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Embeding Flash Movie, Now It Disappeared
I have used the article from A List Apart (http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay) to embed my flash movie on my site using valid tags instead of the default code provided by Dreamweaver when adding a Flash movie to a page. The problem is that now my Flash movie does not appear in any of my browsers (Firefox, Safari, Explorer, Opera or Netscape). It was working about two months ago when I had a different web host. I switched hosts and did NOT switch any code on the page. Here is a link to the page in question as well as a link to the same page that displays properly.

PAGE IN QUESTION-
http://www.t2graphicdesign.com/

SAME PAGE WITH DEFAULT CODE-
http://www.t2graphicdesign.com/index_old.html

Testing Movie
I am building a movie with multiple scenes. is there any way to test the movie without having to go through every scene?

thanks

Help In Testing Movie
I am making a game in which there are random movements in movie clip jerk in the time line _root.world.player.jerk. How do i test whether the movie clip jerk is playing or stopped. It stops randomly.

Testing Movie
what does it mean when it shows this

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 7: ')' expected
onClipEvent (enterFrame) { if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL) { laserCounter++;

p.s. i'm on flash five

Testing Movie
I thought when you did an animation/movie it only showed what's on the white part of the stage. I just did it and it showed everything everywhere. Any reasons?

Testing Movie
Ok i am testing my movie... when i got to test movie from going to the menu
(control---> test movie) my movie works fine... things are moving like they should be and text is being loaded where it should be .

(i am actually loading a movie dynamically using loadmovie and that movie is loading text into it dynamilcally using the loadvariables)

anyway all of it looks fine when i test it.... but then when i do a publish preview in HTML the text is not loaded and somethings arent moving.... does any one have any idea what the problem could be? why when i do test movie it runs fine BUT when i preview in HTML OR run the swf file on its own it is not working??

HELP

Testing My Movie
Hi guys, this is probably a noob question but I'm just learning Flash in class this semester. Anyway, my question is that I have a movie that is 300px X 250px and whenever I test my movie to see what I've done so far it's actually showing content outside of the stage. It initially gives me a window with the exact size of my movie, but on the bottom right corner it has that little expandable window grab and when I click and drag I see all the content on my movie that is in the work area. I hope I'm making sense but is this supposed to be happening? Because I'm supposed to present the .swf file this Tuesday but I'm not sure if my teacher will tell me that there's more content showing than supposed to. Any solutions would be much appreciated!

Movie Testing
Is there a way to test specific frames within a movie, instead of running the whole movie?

Issues With Testing My Movie
I've been working on this project for about 4 weeks now and everything was going great. All of a sudden when I was testing my movie, the dimensions on the main page changed. I had a room with a blue floor and purple walls (background colour is purple as well. There are buttons going off of it and where i made the borders on the floor and walls, suddenly when i go to test the movie the window is bigger than normal and there is an extra purple border around everything. This is in Flash 5. And it's totally stressing me out, I'd appreciate a quick response since my project is due soon =)

Warning MSG When Testing Movie
I have been trying for the last 2 days to get a scrolling text box to work with this file: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Inter...6224/index.php

Whenever I follow the tutorials from this site (this one being the most recent one I tried http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/In...-629/index.php) on making scrolling text boxes I get this message in Output when I finish and attempt to test the movie: WARNING: This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 5 player
Symbol=inhalt4, Layer=txt, Frame=1: Flash MX Text Field Instance Name

Testing Movie Errors Plz Help
hi there everyone ...... im new to this thread and i didnt know where to post this problem ....

i have this wierd problem i dont know .... its within the macromedia flash it self .... it happened all of a sudden ... the problem is when i try to test my movie or scene or even publish it ... it wont take to me the test movie page .... and when i open the folder that i have the fla saved in i dont find the swf file at all...

when i tried to publish this fla this following error accoured

AppName: flash.exe AppVer: 6.0.25.0 ModName: flash.exe
ModVer: 6.0.25.0 Offset: 0037a61f

C:DOCUME~1XPPRESP3LOCALS~1Tempd7_appcompat.t xt

anyone tell me whats the problem and how i can solve it ????

ps : i uninstalled the macromedia flash then i reinstalled it and yet the problem didnt go>>>>

Suzan

Testing Movie In Actionscript 3
I'm not sure if this has been noted before;

When I explicitly define the location of the class in the import statement, and coincidentally there happens to be a class with the same name in the folder where the .fla file resides, the "compiler/run time processor" ignores the explicit declaration and uses the current folder. (see bwlow for layout)

This can take hours of frustration to figure out. I had to resort to moving the files that I knew i needed to a separate folder to make the movie work. Then move the other files one at a time until it failed!

