Flash :: Please Help A Poor NewBee

Newbee
Well since this is the newbe thread I thought I'd start here. I am really intersted in learning Flash MX and was curious as to any books,websites, or anything else that my have helped you people learn it. I am not new to web development so I am familiar with HTML,JS,PHP,Perl,ect... However, I am trying to get into the design part and have recently started to pick up dreamweaver and fireworks (Awesomeprograms BTW) Ive seen a lot of cool stuff that can be done with flash and would like to spruce up my sites in the future with this tool. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Dont have any cool tag so...Late

Newbee Help..plz
Help ...

Totally green at this

I have made a swf file with my swishlite, what do I do now?
does the file need to be changed into flash macromedia?

Does it need to be in html so I can load it on my website? I am using Frontpage 2002 to build my website with.

I cannot figure out how to get the file that I made working on my website. Help....

ty for any and all help...

Lî††lêNûKë

Newbee Needs Help
Hello all,

I am new to flash.

I have a flash swf calling another swf but the second one runs at the frame rate of the one doing the calling and I can't figure out how to slow it down.

Here is my button code:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay(11);
}
on (release) {
loadMovieNum ("gallery.swf", 1)
}

I need to run the gallery at its original frame rate.

Thanks

Tony

Newbee Wants To Use AS Instead
of tweening the timeline in Kirupa's text tutorial. Why not? How to?

Newbee Actionscripting
Sorry to ask a question that is bound to be up here already but my searches on flashkit are all timing out for some reason.

All I want to do is refer to a movie clip from a button.

Eg when button pressed (in main timeline) goto and play frame 2 of "Forums" (Movie clip).

cheers...

Will

Newbee Question
is there anything that I need to do to an eps file to open it in flash?? Is there any issues with cs to mx??

thanks so very much

Complete Newbee Needs Help
I am currently using Microsoft frontpage to publish my site, which contains a few .swf files made in Flash 7 or Kool Moves. I have had no problems with this until very recently.

I, as normal make a new flash movie and then export it to an .swf file. But now when I import it to frontpage, and then publish it, the file has an inch of white background on the top and bottom, which I did not leave in the movie when creating it. This has never happened before and I am stumped, can anyone help?

LoadVariables Newbee
Hi, I need to load variables from this http://ars.bl.gozostudios.com/insert.php
when I try that in browser I get variable like smid=3095313
Can you tell me a right way to do that?

I`m trying to load it like this

on (release){
loadVariables("http://ars.bl.gozostudios.com/insert.php", _root);
}

After that I have a dynamic "smid" text field. It should load it to that field, but nothing.

Newbee Question
Hello
How do I add a url at the end of a Flash movie. So my website loads after the movie is over.

Brand NewBee
Hey Everyone I'm Trinity. I'm new here, and also VERY new to Flash. I know I have a LOT to learn, so I thought I'd register here since this place seems knowledgeable in Flash.

I just finished the Flash lessons built in the program, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any beginner tutorials that I could work with until I can afford a Book on Flash???

Thanks!!!

Newbee Question
Hello
How do I add a url at the end of a Flash movie. So my website loads after the movie is over.

Newbee Has A Quicktime .mov
will someone guide me? I want to use flash to access the .mov from my web site.

Newbee: How To Create Objects?
Hello! Imagine a movie from scratch, I want to add objects by Actionscript. The problem: I have a lot of circles in the scene which have to be exactly on a certain position which a text whoch should also be at a certain position. How is it done?

Martin

NewBee.componentStuck._pleaseHelp();
***SITE CHECK and BUG-HUNT***

http://www.easininto.com/hha070802.html
curr.nt/wt = 185 K....no preload yet...(± 45sec.@56K)

BUG:
( use "shipment" btn. /up-left to see the bugy play controller)
I'm real new to this and I'm probably overlooking something fun_D'mental when I screwed up...I have a "stock" component for a slide show that went part (autoplay) crazy after I involved some nesting within it (so's to have it "appear" out from behind another obj. and put itself together)....all the instance names are good and in the code I appended another _parent. to the _parent. which made the next & prev btn.'s work but not the autoplay

Originally it worked fine when on the same level as the slideShow items but if I tried any transitions ( to the controller ) before play that would add frames to my "counter" ( my first pic would be say...12 of 36...)

