Flash :: Interface For Flash Website

Flash Interface For Dynamic Asp/.net/php Website
Hi,
I came accross one Flash/php solution where an author crated a very nice Flash interface for designing cards and fliers.
It looks almost like MS Publisher. After you add & format all text, pictures and background you can send your card directly from this solution via email as jpg.

I asked the author if he will be able to add more features like generating high quality multi-page PDF newsletter but he told that he is too busy with other projects.

I'd like to know how hard it would be for me starting this project by myself?
I know VB, ASP, PHP & some .NET & JavaScript.
What would be the best place for the appropriate action script tutorials and the best book on this subject?

I already have some action script books but maybe someone has something that is very close to what I'm trying to accomplish?

Thanks

Photo As Backround/interface For Flash Website?
I'd like to use a large, high resolution photo for the backround of my flash site. However, I never see this done on Flash sites. Is it because an interface thats designed using a photograph instead of vector art is too big to opperate efficiently? Would there be really long delays?

Website Interface
Ok, I have some code that is suppossed to do this. Its not the actual code:
-On Frame load, OPEN "CLIP1" (Moves to frame 2)

-On Release,
-IF "CLIP1" IS OPEN (Or on frame 2)
-CLOSE CLIP1 (By playing a fadeout sequence)
-OPEN CLIP2 (Now is frame 2)
-ELSE
-OPEN CLIP2 (If no clips open)

Here is the code that I think should do that:

on (release) {
if (CURRENT = "OPEN") {
tellTarget ("Current") {
var CURRENT = "CLOSED";
play();
}
} else {
var PORTFOLIO = "OPEN";
tellTarget ("Portfolio") {
play();
}
}
}

I THINK THAT SHOULD DO WHAT I NEEDED ABOVE.
CLIP1 LOADS OVER CLIP2 SO CLIP1 NEEDS TO CLOSE SOMEHOW
MY SCRIPT ONLY OPENS AND CLOSES SCRIPT

Any suggestions? Thanks!

TV Interface Website?
I am trying to find some really cool websites that have a tv interface, I need some inspiration badly! lol

Does anyone know of any???

Thanks a million!

Building Website Interface
Hello,

I've been wondering if there is any kind of actionscript 3 interface framework available that would simplify making websites with actionscript 3. With that I mean that I could easily change the code to manipulate the content with the navigation and that stuff (somekind of wrapper - example)?

I'm having problems because I want to build a professional flash website where you have dynamic navigation and content - and when you press the button, there are page transitions/animations to switch the content - I have some considerations on how to do this the best way.

I'm having problems with building that by myself and it would be much easier to see some examples on how to do this - like how should I put different things in different classes to make it as simple and professional as possible.

Any help is highly appreciated!

Rolling Website Interface
Hey there,

i'm trying to design and develop a website in which the user moves the whole site around to see page options and then zoom into content maybe with scrol wheel or just a good old click. please see this example

http://www.drykorn.com/en/

not sure what it was built in but if anyone can help to advise me as to how to achieve a similar interface in Flash CS3 or Flash 8 i would be over the moon!

DeDae

Website Interface Design
Im trying to design an innovative website, like, very simple, yet easy to look at, several ideas i dont have the skills to implement, and stuff.

Can someone help me out?

Closing Tabs And Moving Interface Interface
before i start HERE is the design i am working with,

What i want to do is when you click on a menu item i want to close the tabs that are allready open and move the interface across the screen to a different position and than open certain tabs (sections) at the new position.

What i want to know is is there a way of finding out which tabs are open and need to be closed and closing them and which are allready closed and bypassing them and than moving the interface to a different position.

If there is a way of doing this could anyone point me in the right direction of where to go to learn how?

I hope i am making some sense i am prettty new to flash and this is one of my first big adventures with flash.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

ancora

Flash Interface Help
Hi

Im creating a website using only flashmx.

My interface is in flash.

What i have is a primary navagation bar on the left and my secondary navbar on the right.

Its all encapsulated in an interface that looks like an eye with a navbar on either inner side of the eye.
What i want to do is load all my pages in the middle of the "eye".
How do i get it to load in there?

Hope this is clear enough.
Its kinda hard to explain.

