simple way of doing it for a normal flash movie?

Thanks
Steph

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Flash Movie Controls
I have been trying to find a product or tutorial for adding pause,rewind,etc. to a flash movie such as here:

http://www.einstruction.com/Main/Con...u_content.html

Thanks

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How To Add Flash Movie Controls?
Hey guys,

I have made this long flash stickman movie and I want to add complex controls to it e.g. slow motion, forward, rewind, play speed 0.5, 1, 2 and etc... . Does anyone know any tutorials or scripts for these kind of stuff?

Thanks a lot.

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Auto Play Without Using The Controls
Hi,
Ok so here's my situation. I have my movie set to load the sound from the library. This was done through the action script in flash 5 magic. According to their actionscript, you have to press play to hear the audio. My question is, is that is there a way to auto play the audio once the movie loads but still be able to control it using the buttons (play, rewind, stop, pause) that are placed in the movie?

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FLV Auto-play And Controls
I'm following up on the counter with my FLV player. I'm not sure why this is not working now, as it was working for me in a previous project (sans the back/next counter that I just implemented, thanks to Rob Dillon). The FLVs are in the same directory as the container SWF, but I cannot get it to either automatically move to the next FLV (which are contained in an array) or use the back/next buttons to do the same. Any ideas on what I'm missing? Thanks again for the help!







Attach Code

stop();

//------FLV Array setup-------------------
var myInterval:Number;
var Video_ary:Array=["ceb_m0_t1_p01.flv","ceb_m0_t1_p02.flv","ceb_m0_t1_p03.flv","ceb_m0_t1_p04.flv","ceb_m0_t1_p05.flv"];
var amountOfSeconds:Number =1000;
var FLV_Current:Number;
FLV_Current = 1;
countText.text = String(FLV_Current + " / " + Video_ary.length);

//------VOLUME CONTROL--------
//this attaches the audio from "ns" to allow it to be controlled
vidSound.attachAudio(ns);
//control using sound class
var vSound:Sound = new Sound(vidsound);
//set default volume
vSound.setVolume(100);

volumeMC.onRelease = function() {
if(this._currentframe == 1) {
this.gotoAndStop("voloff");
vSound.setVolume(0);
}
else{
this.gotoAndStop("volon");
vSound.setVolume(100);
}
};

//------NETCONNECTION SETUP--------------------
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
var myCurrentScene:Number;

//------NETSTREAM SETUP--------------------
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

ns.onStatus = function(info) {
trace(info.code);
/* NOT IN USE
if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Start") {
mcProgressBar.onEnterFrame = videoUpdate;
}*/
if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Stop") {
myInterval=setInterval(NextScene,amountOfSeconds);
}
}

ns.onMetaData = function(info) {
ns.duration = info.duration;
}

//------ATTACHING NETSTREAM--------------------
video.attachVideo(ns);

//------PLAYING EXTERNAL FLV-------- Fires off the first FLV
ns.play(Video_ary[0]);

//-----Buffer------
netStream_ns.setBufferTime(60);

//--------GO TO NEXT SCENE-------
function NextScene(){
myCurrentScene++;
clearInterval(myInterval);
if (myCurrentScene<=5){
ns.play(Video_ary[myCurrentScene]);
}
}

//--------GO TO PREVIOUS SCENE-------
function PreviousScene(){
myCurrentScene--;
clearInterval(myInterval);
if (myCurrentScene>1){
ns.play(Video_ary[myCurrentScene]);
}
}

//------BUTTON CONTROLS
btnBack.onRelease = function()
{
PreviousScene;
FLV_Current--;
if (FLV_Current>=1){
countText.text = String(FLV_Current + " / " + Video_ary.length);
}
}

btnNext.onRelease = function()
{
NextScene;
FLV_Current++;
if (FLV_Current<=5){
countText.text = String(FLV_Current + " / " + Video_ary.length);
}
}

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No Play,pause Etc Controls
We just started an FMS3 server. The video and audio is working fine to both intranet and our putlic but there are no controls at all. When I "published" the files I selected one of the pre-built skins but when that didn't work the web programmer did his own and that isn't working either. Any ideas?

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Play, Stop Controls For SWF
I need to give users controls to this movie.

http://www.policetales.com/videos.html

The only way I can hide the sensative information is to import the mpeg and put a layer over it. I have MX 2004. Can someone tell me how to make that an FLV file from MX 2004?

Also, a simple FLA file that can do the start stop would be the most help....

Also, enjoy the video, I arrested the 19 year old gangbanger and played him a one of my 3 year olds Wiggles tunes from my Ipod while I took him to jail. He probably was singing it all day in county lockup!

;-)

THANKS

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Disable Flash Movie Controls
Hey there,

Does anybody there know how to disable the Flash Movie Controls?

