Flash :: Severe Technical Issue

File Reference, Severe Issue
Hello boys and girls,

again an issue that shouldnt be one, but ....

I am trying to browse a file using File Reference, on OSX Leopard, Flash 8, render as player 8, AS2, using the sample code given in the help/documentation.

Now if I execute the file in dev mode, the file browsing window opens up and the cursor goes into thinking mode where it doesn't come back from, unless I cold-kill the application.

Anyone ever had that happening?
It ****s up both on my machine and my wife's which is the dientical machine/OS.
It's and urgent issue as quite a big part of my project relies on this.
Weirdly enough this was still working fine last year when I used the class before.

Please any help?

Severe Problems...
I am creating my first full Flash site using MX. I've got a few problems with loading external .swf files, hoping someone can lend me a hand.

1 external .swf file is a guestbook (I downloaded it from FlashKit) and is supposed to scroll the messages across the top of it. But, it's calling the messages from an external .phtml file (which is actually PHP) and when the page loads, a new window opens (the .phtml page) with a random message.

Images I created in Flash for the background, are only displaying parts of the images. Don't know why, all the drawings are brought to the top...

SAFARI Browser........ What am I doing wrong here? I can use my input text boxes in IE 5.2 (Mac) but they are useless in Safari. Am I missing something?

I'd be grateful for any help on these issues...
Thanks!

Severe Probs With .swf And Flash Player 6
hiyas.

either my computer is playing with me or then i'm facing problems with flash player.

i cant see any flash-animations in net. i've downloaded the flash player from macromedia site over five times now, and .swf-files still stubbornly refuses to show.
i use opera 6.06 and 7.03 browser and ie6, all have the same problem.
when updating my pages with dreamweaver, the preview in browsers show animations correct, but when uploaded nothing shows up. hard to update pages when no idea what people can see there
check kokokuva.com, if you can see something moving in the main page then the problem is in my end of cable.
anyone else been through same kind of problems?

-aos

Can Someone Please Tell Me Why This Flash Is Causing Severe CPU Spikes?
Hey,

This is beyond bizarre. I created a flash in *******, and embedded it into a webpage I am still working on. Then, I started noticing, that my computer kept freezing up, I thought it was because I had too many windows open, or whatever. I was fearful that my computer was getting ready to crash or something. I really didn't know what was causing it, until I found out that it only happens when I have the webpage open in IE or FP, with the flash playing. I opened My task manager, and went to performance, and sure enough, whenever I open the page with the flash, my CPU Usage shoots to 100%, and hovers right around there the whole time. It's really weird. If I close the window it drops instantly down to 10% or so. I thought it had something to do with the way I made the flash, but I found another flash that causes the same problem. Here it is:

Sample

Whenever this flash is on the screen, my CPU usage stays between 90-100%, even if I don't have any other problems open. What the hell is causing this?

Thanks.

Flash MX Severe Font Problem
Ok I don't know why it's doing this, but I added some new fonts to my computer, I had them before and it worked well with Flash. But now I added them again (because I recently formated my PC) and now Flash doesn't read them.

It reads all the other fonts like Arial and all the defaults but not the new ones. And yes they are under C:WindowsFont

Anybody knows what's going on? HELP!

I Need Technical Help?
Hi,
I'm trying to link my two movies together. I want my bottom movie to open a popup menu in the top movie(my site is designed like this so it is important for me to get this to work).

1. Im using the javascript command (start)(more info in the pics."Or just email me questions" Jsonfield@hotmail.com

2. I was hopeing I could get someone to look at this movie and show me how to link my bottom button to open a popup menu labeled(conspiracy theories)(win1). Im not keeping the top movie button linked to conspiracy theories, Ill link it to a new url.

3.I tryed linking to frame1 under top menu buttons but it didnt work.

(Here is info pics)
http://www.geocities.com/jsonfield/Flashhelp.html

(Here is the Movie)
http://www.flashkit.com/downloads/mo...r%20demand.zip

Technical Help Please
when I load movie clips into my main Flash movie the clips run slow and choppy but the parent movie runs fine. What do I do?? (I'm using preloaders)

Technical Question
Ok where to start in describing the situation...???

