Ok I Have Read And Read, But I Am Getting No Where. Please For The Love Of God Help

Bought CS3 But Haven't Read My MX Actionscript, MX2004, Books. Should I Read Them?
I just bought CS3 and I am now debating whether I should read my Flash MX Actionscript bible, Flash 2004 Bible. I should have read them, but It's just hard to fit the time in.

Would I benefit from reading these books when CS3 is Actionscript 3? How much functionality is lost when scripting in Actionsript 2 and 1 as compared to Actionscript 3.

Would it be wiser for me to just learn Actionscript 3 properly and get a book on Actionscript 3 than waste my time on reading old scripting and technology?

Also is MC tween compatible on CS3, actionscript 3.

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READ Mc.hitTest(mc2) Needed Please Read And Help
I've looked and looked but can't find one tutorial that works for hit tests.
player = g
box = box
I need a script for when "g" hits "box" "g" reboundes a bit
thx

see attachment if you are questioned about my stuff
DON'T LAUGH AT THE GRAPHICS! I'LL CHANGE THEM LATER!

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READ THIS
Hi everybody!
I'm looking for this program called URL Action Editor 2.0 it's develloped by http://www.buraks.com and if anybody have it i can exchange by another one from the same company called ASV
Action Script Viewer 2.0 please contact me at miguel@webout.pt

Best Regards,

Miguel Carvalho

I'm also looking for the source code .fla of this swf file
http://www.webout.pt/miguel.swf
the host of this file is here http://www.oddcast.com

Best Regards,

Miguel Carvalho

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Swf In To Another Swf, HELP READ
Hi, I need to insert a swf into a swf like in this page http://www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm and I need the same, press a button and load a preloader to charge the other swf.... PLEASE HELP. I don´t know how to insert the other movie and do it works

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Hey Sem (Please Read)
Hey Sem, I was wondering if you would be able to make my name in the same format you have in your signature. That little movie is awesome! I would love to have that on my online business card! Don't worry, I don't wany any source, or credit! I just think it looks awesome!

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Plz Read This...i Need Ur Help....can U Help Me?
Hi...thanks for reading this post
well..i need help in something
let me describe my delimma
I have a couple of pictures that are symbolized as MC's..okey?
let's say they are 3 & all of em are on frame 1- they are separated by the way- i mean i can move each one seperately

the problem is
when i click on frame 10-for example- & press F6 they all somehow get grouped...!!!
I WANT them to be seperated...coz i still need to play around with their places...how can i do this???????????
plz...help me
ur help is highly appreciated it..
thanks

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Which To Use? Please Read
Which program am I better off with for creating little stick figure cartoon movies? flash or director 8.5?
or neither, plz help me out here, I know nothing about any of the programs, so It won't hurt if i need to change programs, currently I have dloaded flash 5 and director 8.5, but any suggestions would help a lot

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How I Do This?, Please Read
i've a navigation bar, and i want to actualizate with a simple .txt, I want to change the name of a button and his hiperlink.
How i do this????

TxS.. nicolacho

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How To Do That?, Please Read
i've a navigation bar, and i want to actualizate with a simple .txt, I want to change the name of a button and his hiperlink.
How i do this????

TxS.. nicolacho

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Don't Read This
gotcha, now please help me out.

is it possible to play a sound file and use loadMovie to run an external swf simultaneously.

ex. i want file.swf to call up and run http://www.somewhere.com/otherfile.swf and at the same time play mysong.mp3

help?

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Read URL...
I am doing this news ticker....and i intend to make read an URL .....eg. when i click on the news 1, it reads & opens the cnn news.......
not pop up....but it reads and opens it...
whats the script for it...To read and open an URL....
muz it need a backend scripts for it...such as XML or PHP....??

i did it in javasccript....but its heavy...thus i intend to use Flash...

Can anybody help me out??

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I Need To Know How This Is Done Get In And Read This
Hi,

I want to learn how to do a nav bar that slides in a certain direction as you point... eerh... this is hard to explain... maybe you would be so kind to go at http://www.mypetskeleton.com/
and tell me how this is done. Just enter the "gallery" section and see that bar with the pictures sliding?... that is what I´m talking about.
Can you tell me about a good tutorial that explains how that is done??
By the way... that is a FANTASTIC site, so it wont be a complete waste of your time...

