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Possible Bug In MX? Any Ideas?
I think I have come across a bug in Flash MX. Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm trying to publish a Flash movie as an .exe file, so I can show it on a PC (I'm working on a Mac)
I have done this successfully before in Flash 5, and have followed the same steps in MX, but come across this issue:

1. publish movie as .exe file.
2. transfer .exe file to PC (via zip disk)
3. when try to open .exe file on PC, it reads it as a text file not as a Projector file.

Any ideas anyone?
I don't want to be back saving to Flash 5, then opening the file in Flash 5 just to do this one task!!!!!
cheers
:O)

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Any Ideas Please?
Can anyone give me a clue as to how http://www.theory7.com/ detect the flash 6 player when you enter the main site? I have looked through all the flash detection tutorials, and can only find flash 5 detection. Have I missed one? Help would be much appreciated, Action Script would be worth s****l favours :P

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Any Ideas?
what is the best Action script to use for getting around a site jumping from mc to inside other mc then say back on to the main time line on the 30 frame for example.

Currently I am using telltarget and instances and it isn't working in all the time. Keeps coming up with errors.

can someone spell it out to me?

cheers )

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Any Ideas
Anyone have any ideas on how to make a browser like back button for a flash based webpage which keeps a history of which pages the user has visited and allows them to go back in the order they were last viewed?

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Ideas Anyone?
I'm looking for some sort of ideas or help with transitions between "scenes" of a movie. This is both a design and execution related question, so any little brainstorming or ideas thrown this way would be appreciated.

shanks a lot

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Ideas
Hi Guys and Girls and others

Sorry is my first post so sorry if I sound stupid

I'm trying to make a flash sig for myself with the name RVD incorporated with pictures and stuff but can't figure how to do it and and idea.

any ideas would be great thanks.

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Any Ideas?
Can anyone please give me some indication of how this navigation is done

http://www.16thandmission.com/

and perhaps some starting points! I hate asking but I'm pretty desperate as i have a client who is real keen on this idea and I'm quite stuck at the moment.

I know it's a large movie clip which is controlled by mouse position, I was stuck when it came to scripting the movement. i.e is it an 'onClipEvent' attached to the main mc or an off screen mc controller knowing where the mouse is then targeting the mc, or something else entirely?

I had a go at trying to set something up but couldn't even figure where to start out!

Many many thanks in advance.

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Any Ideas How To Do It?
I wan't to do a movie clip where a shape moves into a position and then retracts. Has someone ideas how to do it? I use MX. url for the pic: http://www.hot.ee/dizain79/kl.jpg

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Can Anyone Help Me With These Ideas?
Hiya.

Would someone be able to guide me to some tutorials on how to do these sort of affects. http://www.djkarma.com is the site where i have seen them (look in the flash version)

Firstly i really would like to design a sound console like it is on this site. (you know being able to change tracks, turn the sound up and down, and how to get the sound preloading away from the rest of the site so im not waiting for the music to load before i go into the site) Ive not seen any tutorials and would love to learn how to do it

Also is there a tutorial that will show me how to do the navigation effect where the image moves behind when you click a button and the information appears.

Thanks very much for your help

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Any Ideas Anyone On How To.....
Hi every1 I was just after a little help on my website design which I believe involves the use of flash. (I have in my possession flash 5)
What I have in mind is to create a site within flash which would reflect that of a well designed dvd, navigation would be swift, effect, and interactive.

I shall now try and further explain what I mean.
An example of what I would like is say an image of a building with many floors say a tower and when the pointer is dragged other the selected part of the image would become lighter in colour and then a separate screen would slowly fade in (still remaining on the same webpage with the tower in background) with a selected image of my choosing. The floors will be set out accordingly in this example on first floor a group of people type on there computers, second floor a group of people answering phones etc would appear when pointer is dragged over the selected area.

I hope this has made sense, as my vision is difficult for me to explain, any help is welcome.

Thanks in advance

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Ideas
Im doing a flash site about a town and i need some ideas.
Im a flash beginner but i really enjoy it and eager to learn it well.

So i hope you will help me to come up with ideas, i was thinking of doing something watery with fishes and water and garden, along those lines.

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Any Ideas Why?
I'm making a flash for a screen saver for a desktop theme. The flash has a picture of the Grand Tetons in winter and I made 4 snow flakes. What I want to do is choose a random X position and a random flake to fall.