I have my main swf file, and 5 sub swf file that get loaded into the main one, using the load movie command. At the beginning of each sub file there is a little intro to the file. In the main window I put a "closing" movie, or "fade to," basically leading you to the sub files.

Now, what I have done in the past, and work just fine, on simple circumstances, is on timeline I create 6 section, and label them. As an example, " Main, file 1,file 2, file 3, file 4, file 5." The main one has all the buttons, and what have you. On each button it put the a goto "label" and play command respectfully. On the sections "file 1," "file 2," and so on, which are basically copies of the main section but with the animation I want add as a closer, or fade out. The number of key frame of the section "file 1", "file 2", and so on, are the same as the number in the closing animation, with an extra key frame at the end that has the action attach to the key frame, loadmovie, what ever specific file.

The problem is, lets say, the closing movie clip is 50 key frames, which is not much in itself, but then multiply that by 5, and you are at 250. That on a simple scale.

What I want to know, it an easier way to do this.

The way I see. When you hit say button 1, play movie clip, pause (for what ever duration that the clip is), load file 1.

Same for button 2, and file 2, and so on.

Anyone has a suggestion as to simplify all this.

Kinda Technical (maybe?)
I am still new to the whole flash scene. I have been able to create a couple of flash presentations that seem to have worked fine... up until now! I just got a email from a lady who has been having trouble viewing one of my presentations. She said that after the .swf is fully downloaded she tries to watch the pres. It is a pretty simple pres. with just next and back buttons which all are linked correctly. But she said that after viewing for a while the flash pres starts all over. This never happens for me or anyone else that I know about. Any ideas? The .swf is if flash 6 format with compression. This lady's computer is Windows 98 with 64 MB of Ram which is 75% free. There is 2 GB of drive space. The Virtual Memoryis 32-bit. The Flash .sfw is 1.2MB -kind of large I know, but for what I am trying to do it is OK(at least I think it is)

To see a file report of the flash .swf - go to http://www.teach.ebc4u.org/report.txt

to see the flash .swf go to http://www.teach.ebc4u.org/intro.swf
Thanks so much,
Matt

A Few Technical Questions
I am making my first professional website with flash, nothing big for my father's company, the majority of the site is not in flash but the navigation menu is going to be done in flash, i am planning to make it similar to the one on www.privacycouncil.com, with pictures that rotate where those two people are. My questions are as follows:

1) For making a flash menu that should go across what is the best way to deal with different resolutions? My father's corporation's clients are mainly large international companies (i.e. phillip morris, pfizer, boeing etc...), I would presume they have reasonably nice computers, what resolution do you think makes the most sense to make it look best for, also isn't there a way to make the flash scale so it looks similar on all resolutions? Any info you professional web designers have come to learn through websites made about resolution would be greatly appreciated.

2) Secondly, I have about 7 images that total about 330kb, they need to be resized because at the moment they are too big, what's the best way to resize them, retaining as much quality, i know when u make something smaller it doesnt lose quality, only when you enlarge it, but i also want to try and make the files as small as possible.

Hopefully i was clear with my questions, i apologize if i wasn't. And thanks in advance for any knowledge that can be given on these issues.

Technical Problems
Hello all, this is a peculiar problem, so I'm not sure if there's any way to help me, but I've put literally months into this project, so I don't wanna give up without trying all my options.
The problem is as follows: For the longest time I've been able to quick export (ctrl+enter) my game. But recently, it somehow lost this ability. Now when I quick export, it handles as though there's no script on it. You can tell no lines have run because the depths have not even begun setting themselves up yet. When I run the .swf out of the Flash creator, just in its native folder, it works fine. The problem is that I need to be able to use trace() to debug the engine. However, trace() only works with quick export, not with loading the .swf in the external Flash Player. Has anyone heard of this problem before? I've tried pasting everything into a new .fla, saving it in a new folder and everything. I even reinstalled Flash. Nothing seems to work. If anyone can help, I'll be very indebted to them.

