Flash :: SUPER NOOB QUESTION About Flash Form Applications

FLASH Form Applications?
Anyone have any info about FLASH Form Applications? Are they good bad? Should we use them? I am an experienced FLASH user and just recently came across form applications. I found the tutorial at Lynda.com on data driven flash applications and the presenter swore by them. So I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing? or is it just a tool for programmers to work their way into the FLASH enviornment?

Preloader With Flash MX Form Applications
ok....

i have had it!

is it just me or do files created in Flash MX using the "Flash Forms Application" LOAD LIKE SLUGS!

25 seconds on my own desktop for a 125 KB file?! seriously, you cant be serious!

ive create 500 KB .swf's that load in half a second!

and this happens with all forms created in the form application (in flash go FILES/NEW/Flash Form Application) perhaps its because there are 10 nested screens? shouldnt be, thats the benefit to use this style of template

so lets say that theres no way to fix this... ok

how about a preloader?
well how do you get a preloader to work without using the timeline? and use the screens instead

everytime the files load, its a blank screen and finally it pops up

sorry for sounding... psycho... but i've had it!

can anyone offer any help?

also.. i see a lot of info on preloaders and loading jpegs in the next frame but none on loading "EXTERNALLY LOADED SWF's" ...

where do you call the loadMovie so the preloader pics up this loading?

beyond frustrated
-tha capn

Super Noob Question
this is gonna sound really dumb, but how do i make a loading screen? thanks for any help.

Super Noob Question
what is the hotkey for "remove keyframe"

<ctrl> something....?

A SUPER-NOOB Question:
Umm.... what exactly is a sprite, what do ppl use it for, and how do ppl make//use it?

Super Noob AS3 Question
I am just starting to dive into AS3 after finally getting a grasp on AS2 and am having some difficulty even doing the simplest things. If anyone can help I would VERY much appreciate it.

This is the code I am using for rollovers and rollouts:

Code:
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

myClip.myClip2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOverEvent);
myClip.myClip2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOutEvent);

function onMouseOverEvent(event:MouseEvent):void
{
myClip.myClip2.gotoAndPlay("over");
}

function onMouseOutEvent(event:MouseEvent):void
{
myClip.myClip2.gotoAndPlay("out");
}
Thanks!

How Do I Link Sws On As3? Super Noob Here
How do I link my swfs together with as3? im a noob to AS and i admit it! and all i want to do is learn how to link swfs together like you were clicking on links in a website. i believe i have to have a loader and addChild. i have an as3 book but it doesent explain it that well anyone?

How Do I Open A Door (super Noob)
The door is drawn on the side of a rectangle. How do i animate it open to where i can have a robot come out and shoot people in the face. I have attached the .swf file so you can see better what im gettin at.

Super Noob: Help With A Simple Menu
I am a super noob to flash.

I am basically editing a flash file from a template i bought. Its a flash menu and all i need to do is insert links to html pages into it. It basically plays a movie on mouse over where a highlight rolls up over the button.

Everytime I try put in a goto command on release the highlight wont move anymore or i am only editing a generic highligh and all buttons go to the same website.

I don't understand how to do it.

Could someone please explain it to me or even better put in a couple of links quickly for me? I'll be your mate

If you look at the fla file, i tried the first two buttons but the highlight stopped working.

Thanks,

Pete

Super Noob Question About Buttons
I just started a flash class. We have to make a childrens book with buttons that go back and forth between pages. I have the pages as keyframes on scene 1. With the code I have the first button works by going from the title page (1st keyframe w/ animation) to the second page. The button on the second page doesn't go back to the first, or to the third. I get this error.

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at main$iinit()

Here is my code:

package
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;

public class main extends MovieClip
{
public function main()
{
btn_1to2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickbtn_1to2);
btn_2to1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClickbtn_2to1);

}

public function buttonClickbtn_1to2(e:MouseEvent)
{
gotoAndStop("Page_2");

}

public function buttonClickbtn_2to1(e:MouseEvent)
{
gotoAndStop("Page_1");

}

}

}

Any suggestions? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Flash/Php Contact Form _root Lamer/noob Quick Question.
This is lame I know, but I have a quick question.

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the Flash/Php email form tut posted on Kirupa by Senocular. The probelm is, it was written with _root, and I'd like to use it inside another swf (that's loaded into another .swf).

I have the form .swf (email.swf) loading into an empty movie clip called "email" on the stage of (contact.swf), which is then loaded into an empty movie clip called "content" on the stage of my "index.swf".