Thanks
dcheketri

Flash GUI Interface
I'm helping a friend make some business cards, and on the back of them she wanted a list of movie showings. But she also wanted me to create a kind of interface that would make it easy for her to update the movie showings (btw, this will all be offline).
I imagine the solution would be the following:
Make the interface swf output a jpg she can save based on the input she enters. Remember, this girl doesn't have flash, only the flash plugin, so solving this problem doesn't have anything to do with the "export as a jpeg" option the flash has.
If anyone can tell me how to do this, it would really help me out.

Also, in less related topics:

Is there any way to dynamically control text font size using input from a Flash GUI swf without using a txt file and html tags (is there a variable/property of each textbox that you can manipulate to control font size dynamically)?

How do I make a flash user interface update a txt?

I'm not sure if I've done a good job explaining what my problem is or not, so please tell me if you have questions. Thanks a lot for your time.

Flash Mx Interface Bug?
not sure how, or why, but i'm suddenly having a problem with the flash properties panel. it's showing up too small so that it cuts off the bottom fields, ie i can't see/edit the lenght, or y property of a movie clip.

anyone seen this before, or know how to fix it?

thanks

Flash Interface Help
I've seen several sites loaded with animation and I'm new to flash can anyone point me to some good tuts on how to create interface with flash.check this site out for an example

Flash Interface
some of my interface is messed up, i dont know how to explain it but i will do my best: ok the time line numbers,and the word tools, veiw,colorsand options are like...really dark and pixles like so i cant read it everything else is fine how do i fix this?

Interface Done In Flash Mx ?
if you go to this site:
http://www.morphases.com/editor/

you can see how crisp the whole interface is, would you do this type of work all in flash or in photoshop and export as png ?? any tips on making such crisp/clear interfaces ? thanks !

Flash Interface
Hi

I`v been working with flash for nearly a year now and im quiet familier with things, and have worked on individual little projects and never on complete website interface.

In anyone here can offer any good tutorials, i would greatfully appreciate it. I want to design a personal website, in flash not more thane 5 buttons and pages included in it.

Thnx

Waiting.,,,

Flash Interface Help
hi. i stopped using flash for a couple of years and am kind of lost in the new version. well, actually, i only have one problem. i can't find the part of the actions tab that describes the action you're writing. for example when you add an action to a button, it had a little panel with check boxes and form fields where you can specify the parameters for the actions. for example, on a button, it would say, on click, on mouseover, on release, on mouse out etc... and a dropdown for the type of input you're putting in. i.e. string, frame number, frame name etc.... and it let you put in the names of the frames or numbers or whatever.

how can i get that thing back? it makes it easier for me to write scripts.

please help.

thanks,

drew

Flash Web Interface
I am newbies in flash I want to ask a question about interface of flash website I saw in many websites like as optomausa . com and toyota .......... how can i develop this type of website. and whos version of Flash suitable for this type of designing.

Thanks

TV Of Flash Interface
Hello Everyone,

Like a Mp3 player, Video Player, etc. is Flash able to support like a TV TUNER???
can we build a TV TUNER? to read a live source like normal TV??? I have been looking for this, and there is nothing related watching live TV on SWF file, maybe you don't have the annwer, but post what you think, THANKS!!!!

Vb.net W/ Flash Interface
I am gathering information as far as developing a site with a Flash front end & Visual Basic .NET backend without using Flash Remoting.

A good example would be to input a search string into Flash's equivalent of a textbox, then have .NET run the string as a stored procedure on an MS SQL database. .NET would then return the dataset or string or whatever so that Flash can publish the information or handle it accordingly. I understand that there is a huge difference between a string & a dataset, but I am just giving an example. So with that in mind, can Flash handle a .NET dataset?

Basically, Flash would need t be able to pass information to .NET then .NET to pass back the result for Flash to publish. I have seen a couple of querystring methods & a web service method, but I would like to see what other options might exist.