I have the random X working by duplicating a movie clip whose instance is named "flakes"

Now in flakes, I have four layers, each one of a different flake. the instance names of the flakes are flake1, flake2, etc. And these are aslo movie clips. I tween the flakes to fall from the top to the bottom of the screen. this works fine also except as expected, all four flakes are visible and stacked.

Now the problem sets in. I can make all the flakes invisible in the first frame of flakes, which is only used for the actionscript.

I then create a random number 1-4 and you'd think the hard part is over eh? here's the code.

setProperty (flake1, _visible, false);
setProperty (flake4, _visible, false);
setProperty (flake3, _visible, false);
setProperty (flake4, _visible, false);

whatFlake = Math.random()*4+1;
whatFlake = int(whatflake);

I ran a trace and the random number works fine.

Now the problem, when I set the visibility property of the random flake the code I have is as follows:

setProperty ("flake" + whatFlake, _visible, true);

and everyting is still hidden.

I ran a trace and "flake" + whatFlake is always flake1, flake2, flake3, or flake4.

I also tried setting a variable like so,

showFlake = "flake" + whatFlake;

and inserting this in the above code and same deal.

So then I jsut wanted to see and set the last setProperty as follows:

setProperty (flake4, _visible, true);

and it worked, almost!

What happened was that all four flakes fell like before their visilibities were set to false; All four were stacked.

So I tried the last setProperty for the others and the same result. All four flakes are on different layers with different instance names.

I instead of having all the flakes start in frame two, I staggered their first keyframes. flake two would start in the frame after flake1 ended and so forth. In the actionscriopt after my randam number was generated I used conditionals to goAndPlay().

LOL now only flake four would fall so I did another trace and fouds that any random number, like 1.3 for example, wuold always be four lol after the int(whatFlake) statement.

I even tried using onClip to set the initial visibilities to false but after only one try I gave up! it didn't set the visibility properties to false.

I'm archaic and still using Flash 5. Am I asking to much of flash? Or have I had a brain fart?

Thanks!

Oh, if anyone would like a copy of this desktop theme send me an email unless you actually want to post your email.

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Any Ideas?
Im doing a project @ college and need help.

Using mx how can i do the following?

Use a group of images of pets that when pressed on make the relevant sound effect.

If any 1 can recommend a different app to use please let me know that too plz.

Cheers.

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Any Ideas?
Let me try to explain my problem as simply as I can. I have one swf file which uses loadMovie to load external swf files. In a few of the external swf files, I have picture scrollers which use the _root x and y positions to find out if the mouse is over the scroll box. When I load a movie into another swf file, the scroll box does not work. I am guessing that _root would no longer belong to the swf holding the scroll box but rather to the main swf file into which it is loaded. I would like to know if there is a way to distinguish between the two. I also tried _parent, but that will not work because the action script is inside of a mc which is inside of another mc. It sounds confusing. Is there a local reference I can use? I just need to get the x and y pos of the swf file to which the movie resides without defaulting to the movies host. I am lost as to what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Any Ideas
Hi all

Does anybody know how you get design a flash file that could at random show a single MC.

What I am wanting to do is have a 'database' of tips that will randomize every day/12 hours. Each entry in the 'database' is able to be clicked and then tranfered to a .htm page with a larger explanation.

I have no idea how to achieve this, so any comments please make them understandable to the lay person (me).

I am using Flash5, and not really interested in using Flash6.. at the moment anyway.

Thanks heaps in advance

Len

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I Need Ideas...
What does it need, I need ideas....

I am making a desktop / Operating System simulation called GINW OS.

I would like your ideas / comments on it.

http://coulda-been-me.port5.com/ginw.swf

best run in stand-alone player (flash MX)

my website: http://yfm.port5.com/start.html

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Ideas...
Where do people come up with ideas for Web site's and stuff that use Flash? It takes me forever to come up with something simple. What is the secret?

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I'me All Out Of Ideas...AS
Hi!

i'me making a mc slide to different _x when the mouse goes over different buttons.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
distance = _root.sliderx-this._x;
_x += (distance*(1/6));
}

all fine, but what i want to do is when the slider arrives at the _x for a particular button some text will be displayed on it. i did this by making the slider go to different frames containing different text depending on it's own _x.

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this._x == 27) {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
} else if (this._x == 107) {
this.gotoAndStop(3);
} else if (this._x == 207) {
this.gotoAndStop(4);
} else {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}

but that makes it impossible to animate that text, because the script will make it go to the first frame of the animation all the time. Anybody have any ideas on how to do this? Again, what I want to do is when the slider arrives at a certain _x a certain animation will start on it.

thanks!

