Flash :: Recognizing Start/end Of A User Interaction

[CS3] HELP: Recognizing User Inputs
I've done some basic Flash work, but I just started into programming in Flash and I'm already fairly frustrated. That being said, I just am really looking for some help with (I think) a pretty basic concept: taking user inputs from an input text box and going to a certain frame based on their inputs. It sounded so simple when I started, but for some reason Flash doesn't seem to be recognizing anything I input into my text box.

When I say I need help, I mean I need to know how to not only code what I need, but how to set up the properties of the text box and allow it to read my inputs.

Basically I need to evaluate a user input of up to 3 numbers, in this case, their age. Based on their answer, the timeline will skip to a certain frame. So far, I think I've determined that using a switch/case statement would be best and I pretty much know how to use that... but I cannot for the life of me get Flash to recognize the number I enter and use that in the statement.

This is what I have so far:

an input box (age_txt)
when a user clicks a button (submit_btn) it should run something like this code:

num = age_txt;
switch (num) {
case 20:
gotoAndPlay(26); break ;
case 40:
gotoAndPlay(27); break ;
case 60:
gotoAndPlay(28); break ;
default:
gotoAndPlay(29);
}

The hang-up seems to be in getting the input recognized. Please help!

Thanks,
Brandon

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Creating User Interaction
Hey!
Im working on a fighter game. Right now I am trying to be able to control my characters with the keyboard. I have a Flash MX book, but for some reason, the actionscript that they tell me to use doesn't work in Flash MX Professional 2004. Perhaps because of the difference in Actionscript.

Anyways, I have searched the net, and tried to do it myself, but it dont find anything and it doesnt seem to work for me. So....I need help :P

Basically I have a movieclip that has the standing, crouching, jumping, and running animations. They are all seperated between 5 frames, and the running animation runs for a long line of frames. After every action, there is a stop so that in the Actionscript, I will make it play the part of the movie clip that I want. I think you understand what I mean.

It may be simple, but I am not exactly advanced in Actionscript, im in the process of learning.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

(BTW, please don't give me any welcome messages, Im not new, just made new account )

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[F8] User Interaction Help Needed.
I'am trying to create a manual and would like to have the enduser click on check boxes after he has finished certain steps and only after he has completed all steps (ie. cchecked off all the boxes) on the screen does he have the ability to jump on to the next section. I am just having trouble with action script on this can some one point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

sven

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Logging User Interaction
Hi,

I have made a flash standalone application which I'm running on a touchscreen computer open to the public. I'm getting several reports that the program keeps crashing- I have tried to reproduce the error but can't. Is there any way that you can output all user interaction in flash in some kind of external log file?

Thanks.

Lilalfyalien

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Enable / Disable User Interaction
Hi everyone,
does anyone know how, or know a way you could disable / enable an entire flash movie and its children, based on certain events. Like say you have a custom event manager that dispatches an event to notify the movie if any content is being loaded somewhere, in order to disable the entire flash movie during loading time ?

any info would be cool.

cheers

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Temporarily Disable User Interaction...
I just thought of something really cool and thought I'd share:

If you wanted to disable user interaction while something processes or something, you could do this:

Code:

btn.onpress = someFunc();

function someFunc(){
_root.onPress = function(){
//do nothing
}
//
//Put some code that needs no interuption here
//
delete _root.onPress
}

I think it's pretty slick, what do you think??

HTH Somebody out there ;)

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[F8]Can I Disable User Interaction While Loading Multiple Swf's
I have a flash movie which loads multiple swf's based on user interaction it all works well, however if the user clicks to quickly while swf's are loading the load will get stuck in a loop which will only clear when the whole movie is reloaded.
thanks
-iaN

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Pausing Movie & User Interaction Issues
Hello All –

I have been going around and around in circles trying to find a script for what I thought would be an easy thing to do. Here’s where I’m at – I have a Flash movie that has five images. What I need it to do is automatically play through the movie and display each image for about 10 seconds then move onto the next image.

What is also needed is for the user to click on one of the five buttons so if Image 4 is showing the user can click on Button 2 to bring up Image 2 and then after pausing for the specified time the movie will resume playing and pausing.

Client Specifications: The images and text/link must be set up so that those elements can be updated externally. Right now this movie has the images being loaded with the Loader Component so that the five jpgs are loaded dynamically and the text/link is being loaded with the TextArea Component through the five txt files in the folder.