Flash Can Be Technical Right?
hey guys, i'm wanting to do a flash project for uni but my teachers seem to think it won't be technical enough and too easy!
only problem is i've never done any kind of programming, only a couple of hours trying to pick up VB. so i really want to persuade them it can be hard!
my last flash project was point and click game that i thought was fairly tough going with several pages of actionscript. is there anything i could add to beef it up? i thought i could incorporate html, php and maybe a database to the project. any ideas guys?

ta

Technical Questions
Hi,

Where do I get the important interview questions in Flash Actions Script? Please help me.

A Technical Question ?
Hello all,

I am doing a movie where i declare some variables and then use those declared varibales in a loaded swf file.

In the loaded swf i am using an array and a constant from the basic movie.

When i declared the constant as _root.name and used it in the loaded movie as _root.name it worked fine.

But when i did the same thing for the array it didn't work and the loaded movie didn't recognize the array. The problem was solved when i declared the arrays as globals _global.arrayname in the basic movie and use it as arrayname in the loaded swf.

WHY what is the difference between objects loaded as a _root or as a _global.

Thanks

Technical Question
So, just wondering;

If i write a for loop as follows...:

Code:
function pass(){
trace("pass");
}
for(var i = 0; i<5; i++){
pass();
}
...my understanding is that I have written a function that is carried out five times.

So logically, when I instead write the script like this...:

Code:
for(var i = 0; i<5; i++){
function pass(){
trace("pass");
}
pass();
}
...I have actually written and called this function five different times.

So my question is does this clog down any processing usage in my script? Is it less efficient to write my code in the latter way?

Technical Terms?
Hi Guys,

An easy question for experts (hopefully)

Could anyone tell me the techincal terms for these flash items:

1) http://www.tangozebra.co.uk/adgaller...tml?ad_id=5610
(Where the ad appears in the middle of a webpage)

2)http://www.tangozebra.co.uk/adgaller...ml?ad_id=11019
These flash banner drop down's where you have a banner and hold your mouse over it and it drops down.

Also any links to tutorials appreciated

Thanks

Chris

Technical Question
Hi everyone,

I'd love to know how this is done. If you check out that great site http://www.thanea.com/ars/ you'll see that there are elements aligned to each corner of the browser window. They are always in the same place - relative to the browser window and not relative to the flash file. How do they do this, how do you make the the content dynamic like this? If anyone can point me to a tutorial or shed some light on the matter i'd very much appreciate it.

Cheers

I Have Ideas - I Need Your Technical Opinion
Hi guys...Here's what's up. I've written in before about this for a couple different roadblocks...this time, I have ideas, but I don't know enough about Actionscripting to know if they are possible!

Hopefully, you can let me know.

I have built a virtual digital radio. This is what it does so far:

- When the power button is pressed, the clock turns on, the music starts and across the main screen the name of the station appears.

- When the "P-Type" button is pushed, the type of station appears (new rock, classical, talk etc.)

- When the "info" button is pressed, it shows the current song and artist name of the radio station. This information is in an external text file and then displayed on a dynamic text field.

etc...

Anyways,

It is designed to look like a Chevrolet car radio, and I would like it to act as much like a real one as possible.

Here are my questions:

1) I want to have different "presets" for different stations. Ex. "1" is a rock station, "2" is classical, "3" is talk. When one of these buttons is pressed, I want the action to tell the "info" and the "P-type" buttons to go to different external text files that hold the appropriate information.

EX.

Button 1 Button 2 Button 3
| | |
Rock Music Classical All Talk

Info for B1: I try, Macy Gray
Info for B2: Nocture 2, Fredric Chopin
Info for B3: Gardening Hour with Jane

P-Type for B1: Rock Music
P-Type for B2: Classical Music
P-Type for B3: All Talk

Flash Technical Problem
Hey, I have a flash tech problem. whenever i try to import a .png file I get some kind of error and it shuts down my whole flash mx program. Does any1 know why it does this and how to fix it?

