Flash :: Timeline Scrollbar Disappears

[F8] Scrollbar Disappears - TextArea Bug?
Hello,

I have TextArea on stage that fills the entire stage. It is dynamically resized using a listener. This works fine.

I noticed that when I resize a movie vertically (the height of movie is smaller then scrollbar area), that the scrollbars disappear. But, when I enlarge the movie again they do not reappear. I can not get them to show again.

This does this in my projector and does it in an html frame of a web page.

Is this a bug in the TextArea??

ComboBox ScrollBar Disappears
Hi
I have a comboBox inside a movie clip....this movie clip functions like a tab menu with four tabs. Whenever I play the movie, the drop down of the comboBox is missing the scrollBar and the first text label will not size according to setStyle. Can anyone please help with this or explain why it would do this? Help is appreciated.

Timeline Disappears
why is it when you save a panel layout the timeline is turned off when you invoke that saved panel set?? bug? feature?

Scrollbar Disappears After Loading Swf File
I have created dynamic scrolling text boxes using the drag-n-drop macromedia component which work. However, when I load a swf, then unload it, the scrollbar shows up, but the scrollbutton is missing. I am using Flash MX.

For an example of what I'm talking about, you can visit http://www.lakshmifilms.com/main2new.html . When you click on the buttons NEW, BIOGRAPHY, FASHION, FILM, or FOOD, you will see a working text scrollbar. However, when you click on the PHOTOS button, a swf file is loaded on level 5. When you click again on any of the above sections, the swf file is unloaded and the scrollbar shows up, but the scroll button is missing.

Any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix it? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Tim Schapker

Main Scrollbar Disappears When Loadmovie
I have a main flash file with a few pages (w/scrollbars) but most of my content is loaded through external swfs (w/scrollbars). The main scrollbar works fine, until I use loadMovie. then when I return to the main scrollbar it has vanished. The scrollbars in the external swfs continue to work fine though. I have changed the instance name of the main scrollbar and textfield so that they are unique, but that didn't help. The scrollbar is the MX component.

The site is at www.micahmorgan.com
the affected page is resume

Dynamic Text Disappears When Timeline Loops
I am creating a virtual stock market-like board which loops users information across the screen within movieclips. I dynamically assign the text with actionscript. The text shows up fine the first time through. Any further passes show the text's original non-dynamic content. ( text I have in it on the stage). It seems to lose the dynamic content when the timeline loops. Anyone able to help me?

Thanks,
L

Timeline Scrollbar
Hi Guys

Does anyone know how to create a scrollbar for the flash movie timeline. I want to be able to scrub forward and backward throughout teh flash movie for a demo. I can't figure out how to do this I only know how to do this with an flv

Cheers
Drew

MX Timeline Scrollbar Missing
Ever since I upgraded to MX, the scrollbar located to the right of my timeline disappears and the only way to scroll down through the layers is to drag down on the bottom of the timeline until all the layers are in view. Of course this means my working area is about an inch high. Anyone else have this problem?

Looking For A How-to... Timeline-type Scrollbar
Howdy folks,
I've got a brainstorm for a particular project related to local history, where I'd like a draggable timeline to show when certain buildings were built/destroyed. A super-fancy version of this can be found at http://www.boston.com/beyond_bigdig/ (click on "History" - it's a little addictive). Doesn't have to be that nice; I'm just curious how the timeline effect is done. Anyone seen a tutorial on this? Is it at all related to the scroll-bar tutorials that let you pan through an image?
Thanks in advance--

Controlling Timeline With Scrollbar
Hello all,

I've made a movieclip that is dragable over a small distancebut only vertical. I've also made two other movieclips with an animation of 50 frames inside. Now when my animation starts the dragable MC is in the middle of its range of motion. At this point I would also like to have the other two MC's to be in the middle of there animation, that would be frame 25. When dragging my dragable MC upwards the other two MC's should go towards frame 50. Vice versa off course when dragging my MC downwards.

Can anybody help me with this.

thanks

Is Your Timeline Scrollbar Messed Up Too?
I use flash mx. When you stack up layers on the stage of any movie, you have a scrollbar on the far right of the timeline. well that thing is messed up too often for me. I end up pulling the timeline down to get to the lower layers.
and, I thank you in advance for your kindness.