The AS that's breaking w/o root is:
Code:
onClipEvent(data){
// show welcome screen
_root.nextFrame();
}

The tut is located here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti..._php_email.htm

Creating The Php Email Form (help A Noob)
Ok... im totally noob t php and not that great with flash... I went through the turtorial on creating the email form and did everything and it didn't work. click the send and it does nothing....

Im hosting on freeservers.com i pay for an account. It says it has GCI , php and some phpMyAdmin and MySQL.. Im totally unfimiliar with this stuff.. and it seems like there is alot of extra stuff i don't want on this server... I just want to creat a simple email form with a small .php file.. Do i need anything else besides the simple .php file in the turtorial? it says all scripts must go in the CGI directory for freeservers.. but i tried that and changed the adresses inside the flash code and what not and it still didn't work...

Im thinking of mabye getting a different host.. im paying like $15 a month now for this stuff

> 1000 MB Web Space
> 20 GB Bandwidth
> 500 MB File Size
> CGI, PHP, Perl and MySQL
> 8 Stats/Reports
> E-mail/Phone Support
> Inexpensive Expert Consulting
> FTP Access
> 500 POP/Webmail Accounts

Anyone know of something better... with mabye easier to use php capabilities or something? remember im totally noob to this php cgi n scripting stuff... just learning.. but freeservers has been kinda slow and the ftp seem a bit unstable...

Ugh thats alot of info but i need some help and this place seemed like it might be a good place to ask.

Thanks,
a confused musician...

Mike B.

aka

phoket

www.phoket.net

SUPER ADVANCED SUPER HARD
Ok.. it's not relaly that hard... but I am lost.

Is it possible for flash to get a url and pass it some of it's vairables without the varibales being visible to the user?

Another catch is that the new page being loaded is not another swf file... it is a html file. So, is it possible to get flash to load the html file in a new window, pass it some varibales (most like to javascript) and then the javascript open the swf file passing in the varibales required? (the whole time without the varibales being visible to the user?)

I am a strong believer that there is nothing flash cannot do... but this seems a bit hard

Thanx for any help you can toss my way

-Ryan

Flash Applications
hey, im about to design my portfolio page and i love flash, so i´d like to design it in full flash, but my boss said he would pay for my domain & hosting if I include some sections of a PC selling business, that has to be updated like 2 times a week, so it has to be easy to update, should i still work on flash... or just some flash elements like navigation, & banners in flash?

Flash Applications
I am looking to create a flash application that will act as a self contained software. It will need to run on a local machine rather than web based, and save all entries made to it.

Basically I am designing a check book in flash. My problems are this:

1. If I create a flash app and need to save, how can I save to a something on a local machine. Is this even possible. Since MySQL, etc are web based, are there other alternatives?

2. What is the best way to compile an application? I know there are softwares out there such as, mProjector . Are they needed? I know that you can export out flash as a projector file (.exe) but will this be enough?

Any guidance would be appreciated... Thanks.

Flash Applications
Hi,

I need to create an interactive language learning tool(application). That will run from a cd (this isn't going online). I want to use flash to create this but am unsure if this is the best way to go... Does anyone have any experience in creating these type of applications?

Should I be looking into Flex and AIR or anything else, maybe silverlight?

I'm looking for resources etc. if anyone knows of any... I've had a hard time finding anything.

Thanks!

Flash / Email Applications
Howdy,

I have two questions today (first one is either really simple or not available in FLASH)

1. Is it possible (using FLASH) to connect a web client
directly to an email address which opens their default
mail application, just like a email text link in HTML.

2. Everyone recieves emails with FLASH files embeded
some time in their life. How is this done?
Is it using HTML?

Any response would be much appreciated.

Financial Applications Using Flash
Is it possible to draw charts such as historical stock price chart using flash?

Flash Intergrating Into Applications
Hi guys, I have a question that I have not been able to find an answer to. I work for a software company and I'm wondering if we can intergrate flash objects into the actual software. We write 2 different apps, one in Microsoft Access and the other I believe is in visual basic (using .net architicture) I don't know if any of that makes sense because I'm not a programer. The initial goal is to use .swf files for icons instead of .ico. If we get good results we will be experimenting more and more. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Also we will be embedding the flash player into the program if we get it figured out.

Thanks in advance

How To Open Applications With Flash?
hi all

i'm new and need some code please!

i have designed a flash interface that's supposed to open different programs,
like say windows media player.

it works with this code if I put the aps in my windows folder,

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "wmplayer");
}

but how do I create a path so it can find the software packages
where they are sitting???

please help if you can

thanx!