Technical Avi. In Flash 7 Question
I've been messing around with avi's recently in flash 6, and started importing them into fmx2004pro for fun these past few days, and I noticed in a book of mine for flash 6, that avi files that were played in flash, couldnt be seen by mac users at that time. Now that flash player 7 is out, Im wondering if they did anything about that. And yes i know that .avi files are a window media format (just making sure for reference). This is for flash mx 2004 pro & flash player 7 users.

Help With Technical Questions For Interview
I got an interview for Web Designing post. Can anyone please help with some of the technical questions for web/graphic designers, please?
Photoshop, Flash, Javascript, CSS, XML, HTML, Designing concepts ...
If you can also help with the answers, that would be great. Forums, groups, where can I bank upon for future reference. I know I got this gr8 forum for flash.

Preloader In Or Out? Non Technical Question...
Hi all,

I just wondered: I have a main movie with an empty mc to load my different swf files in it. Now, which is better?

a) put a preloader in the first frames of each swf
b) put a preloader on the main movie that starts to preload the external swf when clicking a button

When I say "better" I mean, is there a difference in "smoothness" or bandwith blah or anything like that?
It's maybe a stupid question, but you know what they say: there's no such thing like a stupid question.

Thanks

Technical Issues---Sound
I am considering using MP3's for an upcoming project.

I have always been able to play MP3's ...I cannot remember a time when I could not.

Does anyone know for sure if a plug in for MP3 is packaged with the newest browser updates?

The upcoming project must be playable across a network of computers without needing to download any plugins.

The end-user has the latest browser --- but no access to download anything on the internet.

Thanks,
Janet

I Am Having A Technical Problem And I Do Not Know Whether It Is Related To
Hello
I am having a technical problem and I do not know whether it is related to
Internet Explorer or Flash.
If you use MS Internet Explorer on this link and click on next then click on
prior the movie will not appear.

http://www.readverse.com/1000_arabic/3000_suras/s001/v001/sg001/s001_v001_sg001.html

However, if you use Netscape then you can go forward (pressing next) and
backward (pressing prior) and you can see the Flash movie.

I do not understand why Internet Explorer fails to show Flash movie that was
present a few second ago.

Any advice?

Help:::technical Drawing Interface
Hello,

I am trying to build an interface that looks like a technical drawing like the one on http://www.pixel-empire.com

Does anyone please, please know how and what software I should use?

Thank you.

Technical Animation Problem
Hello experts,

I have an issue with an animation that I am trying to create.  It is a rather complicated animation involving a number of interrelated components, and I want to make the animation as efficient as possible.  Some answers to the following questions would make my life much easier.

First of all this animation is of a system.  There are several components to this system:
* engine cross-section
* pistons (with hydraulics)
* airflow indicators (arrows)
* temperature indicators (arrows)
* pressure indicators (colored regions)

Secondly, I would like to add the capability to zoom into different regions of the animation in order to visualize more detail.

Thirdly, I should mention that while I've programmed in C/C++ for over a dozen years, this is my first Flash project.  As of this writing, my only flash experience has been to read a tutorial, and opening Flash MX to review the development environment.