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Any Ideas?
Hey, My name is Timmy, I'm 14 and very new to flash. I'm making my first cartoon in flash and I need ideas. go to www.geocities.com/timmydude25/Desk.swf to see what I have so far. Then go to www.geocities.com/timmydude25/Cartoon.swf that's my latest animation. www.geocities.com/timmydude25 to see my site's intro, my brother did that. go to www.geocities.com/invictus_ab to see some more flash stuff done by my bro. So, if you have any ideas for my cartoon, let me know. Thanks!

Timmy

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Any Ideas Why It Does This?
Hi,

I have a movie that uses an external file containing a word. The word spins around a shape and all works well apart from when it first loads up. No word appears and only appears and spins around the shape if I click refresh on the browser.

Anyone any ideas why I need to click refresh to display the word pulled in from the external file?

Thanks in advance

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Any Ideas?
Hopefully someone here has a solution to a thread I posted elsewhere:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=436846

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Any Ideas Will Help
Does anyone have an idea on how i solve this likkle problem,
This is just a small project im playing with,

http://mysite.freeserve.com/teomaflash/perspect.htm

Hold ur mouse on the border of 2 buttons and they flicker madly.
something like a setInterval on the return to "up" state might work

Im all outa ideas for today on this one.

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Any Ideas?
Built a page using standard HTML for an on-line glossary. Once I got the damn thing finished I was left with a file size of 144k! There are lots of terms I have to index.

So the question is - does anyone have a glossary, dictionary, idex, keyword look-up, type swf sitting around that I might be able to use?

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Need Some Ideas
Ok, I'm making a photography portfolio site. There are about 6 differnet portfolios (the main buttons), and some have sub portfolios. Each one contains a minimum of 10 pics, often more. Now I haven't started building the structure of how all this will work yet because I'm not sure how I want to go about it. I want to be able to easily update it in the future. The site is hosted on a server running PHP and MySQL. I want to possibly run it off a database, but I'm not sure how hard or time consuming this is going to be. Possibly XML, but that is an area that I don't know much about although I am willing to learn some. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how I should go about this. Anything is appreciated, thanks everyone.

My test page is:
www.wojophoto.com/tests/

nothing there yet except the main navigation for the site and a contact and about page.

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I Need Ideas...
Well, summers comming up and I have nothing to do. I want to make a game but all my friends have the craziest ideas. I'm not a very good artist so I can't make a game with too much animation. Any ideas?

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Any Ideas
can someone recommend a good forum for DreamweaverMX

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Any Ideas?
Hi-

I'm trying to create an image that looks similar to a heart monitor in a hospital. You know...a little dot that goes up and down and the motion trail behind it fades?

I have been toying around with a few ideas and none have the desired effect I am looking for. I was wondering if anyone out there has done anything similar or has their own ideas on how to implement such an image.

Thanks.

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Got Any Ideas Please?
Hi there, just got my site done, well sort of and luploaded it to my server etc. However, I am getting an odd bug. In IE my site navigates a heck of a lot slower than in Safari browser. Also, the biggest problem is that in my portfolio section the "Launch" and "screenshots" buttons only work on a select few in IE, but ALL work in Safari. I have cleared my cache in both browsers and restarted numerous times. I even tried it on my roomates PC and got the same problems with IE there.
Any advice to getting my site to move smoother to would be appreciated. I have all swf's used in the sites creation at 30 fps and the largest swf file is only like 20 k.
AHHHHHH, I'm going nuts, someone please help me.

You can view my live site at: http:www.craigmstudio.com

&

On the "launch" and "screenshots" buttons is the following code:

on (release) {
address = "http://www.craigmstudio.com/dvd_stills.html";
target_winName = "Late Night DVD";
width = 800;
height = 600;
toolbar = 0;
location = 0;
directories = 0;
status = 0;
menubar = 0;
scrollbars = 1;
resizable = 0;
openWinCentre(address, target_winName, width, height, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable);
}

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Thanks ahead of time...

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Ideas Anyone?
Hi there, just got my site done, well sort of and luploaded it to my server etc. However, I am getting an odd bug. In IE my site navigates a heck of a lot slower than in Safari browser. Also, the biggest problem is that in my portfolio section the "Launch" and "screenshots" buttons only work on a select few in IE, but ALL work in Safari. I have cleared my cache in both browsers and restarted numerous times. I even tried it on my roomates PC and got the same problems with IE there.
Any advice to getting my site to move smoother to would be appreciated. I have all swf's used in the sites creation at 30 fps and the largest swf file is only like 20 k.
AHHHHHH, I'm going nuts, someone please help me.

