Flash :: Very Basic Flash Queestion.

Functions In A Dynamic Button Queestion.
hello!

I'm creating my first flashsite using actionscripting.
I've created a few dynamic buttons and am trying to add functions to them (the button names are about, resume and portfolio).

this may look foolish but here's the code:

curSection = 100;

myBrackets.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._y -= (this._y - _root.curSection ) * .4;
}

function aboutbttn(){
about.onMouseDown = function() {
_root.curSection = 10;
}
}

function resumebttn(){
resume.onMouseDown = function() {
_root.curSection = 15;
}
}

function portfoliobttn(){
portfolio.onMouseDown = function() {
_root.curSection = 30;
}
}

this doesn't seem to be working, it works fine if i remove it from the function brackets, however, then only one will work.

any advice for a beginner?

thanks
jo

Flash Cs3 Basic Tutorial Basic Download
somebody knows some book or tutorial complete for download of the flash cs3
with exercises and for beginning?
send the links
thanks
Marina
:)

Basic Basic Email Submit Form
I want text in a one line input box to be sent to my email address by clicking a button in flash. How can this be done?
Greg
I want people to be able to submit their email address to me.

Basic Basic Email Submit Form
I want text in a one line input box to be sent to my email address by clicking a button in flash. How can this be done?
Greg
I want users to be able to submit their email address to me.

Basic, Basic Problem In Animated Btns
I have spent HOURS and DAYS working on a project for an online Flash 2004 class. I've searched threads on this subject in this site but none address it. I guess I'm too new to understand 90% of what's posted! I've viewed a couple of tutorials but just can't get it! Here's one of the problems. I've tried all kinds of ways to do this, but I just don't get it. I'm sure all of you are shaking your heads over my inability to "get it" but I'm putting my pride behind me and asking for help!!

Book: Essentials for design Level One by Dwayne J. Ferguson, Proj. 7, Challenge 1, "Creating a Fading Animated Button."

1. Open scifi_button.fla from folder (this shows the hangar door)

2. Use the Selection tool to select the hangar door. Drag the hangar door into the Library. Name the new symbol "hangarDoor_symbol" and choose Graphic as the Behavior. Click OK.
===I'm okay up to here

3. Press the "F8" key and create a new movie clip symbol. Name it "hangarDoor_mc."
===Where should I do this? Duplicate in the Library? And what do I do with the hangarDoor_symbol on the Stage?

4. Drag an instance of the hangarDoor_symbol to the stage.

5. Add a keyframe to the movie clip Timeline on Frame 10. Move the door to the top of the guide.
===Do I create another layer and move the mc into frame 1?

6. While still on Frame 10, decrease the Alpha of the door to 20%.
===There's no place in Properties that brings up the color box. It just shows a sound box.

7. Choose Motion Tween from the Property Inspector. Scrub the Timeline to ensure that the door animates.
===I went to Frame 1 and did this, but nothing showed in the frames in between!

8. Return to the main Timeline. Click the Preview button in the Library to play the animation.
===I thought I WAS in the main Timeline!!

9. Press the "F8" key to convert the door on the Stage into a button symbol. Name it "hangarDoor_button."
10. Double-clicki the hangarDoor_button on the Stage to enter Edit mode.
11. From the Insert>Timeline menu, add keyframes for each of the button states.
12. Choose View>rulers. Draw guides around the shape of the door on the stage.
13. Click the Over state keyframe and delete the door graphic. Replace the graphic with an instance of hangarDoor_mc from the Library.
===Why is all this necessary.

14. If necessary, move hangarDoor_mc into position within the guides, so it matches the placement of the other states.
===What? I go to onion skin outline?

15. Return to the main Timeline. Choose Control>Test movie to try your button.
===This is a joke!

How Can Use Flash Within Visual Basic Or Visual Basic.net.
Can I use Flash as my interface for applications created in Visual Basic or Visual Basic.net. I would really appreciate help from anybody.

[FCS3] Basic (i Mean Basic) AS Tutorial (2 Or 3)
OK, I have absolutely no idea what i have to do when it comes to actionscript. I dont know why you would use } or : or ; or, well, anything, and I have no idea what the functions of it are. The onlt thing i know is the stop action, and even then i just do [ESC] S T - so i dont know what im typing to make it stop.

Is there any tutorials that will take me from being a person who knows f**k all about AS (but a fair bit about Flash) to a person that knows a fair bit about both. All the tuts I have consulted so far have either been so basic that you don't need AS, or a "basic" AS tutorial, which I have no idea what is going on in them, because they are not basic [for me].

