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Cropping And Lining Images In Flash
I got a photo of a digital camera, I split it into 4 pictures (left right top bottom, with a "hole" in the middle where the LCD screen wood be) and even though the images are split perfectly, arranging them in flash is very tiresome. I have to zoom up very close and push it pixel by pixel but even then, when I zoom out, it dosnt seem to line up correctly. Is there anything I can do to either:

a) Turn on a "pixel" grid so that when I specify the size of my document (ie 640x480) there are 640x480 pixels and nothing in between.

b) Use some sort of feature to get my images lined perfectly

(CS3) Images Not Lining Up Properly When Publishing
Hi all,

I've got a series of images on a series of nested screens in a flash form application (consider the screens to be nested layers if you aren't familiar with screens in the flash form app).

On my development stage these images are lined up perfectly, pixel for pixel so when you flip thru the screens one image is replaced by the next seemlessly (they are all eseentailly the same image with some minor differences).

But when I test or publish the movieclip the images are not lined up quite right a pixel off one way or another, a line of pixels missing from mid image, and on some screen I get severe image distortation.

I'm not sure why Flash isn't rendering my movie clip the way I have it lined up on my screen. Can anyone offer any suggestions to what I can do to fix this problem?

Lining External Images Doesn't Work
Hello,
i am using the code below to link external images. When i use it in my test file by itself, it works fine. When I try to use it in a flash movie that i am making with many different types of MC and action script, It doesn't work.
Why not, It's the exact same code, being used the exact same way. Any ideas anyone

Code:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("logo", 5);
_root.logo.loadMovie("daddy.jpg");
_root.logo._xscale = 50;
_root.logo._yscale = 50;

Moving Images Frame-by-frame With Mouse Movement
Hi, I'm new to flash mx, so please help me out in details. thanks.
I have 10 images in 10 frames ( 1 image per frame ). So I'm trying to make the frame to go to the next one when the mouse is moved to the right, and make the frame to go to the prev one when the mouse is moved to the left.
Can someone please help me? I really need to have this done ASAP.
Thanks for all the inputs.

Lining To A .mov
Hey.
So I have buttons that are supposed to link to quicktime movies via the component inspector...
Right now the .mov movies are in a filder on my desktop.
How to I make them into a .html so that my component inspector thing works??

Lining Between Two Swf's
Hey everyone, I have a flash image slider on my homepage (http://wri.eas.cornell.edu/MessageBrandAdvertisingFinal/index.html) that links to specific images in an swf on my portfolio page (http://wri.eas.cornell.edu/MessageBrandAdvertising/index.html). For instance when someone clicks on the "coaching management" (2nd picture from left on homepage) pic, I want it to load that picture in the swf on my porftfolio page. Is this possible?

Lining Up Problems...
Why is it that when I try to mask an image that is bigger than the content box so that it fits within the borders of the box, the image does not sit flush against the edges? There is a gap between the image and the border lines though the mask set right against the edges of the box's outline. I have zoomed in to verify that there is no gap between the mask and the box's inside edges. on the stage it looks fine when the mask is applied but when I play the movie, there are gaps between the image and the iside edges of the box. Someone please help, thx.

Eased MC Not Lining Up
Thanks to Voetsjoeba i have actionscript easing

however, when i put the destination for my movieclip into the actionscript

ActionScript Code:
MC.easeX(100, 100);

the movieclip doesn't quite line up properly.

is there something i'm doing wrong?

FLA

thanks,
_grennex

Load Xml In To Mc Lining Mc Up In A Row
I can't figure out how to do this. i have a mc that has 3 text fields category, name, amount and they are being loaded by xml. but when the movie is loaded it loads the mcs inline but i only want them to show 5 in each line. but when its a different category to go to the next line. so for ex.

1 1 1 1 1 - ROW 1
-------------------
2 2 2 - ROW 2
-------------------
3 3 3 3 - ROW 3
-------------------
4 4 - ROW 4
-------------------
5 5 5 - ROW 5

the numbers = a category so there are 5 (if there happens to be a total of 5) in each row but when the category changes it goes to a different row. anyone help me out? thanks...

