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Problem In Running A Flash MX-2004 Application On Windows 98 Adn Windows NT.
Hi all
I have this problem ......here it goes.....
Actually I developed a Flash MX-2004 application which has to run on both mac and windows platforms.
This application does the funciton of a dictionary and has 46 xml files and close to 13000 sound files.
This application runs fine on most Windows platform, however it doesnt work on Windows 98 and Windows NT where though the intro animation comes & the home screen loads....the application part of the program doesnt load.

Why is this so??? I am totally clueless...please help....
Do I have to make the intro and exit animations as separate swf files adn call them????
Please help....

Flash Popup Adverts/windows That Aren't Windows
Hi there

Just wondering if anyone knows any links to tutorials to make those flash adverts you find on websites? They are actual popup windows but flash boxes that appear above a webpage.

I think they use div layers as well as some flash? But im not sure where to find a tutorial!

For an example visit:

http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/index.jsp

(you might need to click on several pages down the left to get one to appear)

Any help on this would be a great help.

Thanks

Can One Create Directories In Windows From Flash
Can one create directories in windows from flash?

If so can someone tell me how?

Cheers

Is It Possible To Make Windows Icons For Windows Xp With Flash Mx?
I have gotten bored of the simple icons that you automaticly get... and I wondered if its possible to make my own! Is it?

Is It Possible To Create A Windows File Browser In Flash Cs3?
I need to create a flash player which allows the user to select from a list of swf files and also from a list of frame labels. Is it possible (or desirable) to do this in flash?

Interesting Issue With Flash And Windows - Flash Start With Windows?
Hey guys,
I'm programming a flash application that would run on a user's desktop (using MDM or similar programs to convert to a transparent background EXE).
My client would like to have the users select weather they want to application to start with windows or not. I would like to know how to make my flash application start with Windows without manually adding it (the users won't have to add it to the startup folder themselves). Can flash write to the registry? Can a third party program do it for me? The client wanted to EXE to run without an installation. Thank you very much!
Yuval Karmi

I'd Like To Create A Function To Open Windows..
I'd like to make a function that whenever a user hits a button this called as a function ...but the argument (?) is 'thepage' . . so i can just specify the new page i want to open. can i have 'thepage' variable inside the Javascript?

{
getURL ("javascript:launchwin('thumbs_photo/thepage.htm' , 'newwindow' , 'height=450,width=300,scrollbars=no')");
}

HELP > Need To Create Large Windows CD ROM W/ Videos
THE PROJECT:
Create a CD-ROM for a 180 product line that features a product page for each item with a link to a 20 second video clip (currently in .MOV) format.

THE PROGRESS:
I've gotten past the "audio' issue I was having before by extracting the audio for each file in MP3 format... this works no problem. Everything is running great until I came to my latest hiccup.

THE PROBLEM:
I need this to be in a WIndows Projector (EXE) Format. I can output the windows Projector file from flash no problem... but when someone tries to run it on a PC it brings up a dos window for a split second and crashes.

THE SOLUTION:
I can think of a few possible solutions and I need help achiieving one ASAP as I'm screwed on this deadline....
1) Get the Projector (EXE) file to work.
Could there be a glitch in my file that's causing this error. I somehow doubt it as it's a very simple bit of Actionscripting (I am very rusty and was never very good with coding to begin with). Basically tried two methods... putting the video in the OVER state of the button.. or just having the button point to the next frame where the video resided. Ideally I'd love to just get this to work in projector format but we're looking at a large projector file and I don't know if that will work.

2) Coding it to "Call" individual movies inside a core file.
I have NO idea how to do this but I know you can script in flash to where it will grab a file (MOV, SWF, whatever) from an external folder and play it within a movie. I'm thinking a nice workaround (if file size is what is killing the Windows Projector option) is to have all 180 movies in an external folder on the CD and have the main EXE File call them into the main movie as needed. Would this work? How do I do it?

3) The Backup Plan
If niether of hte above work... how can I possibly patchwork this until I figure out the above. Is there a way to have a CD auto-open a fixed size browser window with no buttons or anything that calls a HTML or SWF file from the CD when inserted? This would work. Is there a way to store the STandalone Flash Player on the CD and use it to open the main SWF file (Which works fine)? Is there a downloader for the Flash Standalone (not in browser) player out there that I could put on the Disc that people could install from then view the SWF?

I need help here people... somebody please save me....

:(

Edited: 08/24/2007 at 06:29:06 AM by msavard

How To Create Popular Effect For Opening New Windows?
I've noticed a rising trend in the use of a particular effect for opening a new window. I'm seeing this effect in regular HTML sites. When you click on a link, the entire web page darkens (but you still see the page), then you see a "preloader" of dots rotating in a circle, and then the new window opens in the center of the screen.