Here is how I am currently conceiving of structuring the animation:
1. Static background in its own layer.
* Q1: Does the timeline for this layer need to extend for the number of frames which the entire simulation is intended to run?  Can I programmatically position a background at a particular coordinate without having to manually place it?
2. Several components:
a. Piston (movie clip)
* Q2a: Logically, I supppose I should create movie clips for the different animated components.   For example, if I have a cam (or dial) that rotates 45 degrees and another cam will rotate 90 degrees over the same time period do I need to create two separate clips?  ...or should I just programmatically rotate them?  which is more efficient?
b. Animated indicators (various movie clips)
c. Static components
* Q2c: I am supposing that I will move these static components around, and such...
d. Preloader
* Q2d: A preloader seems essential.  Do I need to place this preloader in its own layer?  Which frame does it go in? (sorry)
3. Control System for animated components
* Q3: This is where I get hung up.  The timeline seems to add great capability to create animations, but, at the same time seems to add the annoyance of poor scalability.  Additionally, it seems that if I programmatically control every aspect of the animation with ActionScript, then I am giving up the use of the timeline...or is this a bad assumption?
4. Control system for user interactivity
* Q4: Can I combine the use of the timeline with the use of ActionScript?  Logically, it seems like it should work properly, but I have no idea how the event handler of Flash MX functions so it makes it difficult for me to visualize how all of the user interactions will flow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Technical Question.(dont Be Intimidated)
For a pet project i am going to create a CD and MP3 player. Is there by any chance a way to play a movie without the player window around it.OR if i make it a projector Fullscreen will i be able to turn the movie background to Transparent?

thanks

What's The Technical Reason For Video Crashing Off A CD?
I have been having the worst time trying to get video to run successfully off a cd. My video clips are no longer than 15 sec and they randomly crash the stand alone player. does anyone know the technical reasoning for this or even a work around? Thanks

Does This Photo Type Gallery Have A Technical Name?
I am not sure if there is a technical name for this type of photo gallery or what, is it photo navigation or a flash banner, if any one knows where I could find a tutorial or fla I would surely appreciate it. Trying to finish up a site i have been working on for a while, and my friend wants this type of deal on it.

This is the gallery
http://www.stylemagazine.com/flash_feature_gui.swf

Thanks in advance for your help.

Loader Technical Problem... ARGHSDF#$@#
I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some input..

I have a custom loader w/ text 1-100%. To make things look easier,

let's say file size (swf) is around 1MB and it shows the loader text that starts from 0 to 100% (when done loading, goto and play frame 5) and so on..

From frame 5, when I do a linkage of a movieclip (in order to write class codes) and the movieclip is about 300k (about 30% of 1MB), this is where problem happens.

When I do a test, the text starts from 30% - 100%; and yes it takes same amount to load that 30% but it's blank till that movieclip - linked to a class is done loading. From this test, I know that the frame 1's graphic object won't even show up until the flash loads the classes (or movieclips that are linkaged).
btw, * publish setting (export classes in frame - 5) is marked but doesn't make any difference.

I would really appreciate if someone could give me some advise why the object in the first frame (the loader) won't show up till the movieclips that are linkaged are done loading?
Is there a solution to this?..

Antonio L.

Simple Technical Question About Flash
I am new to Macromedia Flash and am working with Flash 5. I am currently updating a site that somebody else designed. I went through the tutorial that came with the program and figured out how to change the information I need to in the .FLA file, but the guy who designed the site saved the scenes in separate .swf files. There are separate swf files for the intro, preloader, scenes, etc but only one fla file. How do I save the scene that I just edited from the fla file to the right swf file?

Severe Problems With "antiAliasType = Advanced"
i've got a dynamic flash movie that has a lot of timeline text fields and a ton of dynamically created text fields. all of the content is loaded from various XML files. to improve readability, i thought that i'd use advanced antialiasing, but i'm having problems:

1. flash (the application and player!) crashes when i'm previewing the movie. doesn't happen at all when the normal antialiasing is used.
2. the text has a lot of graphical "glitches" when the text field's parent MC has "cacheAsBitmap = true" or if it's rotated dynamically.

i would trade the enhanced reability for removing the functionality that causes the gliches, but i can't live with it crashing the app 9 of 10 times.

anyone had these problems? know of a solution? is it the fonts i'm using? computer? display driver?!!

thank!