This may be just a housekeeping issue, but it also appears to be an error in the compiler!!!

example:
if MoverTest.as is defined as

package
{
import com.Mover;

// etc........

and folder/file structure is:

c:flashMovertest.fla
c:flashMovertest.as
c:flashMover.as
c:flashcomMover.as

Help With Testing Publish Movie - F12
Sorry.. it's been a log few days and not a lot of sleep. When I hit F12 to test my work (buttons, layout, etc.), the flash pops on the screen and then disappears. I have checked my settings with the "default" settings and everything is okay there. Any suggestions on what I did wrong?

Thanks!

Testing My Movie + Php +mysql
Hi there,

I've been trying to test my movie, which calls php to call MYSQL, but I haven't been able to get it to access the database, and it just hangs.

Right now I'm running apache, mysql server, so I don't know what could be the problem. Is it possible the testing movie option doesn't work with php? And I'd actually have to make a html to have hope of accessing it?

Movie Ok On Testing But Not When Published
hi all, i have finish a little movie, so i've test it with Flash preview and all seem to be ok, but when i publish and open it with explorer or other browser, the movie isn't reproduced at all: expecially the song isn't charged and sound volume control also seem to be broken and not dragable.
The first frame of that movie start with an onLoad() instruction that have inside the rest of code for sound and controller.
On flash preview all is ok, but if i publish and open it with a browser that problems come out. How is it possible?

If i cut off the onLoad() all is reproduced also on browser, but the song is reproduced for many times, when animation pass for first frame.
how should i solve?

Flash Movie Looks Different When Testing
I created a simple animation movie clip for the flash project. When I
preview it in the movie clip everything is fine, but when I drag it out onto
the stage and then test the movie it looks really different! Is there
something I might be doing wrong?

Scott

Problems Testing Movie
Okay, so here's the problem: Im making an interactive animation in flash mx and when Im editing it on the stage the buttons all work fine. When I go to test movie the buttons lead to the wrong place. I checked the actions and they all seem right. Any ideas on what went wrong?
Thanks for any help you can give me!

Testing Movie /serious Bug In Flash?
ok, i have flash 7 and when i test a movie that loads an external .swf(control+enter) with the bandwidth profiler it either

a- loads fine but does not play the loaded movie on completion (whic it does on the internet)

or

b- when i hit (control+enter) again so it simulates download, the main movie ignores all my stops() and goes to the last frame and then simulates download.

very erratic, very annoying what the hell is flash mx 2004 doing?? it totally is driving me nuts..i cant even test a movie without getting crazy results.....anybody seen this before???

Everything Has Disappeared
I have loaded a few movieclips into an interactive cd-rom into separate movieclips. When it loads everything else disappears on the screen. Why? The code that is on the loading movieclip is:

Code:
onClipEvent(load) {
loadMovieNum("BitsandBytesSoftware.swf", _level1);
}

Everything Has Disappeared
The following code is on a movieclip that is loading a swf:

Code:
onClipEvent(load) {
loadMovieNum("AutumnRetirementVillage.swf", _level1);
}
The whole thing is an interactive cd-rom. The above movieclip is suppose to load where there are buttons both top and bottom but when I test the whole movie they don't show only the loaded swf shows.

Load Movie Testing Problems
Okay the problem I am having is this:

I am trying to test my movie for the slow V90 modem connection (just hit enter twice.) It works on my individual movies. But when I load the .swf files into the stage they just fly right past the preloading like it isn't there ... even though I did hit enter twice ... and a third time and a forth time. Any Idea on how to test this? I'd like to see how my movies flow together.