Timeline Controlling Scrollbar
Hi all,

I am trying to create a zipper similar to this: http://www.13dots.com/zip.html

I don't want to create it via actionscript as I want to animate the opening zipper myself with other things in the timeline happening as well. For example, once the zipper is 75% open, text animates in.

I am thinking all I need is to build a scrollbar (which would be the zipper head) that I drag downwards. If the draggable height was 100 pixels or whatever, at pixel 65 I want the background movieclip to be at frame 65. Hopefully that makes sense, it seems to me like it's a basic object scrollbar with very little actionscript.

Any help is appreciated, thanks a million!!!

Problem FlashMX Timeline Scrollbar And Other Under WinXP
Quote:

hi everybody,

I'm just looking for help regarding a problem with flashMX under winXP,

timeline scrollbar just disappear from time to time and when it's the case
I just can't scroll up or down anymore. I just quit and reopen flash for it
to work again.
also I have the same issue with the color (alpha...) slider on the
properties tab.

any idea why it does that ? flash MX bug or WinXp compatibility ?
and no I'm not the only one having this problem, and yes my flash MX is
original ! no warez, it's part of studioMX bundle. (just to be clear )

many thx for helping me.

I came across this on macromedia forums. I have also had this happen. Still no one has came back with an answer.

Anyone on here had this happen?

cheers
Paul

Scrollbar To Control Timeline Movie Clip
Hi All,

Was curious if there is code that when you have a move clip and inside the movie clip you have a scroll bar that controls the movie clips timeline so you can scroll forward or backwards similar to the scroll bar in quicktime...also with the buttons..stop..pause ..play etc...

Any good tutorials on that would be appreciated...I have flash professional 8...do they have components in flash 8 so you can drag a component on the stage of the movieclip and then ad your parameters to make it work.

Thanks inf advance.

Grant

Scrollbar Problem - How To Load Text And Have The Scrollbar Default To Bottom Onload?
Hi,

I am currently working on a project whereby I need to display text in a scrollable area that refreshes every 2 seconds. I have the text loading ok but there is some extra functionality that I require.

At the moment I have a PHP application that uploads text files and adds the latest comment to the end of each text file. If you open the text file you can see the older comments at the top and the latest comments at the end. In the flash movie, I need the text file to load and the scrollbar to default to the bottom of the flash movie - that way, the latest comments will appear at the bottom of the screen and you can scroll up to the older comments.

I am not sure how to do this as I have just used the built in Flash components to get what I have so far.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Martin

Scrollbar Doesn't Work (tutorial: Object-oriented Scrollbar)
(tutorial --> object-oriented scrollbar: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=71).

I followed the tutorials instructions and this is the code that i have now:

import caurina.transitions.*;

var yOffset:Number;
var yMin:Number = 0;
var yMax:Number = sb.track.height - sb.thumb.height;

sb.thumb.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, thumbDown);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, thumbUp);

function thumbDown(e:MouseEvent):void
{
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, thumbMove);
yOffset = mouseY - sb.thumb.y;
}

function thumbUp(e:MouseEvent):void
{
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, thumbMove);
}

function thumbMove(e:MouseEvent):void
{
sb.thumb.y = mouseY - yOffset;
if(sb.thumb.y <= yMin)
sb.thumb.y = yMin;
if(sb.thumb.y >= yMax)
sb.thumb.y = yMax;
var sp:Number = sb.thumb.y / yMax;
Tweener.addTween(content, {y:(-sp*(content.height-masker.height)),
time:1});
e.updateAfterEvent();
}

Does anybody see what's going wrong? I'm a beginner beginner, so all could think of to do is check if everything was typed correct. (i double checked instance names and code). But can't seem te get it to work, nothing happens when i preview swf.
No compilers errors and no syntax error. Tweener class is installed properly. PLEASE help me i've been looking for hours now.
If someone could help me, would be great!!

Sorry for my english, thank you for your time.

Nav Bar Disappears
Greetings All
has any one had this problem?
We have an outside vendor doing our website. They are using flas on the site as a navigation bar. For some reason, when some of us go to the site, (using IE 6) and the flash 7.0 plug-in the nave bar dissappears. Nothing. Nada.
Then sometimes you go there and all is well. The vendor says it is a documented problem with MM. Yet I have never heard of such. Has anyone else?

