Flash :: Text Disappeared In SWF Studio

My Text Has Disappeared
Dear All

I have a text component which I have linked to an external sytle sheet and a text file (all located in the same folder).

I convereted the text component to a movie clip so that I could have it coming in from the side of my file. This all worked fine and dandy.

I then decided that a mask would be a good idea, just ot tidy it up. I placed a mask fdirectly above the text layer and linked them.

The mc (with the component) flies in very neatly now, but the text has disappeared. In the help files I read something that gave me the idea of turning the mask into an mc but that didn't help.

You can see the offending artilce at

www.maxelcat.co.uk/redwood/forum4.html

Press on the "About us" link

I would greately value any support

thanks

Edward

Help Half The Text Has Disappeared.
http://www.familia-uk.com/

The text boxes are cut in half down lenghtways and only the left half of the text shows up on my computer.

Please can someone help. Has anyone ever seen this happen before? It happens as soon as I even test the movie. It's just a dynamic text box for the sake of displaying the font, with no link to any external text files. Nothing is set to bold or any other formatting. No other layers, just blue set as background colour.... No AS either....

Is my Flash application corrupt?

My preloader doens't seeem to load the main image (flyer) either.... even though I've used the same preloader loads of times on other sites.

Anyway, I would be so grateful for any help at all, you guys have saved my life before.

Grete x

Now The Text Disappeared? GlobalStyleformat
Ok I figured it out as such...
this is for my listBox (instance)..actually I put this action in the first frame of scene 1
globalStyleFormat.textFont = Impact;
globalStyleFormat.textSize = 18;
globalStyleFormat.background = 0xBCCBEE;

But the text is not showing up...what do I do...Help plz .......Thanks!

Dynamic Text Field Disappeared
I have two dynamic text fields as in two movie clips for each. They load the data from the database directly through ASP. It works good, but when I tried to have them animated, they disappeared. Why? I tried to embed the fonts - nothing works.

Please help and thanks!!

Magnix

My Text Has Disappeared Even Though I Have Embeded The Font And Color
I am able to rotate my textfield dynamically but my text has disappeared even though i have embeded the font and color.
here is the code

some_tf = new TextFormat();
some_tf.font = "myVerdana";
some_tf.size = 24;

this.createTextField("tfNewfield",1,10,10,150,30);
tfNewfield.text = "here comes the text";
tfNewfield.setTextFormat(some_tf);
tfNewfield.border = true;
tfNewfield.embedFonts = true
tfNewfield._rotation = 90;

Please help me cause i am grounded

It's Magic Input Text Fields Have Disappeared
Hello all,
got a weird on here. I have a contact form in my site. It is a couple of movie clips deep. I had the form in another fla and copied and pasted the frames into the current project. I can see the input fields on the stage, but they disappear when I test the movie. The cursor show up when you mouse over the field but you cant type any text in it. I've lost a wholed day on this adn I give up. Can somebody please help? by the way, i'm using the kirupa php flash tutorial for the form.
Thanks

Flash Studio, SWF Studio, SwiffTools, ?
I am looking for something that will enable me to create a projector and/or .exe with a transparent stage.

Does anybody know if Flash Studio, SWF Studio, or SwiffTools will let me do that on a Mac.

Anybody suggestions?

Using Flash Studio Pro To Load External Text Data
Hi there

I've been asked to build a screensaver [using flash mx] that will sit on every computer within a company and that has to have a dynamic text field in it that pulls text in from a text file and can be updated by one member of staff at any point in time.

As all the computers are on an internal network I presume that this text file could site on a central server and still communicate the info to all the screensavers.

I've made screensaver using flash before - exported them as exe files and run them through 'screen time for flash' to produce a scr file, but never gone beyond that.

I've been advised that 'flash studio pro' is the programme to get in order to do something dynamic like this i.e. loading data from external files, and so far I've been impressed with what I've read. As I've never done anything this complex, that extends a screensaver beyond the simple scr file, I am looking for advice and answers to my problem task.

Can anyone explain to me if this is possible and how I would go about it and also highlight the complexity or even simplicity of doing something like this - or point me in the directions of a specific tutorial or source file that will enlighten me a little?