If I knew how to tell "statusField" to disregard the first (N)Frames in its' display I could eliminate the nesting and achieve my transition on the proper level (!?!)
how would something to this order be properly written(?):
[ ...parent.currentFrame (-12) + "of " + parent.totalFrames (-12); ]

if you go there,
THIS is also on ActionScriptThread & SiteCheck, because I'm also looking for feedback on the over all...It's in rough stages and the theme is "Old-World, Antique" And I need opinions as I go not just on the bugs I know about....
Pls. have a look.....

http://www.easininto.com/hha070802.html

curr.nt/wt = 185 K....no preload yet...(± 45sec.@56K)

any comments/help/ideas appreciated....thanks,

RelandR

Newbee Actionscripting (if Statements)
Hi,

I am programming some MC buttons and got a line of code to get my MC (home) to play backwards when mouse leaves button.

on (rollout) {
home.rewind = false
}

all i want to do is add an if statement so

on (rollout) {
if home.(frame number is less than or equal to 10?) then
home.rewind = false

Just don't know any of the action script terminology.

cheers,

will

Stupid Newbee Question Of The Day
I made a movie in 3d flash animator, it contained some sounds which were supoused to be syncronised with the movie. It looked pretty good in the program, but when i uploaded it the sync were way off. The problem is probably that the movie is quite large (1MB) and it starts playing as soon as the page is opened. No preload at all. The problem is this, I cant add a preload-movie with 3d flash animator (since I dont use the $50 full version).

Hmm, so my question is:
Is there a good program that I could download and use to open my saved .swf-file and add a preload feature of any kind?

Newbee- Help Needed On Looping
I got my website done in Flash. I am adding new Flow diagrams into this site.
Problem: In the new Flash flow diagram - I am not able to stop the Looping of the Flash.
Here are more Details.- Site is called www.Leadconsultant.com
Enter into "Launchpad" which opens anather window
Click on "Basic Fuctions" Tree to Expand. Click on any other links, they all work OK.
But "Material Determination Procedure" which I added -Loops continuosly without stopping.

www.leadconsultant.com

Newbee Needs Help With Multiple Sounds
Im trying to make a movie with one sound continuously playing in the background, and then a second sound in the foreground. How do I code the buttons to stop one sound but not the other?

Thanks,

Simon aka theanimal

Newbee - I Need The Right Syntax For This Simpel If - Then - Else
I have this on a button:

on (keyPress "7") {
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);

_root.firstSound.start();
_root.secondSound.start();
}

Before it goes to Scene 2 and play I want it to check if i have pressed a sound on/off button on the page. If I have set the button in the state

stopAllSounds();

then it should not be playing these:

_root.firstSound.start();
_root.secondSound.start();

Again: If the button have set all the sounds to stop then I want it to be recogniced by the script under here - and it will not play the sound, but if the button have set the sounds to on then I want the sounds to be heard when I press the 7 key.

I think the script should be something like this:

on (keyPress "7") {

if stopAllSounds(true) {
stopAllSounds(false)
stopAllSounds(true)

} else {
stopAllSounds(true) {
stopAllSounds(false) {
}
_root.firstSound.start();
_root.secondSound.start();

gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}
}

Please Help Newbee With This ActionScript Syntax
I want to check if the sound is on or off when I press the 7 key on the keyboard - and if for eksample the sound is set to off it should go to scene 2 and play the video without the sound. But I get ActioScript error with this. Whats wrong with the code?

I have this on a button to stop all sounds:

on (release) {

myBut.onRelease = function(){
stopAllSounds();
_root.soundsStopped = true;
}
}

and then i have this on a button off the stage to check if the sound is on or off when i press the 7 key on the keyboard :

on (keyPress "7") {

}

if (_root.soundsStopped = true) {
_root.firstSound.stop();
_root.secondSound.stop();

}

else (_root.soundsStopped = false) {
_root.firstSound.start();
_root.secondSound.start();

}
}

gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}

Newbee To Linking Files
i've got some basics down but i'm still having difficulty linking files. i need to link an offline pdf file to my flash presentation. how do i go about this?