Flash In VB Applications...need Advise
Hi all. I am very new with flash but have had some experience with visual basic 6 and .NET. I want to include flash 2D animations in a visual basic software program that allows the user to interact with the animations. For example the animations might be of machinery operating. The user could start and stop the machine parts, zoom in, back up...etc. The user would also need to be able to move the various parts around as easly as you and I move icons around on our computer desktop. Can this type of app be developed in FLASH alone or would I need to develope a VB front end interface that the user could use to call up flash movies? I suppose I am asking would I have to intergrate FLASH into the VB app and would I have to include a web browser in the app to get FLASH to work? . Can anyone direct me to books, whitepapers, websites...etc that might deal with this subject?
I apologize If I have posted to the wrong form. Thanks all. ultraflt@earthlink.net

Prices For 3 Flash Applications
I have developed 3 flash applications for a website. They are not completely finished yet but a large part of them is done. I have presented the applications to the buyers and they liked them and they want to buy them. The problem is that these are the first flash applications that I am selling and don't have that much experience concerning the prices. I have uploaded an archive with screens from all 3 applications in order to ask your oppinion on the prices I should ask for them. There are a total of 18 screens (because of the number of the pictures and of the size of the archive I couldn't upload neither the pictures nor the archive here on the forum). I would like prices for each application and a total price for all 3 of them if this would be different from the sum of the prices of the each. Pls help !

All 3 are for a sports newspaper website.
The first is a application that shows advanced data about an important football (soccer) match: live comentary, information about weather, attendance, stadium capacity, stats, tactics, images, videos and others.
The second is an application that shows live football results. Here you have the option of selecting your favourites and move them on top in a myMatches section.
The third is an application for viewing soccer charts from countries all over the world.

On another note I would like to ask about the functionality of them. Should I make the data load from XML or a database ? My option now is for XML because I am not loading that much content that would require a database.

Thx ! I am waiting for a response as soon as possible !

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[CS3] Flash Lite Applications
hi,

i need to create a simple flash lite application for mobile phone mainly targeting those with flash lite 1.1 player.

i am currently using CS3 and the applications could not be played on my mobile phone, what could be the reasons to it?

must i downgrade to flash 8?

please help !

Thanks

newbie

Security In Flash Applications
What I am trying to do is to make a flash game to provide the the web server with the score to be stored persistently.
However, there are some issues, as mentioned in http://kryogenix.org/writings/tech/lame-flash-scores and http://www.gotoandplay.it/_forums/viewtopic.php?p=10106&sid=45d42b8957aed452febf204bd2adee58 .
Are these true?

Is there a way of making sure (bullet proof) that the server is communicating with the specified Flash Application?

Thank you,
Riady

Flash CS3: Serious Lag When Switching Between Applications
I've got a serious problem with Flash CS 3 on my Macbook Pro, which makes it almost unworkable.

When I'm working in flash, switch to another application (Mail, Illustrator, any...) and then switch back to flash. the program freezes for at least 9 to 10 seconds: The Menu's are all transparant and greyed out, and the only thing I see is the beloved "beachball" spinning.

Needless to say that this makes it very hard to work with the program, since switching between apps is a big part of my workflow.

Is anyone experiencing the same problem?

I have re-installed the whole CS3 suite (twice) and even cleaned up my computer and did a clean install of OS X!!

I'm running on a 15" mac book pro (2,33) with 2gig memory, bought last may.

Any help is welcome,

Edited: 11/01/2007 at 03:12:08 AM by Martijn Hinfelaar

Stupid Flash Applications
Why is Adobe creating applications to create flash files like Flex and now Flash Catalyst? This seems like a ploy to just create more crap to confuse people and make the development process more cumbersome. I have clients who need people that know Flex and Flash when they both create flash (swf) files. And now Adobe is pushing Flash Catalyst. WTF. Now, not only do I need to learn Flash and Flex, but now I need to learn Flash Catalyst. What a pain in the ass!!!! If Flash sucks at creating swf files then fix it!! Donâ€™t create other software to create swf files. Less is more!!!!!!

Flash Lite Applications
hi everyone,

i am a student from Singapore. for a school project, i am tasked to develop a simple mobile application using flash. i am currently using flash mx2004 and i am targeting mobile phones with flash lite 1.1 player.

i have some issue here, i need to include some flash components such as buttons, textbox etc... but it cant be run on my mobile phone.

so can i ask, for flash lite 1.1 players enabled mobile phones i can only use actionscript 1.0 right? and for actionscript 1.0 , there are some limitation pertaining to the usage of flash components?

so can someone pls advise which IDE am i suppose to use?
I look forward to the replies!