What I have is just the stage which has a blank MC on it ... and the first frame has this code.

loadMovie("preload.swf", "_root.clipload");

and the mc itself has this code

onClipEvent (load) {
setProperty("_root.loadme", _xscale, "100");
setProperty("_root.loadme", _yscale, "100");
}

so all it's doing is loading the preload in ... by just flies through it ... thanks in advance.

Testing Individual MC's Instead Of Entire Movie
Is there a way to test just a movie clip you've created versus testing the entire movie? I know there's also a "test scene" option, but I've heard nobody really uses scenes anymore since MC's came along. Anyhow, it seems like there should be a way cause it's a pain to have to test the entire movie when I just want to see a small movie clip in it. Thanks!

[mx04] Trouble Testing My Movie
hi i wonder if anybody can help...a few weeks ago i could test my movie just fine and now when ever i go to test my movie/website it seems to take around 4 minutes at least! the site is only 76kb!?!! does anyone know what could be the problem slowing it down?
thanks for ur help

Flash CS3 Slow After Testing Movie?
I've looked all over for an answer to the question and called Adobe but no luck so far.

I got CS3 when it came out and was pleasantly surprised to find Flash very quick on my iMac G5 2GHz with 1.5GB RAM. But after a while, I noticed that it would randomly slow down. I'd use it for a few minutes, then suddenly, everything would lag, particularly moving around in the Actions panel. For example, it becomes very hard just to highlight text or scroll up and down.

After a couple months of this, I've realized that it seems to happen after I do a Test Movie. If I just open Flash and use it without ever testing, its fine. And its not every time I test, but often enough.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas?

UiScroller Is Not Working While Testing The Movie
Hi guys,

I have a small problem with my movieclip in flash. I created a dynamic text area inside a movie clip where I have text inside of it. And then I put a UIScrollBar next to the text area. The parameters of the scroller are OK and the instance name of the text are as well. I also made the text "scrollable" so that the text should be able to read up to bottom. When I test the movie (ctrl + enter) the flash file works great. But when I preview it on a browser, I can´t see any text where I should see. There´s in only left the UIScroller. The text is just invisible

So do you know what´s the problem and what I should do next to get it to work?

Text Missing When Testing Movie
Hi,

I recently updated text in a page. Now, when I test the movie, random characters within the modified text are missing. Is this a bug or am I overlooking something?
I am using Adobe Flash CS3 on Windows XP.
I appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks!

Skipping Ahead In Testing Movie
Is there another way to test a certain part of a movie without using scenes or without putting content in a new frame and using a gotoAndPlay to go to that frame?

I am looking for a way to skip over content so that I don't have to watch it each time I test my movie- when I move some code from one frame to the next it stops working.

Movie Clip Position Testing
Is there a way to test the _y of all movie clips and set a function that if there is a movie clip at _y = 75 that it is 'topMovie' and if another clip is at (topMovie + topMovie._height) THAT movie will be 'secondMovie' and so on ad infinitum?

I'm reaching the edge of my knowledge, so thanks for your help

Attach Movie Position Testing
when movieclips are atached to the stage using
math.random()*whatever
obviously some clips will be placed on top of each other.
how can i test that this is happening and make changes to their positions based on whether they are touching or not.

function makeball() {
_root.attachMovie("project", "project"+depth, depth);
_root["project"+depth]._x = Math.random()*300;
_root["project"+depth]._y = Math.random()*300;
if (depth>=20) {
clearInterval(intervalid);
}
depth++;
}
intervalid = setInterval(makeball, 120);

this is how im attaching the movies.
help appreciated

UiScrollBar Is Not Working While Testing The Movie
Hi guys,

I have a small problem with my movieclip in flash as3. I created a dynamic text area inside a movie clip where I have text inside of it. And then I put a UIScrollBar next to the text area. The parameters of the scroller are OK and the instance name of the text are as well. I also made the text "scrollable" so that the text should be able to read up to bottom. When I test the movie (ctrl + enter) the flash file works great. But when I preview it on a browser, I canÂ´t see any text where I should see. ThereÂ´s in only left the UIScroller.

So do you know whatÂ´s the problem and what I should do next to get it to work?

