Flash :: IMPOSSIBLE Flash Problem

HI QI Transitions With Flash (MX) -Impossible?
Hi Flash people!

Well, this is something new. Because I have been working with Java Applets technology for a while, I discover that everything (basically) can be done with Flash MX technology. But – just one thing is, at least for me, impossible to do in Flash technology. Please look first at following link and pay attention to transitions effects done with Java Applets technology.

http://www.gravyrform.com

The interesting thing is that transitions effects are changing whole the time. From roll over, side to side, pixelate and so on. I am especially looking for pixelate transitions. Of course, the dream scenario is a flash script that can randomly generate all this transitions. I am not so advance programmer of Flash, and I assume that this question is something for some kind of Flash guru. Maybe I am wrong.
If someone can give me little advice recommend some open source movie in movie section – I would be very glad!

Regards,
Bess F.

Formmail In Flash? THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE
Hi all, I posted a few posts yesterday on this. I have a form up online at http://www.boydbrothersservice.com/Info.html . And i am pretty much still at where i started. When i click the send button i want to be able to have the information go directly to my email address matt@boydbrothersservice.com, I do not however want the browser to open up the defualt email program. I just want it to send.
This is the coding i have on the send button right now.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
on(release){
if (txtname != "" && txtemail != "" && txtphone != "" && txtaddy != "" && txtstate != "" && txtzip != ""){
getURL("mailto:matt@boydbrothersservice.com" + txtname + txtemail + txtphone + txtaddy + txtcity + txtstate + txtzip + txtcom);gotoAndPlay("valid");
} else { gotoAndPlay("invalid")}
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------
My problems are
1. when i first made the page, if all the marked fields did not contain information, it would not send, somehow, that is now no longer true.
2. Outlook express opens
3. The text fields are in the address line
ex. matt@boydbrothersservice.comBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH
where blah is what i put in the fields

I have already spent around 9 hours troubleshooting this, however this is my first site, and i am a newbie.
PLEASE if anyone out there has ANY ideas

I NEED HELP
thanks a million,
Matt

Obviously The Impossible Task For Flash
Ive been reading everywhere and soooo many people have the same problem as me and this is what all of us want to do:

'have an input box. when you click a button you want it to write the input to a text file (nothing fancy just write the text on a single line).

Then you want a dynamic text box on load to import the text from the text file.'

Why is this such a massive drama to work..

Why cant it be on press, save this input text to mytext.txt.
Then simply on load set this dynamic text box variable = variable in mytext document!!

PLEASE! can someone answer this question for me(us)!!!

Translator In Flash: Is It Impossible?
Hi!
We need some help. Here is the problem. We want the user to input his name in a input box. Then his/her name should be translated into images. Each letter corresponds to a image, and only one image. The user should see a group of images that represents his/her name. Note that the images has a specific order.

Thank you very much

HUGO ANDRÉ RIBEIRO

Export From Flash Is Impossible?
I have a text box. i want to take the text from that text box and place it in a text file(either txt or doc or another general format).
how would i do this? tutorials or info would help a lot!

Is Getting A FLV To Play In Flash 6 Impossible?
I'm at the end of my rope. I'm trying to get a FLV to play in a Flash 6 player and I keep getting propted to download a newer version. It works fine with Flash 8 Player but not 6.0.21.0 Player on my Mac using IE in Classic mode. A friend on a PC with 6.0.88.0 is having touble too. Here's what I did.

- Encoded the video using Sorensen Spark in Flash 8 Video Encoder
- In Flash 8 used the MediaPlayback component in the Media - 6 - 7 component
- In the Component Inspector, I have the URL where the video resides
- Under Publish Settings I have it set to Flash Player 6, actionscript 2.0, options: compress movie checked.

When I publish preview or test it, it works fine without any errors or warnings.

Am I missing something? Again, I'm testing it in Flash Player 6.0.21.0.

I can't belive how many of my corporate customers are still on Flash 6. Seem their IT people are hesitant to upgrade unless they have to. You can view the movie here:

http://www.strongresponse.com/flash6.html

Another thing that is bother me is that Dreamweaver 8 is adding this code when I release on Insert>Media>Flash, which seems to make me think it thinks it's a Flash 7 movie:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="

Transition Effects With Flash MX -Impossible?
Hi Flash people!

