Flash :: Just Taking The Sound Off Videos

Alternating Sound Between Two Videos
I have two videos and I want to make the sound play when the mouse is over one then stop when mouse leaves that video, and same for the other video. So the effect you get is that on mouseover of one of the videos the sound plays for that video only.

I can play both videos fine loading up two seperate .flv's as two different instances of NetStream.

To load the audio for one of them so that I can control it I usually do

NetStream for these two are ns1 and ns2

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("snd1", 0);
snd1.attachAudio(ns1);

audio1 = new Sound(snd1);
audio1.setVolume(0);
So that I can control the volume as well using audio1. But as soon as I repeat this code but using ns2, snd2, and audio2, both audios play and I can't seem to control even one of them. Is one of these variables some time of global?

How can I control the audio of two seperate videos?

Thanks very much for any and all help.

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Why Is Taking That Much CPU?
In the project that I'm working on, I have under a mask (about 500x200) a movieclip with 4 pictures that are motion tweened and in the end of the mc some text motion tweened.
In the main scene I have some bouncing balls actionscripted, using some gravity formulas.
Now the problem....
When I play the swf, in the first part (the one with the pictures motion tweened) the bouncing balls are visibly slowed down (as if frame rate dropes), and I notice also that the CPU usage is quite high (85% approx.).
When the timeline arrives in the 2nd part (the one with the motion tweened text) everything is back to normal (CPU usage drops too...).

The size of the swf is 130k...the 4 imported pictures are PNG...Can I do something to fix the sluggish play in the first part?
Thank you!

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3d For The Taking
Hi Gang,

I got pointed to a link by pedalspeed (most helpful chap). It was in the thread entitled "node code".

So anyway.. I took the code there and built a framework for the underlying 3d transforms (which I can't really understand cause Im sorta math stupid .

What I basically have here is a few objects which generate point sets (cirlces, cubes, and a grid) and a corresponding pointSet interpreters.

The point object is kinda special because it represents a point in space. I have a wrapper that assigns a glyph (mc) to each point. I did this because as I was coding a point, it just seemed to me that how the point is drawn is an arbitrary detail. Doing it this way, I could actually draw a 3d mc and attach that as the glyph to represent the point.

In sharing this, I hope others will build 3d (or 2d) point set objects and their interpreters. I was thinking about pie charts, or a globe even .

Lastly, the hardcore oopers may notice several patterns here. An iterator, a visitor and a factory. I think this piece represents a pretty broad range of the stuff I have learned about object oriented programming thus far.

anyway.. enjoy.

http://www.nebulouscore.com/examples/flash_3d_mod6.swf (+.fla)

> <

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I Am Taking A Poll....please Help
Hello to all web developers. I am trying to take a poll about frustrations. Particulary using rich media authoring. There are a couple of questions actually....and they apply to all - beginners thru expert.

1. What frustrates you the most about using flash or rich media tools. Including audio & audio editing, graphics, animations (vector & bitmaps)and actionscripting??

2. What products/libraries/rescources would make your life easier - and save you time and money?? Even if they do not exist yet?? (For example....a library of flash web forms that covered a variety of scripting formats, PHP, CGI, Java- all drag n drop)

3. Would flash developers be interested in media assets like audio loop libraries, interactive flash banner libraries, motion graphic clip libraries, smart clip libraries....etc??

Thanks for your poll feedback...just interested in what others think!!

Sinnaudio

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Taking Out An Actionscript
I am trying to find the actionscript in a flash document that I have for a client and I cannot find the script. I am using Flash MX has anything changed? I remember having an a in the frame before.

Please help...

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Taking Actionscripting A Little Further ..
I want to take my actionsripting a little further than just gotoAndPlay() and tellTarget kind of actions. Can anyone recomend a good book, not to advanced and not novice-like ..?
Lars

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Taking .fla Exporting To .swf
Good morning all.

I am currently working a swish site and i'm using a flash plug in to import my .txt files.

i can get one to work using the original .fla files but when i try to export as a new .swf file all i get are scroll buttons.

here is an attached file. hope someone can help also here is the recommended actions. but i just can't seem to get it working.

Actions for (No Instance name assigned) (Scroll down)
onClipEvent ( enterFrame ) {
if (lPressed) {
_root.allpages.about_us.MySprite.TextBox.scroll += 1;
}
}

Actions for (No Instance name assigned) (Scroll up)
onClipEvent ( enterFrame ) {
if (lPressed) {
_root..allpages.about_us.MySprite.TextBox.scroll -= 1;
}
}

Actions for Frame 1 of Layer Named Layer 1
loadVariablesNum ("about_us.txt", 0); "this is where it is suppose to take my .txt file but no go"

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Taking A Look At ActionScript
I have about 20 pages worth action script... is it possible to print it out with the proper colors.... so that i can debug it on paper??? cause if i cut and paste it to notepad... all i get is black and white code...