Music Disappeared
I have just created my first Flash page and its turned out pretty good. I added an mp3 to it and tested it out and that made it even better. Then I went to show it to my brother and the music doesn't load anymore, on any computer. Is this a flash problem or a problem with the server I loaded the mp3 to?

Sound Disappeared
I made a swf that had an embedded sound started with

s = new Sound();
s.attachSound("lnkSound");
s.start(0, 999);

where the "lnkSound" is the linkage symbol for a sound object.

Worked great. Then I included the movie as a library in another movie with attachMovie() from within a movie clip. The movie loaded and worked great, but the sound doesn't start?
What's up with that?
I noticed that I had to change some instance names when using
with( object )
after the movie was externally loaded. Is the sound issue something similar?

BR,

Michael

[F8] Stage Has Disappeared
Hi,
Could anyone help? When I start a new document in Flash 8 Pro, I do not seem to have a stage/workplace on my screen. I get the tools, timeline, and whatever window panels I want, but in the stage area all I get is white. While visiting a friend who has Flash Pro 8, I noticed that upon starting a new document he had a white stage against a gray workplace. How can I get Flash to show a white stage against a gray workplace? As I remember when I first installed the program that is what I had. Something has happened and I can not seem to get back to the default setting. All I have is white and it is impossible to determine where the stage begins and where it ends. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Alyn

Controls Disappeared
hello...

i've been experimenting with converting a quicktime file to .swf, so that it can be embedded into myspace...yes...i know i'm a bit lame...anyway, i can see the controls when it's tested in flash, and the html file, i've uploaded it to my own website, but when i then embed it onto the myspace page, the file plays, but the controls have disappeared...

myspace

any help would be greatly appreciated...

sj

My Transparency Has Disappeared In Swf?
Hi,

I am designing a site for a company and they want a redesign of the Counselling Icon (http://www.simpson-house.org). I have done this on my iMac. I have recreated the button,as before, with a rollover effect which includes a fade out then a fade in on the rollover, then the reverse on the rollout. It all works fine until I test the swf. I created the transparency by having the alpha of my graphic set to 0% on frame 1 of the MC, then motion tweening to alpha=100% on frame 15. Everything works apart from the alpha and there are no errors in the output. The code for the Movieclip which functions as a button is attached. For a working Preview please go to Simpson-House. The other icons are working fine on my iMac. Can anyone explain why my new icon isn't displaying the transparency when loaded, even though the other icons are?

Many thanks.

JG

Simpson-House

Attach Code

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onRelease = function(){
getURL("Counselling/counselling.html");
}

//There is a "stop ()" on Frame 15//

Flash Disappeared
Hi All,
I have a published Flash file here: http://www.rudolph-pork-rinds.com/scrapbook.php that has suddenly quit working on many computers. For the computers that won't play it, an error message appears: "Flash Player 6 required. Get it here:...." I suspect that computers with Flash Player v10 are the ones that are unable to make it work. I have tried re-publishing the file to higher Players (the highest I can go is v8) and no luck. Same error message. Any advice would be most appreciated!
Aimee

My .fla File Disappeared?
I've been working on a flash file all day and have saved multiple times. The last time I tried to save it kept giving me the error "Unknown error occurred while accessing index.fla" which was the name of the file I was working on and had saved multiple times throughout the day.

I tried changing the name, saving it in a different location, etc., same error. I figured if I closed and reopened it I would just lose the changes made since the last save, which was about 20 minutes prior. No big deal right?

I closed flash without saving (since it wouldn't let me, kept giving that error), and go to reopen the file from the folder I saved it in all day and it is GONE!

The .html and .swf files are there from my last save/publish.

How could it just disappear? Its not in my trash and I searched for it...it's no where to be found.

Please help me before I throw my computer out the window.

Timeline Disappeared
I'm just learning Flash, and suddenly I can't see the timeline--it's up, and I can see where it was, and the layers, and I've tried everything but I don't see the frames. When I go back to documents I worked on before, it's not there either (these are exercises from Lynda.com) and when I make a new doc it's not there either. Feels like the Twilight Zone. Any help out there? Thanks.

My Text Has Disappeared
Dear All

I have a text component which I have linked to an external sytle sheet and a text file (all located in the same folder).