Each image is set up in its own Movie Clip and each clip contains a mask for the rounded corners and a fade-in for the beginning along with the image and text being loaded. So there are five movie clips.

My Problem: When you first load the movie it plays fine. However, when you click on a button – say the movie is displaying Image 4, click on Button 2 and it jumps back to display Image 2 and then the timing goes crazy. The movie starts playing faster and will even get to the point where it skips from Image 1 to Image 3.

Here is the movie: http://www.fractalrust.com/flash/

The Code: This code is on the first frame of the main timeline:
function wait() {
stop();
var myInterval = setInterval(function() {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}, 10*1000);
}

This code is on the same frame as each movie clip on the main timeline:
wait();

I have gone through a lot of different scripts that I found and this is the only one that comes close to doing what I want. Not sure if the script I found is compatible with Flash 8, which is what I am using. If anyone could let me know if what I am looking to do is doable that would be great. Also if you want to take a look at the movie you can download it: http://fractalrust.com/flash/fiveheaders.zip

One last note – the person who asked me to do this got the idea from this site: http://aimtoday.aim.com/
It’s the Flash movie off in the upper right corner that has four rotating images and you can click on the buttons to jump to anyone of them.

Thanks in advance!
Kecia

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Pause And Continue Linked To User Interaction
I'm building a looping flash movie which has a section that allows user interaction.

What I want to do is if there is no user interaction for the movie to play and loop as normal. However if the user clicks on the screen then the movie pauses to allow the interactive elements to be manipulated. Also after a set time of no user interactivity (say 30 seconds) the movie will resume playing.

Can someone suggest some code for pausing and resuming the movie?

Thanks

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Flash TreeView Menu And User Interaction
Hi,

I've developed in Javascript a TreeView menu.
I would like to do the same in Flash/AS but i do not know where to start :-(

before to start i would like to know :
- if it is possible to make this TreeView menu dynamic ?

i mean by that that web developer could use this TreeView menu by adding
several nodes and children to this menu like :

MyFlashMenu.addChild("new node", "parent node", imageNode);

but i do not know if from web page it is possible to pass arguments to
flash.

thanks a lot,

A.

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Want Custom Cursor To Act Opposite User Interaction...
Hi guys

Here's something for U math champions.

Is it possible to get the custom cursor MC to act opposite the users actions?

I want it to be opposite the center of the stage, lets say the real mouse cursor is 200px to the RIGHT of the center of the stage, but the custom mouse cursor is 200px to the LEFT... get it? And the same goes for the y coordinates...

I gave it a try, but can't seem to get it right, math never was my strong side

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Tracking User Interaction - Flash Menu
I'm kinda new to AS and having a problem with a menu system I'm trying to create. I think I'm close but can't quite get it to work and not being sure about AS, I don't know if the things I'm trying are making it worse or better?? Can anyone can help??

The system I want to create needs to check if a button (and subsequently it's content) has been clicked/loaded before, if not the button function should be x.

If it has been clicked before and is in <= a certain position the button function should be y.

Else the button function should be z.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?? Sorry, my hosting has run out, so I have nowhere to post what I've done already...

Thanks in advance, much appreciated!!!!!!!

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Page 2 - Tracking User Interaction - Flash Menu
Hi, try this out:

Code:

Pos1MC.bar.onRelease = function() {
if (ui.profileMC == undefined) {
xTargetPos1MC = Pos1Out;
Pos1MC.yTargetTitle = TitleDwn;
var amc = ui.Pos1MC.createEmptyMovieClip("profileMC", 1);
amc.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 1);
amc.createTextField("msg_txt", 2, 10, 200, 200, 50);
amc._x = -530;
amc._y = -197;
amc.holder.loadMovie("profile.swf");
amc.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this.holder.getBytesLoaded()>=this.holder.getBytesTotal()) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
// get rid of the loading progress textfield
this.msg_txt.removeTextField();
} else {
// show how many bytes have been loaded
this.msg_txt.text = this.holder.getBytesLoaded()+" loaded";
}
};
} else if (this._x>=pos1In+1) {
// if already created and loaded, just set it visible
Pos1MC.bar.onRollOver = function() {
ui.xTargetPos1MC = pos1In;
ui.Pos1MC.yTargetTitle = Title1Up;
ui.profileMC._visible = false;
};
} else {
Pos1MC.bar.onRollOver = function() {
ui.xTargetPos1MC = pos1Out;
ui.Pos1MC.yTargetTitle = TitleIn;
ui.profileMC._visible = true;
};
}
};

When your coding within flash you can use the syntax checker. It's the little blue tick next to the format button, just above the code editor window. That pops up a window telling you what line the problem is on. Anyway the above is error free although it's hard to tell if the way I've worked it is how you want it!...