Many thanks

e

Flash Studio Pro Or SWF Studio?
I am currently developing some software that will utilize file writing and reading through a flash program, and need to buy a third party program to help me with this. Between Flash Studio Pro and SWF Studio which do you guys think is easier to use and has the most/best features. Also, anyone know if either of these has a 'kiosk' mode? I tried to figure it out with flash studio pro in the compiler program but to no avail. For some reason, it didn't disable all the input like it said it would :P. Thanks.

Also, SWF studio says it uses SMTP to send mail, does that mean it would have to prompt a box for the user to send the mail? I want to be able to send it in the background if thats possible, without them having to click any annoying boxes.

Everything Has Disappeared
I have loaded a few movieclips into an interactive cd-rom into separate movieclips. When it loads everything else disappears on the screen. Why? The code that is on the loading movieclip is:

Code:
onClipEvent(load) {
loadMovieNum("BitsandBytesSoftware.swf", _level1);
}

Everything Has Disappeared
The following code is on a movieclip that is loading a swf:

Code:
onClipEvent(load) {
loadMovieNum("AutumnRetirementVillage.swf", _level1);
}
The whole thing is an interactive cd-rom. The above movieclip is suppose to load where there are buttons both top and bottom but when I test the whole movie they don't show only the loaded swf shows.

Music Disappeared
I have just created my first Flash page and its turned out pretty good. I added an mp3 to it and tested it out and that made it even better. Then I went to show it to my brother and the music doesn't load anymore, on any computer. Is this a flash problem or a problem with the server I loaded the mp3 to?

Sound Disappeared
I made a swf that had an embedded sound started with

s = new Sound();
s.attachSound("lnkSound");
s.start(0, 999);

where the "lnkSound" is the linkage symbol for a sound object.

Worked great. Then I included the movie as a library in another movie with attachMovie() from within a movie clip. The movie loaded and worked great, but the sound doesn't start?
What's up with that?
I noticed that I had to change some instance names when using
with( object )
after the movie was externally loaded. Is the sound issue something similar?

BR,

Michael

[F8] Stage Has Disappeared
Hi,
Could anyone help? When I start a new document in Flash 8 Pro, I do not seem to have a stage/workplace on my screen. I get the tools, timeline, and whatever window panels I want, but in the stage area all I get is white. While visiting a friend who has Flash Pro 8, I noticed that upon starting a new document he had a white stage against a gray workplace. How can I get Flash to show a white stage against a gray workplace? As I remember when I first installed the program that is what I had. Something has happened and I can not seem to get back to the default setting. All I have is white and it is impossible to determine where the stage begins and where it ends. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Alyn

Controls Disappeared
hello...

i've been experimenting with converting a quicktime file to .swf, so that it can be embedded into myspace...yes...i know i'm a bit lame...anyway, i can see the controls when it's tested in flash, and the html file, i've uploaded it to my own website, but when i then embed it onto the myspace page, the file plays, but the controls have disappeared...

myspace

any help would be greatly appreciated...

sj

My Transparency Has Disappeared In Swf?
Hi,

I am designing a site for a company and they want a redesign of the Counselling Icon (http://www.simpson-house.org). I have done this on my iMac. I have recreated the button,as before, with a rollover effect which includes a fade out then a fade in on the rollover, then the reverse on the rollout. It all works fine until I test the swf. I created the transparency by having the alpha of my graphic set to 0% on frame 1 of the MC, then motion tweening to alpha=100% on frame 15. Everything works apart from the alpha and there are no errors in the output. The code for the Movieclip which functions as a button is attached. For a working Preview please go to Simpson-House. The other icons are working fine on my iMac. Can anyone explain why my new icon isn't displaying the transparency when loaded, even though the other icons are?

Many thanks.

JG

Simpson-House

Attach Code

stop();

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onRelease = function(){
getURL("Counselling/counselling.html");
}

//There is a "stop ()" on Frame 15//

Flash Disappeared
Hi All,
I have a published Flash file here: http://www.rudolph-pork-rinds.com/scrapbook.php that has suddenly quit working on many computers. For the computers that won't play it, an error message appears: "Flash Player 6 required. Get it here:...." I suspect that computers with Flash Player v10 are the ones that are unable to make it work. I have tried re-publishing the file to higher Players (the highest I can go is v8) and no luck. Same error message. Any advice would be most appreciated!
Aimee

My .fla File Disappeared?
I've been working on a flash file all day and have saved multiple times. The last time I tried to save it kept giving me the error "Unknown error occurred while accessing index.fla" which was the name of the file I was working on and had saved multiple times throughout the day.