Severe Problems With "antiAliasType = Advanced"
i've got a dynamic flash movie that has a lot of timeline text fields and a ton of dynamically created text fields. all of the content is loaded from various XML files. to improve readability, i thought that i'd use advanced antialiasing, but i'm having problems:

1. flash (the application and player!) crashes when i'm previewing the movie. doesn't happen at all when the normal antialiasing is used.
2. the text has a lot of graphical "glitches" when the text field's parent MC has "cacheAsBitmap = true" or if it's rotated.

i would trade the enhanced reability for removing the functionality that causes the gliches, but i can't live with it crashing the app 9 of 10 times.

anyone had these problems? know of a solution? is it the fonts i'm using? computer? display driver?!!

thanks!

Male, 25, UK, Would Like To Meet Russian For Technical Translations And Maybe More
I'm not quite sure where this belongs so apologies if this in the wrong place

If any of you speak Russian would you mind translating the following, I'm trying to make some multi-lingual controls:

"Enter fullscreen"

"Enter normal"

"Music On / Off"

I'm a bit hesitatant to just stick it into google translate because it might lose the context. Thank you very much in advance

And if you don't speak russian, pehaps we could discuss this:

Fullscreen
Full Screen
Full-screen

Which do you prefer / which is gramatically correct?

Flash 8 Technical Problem - Error Message
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I just installed Flash 8, and it crashes a few seconds after I launch =
Flash 8 (Window has encountered a problem message and needs to close =
message)=20
Here is the log from event viewer:
Faulting application flash.exe, version 8.0.0.478, faulting module =
wintab32.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x000017e0.

I'm running WinXP Pro, SP2 with 4G RAM

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

I
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AYOKUNLE JOEL-TAIWO

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Generative Compositional Engine (critique & Technical Comments)
Hi, I'm at about the 2/3rds milestone on my latest Generative engine and would really like some conceptual and technical feedback.

What do you think are features that would greatly improve this project?

What do you think could improve the final compositions?

What do you not like about this application or its compositions?

Any ideas as to improve the efficiency of the program?

http://www.haptic-data.com/generatives/engine.html

THANKS!

note: I plan on making the composition clear when the coords are being plotted to increase the speed of the program. For now you can just put the "comp density" to 0 and push "Generative Comp" to clear.

I'm Upgrading. Technical Expertise+suggestions Would Be Valuable To My Reseach... :)
Hi! I posted a while ago and have since made more informed decisions what I'm looking for,

My current PC is:

AMD64 3500+ 2.2ghz
1gb RAM
Abit AV8-3rd Eye (Socket 939)
NVIDIA 6800GT 256mb

This PC doesnt seem to be up for the task anymore it crashes all the time using programs like AE/Flash & Photoshop and I would like to upgrade.
After some research I am interested in building a new computer using Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (Socket LGA775). This really looks to me the best value for money processor right now.

I want to spend around £500 (1006.85 US$)

For the other components I am VERY loosely considering:

RAM: http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=321028, (Corsair TWIN2X 6400C4 DDR2, 2048MB CL4) £60~

Motherboard: http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=329724 (ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi) £130~

Graphics Card: http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=327560 (Point of View GeForce 8800GTS 640MB) £230~

This is a very rough outline as to what I wish to buy, what do you think? -be critical! I don't want to pay for anything I won't use and this will be my only upgrade for perhaps 3-5years so I must choose and time it very wisely.

With the CPU included at £165~ this should cost me just under £600. Could I get a good enough performance with a cheaper graphics card and motherboard? I believe I can reduce the total price by about £100 this way. Or on another note, should I purchase 8800GTX? Is the performance difference that good? I don't want to buy the most expensive components, but I want a significant increase in performance over my current system and it would be great if the computer can outperform my Xbox 360 console for videogames (by setting this benchmark I can be confident I'll be able to run Crysis, Gears Of War and others), so I am all about the best value for money here and the only component that clearly offers this is the Processor to me

Thanks for any help!
...and I know this post is a little messy I've basically brainstormed everything I wish to achieve

Technical "style" Of Flash Interfaces
Hi good people,
I'm looking for examples of technical "style" of flash interfaces for a new web hosting and design site....something like a monitor screen or similar...cheers

[CS3] Still Having Clock Time Zone Issue---and Dynamic Text Box Issue
I'm trying to do a clock that displays another time zone. The problem I'm having is that instead of running on a 12 hour clock, its on a 24hr one.