Thanks

Othello911

Mc Disappears
Hi

Here is my code for a simple curtain type effect.
Attach indexphoto_mc to the stage

When testi_btn is pressed I want a curtain to rise up and cover the image. Well, what happens is that the image disappears and then the curtain rises up?

Please tell me how to solve this, and what is going wrong.

Many thanks

Edward - very new to flash8

this.attachMovie("indexphoto_mc","home",this.getNe xtHighestDepth(), {_x:120, _y:20});

testi_btn.onPress = function() {
_root.attachMovie("curtainup_mc","curtaina", this.getNextHighestDepth());

}

stop();

Everything Disappears
this is a strange one, i think it must be a memory issue but..

I'm making a cd-rom in flash mx. It has about 7 scenes (the fla is about 2.4mb), inside one i have numerous movie clips with fairly complicated graphics (building plans) and when i go into the clip to edit it, i can't see anything?! nothing appears on the stage at all. When the file is previewed its all there and fine, but i can't see anything in flash to edit..

any ideas?

thanks
gen

Layer 1 Disappears
I am a newbie!!
I want to use the log in screen of my web site as the background and have text tween in. I copy the web page and put it on layer 1. On layer 2 I am successful with creating motion, but when I press play, the background (layer 1) disappears.
What am I doing wrong??

Sub Menu Disappears
(I posted this in Scripting, but I think it is more of a general question, an I haven't gotten a reply for several days).

http://j.parsons.edu/~ntaylor/french/new_menu.html

When you click on 'About Paris' a sub menu comes up. Go down to 'Paris Monuments' and a sub-sub menu pops up. But once you start moving down this (sub-sub) menu, the first menu disappears.

How can I get it to stay?

Please help. I think it's something like 'if subsubmenu is visible, then submenu is visible'. Not sure.

My Page Disappears Help
I've recently discovered a problem with my Flash designed site and I am stumped as to what is causing it or how to fix it. Please help!

On a limited number of computers (most if not all have been Macs) my website will "disappear" if the page is minimized or if the user scrolls up or down or in any way covers up the material on the page with another window. If the user then runs his mouse over buttons or anything else on the page they will reappear but anything that is not scroll-overable is gone for good until they refresh.

The two people that I've had check have both had Flash Player 6 and were using Internet Explorer (version 5.1 I think but not sure).

Has anyone ever encountered a problem like this or have any idea what might be causing it? The website is http://www.auspexentertainment.com/index2.html if you will please take a look and help me out here.

Frustrated,
Jeff
lordvask@hotmail.com

Attached MC Disappears?
I have a movieClip which animate with a couple of Tweens

Each keyframe has the same variable name

I have place another movieClip, through attachMovielip(), into the animated movieClip.

The problem is that halfway through the animation the attached movieClip disappears. It is almost as if the variable name has changed or it is another MC in the animation. The link gets broken and I can find out why. I've checked the variables and it is definitly the same MC in tweened animation.

Any ideas?

Cheers

FLASH NAV Disappears HELP
im creating this site here
www.onetosix.biz

and on a mac in 0s9, the flash navs just disappears on pages....
a good test is here
www.onetosix.biz/two_nils.html and
www.onetosix.biz/two_nils2.html

everything looks fine, then you do something like resize the browser and the navs disappear, until you move ur mouse over them and they reappear..
PLEASE HELP
Mike

Toolbar Disappears?
I am primarily a PC user but at work they've now got me set up with a Mac running OS X. The toolbar has disappeared in Flash MX and I can't get it back. Not the one with the fill bucket etc. but the one with the magnet that controls the lines attaching to the grid that you usually turn on and off fronm the "window" menu. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn that palette on and off in OS X like there is in Windows. Any thoughts how to get it back?

ProgressBar Disappears...
Yo!

I experienced some problems with my new website regarding the
progressbar. (Using Flash MX 2004) When I'm loading the site with
a high speed connection, it's working OK! But with a slower connection with a modem (56K) the progressbar is visible for just
a few seconds and then gone! What's the problem with all this!??

I'm glad if you'd help me out!