Newbee / Advancing AS Question.
Hi there

My site has 3 pages - home, biography, videos.

Each page has an animated intro and outro. I need my nav bar to know which button has been pressed so it can play the current pages outro before jumping to the correct pages intro. I have been experimenting with setting up a global variable and using if statements to achieve this. I am new to both these as techniques.

in the first frame of my movie I tried setting up the variable

Code:
_global.whichPage=1;
//home=1
//biog=2
//video=3
on my nav bar buttons (this example is biography) I have this code

Code:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("home outro");
_global.whichPage=2;
}
then on the last frame of the home outro I have

Code:
if (_global.whichpage=2) {
gotoAndPlay("biography");
}

else if (_global.whichpage=3){
gotoAndPlay("video");
}
Is this something close or absolute nonsense?!

Any advice as to where I am going wrong would be great.

Cheers...

Will

Please Help Newbee With Scrolling Text :(
Hello,
This is my first post. I have learned so much here already, so thanks for all the info! I'm trying to do something like at this site:
www.suncuredred.com
go there and click on "The Band" button. See how the text is scrolling and there is the fade out thing? How can that be recreated? I have searched and read the tuts here but have had no luck-sorry if I've missed something-I'm sure I have. I can't even manage to get the Textarea component to work for me...
Thanks!
Waygray

Newbee & Special Effects, Please Help
I was trying to create a 3 (or 2?) frame movie (has just 2 photos like the one I saw on the header at this page http://www.athinapalace.com/main.html (top left) with the same effect (sort of white lines moving across on the 1st frame and the box effect on the second frame), can some one help me with some advice and how I can achieve this?

However, I would like my movie to loop infinitely, the one on this page I guess stops after loading.

Thank you for your help fellas

Newbee Q: Can I Use Preloaders Inside A Movie
Hi
I have a quite large flash movie (ok, what's too large? how many k?), and i would like to set some preloaders from one screen to another, so the initial loading would be shorter.....

Newbee: Flashmovies And Frames Linking
Hi,
How can i launch a frame from a Flash movie in another frame?

Example: i have a frame with a Flashmovie containing buttons, this frame should always stay there.
When i press the buttons i would like to launch pages in the underlying frame.
Thanks.

Problem With Sound Code - (Newbee)
I can shut off the sound by pressing my sound button, and then pressing the "7" key on the keyboard and playing a video in scene 2. But the sound is only off the first time I press the sound button.

The next time I press the "7" key on the keyboard the sound is getting activated again. I want the sound to be off permanently when I have pressed the sound button.

I have this on a sound button to check if the sound is on:

on (release) {

if (onoff == 0) {
onoff = 1;

} else {
onoff = 0;

}
}

and this is activated with the "7" key on the keyboard:

on (keyPress "7") {

if (onoff == 0) {
_root.firstSound.start(0, 1);

} else if (onoff == 1){
_root.firstSound.stop("bum1");

}
gotoAndPlay("Scene 2", 1);
}

By the way some of this is from a very old actionScript from when I first tried Flash 7 years ago. Is the ActionScript in this code still valid?

Newbee Help Witn Nested MC Button
Hi!
new to Actionscript overall, REALLY new to AS3. Started this in AS2, but switched to AS3 because of the new eventhandler setup.
have a movieclip button setup as flyout menu with multiple MC buttons nested inside. Left "Automatically declare Stage Instances" checked in AS3 publish options (supposed to make it easier coming from AS2,right?).

