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Dynamic Ad Never Changing Flashfile
My boss and I are looking for a way to create an advertisement/menu for products we are selling using flash.

We would like to create the flash file that can acquire the info for the products (pictures,prices)from a database file(XML,PHP,etc.) without having to change the entire flash file. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Here is an example:
http://www.primordialworld.com/pm/dym_menu.html

Thanks in advance
Ben

Windowless Popup Containing A Flashfile
is there some fix way of loading a flash file in it's own window, with no (transparrent) background nor frame?

FlashFile.swf?text=<virable>
Hello ... I made a flash file that has the Virable <text>

I need to get the value from an external link .... the file name is flashfile.swf ... how i can make it that that I can get the virable in this way flashfile.swf?text=<virable> ???? then I can use this virable inside this flash file ???

Thank you all for your time

Sarmad M. Azad
Førde, Norway

Problem With My Flashfile Being Played In Any Browser..
hey there..

I'm at my wits end, I really have no idea what's wrong, if it's my computer of not.. so well, that's what happens:

I used to be able to preview my flashfile, embedded in the html site. now, I cannot see it anymore. neither in the IE, Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefos, the newer version of Mozilla.

the thing is, even when I upload it for tests to a server, it - at first - isn't being shown, but then starts to load. but with an incredible speed of one frame all three seconds or something.

so.. what could be wrong with a) my browsers, or b) my flash file..?

thank you for your help, and, in case you wanna look what I mean, try this link:

http://www.freewebs.com/hope_floats/home.html

How Do I Load A Flashfile In My HTML Script.
Can someone tell me how i make a basic HTML page where i can load my flash site?

Use Choices In Flashfile To Create Project Plan
I recently got the assignment to create a director cd-rom which offers the user the abillity to choose either start a software install, play a video and also to generate a customized project plan. The install, video and the other stuff is no problem, but the project plan is.

The idea is that by using some sort of 'wizard', users have to go through several steps that will result in a printable project plan.
Step 1 would be editing a textarea, step 2 choosing 5 items out of a list of 8, step 3 choosing 1 button out of 4 etc..

How to correctly catch those choices and neatly insert them in the project plan template (with correct layout) puzzles me.

What would be the best way to approach this ?

Playing A Flashfile In A Clean Popup Window
Can someone tell me how I get a flasfile /movieclip (swf) to pop up in a nice and clean external window, without any "garbage" arround in Microsoft explorer???? Thanks
Olaf

Play Flashfile Start In Freeze Frame
Can someone tell me how or give me the scrict so my video/ movefile can start in freeze frame....
Olaf

XML Thumbnail Gallery Works When Published In As1, When Published In As2 It Fails
if anyone can help, I believe it's a scoping issue?????

//import mx.transitions.*;
//import mx.transitions.easing.*;

// Create a new XML object.
//var myPhoto:XML = new XML();
myPhoto = new XML();
myPhoto.ignoreWhite = true;
myPhoto.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {

trace("success");

var numimages = this.firstChild.childNodes.length;
spacing = 70;
j = 0;

for (i=0; i<numimages; i++) {
picHolder = this.firstChild.childNodes[i];
thumbHolder = thumbnails.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail"+i, i);
thumbLoader = thumbholder.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_image" , 0);
thumbLoader.loadMovie(picHolder.attributes.thmb);
trace(picHolder.attributes.thmb);
thumbHolder.style = picHolder.attributes.style;
thumbHolder.designer = picHolder.attributes.designer;
thumbHolder.cost = picHolder.attributes.cost;
thumbHolder.main = picHolder.attributes.main;
thumbHolder.caption = picHolder.attributes.caption;

thumbLoader.main = loader.createEmptyMovieClip("main_image", 0);

/////// load movie /////////

/*var mcl_obj:Object = new Object();
mcl_obj.onLoadInit = function(loader:MovieClip) {