Thanks,
Carlos

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Airplane Taking Off?
i am going to be building a web site for a local travel agency. they wanted to have a intro with a airplane taking off from a runway. preferrably a 747 or something like that. i have looked all over here for a intro that would suite something like that and i could then load text to match the web site. does anyone know where i could find a fla file of this?

if not a airplane, then a cruiseship. anything for the travel agency. it just is going to be a intro then will autoredirect to the index2.htm page.

thanks in advanced...

sorry if i posted this in the wrong place, i wasnt sure where to post this.

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Taking Away From Score
Ok ive got this game, you shoot things out of the sky to get points, now i want to add things that if you shoot them it takes away points.

I just guessed this but it dosnt work
code:
_root.score - 1;

Thanks for any help you can give

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Taking The LAG Out Of The Movie
http://www.mannymedia.com/mulfolio

is the site portfolio im working on...

in the portfolio... the motion is laggy...
the bandwidth profiler says its using 34 KB...

is that whats making it lag.... if so, how do i bring that down?
nothing is animating when the folio comes on in the site...

http://www.mannymedia.com/mulfolio/folio.htm is how fluid the movements is supposed to be...

THANK YOU MILLIONS IN ADVANCE... kind of a tight deadline to...

-manny

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Taking A Screenshot
What is the keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot of a finished Flash Movie?

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Taking The Audio From SWF
Hi.
I'm recreating a project from a bunch of SWFs and I don't have the original FLAs. Is there a good way to extract the audio from the SWFs so I can re-build the animation?

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[F8] Taking Animation Out
Hello all. Long time listener, 1st time caller here. Here's my issue:

I have designed a website using a template that the client selected from a website. Included in this was a flash header. The site itself contains a database and is also spliced with wordpress/AJAX technology. I'm having some issues with the flash header. My backend guy needs me to give him the .fla file, but needs it to contain NO ANIMATION. i do not have flash experience. is this complicated to do? like i said...i have the original flash file as well as the compiled .swf file. where do i got from here. you can view the header at:

http://www.inspgh.com

please help me flash heads!

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Taking Xml Literally
let's say i load in some XML:
<root>
<pos>
<x>stage.stageWidth</x>
</pos>
</root>

And let's say i have a movieclip i would like to position by way of the xml value. This is simple if my value is numeric. But in this case, it's a relative position based on an unknown. Is there a way to import this value from xml, and later in my code , state:

mc.x=xml.pos.x

??

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Taking To XML Through ActionScript
Hi there,

I'm currently working on a Flash Menu 'carosuel' and I've got to a point were I can't work out how to get the carousel to slow down and stop spinning once the cursor rolls out from the Flash area. I'm pulling in XML too, which I'm finding a bit tricky. Here's my code:

#include "mc_tween2.as"
import mx.utils.Delegate;
import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
var blur:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(0, 0, 1);

var numOfItems:Number;
var radiusX:Number = 320;
var radiusY:Number = 50;
var centerX:Number = Stage.width / 2 - 15;
var centerY:Number = Stage.height / 2.4;
var speed:Number = 0.05;
var perspective:Number =15;
var home:MovieClip = this;
var blurX:Number = 30;

var tooltip:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("tooltip","tooltip",10000);
tooltip._alpha = 0;

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;

xml.onLoad = function()
{
var nodes = this.firstChild.childNodes;
numOfItems = nodes.length;
for(var i=0;i<numOfItems;i++)
{
var t = home.attachMovie("item","item"+i,i+1);
t.angle = i * ((Math.PI*2)/numOfItems);
t.onEnterFrame = mover;
t.toolText = nodes[i].attributes.tooltip;
t.icon.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);
t.r.inner.loadMovie(nodes[i].attributes.image);
t.icon.onRollOver = over;
t.icon.onRollOver = blurX;
t.icon.onRollOut = out;
t.icon.onRelease = released;
}
}

function over()
{
trace (home.tooltip.thing._y);
home.tooltip.thing._y = -180;
home.tooltip.thing.tween ("_y",-119,.5,"easeOutQuart");
home.tootip
home.tooltip._alpha = 0;
//home.tooltip._x = home.tooltip._x - 40;
home.tooltip.alphaTo(100, 1.5, "easeOutQuart");
//home.tooltip.tween((home.tooltip._x + 40), 1.5, "easeOutQuart");
home.tooltip.tipText.text = this._parent.toolText;
home.tooltip._x = this._parent._x;
home.tooltip._y = this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
home.tooltip.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this,moveTip);
}

