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Remote Rollovers
Hello!

I am completely new to Flash (Just started learning it today) and I have a couple of questions.

I made a fla with a couple of layers, the bottom layer contains a background picture which doesn't change during the complete animation. In order to do this I added a lot of frames on the layer. Is this the best way to do this or are there other (more ingenious) ways to go about this?

The next question I can best describe as a 'remote rollover' problem. In javascript you can change a picture (or anything else) at position Y when moving over an item at position X. Can this be done in Flash as well? I tried adding a layer that has the action that should be performed when a mouseover occurs. The only problem is that this layer is part of the complete timeline, so it plays with the rest of the layers (even when no mouseover occurs). I did figure out how to add behaviours (a little bit)

Thanks in advance for any help! If I was too vague then I will try to clarify.

p3x

Remote Rollovers
I'm trying to attach an action to the down state of a button symbol which will make something pop up elsewhere on the page. This isn't working because all my actions are grayed out. How to do this?? Please help!

Remote Rollovers?
Hi everyone - I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to figure out how to create a remote rollover.....I basically want the user to be able to rollover a button (located on one side of my website), and by doing so, I want to have an image then appear on the other side of my website as a result of the rollover.....how can I do this? Thanks!

How To Do Remote Rollovers In Flash 8?
Hello

Wondered how to do this in Flash 8 Prof...rollover the top banner and see various remote rollovers, links if you click

http://www.iwics.net/

I did this using DW 8 and layers, but I need to make this banner self-contained without the layers. So how do I outline the wireless devices and add a link to them while activating the remote rollover words using Flash 8 Prof?

Thanks so much for help

KB

[F8] Grrr HOW THE HECK DO YOU DO REMOTE ROLLOVERS OMFG
IVE BEEN HERE FOR 1 HOUR TRYING HOW TO DO A REMOTE ROLL OVER CAN SOMEONE JUST FIX
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Remote Rollovers Causing Slowdowns In Flash Playback
Hi everyone,

I'm posting here with a problem that I've been grappling with for months and have only just now had the courage to ask a group of knowledgeable people how to correct . Here's the situation. I have a design that has an image in a circle surrounded by 20 smaller images in circles. When the mouse rolls over the smaller images, a larger version of that smaller image fades in to the place of the larger image. When no smaller image is covered by the mouse, the large image fades back to a default image. I have a method that produces the effect I'd like; unfortunately, after creating functionality for several of the circles, the presentation begins to slow down noticeably on my (old, a 733 mhz PowerMac) computer, and after doing about 10 or 11 circles, it begins to stutter noticeably on even newer computers and is basically unusable on my computer. Here's a version of the completed flash movie containing functionality for the first 12 circles from the bottom going to the left. It runs unacceptably slowly on my computer (barely noticeable that anything is fading at all).

http://r253153038.resnet.cornell.edu..._betterAS.html

Here is the flash file containing my actionscript. All of the code is attached to the large circle. I apologize if I've misused any Flash terms. If my code is unclear I'd be happy to explain what I did (or I think I did). As you can probably see, I'm more of a designer than a programmer... after I finish this project I think I'm going to either learn Flash properly or stick to less complicated designs

http://r253153038.resnet.cornell.edu...6_betterAS.fla

And here is the code in a text file for quicker viewing or if you don't have flash installed (though viewing the entire file might make more sense).

http://r253153038.resnet.cornell.edu...crappycode.txt

Cant Make Rollovers
can someone tell me how to make rollovers like the ones at
http://www.nikebasketball.com
i got paint shop pro7 and fireworks4.

'd Like To Make A Remote Ctrl Workin'
I'd like to make some kind of a command ( play, pause, stop, next, previous). I've designed the thing as a movie clip with buttons ( one for each command ). The mouvie clip inserted in 9 different scenes .I'd like to explore, thanks this remote control, those scenes. I certainly have a serious problem with " Go to and play next 'n previous scene " How the hell does it work???

Can I Make Links In Flash Containing Remote Graphics
Can I make links in flash that contain in the address, a link to the graphic to display for the link? I have affiliate links that have banners I link to that reside on their site; they change them all the time so I can't just copy the current graphic to paste as a link button. Can I put them in a flash movie?

How To Make Dynamic Text Rollovers?
yea this isnt totally impossible is it ? or maybe ive just been up too long working ..but can you get your dynamic text to have a rollover color? i have it so that i can control movieClips with dynamic text but i want the text to be like a button with a rollover effect ...solution?
thnx
nemo.

How To Make Rollovers On A Menu Into Buttons?
I have some rollovers on a menu, and I cant seem to implement getURL into the buttons?

attached

[F8] Make Smooth Gravity Rollovers?
I have made some rollovers here, but I would like them to have smooth gravity. Right now, I can only make them so when you rollover, they go up and down.