Thanks
Alex

Sorry if there has already been a million post like this before, but they probably all have stupid titles, which I can't be bothered to sift through.
Maybe a post like this should be stickied, because i'm sure its not just me who is an AS idiot?

Thanks again

Very Basic Question: Flash Media Server Vs. Embedding Flash Video
I'm hoping this is a quick easy question to answer:

What is the difference between Flash Media Server and simply using a freeware Flash media player (like Flowplayer http://flowplayer.org/) that uses XML playlists to embed your Flash videos on a website?

What are the advantages to Flash Media Server and how does something like Flowplayer not address issues that FMS can?

Thanks in advance!

Erik

Edited: 01/29/2009 at 11:08:55 AM by erik_johnson

I'm New To Flash, And I Need Basic Help.
How do i make my flash movies go really smoothly, i mean i can make them really choppy, and not very good because i don't know how to use the frames, yes it is true, im that new. please help me out here. i know about stuff like the scenes, but i have no clue on how to use frames. anyways, i'm off to try and make a new layout with flash for my site.

Basic Flash Help
Can any of you help me with something?
I want to make my webpage layout make a color fade to another color.
For example: I make blue fade to purple
Can any of you help me do that?

Basic Help In Flash MX
Hi All,

I'm kinda new in Flash MX. I went thru the Tutorial that come with it to learn as much as possible. But it does not really explain on how to use Effets. In Swish2 it is very easy to use those Effects like your Objects in Scene sliding in OR Out OR doing some kinda 3D.
I'm sure it could be done easily in Flash MX . But I seem can't figure it out how.

I thought this forum could be very helpful since you are most probably very familiar both in Flash MX and Swish2.

I want to learn how to use those Efects in Flash MX. Please help.

Thanks in advance...

Cheers...

Jaxy.....

Flash 8 Basic Bug?
I cannot open a fla file no matter what I do, it says "Myflash.fla is already opened in another window". I've tried opening it many different ways, rebooting etc..... maybe I'll clear the prefs and see what happens.

I'm on a duo core Imac, Tiger, if that helps (heard some programs have some bugs on this system

Basic Flash 8
hey everybody this is probably a really dum question and i am probably just missing something simple but an answer would be great. heres the problem:
i am trying to create a game, i have created it in Flash MX 2004 but now i want to start from scratch in flash 8. I went to create a simple movement of a button symbol 1 using this code:

on(keyPress "<Left>"){
this._x+=-5;
}

I had to different symbols on the stage and the idea that I was trying to do was a hit test when symbo1 one hit symbol 2. Symbol 2 is a movie clip symbol. The idea was that with this code only symbol 1 would move, but when I tested the movie both symbol 1 and 2 moved. I know that the way I have done it works in Flash MX 2004, but I can't figure it out in Flash 8.

Basic Flash
Hi all,

I am a flash beginner. What I want to do is if I click on a picture, it should take me to another picture... (well as simple as but, i don't know how to do that) Is there anyway i can do that sort of things in Flash 5? Does anyone know the tutorial for that sort of scripting? I have been looking at quite a lot of tutorials but nothing similar to that...

I would extremely appreicate if someone can help me on this.

Many thanks
Tin

Basic Flash
Hi all,
I would like to create a flash page. Basically I have got two door photos(close door and open door). When click on first door, it should open up and move into a room. How do I do that please? Is there any tutorial for that. Many thanks.

Basic XML In Flash
I just want something basic. No fading in or out. Just an XML file and what I need to do in flash..basically - I just have a slot where I want to have information in flash, but I want to update it with notepad.

That's all. Can anybody help there?

Basic 3d In Flash
Take this tutorial:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ga...-632/index.php

Ok, I kind of get the effect now but now I'm having trouble with the reset() function. If an enemy gets so close to the ship(which is the screen, you lose a life and then the enemy resets again in the background to form a seemly infinite amount of enemies and so the game goes on). With 2d this was quite easy as I just reset whenever something something reached a certain x or y point.

Flash Basic
I open a new flash file and resize it to the dimensions of a series of .bmp files that I'm going to import. When I import the files they are not centered on the stage - there seems to be about a 40px pad on the left and top. How can I move the images in all the frames to remove this space? I've tried right clicking on the timeline and selectiing "select all" but it only moves 1 frame.

Not Quite Basic Flash :D
hi guys,could any1 tell me where can i get some free hosting sites, cause i tried alot and they all get jammed when u get to the last step(as in repeating the steps without anything being incorrect).
->lack of money,otherwise i would buy one :D
thanks

Need Some Basic Flash Help
Hey,

I'm very new to flash so need some pointers.