THANKS!

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Please Read This,Need Your Help......
Hi,i would like to insert one movie inside another,i ope u can help me.....Example: i have a small sized movie clip maded already...and i have another but in a bigger size.....and i would like to insert the small movie clip inside the big one on the center or the top of the big movie clip...and when i click a button on the big movie clip a different movie clip that i have loads in place of the one i had(the small one)...
How can i do this????


PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND CUZ I RELLY NEED TO KNOW THIS ANSWER...

THX ALOT MAN!!....

FLASHKIT IS GREAT!!

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Read XML In ASP
Hi,

I send some xml to a server in order to save it in a file from there. Like this:

var text = new XML("<test>dirk</test>");
text.send("http://localhost/log.asp");

How can I read this xml-object in ASP? I know how to read variables with Request.QueryString and Request.Form but they don't seem to work here.

Thanks,

Dirk-Jan

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Please Read
I have to have this done before tommorow, and I am having a strange problem that I can't overcome....

I have a slider:

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O X X X X X X X X X X
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here 0 represents the slider. When I click on one of the Xs, say the 6th one, the slider glides over to that X. At that point the entire navigation lifts up. The problem is, when it lifts up, the glider returns to the original state instead of staying over the 6th X. There is no actionscript that is making this happen. It returns on the first frame of the motion tween, to the spot that it is at in the MC (if that makes sense?). Anyway, is there a property or something to stop this from happening??

Thanks alot for any help

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Please Read
Ok I forgot a action script and I can't figure it out please help me

on (press) {
mysound.loadSound("http://deadlyaccuracy.recongamer.com/music/blade.mp3", true);
}


But I need to activate the "mysound" action if you know it please post it... It goes right before the loadsound action. If you know it it should be a quike fix thx.

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DON'T READ
unless you want to waste your time... i'me just checking my new signature. THANKS SID!!!!

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Read From C: ?
Hi!
How can one read a variable from a file on the local drive like c:, into a flash movie.
loadvariables takes only URL ?! :-(
Thanks
Mav

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Please Read
Hi,

how do i get a button in Flash to link to a file or directory on the user's computer? I don't care if i have to use Javascript, etc. or anything! I'm desperate

please help
Thanks

stealth_space@hotmail.com

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Read This
Hi
How can i make lynes move 'n **** like that


G

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Read .PHP
Helo flashkitter,

My problem :

The php page below works as type of database, how can I get it to read and write into a flash textbox ?

http://www.justamortgage.com/feeds/bestbuys.php


The out come of this database as a .php page look like the link below.

http://www.justamortgage.com/best_buys.php?s=000002


I've researched into this problem without a result. Does anyone know a good tutorial or a file that can help me. Is it possiable without variables ? or anything

HELP :-)

Thanks in Advance

Dihan

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Read And Help If U Can
Ok i have this great idea for this monopoly type game and i was trying to get some input on how i should go about this I have flash mx fireworks swift 3d and swish so you know what i'm working with my first problem is creating the board this is my first flash project and i feel overwhelmed

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Read This
im designing my site in flash mx and im just setting it up in dreamweaver to get going and i need to define my site but i dont know what to do when it asks what server technology do i want to use such as coldfusion,......
do i have to select one of these if have flash content

thanks in advance

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Need Some Help- Please Read-
Hi... I am just starting the Flash MX and would like to know where the fill panel is. I cant find it under windows? maybe u ppl mite have an idea. My email is jdepratti@yahoo.com and i use aol instant messanger: HotLaJake. I am trying to make text glint- maybe u can give some help about that too. I think i can get it if i know where the fill panel is. Any help would be great. Thx

DarkAvenger

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WoW-READ ALL
Hello. I found a web hosting place that is affordable and dependent in every way. This place is the bomb. Here check it out.
http://www.undergroundhosting.net/company.htm
its tight stuff. I got a site www.my-name.net for 5- 13 bux a month. depending on your site. They will also make sites for you complete with a flash intro and awesome html sites. ALSO VERY CHEAP Go to the site to see it all. contact and see what they can do for u.
Jake

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WoW-ALL SHOULD READ
[edit]please do not spam the messageboards

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Im Sorry All -plz Read
Im sorry for spamming so much. Where is a greta place to send these kind of things? Plz if u can plz tell where were i can put these and people will really be interested? Thx Pass it on

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Can I Read The URL?
Hi I wanted to know if swf (embeded in browser) read the URL it came from?

i.e. if I visit a site say macromedia.com, can I read "http://macromedia.com" from the browser ?