However, when you roll off, they abruptly stop in their original place. I would like to have them so that they slowly roll back into place from wherever the user happens to roll off them.

The .fla is here if you want to take a look.

http://worldwideathlete.com/gravity.zip

Any help is greatly appreciated - Thanks!

Make Smooth Gravity Rollovers?
I have made some rollovers here, but I would like them to have smooth gravity. Right now, I can only make them so when you rollover, they go up and down.

However, when you roll off, they abruptly stop in their original place. I would like to have them so that they slowly roll back into place from wherever the user happens to roll off them.

The .fla is here if you want to take a look.

http://worldwideathlete.com/gravity.zip

Any help is greatly appreciated - Thanks!

Make Button Rollovers Appear Over Movie Clips With Depth
I've just learned to use createEmptyMovieClip and loadMovie. Consequently, I also experienced my first use of depth and it's messing with my layout.

All the buttons that load their respective movie clips have a rollover that is supposed to appear above the movie clip. But now that a depth has been assigned to the empty movie clip, all the buttons' rollovers are under all the clips and, therefore, hidden from view. How do I assign a depth to the buttons or their rollovers so they appear above the movie clip? Or, is there some other method to achive this goal?

Is There A Way To Make Dynamic Externally Loaded Text Into Rollovers/ Hover?
I have some dynamicalluy loaded xml into a flash file that becomes a hyperlink, how can Imake those dynamic hyperlinks get the hover effect,( underline,change color)?

Thanks in advance.

Remote Flash Files Much Larger Than Remote
Hi,

I am developing a Flash 8 Pro site
on a Mac OSX Tiger

For some reason, my published Flash movie files
are much larger than I thought

When I look at the files on my hard drive,
it's telling me that my homepage HTML is around 4kb
and my SWF is around 300kb

When I upload these to my ISP and examine these
same files (using Dreamweaver's Site Managing Feature)
these files clock in at
972 kb for the HTML
176402 kb for SWF

There are a lot of Flash Buttons on the homepage
that in turn use the loadMovie function

Why do the local and remote file sizes differ so much?

thanks

Remote Actionscript Issues - Local Vs Remote
i made web banners with the intent that the shell being the initial swf, could pull an external swf file from a remote site.

view here:

http://www.anthonythomas.com/duplicolorespn/

the main .swf file has to be under 30k, which it is. now the other .swf files load when you rollover the buttons. this method fulfills the 30k requirement on the advertisers side - also allows the creative to have higher res images/swf files hosted on our site/side.

in testing it locally, it all works great...

but when i moved the .swf file to

http://www.justinhale.com/test/

to test it -

the files hang up when you mouse over the buttons - is there a chance you could check out my source?

here:

http://www.justinhale.com/duplicolorbanner.fla

i'd really appreciate any help this forum could offer.

i checked out the security settings. security.allowDomain,
not sure if i'm using it correctly?

thank you,

jh.

RollOvers Whos Parents Also Have Rollovers
I'm creating a self-hiding nav bar like the Start bar on Windows when it is set to auto-hide.
I have it set to retreat onRollOut, the problem is, when I roll over one of the menu items, it triggers the onRollOut of the parent bar and it retreats.

Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Remote Control?
Hi everyone

Anyone got an idea how to get one mc to control another, sought of like a remote control, with play, stop, ff, rw etc??????

MadJE

Playing A Remote MP3
Hi all,

i wanna play a background sound on my Web-Site.
In the common way - everything works fine (importing the Sound-File and then export everything in the film)

But now i wanna play a mp3-File on a remote-Webserver.
I only have a url to the mp3-File.

How can i manage it to play this file.

Television Remote
hello once again..
I'm workin on making a television remote that the user can use to view different things about the site..
the remote has a power button, and the digits 0-9
each channel will be reached by pressing two buttons (1 7=channel 17, 0 3=channel 3, ect)
I've been told this can be done possibly by arrays, but I just started into actionscripting so I have NO clue how I'd get started..
but as an overview...
when the user presses the two buttons, it will load a mc in the viewing area..

any clue on how to write an array for this..?

Use Php On Remote Server
I Need help with the following:
I want to run a php script with a .swf file on a remote server.
This is my construction:

file_a.swf (_root) on http://www.server_a.de loads the file:

file_b.swf (_level10) on http://www.server_b.de which again uses loadVariables... to execute a php script that lies next to the file on http://www.server_b.de (same folder).

And that does not work.
It does work, when they are all together on the same server.
My literature (friends of Ed, the THICK one) says, the file must be on the same server as the script for some security reasons. But what is the file?? Is always the _root-file the mother of all files? Cause the executing file and the script are in the same directory...
If the above is so. Where could I find a workaround???