Q1: Can all of the AS for a simple setup like this be written in the Timeline, or does it REQUIRE a 'codebehind' file?
Q2: if Q1 answer is yes, then where and how do I reference the nested MC's
for thier mouse events? I get errors no matter how I try. If I reference it directly, I get "error #1009 cannot access property or method of a null object reference. If I try to reach it throgh relative like 'this.menu_mc.home_mc' I get "a term is undefined.....". If Literal('root.menu_mc.home_mc') I get "access of possibly undefined property menu_mc through a reference with a static type flash.display: DisplayObject"

What the FOO?

Newbee Doing Video... Assistance Needed
OK... I may not be doing this the right way so I can take the correction anyone gives me. I am very much a novice at action scripting.

I want to show a small video on the web and I have Flash MX 2004 Pro. I like to keep it as simple as possible. This is the ideal situation for me.

Scene 1, frame 1: Have screen shot of video clip (.jpg). Also have a "play" button or text to go to next scene.

Scene 2, frame 1: Have linked (not embedded) .mov file play automatically when the scene appears. Have a "play" button or text and a "stop" button or text.

I don't want the controls under the video so I'll be placing them over the image/video. I don't want to embed the video because it is too large. Can someone give me simple direction for creating this? Thanks!!

Pro Help Needed For Newbee, HTML/Flash Action
Hi everyone, I hope a new title adds some power to this question. I realy need some help!! Therefore I consider every reply a reply from a Pro

In my flash file I have got a scrollbar witch scrolls .txt files, starting with "textfield=" (design by ilanJ). These files are at the root of the same folder the flashfile is in. Becouse de the .txt files display in a dynamic txt box they are formattable with HTML tags.

In this txt file you can make links with <a href=> and that works fine for linking to other websites, but I want to link back to the .fla, starting a mc for example.

any suggestions...?
Is it posseble to use actionscript commands in external txt files? or make links to a specific frame in a flash file using HTML?

thanks alot

How To Start Animation When User Clicks Shape? (Newbee)
Hello!

How can I start a spezific animation when the user clicks a shape? I'm think of making something like

http://euromusics.argetech.com/jer/sexymenu.html

Any help that points me in the right direction is welcome.

Martho

Newbee Question About Stopping A Movie Clip Loop...
Hi all,

I have never really used flash before and am trying to update anexisting flash project inorder to learn more about it. Well that and my boss wants some images on our web site change and the guy who built it is no longer here. Anyway I'm have some trouble with a movie clip. When I veiw the clip it runs some tween animation on a pile of layers and then stops. When I view the whole scene the movie clip just keeps looping. This happens even when I use this clip on a new project. Any ideas on how it get the clip to run through the animationonce and then STOP?!?

Thanks in advance.

Greg

Newbee Seeks Advice - Flash 5 - Actionscript - Linking Video Swf Movie Clips
Hi Guy's
I am new to Flash 5 & Actionscript.. I have made a short video with my camcorder which I would like to display on a family webpage. I have split the movie into a series of short movie clips and converted them into swf movie clips to speed up the download and playback sequence.

I am now trying to create a continuous movie by linking the swf movieClips with Actionscript.

I have been Surfing the Web in the hope that I could find a short preloader script that I could learn from/modify to enable me to achive my goal..

After two frustrating weeks I have to admit that Actionscript is not as easy to use as some claim it to be.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated..

Regards Jock

Poor Me
...I've been learning Flash and in a couple months I'd like to start a small webdesign business with it. So I'd need the commercial version but its $499. Are there any cheaper ways to get it? Because 499 is a lotta money Can you buy the student version then upgrade to commercial?
P.S. the version I use right now is the trial version and its up (*boo).

MY POOR Brain :(
been banging this one on the head for a while, so far its been a good scripting day,

ok the set up is i ave several movie clips on the main time line, however i want there locations to be random, so every time u open the .swf, the _x and _y will be different for each one, this is fine, except the clips over lap, what im after is to randomly generate the _x and _y with out the overlaping,

played with the hittest and get bounds, with no luck, this is the best i could do.