I have a feeling I might need javascript. What do you think guys?

Thanks
Mav

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Read This
As this is the last day to sign, I thought it was worth another post on the subject. Hopefuly this is explained in a way that will be clear to every visitor to this forum today who hasn't read the other threads (moderators, please excuse the deleberate crosspost on this important issue)
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Let’s say you drive a car. You’ve been driving for years. Then one day a letter comes through the post telling you that you have to take your car into the nearest garage and have the brake pedal removed. What?!

Well, as it turns out, some small company in America owns a patent on the break peddle. They’ve just won court case to prove it, and now they won’t let any manufacturers use them any more.

Your car still works, but it’s flawed – because you can’t stop! There are alternatives. You could buy a bike. Yet whatever alternative you choose has its downsides; and what about the people who make their living from driving cars? Who would want to get into a taxi or on a bus that has no brakes? So there would be an awful lot of people out of work too. This means even more people claiming benefits, and that will result in higher taxes, not to mention the cost to car manufacturers all over the world, who will need to come up with alternatives. Who do you think they’ll pass those costs on to?

Now, if this scenario sounds stupid and outrageous to you, perhaps you may want to sign the patent petition at eurolinux.org (closing date today!), because it’s far from fiction. Okay, it has nothing to do with cars, granted, but if passed, the new European patent laws relating to software can and will have knock on effects that you’ll notice.

A lot of the free software that you can currently download will disappear (licenses cost money!). Functionality in your favourite applications like Word, PowerPoint and Excel may very well also disappear someimte in the near future too. The games you play online and the funny attachments you send to friends in emails are already under serious threat due to a current court case which has been won, and is now under appeal. This is what’s happening now.

The court case I refer to is Microsoft verses Eolas (a company with one employee).
Eolas have won their case, and unless successfully appealed, they will be able to stop ALL BROWSERS from using the “embed” tag (the one that allows many of your favourite games, cartoons streaming video/audio AND FLASH to be embedded in the web pages you view). This has happened because these ridiculous software patent laws have already been passed in America, so let’s stop them from affecting Europe too.
“So what” you may say. “I hate Microsoft”. Well, the embed tag allows content from other manufacturers to be displayed in your browser. If the appeal fails then third party manufacturers won’t be able to continue doing this and you will be reliant on Microsoft to provide alternatives.
Java, Flash and RealPlayer and more could all be affected in this current court case. “So what, I hate embedded technologies”. Well, the embedded technologies court case is out of our hands anyway. All we want to do is stop patent law doing damage to software companies in Europe. Today it’s someone laying claim to the embed tag, but what about tomorrow?
The petition is here: http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html
Please sign it, wherever you're from.
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There is plenty of information on the web about this.
Start here: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/eb...20278616,00.htm

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Please Read
I am making a navigation for my site and I have this little space for it so I decided to make the buttons move...


Okay what I have is two buttons...
---One button has on.rollover play on rollout stop...


My question is how would I make the other button go back in reverse order...kind of like rewind from the spot it stopped?


Anyone know?

Thanks

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Hello Plz Read This
hey everyone,
I am really sorry that I didn't take permission from he administration for this, but I tried several times, I don't know I might've had mistaken something, I have developped this forum, and it bearly has 7 or 8 members on it and I really have to make it more alive, It has nothing to do with this forum and nothing to do with flash either, it's about computer hardware and software, like games, graphic designs and stuff like that, so if you really want to help me make this forum more... alive plz register,and if you don't want to help I am really sorry for that, and if this forum brings members to mine, I will put a link to this site that it really helped me, and new registrations will get high ranks, the forum name is www.hackershdc.com, administration I am really sorry and I know that you feel that I'm Pathetic and again sorry and help

thx in adcance

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Please Read
Need partner for flash movies and games. Thanks

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Read Out URL
is there any possibility to for a flashMX.swf to read out the URL (that means those GETvars after the questionmark: www.somethi.ng?id=334 ) of the html-file on which my flashMX.swf was called?

i am working with flashmx

thanks for any answers

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Pls Read N Help..
if i want to have a 2 level game how am suppose to code in flash mx??