That is, after I export a Flash Movie, then I play the Flash movie, I right click on the movie and all these controls pop up.
So how do I just get Settings + Macromedia Flash, and NOT have Play, Rewind, etc.
Is this an action scripting command?

Thank you.
nomsg

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Pause/Stop/Play Controls
HI all,
I'm trying to program nav controls for a flash presentation I am working on. Pause button is supposed to freeze the frame very much the same way a vcr would pause a tape. Play should "unfreeze" the presentation and stop should "turn it off" (may be take them to a frame of "black"). Please help!!! I am under a deadline and my brain is fried.
Thanks,
Inna

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ActionScript Play Controls Malfunction
Hey all...

I'm doing a presentation for work consisting of several photos, animations and sound clips. I've encapuslated the project so that it is made up of a series of movie clips (based on each sound clip).

My time line resembles:
[--------'----------'----------'-----------'------]
[actions][a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a|a]
[m_clips][o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o|o]

stop(); has been assigned to each action frame.

at the end of each movie clip I've assigned the actionscript:
stop();
_parent.play();

The idea is that the playhead moves to frame 1, stops while the first clip plays. Once the first clip is done playing it tells the main timeline to play again. The playhead moves to frame 2 but stops again to let the 2nd clip play. This goes on and on until all clips have played, ending the movie.

I've done this before and it's worked fine for me. However I seem to be running into a problem with my current project. The playhead moves and stops all the way up to, say, frame 9. The ninth movie clip plays... but then that's it.

I'm not sure where the hang up is, either clip 10 isn't playing, clip 9's not advancing the main playhead, or whatever else.

I've checked to see if there were some stray ActionScripting statements, but I didn't find any. And the function calls are the same. That is...

frame 9 [actions]: stop();
frame 10[actions]: stop();

movieclip9[last frame]: stop(); _parent.play();
movieclip10[last frame]: stop(); _parent.play();

Has anyone run into this problem before? Is there anything else that can interfere with ActionScript's play controls?

Thanks in advance,

-Tim

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Stop And Play Controls For Video
hi ya'll,

i'm kind of a copy and paste actionscripter. i don't usually understand exactly what i'm doing!

Anyways, is there a simple way to make a video clip, which is placed into an fla and embedded into a swf, play and stop?


thanks!

tara

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Need To Add Controls Like Play, Stop, Pause
where can I find information about this please? I just want to add controls so that people can control if they play or pause or stop the animation.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial or somewhere about howe to do this please? Thanks.

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Need To Add Controls Like Play, Stop, Pause
I just want to add controls so that people can control if they play or pause or stop the animation when I export the fla.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial or somewhere about how to do this please? Thanks.

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Removing The Play Controls For A Projector?
Hey all

Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to remove the play controls in the right-click menu for a projector/swf.

There is an option in the Publish Settings for HTML called "Display menu", when I turn that off the controls are removed, but only when running the SWF through an HTML page.

I want to remove the controls for when I'm running the SWF or Projector version.

Any help would be appreciated!


-oka

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Web Page HTML That Controls Flash Movie
I have a flash file on a page and a few links. I want those links to control the flash movie (play the movie, go to next frame, stop the movie etc..) and work in both IE and Netscape. I heard this is posible by using a FS Command and javascripts but I don't know how to do this.

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I Can't Get The Flash Movie Controls To Display In A Web Page
Hello,

(I have posted this in the DW forum as well)

I'm fairly confident in DW but still getting to grips with Flash, however...

I created a flash movie from a small .wmv sample clip went through the Flash standard import and convertion steps, chose the standard buttons and published it!

The video worked fine in the flash preview (and in the HTML preview) and the video controls also work just fine, I even have all the files saved into a single folder.

I then embedded the .swf file into my page on DW and still got the grey box which shows there is a flash file I then previewed it in a browser and the controls do not show, I even uploaded it to my server to try it live on the net and still the same problem.

I'm much more of a designer than a coder and I looked over the coding and it 'appeared' to be fine.

What simple idiotic thing am I not doing...?

I'm using Dreamweaver & Flash CS3

Many thanks, Jack :)

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MOvie Controls In Flash - Tutorials - HELP DESPERATLY
I have a avi
which i want to make Controls on that like stop pause, rewind....etc....does anyone have tutorial on this or ...a file from which i get guidence plz will be very help full...


PLZ, PLZ ...i beg u guys...

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Dynamic Flash Movie Won't Show Controls
Hi all,

I'm having a really big problem with a site that I'm designing for a client atm. I want to be able to show a number of FLV files all throught the same player SWF. This means that I pass the FLV file reference to the player with an external parameter - all well and good. The FLV plays fine and all is well...

NOT SO!