Does anyone have any samples of ways to have Flash be used as a .NET site's facade? Are there suggestions for the best approach to achieve my goals? Can flash use ADO.NET or whatever to cut out the .NET middle man as far as connecting to an MS SQL database & processing stored procedures therein? Again, I am trying to accomplish this without Flash Remoting.

thanks for any & all input

Is This Interface Done Only With Flash?
Hi, i was browsing the net and i found this
http://www.sony.com.mx/netmd?flash=yes

is a very cool site, but i have a doubt, is the full interface done only with flash??? because it's a perfect design, and everything is synchronized.

Flash Interface
Hello All,

I want to create a flash interface using this I want to add and retrieve data from MYSQL data base so first tell me what should I do for connecting my flash file to the data base and then store and retrieve data from database.

Thanks.

Realplayer With A Flash Interface.
Hi all,

I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I would like develop a interface for realplayer. For an example visit http://www.egomedia.com and play the little radio icon on their desktop. Thanks in advance.

Quester

Flash Interface Design
I am new to using Flash (I just got Flash MX). I have really liked what I have seen in interface design (particularly from http://www.2advanced.com). What resources can I pull on to eventually develop a site like that using Flash MX, and what resources (books, internet sites, etc...) should I go to and study to learn how to do that? Thanks.

Raj
Jeremiah 29:11-13
nakranir@earthlink.net

Flash CD Interface Question....
Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me out, in this, my time of need hehe, well, here go's:

I want to make a custom CD interface using Flash MX. I was looking to put all the Pictures / Programs / etc etc onto a CD and have it autorun a specified Flash Interface (Like the one's you see on Maximum PC and PC Gamer CD's). I have searched the net over looking for some tutorial on how to do this but have yet to find something that I can use. If anyone can help me out I would be forever in your debt. Now I can make one with the chrome around it, but i want one without borders, kinda like a splash screen, that is an interface. If you dont understand im sorry, but I cannot really explain it more than that.

Thankx in advance.

Flash/HTML Interface
I've noticed, that in terms of time required for updating, flash takes forever while general html is effortless. yet flash gives more flexibility in page composition and provides animation where general html doesn't. I know its possible to insert a flash animation in an HTML site, but is it possible to insert html into a field of flash (with size and composition defined)?

Flash Interface Question
Whenever I import components developed by others, my MX interface takes on a much more slimmed down appearance. In particular, the layers only take up half the height that my defaults yield. I like this. Does anyone know how to change the defaults to be more compressed like this?

Thanks in advance.

Getting My Flash Interface Online
How do I get my Flash work/interface onto the web?

HELP Flash Game/interface
I am trying to make a Flash MX game /interface for my design company's home page. I have downloaded the perfect fla. file to use as a script template and I can edit everything visually with no problem but when I try to duplicate any platform for the controlled character to jump and land on, the character just falls right through the duplicated platform. The same thing happends for the objects the character needs to pick up or interact with.

Is ther some x y corodinated that need to put in somewhere? I can't find them if there is. Click the link below to download the fla. source I'm using.

DOWNLOAD THE FLA.

If you can help me i will give you a link and credit on Design 3 creative's website.

Thanks SOOOOOOOOO much!!!

Square Flash Interface
Does anybody know how to construct a square flash interface like the one shown on the following address:

http://showcase.vianetworks.co.uk/

It is the one named Flash Example 6 under the Flash examples heading

It has a group of nine squares which move into view when the user clicks on a smaller set of squares.

It is probably done by using actionscript to align the main graphic at various points but that is as far as I have got.

Any help much appreciated.

Rachel

Voting Interface On Flash 5
Does anyone knows about a voting interface using Flash 5, I found one but is in Flash MX and Im still using 5.
What I want is to be able to select a choice from a drop down and send a vote for that choice to a DB.

Any help will be appreciated

Is It Possible To Make A Flash Interface?
is it possible to make a flash interface and have it on a disc and set it to an auto run for a project im making??????

How To Get The CGI Programe Value In My Flash Interface
hai,

this is my cgi program

-----------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI (qw/:all/);
print("Content-type: text/html

");

$g="ari45s";

print "$g";
------------------------------------------

when i call this in a button using the below script

on (release) {
loadVariables("http://www.herbert.com/cgi-bin/msgaddfriend.cgi", "g", "POST");
// ss.loadVariables("http://www.herbert.com/cgi-bin/msgaddfriend.cgi", "", "POST");
trace(g);
tt.value = g;
}

i can't able to get the value from the CGI to my Text box instance name "tt".

kindly help me out

- Aristotle

Flash Interface: Cant See Property Box
lost property inspector panel / cant see properties panel

i have tried ctrl F3, menu Window>properties

alt-w, then alt-p but still it wont appear, any ideas?