Lines Not Lining Up
Hi,
I'm following along through Lee's video tutorials, and on the one with the mute button, I'm trying to do the icons for the mute button movie clip. The line through the speaker icon looks perfect in the stage when I'm building it, but when I play the movie, it's always shifted slightly to the left and down and looks terrible, almost like it's following the speaker icon. I made sure to put it on whole number coordinates. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

Lining Things Up? Pain In The...
Hi,

Just a quick question.

I have 2 MC's that have buttons nested in them on the 5th frame of both MC's. the buttons are the same and I want them to line up exactly .
Is there a way to align 2 these even though there in seporate Mc's.

Lining Up Animation With Music
I did this animation and parts of it line up with the background music. I figured out the math for the frames/sec lining up with the beats/min and made the animation accordingly. The problem is is that it lines up if I output as a .mov file, but if I out put as a .swf file then the animation slows down and becomes out of sync with the music. Has anybody ran into this problem, and if so, how did you fix the problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Rich C.

Menuclips Are Not Lining Up Properly
Hi, I'm working on creating a dropdown menu in Flash 8 and I am having a problem with the way that each of its movie clips are lining up. They are not being placed evenly, and I cant find the reason why. Can anybody take a look and offer any advise??

TIA

Lining Up A SWF With A Tiled Background
I am curious if anyone can help me with a small problem I'm having. I recently decided I want to design a site with a very specific tiled background. Now the problem with this I can't seem to think of how to make sure my SWF lines up with the tiled background for different resolutions. Basically the SWF is going to be centered on the page and is going to incorporate the background so it needs to line up exactly with it (the first frame of the SWF basically will make it look like there is no SWF but just a full tiled background). I would presume people have encountered this problem before but I can't seem to come up with a solution. Anyways, thanks in advance for any help,

ChaseNYC

9 Slice Scaling Not Lining Up
Hi,
So I have my sprite in the library with some rounded corners. This will evenually be the background behind a set of tabs

I will be adding tabs as soon as I can get the background sprite to be the same width as the scrollPane... Im spending too much time on the simple stuff.

I tried to upload the .fla but doesn't seem to be working at the moment. This script is on frame1 of main timeline

ActionScript Code:
import fl.containers.ScrollPane;

//sroll pane and content
var scrollPane:ScrollPane = new ScrollPane();
scrollPane.setSize(400, 300);
scrollPane.setStyle('contentPadding',5);
scrollPane.source = new TestContent();
addChild(scrollPane);

//graphic behind tabs
var tabsBack:Tabs_back = new Tabs_back();
tabsBack.width = scrollPane.width;
addChild(tabsBack);

scrollPane.y = tabsBack.height;

trace('tabsBack width: ' + tabsBack.width); //is 400
trace('scrollPane width: ' + scrollPane.width); //is 400

Im explicitly setting width of both to 400 so why don't they line up????

I've found that changing the width in the library at design time affects overall width too.... If I set width to 400 in code, shouldn't the width be 400 regardless what it was to begin with ?

CAN ANY1 HELP?

Cheers

ASCII Characters Not Lining Up Correctly
I have a text file that i am calling into my project and it has some ASCII characters to make the file look like a chart. When the file is opened in a normal text application it lines up and look great but when it is opened in the text field, it does not line up. The ASCII characters seem more spaced then the normal text and if i put spaces at the beginning of the line in the text, flash makes it start from the very left with no spoaces. Is there a little thing im missing to get it to work? Is there another way to load an excell file withe the lines in it??

PLEASE HELP

Lining Up Body Parts-how To Bend A Leg?
i'm trying to figure out how to animate a bending leg--if the thigh and shin are separate layers, when the leg bends, there is no knee, and i would rather not have a big, knobby kneecap to cover up the gap.

should i create multiple shin shapes? is this the normal way--to have many, many versions of each body part, all slightly different to hide gaps and overextending outlines to satisfy every possible movement?

thanks for any advice.

[CS3] FLASH Sound And Graphics Not Lining Up
Hello!

I have Flash CS3 and I am in the process of creating a flash website banner with sound effects with a separate sound track... I have built it and in flash it works perfectly but once I export or test it with in flash it seems like the sound is loading about 2 frames faster and knocks the whole thing off... is anyone else having an issue like this..this is first time I have EVER had this issue and I cannot seem to figure out how to fix it... any help would be great as i am ready to through my computer out the window.