I tried changing the name, saving it in a different location, etc., same error. I figured if I closed and reopened it I would just lose the changes made since the last save, which was about 20 minutes prior. No big deal right?

I closed flash without saving (since it wouldn't let me, kept giving that error), and go to reopen the file from the folder I saved it in all day and it is GONE!

The .html and .swf files are there from my last save/publish.

How could it just disappear? Its not in my trash and I searched for it...it's no where to be found.

Please help me before I throw my computer out the window.

Timeline Disappeared
I'm just learning Flash, and suddenly I can't see the timeline--it's up, and I can see where it was, and the layers, and I've tried everything but I don't see the frames. When I go back to documents I worked on before, it's not there either (these are exercises from Lynda.com) and when I make a new doc it's not there either. Feels like the Twilight Zone. Any help out there? Thanks.

Flash Application Disappeared
Oh dear, I really do come accross the strangest things when using my computer, from time to time.

Somehow, Flash only seems to appear in Maximized mode. Problem is, I really want to use it in mid-mode state. I've tried using the 'move' option on the taskbar, but Flash's window position seems too way off the screen to retrieve.

Has anyone got a way to bring it back to 0,0 co-ordinates (or default preferably), without re-installing Flash?

________________

Using Windows ME

Contents In ScrollPane Disappeared. Help
Hi all,

My flash file has 4 scenes. I created a scrollpane on frame 200 in Scene3. The contentPath of the scrollpane is an .swf. I tested the movie, and the contents in the scrollpane doesn't show up.

Could anyone explain to me how I should fix this problem. I'm very new to Flash MX 2004.

I do appreciate all advice in advance.
Thanks,
Rawi

Classpath Disappeared After ImportPublishProfile
Hi, I tried to use document.importPublishProfile(). So that, I can turn off the DebuggingPermitted for all sub-projects and do a batch build for the deployment package. However, the projects had compiling errors after importing the publish profile files. The classpaths in the publish setting of all projects were emty.

I tried with an empty project that only contains one classpath. The publish profile is exported with document.exportPublishProfile() and I used document.importPublishProfile() to import the output profile file back to the empty project. The classpath disappeared. Then, I exported the profile again and used "diff" to compare the output with the first profile file. The first profile file had the classpath in <PackagePaths>../classes</PackagePaths> ; the second output profile file had empty <PackagePaths></PackagePaths>.

Any comments on this problem?

Some Elements In My Movie Disappeared
Hi, I don't have any idea how this happened but for some reason when I test my movie some movieclips disappear. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

TargetNamespace Disappeared In Flex3
Hi,

I need to fetch the targetNamespace from a WSDL which i loaded into a WebService object.

In Flex 2 the following code worked just fine:

var webService:WebService = new WebService();
webService.wsdl = <URL>
...
webService.loadWSDL();
var operation:Operation = webService[<webServiceMethodName>];

var targetNamespace:String = operation.targetNamespace;

When i converted my project to Flex 3 the last code didn't compile as it seems that the 'targetNamespace' property was removed from the Operation class.

Does anyone know how can i get the targetNamespace?

Thanks,

Main Toolbar Disappeared
Hi, does anyone know how to get the main toolbar back (save, copy, paste etc)?, mine is gone forever.
MD>

Flash Disappeared And Can Not Download
All of my flash vanished the other day so I don't have the ability to see videos, ect. , I have the windows xp system and every time I try to download from the adobe site, it never installs. No download, Any suggestions? Help

Images And Buttons Disappeared
Was building a slide show and had buttons on stage with the larger image in the middle. It was working fine then all the images and buttons disappeared. They are there but it looks like the alpha is "0". When I try to add another image to convert to a button or to the slide show it is there but not there.