What's The Deal With Flash's Mac Interface?
Flash has had a history for being inconsistent with its programs' interfaces across different platforms. But even Flash 8 seems to have the same symptoms of bad interface design as what I'm experiencing in MX 2004! What progress has been made to unify the interface, to make things better?

My PC-toting friends who use Flash have a much more organized system. Their actionscript isn't limited to a clumsy, collapsable palette. (That's my primary beef with Flash right now.) I, on the other hand, have to worry about multiple windows and what might be the most ridiculous system of palettes in any professional software package, save for Microsoft Office.

Can Flash be modified- through an extension, a javascript file, whatever- to be better organized? Please?

[F8] Upload Interface For Flash
Is there a way to make like an uploading interface to be used with flash?

and example would be like a php form is used for a normal website to upload say articles onto a websites main page.

Flash 9 Interface Frustrations
I am loving the new Flash and especially the very noticeable increase of speed on my Intel mac notebook.

However, is anyone else experiencing some weirdnesses with resizing windows? I have the Actions pallete sitting right at the top of the screen and use the windowshade behavior to open and close it. At one point, when I had the window "snapped" to the top of the screen, when I double clicked the Actions window "open", it flickered a bit showing the open window and then immediately closed back up. It wouldn't behave normally until I pulled it away, so it wasn't snapped to the top anymore. Something similar happened when the window was opened wide enough that it was "snapped" to the right side of the screen. I wasn't able to resize the window, until I pulled it away from the right.

At least pulling it away from these positions allows me to let the window behave normally again, but just wondering if anyone else has experienced this, or if it's just me.

Flash For ELearning Interface
OK, so I am working for a court system working on CBTs. We have been building our content in Flash and assembling the SWFs into Authorware and publishing to CD. As we have limited bandwidth and budget at the Courts we don't have an LMS, we built that functionality into the CBTs in Authorware (tracking, certificate printing, etc.). Problem is, Adobe is killing Authorware. It is not Vista supported, Adobe is not developing it in the future, and (of course) the court is upgrading in the fall. We have been looking at out of the box solutions to replace Authorware, but none are fully covering our needs. This got me thinking... can we do it in Flash? We would need a shell that could: provide navigation, call out to play external .swf files inside of itself, track users and passwords, track quizzes, print certificates, etc. It seems barely possible, and a ridiculous amount of work. Someone please tell me that this is a crazy / stupid idea so I can put it out of my mind and move on.

Flash Interface Bugs
How can I resize floating help panel in Flash CS3 for OS X?

I want to use floating help panel but it always stretches too far down so I cannot read text from it and I cannot resize it.
Is there a way to fix this?

screenshot:

http://www.hot.ee/swf/Picture_1.jpg

FTP Uploading From A Flash Interface
Hi there!

I wish to allow users of my all Flash website to upload their identity photograph when they register.
How can I proceed to make a navigation window to open in order to select in their directory the photo they want to upload ?
I also want to have the ftp address being hidden (this for obvious security reasons...)

Many thanks in advance for your help !

Best regards,

Gerry

Flash Interface Connecting To .NET, SQL?
hi
I am an actionscript newbie but have been given the task of designing a navigation menu in flash that has to connect to a database - the menu items have to be marked - unread, mandatory etc. and have to pull back database information to display then be marked as read.

Please can anyone advise in general terms how to go about this?
(Would it be using the Data Connections Wizard and Datagrid Colum Editor?)

Many thanks
Em

Flash CS3 Action Interface
OK, I'm hoping I don't get flamed here, BUT, in my little world there are some that like to write code and some that don't. I'm the latter. I would prefer to focus on the visual design while adding basic interaction.In all of the previous versions of flash there was a place for folks like me to accomplish actions without manually writing code. For example, you could select a frame and assign a "goto and stop" by clicking a box. My preference would be to still have that. That doesn't mean ignore the upgrades for people that are writing code manually and enjoying the fruits of AS3. My question is I need to do basic interaction and would prefer the old style (previous version) of adding this to my timeline. Is there a way to set CS3 to display this? I know I can go back to previous versions.

