Flash :: Printing In Projector Trouble : Urgent Please Help Me

Flash Printing - Trouble Printing Bitmap
Hello,

I have a Flash MX (not 2004) project that generates dynamic printable coupons. Here's the lowdown of what happens:

1. The flash coupon is loaded - dynamically loads in text and an external jpeg. This data is displayed in one frame that the user sees on the screen, and in another frame that the user never sees but is sent to the printer.
2. User presses print.
3. The flash movie sends the 'print this' frame to the printer, and voila! Printed coupon!

Here's a sample link: http://givingcorps.com/gc_central/br...&CoId=2&ChId=4

All works well, but when it comes time to print the coupon, everything prints but the jpeg. In fact, after you hit the 'print' button and the print dialogue box comes up, and you begin to print, you can actually see the jpeg vanish from the flash movie, only to return when print dialog box is finished!

I've tried a variety of tests - printing just the current frame, incorporating a test to make sure the image is loaded before allowing printing, and trying all the different print functions. I'm aware that print() only prints vector while printAsBitmap() will print everything, although with less quality, and I'm currently using printAsBitmap().

Has anybody run into this? Is there any solution or anything I'm overlooking?

Thanks for your help.

Printing In A Projector
hi there,
i've got a problem with printing txt in a flash projector!
it print though but a black field with tiny txt??
as a swf file it prints ok?
pls help me
getting crazy@@#$^^W

loves mylene

Printing From A Projector
ok here is the problem, I have a stand alone that brings .swf's into it from the web, now on some of these .swf's I have areas that I want to print. each .swf has its own print button on the frame that I whant it to print. the problem is that either it trys to print 113 pages or if I label it then it prints the outline of the standalone player also. the standalone is 800 x 600 set to full screen. the .swf's load in at 603.3 x 509.3
I have tried

on (release) {
print ("#b", "bframe");
}
bounding set to frame. well heck I think I have tried every combination under the print command in flash 5
Hope someone will be able to help with this one.
thanks for anything anyone can do here.

oh also aicase this makes a diffrence, I have 25 swf's that load into diffrent levels all with the first frame as hide and the second as play so that I do not have to keep undloading and reloading them.

Printing From A Projector ...
Lets say I make a projector and I want to add a print template so the person watching can print a nicer looking page than just trying to print the current contents of the projector. I heard somewhere that you can make FreeHand page layouts and that Flash will print them, but I'm not sure what's all involved and how to do so ... If anyone has a template of how to do this or knows of a nice tut, please post a link. I would be much obliged.

Also out of curiousity ... what if the user doesn't have FreeHand on their computer, does Flash know how to print this document. Thanx again

Projector Printing : Please Help Me
Hi,

I'm in front of a big trouble on a project I have to finish today.

I have to print a movie clip using actionscript, which works perfectly in authoring mode / test mode.

When I launch my swf in the Flash player, or publish my file as a projector (which is what I'm supposed to do), I only get pages filled in my project background color. Nothing else appears.

Does anybody have a clue on that point ? It's quite urgent.

thanks

Printing A Page In A Projector
Hi folks,
pls chk this code out.

on (press)
{
getURL("print:", "/");
}

code is fine..it works...but it prints whole movie and i dont want tht...i want it to print only a particular page i m looking at.
wat to do?... how can i do?... plsss help...or do u have any other idea of giving a print command?

Printing From Flash - Size Trouble
I've put a print button in my flash file which has an action to print a specific frame as a bitmap.

if i print using the print button in explorer, the printed area fits on a page.
if i print using the print button in the swf, it blows off the page - too big

the swf is 790 pixels wide - at 72 dpi that is almost 11 inches, so I can see how it pushes the edge of a standard page.

Is there a way to tell the file to always print at, say, 90%???

Tx
sumsum

Projector Trouble
I have made a stand alone projector for my flash movies - but it only works if all the files are in the same folder. this seems untidy and confusing for the user.

I want to burn a cdrom and have people play the movie just by cliking the flash projector.

how can I create a projector and have all the files in a separate folder... so that it is very clear which icon they are to cllick.

max

ps I'm on a MAC.

Trouble Printing Dynamic Content In Flash 8
Hi. I am having problems trying to print dynamic quiz results. I can get the entire page to print but not the dynamic content. I have included a link to where the fla is loaded....if you skip to question 7 submit an answer and then you will be to frame 70 with the output. That is the frame I am having troubles with.