Frames In Timeline Disappeared
I imported a swf file into an fla file and my frames in the timeline disappeared. The area to put the layer name takes up all of the timeline and the lock for the layer is clear on the right side of the timeline. The timeline is docked. I tried undocking it, didn't help. I re-installed Flash and that didn't help. I followed what it said to do in the help file and that didn't help. I am working with Flash CS3 as part of Web Premium CS3. I can't find any information about this when I searched the forum. I don't know what to do. I tried a system restore and that didn't work. The program said it could not restore to a previous day I think because I re-installed Flash. Has anyone experienced this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Weird, Chinese Disappeared
after playing around with loading chinese text from external .txt files i came to find out that i could simply copy and paste chinese text from a word doc directly onto the stage in flash mx 2004 professional. the only thing that i had to make sure of that the font selected in flash was either _sans, or _serif.

so last night i changed a script on the navigation (and this had absolutely nothing to do with the fonts) and now the chinese characters are not loading on other machines. i could embed the characters but the glyphs increase the file size by 500megs, and i didnt do any embedding before. all i did was copy and paste. this seems very strange and it's driving me crazy that all of a sudden nothing is showing up. anyone out there know what's going on?

by the way, i found a great way to load russian text using a free application called Unipad. you simply copy and paste the russian text into Unipad and then from unipad "copy as" the appropriate file format (Windows-CP-1251) and then you can paste the foreign characters into flash. with russian you have to make sure in flash that your font is set to "arial cyr" and all will show. =]

--
j3hu

Urgent Help: Snow's Disappeared
I have created a web site that had snow falling... but it has stopped for no know reason.

www.skifunbjorn.com

Using this:

var s:Snow=new Snow(200,_root,800,300,0);

this.onEnterFrame=function() {
s.setWind((_xmouse/50)-4);
}

I can't get it to work. The library element (the snowflake) is there. Older copies of the site have snow falling all over the page, but on my final copy it has stopped.

Can anyone help, as the site has been put, and all the clients have been notified (tonight) and NO SNOW!!! Disaster!

My Actions Window Has Disappeared
I cannot get the actions window to reappear!
Have any of you seen this?

I double click a key frame, nothing...

I right click and check "actions" the check mark stays there like the window is open but it is no where to be found.

What can I do to get the actions window to come back????

JPGS Disappeared In Testing Movie.
Hi all

I am experiencing a strange problem in my animation a very simple animation, That is : I have imported 40 thumbnails jpgs in my Symbol > Graphics side by side to each other, i place the beginning of the image sequence at one side of the Stage and after 150 frames the whole sequence ends by tweening to the other side. BUT the problem occuring is that in flash player testing of the swf all the images are in showing in plain color or looks like the images colors are spread.

Please Could anyone tell me why is this happening?

DuplicateMovieClip() Duplicated New Objects Disappeared...
Hi ,

I'm having problem using the duplicateMovieClip() function.

It's very simple, I want to duplicate a laser to be shot out by a tank everytime I press "Spacebar" . I did duplicate one , but while I pressd "Spacebar" again to duplicate the second time the first one was seems destroyed...

I have put the script below into a movie clip's action.

Code:
on (keyPress "<Space>") {
// duplicate the laser and set its position
duplicateMovieClip("_root.laser", "laser"+g, g);
setProperty("_root.laser"+g, _x, 50);
setProperty("_root.laser"+g, _y, 100);
g = g+1;
}
simplfied source is provided below.

Thank you very much for all of your help ~~~

Code Hints Disappeared For Good, It Seems?
I can not get the code hinting to work. I've checked prefs and clicked the little button on the actions panel. Now what do I do?

Embeding Flash Movie, Now It Disappeared
I have used the article from A List Apart (http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay) to embed my flash movie on my site using valid tags instead of the default code provided by Dreamweaver when adding a Flash movie to a page. The problem is that now my Flash movie does not appear in any of my browsers (Firefox, Safari, Explorer, Opera or Netscape). It was working about two months ago when I had a different web host. I switched hosts and did NOT switch any code on the page. Here is a link to the page in question as well as a link to the same page that displays properly.

