Flash :: Flash To Video Expert Advice Needed

Expert Advice Needed
I am creating a kiosk for a company that showcases 5 of their products. The opening menu will consist of these products rotating on a vertical carousel (rotating around the x axis). When the user clicks to get more info, they will basically be taken to a series of videos that runs through each product.

There are 2 tricky parts here. The first is that I need to make the transitions between videos relatively seamless (or as seamless as possible). If one video ends with the product in a certain position, the next one in queue needs to start at the same position and I'm worried about a blink between the two. Don't know if there's a way to leave one video up and somehow load the other beneath it. These will all be pulled in using netStream

The other tricky part is that it will be playing on a 63" plasma flipped 90? so it's vertical in a 16:9 format. Originally, they wanted to do this all in Flash but each segment contains a lot of video, audio and special fx. I suggested they'd be better off just creating videos of each and using flash as a shell to control the whole thing. Luckily, the company I'm building it for is a post-house so they will be doing all the vids.

That said, I'm not really sure what size this should be. Maybe that doesn't matter as far as Flash is concerned as the entire thing will essentially be a series of videos. The guy creating the vids seems to think 486x864 is the correct size ... not really sure.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Scrolling Menu => Expert Advice Needed :0 )
First take al look at what I already made:

http://bserver.dhs.org:4000/~blacky/...ouse_test.html

What it does:
- reads its content out of a .txt file
=> First the number of menu items
=> Then the text for the seperate labels
=> Links are also there, but thats a problem for later
=> At the end e var called menu loaded set to 1
- duplicates a movieclip as many times as needed to create the menu
- makes all of this scrollable

As you can see, my problem is the gap inbetween the blocks of menu items. I know that with a menu not dynamically created out of a text file you can just duplicate the menu and place it so that the two blocks fit nicely together, but what about this menu ?

If somebody wants the .fla file just mail me nashandpepper@hotmail.com

Expert Advice Needed Regarding The Nature Of _levels
I normally come here to help but this time i need the help!

My main movie loads into _level0, then i have content.swf load into _level8.

I've attached sounds within content.swf from its library. These play fine when i test content.swf by itself, but when content.swf is loaded by the main movie into _level8, the sounds do not play.

Who can help me?

thanks
Dene

Contact Form Expert Advice Needed
need expert advice:
I have a client who needs an upgraded contact form (in the picture below):
I was able to make a simple flash/php contact us form from kirupa.com that works just fine(name, email, message). I can't figure it out, and there are absolutely no tutorials online on making a form either then a simple form.... plain HTML form like that would work too, so if you know of any tutorial or you could give some advice, please do...
thank you all!
-am
-its driving me nutts....

Expert Advice Needed. Problems With UI Component Set II
Two problems:

1. I have Flash MX. I installed component set II with the macromedia extensions manager. For some reason it did not install some components--the Tree component and two others I do not care about.

2. I cannot format the style of the Calendar component. With an instance named "cal", I tried

cal.setStyleProperty("face", 0x0000FF);

which did not work. I even used the globalStyleFormat object and still no effect.

Also, is there any place that there is documentation?

Expert Opinions & Advice Needed Check Out My Site...
Hello everyone, I am developing a site showcasing my artwork and I have run into a bit of a snag.

After clicking into my splash page the actual swf is around 9.5mb which is too large. I need to know of ways to cut down the loading time, whether there is a way to compress the swf without sacrificing quality, or some other way.

Please check out the site below and let me know your advice and opinions on what I could do. Ideally, I want the site to load all at once, but if there is not another way I guess it might have to load section by section.

I really appreciate any and all the help I can get, thanks again.

http://www.theaxiomproject.com/sinnednyc

Need Expert Level Advice For VIDEO
I have this 300MB video that my client wants to stream on their site. It is in .MOV format (quicktime).

300 x 300 px, over 4 minutes, with audio.

If I import into MX2004 Pro I can get a 9MB SWF file, but I'm not sure what the best way is...

What is the *best* way to make this happen for efficient, high-quality playback or streaming from my Flash site?