Every Thing Disappears
I have managed to work out how to use flash for a presentation, I have got a few static frames then an animation. But when I press ctrl + enter and play the animation one frame in particular disappears. When I looked at the pres where the timeline is the keyframe for the frame had the pics but the four frames after that were blank and I don't know how to fix it. So I was wondering if anyone could help me. Thanks

P.S. Sorry for the long post.

Txt Disappears When I Format It?
Guys & Gals,

I am going nuts, don't know if it is something simple or not!

Trying to format dynamic text, but when I do and run the swf file, the text disappears, in other words.

exampletext=This isn't formatted and therefore shows up when I run my swf.

exampletext=This doesn't because I <B>format</B> a word in the sentence.

I've set up a small file for you guys to work with and send back to me showing me either what the problem is, or how to do it.

Many thanks.

Flash Disappears
I have a flash banner made from KoolMoves that disappears when the drop down menu above it tries to open over it. Some time back I posted this in the KoolMoves area and was told to try here.

You can see exactly what the problem is by going to this link and hovering over "Activities" in the top menu.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..
tiorocky

Here is the code for the flash...

Code:
<CENTER>
<script type="text/javascript">AC_FL_RunContent('codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,65,0','loop','true','bgcolor','#1ca8cb','width','775','height','60','src','ban_fishing','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','ban_fishing');
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id=ban_fishing width=775 height=60 codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,65,0">
<param name="WMode" value="Transparent" />
<param name="movie" value="ban_fishing.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#1ca8cb" />
<embed src="ban_fishing.swf" width=775 height=60 bgcolor="#1ca8cb" quality="high" loop="true"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" wmode="transparent" />
</object></noscript>
</CENTER>

[CS3]Flash Disappears
Hi Guys
am making a website and i got some problems when resizing or minimizing the page the flash content disappears! where could this come from!?

Thanks
Evilping

Button Disappears, Why?
at this link, www.mpaads.com/lourdes/virtualtour/progressbar, you'll find my project. The problem is that when you click the 'NURSING' button, then click the 'INTRODUCTION' button, the subpage button, 'Hospital Campus' disappears. I' ve noticed that this only started happening when I added the progress bar component to the site. I don't get any errors in flash. here's my code:

Code:
trace("start");

stop();
main_pic.source="images/page3_sub1_pic.jpg";
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);

function piccomplete(e:Event):void {
bar_pb.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);
bar_pb.visible=false;
addChild(main_pic);
}
intro_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onIntro);
nursing_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onNursing);

//intro btn
function onIntro(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("intropage");
main_pic.source="images/page3_sub1_pic.jpg";
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);

}
//nursing btn
function onNursing(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("nursingpage");
main_pic.source="images/page3_sub2_pic.jpg";
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);
}

//subpages
hospital_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onHospitalCampus);
neighborhood_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onNeighborhood);
function onHospitalCampus(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("campuspage");
main_pic.source="images/page3_sub1_page1_pic.jpg";
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);
}
function onNeighborhood(evt:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop("neighborhoodpage");
main_pic.source="images/page3_sub1_page2_pic.jpg";
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);
}
If i take out these 4 lines:

Code:
bar_pb.visible=true;
main_pic.load();
bar_pb.source=main_pic;
bar_pb.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,piccomplete);
my button doesn't disappear.. anyone have any knowledge as to why this happens and how i can prevent it?

MovieClip Disappears From Swf...
I noticed this weird thing today...

scenario 1) i leave the site (with my swf) on for about 20mins, and the movieClip containing my information disappears! The rest of the site remains, only that particular movieClip.

scenario 2) i browse the swf, and open another 2 tabs on firefox and IE, and the same movieClip disappears too.

I did not use loadMovie nor any scripts for the Movieclips, just placed them on the stage...

Is this a flash bug?

Thx

Array Just Disappears
I create and Array, fill it with values, call a function and about 1/10 times the Array has disappeared. I check the array just before the function call, and it is there, and again at the function and it is gone.

I have checked everything I can think off. No variable clashes and all the variable are still there in the function but the Array has gone.

In the end I found out that even if I try to re-create the variable inside the function it cannot be done. I do this in the function:

_root["page"+_root.secId+_root.pageCount].loadSeq = new Array();
trace(typeof(_root["page"+_root.secId+_root.pageCount].loadSeq))

... and the trace would register 'undefined' about one in ten times (at other times it is 'object' as it shoud be).