Thank you Laura

http://www.awenarts.com/printFlashHelp.zip

Edited: 05/30/2007 at 10:48:16 PM by lauratritz

Projector File Trouble
Hi
I have about 5 seperate swf files that come into my main when buttons are clicked, I want to create one projector file that plays them all, do you know how do i do this?
cheers matt

Trouble Launching PDF File From Projector
Hi,

I need to launch a PDF file from a PC projector. I was given some instructions on using a .bat file and an FS command and it's not working. Using the "get url" is not the answer either...

Any help you be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bingo

Trouble Opening Acrobat PDFs Fom Projector
Hi guys..

I Created a presentation for a client. He has movies and .pdfs opened from the projector. They open on a new browser window. Movies open Fine. And when i tested them all PDFs opened perfect. But Hes comming back with these comments

"Tested again, this is what happens.
_
If Adobe is not open:
_
Clicking on a PDF file within the application starts up Adobe, then stops in the middle. The screen is a web screen trying to access the web, looks like it is in a web explorer window, finally timing out about 2 minutes later it opens fully, like it times out.
_
If adobe is open, the pdf file opens automatically within seconds.
_
If you click on the PDF file right from the CD and Adobe is not open, it opens fast again with seconds. It seems like within the application, it is trying to open the PDF in a web screen, ties up the system and then times out and opens after 2 minutes."

Is there something I dont Know??? I dont understand whats happening? I tested it on macs and PC and they work Fine. Hes the one having the trouble and he wants answers.

PLEASE HELP!! and Advice??

Thanks

Projector Fscommand "exec" Trouble
ok here is a simplified description of what I am doing.

Its an interactive CD using flash projectors. The CD will contain say 4 sections

1. intro
2. presentation A
3. Presentation B
4. Presentation C

each section is an individual projector file.

Once "intro" has reached the last frame It closes and "presentation A" launches.

In presentation A there are button links to presentation B and C.
In presentation B there are button links to presentation A and C.
In presentation C there are button links to presentation A and B.

Simply put - this means that once the viewer is into the presentation sections he can flick between each one as much as he likes and for as long as he likes - or at least he thinks he can.........

WITH ME SO FAR? HERE IS THE PROBLEM......

everytime you launch one projector file from another, the file to be loaded has to be within a folder called "fscommand"

Due to the circular nature of my cd-rom - I need a folder with Presentation A, B and C in it and a file called fscommand. In this fscommand folder I need all the presentations again and another fscommand folder. AND SO ON AND SO ON.......

Now I suppose I can just put enough of these duplicate folders onto the cd-rom and hope that the viewer does not keep flicking between presentations too much. Obviously he will get to a point where all the buttons stop working as there are no more fscommand folders containing the presentations.

MY QUESTION IS......

Is there a better way to do this than the way I just described?

Need An Explicit Printing Tutorial For Flash 5 Or An Expert On Printing...
Been trying to print for a couple of hours now.
It seems to work fine when I use simple objet on the main timeline, but I get weird result when trying to print nested object.

For example, it got a movie clip containing multiple duplicate mc, and a dynamic text field. This movie clip is out of the movie stage.

When I try to print it it using:

printAsBitmap(this.effective.printArea, "bMovie");

nothing get printed.

so I move the movie on the stage.

this.effective._x = 0;
this.effective._y = 0;
printAsBitmap(this.effective.printArea, "bMovie");

the frame gets printed, but the text is out of phase even if it looks fine on the screen.

I have define the label of the frame I want to print with #p and the printing area with #b.

Why can I print my movie if it's off the stage, and why does the dynamic text field is printed out of phase when I tried to print ?

----------------------------------

At least can someone direct me to a good flash 5 tutorial on printing...

Martin
martin.tremblay37@sympatico.ca

Printing Flash Player 7 Printing
hi,
i want to set up a flash site with multiple levels and have all levels print. is this possible? i've printed before out of flash playere 7 but was only able to print out of one level. any insights would be appreciated.
muchas gracias,
lavadome

Printing In Flash. Problem With Printing Twice...
I have an all vector form that displays data within it. As soon as it opens, it prints. I am running this in the first frame of the root time line.

Code:
print(_level0, "bmax");
stop();
The timeline is 2 frames and I am wanting to print both pages. Everything works fine expect after the print dialog box pops up and you hit print, then it prints the 2 frames, it pops up again and wants to print the pages one more time. I only want it to print once. Any ideas?

Full Screen Projector, Link Opens Behind Projector, Can't See It
hey guys,

I'm using FSCOMMAND("FULLSCREEN","TRUE") but, I have a link in my projector that opens a webpage. The problem is, it opens up the browser window behind the projector and I can't even see it.