Expert Coder Needed. Need Video Scroll Capacity
Hello
Ive got a template that Im trying to use for a video project.
The project uses a slug image that when the text or image is clicked on it plays the video which is a swf.
This really works for what Im doing but the problem I would like to fix is two things. One is that the progress bar is custom script which does not have a scroller option to be able to scroll through the video.
I would like to see if someone can provide some code for putting a scroll bar in this progress bar?
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
//trace (_parent.Slug._currentframe);
theCurrentPos = _parent.Slug._currentframe;
theTotalPos = _parent.Slug._totalframes;
this._xscale = (theCurrentPos/theTotalPos)*100;
}
Or is there a way to use a component in flash that would still work with my slug play movie
CODE For this
function mainNav(is_hot, now_hot) {
if (new_hot != now_hot) {
hotColor = new Color(now_hot);
hotColor.setRGB(0x6600cc);
coldColor = new Color(is_hot);
coldColor.setRGB(0x000000);
new_hot = now_hot;
}
}
function loadMyvid(whatToLoad) {
loadMovie(whatToLoad, Slug);
progressorBar._visible = true;
}
// progressBar._visible = false;

// delcare global audio object for volume slider
globalAudio = new Sound();

ALSO PLEASE NOTE. My volume bar is starting out as mute or 0 and wonder if I can have it start in middle position.

// call global audio, grabber.
onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
_parent.globalAudio.setVolume(grabber._y);
}

PLEASE IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME OUT HERE. IM USING AN OLD TEMPLATE FROM MY SCHOOL DAYS AND IM NOT A CODER AND HAVE NOT KEPT UP ON FLASH CODING. ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED>
THANK YOU

Expert Needed To Intergrate Ticker Swf Into Video Movie - Pays $50.
The specification for this change is;

1) it must be developed in Flash 4 (not MX and published in 4)

2) only shows scrolling text when mute is selected

3) If shown either background animation stopped or text shown as top layer - so animation does not obscure trying to read the writing

4) the quality of the letters must be a replication of the example

5) currently the ticker scrolls out one character at a time which is making it difficult to read. Could the words be spooled appropriate to the word length as opposed to each letter, as easier to read.
e.g. Current:123456789. . . New: 1(first block) 2( second block) . . .
____________Online re. . . . .Online____________recruiter . . .
(_=spaces)

6) if the movie is paused the text scroll should also pause (vise vera with play button)

Movie - Http:////www.vrec.co.uk/vrec_ban.fla (play vrec_ban.html)
Ticker - http://www.vrec.co.uk/text.fla (play .swf (play text.html)

Any takers?

I Need Some Expert Flash Advice...
I need some advice...

Here's the thing... I've been learning flash for over a year now... and I'm still learning of course... no where near calling myself intermediate... or advanced... but I know my way around actionscript... whatever...

Well here's the thing... I just made my first "paid" website... it isn't all up yet, and it definatley isn't the greatest website, but this is what the guy wanted... and this is the limit of what I could do... so heres the address... http://www.jandjmachineproducts.com ... well... i'm not sure if you noticed when visiting it, but I didn't take into account the screen resolution.

I created the website in 1280 by 1024... and after I was done I read a lot of Flash designers say it is best to use 1024 by 768 (because the majority of computer users use this resolution)

Well, The guy I created the website for, he still uses AOL (sorry for any AOL users) and called his computer an IBM compatible (which my friend and I took as the equivalent of a Commodore 64 haha) so therefore I believe he uses 800 X 600.

When the guy visited my friend's work, he mentioned how the website looked better on my friends computer than it did on his... which made us really think he uses 800 by 600, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know what screen resolution is...

Well, Long story short... The advice I need is this...

"What should I do in the situation... should I remake the website in 800 by 600 to please his needs? should I re-make it in 1024 by 768 to please most people's needs... or should I make it look the best by using the screen resolution of my choice...???"

and on top of that... If I should re-make them... is their any easy way to go about telling a computer which resolution .swf to load? I know there is a JAVA redirect or something... but I read that that redirect doesnt look all that great... and loads pretty weird sometimes...

I already tried to Publish the swf with Match Movie set to 100%... but it just doesnt look good when the resolution is shrunk...

This is driving my insane... Is this the price for making total flash websites (i dislike HTML... more like hate HTML), or is this the price for being a web designer period?

Thanks for any response... I will take all the advice I can get...

- Mikey

Need Advice From Flash, Php Xml, Mysql Expert
okay i've got a friend who is a commercial real estate agent. he's wanting a website with a property listing. this would include some type of dashboard/user interface where he can add/delete listings and fill in the details, upload a photo, etc.

