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Preview In Flash Player, Loading Movies
Hi,
When I preview my movie in FlashPlayer, with the download settings to 56K, I have the feeling the player doesn't react like it should.

I load several Movies (all between 10 and 20 KB, and with their first keyframe blank and a stop on it) into different levels into a Main movie on the first frame of the main movie. I give them enough time (about 5 seconds) to load by showing a little intro in the main movie. Then I can call the loaded movies to play.

This worked fine on another site I made. But when I preview my current project in FlashPlayer (pressing ctrl+enter two times), I have the feeling that the external movies are not loaded right away, but only when the user calls them by, for instance, pressing the menu buttons.

And I think this will be different in the 'real world' situation, looking at another project i have done.

Could someone tell me please if this is a know problem, or am I making a mistake? It's a lot easier to check the speed of my site in the previewer than to keep asking people to check it who have a slow connection!

thank you!
Jerryj.

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[F8] Loading Movies Externally
I noticed the movies I'm adding to this site I'm working on are really building up some serious filesize on the main .swf file. Any chance there is a quick and dirty way to load them as external .swf's?

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Positioning Externally Loaded Movies In Flash 5
Hi, posted this previously to little avail....

I'm having problems, positioning movies that have been loaded in externally, I've looked at it over and over and still no joy, I'm using the following code:

loadMovieNum("externals/level1.swf", 2);
_level2._x = 500;
_level2._y = 500;

I gather I need to ensure the movie is loaded before I can position it - how does one check for this ?

I am still learning so it's all rather new.

Many thanks in advance...

tom

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Positioning Externally Loaded Movies In Flash 5
Hi,

I'm having problems, positioning movies that have been loaded in externally, I've looked at it over and over and still no joy, I'm using the following code:

loadMovieNum("externals/level1.swf", 2);
_level2._x = 500;
_level2._y = 500;

Is this wrong ?

Many thanks in advance...

tom

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Ok I was making a site in flash mx and decided to switch over to 2004 to get the new features, including flash player 7's ability to load images into text files. When I try and export it in flash player 7 the text boxes will not load. To load them I use the script:

loadhtmlText = new LoadVars();
//loading text field in
loadhtmlText.load("content.txt");
loadhtmlText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
myTextArea.wordWrap = true;
myTextArea.htmltext = this.fileText;
} else {
myTextArea.htmltext = "Failed to load Text file, please make sure file is present and try again...";
}
}

and at to top of my text files I put "fileText=". Why wont it load now in 7 but it will in 6, and how can I fix this?? Thanks alot,

-Dave

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Loading A Text File Externally Into A Mp3 Player
Hey guys.

After 3 years of being an AS surface user, I'm trying to dig a little deeper and utalize it as much as I can, but I'm sort of a newb. I've picked up a few books that focus solely on Actionscripting but Im not comfotable with it all just yet,

So here's my current roadblock:

I'm creating an mp3 player for a friend that sells records online. This player will be used for a huge selection of songs which will be updated on a regular basis.

I have the mp3 player working, but I need to load information about the songs that are playing.

For example: code number for purchasing, Song name, Title, and Artist.

Could I use LoadVars to load from an external txt file? I want to make it as easy as possible for him to update his songlists including song info. It would be perfect if I could design it to where all he needs to do is drop his MP3's in one folder along with a matching txt file that contained the description of the matching song.

Is this possible? if so, could you point me in the right direction?

BTW: Im using MX 2004

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Can anyone help?

I want to load movies using a flash file in one browser window into another flash file in another browser window.