function out()
{

delete home.tooltip.onEnterFrame;
home.tooltip.alphaTo(0, 1, "easeOutQuart");
//home.tooltip._alpha = 0;
}

function released()
{
trace(this._parent.toolText);
}

function moveTip()
{
home.tooltip._x = this._parent._x;
home.tooltip._y = this._parent._y - this._parent._height/2;
}

xml.load("icons.xml");

function mover()
{
this._x = Math.cos(this.angle) * radiusX + centerX;
this._y = Math.sin(this.angle) * radiusY + centerY;
var s = (this._y - perspective) /(centerY+radiusY-perspective);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s*100;
this._alpha = s*150-5;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale) + 100);
this.blurY = s*150;
trace(s);
this.filters = [blur];

//this._alpha = this._y - 525;
/* blur.blurX = speed * 5;
//blur.blurY = -this._y / 10 + 62.5;
this.filters = [blur];

var s:Number = this._y/(centerY+radiusY);
this._xscale = this._yscale = s*100;
this._alpha = s*150-70;
this.angle += this._parent.speed;
this.swapDepths(Math.round(this._xscale+100));
}
*/
}

this.onMouseMove = function()
{
speed = (this._xmouse-centerX)/10000;

blur.blurX = Math.abs(speed * 200);
this.filters = [blur];
}

Any help would be much apreciated!

Thanks

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Anyone Mind Taking A Look?
Please Take a look at my attached .FLA so you can see what I'm trying to explain....All Help Is GREATLY appreciated
================================================== ==========================================

Basically I have 6 Layers

RedButton
Blue Button
Green Button
OrangeButton
Text
Actions

Each of the buttons corresponds to a different word which I have nested inside the "Text" movieclip which when pressed SHOULD bring up the word with a little alpha from 0-100
Each word has an instance name to be referred to as well.

Here's my action script for the first button

this.RedButton.on(release){
_parent.Text.Hello.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

When it compiles it gives me an error of "Field name expected after "." operator. Anyone know what this is or how I can fix my code....see any other errors? What's the best way to approach this movie?

Thank you for all your help...you guys are awesome.

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Taking A Snapshot
hey guys, im using the webcam function in flash to take photos, does anyoen now how to save these photos into a database, i want the user to be able to take there photo, put there name, and appear in a highscore for a game, any ideas???

this is my code so far

output_vid.attachVideo(Camera.get());

import flash.display.BitmapData
import flash.geom.Matrix

var snapshot:BitmapData=new BitmapData(x=155,y=120);
var snapshot2:BitmapData=new BitmapData(x=155,y=120);

function takeSnapshot(nr)
{
snapshot.draw(output_vid,new Matrix());
}
function takeSnapshot2(nr)
{
snapshot2.draw(output_vid,new Matrix());
}

i have 2 buttons that take the snapshots

cheers

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Taking Snapshots
hey frendz i need an actionscript 2 code through which i can take a snapshot of two dynamically loaded images into a movieclip and save it as a .jpg image.
plz help me out!!!!!!!!!

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Taking A Number Out
Hi again,

Thank you very much for your help, it worked like magic.

I have come to another dilema,

I am trying to make a televison that when a combination of numbers are pressed, and enter is pushed, it will go to a specific scene depending on what numbers were pushed.

Code:
Button_Enter.onPress = function()
{
_root.gotoAndPlay("Website_" + channel.text, 0);
}
That is the script for the Enter button.

Website_ is the name of the scene + channel.text which is the number

When typing in the numbers to bring up a certain page, if its a single digit, some people might put a 0 infront of the number. Example 08 instead of 8 just like on a TV. Is there a way to set it so that if they punched in 0, it would still bring up 8 so that i wouldnt have to make two scenes just incase they punched in 08 or 8.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

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Taking Cover
okay, im making some kind of shooter game and does anyone know how to make something like that you press space while standing next to some object, you'll take cover?

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Swf Taking Up Whole Browser?
I want to have my site with a swf that is taking up the whole browser. So if someone is at a smaller resolution it will shrink perfectly to their browser. same with larger resolutions...

I see that some have javascript detecting browser size?