I've built a flash file that reads from simple xml file and will build a listing and populate an mc with all the listings..etc.

what i'm wondering is a.) should I continue trying to build this with XML/flash/PHP or should I look at MYSQL instead

Advice Needed For Unsupported Video Format
I'm trying to import an .avi file in Flash8 using the Import Video feature. The error message reads, "The source file chicken2.avi contains video in an unsupported format and cannot be encoded.".

I'd be greatful if someone could explain this process and what I can do to create or change video files to be imported into Flash 8.

Thanks. Lori Jeske

Need Advice From A Flash Expert On Multiplayer Game
I have a client that wants a free online poker game using flash on his website. I have created different flash chat rooms before without the server software by using the loadvariables command to post information and retrieve information from an sql database. There was little if any lag with those chat rooms.

I know you could never use that type of setup for any kind of action game, but with a turn based game such as chess, poker, battleship, it works well because the half second delay doesnt make a difference.

My question and concern is, this guy has over 10,000 visitors a day, and im curious what kind of load that would put on a system like this. This might be more of a server question, but my chat rooms were fine with 100 or so people. Just didnt know if 10000 would make it worse?

Rob

Advice On Video/audio Manipulation Needed, Pretty Please
Hello you lovely, lovely people. I have a conundrum that i'd really appreciate some discussion on.

A week or two ago I posted a thread in the general forum asking about creating a Flash player app that would let the user import and edit video/audio
( http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s....php3?t=118654 )

Despite the one person saying it can be done, I'm still sceptical. Nonetheless, can anyone advise me on ways this could be achieved? What I'm hoping to create is something where the user can import a video/audio file (easy), edit out bits of the file, move bits around (hmm ...not sure), and then if at all possible save out a new, editted file (now as far as I know that's impossible, but I hope I'm wrong).

All this needs to run in Flash player, so I'm gonna need to create the app in Flash or Flex (which I've never used so have little idea what it does). Using other technologies to help is possible, though limited to I think just JS and perl.

I would really really appreciate some advice on where to begin with this, and what technologies/actionscript methods would help, if indeed this sort of thing is at all possible.

much 'thank yous' and grovelling

Flash/AS Expert Needed
Hey,

I need some help, obviously...

I have a drag and drop window, and I am trying to put a scroll pane thing inside it, one I downloaded from here. It's not a scroll pane component, it's a scroll made out of masks and such. I keep getting this error when I try to put it inside the drag and drop window.

Code:
Target not found: Target="_root.controlmove" Base="_level0.window.instance19.bar"
And I duno what is wrong, I can't figure it out.. It all works fine except when I use the scroll bar. (the scroll window I downloaded is made to look like windows, the arrows and bar inside that resizes depending on how much content you have inside)

Any ideas, if someone would wana help me out I could send them the fla and perhaps they could look inside to see whats wrong with it... If anyone would be so kind.
If not and you can tell me whats wrong on here it would be a great help too.
ICQ: 46549062
MSN: ibbanging@hotmail.com
Yahoo IM: ibbanging (ibbanging@yahoo.com) Duno which one you use to add people.

Those are the easiest ways I can think of to get in touch with me, alough I don't check the E-mail addys within those, so messages would be best.

This is the last thing I need to get my site up and running, I hope.

Ian

Flash <b>expert</b> Needed
ok, i need a way in flash to draw arrows like in microsoft word's autoshapes, like you click once to start the arrow, then it follows around your cursor until you click again and the arrow ends, then it needs to be made into a movie clip so i can put an action on it for when its clicked on again...i hope some real pro can help me out here

:: Flash Expert Needed ::
hi experts,

My problem is when the green square is dragged, I need the red circle to stay centred over the red cross and the text box to display the red circle's _x & _y coordinates in relation to the green square.

you can see my problem here:
http://www.dado-gs.net/dragcenter.zip

I have attached the fla file. waiting for your answers...........

:: FLASH Expert Needed ::
hi experts,

My problem is when the green square is dragged, I need the red circle to stay centred over the red cross and the text box to display the red circle's _x & _y coordinates in relation to the green square.

you can see my problem here:
http://www.dado-gs.net/dragcenter.zip

I have attached the fla file. waiting for your answers...........
__________________
regards
chochweets

Flash Expert Needed
can anyone help me im making this thing so when you click somwhere on the screen the person moves there and avoids objects is there a way

thanks

Flash Monkey

Flash Expert Needed....
Hi guys,

Thought some of you flash people would be interested in talking to this guy. He emailed me looking for someone to help him on a project, and I don't know enough about doing flash to be of any use to him.