Completely befuddled and help would be greatly appreciated.

P.

Text That Disappears
I have 3 clips with a text inside each of them. The text was created with AS.
When I press on the MC the color changes, when I release it, the colour color returns.
After this, the text disappears. Any idea?

ActionScript Code:
for (i=1; i<4; i++) {
eval("clip"+i).createTextField("texto", 100, -40, -15, 80, 80);
eval("clip"+i).onPress = function() {
my_color1 = new Color(this);
my_color1.setRGB(0xff6666);
};
eval("clip"+i).onRelease = function() {
my_color1 = new Color(this);
my_color1.setRGB(0x000000);
eval("clip"+j).texto.setTextFormat(formato1);
};
}
clip1.texto.text = "Test1";
clip2.texto.text = "Test2";
clip3.texto.text = "Test3";
formato1 = new TextFormat();
formato1.size = 10;
formato1.color = 0xff6666;
for (i=j; j<4; j++) {
eval("clip"+j).texto.setTextFormat(formato1);
}

Thanks.

Using LoadMovie, MC Disappears? HELP PLEASE
Why when I use loadMovie("mymovie.swf", _parent.holder); the other mc that is also in my main movie disappear???

Do I have to use any kind of level in this case or what am I doing wrong?

please help, any clue , anything is very welcome
Thanks

Text Disappears
Hello,

I have the following problem with a textbox,

This textbox playes in a movie that i have loaded on level 2, On level 0 playes another movie. When i play a tween on that movie my text in level 2 disappears????

Very strange to me, is there a soloutions???

Thanks Job,

Flash Disappears
I got beyond my previous posting about the error message. I was able to successfully embed a .swf file in a PP presentation. When I hit "slde show" it displayed nicely. I saved the file and reopned it only to discover that the ActiveX control appeared to still be on the page and the gray representation of the .swf was there but when I hit "slde show" it would not display. It seems that the act of saving the file ruined every thing. My URL or path to the .swf was still intact

Content Disappears In IE
I've built a site which has a welcome text and some images, both in separate movie clips based at _root. At the top left of the movie clips, also in _root, are two empty movie clips, waiting to load content once a button is clicked. It all works fine in firefox and safari on the mac, and in firefox on the PC. But in MS-IE v7.0 for Windows XP Professional the website comes up, just that the welcome content is missing (not sure about other IE versions). Everything else is there and the movie clips load content once you click the button. It's driving me crazy!!!! Any ideas why? I've published the movies in player 6.0. Is this a mistake?

Image Disappears
Hello.
I'm trying to load a bunch of images into a movie clip holder. The image loads very slowly, and it will disappear after a few minutes of being onscreen.

On the holder clip I am using the following code:

Attach Code

onClipEvent (load) {
val = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (val <= 0) addval = 15;
val += addval;
this._alpha = val;

delete(this.enterFrame);
}

How To Let The Mouse Disappears?
Guys, I've replaced the curser in my movie with another object and everything is fine. but, when I move the mouse out of the movie area, the object which is used as a mouse is left behind. Is there any way to let the object disappears when the mouse moves out ??? I've tried all the ways i know (hitTest, onRollOut, checking _xmouse & _ymouse) but nothing worked. plz help :'(

Stream.get() Disappears
About the simplest thing you might want to do with FMS is to play a stream to a client. So you do something like this:

application.onConnect = function(p_client, p_bw) {
this.acceptConnection(p_client);
ls = Stream.get("playstream");
ls.play("flv:recordedstream");
}

Works just fine for a couple of minutes and then stops. Careful review of the server administration console shows that the file "recordedstream.flv" is playing to a nonexistent client that shows no traffic and a connection time of Dec 31 19:00. It appears that the server thinks the client is idle and kills both it and the playing stream.

So how would you play a recorded stream to a client? (Not using the VOD application, I don't want to give the client a choice of what stream to play, I want to choose the stream.)

Timeline Scrollbar Disappears

Has anyone had this issue with Flash MX?The freaking scrollbar doesn't go up or down (in the timeline), and sometimes dissappears!Wow!B

Has anyone had this issue with Flash MX?

The freaking scrollbar doesn't go up or down (in the timeline), and sometimes dissappears!

Wow!

B