I'm trying to create an online tutorial type of thing. I have a movie which acts as a nav frame, and I load other movies into this. The movies I'm loading in are like chapters of the tutorial. For each of these I need to animate the text etc which will go in. I'm wondering how best to do this...

Should I just create lots of keyframes and have the text moving around etc in the main movie, or should I create lots of movie clips and load them in?

Does anyone have a good example of something like this or a good tutorial?

Thanks for any replies

Flash Script - Controlling Visual Basic From Flash
This is a dedicated thread for discussing the SitePoint article 'Flash Script - Controlling Visual Basic From Flash'

Visual Basic & Flash
Anyone know why these properties appear to be exposed to Visual Basic, but in reality they aren't?

Trying to get some actual logic for this.

Are these only Flash commands? Are they only available if called from an HTML page. Do you have to use java?

Did someone at Macromedia simply not check some check boxes when compiling the .OCX?

Nothing makes sense on this.

Property AlignMode As Long
Sub Back()
Property BackgroundColor As Long
Property Base As String
Property BGColor As String
Function CurrentFrame() As Long
Property DeviceFont As Boolean
Property EmbedMovie As Boolean
Function FlashVersion() As Long
Sub Forward()
Function FrameLoaded(FrameNum As Long) As Boolean
Property FrameNum As Long
Event FSCommand(command As String, args As String)
Function GetVariable(name As String) As String
Sub GotoFrame(FrameNum As Long)
Function IsPlaying() As Boolean
Sub LoadMovie(layer As Long, url As String)
Property Loop As Boolean
Property Menu As Boolean
Property Movie As String
Event OnProgress(percentDone As Long)
Event OnReadyStateChange(newState As Long)
Event OnReadyStateChange(newState As Long)
Function PercentLoaded() As Long
Sub Play()
Property Playing As Boolean
Property Quality As Long
Property Quality2 As String
Property ReadyState As Long
Sub Rewind()
Property SAlign As String
Property scale As String
Property ScaleMode As Long
Sub SetVariable(name As String, value As String)
Sub SetZoomRect(left As Long, top As Long, right As Long, bottom As Long)
Sub Stop()
Sub StopPlay()
Property SWRemote As String
Sub TCallFrame(target As String, FrameNum As Long)
Sub TCallLabel(target As String, label As String)
Function TCurrentFrame(target As String) As Long
Function TCurrentLabel(target As String) As String
Function TGetProperty(target As String, property As Long) As String
Function TGetPropertyNum(target As String, property As Long) As Double
Sub TGotoFrame(target As String, FrameNum As Long)
Sub TGotoLabel(target As String, label As String)
Property TotalFrames As Long
Sub TPlay(target As String)
Sub TSetProperty(target As String, property As Long, value As String)
Sub TSetPropertyNum(target As String, property As Long, value As Double)
Sub TStopPlay(target As String)
Property WMode As String
Sub Zoom(factor As Long)

Basic Flash Help Needed
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ge...11/more3.shtml

with regard to the above website, it was stated that the circle instance should be placed in layer 1 which is a guide layer. how an that be? Guide layers do not appear in a published Flash Player movie, isnt it?

when i try to insert keyframes, my stage becomes blank and i was not able to move my instance along the square. why?

i really appreciate some help. thanks

[Edited by missingyou on 12-28-2001 at 05:56 AM]

Some Basic Flash Questions:
This question relates to page size:

In Flash 5.0 when You open the Movie Properties by double clicking the frame rate in the time line window or by pressing Ctrl + m on a PC, you will se about half way down in that window there is a two button selection method that has MATCH: written to the side of it. There are 2 options that can be selected in relation to page size I understand what it does when you match your movie size to the page (To be printed on) size. But I really don't under stand what the other button does. I think it resizes my canvas to the content on my page but I'm not really sure.....If you can help me out by explain what this button dose I would really appreciate it a lot

John Taylor
E-mail: JohnyT9760@aol.com

BASIC Flash 4 Question
Ok - this has stumped me for more than an hour..............

im a noob Flash user but have managed to easily create a simple animation with a number of moving elements on a few layers. But - what i cant work out is how to get the complete animation to loop only a set number of times!!! obviously, exporting to gif i can do it but as a .swf???? it cant be hard, can anyone please let me in on the secret.

Im using Flash 4!

cheers

Basic Flash Problem
Please help me!!!

I have three questions for now

Ive been using flash for about 3 months now but still cannot get active scripting down. Still a newbie when it comes to flash scripting. Ive been able to morph text and create basic anamations. I built a site which Ive never been able to get all the bugs out and now am tring to get a simple site together before I leave town on Tuesday.