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks alot,

artane

Projector Launching Projector & Email Links On A Mac
Bit of a newbie...

I created a projector file and now been told that I have to link to another projector file that's been supplied to me, I don't have the .fla file for this projector. I've managed to get the other project to open but it has been set to full screen.

Can I control the size of the projector when launching it from mine and also deactivate the menu bar that appears with it. The menu bar doesn't appear if I launch the projector independently but does if lauched from my projector. I would like to scale the linked one by 90%??

Also I have an email link setup which launches my browswer (explorer/safari) before launching my email program (entourage). Is there a way around this, I'm using a Mac but the presentation will be mainly view on a PC, but would like to know how to sort this for both. I'm sure the last time I used flash a couple of years ago it launched the email program without the browser, so it may be me doing it wrong. I'm using the "getURL("mailto:" command.

Any help appreciated.

Load .swf Or Projector In New Window From Another Projector
i am trying to put together a CD with my portfolio... i have the main movie playing from a projector and i want to show some samples of flash movies i have made. is there any way i can load them into a new window rather than having them load into the same window as the main movie?

if not... here is my other problem... one of my movies plays music using:

loop = new sound();
loop.attachSound("loop");
loop.start(0, 100);

the problem is, when i try to load the movie with this music into the existing window on level 1 it will not play the music, but all sounds on the timeline play fine.

any help is appreciated...

Launch Projector From Running Projector
I need to launch a secondary projector from a running projector. I am trying to use the following script and can't determine why it won't work.

on (release) {
fscommand("exec", "sample.exe");
}

I have sample.exe inside a folder called fscommand which is in the same directory as the "master" projector. I don't want to use any browsers to carry out the commands. Any suggestions?

THANK YOU!

Open Flash Projector From Another Projector
I've got several flash movies I've made that are all .exe projector files. I want to keep them this way because a couple of the features I have only work from this. I need to make a portfolio of all my work and want to create either a .swf but preferably a .exe file with al my links. Each link will then be connected to each .exe project. Is this possible and how can I do it? Obviously can't do it with html due to security risks but surely it can be done from flash?!

Convert PC Projector To Mac Projector File
Hi, Is there a way to convert a windows exe projector file to a mac projector file?

Thanks,
Josh

Problems Launching Projector From Another Projector
hello,

I'm creating a CD that starts off with an autorun projector file that pops up when the user puts the disc in. This projector file has an interface that contains a menu that gives the option of viewing the contents of the disc, installing Flash Player or installing Adobe Reader. The buttons that launch the installer .exe files for Flash player and Reader work fine. My problem comes when viewing the contents of the disc. Upon clicking the button that launches the contents, another projector file is launched (GSmaster.exe). This projector goes into full screen mode and serves as a container/shell and presents the user with a table of contents. Each button in the TOC is supposed to load separate .swf files into this container/shell. When running the GSmaster.exe by itself (totally bypassing the autorun projector file) everything works fine. When running the autorun, the button that launches the contents of the disc works in that it launches the GSmaster.exe file, however the links in the TOC stop working when going this route. This makes no sense to me at all. Is there an issue with using a projector file to call on another projector file that would cause these links to stop working?
FYI - GSmaster.exe and all the .swfs that load into it are located in a "fscommand" folder. In the autorun projector file, the AS for the button that launches the GSmaster.exe is as follows:

btnStart01.onRelease = function() {
fscommand("exec","GSmaster_full.exe");

};

Again, if I run the GSmaster.exe by itself everything works fine, but if I go through the autorun interface, the GSmaster.exe launches in full screen mode as it should, but the links inside stop working.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Flash Projector To Director Projector
Is it possible? My professor doesn't mind my using of flash instead of director in order to present my portfolio however he feels Director handles Video more efficiently than flash. So is it possible to import the movie to director code the movie create a projector. Then when a certain button in flash is clicked it launches the director projector displaying the video?

Printing, Why Is Printing Such A Problem?
Why can I not print several specific frames on the main timeline?

I know how to use the #p label and all those other print tutorials...

Does anyone have a solution?Or leads, or something

Printing And Printing Datagrids
Hi - a double question here - can anyone help with information on creating a print button for a page in an swf and also to printout the entire contents of a datagrid?

thanks!

f

Vector Printing Of TextField. Part Of TextField Not Printing.
Hi, I hope somebody here can help me.
I have a movieclip with a dynamic textField in it.
I set autoSize = "center" and fill it with text.
Then, if i then use PrintJob.addPage("myPage", {printAsBitmap:false}); , the bottom few lines of the textfield don't print. (The textField shows up fine on the screen.)