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Css Cannot Be Read
Hi there,

I'm trying to use an existing css-file (used for the html part of the app) within flash, but it seems that there are some lines in the css that are not accepted by flash, and worse: the whole file is rejected. When I delete these lines everything works fine.

code:

.menu a:hover{
font bla bla bla
}


Does anybody know a solution or a workaround? Deleting these lines is not an option.

thnx, mark

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Read In .xml's
I'm using flash 7.0 pro and i want my .swf to read in a line from a xml-file, ad then stream sound from the URL that is readed. Is that posible?

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Hello (please Read)
Hi! I'm really looking forward to starting Flash Production but I cant find any programs to use. Do you have any suggestions? I am looking for free programs...

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated!

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Read Me
Hi,

I'm actually using CS3 but working in AS 1 & 2.

I have made some buttons with specific rollovers, then have converted them into movie clips to enable drag and drop feature.

Unfortunately when i test file, it seems that rollovers are removed.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance.

net_gal

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Is It Possible To Read SVG?
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to read an SVG file in Flash?

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Everybody Please Read This...
Dear Flashcoders,
I am writing a huge program in flash. I need to be able to "tab" to the next available tab index by hitting the enter key. basically like every C program ever written. We already have the listeners for the keyPress events. We just need the function script for the tab ability. I have searched all over the net and found nothing. Any ideas would be extremely helpful.

Basic Round-up:
Be able to tab with the enter key

Thanks. So Much

Also we are using standalone projectors not internet browsers so no JavaScript please.

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Xml Read Err
Hi ,
This is my ActionScript code:

Code:
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
var xmlNode = this.firstChild;
var total = xmlNode.childNodes;
var val_Node = xmlNode.firstChild;
var total1 = val_Node.childNodes;
//count.text = total1
for (i=0; i<=total.length-1; i++) {
trace(i);
for (j=0; j<=total1.length-1; j++) {
trace("x="+total1[j].attributes.xval+" y="+total1[j].attributes.yval);
}
val_Node.nextSibling;
}
} else {
trace("Unable to load XML!");
}
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("Graph.xml");
This is my graph.xml :


Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FINANCIAL>
<graph1>
<value xval="20" yval="30.6"/>
<value xval="30.5" yval="110"/>
<value xval="60" yval="10"/>
<value xval="100" yval="200"/>

</graph1>

<graph2>
<value xval="30" yval="40.6"/>
<value xval="3" yval="210"/>
<value xval="50" yval="30"/>
<value xval="200" yval="200"/>

</graph2>

</FINANCIAL>
if i run this code i will get the following answer,

0
x=20 y=30.6
x=30.5 y=110
x=60 y=10
x=100 y=200
1
x=20 y=30.6
x=30.5 y=110
x=60 y=10
x=100 y=200

My problem is how to i read <graph2> values..?

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Mp3 Can't Be Read
I altered sound clips in Audacity, exported it as mp3s and was importing them to the library on Flash MX 2004. One mp3 clip was in and I was importing the second one when a error message popped out and replied:

"One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them."


It was working fine a moment ago. Why won't it read?

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Read Now
moderators: please don't delete this crosspost - thanks
As this is the last day to sign, I thought it was worth another post on the subject. Hopefuly this is explained in a way that will be clear to every visitor to this forum today who hasn't read the other threads:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Let’s say you drive a car. You’ve been driving for years. Then one day a letter comes through the post telling you that you have to take your car into the nearest garage and have the brake pedal removed. What?!

Well, as it turns out, some small company in America owns a patent on the break peddle. They’ve just won court case to prove it, and now they won’t let any manufacturers use them any more.

Your car still works, but it’s flawed – because you can’t stop! There are alternatives. You could buy a bike. Yet whatever alternative you choose has its downsides; and what about the people who make their living from driving cars? Who would want to get into a taxi or on a bus that has no brakes? So there would be an awful lot of people out of work too. This means even more people claiming benefits, and that will result in higher taxes, not to mention the cost to car manufacturers all over the world, who will need to come up with alternatives. Who do you think they’ll pass those costs on to?

Now, if this scenario sounds stupid and outrageous to you, perhaps you may want to sign the patent petition at eurolinux.org (closing date today!), because it’s far from fiction. Okay, it has nothing to do with cars, granted, but if passed, the new European patent laws relating to software can and will have knock on effects that you’ll notice.