Well, this is something new. Because I have been working with Java Applets technology for a while, I discover that everything (basically) can be done with Flash MX technology. But – just one thing is, at least for me, impossible to do in Flash technology. Please look first at following link and pay attention to transitions effects done with Java Applets technology.

http://www.gravyrform.com

The interesting thing is that transitions effects are changing whole the time. From roll over, side to side, pixelate and so on. I am especially looking for pixelate transitions. Of course, the dream scenario is a flash script that can randomly generate all this transitions. I am not so advance programmer of Flash, and I assume that this question is something for some kind of Flash guru. Maybe I am wrong.
If someone can give me little advice recommend some open source movie in movie section – I would be very glad!

Regards,
Bess F.

Is It Impossible To Embed Fonts In Flash 8?
Hey all.

So, I've been trying every method I could find to embed fonts in flash 8, and none of them are working. I've NEVER had a problem embedding fonts with any other version of flash, you just clicked 'embed font' and it worked. In flash 8, I had to create a library item, tell it to export in frame one -- all this, howcome? It's still not showing up on machines that do not have this obscure font on their machine.

Am I missing something?

thanks!

Impossible Ton Make This With Flash Mx2004 ?
Hi,

i must make a flash module, to customize an object.
people can choose colors, weight, accessories, etc....

like the nikeID customization module ( see :
http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid/index....esrc=uslanding )

now my question : how to create the final JPG ( from my swf ) of
the created object, and send it ?

i think i need php ...

a tutorial / source would be appreciate !

Impossible To Create A Flash Document
I have a cd with Flash MX that I used for an year ago, it worked fine, but now when I installed and I try to create a new document, it gives an error and XP closes the program!
I tryed with other version (8) and the same trouble happens!
Any idea of what this can be?
It allways comes the message that Flash found a problem and must be closed :(

A FLASH SITE BUILT IN 4 Days...IMPOSSIBLE
i was just browsing some good flash sites and came across this really cool one. it was amazing; stunning motion graphics, enchanting score; but what made it more shocking was the fact that the sitemaster claimed to have done the whole site in FOUR DAYS. is this possible. can flashers be good enough, that they can do an entire site in less than a week?

LINKS - Visitor Tracking Impossible Through FLASH
I've got a problem (and so do you, maybe)... When I create a flash botton or movie with a link to another website, the owner of the other website can't see that people came from my site.

In other words... the visitor (refferer) can't be tracked.

Is there a way to do this anyway?

Greetz,
Ralpho

Flash In Browsers, Back Buttons? Impossible?
Hi.

I just designed this big website in flash. I have levels and lots of pages. My boss said it is great however when the viewer clicks on the back button in explorer or what ever web browser, it takes them to the entro.swf file, or out of the website.

Is there anyway to control the web browser so that it makes the flash page go to the last level viewed????

Please let me know, because I feel crappie to tell him it is impossible.

Sassycassie

Am I The Only One Who Find SWiSH To Be Incredibly Easy But Flash 5 To Be Impossible?
I just got Flash 5 I have no idea how to work it and I don't like tutorials

Is It IMPOSSIBLE To Link An External Video To A Flash File
Hi There,

I've been using director mx for many years to create cross platform enhanced cds, and was wondering is there ANY way of linking an external file (MPEG1/4, etc) rather than re-encoding an already encoded file. When building an E-CD in using director exes, both mac and pc runtimes link to the one mpeg. Embedding the video into 2 seperate runtimes means you end up doubling the total file size of your rom session.

I was told that it may be done through javascript? any takers?

thanks,
j.

Impossible De Lire Les Animations Ou Les Sites Qui Utilisenbt Flash
slt Ã tous
il y a 3 semaines j'ai du rÃ©installer IE 6 car j'avais des problÃ¨mes avec Outlook. La rÃ©install s'est dÃ©roulÃ©e correctement et j'ai pu rÃ©cupÃ©rer mes donnÃ©es de Outlook - sauf que depuis cette rÃ©install je n'arrive Ã lire certains sites ou les anim dans les sites web ; comme www.hom.com/fr , http://www.kou2cho.fr , les ventes privÃ©es de la Redoute , http://www.noddy.com/uk2/index_alternate.html .....etc....
Donc j'ai tÃ©lÃ©chargÃ© et installÃ© la V9 du player Flash sur adobe, l'installe du player se fait correctement et lÃ RIEN ....le rÃ©sultat est le mÃªme qu'avant = impossible de lire les animations et/ou carrÃ©ment les sites.
Je suis allÃ© sur plusieurs forums dont celui de Clubic et la seule rÃ©ponse que l'on m'a donnÃ© Ã©tait de dÃ©sinstallÃ© la V9 su player Flash et d'installÃ© la V8.8 ici : http://www.clubic.com/telecharger-fiche15285-flash-player-8.html
je l'ai fais et lÃ RIEN.