I convereted the text component to a movie clip so that I could have it coming in from the side of my file. This all worked fine and dandy.

I then decided that a mask would be a good idea, just ot tidy it up. I placed a mask fdirectly above the text layer and linked them.

The mc (with the component) flies in very neatly now, but the text has disappeared. In the help files I read something that gave me the idea of turning the mask into an mc but that didn't help.

You can see the offending artilce at

www.maxelcat.co.uk/redwood/forum4.html

Press on the "About us" link

I would greately value any support

thanks

Edward

[F8] Globals Only Work When Testing Movie In Flash
Hi,
I'm developing a program that is compiled of a lot of different files. I have a global array created by a file loaded into the 3rd level (just using loadMovie at this point). Then I have assets in a file loaded into the 1st level that use data from that global array.

When I test the flash application inside of flash (using control->test movie) it works fine, but when I go to play it in the Stand Alone Flash player or in the browser it no longer works, the global variable appears undefined to the other levels. Any idea why this is?

I know that the global is being created and populated correctly because I set up a text box on level3 and level0, level3 shows the correct array and level0 shows undefined. Any ideas?

Initialize FlashVars When Testing Movie In Flash
I have a flash movie that uses FlashVars to get parameters from the object/embed tags in the html. When I test the movie in flash (control+enter) these variables are not available. Is there a way to initialize the FlashVars when testing the movie in flash (as opposed to in a web browser)?

Usability Problem: MC In Focus While Testing Movie
hi there

it's strange: when I test my movie from inside flash 9 (ctrl+enter)
the MC I just edited keeps in focus:

when I test a game and press UP DOWN etc.
the MC inside my fla is moving too,
while the compiled swf is playing!
that's really annoying!

how do i fix that?

Video Looks Pixelated When Exported, But Not When Testing Movie
EDIT Problem has been solved. I was exporting my SWF file into a folder that had an older encoded video file with the same name (the same video file, but smaller in size). So that's why it was looking like that.

I've imported an encoded video file into my flash movie. When I imported it I changed the dimensions to make it a little bigger. I thought this might make it look pixelated, but when I clicked Test Movie it looked completely fine. Then I exported the movie and opened the SWF file and now the video looks pixelated.

Anyone know why this is happening?

I don't see how it could be the Export options since (if I'm not mistaken) when you change those options, and click Test Movie after, you see the changes (like JPEG quality).

Help?

Edited: 08/23/2007 at 01:15:14 PM by menela

Mask Doesn't Work While Testing Movie?
i seem to be having an issue where my mask will functin inside my flash project, but once i try to test my movie, it no longer functions

i am masking a jpeg as well as a transparent object imported from illustrator... any ideas what would cause this?

Testing Movie On A Remote Machine (server)
one machine is functioning as a server.
on the other machine i run a swf file (test movie).
i want it to function as if it is on the same machine.
i get an error (504)
Error opening URL 'bla bla bla......../flashlogin.aspx'
is there any definitions that i have to define in order to connect?
(the guy that works on the server side files says its my problem and i have to format windows and install flash again i am sure that there is a less complicated and time consuming solution.)

Flash Movie Works When Testing, But Not In Application
My flash movie works when I "Test Movie" within Flash 8 or when I press F12 and open it in the browser, but it only show the dynamic text, not the pictures when I place it within my page. The dynamic text changes properly but no images are displayed.

Loading Jpgs Into Movie
How would i go about loading a jpg into a container clip so that it fits the current size of the container, rather than the container clip shrinking to fit the current size of the jpg?

The container gets resized with the stage (using an onResize event listener) and when i click on a thumbnail to load the next picture i want it to load into the same space and dimensions as the previous picture. At the moment i am using

thumb1.onPress = function()
{
container.loadMovie("pic1.jpg");
}

then resizing the stage/browser resizes the clip.

when i load another picture from a thumbnail using

thumb2.onPress = function()
{
container.loadMovie("pic2.jpg");
}

it loads the picture into the container clip, but the clip shrinks to fit the size of pic2. What i need is for the picture to load at the same size as the previous one, if you know what i mean?.
Hope this makes sense!!.
Thanks for any help.