So, I figured I'd pass this along so somebody could maybe make a buck, or two helping this guy with his project.

Here's the email he senty me...

Quote:

Hi there Rockrz.

I hope you don't mind me writing to you via The Laughingbird Software forum. I'm emailing all the members of the forum.

I have a quick question.

I'm in need of a Flash animation expert for a new project I'm working on. If you know of anybody that you could put me in touch with, I'd be interested in speaking with them.

I need a Flash Cartoonist. Somebody who knows Flash inside and out, and who loves cartooning!

have them email me: marc1@thelogocreator.com
If they have any sample animations, perhaps you can ask them to have some handy.

Thanks for your time!
Hope all is well.

- Marc

Marc "Laughingbird" Sylvester
Creator of The Logo Creator software

Flash Background -expert Help Needed
Hi

Here's my situation: I have a Flash movie with a certain FSCOMMAND that uses the "exec" and calls a batch file, which then opens a file/folder. I'd like to have that flash movie (SWF) as my computer desktop/background. However... it seems that the FS COMMAND "exec" only works when i open the SWF file from the Flash standalone player, and when i open it through a browser or HTML file it doesn't work.

Is there any way to get the FS COMMAND "exec" to work in a HTML file?

What i want to do is have the SWF as a background, so when i click a button it opens "C:" and when i click another button it opens a file etc.

i can make it open a file when i click a button through the batch file (like i explained in the first paragraph) but i don't know how to make it a computer background yet. does anyone know? can someone help me please?
Thanks
~Lorenzo

Efficiency Expert Needed For Flash 5 AS
I need a countdown display to show the days,hours,minutes,seconds remaining until the new year. I threw this together to see if was a workable concept. It works, but time accuracy over the long run is questionable at this point. That is not a huge issue as I hope somebody has something better to do than sit and watch this.

Really, I need help finding a more efficient way to calculate this than my "creative math".

In a nutshell, I have this

Code:

Frame 1:
then = new Date();

then.setFullYear(2003,0,1);
then.setHours(0);
then.setMinutes(0);
then.setSeconds(0);

targ = then.getTime();

Frame 2: (No snickering allowed, but constructive criticism welcome)
now = new Date();

targo = now.getTime();
diff = targ - targo;

dayRemain = ((((diff/1000)/60)/60)/24);
dayRemain -=1;

trash = new String();
trash = dayRemain.toString();

hack = new Array();
hack = trash.split(".");

days = hack[0];
hours = "." + hack[1];

hours = Number(hours);
hours = hours*24;
hourhack = new Array();
hourFigure = hours.toString();
hourhack = hourFigure.split(".");

hours = hourhack[0];

minutes = "." + hourhack[1];
minutes = Number(minutes);
minutes = minutes * 60;

minFigure = new String();
minFigure = minutes.toString();
minhack = new Array();
minhack = minFigure.split(".");

minutes = minhack[0];

seconds = "." + minhack[1];
seconds = Number(seconds);
seconds = Math.round(seconds * 60);

if (seconds == 60){
seconds = 59
}
if (seconds < 10){
seconds = "0" + seconds;
}

results = days + " Days " + hours + " Hrs " + minutes + " min " +seconds + " sec";

Frame 3:
gotoAndPlay(2);

Please Help Flash Expert Needed ASAP
I need help with this in the next day please.

I have done an intro animation for a website I'm doing but am having trouble finishing it off and would really appreciate it if someone could donate some time.
Here is an MX and Flash 5 version of the animation:
http://oppressa.freeservers.com/intro.zip (MX Version)
http://oppressa.freeservers.com/introver5.zip (Flash 5 Version)

What I need to happen towards the end of the animation is the scaffolding to somehow disappear and then the rotating logo to rotate continually from then on.

Can anyone help me please?

Flash Expert Needed For Small Project
Hi...

I have an idea that needs making into reality. Niche about music learning.

Essentially what I would need is 2 flash keyboards (harmonium). 1 would be like a movie, showing which buttons to press with play/pause/stop controls. This would need to be fairly easy for me to change to i could make many of these for different tunes.

Another keyboard underneath, where the person could practice on.

If anyone is interested, if they could get back to me with a price and timescale bearing in made that this will be a non-profit, educational site, it'd be great.