au fait j'ai aussi rÃ©installÃ© Shockwave Player ici : *
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?Lang=French&P5_Language=French

Je me dis que ce problÃ¨me ne vient pas de Flash mais plutot de IE qui ne doit pas garder ne mÃ©moire les installations des players que j'ai fais.
Il y a peut Ãªtre des modis Ã faire dans les options de IE dans OUTILS/OPTIONS/ onglet SÃ©curitÃ© et/ou AvancÃ©
j'ai regardÃ© mais je ne vois pas et puis je ne sais pas tout

PS : Avant la rÃ©installation de IE/Outlook il y a 3 semaines tout fonctionnait correctement

Merci de votre Aide

(suis sous Win 98 se)
@+
Tealc

Dubbing Flash Clips With Audio Files – Impossible?
I have:
1. Flash-clip with embedded “English” sound (could be without sound)
2. MP3-s containing synchronized translation to other languages
3. Text subtitles as files.

Problem:
How to put all this stuff together?
It means sound language/subtitles selection,
synchronization how to.

Is it possible?
Where could I find any example or gurus advice?

Flash Detection With Javascript Embed Makes It Impossible To Use Percentages For Swf Width And Height?
Hi there. I used Flash 8 to do a flash detection for an swf of mine, which means that the swf isn't directly embedded into the html page, but rather called up using javascript (see code). This is all good and well, I pasted the code inside a div to center align my movie, but I can't seem to get my movie's width and height to fill the screen completely? (100% width & 100% height). The javascript seems to read "100%" as "100 pixels".

Anyone?

Attach Code

<script language="javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent = 0; </script>
<script language="javascript"> DetectFlashVer = 0; </script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>

<div align="center" id="playerArea" width="100%">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
<noscript>
<br />
<table width="500" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center" valign="top"><noscript>
Your browser does not have scripting activated, please enable scripting to continue your browsing experience. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/"><br>
Get Flash</a>
</noscript></td>
</tr>
</table>
</noscript>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
</body>
</html>

Is This IMPOSSIBLE?
I have posted this question before but not too clear, so I deleted it and make a new thread.

Simple movie contains 2 scenes. Scene 1 has a movie clip named A. Inside A, there is a button. I want to move to a NEXT scence on the main time line everytime I clik that the button in MC A.

Using nextScene(), preScene() is possible with this? Or I have to label the scene, and using gotoAndPlay()? I don't want to label the scenes becuz the movie can get up 100 scenes.

Must Be Impossible...
It's looking like this is an impossibility in Flash 5...

I have a movieclip called "textcolor" that loads an external "movie1.swf" into itself when a button is pushed -- and it works.

But when I attempt to duplicate the "textcolor" movieclip after the "movie1.swf" has loaded into it, it doesn't work. Of course I can control all other attributes about "textcolor" such as alpha and size using other buttons, why can't I duplicate it?

Here's my simple code:

---------------------

on (release) {
_root.textcolor.duplicateMovieClip("textshadow", 1);
textshadow._x = 200;
textshadow._y = 200;
}

---------------------

Is there something I'm missing here? Or is this impossible for Flash 5?