Christian

Remote Access?
How can an external SWF control an action in the movie timeline that it's being placed.

clip1.swf is being placed inside mainmovie.swf now i want to write a code like turning a music off in the mainmovie.swf, but i want the code to be inside the clip1.swf

is this possible?

Remote Server
I have a question. Is there software that can set my computer up to at least act like a remote server so I can test my scripts that I'm learning in actioscript? Is it something you can download for free. If anyone's got an answer, thanks

Ping A Remote PC
Hello, I need to create a map with a lot of button. Once of this button are green if ping is ok, are red if ping is bad.
One button for one remote PC.

ping "ip address" and green if is ok , red if is down. All PC are under the same network

Regards and please help me.

Remote Drag Mc
image_so = SharedObject.getRemote("position", client_nc.uri, false);

// Update image location
image_so.onSync = function(list) {
loader_mc._x = image_so.data.x;
loader_mc._y = image_so.data.y;
};

// Connect
image_so.connect(client_nc);

// Moving the image
loader_mc.onPress = function() {
this.onMouseMove = function() {
image_so.data.x = this._x = _xmouse;
image_so.data.y = this._y = _ymouse;
};
};

loader_mc.onRelease = loader_mc.onReleaseOutside=function () {
delete this.onMouseMove;
};

This moves the image around with the cursor.
The problem is when you press down with the cursor, the image centers itself on the cursor instead of just moving from where ever the cursor is placed on it.
Any Ideas on how I can make this work like startdrag and still keep it onSync with the server? I tried to ask this in the server area but didn't have much luck there.
Thanks

Remote Printing
Has anyone tied remote printing a swf? eg. Send the swf var's to remote hot folder or script. I'd like to remotely make PDF's from client side swf doc's.

Loading .swf, Remote
hello all,

pretty simple question:

My loadmovie works fine locally, but remotely the external swfs are not loading.

The stranger thing is that I currently have a site on the same server and loadmovie works fine there.

Any troubleshooting tips, or maybe just something stupid that I am forgetting?

Thanks

CFM/remote Issues
I am attempting to learn CFM and am trying one of the examples that came with..Flash 4 example employee directory (??). I opend up the flash document in Flash MX 2004 and when i tried to "SAVE AS" i get the prompt to save file in older format ... yadda yadda yadda -- well I did click on SAVE AS -- wtf??? Anyways saved it under a different file name so as to not corrupt the original. Anyways, I tried to publsih this new document eventhough - nothing has been physically changed by myself - just the format of the AS code into MX 2004 format. Ok heres the problem...all of a sudden these two files are not found: #include "NetServices.as" and #include "NetDebug.as", yet when the original example is run it seems to work fine -- WTF???
I downloaded the Flash Remoting Components to see if that would fix the problems and nope notta thing.
What am i missing/overlooking when this conversion took place?
Or better yet What the HELL happened?

Remote Debugging
Hello,
I am trying to get the remote debugger to work.

I read through 'Flash help' but don't see the menu item I need to click on.

I do have all the 'enable debugging' stuff checked in the Publish settings as well as the debugging password selected...

'Flash help' says to open the site with your Flash stuff in your browser & right click on the Flash to bring up the Flash menu; there is supposed to be a menu item right above the 'About Macromedia Flash player 7' which reads 'Debugger', but my menu does not have this item at all.

Any ideas as to how to make the remote debugger work..what am i missing??

Thanks much,
D.

Loading Remote Jpg's
Hey Gang,

Is there a way to load external jpg's from a remote location, so a user can access jpg's on our server from an swf on theirs? Must the jpg's reside in the same dir as the swf?

Best regards...
Lance

BytesTotal = > 0 Only On Remote
I'm doing a bytesTotal on some images i'm loading. Everything shows up nice when i run the code on my own computer, when i access the movie on the website bytesTotal() is always 0.

code looks like this:

loadListen[i].onLoadProgress = function(clip, bytesLoaded, bytesTotal){
var nr = parseInt(clip._name.substr(clip._name.lastIndexOf( "p")+1));
var stats:Object = imgLoad[nr].getProgress(clip);
_root["imgL"+nr].text= "Bytes loaded: " + stats.bytesLoaded +" of "+ stats.bytesTotal;
_root["imgL"+nr].setTextFormat(text_format);
}

Remote MP3 Load
Hello everyone,

I have a problem loading a remote MP3 file into my flash player.

I put the object code below. I am passing the file name via FlashVars below. Basiically the MP3 is on another server (map drive f when the player opens...it just does nothing, seeming to have a problem opening the file on remote server.

If I access locally it works fine...from Internet it bombs...not sure if cross domain/naming issue?

Hope you can help!!