Thanks

Having A Hard Time Lining Animation Up
here is the link

http://www.csarchdesign.com

the problem i have when you click a button.. on the Menu

only "Home" & "Contact Us" is active right now

it moves to a animation on the main page closing the doors..
i want the doors to line up with the doors that are opening (my preloader)
in a seperate swf.

also my computer is slow.. do the doors open smoothly and does the sound line up properly???

one other question..

I want my menu buttons so that if you click the same one twice it wont do anything how do i do that?

thanks in advance
-steve

My Pictures Aren't Lining Up But The Code Is Right I Think?
Well, obviously the code can't be right.. but it looks right to me..

Code:
function thumbnails_fn(k) {

thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) { trace (k);
target_mc._x = hit_left._x + (eval("thumbnail_mc.t" + k)._width);
trace (target_mc._x);
trace(eval("thumbnail_mc.t" + k));
//target_mc._x = hit_left._x+(eval("thumbnail_mc.t"+k)._width+5)*k;
this is just a piece of the code.. but this is where the error is happening..

If I remove :

Code:
tlistener = new Object();
tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) { trace (k);
and I trace(k).. it comes out 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.. which it should.. but when I have that code in it, the numbers out come out all random..

The problem is here:

Code:
target_mc._x = hit_left._x + (eval("thumbnail_mc.t" + k)._width);
it creates new thumbnail_mc's on load according to how many are in the XML file its reading them from. they are like thumbnail_mc.t1, t2, t3 etc.... k represents the numbers.

Anyway.. that code should mean

target_mc._x = 0 + width of the first image...

When i trace the (eval("thumbnail_mc.t" + k)._width) ... the width is definitely correct for each thumbnail... but the target_mc._x doesn't put it there for some reason??

they all become jumbled up in around the same spot...

Anyone know why?

Where I got the code...... http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm

hellp!

Dynamic Movieclips Are Not Lining Up Properly
Hi, I'm working on creating a dropdown menu in Flash 8 and I am having a problem with the way that each of its movie clips are lining up. They are not being placed evenly, and I cant find the reason why. Can anybody take a look and offer any advise??

Heres the code:

ActionScript Code:
clip.onPress = function ()
{ var curr_height = this._parent.clip._y;
var curr_menu = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("mc", 1000);
curr_menu._x = this._parent.clip._x;
curr_menu._y = this._parent.clip._y + this._parent.clip._height + 2;

for(var i = 1; i < 11; i++)
{
curr_height = curr_item._height * (i-1);
var curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie("fadein_menuitem","item"+i+"_mc", i);
curr_item._y = curr_height + 1;
curr_item.name.text = "Menu "+i;
curr_item.trackAsMenu = true;
curr_item.onRelease = function()
{ trace("Clicked");
}

}
mc.onMouseUp = function(){
if (!mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true) && !clip.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)){
removeMovieClip("mc");
}
};

};

Magnifying Glass Mask Lining Up Of Layers
I'm having trouble getting my top magnified layer to line up with the smaller lower layer. THe top one keeps moving to far over to the right no matter where I place it in the movie. Is there any code I am missing to make this line up properly?

My Movieclip Keeps Lining Up To The Left Of The Main Movie
I'm having a problem placing the movie clip on the x axis.
I can drag the movieclip anywhere on the y axis and place it, but it deosn't matter where I drag it on the x axis, it always lines up to the far left.How can I get around that.