A lot of the free software that you can currently download will disappear (licenses cost money!). Functionality in your favourite applications like Word, PowerPoint and Excel may very well also disappear someimte in the near future too. The games you play online and the funny attachments you send to friends in emails are already under serious threat due to a current court case which has been won, and is now under appeal. This is what’s happening now.

The court case I refer to is Microsoft verses Eolas (a company with one employee).
Eolas have won their case, and unless successfully appealed, they will be able to stop ALL BROWSERS from using the “embed” tag (the one that allows many of your favourite games, cartoons streaming video/audio AND FLASH to be embedded in the web pages you view). This has happened because these ridiculous software patent laws have already been passed in America, so let’s stop them from affecting Europe too.
“So what” you may say. “I hate Microsoft”. Well, the embed tag allows content from other manufacturers to be displayed in your browser. If the appeal fails then third party manufacturers won’t be able to continue doing this and you will be reliant on Microsoft to provide alternatives.
Java, Flash and RealPlayer and more could all be affected in this current court case. “So what, I hate embedded technologies”. Well, the embedded technologies court case is out of our hands anyway. All we want to do is stop patent law doing damage to software companies in Europe. Today it’s someone laying claim to the embed tag, but what about tomorrow?
The petition is here: http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html
Please sign it, wherever you're from.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There is plenty of information on the web about this.
Start here: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/eb...20278616,00.htm

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Please Read. Help
I am wondering if someone could give me the Actionscript code for FlashMX to make a button that closes the page opened in Flash when you click it? Here is what I am doing:
I am going to make a "real life" Windows RG in flash and I want it so when you open My Documents for example, you can click the "X" at the top of the page and it will close My Documents. Also if anyone has the codes to make a minimize and Maximize button that would be helpful.

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XML Not Being Read - Tried Everything
Greetings. I suppose with the recent upgrade to my Flash Player, I can no longer view Flash files that once worked brilliantly. Somewhat.

I have a SWF file (that I did not create) calling two XML files (main.xml and gallery.xml). It works fine locally, no problem.

It does not work here: http://asg.briodesign.com though it works fine here: http://72.36.192.234/~asgcom/ (same server)

I've tried the proxy file, I've tried the crossdomain.xml (though I not sure exactly WHERE on the server it should go, so I tried everywhere).

The SWF is loaded from home.htm. Home.htm, the SWF file and the two XML files are located in the same directory.

I'm about to lose my mind. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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MUST READ
In flash i put the action scipt. geturl.....does this mean that in order to link these buttons, I already have to have my pages on the net?

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Getting A .swf To Read Xml
Hi,

I have a slideshow.swf (I cannot change it contents, there is no .fla) which gets input from slideshow.xml and finds pictures to display in a folder called 'images' . Pretty basic for a flash picture gallery.

The problem: I want to load the slideshow.swf into a loader component in another flash movie, say holiday.fla. (So i have the loader component in holiday.fla and I tell it to load the movie slideshow.swf). How can i tell the slideshow.swf file where to find its data e.g. slideshow.xml? or How can i have slideshow.swf read from slideshow.xml?

thanks,
Casper

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How Do You........(read)
i was wondering how you would get rid of the background on a jpeg, using photoshop. Im trying to animate my template by making circles. but when i import the circles the background is on it. so when it moves the white background goes over the black background of my template. how do i move the background of the circle on photoshop?

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Please Read - Maybe You Can Help Me.
I created a flash effect, where one part of it was a mask effect over an image, however what I had asked Digitalosopy... was "is it possible to have many images in a folder where flash loads the image externally, and thankfully all looks great using the following code :


ActionScript Code:
pics=["gfx/photo01","gfx/photo02","gfx/photo03"];randpic = pics[random(pics.length)];_root.placeholder.loadMovie(randpic+".jpg");


This works very well, except if a second user wished to upload many more images, like photo04.jp and even photo20.jpg, they would first need some knowledge with flash. I would prefer if they could simply drop many images into a folder like already achieved whereby no more editing in flash would be required providing the photos had the same dimentions etc...

I think Digitalosophy was suggesting a text file of some sort.

Can anyone please help me out with this, and even is it a possible thing.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Trevor Saint

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