Once I have achieved this I would like to have a certain amount of control over this second loaded movie such as what frame, whether it has finished, stop, start etc.

thanks

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Flash MP3 Player And Separate Flash Movie Control
Hi Everyone,
I am not sure this has been talked about as I have looked into Mp3 stuff on this forum so here goes. I have a basic Mp3 player on an html page. It is the "Theron_Parlin-Mp3_Player-614" Player. Currently I have it playing as soon as someone hits the page. I want people to hear the comedian in the backgroun as they surf the site. I currently have two video pages, one with Quicktime, the other with Windows Media files. When a person clicks one of the video the appropriate player opens and plays the video. The problem I have is that I have to instruct my visitors to pause or stop the Mp3 player on the main page. I'd like to have the player pause on some type of mouse click in the Video sections.
I have given thought to taking the videos and just making them some sort of Flash video so that I can cut down on storage space and have more control over stopping the Mp3 player. The problem I have is that I am going to be using html pages as I am now and the site won't be a full Flash site(that will come later). I have no idea how to connect the two "players" in order to have control over how the play is stopped on the player. I want the Mp3's playing all of the time, unless there is user interaction. If a person clicks the new video files in some type of Flash file I want the Mp3's paused until each clip is complete. Then the Mp3 player will start back up. Is it possible?
I am thinking that I will have an html page with links to the Flash movies on a single page/player. How do I connect the two Flash entities to have control?

Thank you,
Don

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Does anybody know a way of loading a JPEG into a flash file?
(not through Flash, but after it's already published)

Example:

Let's say I have 100 JPEG pictures.
When I click on the button "Picture 1" the picture pops up.
However, I don't want the JPEGs to be "in" the movie. I need to be able to access them externally, and dynamically load them onto
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Macromedia Flash Player 5 came bundled with my Flash MX, ColdFusion, etc, yet I've yet to be able to use it; Either by trying to open a file in the flash player, or by simply clicking on the Flash movie, I get no results beside an open Flash Player 5 app.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank-you in advance for any help.

Regards,
MattyD

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I placed a movieclip in my ROOT called: TEST
In that movie clip I loaded another movieclip called: FORK

how can I tell a button in FORK to go to frame 10 in TEST???

I hope someone can help me out with this problem.... eeeeuhh challange :-)

BTW it's in FLASH MX

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Control The Starting Keyframe From One Between Two Flash Movies...
Hi to all the Flash Kit Community.

Sorry to ask for help in my first post...
I need to open a flash movie in a new window with a fix size, but I also need to decide in what keyframe I want to start that movie...

I called the flash movie with a flash movie with this action script

on (release) {
getURL ("javascript:MM_openBrWindow('ph_mm.htm','','width =391,height=291')");
}

Anyone knows how to do it? Control the starting keyframe between two flash movies... In a fixed size window?

Many thanks and respect to all the Flash Kit Community

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I CAN'T CONTROL MY FLASH PLAYER?HELP
hi. i have a page set up that has 2 frames. both frames containing a seperate flash movie. is there a way for one flash movie to control the other...

ie... send commands to GoTo a frame or label?

is this even possible?

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Flash Mp3 Player Control
Hi,

I'm making a website for some friends, who put on a club night and want it promoting. All the different pages (what's on, audio, visual, contact, location etc.) load into one main 'home.swf' and unload when a "back" button is pressed, and the browser is taken back to the home.swf.

In the audio page, I've build an mp3 player, based on a tutorial, which to be honest, contains a ton of actionscript and javascript (i think!?) I couldn't even begin to understand. The problem is, when the "back" button is pressed on this, the audio page, I can't get the MP3 player to stop, and so gthe music keeps playing, regardless of the page the browser is viewing.

The player includes a stop button and so I tried copying the script that deals with this button and putting it onto the back button. This made the audio stop, when I previewed the "audio.swf" on it's own, but not when I previewed the "home.swf" and loaded the audio page from there. Which just puzzled me even more!

I think that's the best I can describe it, I appreciate it's probably as clear as mud, so I would like to email a folder of the relevant files to anyone who would be kind enough to look at it. It's a 6MB file after zipping, so a bit to big to attach on here.

Oh yeah, there's also an issue with layers that I can't quite sort; the name of the track playing on the mp3 player is not visible. I think it's to do with layers, but not sure.