You can view my live site at: http:www.craigmstudio.com

&

On the "launch" and "screenshots" buttons is the following code:

on (release) {
address = "http://www.craigmstudio.com/dvd_stills.html";
target_winName = "Late Night DVD";
width = 800;
height = 600;
toolbar = 0;
location = 0;
directories = 0;
status = 0;
menubar = 0;
scrollbars = 1;
resizable = 0;
openWinCentre(address, target_winName, width, height, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable);
}

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Thanks ahead of time...

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Any Ideas How This Is Done ?
Ive been trying to work out how an affect is done that can be seen on www.xm2.com

When the site loads and u enter when the interface all loads up there is a bunch of sections that appear as if though they where springing onto the screen.

What im refering to is how the 3 boxes on the bottom appear on screen. Now i thought maybe it was just done in photoshop but that seems like alot of images just for one bit of the site. I then tried to do it in flash without any luck as there isnt anyway to bend an image inside flash or of there is i havent found that option yet.

So has anyone got any ideas on how that affect is done ??

any help/info would be great.

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Out Of Ideas
Hi,
Sorry i'm going to try one last time, i've attached the fla i'm working on, not that it's looking very impressive. Any suggestions as to why i can't get the buttons in the sub-menu to work? Think i'm just referencing it incorrectly ni the actionscript but i don't know what to change.

Thanks
From a complete novice at flash

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Any Ideas On This...
Hi,
Does anyone know how THIS turning page effect was achieved?
Does anyone know of any source files or tutorials that I can look at to get an idea?

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Any Ideas?
on this site
http://www.ego7.net/

there is an application called the EVENT MANAGER.
check it out.

anyone have any idea where i can look for instructions on building something like this myself?

i really need a calendar that members can post their own events to, exactly like the one on the ego site.

any links to tutorials, or whatever would be hugely appreciated.
i've already done a pretty thorough search and come up with nothing.

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Any Ideas On This Please?
Hi All,

I am hoping that someone out there will be able to put me right on this code based question. Here goes....

The code shown below is created to fool a browsers back button. It loads script into a 'hidden' frame and when the back button is clicked it takes the user back to their last visited part of the flash movie. This code is set up to work on a single movie clip rather than the timeline. What I am trying to do is apply it to a timeline and I am using frame labels as opposed to frame numbers. What do I need to change to make the code work with my timeline? here is the script for one of the buttons:

Code:
on (release) {
// load HTML page in hidden frame
getURL("1.html", "historyframe");
// set variable for next section
_root.page = 1;
}

and this is the html page (that loads into the hidden frame) code:

Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>page 1</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF">
<p>1.html <br>
javascript - parent.flashframe.setPage(1); //setPage() is a function in flashpage.html
<script language="JavaScript">
parent.flashframe.setPage(1);
</script>
</p>
</body>
</html>

Does anyone know how this code can be applied to a timeline rather than a mC?

or does anyone know of a tutorial or source file that does the same job please?

Hope someone can help.

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Ideas
Hello Flash Community,

I've been a fan of flash since its inception, but procrastinated in learning it.

I'm up against time for an intro page, well, haven't even begun. It's for an up and coming actress, and i'd like for the page to open with a movie reel to scroll from left to right with photos of her within the reel, and occasionally, one of the photos would become larger, pause a second or two, then shrink back down to the previous size, then the reel continues to roll. I'd like it to do this for about maybe 5 photos. All the while stuff like messageboard, chat room, downloads comes out of nowhere, blends into the background color and vanishes, then something else comes.

My question to the experts. Where do I begin? and being a newbie in the first degree, how long will it take for me to be decent at flash to where I could tackle on a full site?

Thanks for your time and all advice is welcomed.

Pentium4

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Any Ideas Of How This Could Be Done?
Hi All,

I have found a site with the sweetest methods of navigation. If you click and go through to the flash movie here you will see the navigation I mean.

Does anyone know how this could be replicated, obviously with altogether different content style but the methods used would be similar - the way the hero jumps onto stacked words and as he walks the copy scrolls is a great idea, very original and perfect for an idea I'd like to put into practice.

Are there any tutorials that would cover the various methods?