The textField shows up fine if I use {printAsBitmap:false}, allbeit in lower quality.

If anyone can make a dynamic textField print properly as vector, please lemme know.

thx,
miguel3d

Projector Loading A Projector :)
I have a presentation that I am burning to hybrid cd using mac and pc projector files. I would like the first projector file to load, in a new window, the second projector file. I have it working, but whenever I try and launch the second projector file, windows asks me if I would like to open, save, give Bill Gates more money...the typical web responce. If I click open it works great, but I would like my clients to forego that popup to reduce confusion. Anyway, here is my script.

on (release) {
loadMovieNum("test.exe", this);
}

Any suggestions I would appreciate.

Opening A Projector Or Exe From A Projector Or Exe
Opening a projector or exe from a projector or exe?

Is this possible?

the project has some big embeded movies and the load time for the projector is really slow. I would like to have a smaal "loading" projector pop up which tells the main projector to open.

any ideas? Deadline tomorrow morn.

Thanks

Os9 Projector/ OsX Projector Problems
I'm creating a cd that has a mac projector on it.
I'm using osX, flash mx 2004.
My problem is that when i test the cd on a mac that only has os9 the projector doesnt work. An error saying that carbon lib is missing appears.
Does anyone know a solution?
I don't have access to a machine with os9 that has the application on it.
thanks!

Projector Linked To Another Projector...
I'm totally new at FlashMX 04 and I'm trying to create a interactive CD. I need to communicate 2 projectors (exe files) with eachother. Basically I have a long intro done in one projector (exe) and I have another projector (exe) with my menus and text. Is this possible? or is there an easier way of doing this? Please advise. Thanks.

Launching A Projector From Within Another Projector?
Hey Guys

Please please help me with this Noob question! lol

I have created a project and exported as a windows projector file (exe)

Basically the other people in my group at school have windows projector projects as well and i need to link these projects together.

What code should i use on the buttons within my project to launch their projects over the top of my project?

Thanks for your time

Projector Opening A Projector
I know this is getting repetitive in the forums, but I still can't seem to get this ****e to work! Here's my intent, situation, and problem:

I am making a hybrid cd-rom portfolio. I have 4 folders; "Work" folder (where all of my .fla's are located), "MAC" folder (which contains all the information for the macintosh portion of the cd-rom), "ONLINE" folder (self explainatory) and "PC" folder (again, self explainatory). I have all of my .fla's publishing to the appropriate folders. The content in the MAC folder does not reference anything in the ONLINE or PC folder. The PC folder contains a projector that references all the files in the MAC folder, because that's just the way it was set up. There's only the AUTORUN file and a single projector file in the PC folder.

My "MAC" folder contains the topmost projector file and the "fscommand" folder. That topmost projector file determines which operating system the user is on, and opens up the appropriate projector file. The projector file, whether it be PC or MAC loads the appropriate .swf's which contain all the appropriate information for any given section. It all works.

The directory looks something like this:

MAC/fscommand/Data/ -content in the Data folder
sections/subsections

The .swf of interest here is called game_work.swf

In game_work.swf when I click on a button, it determines whether or not the portfolio is located on the web or not, and which operating system the user is on. Once it determines that, I have IF statments that tell it to open a projector file. That projector file is a game I made.

My question is this: I know how to do an fscommand.

fscommand("exec", ":E-Bug-Bomber"); <-- For Mac
fscommand("exec", "/E-Bug-Bomber.exe"); <-- For PC

I want to place the "E-Bug-Bomber" projector files in the "Data" folder. So the absolute path, beginning from the first projector file will be:

"fscommand/Data/E-Bug-Bomber"

How do I reference the file correctly? I'm thinking that since the secondary projector (the one that is being opened by the topmost projector) is where the game_work.swf is being brought to (because it's being brought into the main projector via loadMovie() function).

Opening A Projector With A Projector
Hello ladies and gentlemen!

I have a nice little problem and maybe someone out there can give me a hand. I'm trying to find some sort of a solution for getting one projector.exe to popup on top of another projector.exe.