Here's the code attached to the main timeline. I'm using a menu made by sephiroth and alot of it is in Italian...sorry.

fscommand("allowscale",false);
fscommand("trapallkeys",true);

// dichiariamo i valori di acc e smorzamento dei movieclip(s) che
// comporranno il nostro menu
MovieClip.prototype.acc = 3.9
MovieClip.prototype.smorz = 1.22

// ACTION FOR THE BUTTON
MovieClip.prototype.DoSomething = function(theClip){
trace("nome: " + theClip._name)
trace("valore: " + theClip.mov.txt)
// here you can add your script for the button action...
}

// label sui bottoni
nomi = new Array("CHI SIAMO","PRODOTTI","DOVE SIAMO","CONTATTACI");
loghi = new Array("cubo","triangolo","ottagono","sfera");
max = 3
// creo il menu
for(i=1;i<=max;i++){
duplicateMovieClip("_root.menu0","menu"+i,i)
myMenu = _root["menu"+i]
myMenu.mov.txt = nomi[i]
myMenu.attachMovie(loghi[i],"logo" + i,(5000+i))
myLogo = eval("_root.menu" + i + ".logo" + i)
myLogo._x = -76
newColor = new getColor(myMenu);
}
_root.menu0.attachMovie("cubo","cubo",(7000+1))
_root.menu0.cubo._x = -76

// color change on menu
function getColor(what){
inizio += (255/nomi.length)/3
colore = new Color(eval(what))
alex = new Object();
alex = colore.getTransform();
alex.rb += inizio
alex.gb += inizio
alex.bb += inizio
colore.setTransform(alex)
}

Flash Object Not Lining Up Correctly In Browser
This seems like a stupid problem, but I can't seem to find the answer myself. Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum.

If you go to:

http://site.wallbedfactory.com/test/test.htm

You will see a flash movie and it is aligned to the top left of the window. I would really like it to be displayed after the <p>this is text</p> statements and inside the div with the red border.

Can anyone explain to me how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

Symbols Lining Up As A Logo With Action Script
Hello everyone,

Here's a hard one...

I have a hundred little animated characters
that I want to line up as different forms
depending on wich zone of the movie
the mouse is hovering.

Do you know where I can find a similar script?

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks!

neuhaus3000

Landscape/Portrait Thumbs Not Lining Up In Gallery
Hey guys, I Fiannly got the XML photo gallery the way i want it, but when i tried adding my own pictures/thumbs some of them are vertical as opposed to horizontal. There ends up being a big space in between them, and some overlap each otehr and other ones than that just dont show up at all.

http://www.sunsetpics.net/familypics/Template.swf

Thats what it looks like. ...yeah i know... not to good.

My Question is should i just go into photoshop and put them all on a black 300x200 canvas so theres a black border around it and theyll all be the same image size or is there a way around it.

Fla and XML attached however xml is set up to work local after wthe first 7 which i changed to get the pic from the URL so you can see what im tlaking about.

Nick

Externally Loaded Movies Hots Spots Not Lining Up
I have a movie (Main) that Im loading another movie into (slideshow). this slideshow movie has hotspots that allow you to scroll thru images then click the image and have it displayed in a window. This works fine when I run the slideshow by itself. But, when I load it into my main movie (using loadMovie())and reposition it, the hotspots are in the wrong place. Is there anyway to setup the slideshow movie so it could use the posistion varibles locally to the moive and not the main movie?

Im using flash 9 (cs3)

I have attached the source files
and here is the link to it in action.

Main http://www.gngfx.com/test/test.html
Select Gallery and then click on a Prince logo to see the slides, you will notice that part way up the image you can mouse over the hot spots for the scrolling.

slide show http://www.gngfx.com/test/slideshow1.html

Thanks
Gregg

Jagged Images When Not On Frame One
Has anyone else experienced the problem of images (graphpics) getting jagged if they are in anything other than a one frame (root) movie? I've had this problem over and over on different machines and different versions of Flash. I've tried everything to do a work around, put the entire site in a movie clip and put that on frame one of a one frame movie, load it in externally into a container clip, etc. it's just doesn't fix the problem...

Oh yeah, the problem doesn't have to do with the x, y, being integers. They are on exact integers on everytime line (parent on down). It has to do with the movie being longer than one frame on the root... I can post an example if that helps.

(Sorry to keep editing) It also is not that I'm resizing the images in Flash, they are being placed in at 100% and not resized. (just trying to save you time in responding!)

Images Into Frame With Buttons
I wanted to have 10 or so buttons and by clicking each button It would bring up
a different picture from the library (Or a folder on my pc) onto the movie.

But I would like this to be done with one frame (If Possible)
Sort of like a dress up game but adding the pics with buttons instead of dragging them around.