//image_src._alpha=0;
new Tween(loader, "_alpha", Strong.easeIn, 0, 100, .8, true);
};

var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
my_mcl.addListener(mcl_obj);
my_mcl.loadClip(picHolder.attributes.main);*/

////////// end ////////////

if (j == 4) {
y += 50;
x = 0;
j = 0;
}
thumbHolder._y = y;
thumbHolder._x = j*spacing;
j++;

thumbHolder.onRollover = function() {
roll.gotoAndPlay(2);
roll.startDrag(this);
roll.test_txt.text = this.caption;
};
thumbHolder.onRollout = function() {
roll.gotoAndStop(1);
roll.test_txt.text = " ";
};
thumbHolder.onRelease = function() {
roll.gotoAndStop(1);
loader.loadMovie(this.main);
style.htmlText = this.style;
designer.htmlText = this.designer;
cost.htmlText = this.cost;
};
}
}
};
myPhoto.load("xmlphoto.xml");

Is FMS 2.5 Published?
Where can I get FMS 2.5? is it published or just developing?

Published AS Not Run
I created a big complicated gallery fla and tried to publish it, but that didn't work. It consists of a couple of things placed on the stage via the interface, but most of the functionality is in the actionscript on the first frame. When I published it, none of the actionscript was running (though you can see the stuff I had directly on the stage). Just to be sure it wasn't a flaw in the code, I commented it out and put some really simple code into it:

import flash.text.TextField;
var eformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
eformat.font = "Trebuchet MS";
eformat.size = 14;
eformat.color = 0xff0000;
var errorOutput = new TextField();
errorOutput.defaultTextFormat = eformat;
addChild(errorOutput);
errorOutput.text = "Test Error";

When I publish it and run the html on the local drive, the code is run (you see "Test Error" at the top left). When I put all of the same files on a server and run from there, you don't see those words.

Do I need to change some publishing options or something? Any help would be appreciated.

Just Published
i have just publihed my movie, opened it on the web and the bloody thing is to big, and to add to my problems... it's looping
question:- should i have done my site at 550x400 pixel? the thing is, when i did it at that and pubished preview, it was looking small, so i did it larger, if i do it at 550 x 400 pix will it show bigger than publish preview? and is there a way to make it the correct size without having to do it over? and why is it looping? and what fomat do i save it at to send it on the web?
please help
cheers
quintin

Published Fonts Etc
When I publish my flash stuff on a website, the text and symbols etc made in flash are all blurry and weird looking.. when i write text in flash it looks good but on the website it's messy... did i do something to my publish settings to cause this? Where would I find these settings and what should I change?

Thanks in advance

Published Swf Won't Play
i have created a simple game in flash 5. when i test it from within flash it works fine but when i publish it as a swf or exe it doesn't work properly. i'm using windows 2000.
what's going on?
thanks!

Differences When Published....
hi. heres a question. Why is it that there are several important differences between my swf when i test the movie (using show streaming0 and when i actually publish it on the web?
the way i set i up is the following.
i have a swf that is approx. 120 kb of which 60-odd are a compressed mp3 the rest are several jpegs that range from 4 to 12 kbs. Because i was intendinng the site for people that might actually have lower than 56k modems i desided to only preload the sound file. as the images are used at different points along the 40 sec. animation i tried to use the animation itself as the preloader because the pics had time to load before they were needed. i built it to work for 28kps conections using the show streaming option.
also i added a bit of code towards the end (on a empty movie clp)
saying roughly : onEnterFrame decrease sound using setVolume. when i export the movie and use showstreaming at 28kbps the whole thing runs just fine.
When i put it on the web - and view it on a BROADBAND connection not only does the last piece of code using the setVolume not execute, but the animation and the sound are out of sync, as if the animation is lagging behind somewhat. it looks like it doesn't have time to load the images fast enough, even though the connection speed is almost tripled.
sorry that was so long winded... i juwst wanted to paint a complete picture for you guys. hope someone can help thanx

Published Problem
there is this little problem which i dun understand. in flash, the image appeared to be fine and good. however when published, i realise that the image becomes rigid and looked like a smuggy sponge. why is it like this? here's a screenshot.