I've got it up and running, but I need to position the window in a particular place (pretty much centered). Is there any way to open a projector and tell it where to draw the window??

thanks,
rami

Mac Projector Opening Another Mac Projector
how can you open a mac projector from inside another mac projector?

i hav tried fscommand but that doesnt seem to work

i need to have two mac projectors open at the same time

????

i have tried loadMovie, getURL and fscommand - no luck

Projector Closing Another Projector
Hi,

Here's my problem.

My projector is a little bigger than I expected. Then I decide to open another .exe file (much smaller) and in that smaller projector, call the big projector to open.

Can I programm the bigger projector to close (quit) the smaller projector when he's open and running??

Thanks for your help guys (and ladies if there's some...)!

Frank

Opening SWF Or Projector From Within SWF Or Projector?
I am working on my portfolio and planning on adding some links to flash projects. Trying to figure out how to open (seperately) another swf file or flash projector file from within my swf or flash projector file. I want to be able to open it and still have my portfolio file open.

I have had some experience with fscommands before, not sure if this is a way that it can be done.

Any ideas or words of wisdom??

Mac Projector Open Another Mac Projector
how do i get a mac projector to open another mac projector? i want two projectors to be open at the same time

i have tried FSCommand - but have seen in a few forums that fscommand doesnt work in MAC??

please help!!

[help] [as1] Projector Linked To Another Projector
Is there a way to have a projector launch another projector?

Or, if not, is there a way to have a swf in html launch a projector file?

I've tried the:
on (release) {
fscommand("exec", "projectorfilename");
}

but alas, it doesn't work. - nothing happens

Thanks in advance.

LoadMovie Trouble Trouble Troubles
hello,

i'm having a little bit of trouble here trying to load multiple movies into the same container. not all at one time. like this:

when a button is clicked this happens in my preloader clip which is located in my _root movie:

********************************
// set vars
sectionMovie = _root.currentSection + ".swf";

// un/load movie
unloadMovie("_root.SectionContent");
loadMovie(sectionMovie, "_root.SectionContent");
********************************

then the next frame of the preloader says:

********************************
// get the percent of the movie loaded
bytesLoaded = _root.sectionContent.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal = _root.sectionContent.getBytesTotal();
percentLoaded = int((bytesLoaded / bytesTotal)*100);

// if it's loaded then continue
if (percentLoaded == 100) {
this.gotoAndStop (1);
}
********************************

it all seems like it should work. i click "button1" which loads "movie1.swf" perfectly. then i click "button2" and it will unload the movie fine, but it just stops when it gets to "loadMovie"... anyone know what is happening?

thakns in advance for the help, it's a school project...mwaahaha!

xo

"Oooooh Trouble Trouble..." (Foghat Reference +1000 Points)
I am attempting to add X movie clips to the stage via script, with follow AI behaviors added to each of them. But for now I am just having them immediately start moving left until they hit the stage edge OR eachother...which is the problem.

I cannot get them ALL to stop when they collide with somehting else on the stage...

the way I atempted to solve this problem was to start an array... a list... and to add to that list the name of every object I add to the stage when I add it to the stage. So before ANYTHING moves it loops through this array to see if it is hitting anything else on the stage. Sounds simple right?

Well it seems to only work for the LAST movie attached in my function.

I have attached the script to this post. Please take a look, provide some help, give me some alternative ideas, tell me a good joke :-P, just gimme some feedback. Thanks in advance to anyone who even tries to help.

Trouble Explaining The Trouble
i am having a hard time explaining this problem so i have attached my fla file with some notes attached to it.
i'm trying to customise the a.s. but alas i'm not very good at it yet.

i have an element on the page that when it is clicked on it zooms big and comes to the center of the stage. when you click on it again it zooms back to its original position. - i have this part working.

the problem is i want elements within the zoomed elements to behave the same way. essentially zooming further into the stage. i just can't get it to work.

at this point i am completely lost, any help on this is much appreciated.
thanks everyone

How To Run Exe File (projector) Directly From Swf Or Another Projector File
How to Run Exe File (projector) directly from swf or another projector file

window says to run or save and open bla bla bull ****

how to avoid it and execute the file directly

Executing A Projector Movie (*.exe) From Another Projector Movie?
Hey you Gurus!

I'm working on a presentation-like movie, which is to be put in a CD (with autorun)in projector(*.exe) format.
Well, now that I'm almost done with it there will be three more language version on the same cd.

My idea was to make four separate, but almost identical (only language differs) projectors (*.exe) and execute them from a menu.exe movie. I tried fsommand exec (with the correct path) with no luck.

What do you people think would be the smartest way to combine those?

I really don'l feel like copy-pasting and combining the whole crap into one.