Lauri : have you tried contacting the forum admin? They might of stumbled on your problem before and may know a solution...

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Small Script Testen For User Interaction With Mouse/keyboard
I want to make some code that checks for how long time the user didn't use the mouse/keyboard.

Anyone know a script like this?

kind regards

Godowsky

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How To Duplicate Movie Clip Without Any User Interaction On Main Time Line
Hi, Guys

Can any one tell me how to duplicate movie clip (using for loop)in main time line.

yeah! guess right Something to do with game.

Please help me for this.

Bhushan

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Where Should I Start? (1st Time User) [renamed]
hi there!!! i'm a noob in flash 8, i mean totally noob.... if i'm going to learn animations especially using it for web, can i start with actionscript or i must start with the basic motion tweens etc... ??? i need your opinion guys!! thanks...

- jin

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FLV: Start Load When User Clicks Play?
Hello,

It would be nice if anybody could give me a little help on this subject.
How would I tell Flash to not to load the FLV unless the user clicks on the play button? An example would be on YouTube site. I want the movie to only start loading/progressive streaming if the play button is clicked by the user.

And which code should I use?:

Code:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.ready = function(eventObject:Object):Void {
myFlvPlayback.play();
};
myFlvPlayback.addEventListener("ready", listenerObject);
myFlvPlayback.contentPath = "myvideo.flv";
And this one:

Code:
var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection_nc.connect(null);
var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connection_nc);
my_video.attachVideo(stream_ns);
stream_ns.play("myvideo.flv");
I already have my own custom skin setup for the first code, so it would be awesome if I can figure out how to work it out with that one. Please help!

Thanks in advance.

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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

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How To Make SWF To Reload From The Start, Every Time User Reload/revist The Page.
Hi,
How can i make my flash SWF file to reload from the start every time when a user visit the site.

Like i dont want it to be saved in cache, i want to reload it from the start every time, because i have seen that once it is saved into cache, it just starts from the cache when we visit the site. So, i dont want it, i want it to reload again and again from the server whenever user visits.

I used the following meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

But it seems to be not working as the way it should. As when i re-load the page, the preload bar shows 100% loaded.

ANy idea???

Amir

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As Not Recognizing A Mc
I'm finally doing my first AS3 project after lots of AS2. I was given a .fla by the graphic artist with a timeline full of graphics and movieclips, etc., but no AS other than some stop() functions. I'll write some classes soon, but for the moment, I'm working on the timeline.

There's a movieclip on the timeline to which I need to register an event listener. I gave the movieclip a name "div". But when I run the movie, I get the following error:

1120: Access of undefined property div.

I get this error for any movieclip that was already present on the timeline when I received the .fla if I try to reference it with Actionscript in any way, even including a trace() function. If I convert one of these symbol types to a Button, then AS properly recognizes them. But then I lose the functionality of those MCs.

If I create a new movieclip with the tool palette and put it on the stage, I can do what I want with it in AS without the errors.

It's like Actionscript can't see the preexisting movieclips, even though they have instance names.

Why would this be?

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The script seems to be skipping the first questions variable altogether. Please help straighten me out.

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Hi Buddies,

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[F8] Flash Not Recognizing My .FLA... HELP
i know this is a longshot, but i gotta ask...
I was working on one of my websites, and Flash pooped out on me for some reason (probably cause my cpu is about 1 day older than dirt), but i got the Debug/Close message, chose Close, then when i reopen Flash, and try to open the .FLA i was working on (which was a pretty intensive site), i get a "Unexpected file format" error...

does anyone have any clue of what i could even try to do to fix it??

even my latest backup is a week old and missing TONS of work...

TIA.

