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Interesting Issue With Popup Windows...
Hi everyone, I have a site in development ( the url is http://www.rit.edu/~jjs7262/kalei/kaleido.html )... it uses a Windows OS type of interface, but the problem I am having is that if you have two popup windows on the screen at the same time, whether there is a way to click on one to make it come into the forefront.

In other words, if I were to have 4 open windows and someone clicks an icon to bring up a 5th, would there be a way to click on that 5th window to make it appear over the other 4. This would probably involve some actionscript that changes layer order but I'm not sure if that exists..

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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

Flash Focus Issue In Windows IE 6
Does anyone know of a method to apply focus to an embeded Flash object in Windows IE 6 besides using SWFObject or an IFRAME?

I'm currently having a problem where SWFObject works fine in one version of IE 6 and fails miserably in another version of IE 6. In both cases the version is 6.0.2900.2180... and then they're different.

Any clues?

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?

How To Create 'Windows' Windows With Flash?
I'd like to create a windows system like the one we use on windows. This is what i really like:
Yo have some buttons. When u click on any of 'em a popup window opens (inside could be text, image or movieclips or all of 'em). Last window it opens always shows up on top and if u select one that it's behind this comes automaticly to the top. I'd love too if u could minimize 'em and also if eacho one opens into a new swf.
There is a example of what I want here:
http://senocular.com/flash/source.php?id=0.49
But in that example everything is in the same swf, and as I said some lines before I want each window to open into another swf.

...........hope u can help me. Thanks!

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

Start Windows
Is there a way of making my movie start playing when windows starts?
Thanks

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?

Windows XP Pro License Issue
Hi,

I know this is not a flash question, but someone here must know this better than me.

I bought an OEM Windows XP Pro recently, but the sticker says "Windows XP Professional 1-2CPU". What does it mean? Could I install the same license key on two seperate computers? Thanks in advance!

AVI Issue On Windows VISTA
Hi-
I created a 3 minute cartoon at 24 fps in Flash 8 Professional. I export it as an AVI using NO compression, 32-bit alpha, 44kHz, 16 bit stereo sound.

It exports fine (albeit BIG), but when I try to play it on my Windows Vista Media Player 11and Quicktime Pro version 7.1.6, it does not work. I cannot even import it into Movie Maker. It says that a codec is missing. Does anyone know what codec I need? I thought that since it was full frames and UNcompressed, that it would be fine.

Now, I tried the same thing at work and it plays and looks very good, so obviously I am missing a codec or other component on the Vista machine.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

Windows Focus Issue
Hi all,
thanks to this site, I did my first web site, my own one : http://romut.free.fr

This site is a whole flash site, and sometimes, I face a weird problem. So sometimes, the flash animation is surrounded by the Windows focus rectangle and this prevents my soft touch button to work.

Any solution ? Because I have absolutely no idea of what the problem is.

Thanks for your help.

Issue With Javascript Launched Windows.......
Hello -

I recently completed the "Javascript Pop-up Windows" tutorial for flash 8. Everything works as planned. That is, if your using the same browser as me, which happens to be Netscape 8. In my site, I have a button that when pressed opens a little window. For some reason Internet Exlporer wont allow the window to open. Instead an error pops up saying there's an "invalid Argument" on so and so line. Here's the code (in the HTML page) where the error is said to be:

Code:
Openwin = this.open(page,"Trance-state.com", "toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbar=no, location=no, width=150, height=150, top=370, left=740");
the entire code is:
Code:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var newwin;

function popup(winurl,winname,winfeatures)
{
newwin = window.open(winurl,winname,winfeatures);
if(javascript_version > 1.0)
{
setTimeout('newwin.focus();',250);
}
}

function launch(page){
Openwin = this.open(page,"Trance-state.com", "toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbar=no, location=no, width=150, height=150, top=370, left=740");

}
</SCRIPT>

If anyone knows why this is, I would greatly appreciate some help!

Importing Mac Compiled Swf In Windows -font Issue
not sure if this is at all possible. I have some mac fonts that I want to use. So, I figured maybe if I included the fonts in the library on Mac, and compiled to swf on mac, then put that swf in the windows library, I'd somehow have access to the fonts. Maybe I'm just dreaming... is there a way? Or is the only way to get this done is to do the final compile on a Mac?

AS2 - Mask Drawing Issue When Dealing With Pop-up Windows
Hey Ultrashock community! I've been working on a new website for myself recently, but have encountered a rather weird bug with Flash. I've got a rectangular movie clip (it contains a rectangle inside it) masking another layer on my timeline, and the mask movie clip occasionally glitches up when I open a new window in Firefox or drag a desktop application on top of the browser screen.

Here's the scenario. The layer that my movie clip is masking contains an empty movie clip called items_container. I am dynamically loading content into items_container via xml, and if there are more items than can fit inside the bounds of the items container, then I make it scrollable. When the user mouses left, the items will move right, and if the user mouses right, the items will move left. I'm sure you guys have seen this many times before...I used the scrolling thumbnail panel tutorial from gotoandlearn.com to set this up.

Now here's the deal. When my items container doesn't have to worry about scrolling, the mask works fine. When it does have to worry about scrolling, the mask works great, but only until you leave the browser window (either through opening another desktop application or a creating a new tab or whatever). When you come back to the site, the items inside the items container have mysteriously vanished, even though the mask is supposedly still there. It's almost like the mask just stopped working or something. At the moment, I'm assuming that this is a drawing problem with the Flash player, and I have no clue how to fix it.

One other observation that might help solve the problem: The items only seem to disappear when they're either in the act of scrolling or recently finished scrolling and a new window or tab appears.

Any help would be much appreciated! My fingers are crossed for an easy solution to this problem! Thanks guys!

Coop

Flash Popup Wizard: Opening New Browser Windows From Flash?
Hello,
I once found a plug in for flash that allowed me to specify the size/position of the popup. The interface was orange. I have a different computer now, and can't find that plugin.......Any chance anyone know the name of the plugin so I can search for it?......Thank you....

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");
}

Using Flash With Windows CE
We're evaluating use of the Flash to develop a professional user interface for an instrumentation system. The system will be running Windows CE 6.0 . We'll have custom drivers for some of the hardware and a signal-processing algorithm running in real-time. The Flash application will need to communicate with the drivers and algorithm.

Is Flash appropriate for this kind of application? Has anyone out there done this kind of thing?

Interesting Issue With Flash And Windows - Flash Start With Windows?