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Flash Taking Over?
This is a simple question but I want enough feedback to make a informed decision in the future. While I think it is important to keep up to speed on multiple languages and techniques with web design, it seems as though a majority of the 'major' website's these days are being taken over by entire flash sites. So I guess my question is, should I concentrate my learning on Flash to keep up to speed with the industry or is this just a 'flashy' (no pun intended) time consuming, pricy solution for large scale sites? Everyone's opinion is of value..

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Taking On An Intro
Hiya guys!

I was thinking, when taking on an intro for ones site, what approach is the easiest?

If I were to make an intro, I'd go with one MC per layer in the main scene, then use a s***load of framelabels and telltargets. So one MC starts out, when it reaches a certain frame#, it triggers another MC... and so forth...

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Taking Screenshots?
Hi,
Does anyone know how to take a screen shot? Also can you take a screen shot of anything on the web or just your own?
I'm not sure how the subject works so I don't know the boundries of it all..

Thanks in advance
postatomic

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Hi, Will Flash ever take over from PHP, ASP etc? Will sites be taken over completely by flash? What are the disadvantages of using Flash on websites?

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ive sent published flash animations from my home computer to the school computers so i can put them on my website. I transferred the .html files but they are taking too long to load.

Also when i try too enter them into frontpage, it says that the format isnt supported!

What do I do???

P.S im using flash 4 and the computer at school isnt slow, but yet it isnt loading

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Layers Taking Up More Space?
I was wondering, if you have a lot of layers will it take up more space and make the movie slower to load?
I made a few things animated should I convert to symbol and choose movie and then drag them back into the stage?

I hope I was clear enough..thanks for the help.

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Taking Screen Pics
You know in the tutorials on Flashkit, how you guys take a picture of the screen as is for a demonstration? How does one do this, capture a still image of whatever object (ie. dialog box) is on the screen. Just curious? Please answer

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My Preloader Is Taking To Long To Appear
I am using loadMovie to load external swfs onto level 4.
they are all around 500k. each swf's preloader is on the main timeline of scene 1 while the rest of the animation is on scene 2. My problem is that the preloader does not show up for several seconds when I use
loadMovie("blank.swf",4); even with a fast connection
I am having this problem
does any one know how to make the preloader show up faster.

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Well i was wondering if anybody knows if it's possible when using the webcam stream ('camera.get();') you could take a picture from it and save it as a *.jpg file ?

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Sometimes you have to do stuff the wrong way.

My colleague is converting a powerpoint files to an .swf using Presentation Pro, and I have to create a main flash player that will play all these converted files, hopefully while taking some control over the loaded .swf.

Can I identify what frame a .swf is on when I loadmovie, and (more to the point) can I take control of what frame it is on from the parent movie that i will be creating?

So... Parent movie needs to identify current frame on loaded .swf and manipulate the timeline...

Thank you much...

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Taking Out The " In A Variable?
hello,

I need to replace the " in Var1

Ex: Var1 = "Lets "see" if this will work"

I need to make it: Var1 = "Lets see if this will work"

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Loading Taking Forever?
hi, i have a site at jasondilworth.tripod.com and i uploaded a swf file on it which is only 6kb and it never loads. I'm annoyed by it because I know I should be able to nicely load up 100k or so nice and quick on my broadband? god knows what it would be like on 56k. The fact is it never loads at all. can someone help?

thanks

jay

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Preloader Taking Too Long.... Why? OH WHY? ... Anyone..? Please... ;)
Hi there... desperately looking for some help on this one.....

I'm working on this site for a band - it's been giving me major headaches.... now after about the 5th time of setting it up from scratch - it does take ages for the pop up window that displays the page to show the preloader.... it kicks in about 20-25%...

Does anyone know what I can do about this....?

Tried to set up 2 frames, bringing in the screen and background before the preloader - tried starting the preloader in the very first frame as normal - tried to set up a preloader for the preloader and failed miserably... :'(

If anyone could take a look and help me out here... that would be GREAT!!!

http://www.graphiceyedea.co.uk/redhed/update4
(the site is still work in progress, some preloaders still missing for the sections and sound to be added, apart from most of the content)

Thanks for listening....
Prisca

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Taking The Commas Out Of An Array
Hi
I've just started getting my head around arrays and I'm using one to return a list of songs to a dynamic text field.
Is there a way of getting the text field to ignore the commas that seperate the array's values?

example

//code to set up array and load xml

songList.push(node.firstChild.firstChild)

//more code to loop through all nodes

var readout = songlist

ends up with

a text field reading out

Blackbird,There's Something at the Bottom of the Black Pool,The Good Gardener

any ideas?
fp

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Ok, i have a cable modem, and the file size is only 989 bytes, but OMG this takes forever to load. WHY?