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I have a page that rotates through a series of static graphics with an animated sequence between each static image. I did not design this and am now having to make a duplicate copy of this with new colors in the animation and a different XML file to draw the images and titles from. You can see the working version here:

Working Version

I have gone into the action script where the XML file name is specified. I have changed the name to the new XML file name. I re-export the swf file and despite the XML file being in the same location as the original XML file, this simple change seems to break the animation and it freezes just before putting up the first information from the new XML file.

Non-Working Version

Actionscript is not my strong suit. I have gone through and compared the code and I can't find anything that would explain this problem. If anyone has any pointers on what might be causing this, I would be extremely greatful to hear from you.

Regards,
Andy

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Hey all,

Again, I ran into trouble making tetris. Please take a look at the swf attached. None of the controls work yet - press the blue button to start/pause.

Take a look at it, and you'll see that some blocks go through others (which isn't supposed to happen). The blocks are managed into arrays of "yes" or "no". If the blocks below the current moving tetris block are "no", then that current tetris block will continue moving down. If "yes", it will become purple and initiate a new tetris block.

Now, please feel free to browse through the fla to see the structure. Test the movie in Flash and look at the check "yes" or "no" process with the traced commands.

Something is seriously wrong, and I don't know what. There seems to be a pattern of the blocks that go through others, but I can't find it out. (the swf may need to be run 2 or 3 times before a bug appears).

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When I load variables from a text file into my Flash movie, it works properly. But when I try to set up "If" conditions based upon the variables, it fails to read them correctly and I have to manually type the variables in.
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My conditional statement seems to only be able to recognize the target mc, not the external swf.

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_root.gotoAndPlay(26);
}

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anyone know what i could do?

thanks
-striker

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Hi all,
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It loads into the flash movie just fine and I can see that it is loaded because the dynamic text fields "text1" and "link1" display the proper text.

I use this code to import the names and urls of the links.

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I pass a variable at the end of the text file like this > /:Status="Done" < and in the fla there is a Dynamic text field called /:Status with the instance name StatusInstance.text (that's the only way so far that I can get flash to recognize that there is something in it).

My problem is counting them. If I manually enter the text in the fla it works fine, but If I import the values, flash thinks the value of "_level0.link1" is null or empty.

Here is the count code. It's a function.

if (StatusInstance.text == "Done") {
linkcount = 1;
countLinks();
}
function countLinks() {
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templink = eval ("_level0.link"+linkcount);
if (templink==null) {
/:total = linkcount-1;
break;
}
linkcount++;
}
}

Again, this works great if the variable values are not imported. I need it to work with variables and values dynamically loaded but flash can't see that "_level0.link1" is NOT empty.

whew. I dunno.

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Something is wrong here. But I don't know what.

I'm loading a text file like this

this.loadVariables("vis.txt");

the contents of the file will ultimately be many variables that will change but for now it is:

&Vis=1

I have a movie on the main timeline with Instance name: Vvisible1

then the code on frame 12 is:

if (Vis = 1) {
with (Vvisible1) {
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I change the variable in the text file and it doesn't change the frame to off. It's always on.

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here is what I have

a movieclip instance name "content_updates" without quotes
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Code:
text=hellothere

what actionscript do i need on that movie clip to load that text properly (formatted)?

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Hi all!
Here's my problem: I have a MC on stage called cp. Inside the MC there's a button that shoud activate the MC on the first click and deactivate it on the second click. Basically the MC has a very simple animation of some square going down and stops when it reaches a certain frame (which has a stop(); action on it) and when the user clicks the button for a second time the square goes up. Obviously, the first frame of the MC also has a stop(); action on it. I tried to use the following code but it didn't work, there was no animation whatsoever:

code:
on (release) {
if (_root.cp._currentframe=1) {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.cp", 2);
}
else {
gotoAndPlay ("_root.cp", 32);
}
}

Any ideas how to make this thing work?

Thank you for your help!