Much thanks,
--Chuck
http://www.letterheadfonts.com

Why Do I Always Seem To Want The Impossible?
Doing the Mouse.hide is easy but what about a Mouse.hide constrained to a rectangle, eh? I need the mouse to hide when it rolls over one particular movie clip, image, whatever, within a .swf . It's hiding over the whole movie (yuck).
I'm still trying but if you've got any idea if this is even possible.... :-P let me know...
thanx

Well It Must Be Impossible Then
well im going off to decompose in a corner.....all im trying to do is get a video to run from a flash button
must be possible ...............there are greater things in heaven and earth........and i cant run a poxy video from flash ..............go figure ummmmm

HELP HELP

Andy

It's Impossible Or?
Hi,

I sent post 10 days ago about navigating from loaded movie.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, so I will repeat question:

I have movie.fla, in that movie I have 5 scenes. In a first scene I'm using: loadmovie (film.swf). Everything is work but I need to know how to navigate from that film.swf. So, I want to use button (in film.swf) for example "scene5" and on realase to go to the scene 5 of the movie.fla. Film.swf is external file. Please I need to know how to do it, if is impossible please tell me and I'll tray to find another solution for my movie.fla.

Best regards

Nothing Is Impossible?
Hi,
I want to create a "desktop buddy". That is, an exe that runs based on flash yet with a transparant background with no window, toolbar etc. Am I out of my mind>?
Cliff

Impossible
It isn't possible to change the frame rate of a seperate movie clip but you could just try shortteing or lenghthening the tweens. and putting frames between keyframes.

Hope I was helpfull

Please Help - Can't Be Impossible
following situation:

3 menu buttons & 3 external swf's

click button 01 > 01.swf fades in
click button 02 > 01.swf fades out & 02.swf fades in
click button 03 > 02.swf fades out & 03.swf fades in
click button 02 > 03.swf fades out & 02.swf fades in
etc.

how is it possible to tell each button of the menu, that it should fade out every movie on the stage onmouse(release) whether it is swf.1, swf.2 or swf.3
please help anyone, need to finish a project and only need the AS for this -to finish it.

I don't know how to make the buttons work independently and not only covering only one swf.file.

Thanks for your help in advance !

The Impossible?
Does anyone know of a way to change the default text cursor displayed in a input text box? Is it possible to edit resources? The goal being to have a box shaped cursor instead of a single line.

Is This Impossible?
hello all,
i have loaded a movie clip on my main timeline
from inside my library:

on(release){
container.attachMovie("mc_1","movie1","");
}

now is there any way to unload it?
thanx to all the

Impossible.
Ok
I made the letter P
3demensional
Using a code i got a from a tutorial. Now how do I make it have fill?

ANy one anybody? ahaha i knew it.

Is This Impossible To Do?¿?¿?¿
I'm trying to do the effect on this site (look for the 3 boxes that grow when you rollover them on the first page. http://nike.jp/acg/index2.html

I created this click here for my example I need help as you can see this does not look anything like the nike example provided. ((the box grows when you rollover it but the other boxs stay in one place I would like them to move as the growing boxes grow and contract like in the nike example provided. I am not concerned about the images inside of the boxes I just want to know how to make the boxes shift as they grow and contract.

Swf To Fla... Impossible?
I realize this may be an impossibility but I neglected to back up a fla file and only have the swf on my web server which I need to edit. Is there any kind of way to restore the editable fla from this file. I realize this is a way that authors protect there creations but this is MY creation which I definitely screwed up by not having a backup. Please help.

I Know This Is Probably Impossible But...
Is there ANYTHING I can use to recover an .fla file from an .swf? I know no such thing probably exists because then people could steal other work alter it and claim it for there own.

But I had lost everything i had in my flash folder months ago but i had uploaded an .swf of a game i was working on to a server and i have that but i cant work on it without the .fla and I really dont have the Inspiration to start from scratch again, there was a good 3-4 months of work on it.

Again more then likely I know this is impossible but maybe by some strand of hope there is, or at least to recover part of it or something

Impossible To FIX?
This problem has baffled even the most flash professional friends i have, they have no clue at all, and this is truly a question for the experienced flash user.

I am trying to make a puzzle, and the strangest problem occurred. If you choose test movie and in the movie (.swf) follow the links to the puzzle, which are: selecting north America from a map, then choosing easy. It will show a map of North America with two countries outside the boundaries. One should be able drag the country to the appropriate spot. However it doesn’t work.

Here's the dilemma, if you go back into flash to the .fla, then choose the north America scene, so the stage is showing the map of north America, choose test SCENE, and IT WORKS FINE!!!!!

PLEASE PLEASE HELP I NEED IT TO WORK

here is the Link to the fla,

http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E...I2H6RVKGPJYLPU

Impossible?
Hi...