Thanks a million in advance,

I'm using Flash MX 2004 Profesional on a Mac. My knowledge of FLash is ok, until i have to use too much actionscript.

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Hi,
I want to make a Splash Screen in Flash, which donâ€™t show the flash player Controls.
How can I edit or hide Flash Player Control by using Action Script or any other way ,for example maximize, minimize etc.?

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What I am trying to do is this: I have a flash file I use for a background music. (intromusic1.swf) It is looped and plays fine. However, I want to be able to turn it on or off or pause it even when I or anyone visiting my site wants to. I have tried and tried and I simply cannot figure this out. Please someone help. You can e-mail me or ICQ me either one. So if you know the player control code, please help me. My site is done in PHP, not that it should matter. I load the .swf file in the header file.

jwr

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How To Modify A Flash Player Control?
Good morning,

I do not have much experience with using Flash 8. I am trying to modify a Flash player control bar that is used in Adobe Captivate 2 (called cpPlaybar.fla).

in cpPlaybar.fla each individual â€œcontrolâ€ is a movie composed of three layers. From top to bottom they are:
Actions (the actionscript)
Icons (a movie clip, the symbol for what the button does)
Button (a multi layer movie clip with button stroke, states and background)

The layer â€œIconsâ€ is a movie composed of a single layer with a symbol that appears to be a graphic. If I select the graphic, it â€œgraysâ€ a little bit and does not have a bounding box.

The layer â€œButtonâ€ is a movie clip composed of five layers. From top to bottom they are:
Labels (just labels for the button states)
Actions (up, down and rollover button states)
Glow (highlight for some of the button states)
Color (the button background color)
Stroke (the button border)

What I am trying to modify is the â€œIconsâ€ layer of the control. I want to change the symbol to text.

When I place text on the single layer, the text has a bounding box and does not gray out as the original element does.

When I test the control, the text layer interferes with the click event.

How (and to what) do I change the text layer so that it does not interfere with the click event (underneath it)? If there are any specific tutorials that could be recommended please let me know.

Thank you,

TPK

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The video stream is as live as possible so your experience may deteriorate the further you are from the UK.

http://www.fosters.co.uk/scuba/

Hope you like it.

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hi everybody,

i'm looking for a flash-player that allows me to show several flash-animations in succession.
the player should show the flash-animations one after another in a definable order.
it would be nice if the player supports some kind of cross-fading effects that can be inserted between the different flash-animations.

thanx
mar.s.

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Replay Different Movies In The Very Same Flash Player
Hello guys,

I've got a little problem which I can't get over and I need help.

I'm developing some flash movies which will be published into a C++ application.

Each movie is an "exercise"; when an exercise is completed and the next one is loaded the second one seems to start stopped, just like it isn't playing.
So I gave up the C++ application and I've been working just with the files.
I've been trying to double click on the swf of the first exercise and then -with the first swf still running- draggin and dropping the next exercise on the same player...same result, the second movie is not running again.
If I play each movie separately I haven't got any problem at all but the minute I try to play those movies in the same player all the movies (but the first) start stopped.

How can I solve this?

I've been trying by declare "play()" and "_root.play()" on the first frame / first scene but no luck

help help help

J.

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I am making a graphic adventure in flash. The whole point of the game is that when you press a certain button you go to the designed frame. All frames are in "stop" mode.

The problem is that, when pressing the "play" or the "step forward" commands on the "control" menu of the flash player, you can see the whole game without... well... earning it. It's thought as a downloadable game.

Now, I know there's a way to disable the right button menÃº of the flash player with actionscript. Is there a way to disable the "control" menu?

Thanks in advance.

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I searched the forums for the last hour and couldn't find exactly that. Thanks in advance for the help. My knowledge of Flash is very limited. Thank you again.

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Help?!

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<whoosh> Glad to unload that bit of ugliness.

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