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I have a code to create an array, then fill it with objects c1,c2,c3,c4,c5.......,cN.

objectcount = 14
for (myarray=new Array(objectcount), objectnumber=0; objectnumber<objectcount; objectnumber++) {
myarray[objectnumber] = ("c"+(objectnumber+1));
}

that seemed to work just fine. I used trace() and found the array to contain c1 through c14. btw, c1 through cN are movie clips.

then i have a code to change _x and _y for each object in the array.

for (i=0; i<objectcount; i++) {
myarray[i]._x = somenumber;
myarray[i]._y = someothernumber;
}

the behaviour of my movie and a trace action i tried made it evident that my code was unable to set the _x and _y properties on my array objects. a trace action asking for the _x coordinate of one of my objects returned blank.

trace("the _x value is " + myarray[5]._x)

that returned the _x value is

It seems as though it is treating my objects as something other than movieclips.

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hey all...

i need a script thar recognizes a specific word in a sentence.

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I must solve this with the variable method, because the rest of the movie works with xml, and i don't want to mix it up.

i worked it up with the folloving variable method, but it just works if only the word "fine" is written in the text field. I need smt. similar to this.

Code:
on (release) {
if (this.input_text_field=="fine") {
this.the_movie_clip.gotoAndStop(10);
}
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any help will be appriciated...

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Alright, I made a scrollbar class. It creates a background rectangle, and a bar rectangle. If I add MOUSE_DOWN event to the whole MC it recognizes it, but if I add it to the rectangle, it doesn't. here's my code (I deleted some code so you can see easier):

Code:
package com.bizzark{
//import stuff here...

public class Scroller extends MovieClip {
private var rect:Rectangle;

private var slider:Shape = new Shape();
private var bg:Shape = new Shape();

public var sliderObject:Object;
private var slider_tween:Tween = new Tween(slider, "y", Elastic.easeInOut, slider.y, bg.height, 3, true);

function Scroller(){
slider.graphics.beginFill(0xFFC133, 1);
slider.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 10, 60); // x, y, width, height
slider.graphics.endFill();
bg.graphics.beginFill(0xCCCCCC, 1);
bg.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 10, 241); // x, y, width, height
bg.graphics.endFill();
addChild(bg);
addChild(slider);
}

private function positionMessage(e:Event) {
//taken out...
}

function moveIn(obj:Object, t) {

slider.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, sliderDown); // THIS DOESN'T WORK
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, sliderDown); // THIS WORKS
slider.addEventListener("enterFrame", positionMessage);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, sliderUp);
addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeEvent);
addEventListener("enterFrame", watchPos);
checkNeed();
}

function sliderDown(e:Event) {
trace("DOWN");
}

///etc etc...
}
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What could be the easiest / best way of recognizing which shape a user draws? I'm making a game for kids and they are supposed to draw letters by dragging the mouse, like I, E, A, O and the scandinavian ones too, like Å, Ö.

Now I have a method where I have a transparent movieclip that's shaped like the real thing, only 10 px wide, and every time the user's mousedrag leaves that area I record that as an error. I also calculate the length of the drawing and check that the drawing starts and stops around the right places.

It's fairly accurate, but it's not working with letters that can't be drawn with just one line, like A or E.

I guess it wouldn't be that hard to modify it for that - but before I start it would be nice to hear if there's some better suggestions.

Thanks!

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I am building a web site for an advertising/marketing comapany and they want a flash banner and navigation at the top of the page. They also want a HTML-only version for some of their clients.

They suggested that I build a 'splash' page to offer a link to the flash and html pages.

However, I do not like that idea and was wondering if there is a script I can put on the main page to redirect them if a flash player is not found on their compter? That way clients can go straight to the main page, and if they can't view the flash navigation bar, it will re-direct them to the HTML pages.

Is what I am trying to accomplish possible? Are there any other solutions?

Thanks
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I'm experiencing difficulties with Flash 8 not recognizing the majority of a font family.
Its strange because Photoshop & Illustrator recognize them & display them just fine.

The fonts involved my project include:
Helvetica
Helvetica Compressed
Helvetica Condensed
Helvetica Black
Helvetica Light
Helvetica Extra Compressed
Helvetica LT Std
Helvetica Neue
Helvetica Ultra Compressed

Of this list, Flash 8 is only recognizing:
Helvetica
Helvetica LT Std
Helvetica Neue

So at this point I'm having to literally type EVERYTHING out in Illustrator, export swfs, and import them into Flash.
This is obviously time consuming and makes simple text changes a pain.

I'm leaning towards the fact that this is a corrupt font issue, yet these fonts are available in every other software I've tried them in.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Any thoughts??

Thank you!!!

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