I just canNOT get the swf file to display the control panel skin. I have it set as SteelExternalAll.swf; it's in the same folder as the SWF and the Flash file used to publish it AND the FLVs; I've tried publishing with both "Access local files" and "Access network files" - no luck! The it will display fine in the FLA file and even in the cntrl-enter preview, but as soon as I get it on the web it dissapears. I've even checked the cache; it doesn't even get downloaded.



PLEASE help! Am at my wits end with this one and deadline is RAPIDLY approaching.

If anybody wants to see, have a look at www.click4tv.tv/movies.

Cheers

Pix

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How Do I Prevent Zoom And Play/Loop Controls?
I've seen people disable users from right clicking on flash items and zooming etc, how is this done? does anyone know?

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[CS3] Play Back Controls Wont Display
Hi people,

I have been given a code to embed a swf file that contains a move.

Code is below

Code:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/swf/movie.swf"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/swf/movie.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Now when i add the code the swf plays the movie but doesnt display the playback controllers.

I don't have the .flv file, so I was wondering if its possible to add these controls within the html code.

One thing to note though, when i directl visit the swf file, http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/swf/movie.swf the controls are there.

Any ideas

Cheers
Darren

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Control Duplicated MCs Using Play, Pause Controls
This is the background:
I have a few SWFs that are have to be loaded in a sequence. This I am doing by duplicating an empty mc called ‘container’, and loading the swfs on to the duplicated MCs with a loadMovie().

This is the situation/ query:
I need to control these MCs [immaterial of whichever SWF is currently being played], using standard controls like Play, Pause, FF, REW, Replay. In addition to these buttons/ controls, there is a slider which runs from start to finish for the whole length of the SWFs put-together. So, if I drag the slider, I should be able to move back/ ahead in the list of the SWFs that are being played. How do I do this [Pl note, all SWFs play in a sequence, and the names of the SWFs are fetched from an array]

One more related query: There is a volume controller available on the interface. Can this controller be made to control the sounds on the SWFs…

I hope I have explained it clearly. any help/ direction will be greatly appreciated. And, btw: I am coding on MX.

My sincere thanks in advance.

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Accordion Video Player Needs Play Controls
I really like the tutorial on how to integrate video into the accordion component. My only complaint would be that I really would like the flv's that are loaded into the accordion player to have play controls. Is there any way to put the media player component inside the accordion component and then load the flv's into the media player so that the movies have play controls? If this isn't possible what's another way to accomplish this?

Thanks!

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Mouse Location Controls A Mv To Stop Or Play
hi all:

how do I go about this:
I have a movie (called picmv) on frame 1 layer 1, it plays picA to picB by fading to it alternately.

PicA and picB is a button, when clicked will open a page in html which shows a bigger picture of what has been selected.

What I would like to do is the following.
When a mouse goes over the area of the pic, it will tell the picmv to stop while at the same time keeping the pic buttons active so that you can press on it to open the html page conatining a bigger picture of it.

What I am doin currently is making an invisible button the size of the pic, so when the mouse goes over it, i have placed an action on it to tell the picmv to stop on rollover and play or rollout. The problem with that is that it makes the pic buttons inactive to open the html page of the bigger pictures.

Is there another way to tell picmv to stop or play without placing a button on the pic area. Maybe using scripting, saying if mouse goes over this pic area it will tell picmv to stop or play without having to place a button there.

Can someone tell me how its done or have a flash sample or tutorial of it.

Thanks all

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Play/Pause Controls Interfere With Audio Playback
Problem: To avoid sound and stage animation sync issues, I am attempting to load external VoiceOver track segments and play them sequentially, in sequence, as the animation plays on stage. I have PLAY and PAUSE buttons that should halt both animation and soundtrack, then continue from the point they left off. These functions DO work, to a point.

If I let the movie play without touching the buttons, everything works fine; the movie plays from start to finish, and the audio segments play in sequence, exactly as they should. If I hit the PAUSE then PLAY buttons at any time, the movie will continue to play to the end, but all subsequent audio does not play.

From the code, you'll see I am new to this - I'm behind my scheduled deadline, and I had to just "brute force" this to get it to this point as it is. This is a test and I'm building it to be able to be used in a number of modules, each with a differing number of voiceover track segments. The maximum is seven, hence seven of each variable.

Please, if anyone can help me I'd REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.