It's only 1 pic, 2 sentences, 1 of the sentences links to homepage.html

http://sdc.recongamer.com/

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I have a website that has a preloader, and it works fine. The problem is that the movie it's trying to load is about 650kb and it really seems like somethings wrong.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

--DK

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Hi Guys I seen a tutoral some were on taking a Image out of its back ground and pitting it on a new background. but now I cant find it can some one tell me were the tutorial is or if you know how can you tell me how to do it. thank you

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here is a link to the flash website that i am working on for a FBLA competition. It is taking forever to load and i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to shorten the time. The .swf file is 309 kb in size.

http://www.angeltowns.com/town/wehsf...lish/index.htm

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it is taking at least 20min to export my movie as a swf. file. I can't figure out what is going on. Any advice would be fantastK.
thanx

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If I have a variable like:
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animal1number = 2
animal2 = seal
animal2number = 5

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I have made an animation.ý use a picture in that animation but i want it to be randomly came from a folder named images.How can i achieve that.

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Hello everyone,

I've noticed that when I publish my final Flash design, it can take anywhere for 3 to 5 hours to complete the publishing process. This seems ridiculous to me. Is anyone else out there experiencing similar problems with very long publishing times?

I'm using a dual processor G5 Mac with 2 gigs of RAM - Mac OS 10.3.8. I'm using Flash MX Pro 2004 version 7.2 (the entire Studio MX package is installed on my system.

Back when I was using Flash 5, publishing took just minutes. I've been publishing a typical file today and it's been running more that 4 hours (it's still in progress right now). The computer is working fine. Other Flash designs I've created in Flash MX also take several hours to publish. My Flash layouts generally have between 4 and 8 scenes. All of the images are optimized for Flash (small index color or RBG jpg, gif or png files, 72 dpi). Nothing unusual at all.

I cannot find any information about this problem on Macromedia's web site.

Any ideas? Comments?

Thank you,
nycomet

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.Fla Taking Forever To Create .swf
Hi

I'm running Flash MX 2004 Pro
I've got an 8 meg .Fla file
that spits out a 450 k .swf file (not complaining)

I've got a problem (yea yea I know, otherwise we wouldn't be here)

My Flash movie is taking 8-12 minutes to publish my .swf file.
This is very annoying considering i'm still working on the website, and i need to publish fairly often.

I have another Fla for another flash website that I'm working on, both the .swf and the .fla is 2-3 times as large, but only takes 20 seconds to publish.
I compared publish settings, their identical. I've have no extra apps running in background, fast computer high memory etc.. (As in the problem isn't my computer)

I haven't come across such a huge publish time before. (at least in my projects anyway, I once downloaded a 40 meg FLA file that consisted mostly of bitmaps etc put together for a 15 minute animation and that took a while to publish)

The problem FLA consists of:
Very few bitmaps
Mostly vector graphics
6 large flash forms. With text fields radio buttons, checkboxes. (all loaded in seperate scollPanes
10 or so scrollPanes
simple actionscript (mostly timeline control)
content loaded externall through scrollpanes
music tack loaded via actionscript on level1

Thats about it. I'm not sure whats making flash take so long. It doesn't crash freeze etc.. and its the only FLA file I have that takes so long to publish. I don't have the option to scrap it and start over. And waiting so long to publish it for testing is wastng alot of my time (I'm waiting for it to publish yet again as I write this)

Has anyone seen or heard of this kind of problem before??

Does anyone have suggestions on how to reduce the publish time?

Does anyone think it could be the large forms? (if so I can load them from external .swfs if need be)

I need all the help I can get on this.

Thanks for at least reading this far

-Lem

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I have a movie which calls an xml file into the movie in this code

xml_file = "images.xml";

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If the parameter is 1 i want to load images1.xml and if it is 2 i want to load images2.xml how can i do that?

How can i pass the variable from URL?

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Taking Too Long To Publish The .swf
My problem: I developed a short movie in Flash MX 2004 Pro v 7.2, consisting of 6 scenes, one very similar to the other, in which only one scene contains tweened animation. Its actionsctionscript is very simple and the movie size is only 720 kb. However, when I want to test the movie or export it, it takes forever to be done; more than five minutes is my perception. I showed the .fla to a couple of people with more experience than me, and they could not find any visible problems with the code. I suspect it may be a bug in the program, but I have not found information to solve it. Can anyone give me some advice? I will greatly appreciate any help.
I uploaded the .fla in case someone wants to give it a look.
Gilberto

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