Thanks in advance,
T

Jpegs Into Flash Interface
i am going to be making components for an interface in photoshop which i later hope to integrate into flash, if i have say a panel to be sliding out of or underneath another panel does it have to be a transparent image, i mean just the panel it self, is it not allowed to have a background if i want it to look like only the panel is sliding out

and does anyone have any sites with good tuts on masking, it seems like i cant find any

Modifying The Flash Interface.
I am interested in changing the color of the font on the layers. The actual layer labels themselves, I would like to change. is this possible?

Interface & Flash Combination ?
Can anyone give me some tips as to how i go about using interface components in a flash site?
I want to build the frame with interface components designed in ps7.0 but have flash also.

me being a newbie has no idea how to splice these 2 together....

any help or tutorials would be appreciated thanx,

Mike....

How Do I Use Flash Video Interface?
i was hoping to take advantage of Flash 8 Video Features, wanted to use their Skinning components, but whenever i try to use the damn thing i just get a blank screen. importing/embedding video alone without the skins works wonderfully well however. just doesnt seem to want to work with the skins

how do i get videos in flash to work with skins? whats the difference between
- Progressive download from a web server,
- Stream from Flash Video Streaming Service,
- Stream from Flash Communication Server,
???

AS 2 FTP Uploading From A Flash Interface
Hi there!

I wish to allow users of my all Flash website to upload their identity photograph when they register.
How can I proceed to make a navigation window to open in order to select in their directory the photo they want to upload ?
I also want to have the ftp address being hidden (this for obvious security reasons...)

Many thanks in advance for your help !

Best regards,

Gerry

Webcomic Flash Interface
I got this flash interface thingy from a skillful flash master. But I think he made it incomplete on purpose to give me a challenge of some sort. I have no skills so if someone could help me that'd be awesome.

The .swf is here:
http://www.megspace.com/entertainmen...f/comics2.html but it doesn't work... it just scrolls and stuff.

I think the problem is somewhere in this code:
// ----------------------------------------------
// change the tmi to equal the # of comics
tmi = "22";
Menu0 = "1";
Menu1 = "2";
Menu2 = "3";
Menu3 = "4";
Menu4 = "5";
Menu5 = "6";
Menu6 = "7";
Menu7 = "8";
Menu8 = "9";
Menu9 = "10";
Menu10 = "11";
Menu11 = "12";
Menu12 = "13";
Menu13 = "14";
Menu14 = "15";
Menu15 = "16";
Menu16 = "17";
Menu17 = "18";
Menu18 = "19";
Menu19 = "20";
Menu20 = "21";
Menu21 = "22";
// add more Menu# for each comic added
// ----------------------------------------------
// path is the http where the #.swf are stored
path = "/";

Or the problem is:
// --------------------------------------------
// tmi=total menu items
// dup=new movie duplicates
// butn=original movie button
// --------------------------------------------
// FIX original Button:
butn:text = /:Menu0;
while (Number(n)<Number((/:tmi*2)-1)) {
n = Number(n)+1;
dup = "butn" add n;
duplicateMovieClip ("butn", dup, n);
setProperty (dup, _x, Number(getProperty(dup, _x))+Number(n*getProperty(dup, _width)));
setProperty (dup add "/b", _x, getProperty (dup add "/b", _x) );
set (dup add ":n", n);
// assign button name from variables
if (Number(n)<Number(..:tmi)) {
set (dup add ":text", eval("/:Menu" add n));
} else {
set (dup add ":text", eval("/:Menu" add (n-/:tmi)));
}
}

somewhere in there... If you looked at what was up on my site you would know that the only thing not working is the buttons that are created. I have no idea what to do... if you can help that'd be super.

btw, yes all the .swf's are in the same folder as the interface and they are numbered from 1 to 22 with the appropriate extensions.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Interface For Flash Website

Hi all,Does anyone know where i could find tutorials regarding interfaces used in flash web site?