any insight as to how I can change the time?
Currently the clock is displaying
23:00p-Jul.22

I want it to display 11:00p-Jul.22

var dayText:String;
var dateText:String;
var monthText:String;
var AmPm:String;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
var myDateate = new Date();
//var sec:Number = myDate.getSeconds();
var min:Number = myDate.getMinutes();
var hour:Number = myDate.getHours();
var day:Number = myDate.getDay();
var date:Number = myDate.getDate();
var month:Number = myDate.getMonth();
//var year:Number = myDate.getFullYear();
//sec = sec<10 ? "0"+sec : sec;
min = min<10 ? "0"+min : min;

//AM/PM
if (hour>12) {
hour = hour-12;
AmPm = "p";
} else {
AmPm = "a";
}

//day
if(date == 1 || date == 21 || date == 31) {
dateText = date+"";
} else if(date == 2 || date == 22) {
dateText = date+"";
} else if(date == 3 || date == 23) {
dateText = date+"";
} else {
dateText = date+"";
}

//month
if (month == 0) {
monthText = "jan";
} else if (month == 1) {
monthText = "feb";
} else if (month == 2) {
monthText = "mar";
} else if (month == 3) {
monthText = "apr";
} else if (month == 4) {
monthText = "may";
} else if (month == 5) {
monthText = "jun";
} else if (month == 6) {
monthText = "jul";
} else if (month == 7) {
monthText = "aug";
} else if (month == 8) {
monthText = "sep";
} else if (month == 9) {
monthText = "oct";
} else if (month == 10) {
monthText = "nov";
} else if (month == 11) {
monthText = "dec";
}

//display
dateDisplay.text = hour+":"+min+ AmPm + "-" + monthText+"."+ dateText;
};

Complex Audio Issue..or Maybe Just Syntax Issue
what's up peoples. I'm building a new site for my studio and having some audio issues i can't explain very well, so here goes:

I've got an external .swf successfully loading into _level6 of my project with it's own audio. and from reading thse forums, i know that if i want to control the audio independently of other audio, i need to attach the sound object to a seperate movieclip, which i'm doing and I can control the audio just fine. However, when i click to load in a dynamic image into a dynamicly loaded movieClip, the volume button no longer works. Both the soundobject's mc and the dynamic mc's are being loaded into the nextHighestDepth() so i don't think one is kicking out the other. Here's what i've got:

Code to attach the soundObject when the section starts:

Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("soundstage6",this.getNextHighestDepth());
work_sound = new Sound(soundstage6);
work_sound.attachSound("myaudiofile");
work_sound.start(0, 999);
Code to control the volume:

Code:
this.testVol.onPress = function () {
this._parent.work_sound.setVolume(0);
}
Code that loads in my dynamic images:

Code:
this.testLoad.onPress = function () {
_root.attachMovie("infoClip", "infoClip", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_alpha:0, _x:491.1, _y:193.9});
}
that testLoad button does severl other things when clicked, but when i comment out that particular line of code, the volume control button contines to work. I'm sure this has something to do with the fact that all of this is occuring on _level6 but i have no idea why or how to fix it!!!

Anybody have any ideas? Sorry for the long and complex explination!!

Mac Textinput Issue + New Player Fullscreen Issue
Please inform me if I am a total idiot,... but it appears that holding down backspace while in a TextInput on a mac will only delete one character rather than deleting chars as long as the button is held down. I have tried making the simplest project consisting of only a base sprite and a textinput, and it fails (i thought i may have been preventing the event from bubbling or something.) I tested the movie on PC and holding down backspace works fine. Is this a known issue? and so I just have to extend textInput?...

Also, it seems like when coming back from fullscreen in a swf embedded on a page causes some flickering of the swf content upon resizing the browser window, 3 people I know have also encountered this problem.