Actionscript Changes When Published
Hello!

I have this piece of actionscript inside a MC:

stop();
_root.novo.gotoAndPlay(2);

I change it to:

_parent.novo.gotoAndPlay(2);
stop();

Publish it and close the file, then when I open it again it went back to:

stop();
_root.novo.gotoAndPlay(2);

Anyone knows why this happens?

Thanks in advance!

Why Does My Published Swf Look All Crappy?
Hi, I've been maken an animation and it looks and goes exactly how I want it to in Flash MX but when I publish the animation to a swf the txt isn't fading anymore and its all pixaly.

Any help would be most excelent!

Please Help I Need To Re-import A Already Published Swf
Hi,

i know this is stupid, but i happend ...
I somehow deleted the last 2 versions of a web site i created. All i have got left is the uploaded *swf file i had on the web server.
Is there any chance of getting this swf re-imported into flash with all my scenes so i can edit things again?

Thanks in advance,

G.

Published .html
Ok... So I published my file to a .html... But it won't play on my friends' computers.... And I'm kinda confused

Why Click Into A SWF After Published
I'm still new to flash, sorry if this is a simple question.

After publishing a SWF, uploading and viewing it in Internet Explorer (on PC only), users receive a pointer when hovering over the loaded SWF. A highlighted stroke also appears with the pointer finger, surrounding the SWF. They then need to click on the swf to allow for navigation and button animations.

Is there something I can do to make it so people don't need to click just to see the full potential of the design?

P.S. This is not a problem when viewing pages in Safari. Animations work perfectly without having to click on the SWF.

Thanks so much in advance.

WhiteDG

How To See The Trace() In A Published Swf?
Hi,
I'd like to make the trace appear even in the published .swf file, not only inside the flash editor. Is this possible? How to setup that?
Thanks.

Published SWF Files HELP....
HI!!!

I need some MAJOR help (pleeeeeeeeease)

currently I've done some animating....what i did was have some clouds move across the sky...simple motion tween animation. But some of the clouds overlap the document and when i open the swf file IT SHOWS! there is a white line at the top with the extra clouds showing THAT I DONT WANT TO. how do i get rid of this? Is there a way when exporting or publishing the file into swf that I can make the file only the size of the 'document'...i really don't know why this is happening, never had this problem before and my project/job depends on it (ugh)

Published .swf Different From Timeline
I imported a video clip and turned it into a symbol. Then I inserted some key frames, made a fade in and cut out a large chunk from the beginning. In the timeline, it shows the correct sequence. But when I publish, it reproduces the entire clip, unchanged.

I also have "loadMovieNum ("overview.swf", 0);" in the last frame in one of my scenes but it does not redirect. Any ideas?

Nicholas

edit: working with CS3 Pro, publishing with Flash 9

[CS3] No Sound In Published .swf
I have a simple Flash menu with event sounds on rollover of the buttons. The sounds play perfectly in debug mode and when previewing it in CS3. But after I publish the .swf file, the sound disappears.

What am I doing wrong? (Hoping there's a simple answer...)

Thanks!

Get Published Streamname
A newbie question. If a stream is published from a client,
is there any event the serverside actionscript can subscribe to, to get the stream name?
I can see Stream.onStatus events in the documentation , but only a Client
object is available in the app.onConnect event. any help will be appreciated.
thanks.

Slow When Published
I have a game that's completely dependent on being in sync with music. It works fine when viewed from flash. But when I publish it, it is much slower (not like frame rate slow, but just being off sync with the music). It's only taking up 3% of my CPU power and I have a preloader, so I have no idea what's going on...

Timestamp When The Swf Was Published
Is there a way to timestamp when a swf was published and then on runtime display that time in a textfield?

Not Playing When Published
OK, here's the deal.

Movie with a preloader.