Or would anyone be happy to create a very basic layout with the elements and walking hero, scrolling bg for me for a price (sorry if I'm not supposed to say that) if there is someone who knows how to do it I'm happy to commision it.

Hope someone has some pointers or is into the latter.

Cheers people
D

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Any Ideas?
Hey guys/gals, (using Flash MX 2004)

i am in a bit of a bind trying to logically understand how I would do the following (code, site structure etc.)..could any of you lend me your thoughts?

I am building a site consisting of various sections (lets say 3). User will click on respective button (1,2,or3) and animation will occur--->

i'm trying to have a box open and animate as if it was the previous button just pressed by the user. Then this box (what was the button), scales/resizes to load its contents ( more buttons and/or images etc...

all sections of the site would need to have nice smooth animation out events also. Meaning that when a user clicks any other button on the main movie, he or she would see the previous content animate out before the new sites ection loaded.

I know this sounds probably simple to alot of you, but I am scratching my head as to how I would set this site up. Also, I'm not sure of what code i would need to place on the buttons(movieclips) for the animation and/or rescaling?

If anyone has any samples or resources they could provide, it would be awesome. Thanks so much.

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Any Ideas?
hi guys, i'm hoping you might be able to help me with a problem. i'm making a movie of a plane dropping a bomb on a building.

all is working fine except for the plane.

i have this set up as a movieclip which contains another movie clip with a flame effect that comes out from the tailpipe of the plane.

when i'm in edit mode for the plane movie clip, and i test the scene the flame works fine, no problem. but it doesn't show the flame in the root movie.

anyone out there got any possible explainations? i'm going bald with the amount of headscratching i've done over this!!!

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Some Help And Ideas
hey guys im raelly new to flash but I completly addor it.

my website is www.csfreedom-fighters.tk

I would like to make that a flash site and change the look alot better.

Its a clan site, and i need the colours to be really brownish grundgy.

If anyone could set me on the right path i could do the rest.

-Thanks

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Out Of Ideas
So I'm out of ideas, i need a calender style document that depicts this information.
http://hartgalleries.com/Auction Calendar2005.ppt
I also need it to match the look of the website,
http://hartgalleries.com/main.html

if anyone can help me that would be great, thanks

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I Need Ideas,
Ok people , i have this project im doing in a history class, its a commerical for why people shoiuld move to Africa in the 1800's. the commercial im planning on doing is 30 secodns long about, well its supposed to be, and funny. Im doing things like saying 'we have crabs" "guys in speedos" "nude beaches" "best tacos" If you have any ideas on how to show this let me know, the commerical is just for a cheap laugh, doesnt have to be Professional looking or aytnhing

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Any Ideas?
http://nortonsflorist.com/ava/imagegallery/gallery.htm

There it is, and there's two things that are really bugging me that i can't solve.
1.) The top right box will always be selectable even if the picture hasn't loaded, but as far as i can tell it uses the same code as all the others.
2.) When you click on a loaded image and the other images haven’t loaded, then the image shrinks infinitely instead of expanding like it should.

It pulls all the images from the folders and shrinks the large image to thumbnail size, and then when you click on it it calculates how large it can expand too and stay within 800x600 or whatever i set it to.

Also, any criticism is welcome; it's not for anybody in particular, just to know that i could make it i guess.

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Need Some Ideas
Yeah... I'm kinda stumped for ideas. Just need a small easy thing to make. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Ideas?
Ok, I'm pretty stuck. I need an idea for a flash movie. I can do general things with Flash, but I'm not very good at drawing. I only know VERY basic actionscript (Eg: Replay button). Something simple, but enjoyable. Any ideas?

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Looking For Different Ideas
Does anyone know or have any ideas of different flash quiz question games. For example, there are the usual (drag and drop, Multiple choice, matching, fill-in the blank)

Looking for a different idea to try and build. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance

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Any Ideas
I am wanting to gotoAndPlay the next scene with out the use of a button or any interaction. Basically when the movie gets to the last frame of a scene it will automatically go to the next scene.

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[F8]Need Ideas On How To Do Something Like This
Hi, im making a dinamic flash web page for a client, im almoust finish but i need to do a top10 menu like the top10 menu on this page that displays to the right of the tv.

www.esmastv.com.mx/esmasplayer/interfaseok.html

i was thinking on attaching movie with actionscript, but how can i make the rollover / rollout effect on each button so when you rollover on one button the buttons below this can move down and when rollout the buttons below get back to they original position?

any ideas?

thank you all in advance.

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Ideas

any ideas or suggestions?