I don't even know if this is possible, but I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before in flash, am wondering whether anyone has any pointers of where to start.

I want to create something where people can upload pictures of their faces, and then, using some *magic tool in flash, cut around the persons face and place it in a funny setting...

Anyone know if you can make a tool that cuts around faces, some how blanking out the rest of the image?

*what I want to create!

Thanks.

Cam.

It Is Impossible
There is [h1]no[/h1] way for a user to record sound through a mic in a .swf file. If you think there is or you know a tutorial that exists to create this then please put me in my place!

Possible Or Impossible?
The SlideShowPro component, the Wet Floor effect and screen-based applications...

I built a screen-based Flash app (Flash 8 Pro, actionscript 2.0), copied all of the assets from the SlideShowPro Wet Floor demo and placed them on a screen (slide) in exactly the same way they exist in the demo (layers, instance names...). When I publish the app (targeting Flash Player 8 or 9) the SlideShowPro component works perfectly, but the Wet Floor effect is nowhere to be found. In the past with my screen-based apps, when I've worked with movieclips that require actionscript to function properly (go figure!) I've had to insert things like "_root." or "_parent.[name of slide]". For example:

on (press) {
_parent.blackscreen.fx.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.mov = "4";
}

If I remove the "_parent.blackscreen." or the "_root." this particular button/movieclip animation simply will not work in my screen-based app.

I believe that I have to do the same type of thing with the Wet Floor actionscript, perhaps in addition to adjusting some or all of the linkage/export properties of the movieclips?

One thing I did notice with the Wet Floor actionscript, is that when I added "_root." to the "reflection_mc.setMask(reflectionMask_mc);" line, the gradient effect actually shows up! Of course the entire Wet Floor refection effect still does not. I tried adding "_root." and "_parent.[name of slide]" elsewhere in the code but none of the other missing aspects of the Wet Floor effect showed up.

Here is what my code looks like as of right now (identical to the Wet Floor demo code except for my addition of the "_root." piece):

import flash.display.*;

// CREATE BITMAPDATA OBJECT
// PARAMETERS: WIDTH/HEIGHT
// Set these values to the width and height of SlideShowPro
var bmd:BitmapData=new BitmapData(1002,376);

// ATTACH BITMAP TO REFLECTION MOVIECLIP
// Reflection movie clip should be the same dimensions as SlideShowPro
reflection_mc.attachBitmap(bmd,1);

// CACHE REFLECTION AND MASK MOVIECLIPS
// Necessary for gradient masking
reflection_mc.cacheAsBitmap=true;
reflectionMask_mc.cacheAsBitmap=true;

// APPLY GRADIENT MASK
_root.reflection_mc.setMask(reflectionMask_mc);

// EVENT FOR DRAWING BITMAP
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
bmd.draw(my_ssp);
}

stop();

I believe the key to making it work may be here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...=00002437.html

or here

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...hlight=screens

I DON'T KNOW. PLEASE HELP! THANX...

Impossible?
Hi

i wondered if anyone could answer this one for me. I am trying to find out if its posbile to control the browser scrollbar via flash. To explain a little cleaer, is it possible to construct a swf hat houses a movie clip say 2 times the height of the movie size . And for the browser scrollbabr to recognise this and control the flash movie accordingly?

I really want to try and avoid using built in scrollbars where neccessary as its so natural for the user to use the browser by default? Impossible or can javascript assits here? any help would be great.

regards

ade

Maybe Impossible XML?
Anyway it soon kills me here in Sweden. And so does the cold weather coming in...

Let me first try to explain my layout. I have a index.swf loading all my external swf. That works fine. Then all of my main categories folders are named main1, main2, main3 etc. Inside of the main folders I have image folders containing my images for the different sub sections (image1, image2, image3 etc) and swf's for each sub sections in my main categories named sub1.swf, sub2.swf, sub3.swf etc which loads images using XML. It's in these sub.swf's my problem resides, I think. My problem is how to get my different swf's to read only the data intended for each sub section. Puh!

I think it has to do with ...childNodes.childNodes[1]... and so on which I can't figure out.