Attach Code

import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;

//Initialize all sound variables ===
var soundReqVO1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Sec5_Summary_00;13;22.mp3");
var soundReqVO2:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Sec5_Summary_00;25;26.mp3");
var soundReqVO3:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Sec5_Summary_00;31;08.mp3");
var soundReqVO4:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Sec5_Summary_00;40;14.mp3");
var soundReqVO5:URLRequest = new URLRequest("");
var soundReqVO6:URLRequest = new URLRequest("");
var soundReqVO7:URLRequest = new URLRequest("");

var numberOfTracks:int = 4;
var _nextTrack:int = 1;

var sound1:Sound = new Sound();
var sound2:Sound = new Sound();
var sound3:Sound = new Sound();
var sound4:Sound = new Sound();
var sound5:Sound = new Sound();
var sound6:Sound = new Sound();
var sound7:Sound = new Sound();

var soundControl1:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl2:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl3:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl4:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl5:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl6:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var soundControl7:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();

var trackPlaying1:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying2:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying3:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying4:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying5:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying6:Boolean = false;
var trackPlaying7:Boolean = false;

var resumeTime1:Number;
var resumeTime2:Number;
var resumeTime3:Number;
var resumeTime4:Number;
var resumeTime5:Number;
var resumeTime6:Number;
var resumeTime7:Number;
//===

//Load first VO track and start movie ===
this.stop();
sound1.load(soundReqVO1);
sound1.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, movieStart);

//Load first track and start movie ===
function movieStart(event:Event):void {
trace("In MovieStart");
trackPlaying1 = true;
sound1.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, movieStart);
soundControl1 = sound1.play();
soundControl1.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
this.play();
pause_btn.buttonMode = true;
pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, pauseIt);
play_btn.buttonMode = true;
play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, playIt);
trace("sound complete listener added; movieStart completed");
trace("Playing track 1");
}
//===

//PAUSE and PLAY button functions ===
function pauseIt(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (trackPlaying1) {
resumeTime1 = soundControl1.position;
soundControl1.stop();
trace(resumeTime1);
this.stop();
}
if (trackPlaying2) {
resumeTime2 = soundControl2.position;
soundControl2.stop();
trace(resumeTime2);
this.stop();
}
if (trackPlaying3) {
resumeTime3 = soundControl3.position;
soundControl3.stop();
trace(resumeTime3);
this.stop();
}
if (trackPlaying4) {
resumeTime4 = soundControl4.position;
soundControl4.stop();
trace(resumeTime4);
}
if (trackPlaying5) {
resumeTime5 = soundControl5.position;
soundControl5.stop();
trace(resumeTime5);
this.stop();
}
if (trackPlaying6) {
resumeTime6 = soundControl6.position;
soundControl6.stop();
trace(resumeTime6);
this.stop();
}
if (trackPlaying7) {
resumeTime7 = soundControl7.position;
soundControl7.stop();
trace(resumeTime7);
this.stop();
}
}

function playIt(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (trackPlaying1) {
soundControl1 = sound1.play(resumeTime1);
this.play();
}
if (trackPlaying2) {
soundControl2 = sound2.play(resumeTime2);
this.play();
}
if (trackPlaying3) {
soundControl3 = sound3.play(resumeTime3);
this.play();
}
if (trackPlaying4) {
soundControl4 = sound4.play(resumeTime4);
this.play();
}
if (trackPlaying5) {
this.play();
soundControl5 = sound5.play(resumeTime5);
}
if (trackPlaying6) {
this.play();
soundControl6 = sound6.play(resumeTime6);
}
if (trackPlaying7) {
this.play();
soundControl7 = sound7.play(resumeTime7);
}
}
//===


//Load and play next sound track ===
function switchTrack(event:Event):void {
trace("In switchTrack function");
_nextTrack = _nextTrack + 1;
if (_nextTrack <= numberOfTracks) {
if (_nextTrack == 2) {
trace("Playing track 2");
soundControl1.stop();
sound2.load(soundReqVO2);
soundControl1.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying1 = false;
trackPlaying2 = true;
soundControl2 = sound2.play();
soundControl2.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else if (_nextTrack == 3) {
trace("Playing track 3");
soundControl2.stop();
sound3.load(soundReqVO3);
soundControl2.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying2 = false;
trackPlaying3 = true;
soundControl3 = sound3.play();
soundControl3.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else if (_nextTrack == 4) {
trace("Playing track 4");
soundControl3.stop();
sound4.load(soundReqVO4);
//soundControl3.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying3 = false;
trackPlaying4 = true;
soundControl4 = sound4.play();
soundControl4.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else if (_nextTrack == 5) {
trace("Playing track 5");
soundControl4.stop();
sound5.load(soundReqVO5);
soundControl4.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying4 = false;
trackPlaying5 = true;
soundControl5 = sound5.play();
soundControl5.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else if (_nextTrack == 6) {
trace("Playing track 6");
soundControl5.stop();
sound6.load(soundReqVO6);
soundControl5.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying5 = false;
trackPlaying6 = true;
soundControl6 = sound6.play();
soundControl6.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else if (_nextTrack == 7) {
trace("Playing track 7");
soundControl6.stop();
sound7.load(soundReqVO7);
soundControl6.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
trackPlaying6 = false;
trackPlaying7 = true;
soundControl7 = sound7.play();
soundControl7.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, switchTrack);
} else {
this.stop();
SoundMixer.stopAll();
}
}
}
//===

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