I test the movie, works fine.

I publish the movie, and open the resulting HTML file. I only get the movie's background. It doesn't play. I right-click the movie and click "play" and it plays fine. The same thing happens when I export the .swf and put it right in an HTML file in Dreamweaver.

If I delete the preloader scene and publish it (or export it and put it in the HTML in Dreamweaver), it workd fine.

Has anyone ever seen this happen before? The swf itself ALWAYS works fine, it's only when it's embedded in an HTML file (with the preloader) that it gets messed up.

Here is the one with the preloader removed:
www.braxtonfalls.com

With the preloader:
www.loobis.com/tests/braxtonbase2.html

Once again, the .swf file in that movie works fine when I open it on it's own.

Published Swf Height Bug
I've such a problem: after the publishing I run swf-file and see that the stage's height is not the same as it was set during the development. It is larger and there are two lines -- at the top & at the bottom of the stage. I tried everything such as "allowscale", false and others But it's still dont work right.

Any help appriciated.

Elements Don't Appear In Published Swf?
This is a wierdness I can't explain.
When I test the movie from the fla I see all the elements (the red bars at top and bottom) but when I publish it, if I open just the swf file the red bars are missing.
If I open it through the html page, the red bars are there.
Whussp?
The following link demostrates, please view the swf file first or you'll cache it...
http://www.tatudigital.com/flash_test/dmsdemo1.swf
http://www.tatudigital.com/flash_test/dmsdemo1.html

This is something that is happening with other swfs, and on other machines (all running Flash 8)
It's a concern bcause we often nest swfs, and if they don't display properly there's gonna be trouble...
Thanks in Advance
Janet

Shrinks When Published
Hey there,

I've created a flash page, and when I open it in flash, the whole flash movie has shrunk to almost half the size thats it's supposed to be. The movie size is ok. You can see the lines when you first put the cursor over it. But the contents have gotten smaller.

Thank you for your time!

Dre

Published Doc Size
I like to keep buttons I'm not using (a button visible only at frame 30 for example) on the canvass, but outside of the border of my flash document. These buttons are not seen by the audience via the html publish option, but are seen via the flash publish option. I would like to limit what is 'published' by the limitation of the document size - not the browser window size. How do I do this?

Sometimes A *.flv File Is Published, Sometimes Not
Hi. I import an *.avi file. I convert it to a *.fla file without problem. However, when I publish, sometimes a *.flv file is created, sometimes it isn't. I can't figure out what step i am missing to make the *.flv file publish also. I have tried all combinations of publish settings, but still can't figure out the error.

I've managed to work around the problem by using Flash Video Encoder to go straight from *.avi to *.flv, but I'd still like to know what i'm doing wrong.

Thanx, Valerie

Edited: 10/15/2007 at 04:06:59 PM by v123alon

Text Does Not Appear When Published
hi everyone,

i'm new to flash creating a fairly simple animation for a website home page. consists of images & text boxes that i have converted to symbols. when i apply a motion tween for the image to fly in from one side & the text to fly in from the other, it appears when i test it however when i publish to swf file it doesn't work. any ideas of what i need to check i have done correctly or what i have done wrong?? thank you.

AS 2.0 Components Published In 3.0
I have lots of 3rd party AS 2.0 compatible components (like from flashloaded.com). If I start publishing to AS3 from Flash CS3 will these no longer work?

Scaling Published SWF's
hi all,

I've got a fair few SWF's im using as load movies, level 1,2,3 etc and I need to scale them all by 130%. I know all about the edit mulptiple frames command, but it stuffs up all tweens, fades etc and theres way too many affects to be correcting after using this funall assistance appreciated.ction.

So i was hoping theres a way to scale my already published SWF or scale it when publishing so when it comes into my main movie it's 130% larger. Is there a code i can put it the load movie command??

or is there another way??

Flash Published
Ok slighty worried now...just used the html code that was suggested and uploaded my site. Most of the files on my Interactive Section are "empty" ie the html file is there but it does not contain the swf! Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I just spend the better part of the day trying to sort it out but to no avail!