A under construction example of the site can be seen here: http://www.gregory.se/heja.html

What I'm trying to accomplish is to control the loading of images to the different sub sections using only one XML file that looks like this (in short version);

XML file:

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

<xmlData>
    <main>
        <subnumber>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main1/images1/01.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main1, sub1</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main1/images2/01.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main1, sub2</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main1/images2/02.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main1, sub2</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
        </subnumber>
    </main>
    <main>
        <subnumber>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main2/images1/01.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main2, sub1</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main2/images1/02.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main2, sub1</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main2/images2/01.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main2, sub2</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
        </subnumber>
    </main>
    <main>
        <subnumber>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main3/images1/01.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main3, sub1</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
            <subinfo>
                <path>main3/images1/02.jpg</path>
                <info><![CDATA[<p>main3, sub1</p>]]></info>
            </subinfo>
        </subnumber>
    </main>
<xmlData>

In my sub.swf's I have this code:

Code:
var pArray = new Array();
var tArray = new Array();

var myXML:XML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function (success:Boolean):Void {
if (success) {
var xmlData = this.firstChild;
for (var i = 0; i<xmlData.childNodes.length; i++) {
pArray.push(xmlData.childNodes[i].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue);
tArray.push(xmlData.childNodes[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue);
}
containerMC.loadPic(0);
picInfo.alphaTo(100, speed_fadeIn, tweentype_fadeIn, speed_fadeIn);
} else {
picInfo.text = "Unable to load external file.";
}
}
myXML.load("xml/XMLdata.xml")

Am I Trying To Do The Impossible?
Hello,

I've been trying to get this to work lately but somehow I can't get it to work. Then it crossed my mind that it might not be possible, but I think it's definately possible, so I post this for confirmation.

I have a very simple file with 1 ball in the library.
I have a document class called Control (which is the root object, right??).
I have one other class called Ball, associated with the ball.

Now I'm trying to understand the following. I made the ball in Control using:
Code:
this.addChild(_ball);
Then shouldn't it be possible to do
Code:
trace(this.parent);
in the Ball function in the Ball class? It returns null;

Impossible Task
Visit it here to see what i've done so far

http://www.geocities.com/parkoid_uk/flash/flash.html

The problem is when you click on either front or rear, i want the animation to zoom back out again when you click spin, to its original postion.

How would i go about doing it?

Sounds Impossible But I Think It Can Be Done
Ok I just downloaded screentime (ScreenSaver Builder) for FLASH and I must say its pretty cool.

Here is my Question and I will be so greatful if anyone can help me out.

I want to build a screensaver that will download information from a text file or a table in a database and then display this data automatically.

So first how do I grab data from a text file without using any ASP code?

And secondly how do I test if the user is connected to the internet or not?

Overlapping MC's - Impossible?
Is it possible to make MC's overlap?

I have a set of buttons, each containing a seperate MC on rollover. When I rollover a few buttons really quickly I want the MC's to carry on playing till the end, instead of playing just the new one. Basically, I want them to overlap - not get rid of the one that was already playing. I hope this is clear - it probably isnt

Can anyone help??

Impossible Thing 1
HI,
First I sent a question how to disable keyboard, now I’m asking IS IT POSIBLE?

Impossible Video
Well, impossible in flash 5 anyway.

Just been playing with the streaming video capabilities- this video is way to long to preload. I made a fluffy intro to give the stream a head start. I think 25Kb/s is the minimum for completely smooth play....

http://ironmallet.com/streams/duckHunt.htm

::::: Seems Simple, But Is It Impossible? :::::
The situation:
i have a log-in area on a site. once logged in the viewer can read info from a dynamic text field. this text fields content is being loaded from external and is changing constantly.

The problem:
i need the text field re-read the text file without the user having to refresh, as this loses the security rights.

any ideas???

tnx

Welcome To Missions Impossible
i got a tough one for you -

i worked in two non-profit day camp this summer and i want to make a camp cd with the following games -

Matching - make different options (10 cards - 15 cards - 20 cards etc) and each card is another digi pic and they have to match each pick - also there has to be some sort of randomizing

Jigzaw puzzle - that one of many different pictures and make it into a puzzle - with dif. amount of pieces

Pick the Pic that doesn't fit - show 8 pics with numbers under them and then the person has to pick the one that doesn't fit

Slide Show - a self running slide show

any help i can get i would be forever greatful for!!

If you did any of these before, have ex., know how to - or you can just help - PLEASE do!!!

Thanks in Advance

Yechi!