Is this Flash?

Where can I find more information on either creating this effect or finding one pre-made?

Thanks,
Ron

Launching Flash Windows From Flash Windows
Please can someone help me.

I am trying to create my own personal portfolio on cd. The main interface is a swf and contains a list of buttons (which are the titles of my work). When these buttons are pressed I want to launch a new flash window ontop of the existing one containing the piece of work.

I have looked at javascript popup windows using dreamweaver but have had no luck. I don't know whether this is because you have to use http's or that im thick and have no knowledge of javascript.

If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am using Flash MX if it makes a difference. If the solution is using javascript or html can please explain it to me like a 5 year old because I don't know what im doing.

Cheers
Cokey

Windows Emulator.... Having Trouble With Minimizing The "windows".
I'm creating a website that will behave kinda' like Windows. I have a basic menu that when you click on an option, a window will open up. You can drag the windows and close them. However, I'm having trouble with the minimizing part.

Lets say that I have 3 "windows" (each is a movie clip) called "win1", "win2", and "win3". Each window has an instance of a minimize button. When you click the button, the window should minimize to the bottom of the screen, and line up in the order that it was minimized in (just like Windows). I figured out how to get them to minimize, but I can't get them to sort themselves correctly.

Lets say that I just minimized all three windows in this order:
win1, win2, win3

Now, if I click on win1 to maximize it, I want win2 and win3 to shift over to the left to take the place of win1. Then, if I minimize win1 again, it should go to the end of the row. Resulting in this order:
win2, win3, win1

Does anyone know of any code that I could make these windows sort themselves when they are minimized and maximized?

Thanks!
Lee

Loading Flash Windows Projector From Another Flash Windows Projector
I am trying to make the button in my movie load another movie, but I am playing the flash in windows projector, is it posable that you can load a flash windows projector from windows projector, I tried it and had trouble, here is what I had for the action script:

Movie 1 button action script:

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("Movie 2.exe", 0);
}

When I had it as Movie 2.swf it works fine, is it possable to make a .exe to work?

New Windows And Dragabel Windows
Right im new to flash and i need to know how to create a new window inside flash and how to make them dragable

Windows To Mac To Windows Problem
I'm a Mac user and I'm working on a large project with a client who is using Windows XP. My client is creating some Flash content in Windows and then sending the .swfs to me to incorporate into the site.

These files play fine on my computer. I upload them to my web server and my Windows-based clients are able to view them over the web. However, if I email the .swfs back to my client, they won't run on the Windows computer. This is a problem, since it's my client who will ultimately be hosting the site.

There is no problem with .swfs that I publish on my computer and then email to my client.

Any ideas?

Pop Up Windows In Flash 5
hello, i was wondering if anyone has tried to launch a pop up window from flash, but using a java script. the scripts i am trying to use is called chromless windows 1.2 (might have seen it here http://www.microbians.com/)
if anyone has any ideas how i might use this in flash, please let me know.

peace.

Flash Windows
i have a silly problem, every time i publish a flash file to an swf and preview it in the browsers i get a white borader around the file, this is pissing me off aa when the page of my site opens i got a boarder but i want the whole browser window to contain the flash file. and when you reize the window it resizes tooo. i got after shck but ill be dammed if i know how to used it,

help me some one plz.. his is a crap probelm im haveing

Pop-up Windows In Flash
hola. i am working on a site and i wanna do pop-up windows. my only prob is that i have the link inside of a flash button and dont know how to make a command that would make the link open up inside of a pop up window. the site is da_poet.tripod.com and i am tryin to do that for the sections where i will have the poetry.

can anyone help me.

Flash Windows
Hello folks. Can anyone tell me how to fade in a Flash pop-up window next to the mouse pointer that contains text and a vertical scroll bar when the user places the mouse pointer over an invisible button?

The window should stay open until the user clicks the X in the top right hand corner.

Thank you.

Flash Bug Or Windows Bug
i'm using Key.isDown() to test what keys are depressed.

it's fine up to the point when more than 5 keys are pressed, after which it's starts acting strange, not reporting some keys. is this a flash issue or a windows issue? any way to get round it? ta.

Flash On Windows CE
I have an iPAQ running windows CE. I want to be able to produce flash movies that will run on it. I've downloaded the Flash 4 plugin for the iPAQ from Macromedia.com but can't seem to get it to work. I've produced a small *.swf file and embedded it in an HTML page. I copied both files to the iPAQ but when I try and open the webpage all I get is a blank screen. Anybody got any ideas?