Thanks
Jake
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Price For 3 Flash Applications
I have developed 3 flash applications for a website. They are not completely finished yet but a large part of them is done. I have presented the applications to the buyers and they liked them and they want to buy them. The problem is that these are the first flash applications that I am selling and don't have that much experience concerning the prices. I have uploaded an archive with screens from all 3 applications in order to ask your oppinion on the prices I should ask for them. There are a total of 18 screens (because of the number of the pictures and of the size of the archive I couldn't upload neither the pictures nor the archive here on the forum). I would like prices for each application and a total price for all 3 of them if this would be different from the sum of the prices of the each. Pls help !

All 3 are for a sports newspaper website.
The first is a application that shows advanced data about an important football (soccer) match: live comentary, information about weather, attendance, stadium capacity, stats, tactics, images, videos and others.
The second is an application that shows live football results. Here you have the option of selecting your favourites and move them on top in a myMatches section.
The third is an application for viewing soccer charts from countries all over the world.

On another note I would like to ask about the functionality of them. Should I make the data load from XML or a database ? My option now is for XML because I am not loading that much content that would require a database.

Thx ! I am waiting for a response as soon as possible !

Download screens from here

Most Impressive Flash Applications?
What is the most impressive flash application you have seen?

e39m5

Next Generation Flash Applications?
hello, I Am new in this forum, great site!

A friend tell me a very cool site (he told that have two ex-macromedia programers in this site)
http://www.flashexperience.com

You see very interesing full applications for flash, made in a component architecture.
(I never see it before)
I was thinking to sell that sound player to my clients!

what you think about it? will it be begining of next generation flash applications?

PHP FLASH MX 2004 Pro Applications
anyone here share links of PHP FLASH MX 2004 Pro Applications
huh...Ive been working for 24hours trying to convert NEWS section into AS2 but failed
I try to rebuild NEWS in AS2 from Foundation PHP for Flash by Steve Webster........
anyone can help here ?????????
I appreciate help from you guys

thx

Opening Applications From Flash
Ok.

Here it goes. I would like to open applications from flash. Dont jump into conclusion, i want to open a external file, use fscommand and here it goess..my question is a bit different. I would like to open applications itself. say a click should open Acrobat reader. or yahoo messenger or wordweb.

Sometime back i got a roundabout of doing this by writing a ".bat" file with the tradtional dos way, but again that method only works for softwares or applications which has .dll files stored in the system. In case of utilities, or applications, which can be a drag-drop & run, that wont work.

Is there a way to open applications using fscommand from flash..or is there a 3rd party solution available.

Opening Applications From Flash Projector
I need to lauch MS worrd and Acrobat from a Flash Projector on CD-ROM.. I realse that I can target these using the getURL command but this opens the browser which is no good. I found a command from a previous thread using a FSComand:

fscommand ("exec", "cmd /c Name.pdf");

This works but a DOS window appears... any suggestions on how to solve this or alternative methods very welcome?!

Cheers

Oll

Flash And Touch Screen Applications
Does anyone have any info- or know where I can get some info on using flash to create touch screen applications for a kiosk?

thanks

Trouble With Flash Stand-alone Applications
Hello,

For a certain e-learning project, I have been asked to create a interactive environment where course takers can navigate through to complete some (simple) missions (mostly multiple choice questions).

Since the environment is pretty loaded with graphical issues, sound (mp3), feedback pages (frames) and 'glued' to a whole with actionscript, my development .fla-files raise up to about 66 megabytes and more.
Because the project is meant to be distributed on cd-rom, I want to publish to .exe-files, which takes a pretty long time; though that is not the major problem.

The problem is that the final .exe-files are, though checked with the 'Control - Enable simple buttons'-option (where programmaticallly everything seems to be in order), contain a number of bad generated actions which make the whole of the application fail.

Can someone help me on this one please?
Thanks

Opening Other Applications From A Flash Movie
I would like to be able to open other files from within my movie. For example: open a word document in word not internet explorer, or open a powerpoint file from within the movie. I am creating a presentation on cd and would like to be able to store all files on the cd and open them from there.
Can anybody help???