[code]

if (_root.slice2, hittest(_root.slice4)) {
trace ("plz work");
this._x += 50;

Poor Little Woman
please look at:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=372252

Please Help A Poor Guy Out With Flash And PHP
Hello everyone. I am new here to FK and came here primarily to get some help or advice on how to make a more dynamic flash movie. The problem I am having is with getting a flash movie to pick up variables up from my PHP script(s). See my scripts call up information from a mySQL table and are displayed via html templates though $vars. I sure hope I am explaining this right so far as I am not certain even I understand what I am saying.

Essentially I wish it was as simple as writing out '$something' in text on a flash move as I would on an html file and have it parse the information. Regrettably it is not that simple and I would love to know how to do this properly. If anyone could toss me some help or a link to a place that can I would be most appreciative.

Please forgive my vague description. Its 2:41pm and I am dying of heat and lack of sleep. Thank you in advance.

Poor Transition?
Having problems with all my websites. When the index html loades to the first swf it appears to be in an html format rather than a small window.

Check...www.edgolding.com or www.apartment.uk.com or www.fuseboxradio.com

What annoys me is that when each swf loads from one to a next ( ie, load swf. target _ root ) there is a blink/refresh in the window rather than a smooth transition.

I have tried to find out how to do this but to no avial. I hope its not just a novice problem.

Thanks for your time. Eddie Gold

PNG Objects Look VERY Poor...
I've made a flash that dynamically scales <PNG> objects, and when exporting to swf, they looked great. Then I tried to add a loader. If said objects were not on the first frame (which is where i usually put the loader), they'd look like crap when scaling on the fly. Seperate scenes didn't help either. Anyone else run into this?

Flash MX 6 on a mac

b

Most Likely A Really Poor Question
Okay, is there anyway to reshape the Flash player? Or am I doomed to have it constantly in a rectangle shape? EX: if I made a clock and the player conforms into a circle.

I have a feeling I would have to suggest it to Adobe.

Thank You in advance.

Poor Performance
Hey all,

I just got CS4, and I have a question. For some reason, when I'm typing into the script editor, the response is less than ideal. It seems to take about 1 second before the editor actually shows the characters I typed. I don't THINK it's a problem with the computer, but it might be. Here are my system specs:

AMD Phenom 9950 (Quad Core, 2.2GHz)
6 GB RAM
Vista Home Premium (64-Bit)
nVidia GeForce GTX 280

I left most of the default settings with Vista on (transparency, etc) since it doesn't seem to hurt performance, and didn't make a difference with Flash one way or the other prior to the GPU upgrade.

If anyone has any ideas with why this might be happening, or how I might change it, it would be much appreciated. Thanx!

Poor Graphics
I created graphic images in Illustrator, and saved them for web as gifs, however they are very ragged and unclear when published. Any suggestions on how to improve this? This includes the heading and the company logo in the following site:

http://www.adunate.com/newsletterFlash/rr.html

Poor Mpg Quality
Any1, I got this mpg movie that I want to run i Quicktime or whatever, but when it load the quality of the movie is SO much worse then the original file, how come. I'm sure any of you can help me.

Thx!

Poor PNG Scaling
Hi all,

I did a search and couldn't find an answer, so I have to post, for the most part to gather evidence of what I am pretty sure I already know.

So, I am recreating the mac osx genie style menu and my pngs scale and look torn and tattered.

I have tried different techniques including loading them at full size, scaling them to 80% on load, and scaling them back to original on mouse over, but nothing seems to help them look smooth.

The quality is set to high, publish settings jpeg to 100% and each individual menu item is also set to no compression and png settings in the library properties.

Is this just the nature of Flash's bitmap handlings as I'vebeen told?

Please let me know!

Flash For The Poor
Hey It really makes me sad no one cares for the poor are they outcasts or what. Most people in asia and africa cant afford paying 800 $ or even 600 for softwares. What are they supposed to do. Just sit and do some farming or street jobs dont they deserve to express their art I ant supporting stealing of art. But how is some one supposed to learn in places where there is no guru to teach. And let me tell you as a freelancers I have been approached by the wealthy and no poor to clone site like 2 advanced for up to 2000 $. Now tell me who is bad.

This tread is in response to the closing and replies for my thread swf to fla.. .