Flash 5 And Windows XP
Anyone here upgraded to Windows XP?
I have to my regrets :-(
I've got a problem here -when copying-pasting Action Script in Expert View pasting doesn't work (although cutting does!)
BTW same thing happens in Dreamweaver when using find and Replace feature: when you copy code in the Code View you can't paste it in the Find or Replace text fields.
Have anyone got the same problem?

Any idea?
Thanks in advance.

Pop Up 2 Different Windows At Once From Flash?
i'm using a javascript function on a button (get URL etc.) and i can get one pop up window out of that. But, i want to be able to pop up 2 different windows at the same time.....Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks in advance....LickedandSticked

Flash Mx And Windows Xp Help
guys and gals. i am thinking of buying flash mx. i am a beginner and i have buyed a book, "foundation flash 5." to learn flash. i wanted to know if i buy mx then will the book i have be used, or will i have spend money getting another book to develop in mx. another question. i have windwos xp. when i try and open flash 5 and may other programs such as media player, i get the messege its not a valid win32 application, what am i supposed to do? please help. thanks!!!

Pop Up Windows In Flash
I'm actually trying to find the definative pop up window javascript code that would launch a flash page from a flash movie. I have the smart clip and some very old ways of doing it but I was wondering if it has been improved.

Pop Up Windows In Flash
Guys,

How do I make the pop up windows from a Flash, that only shows the window itself, not the browser features. eg. back, stop, the address bar, etc. I already know how to do it the regular way, but I don't want the browser buttons to show it. Just the window itself. I'm stumped.

Ciao,
Marc

Flash Windows?
Hi Guys,

How do you create these Flash windows? See example - http://www.infoview.com.my/ - click on the Flash option.

Thanks. YP

Pop-up Windows From Flash
Hi guys
Is it possible to do a javascript style pop-up window from Flash 5. It has to have a specified size, no address bar,no buttons, no status bar and maybe even specify position in which it will pop-up.???

Pop Up Windows From Flash
hi all..
Firstly... lemme guide you to the site that brought me to this forum..

http://www.midgreyphotography.com

There in the portfolio section.. this is what I wanna do...

When a user clicks on an image over the tweened "FILM STRIP".. I want to open a pop-up browser window that would be aligned to the center of the screen with a bg color and windows border color of BLACK. Also, can I change the Titlebar color of windows? Please do let me know guys... for I've been breakin' my head over it.
Also, I don't want to open any HTML page...
I'm planning on using this javascript over each of the tweened buttons...

<b>java script:NewWindow=window.open('images/image01. jpg','newWin','width=400,height=300,toolbar=No,loc
ation=No,scrollbars=No,status=No,resizable=No,full
screen=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0); </b>

kindly let me know what modifications would I have to make to the script.. PUHLEEEEZE...

ALSO - Can I get away without specifying the Width and Height of the jpeg images I'm calling? that way I wouldn't have to bother about finding out image dimesions?

Pop Up Windows From Flash
hi all..
Firstly... lemme guide you to the site that brought me to this forum..

http://www.midgreyphotography.com

There in the portfolio section.. this is what I wanna do...

When a user clicks on an image over the tweened "FILM STRIP".. I want to open a pop-up browser window that would be aligned to the center of the screen with a bg color and windows border color of BLACK. Also, can I change the Titlebar color of windows? Please do let me know guys... for I've been breakin' my head over it.
Also, I don't want to open any HTML page...
I'm planning on using this javascript over each of the tweened buttons...

<b>java script:NewWindow=window.open('images/image01. jpg','newWin','width=400,height=300,toolbar=No,loc

ation=No,scrollbars=No,status=No,resizable=No,full

screen=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0); </b>

kindly let me know what modifications would I have to make to the script.. PUHLEEEEZE...

ALSO - Can I get away without specifying the Width and Height of the jpeg images I'm calling? that way I wouldn't have to bother about finding out image dimesions?

Fix The Windows Res. With Flash?
Hi Fellow flashers,

I'm working on a CD-Rom flash presentation and because everybody uses a different screenresolution in windows i wondered if it's possible to set the windows screenres. when you start the presentation.

For example, somebody has a 1280*1024 screenres. and starts the presentation. Is it possible to set his screenres. to 1024*768 so everything will look like it's supposed to be?

It would be nice if their screenres. jumped back to 1280*1024 when they close the presentation, but it's not necassary.

I know flash can always be set to fullscreen, but images like jpg/gif/bmp etc. get crappy that way, so that's not a solution for me.

Hope somebody can help me out!