I have tried different codes but nothing works

Anyone know how I can do this ?
Thanks

Images Continue In The Next Frame
This code goes right but the images (book, pencil...) appears again in the next frame. How can I solve this problem?
Help me!

//drag and drop code//

var startX:Number;
var startY:Number;
var counter:Number = 0;

var soundReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("woodblock.mp3");
var woodblock:Sound = new Sound();
woodblock.load(soundReq);

pencil_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
pencil_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
schoolbag_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOW N, pickUp);
schoolbag_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
book_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
book_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
notebook_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN , pickUp);
notebook_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
student_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
student_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
teacher_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
teacher_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);
friends_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp);
friends_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt);

function pickUp(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.startDrag(false);
reply_txt.text = "";
event.target.parent.addChild(event.target);
startX = event.target.x;
startY = event.target.y;
}
function dropIt(event:MouseEvent):void {
event.target.stopDrag();
var myTargetName:String = "target" + event.target.name;
var myTargetisplayObject = getChildByName(myTargetName);
if (event.target.dropTarget != null && event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget){
reply_txt.text = "Good Job!";
event.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_ DOWN, pickUp);
event.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_ UP, dropIt);
event.target.buttonMode = false;
event.target.x = myTarget.x;
event.target.y = myTarget.y;
counter++;
woodblock.play();
} else {
reply_txt.text = "Try Again!";
event.target.x = startX;
event.target.y = startY;
}
if(counter == 7){
reply_txt.text = "Congrats, you're finished!";
}
}

pencil_mc.buttonMode = true;
schoolbag_mc.buttonMode = true;
book_mc.buttonMode = true;
notebook_mc.buttonMode = true;
student_mc.buttonMode = true;
teacher_mc.buttonMode = true;
friends_mc.buttonMode = true;

stop();

//next page code//

proximo_BT.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, release1);

function release1(evt:MouseEvent):void {
nextFrame();
}

Switching Images Within A Frame
Hi, total newbie and totally freaked out, did the search on google and did the search in online help, no use.

Seeking to switch images in a frame (without switching the frame of course). Like DynamicText allows to switch text.

Basically have numbered images which I want to call to the screen from an arrayed index, yes have a good idea of scripting and none of Flash.

Any pointers would be highly appreciated.

Scrollable Frame/Images
Hi, i have been registered on the forums for a while but havent made proper use of them. Sorry if this thread is in the wrong place.

My question is this, how do you create a frame-like object in Flash? In HTML its using the frame tags.

The reason for this is that i want to be able to have a scrollbar to show different images vertically.

Thanx

Is Loading Many Images In First Frame Efficient?
I am doing something like a company advertisement in flash (for web ofcourse) and i need to display a clip everytime a user clicks a particular button.
There are 8 or 9 such buttons.
I dont want the user to wait for the clip to load in runtime at each button click. Will loading all images in first frame work? How heavy will it be on the memory then?

Random Frame Stops Working When Images Are Used
Hello,
I have built a movie (Flash MX 2004 Porfessional) with the objective of going to a different frame each time the page loads. The movie works fine when I only have text in any of the frames. As soon as I add an image to any of the frames the ramdomization quits working. On top of that, the behavior is Opera/Netscape and IE is different.

In IE, the movie always displaysframe 1 (no content, just the actionscript).

In Opera/Netscape the movie always displays frame 2 (the first frame with content).

The code:

code:
var randomFrame; // Stores the randomly picked frame number
var numFrames; // Stores the total number of frames on the timeline
numFrames = _totalframes; // Assign _totalframes property to numFrames

// Pick a random frame
randomFrame = Math.floor(Math.random( ) * numFrames + 2);

gotoAndStop(randomFrame); // Send playhead to chosen random frame

I have attahed the file for convenience sake.
You can also see the behavior by going to the following two links:

with images (not working)
http://www.prophegy.com/temp/flash.html

w/o images (working):
http://www.prophegy.com/temp/flash2.html

Any insight into why this happens is greatly appreciated!!

John

Copying And Pasting Frame Images With Locations ?
Hi all,

Quick question ... When you copy and paste an image, symbol, etc is it possible to copy its x and y location values rather than having to type them in again each time ?