Thanx

Paul

What Do I Need To Do Robust Desktop Applications With FLASH MX?
GREETINGS!! I have been exploring the idea of creating desktop applications with FLASH. I want more than just a ScreenSaver. I checked out ScreenTime for FLASH and though it would work, I want to have the SWF act as a stand alone application on the desktop that will always have a control tab at the bottom of the screen so the user can mouseover it and find the latest content (linked to our database) or news updates available. I want it to work like a mini dedicated browser application, complete with installer and uninstaller components. Most of the major movie sites have these for downloads. I know I may be bitting off more than I can chew, but I would like to know if it is possible to do this without having to hire a third party.
THANKS

Flash And Mission Critical Applications
VB, FOxPRo, they've ll proven themselves..

Hi,

Building Intranet Corporate applications (Complex Accounting systems, etc) using Flash/php/apache and mysql is my next target window. I've done a few Applications using the above setup with a mix of 3rd party Flash tools.. (Small inventory systems, Basic accounting, etc.) But what im about to do next is for a mission critical company.. although the operations are quite simple; one country sends an order form to another country, it's processed then sent back... this is done in a rapid rate a day.

My question now is... can flash be considered a 'professional' GUI for REAL business applications? Have people used flash for any critical corporate applications? IS IT REALLY ACCEPTABLE?
although i've kinda proven to myself with my previous apps that flash - php can do most of the things VB can do (morethan enough to execute a business task), i kinda went here to get a sort of "boost" of confidence..

Please enlighten me.

Tea

Any One Knows How To Make Flash Talk To Other Applications...?
Hi...
I am trying to develope a desktop application in Delphi(probably). I want to make use of Flash Interface for user to Interact with and make other works like communicating with server, database interaction, etc using Delphi or .NET. I have already developed some portion of it like Calendar in Flash MX. Can any one tell me if such a thing is possible and how?

Can I Save Data In Flash Applications
hi, i'm doin a student project in Flash. we wanna save the user's data such as name and progress on the user's hard disk. izzit possible 2 do that?

HELP Foundation Flash MX Applications Chapter 8
I bought this book by Frieds of ED. The thing is that there is a big problem in the chapter 8 that unables anyone to fisish a flashblog application that you are supposed to complete.

If anyone has somehow completed this book or is able to solve this problem please let me know.

I need it desperately to finish a similar college work..

Source files can be found at http://www.friendsofed.com/books/1590591682/code.html

thanks

rod

italo59@hotmail.com

Opening External Applications In Flash MX
OK. I have developed a cd rom which has a button that links to an external database .exe file.
The client wants it to work an OSX, Mac system 9 and Windows XP.
Everything works except system 9.
the script i am using is:

On(release){
FSCommand("exe", "search classic.exe");

It works fine on the OSX and XP systems but not on system 9.

Any hep would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Launching Applications On Top Of Flash Window
I am creating an information cd about a company. I have a few buttons that open pdf's and a couple that launch 2 applications. Powerpoint viewer and a driver install.

When I click on the button to launch pptview.exe that works fine, the pop up security box comes up asking if I want to run that program. But say I clicked on one of the pdf buttons first that opens up a new window displayin the pdf. If the person does not close out that new window and clicks ont he pptview.exe button the box that pops up to ask if you want to run that program is now behind my flash projector. Is there a way to ensure that when I launch that pptview.exe it will always launch on top of everything so that it isn't hidden behind any window. This problem also happens with the button to launch the driver install.

I use Flash MX 2004
and the actionscript I am using on the pptview button is.

on (release) {
getURL("Slideshow/pptview.exe");
}

I have tried using the fscommand but failed to get it working. my projector file is in the root folder and from there I created a folder named "fscommand" and within that folder I placed pptview.exe and used the actionscript

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

the button doesn't do anything. My ideal solution would be have the powerpoint file open automatically in powerpoint viewer but I can not get that to work. I tried using ftoolapp.exe and that comes with example flash projects using the program to show what you can do and how to do it and those don't even work.

I am desperate and looking for any solution. Even just fixing the problem to ensure that launching applications will be on top of all windows will be acceptable. If anyone can help please respond.

Thank You.
shane

[F8] Flash Applications, Safety Click? How To Get Rid Of?
You know when you hover over a Flash application it says "Press spacebar or click here to activate this application." or something similar? How do you get rid of it? I have scripts that are supposed to do that, but I'm not sure what to do with them.

Pre-thanks to any help.

-Alyssa

Flash Applications And Legal Issues
Flash comrades,
I've created a raster data product designed for PocketPC's that will be commercially available on CD. While the data files are common formats, viewable by a variety of software packages, I'm throwing in a dead simple viewer I created in Flash just for the sake of convenience for the user. The customer is purchasing the data, not the viewer, but does having it on the CD violate any copyright laws?

Anybody have any ideas or perhaps run into this themselves?