I've seen this which is along the right lines - http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Sound...6819/index.php

Flash Expert Needed To Tweak My Header
Hello,
If there is a flash designer here willing to help my website out, I can offer up to 1,500mb of website hosting.

Please get in contact with me.. basic work, meaning cropping and tweaking, etc...

aim: webunitedsupport
msn: mah168@msn.com

Advice From Expert
I am about ot embark upon my first flash web site.
It is going to be for my own business so I am planning on taking my time.
I have used minimal web design software before namely dreamweaver.
Any how I have a couple of questions.
How do you incorporate the Loading bar or menu and make sure its accurate.
Does the skip intro function simply have a link directly to your home page / index page.
and finally how doe sthe frame rate effectthe movie ie, quality, download time.

Need Expert's Advice
I need some advice on a flash project for my company. I'm ont an expert on Flash.

Here a brief description:
The flash application has to simulate some lottery results communication with another application on a distant server.

The flash appliaction has to run on a QNX system (real time operating system). The system support the Voyager browser (version 2.0). This broswer support flash plugin 5.0. Basically the flash application has to communicate with another application running on a server. The communication has to be http. I think that web services are supported on flash player 7 and above, I'm not sure.

_ What's the best way to do this?

_ Can we use web services with flash 5.0? What's another way to communicate with another application on the web?

_ Is flash player 7(with Flash MX 2004 Pro) the only way to do this?

_ Another constraint. The QNX embedded system doesn't really have a hard disk.

Thank for your comments and links.

Fred

Time For Expert Advice
Hi

I really hope someone can help.

I am trying to learn functions without any joy.

I just want a function which can control the opacity of a mc at any selected time. On the attached file i have three moves named - section 1, section 2, and section 3.

I also have three btns named btn1, btn 2, and btn3.

I want btn1 to reduce section 2, 3 alpha
I want btn2 to reduce section 1, 3 alpha
I want btn3 to reduce section 1, 2 alpha

This example would then help me understand how this works.

A solution would be great and to understand it would be greater. Please help me!!!

actionscript:

on first keyframe i have:

Movieclip.prototype.fadeIn = function (opacity, rate) {
this._alpha += rate;
if (this._alpha >= opacity) {
delete (Movieclip.prototype.fadeIn);
}
}

on each mc i have:

onClipEvent (load) {
this._alpha = 0;
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
fadeIn(opacity, rate);
}

and on btns i have: (section numbers depending on what btn)

on (press) {
_root.section3.opacity = 0;
_root.section2.opacity = 0;
_root.section3.rate = 5;
_root.section2.rate = 8;
}

Looking For Some Expert Flash Video Help
I am a noob trying to get my flash file converted over to a looping, DVD video clip that will play on a wide screen TV at our local pub. I have no idea how to. I also have these questions....
1. I made it 1020x720.... should it actually be.... 1280x720?
2. I've downloaded several demos of SWF to DVD conversion softwares, yet none seem to provide the graphics quality once converted. What software is best?
3. What format is best to convert to for the best graphics? .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, .MP3?
3. What's Bitrate do when converting? I assume higher is better?

Hope someone here can at least provide me a few expert pointers on how to best get my flash file to widescreen TV with the best quality without spending hundreds on additional software. Oh, and I am using Flash8 if that matters.

Thanks for any help!!!
KZ

NAvigation Problem, Need Some Expert Advice Please
Ok, I need some advice. I am working on a site for work.
you can see it at: http://www.holt.com/v2

If you go under "our work" and click on Education....I need to come up with an easier way to make this function. Ive tried menus but i failed, then I tried a pop up window with a menu, and that worked, but i cant get the pop up window to communicate with the site. Please help, any suggestions would be great. This "our work" section is HUGE, and I need an easy way to do all of it that isnt toooo time consuming.
Thanks for your help in advance. And im not familiar with very much actionscripting or advanced stuff. Its all in Flash exported to html. Thanks, Adelle

This is urgent!

Tool To Review SWF's...NEED EXPERT ADVICE.
Here the scoop: I get a SWF file from my supplier every week and I need to scroll through each frame one at a time. Instead of purchasing the full version of Flash, I would like to acocmplish this with a FREE tool or very inexpensive tool. Does anyone know of any out there?

Thanks in advance.

Flash Expert Needed For Joint Effort - Flash Chat And More
http://chat.cyberlot.net/

Just a subset/example of what im playing with.. Im programming the backend, what you see above is what I did with my limited flash skills, need someone to do the flash while I program the XML socket interface.