PAGE IN QUESTION-
http://www.t2graphicdesign.com/

SAME PAGE WITH DEFAULT CODE-
http://www.t2graphicdesign.com/index_old.html

Image Disappeared (replaced By White Dots?)
I was in the process of editing the position of an object in a frame of my animation and all of a sudden the last portion of the animated images in my timeline had been replaced by white dots (like place markers). Theres no check marks under the eye symbol on any layers so nothing should be hidden (even when they are hidden you wouldn't see a white dot tho). There's no masks going on or anything...I dunno what happened. Could someone plzzz help, I've been googling for an hour now trying to find a solution but haven't been able to find a relevant link.
Maybe I accidentally clicked a "Disappear the Image" button???

Thanx

Flash Applet (scrollview.swf) Disappeared From Front Page
Hi, thanks for taking the time to read this. I have a serious problem with a flash applet that is front and center (actually a little to the right) on our home page. I am paid to update the website for our church, and have been using flash 8 successfully until now. We've never had any problems uploading and we've been using this same flash file for a long time now (2 years?) and I've never experienced this problem.

Anyway, if you go to www.livepraylove.com you will see that on the right side of the page, the flash file is completely not loading. It's as if it isn't even on the server. However, when I log into my ftp server, I see it there. I even downloaded it off the server, and ran everything offline and it worked fine in all browsers on my pc. It just isn't working online.

Is there something wrong with the code in my index.html page? Or could I have saved the flash file in a way that is causing this problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, since the longer this goes on, the more trouble I'm going to be in.

Thanks!

SWF Studio
Using SWF Studio with Flash:

I loaded a movie from the main movie.. This movie is 100 Frames long. At the last frame in the Loaded movie on Level2 I want to UnLoadMovieNum 2 ... This works without SWF studio. How can it be done with SWF Studio? I know they're different.

-Paradoxz

Swf Studio
greetings

i am working on a projector file and was trying to learn a little about swf studio

in other words, it it worth buying

spider

About This Swf Studio 2.2
I've been working with Director because I want to make larger productions on a CD, and Flash seems to have a limit because of the way it loads everything into memory(whatever...), I guess a top of 25 megs or some such. Anyway, I like Director OK, but I still would prefer a more pure Flash environment(I'm just more familiar with it and actionscript rather than lingo). I saw on some site or other that Swf Studio is the answer to this "shortcoming" of Flash and allows large files on it's projector and the proper use of CD, with it's inherently large file capacity. Now is this true, or just a lot of fanboy smoke and mirrors? I even saw one statement that said there is no need to spend $2400 on a couple of Director licenses when you can get Swf studio for less than $150. This is why I'm asking...I find all this a little hard to believe...and I know there are people here that are mentally equipped to give me the reality of the situation. Thanks for your time and advice.

Swf Studio
does anyone know about swf studio?

I have tested my exe files on win 95, 98 etc. It works on Win 95, NT and 2000 fine. However, on win 98, ME and XP, it runs, but only to a white screen and does not actually load the flash file.

So basically, I put it in the machine. It self-installs and runs. Then comes up with a white screen and no program. Any suggestions?

Thanx in advance

Studio MX
Trust me to get Macromedia studio mx 7 Wont load on os ME, Looks like I need to cleanup and use 98SE I love this V6 but I want the new improved one, Boy what alife having fun,

Regards Barrie

E-studio Preloader
How do you create the preloader that you see in the e-studio website. The one where there's an embossed TV with blue liquid filling up the screen as the loading progress with the % number floating inside..

3D Studio Max And Flash
I have created a neat 3 dimensional animation in 3D studio max. Can I import that into Flash 5 as a avi or mov?
If I do that is there any way to reduce the avi or mov size so it doesn't take forever to load.

Any suggestions or comments appreciated.

Taz

SWF Studio Problem, Please Help
G'Day all,
I'm using SWF Studio to create a stand alone app for a cd. Everything works fine until I go to run the app and it gives me a runtime error

Buy Studio MX Cheap?
Where's the cheapest place to buy a full (not academic) version of Studio MX?

3D Studio To FLASH
DOes anyone know how i can import 3DS file to FLASH MX?
i thoguht there was suppsoe to be a plugin that comes with 3D Max -_-'
same goes wif flash to import *.3DS files.
i found something call Vecta3d-MAX but das too much. does nayone kno a way or a program das free? im jus a student with no money