Thanx in advance,
ACM

Pop Up Windows In Flash
I am making a portfolio and I have thumbnail images. When the thumbnail is clicked, I want the full size image to pop up on the screen in a different window, a window that is the same size as the image. Then when the person is done looking at the full size image they can hit the X and close it. Can somebody tell me how to do this in flash?

Thanks

Pop Up Windows In Flash
how do i make a button in flash open a pop up window where i can control the size of the window and other features?

Pop Up Windows From Flash
Help!

How can I create a pop window from within flash. I want a button to open a new html page as a popup and I want to be able to specify the height, width and hopefully position of the window.

Any suggestions??

Thanks

neil

Flash Pop-up Windows
I used a tutorial on flash kit to open up a file in a pop up window using javascript linked from flash. However, the tutorial does not say how to have multiple different pop-ups within the same flash file. Please help........

Flash In Windows NT
hi guys,

my client use Windows NT for their operating system,
and it turn out that flash animation doesn't run very well in NT
is that common? and how do you handle this issue?

any suggestion will be a great help,
thx,

POP-up Windows In FLASH MX
Hi all - I am in need of the actionscrip for a pop-up window to load an html file. Can anyone help me please.

thanks!

Pop-Up Windows In Flash
Hi,

I have quite an annoying problem with my clients website.

Basically I have included a piece of flash that when clicked will pop-up a new browser window using Javascript.

The client has two sites and the same button is on both, but on one site the button works fine, but on the other the button doesn't seem to work.

If you visit:

http://www.buy-umbrellas.co.uk and see the "Design Your Corporate Umbrella" link in the circle in the middle of the page it doesn't work.

If you visit:

http://www.theumbrellaco.co.uk and the same link is there, and click this, it will pop-up a browser window.

The only differences from the sites I can see is that the first one is using URL masking (i.e. if you right click, properties on the page it will show http://www.theumbrellaco.f9.co.uk/idex.html if you do the same again on the site that the button is working, properties show the actual domain that appears in the address bar.

I am running XP Pro and IE6, although the buttons on BOTH sites work in other browsers, mozzilla, netscape...

I can't understand why this is, has anyone got any ideas?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers guys!
Mike

Sorry forgot to add, don't know if it will help, my pop-up code is:

on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:NewWindow=window.open('http://cgi.theumbrellaco.force9.co.uk/index.php','Design','width=770,height=470,left=0,t op=0,toolbar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,status=N o,resizable=No,fullscreen=No'); NewWindow.focus(); void(0);");
}

Flash Windows
I've seen this method used before - Let me explain what I'm attempting to achieve.

What I want is to have a template, on this template will be multiple links for the user to choose from.

When the user clicks a link I would like a window to open (Not a new browser window) - a new flash-only, if you will, window.

Is there any easy way to answer this or do I simply need to further educate myself with Flash?

Two Flash Windows
Hello again

I have a BIG problem, I am having a complete flash site that is heavy. From that site you can run some simple games which open in a new window. Now the problem is that when both windows are open, the games run VERY SLOW. If I close the main window the speed improves.
Is there any way to put the first window in "sleep modus" or anything so that the games in second window can have a good performance.

Thanx in advance
Mareike

Flash MX And Windows SP2
I have a problem with windows sp2 and flash mx 2003. SP2 will not allow the debugger window to pop up when sp2 is installed. When I right click in the flash movie the debugger option is not there. I know that sp2 blocks pop up window. I have removed sp2 and then I can right click and get the debugger and it works fine. Does anyone have suggestions that will allow me to use the debugger with sp2.

Thanks in advance,

Tony

Flash Pop-Up Windows
I know there is a way to have a seperate pop-up window load an HTML page.

But is there a way to have a pop up window, be only an external SWF?
i.e: How do I link it to the SWF, etc.

Thanks

[F8] Pop Up Windows For Flash 8
I made some code changes to my movie and now publish it using flash 8 settings.

The problem is now the pop up code to open up images from a folder does not work:

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:window.open('./t shirts/1c.jpg','ThreadBare T-Shirts6','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); void(0);");
}

Does anyone know the code for flash 8 to open up images in a pop up window , that will still work in the the new internet explorer not get that horrible security code error?

ANYONE GOT THE ANSWER , HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU.........

Flash 8 Pop-up Windows
I'm trying to make some links in a full flash site done in flash 8 pop up in new html windows at a set size. My code works fine if I publish to older versions of flash, but not to version 8. I think they changed something for security reasons. Does anyone know of a workaround? Here's the code that I had been using previously:

on (release)
{
getURL("javascriptopupwindow('contact.html',' contact','height=650,width=475,top=0,left=0,resi zable=no,scrollbars=yes');", "_self");
}