Hope this makes sense.

Y

P.s

Just checked my ftp (NetObjects) and it says that those files have not been published....why not?

Published File Is Not The Same As .fla :(
Hey guys, I hope anyone can help me out since I need it before thursday

So... I made a really simple movie with tweens.. it's litteraly just some text, thats moving and fading across the screen and it must be repeated. The .fla in flash works great, but when I publish it or testrun it, it's tottally different. No fade-in effect on the first screen and some text lines don't appear to fit in the window...

Well, hope anyone knows something of this weird thing

Published Swf Is Way Too Big [renamed]
I need help publishing a .fla file.

any help is appreciated.

I've been toying some time now with Flash MX and websites, but never reach the point where I need to publish the .fla properly onto the net. I've reached that point now.

My problem is getting the final movie to work probaly in the browser. The final .swf movie is 2,81mb, because it contain a lot of pictures. Is that too much? When the .html and .swf is uploaded to ftp, the screen goes black in the browser, like the background color of the site, and it seems like taking forever to load the site and in the end nothing shows.

So what is the proper way to publish to fix this?

Published Files
i published my flash movie and put them on the web but it wont load the movies...
the site is www.tenfreepoker.com please check it out and help me please!!!

thanx everyone!

Not Centered When Published
I can't get my "dock" to center horizontally when i publish the movie for full browser flash(100%/no scale). It works fine when you test the movie. I don't get it.

heres the code

Stage.scaleMode = 'noScale';

this.dockActions = function(label) {
switch(label) {
case 'oc':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("oc");
break;
case 'bond':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("bond");
break;
case 'marshall':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("marshall");
break;
case 'kitchen':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("kitchen");
break;
case 'impulse':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("impulse");
break;
case 'donovan':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("donovan");
break;
case 'svhf':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("svhf");
break;
case 'ghost':
trace
_root.gotoAndPlay("ghost");
break;
}
}

var dockTemplate = {
layout: 180, //ROTATION
icon_size: 100,//PIXELS, SAME SIZE AS ICON MAX
icon_min: 50,//INITIAL ICON SIZE
icon_max: 100,//<<<ICON ZOOM SIZE
icon_spacing: 2,
items: [
{ id: 'ghost', label: 'ghost'},
{ id: 'svhf', label: 'svhf' },
{ id: 'donovan',label: 'donovan' },
{ id: 'impulse', label: 'impulse' },
{ id: 'kitchen', label: 'kitchen' },
{ id: 'marshall', label: 'marshall' },
{ id: 'bond', label: 'bond' },
{ id: 'oc', label: 'oc' }
],
span: null,
amplitude: null,
callback: this.dockActions
}

this.attachMovie('Dock', 'menu_mc', 1, dockTemplate);
//HORIZONTAL POSITION
this.menu_mc._x = Stage.width/2;
//VERTICAL POSITION
this.menu_mc._y = 1;

Published On Mac - Runs On PC But Not Mac? Why?
I have been building a flash site on my G3 running OS X and Flash MX. In developement my site has worked fine on the Mac but since moving to OS X and publishing my site it will not view on a Mac but work perfectly on a PC. What is going on?

It works fine when run on the computer HD - ie opening swf in a browser etc but not when dowloaded from the web.
The site uses an XML document that holds the pathways to images etc to load the jpgs.

Has any one else had similar problems? - all I can say is that it is very frustrating

Osc

First Published Site
Guys. My first published site is up;

http://www.stpauls-stalbans.org/youth/main/

Id appreciate some feedback, thanks. The site can also be found at the easier link of www.stpaulsyouth.tk., but this tends not to be too reliable ive found.
Thanks,

Jonny | Certainshade

My Flashfile Is Sloppery When Published..

I made this flashmenu, but the lines aren't smooth, while they are as I zoom in.. Is this a 'smooth' option or so?