Thanks for any help,

Chris Laan

Button Issue In Flash - Program Issue
all of a sudden when i create a button and place it on stage i cant click it to drag it, scale or whatever...instead when i hover over it it behaves as in a compiled swf file (cursor changes into a hand,...).
How can i change that to the way it was? Anyone had this problem before? It is becoming really irritating.

Level Issue Or Version Issue?
hi,

wondering if anyone knows why this movie here:

http://www.pixel360.com/dev/zoompan.html

works fine as it is, but when loaded into another movie, into an MC called 'blankmc1' it will drag, but not zoom?

Also when i try exporting it as AS 2 and Flash8 the zoom handle sticks to the top of the screen?

source here:
----------------------------------------------
http://www.pixel360.com/dev/zoompan.fla

weird?

Help With Crash Issue/actionscript Issue
Hello all,
My name is Josh and I want to say thanks for even reading my post, I appreciate any help I can get. I am here at work trying to edit a flash intro I bought from templatemonster (no im not a newbie, but this is the one my boss really liked, so what he wants he gets). Im trying to edit it here and i first opened it in Flash 8 which is what i normally use. So, im editing it and usually after I edit a few things I would like to get a glimpse so i test the movie real quick. Well, everytime the "export movie" dialog box came up, it stops at about a little more than half way and the box goes away and NOTHING comes up. IT doesnt freeze, but my test movie doesnt show like something usually would. So i tried installing/uninstalling it to no avail. Finally my boss went out and purchased flash cs3 and we installed that. So im editing it again, and went to test movie, and this time it gets 3/4 way done and "flash has unexpectedly quit" etc etc. So im starting to think its something with the actionscripting maybe?? i dont know but im really frustrated and need some help here. And also, even if I tried to just plain export the movie to swf, crashes too!
Thanks everyone!
-Josh

Flash 8 Pro Issue Interval Issue
Hey, I've been working on my site for a few weeks trying to get it all just right, and I'm making it import text, to text fields from external documents, I've been using loadVariablesNum() and createTextField() to post the text onto the flash document.

ActionScript Code:
//0x393c39;

this.createTextField("forum_box",this.getNextHighestDepth(),212,3,162,120);
forum_box.wordWrap = true;
forum_box.border = true;
loadVariablesNum ("forum_txt.php", 2);
function ftv() {
if (_level2.forum_txt != undefined) {
trace(_level2.forum_txt);
forum_box.htmlText = _level2.forum_txt;
clearInterval(ftt);
}
}
var ftt:Number = setInterval(ftv, 100);

this function keeps looping, it is in a frame that is only called once, i tested this by placing a trace at the very begining , just to see if it would echo it to the output screen more than once, It seems my interval isn't stopped by clearInterval(). if anyone can see my issue here it would be greatly helpful.

Thanks

Issue With ' ' Not
How would I make this work?
Flash says I need a ' ; ' after the ' ! '
and if I add a '=' it asks for an opperhand.

onClipEvent(load){
Gospeed=0;
Goset=true;}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
Gotimer+=1;
if(GoSet=true){
Gospeed+=1;
}else{
Gospeed-=1;}

if(Gotimer>=5000){
Goset!;
Gotimer=0;
}
}

Lag Issue...
ok, i have a button that is duplicated and filled in with titles from an xml file. the buttons are actually 20 frame mcs. when you move your mouse over them they play and send the other clips back to the second frame using a funtion. i use loops so it lags a little and i would like to get rid of it. i am new to action script so i may be overlooking a simple solution.

funtion that sends them back to 2:
---------------------------------------------------------
function clearall (except) {
i=0;
while (i < xml1.firstChild.childNodes.length+1)
{
if(xml1.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.title != null){
if(xml1.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.title != except.text){
text2=_root["button"+i].gotoAndStop(2);

}}
i ++;
}}
--------------------------
on mouse over funtion used on buttons:

on (rollOver) {
_root.clearall(this)
this.gotoAndPlay(3);
}
----------------------------

if it would be easier to download the file is at http://www.helpjoey.com/pasc/page2.fla

thanks in advance,
dave