Thanks

Greg

Loading Frame Images For Movie, Most Effective Way?
Ok, basically i am just wandering what everyone thinks if the best way to load a movie.

I am learning OpenGL, and hopefully DirectX soon as well, and in some of my projects i am going to be displaying them on my website. I am going to be taking a frame by frame screen**** of my OpenGL movies to import them into flash, and i was wandering what everyone thinks is the best way to do it?

In my understanding i have two options,

1.) Take my Fla and load them all into it by hand.
2.) Make it more dynamic and loadthem at runtime via ActionScripts LoadMovie Command.

Now it would be easier on me to do #2, but i am not looking for ease. I am looking for the most effective in FPS at Runtime, Load Speed, and obviously tied into Load Speed, the File Size for people to load.

So which would be faster, better, smaller, ect.?
Thanks to any replies!

Attaching Movies/images To A Specific Frame
Hi,

As far as I know, attaching movies/images, using attachMovie for internal elements, or loadMovie for external ones, always attaches it to the first frame.

So what if I want to attach something, let's say, to the second frame? Is it possible to do?

What I need to do is to dinamically build an animation on a movieclip with external images, so some images go to the 1st frame, and other go to other frames.

How can I do this with AS?

Best regards.

Movie Clip Images Deteriate If Not On Frame 1
Hi,

I'm having a real problem with a flash movie which I desperatly need to get sorted out ASAP.

I've a selection of logo's which simply need to fade in and out one at a time. This short looping animation is in a movieclip. Now if the movieclip is on frame 1 the logo's are in the quality they should be but if I place the movie clip on another frame with a stop(); command the logo's deteriate as if the .jpegs have been stretched slightly out of porportion.

I've tried everything I can think of such as having the logo movieclip in one file and then loading it into another level on a main movie and a later frame.

I really don't think I'm doing anything wrong as I use Flash everyday and generally know what I'm doing but I've never come across this problem before. If anyone has any idea's or know of any bugs in flash which may cause this please let me know.

Thank you, Craig

Dynamically Loading Multiple Images On One Frame
Hi,

If some one could help me with this I would be very grateful.
Is it possible to dynamically load more than one jpg into a frame at one time?
My actionscript only loads the last image.

Trying To Display 2 Random Images In A Single Frame
Im trying to display 2 random images from a directory on my mainpage. I have the files listed in my xml file.... images.xml and using the following script pointing to my instance name picture_mc. all works well for 1 image..how can I get a second image and position it correctly? Do i have to clear the variables? is there an easy way to place the mulitple images into location? Script below...thank you for any help! Please keep explanations simple, I'm very very new at this:

this._x = 400; //Offset from top-left corner (0,0)
this._y = -100; //Offset from top-left corner (0,0)

xmlImages = new XML();
xmlImages.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlImages.onLoad = loadImages;
xmlImages.load("images.xml");

function loadImages(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
xmlFirstChild = this.firstChild;
imageFileName = [];
totalImages = xmlFirstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes.length;
for (i=0; i<totalImages; i++) {
imageFileName[i] = xmlFirstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[i].attributes.title;
}
randomImage();
}
}
function randomImage() {
if (loaded == filesize) {
var ran = Math.round(Math.random() * (totalImages - 1));
picture_mc.loadMovie(imageFileName[ran],1);
pause();
}
}

Lining Up Text Within Text Frames
I'm having trouble lining up text with text frames, below is what I'm trying to achive within one text frame:
______________________________________________
1. See Forum Rules (above) for more information about what
codes you are allowed to use in your posts

2. See Forum Rules (above) for more information about what
codes you are allowed to use in your posts
______________________________________________
I'm unable to do this without using several text frames, specifically splitting up the bullets and the text...
Am I doing this the hard way ?

Thanks.

Previous Frame Overlay..... Frame By Frame By Frame By Frame By Frame By.....
Hello there.

I am trying to create a small animation just as a little bit of fun. I would like to do it frame by frame.

I have a simple question to ask about frame by frame animation.

When drawing frame by frame, you would usually have a transparent overlay that you can compare with the next frame. Is there a way to do this in flash without having to copy the previous keyframe into a new keyframe on a new layer?

Thanks Emdiesse