Bryan

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="350" height="125">
<param name="movie" value="sampler.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">

<param name="FlashVars" value="myVar=f:Example.mp3">

<embed src="sampler.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="125"></embed>
</object>

Remote MP3 Load
Question Title: Flash Player- Loading Remote MP3 file
Author: blenett
Points: 500
Date: 06/05/2004 11:04AM PDT

Hello everyone,

I have a problem loading a remote MP3 file into my flash player.

I put the object code below. I am passing the file name via FlashVars below. Basiically the MP3 is on another server (map drive f when the player opens...it just does nothing, seeming to have a problem opening the file on remote server.

If I access locally it works fine...from Internet it bombs...not sure if cross domain/naming issue?

Hope you can help!!

Bryan

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="350" height="125">
<param name="movie" value="sampler.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">

<param name="FlashVars" value="myVar=f:Example.mp3">

<embed src="sampler.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="125"></embed>
</object>

Remote Rollover Help...
Hey all... I'm trying to make a movieclip button that does a little animation on a mouseover. In addition however, I'd like another movieclip on the stage to be triggered to play on that mouse over (yes, I could put them in the same movieclip, but for the sake of a fairly intricate layout, I don't want to drag a movieclip containing both onto the stage and guess at the positioning). Any help would be great! Thanks!

Variable In Name Of Remote Swf?
When looking at the following code, is it possible to have the name of the swf file as a variable that can be changed?

code: on(release){
container.loadMovie("variable.swf");
}

to add some thing like

variable = theVariable

and have a button set the variable?

Remote Log Saving
Ok, I am making a log in flash movie, and I want it to save the user's IP to a Log along with the time and date. (Mostly for security and checking for invalid users). I have 3 problems doing this.

1. I do not know how to save to a log WITHOUT overwriting whats already in there. (Log name: www.lukeflash.com/logs/special_iplog.txt)

2. I do not know how to get an IP Address, Time, or Date from the computer. (I only know System.capabilities).

3. I do not know how to tell it to check if it finished saving it.

Please help!

Remote Linking
anybody know an free hosting sites that allow remote linking for flash animations?

Remote Webcam
Does anyone know how to get an swf to display video from a remote webcam (not connected to the computer, but has an IP address)? Any help would be appreciated.

[F8] Remote Debugging
How to remote debug Flash files in IE . I have enabled remote debugging in debugging window. Also, I have checked debugging permitted in publish settings. I also have debug version of Flash Plaer. BUt when i right click any page in IE, debugging is disabled.

[F8] AC_FL_RunContent - Remote SWF
I am setting up a flash file in one directory and then need to de-activate the IE7 flash funtion with the following:

<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js. In Flash, run "Apply Active Content Update" in the Commands menu to copy AC_RunActiveContent.js to the HTML output folder.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0',
'width', '900',
'height', '161',
'src', 'menu',
'quality', 'high',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'true',
'loop', 'true',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'menu',
'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
'name', 'menu',
'menu', 'true',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'menu',
'salign', ''
); //end AC code
}
</script>

However the swf file is on another sit- and when I try to put a url anywhere above, it doesn't work.

When I put the swf in the same directory, works fine.

Does anybody have experience with the swf at another URL?

Thanks!! Shawn

Accesing Remote Php...
I've been developing an app that access a php file on a remote server and gets some data from it. All the time I've been devloping the app it worked fine, I was accesing the PHP from the movie in my PC and everything worked perfectly. Now I have just uploaded the file to the Internet and it doesn't contact the PHP anymore. Why can't it be? Is there a known issue related to this?

Remote Control
Hi. I have a video (AVI file) and a simple remote control which i created using photoshop. I would like to control the video using the remote. Any ideas or suggestions?

Remote Swf Import
how do import a swf into a swf

(i mean when some seeing a swf on the web it has other swfs on there to witch are in in a sfw)

sorry i know im not much sence

Buttons On Remote
I need to do a game that run from a set top DVD players. The game is no problem but how does the key presses from the remote works? How do I know which key does what?

Cheers

Philippe

Remote Debugging
Hey there All!

Is there a way to get errors thrown by Flash when it resides on a remote server? When I test the files locally inside the Flash authoring environment it pops a window stating the error using trace("Error loading/parsing LoadVars.");

Is there a way to do this when ir runs within a page? Does it log these errors somewhere I can access it?

I have a banner that uses loadVars to load some images into the banner that is returned by a php script. If I run the php script on its own, on the server, it returns the correct result. If I run the banner, on the server, in the browser caling the swf directly it works but, when I embed this same banner inside a html or php page it ceases to work.

I have tested in FF and IE. I know IE has a new way of handling ActiveX and that is why I tested in in FF. Both give the same result. Any ideas what is going on here?

The html test page is: www.karenimages.com/index_test.html

and the actual SWF is here:
http://www.karenimages.com/includes/...mod/banner.swf

Any and all help appreciated. Thanks!