Flash Local Video Record - NEED EXPERT
Hello. I need to record video from a webcam locally, then allow a user to SAVE abd then upload to the server. I have heard that this is possible, but most people's first reaction is that Flash only allows saving direct to the server. Any help out there?

Flash Local Video Record - NEED EXPERT
Hello. I need to record video from a webcam locally, then allow a user to SAVE and then upload to the server. I have heard that this is possible, but most people's first reaction is that Flash only allows saving direct to the server. Any help out there?

Flash Local Video Record - NEED EXPERT
Hello. I need to record video from a webcam locally, then allow a
user to SAVE abd then upload to the server. I have heard that this is possible,
but most people's first reaction is that Flash only allows saving direct to the
server. Any help out there?

Flash Expert Help Needed I Need To Reproduce This MX Ticker In Flash 5
Hi,

Ive built a XML ticker scroller in Flash 6 using adapted components and scripts.

Ive posted the files here:
(Please copy and paste the url not click on it.)
http://www.geocities.com/freeeky/ticker01.zip

I need to reproduce this so it runs on a Flash 5 plugin, as i do not want the user to have to upgrade.

There must be a way to do this in Flash 5. Can someone please help? I need to get this done quick!

Thanks

Need Quick Advice From An Actionscript Expert (slider Related)
Here is the code for a slider I'm working on. It's a 360 pixel slider bar, with 30 marks each 12 pixels apart. If the user releases the dragger in between marks, it should move to the next mark. It will eventually control a panning set of images, so I'm not sure if the way I'm handling this will throw this function off at all.

Occasionally it works as it should, but most of the time the dragger just keeps moving until it reaches the end. Can any of you see anything in my code that's throwing this off (may just be a matter of my horrrible math skills doing me in!) I'm still fairly new at this, so any help you may have would be greatly appreciated...

slider.minX=0;
slider.maxX=360;

slider.onPress=function(){
this.offSet=this._x-_xmouse;
this.active=true;
}
slider.onRelease=function(){
this.active=false;

slider.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(this._x%(this.maxX/30)>0 && this._x<this.maxX){
slider._x+=1;
}
}
updateAfterEvent();
}
slider.onReleaseOutside=function(){
this.active=false;

slider.onEnterFrame=function(){
if(this._x%(this.maxX/30)>0 && this._x<this.maxX){
slider._x+=1;
}
}
updateAfterEvent();
}

slider.onMouseMove=function(){
if(this.active){
this._x=_xmouse+this.offSet;
if(this._x>this.maxX){
this._x=this.maxX;
}
if(this._x<this.minX){
this._x=this.minX;
}

updateAfterEvent();
}
}

Trying To Build Custom Navigiation Tree - Need Expert Advice
I'm trying to build a custom navigation tree as I have not been able to find a pre-built component that will allow me to skin it the exact way I need. I'm trying to reproduce a .net application folder tree my company uses in Flash for training.

I have it working but it's a bit buggy; in the XML it has a "connection" attribute. This is because some of the sub folders can be open if the rest are closed so I was trying to figure how to do this.

My need is for a expert in AS/Flash to look at what I've created and tell me if I'm on the right track to how this should be made; I've been using Flash for a year now and only knew HTML before so I could be way off track here.

I would so greatly appreciate any help/insight you could provide me... Thank you.

Some Flash Advice Needed
I was wondering what would be the best way to go about setting up a way to when you click on a button for it to bring in a new object on stage with more options (as most buttons on websites do)

Should I load an external swf file using an empty clip?
Should I make a new scene?
Or any other way that I am over looking.

Also is there a way to have a sound loop playing in the background continously even if scene's are switched?

Case

Radio Flash Advice Needed
I have Flash MX for a PC, and I'm a total neophyte to the program. I'm looking to expand my websites with flash radio where I can create a playlist that automatically runs upon entering the site, but also have the user choose from the playlist if they want . If anyone can point me to some crash course tutorials in flash, or, any advice, I would appreciate it. I found this page:

http://www.onclipevent.com/radio/how.html

but it's for intermediate flash programmers.

thanks in advance.

Jon

http://www.laughingwithlulu.com
http://www.jonmattox.com

Advice Needed For My First Flash Site
Ok, so i'm new to flash
Im using flash mx pro 2004 and studio MX

I want to create an impressive portfolio of my stuff, something that would be easy to update and something that will help me get work freelancing in the future.

Where do i start?
Interface: How do I decide on what sort of a site design to use?

Graphics.... How to decide the best graphics for my site?? and so on.

I would appreciate all comments and suggestions.

I was wondering is there anyway to view all of the MX 2004 tutorials (only.without other versions) on flash kit

Anyway

Gotta go.. thanks

Advice Needed For My First Flash Experiment
Hallo Fellas,

Thank you for reading this and giving me your comments.

I was working on a simple Flash Tutorial but I seem to have gotten it wrong in Part 3 and Part 4 of the series. Part 1 and 2 of the tutorial are pretty simple since it is basic Graphics Work and implementing a bunch of code like this:-

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
this._y -=9;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
this._y +=9;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -=9;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x +=9;
}
}

This enables the Arrow Keys to move the Character that I have drawn in Part 1. So no problems at all with Part 1 and 2.

It gets a bit complicated and confusing for me, when Part 3 talks about "animating the Character" as it moves Up, Down, Left or Right. The Legs and Eyes are supposed to move and I am supposed to create Key Frames to do this but I just could not get it to work.

This is Part 3 - http://www.flash.0tutor.com/archive/...d-moving.shtml
I have problems understanding what the tutorial is trying to explain here:-

Quote:

2.
First of double click on joe to get into the movie clip, now in the timeline, name a new keyframe at frame 2, so we have joe in frame one, and frame 2.

We are going to animate joe in frame 2, so when we want him to walk we just jump to frame 2. (confused?, try to stay with me).

3.
Go to frame 2, select joe (all the part of him) right click and convert it to a movie clip.

double click this movie clip to get into its timeline, now we need to animate it a bit, so what i did was to make him normal in frame 1, then make a new keyframe in frame 2, and drag his left leg a bit up as shown in the image below.
Also rotate the eyes a bit to the left, and the body.

and how creating this keyframe will letter work with

Code:
onClipEvent (keyUp) {
_root.joe.gotoAndStop(1);
}

and

Code:
_root.joe.gotoAndStop(2);

Part 4 is also stumping me. I followed the instructions to the letter. (part 4 is here - http://www.flash.0tutor.com/archive/...ke-walls.shtml)

But I am still able to move my character beyond the "invisible walls" which is supposed to prevent my character from moving out of the visible Stage Area.

Thank you, once again, for reading through this long posting and I am very grateful if anyone could point out where I could possibly be making a mistake.

Thanks!
Ellils

Advice Needed Oh Flash Effect
Would anybody know if the fade in effect at the top of the page -
http://www.snoopdogg.com/about/
was done in ActionScript and if so how?

I would deeply appreciate the help !

Undertaking Flash Web Development - Advice Needed
Hi,

First of all, apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

I will soon be developing a set of Flash applications that will provide dynamic data. The framework I have in mind is a Flash MX 2004 front end with PHP and mySQL powering everything under the bonnet.

I will need the data in the flash app to update automatically in real time (its for sports results)

Basically, I am just looking for any advice, tutorials, book recommendations etc. on the general area of PHP, mySQL and Flash working together and also, live data in flash.This will be a large project and I want to learn as much about it as possible before starting.

Thanks in advance,
Martin

Bit Of Advice Needed For Tutorial @Using XML In Flash CS3/AS3"
on the following Link http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flas...ml_as3_pg6.htm
in the section Filtering Attribute Information

Kirupa takes you through filtering by the ISBN number, these results include the XML tags as well could anybody advise me how i would eliminate them in this section:

function ParseBooks(bookInput:XML):void {
trace("XML Output");
trace("------------------------");

var authorList:XMLList = bookInput.Book.(@ISBN == "0743203178");
trace(authorList);
}

i beleive its using the .text(); function but i can't find where to put it.

also, in order to load this information into a dynamic text box do i just replace trace with the destination of my text box?

Thanks
Daniel Hodkinson

Advice Needed On Streamlining Flash Project
Hi

I have an online brochure that I created a couple of years ago for a client.
It's pretty big and contains a lot of jpegs and video.
I have to amend/update it about every 2 months and its growing everytime, so the final exported swf file is now over 5mb. It was only around 1mb when it first launched.

I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to load all of the jpegs externally, rather than from the library? Also would it be time saving to have the text load from an xml or text file?

I'm looking at streamlining the project so that
a. It loads quicker / smaller swf size
b. Is quicker and easier to update

Any feedback would be gladly received.