What Ive got so far is basic two page site. Page one has only one button that I attached the following script to
I inserted a stop action on frame 1

on (release) {
gotoAndStop("2");
}
If Im correct this should send me to frame 2 on release of mouse. It doesnt move me to frame 2 it just stays in frame one.

2) I tried importing 2 10mb video clips to my library one a .wmv file and the other a .mov file I even compressed them to 10 keyframss per sec with sorenson, however they added like 450mb to my project.

3)Try using intances of a copied button however all similar buttons are also effected.

Visual Basic And Flash
I have been asked to write a programme that integrates with Flash! The programme has to be written in VB6 and I know how to use the fscommand to get data from flash and into VB6 can anyone explain how to get data from VB6 into flash and I can't use director?

Mark

Visual Basic 6 And Flash
Hello, I am trying to include a flash movie on a vb6 form. I can do it at home but not at work. As soon as I try to use the shockwave flash component from my toolbar, vb crashes. I even compiled a vb/flash exe that works at home, then brought it to work to run it there, but it gives me an error about not being able to read memory. Can anyone help me?

Basic Flash Questions
I know this has been asked before, but i cant find an answer that suits me.

1. I want to stop line weight scaling and i cant make it hairline because i need it to have a certain thickness. I want to stretch the symbol, NOT have the line weigth scale.

2. I'm getting these wierd artifacts when i move a symbol fast. It looks like it just leaves a chunk stuck to where it was. Um...how do i get rid of that?

thanks.

Basic Flash Questions
I am somewhat student taught and self taught, mostly learning from tutorials and movies on this site and others. I have some questions that are pretty general that I am wondering about the best way to do things. Can anyone just clarify to me the best way to keep files sizes down and the best way to load .swf's into the main site. I have used loadmovienum and _root.loadmovie, but I am unclear on which one is better. Could someone explain that. If there are any other general things that are rule of thumb in creating flash sites, I would appreciate the advice or links to tutorials. Things I do work fine, but I know that I am not getting the best performance out of my files and there are things I am missing.

Thanks

Basic Flash Mx Book
does anyone know of any really good flash mx e-book. i really want to learn flash but i am not able to find any good e-books. if anyone has any good e-books that they are will let me "borrow," that would be even great

Basic Flash & MP3 Streaming
I have two questions that I hope some of you can solve.

I have a Flash MX movie that's sized 800x600.

1) I want to, upon loading my site, load the movie in a new window sized 800x600, akin to the 'enter site' buttons that trigger a popup.

2) As well, the key elements of my movie, apart from the background image are a 'coming soon' text that loops, and an MP3 that streams via actionscript. I'd like the 'coming soon' text to loop continuously, as the mp3 plays, and then when the mp3 finishes, for for the 'coming soon' text to keep looping and the mp3 start again (I'm assuming this is just a simple loop of the whole flash movie as everything visually remains static).

Thank you very much in advance and I'll stick around for a few for any clarifications.

Flash + Visual Basic?
I want to put my swf file into a VB program so I can extend some stuff by activeX controls/FSCommand and the like to do some things I can't natively do in Flash itself. I found a really promising tutorial that looked like it was just what I needed.

Problem was, the tutorial was for visual basic 6.0 and I have Visual Basic as part of Visual Studio.net, which I bought an academic edition of through my school. Deal with this is, the tutorial says to go ahead and add a .swf file to your VB form as a component. You can just do that, apparently, as long as the flash player's installed.

WEEEEEELL, with my version of Visual Basic.Net (or whatever) it doesn't seem to work like that. The interface is a little different from the screenshots, and even though my flash player is MOST DEFINITELY installed (I downloaded the versions for both mozilla, internet explorer, and have Flash MX itself installed on my computer) there seems to be a problem- there's no option anywhere to add a .swf component to my VB form. Does anyone out there in Flash land know how to do this? Or point me to someone who knows the intricacies of Visual Studio.net and what it's malfunction is?

Please let me know. This is driving me nuts.

By the By, I am using Flash MX (not 2004)

Thanks!

Basic Flash Form
Hey guys,

Firstly, thank you for reading this.

Basically, I am making a pretty basic form in Flash MX. There are two frames. Frame one has the form input fields which all have a relevant 'var' name - i.e. the e-mail address field has a var name of 'email' and the first name input box has a var name of 'firstname' etc. Also, in this frame is a send button - no reset button though.

In the second frame there is the classic thank you message.

What I need to do is add the relevant actions to the relevant bits so I when the user fills in the form and presses the send button, it sends the information to my e-mail address and re-directs them to the thank you frame with no HTML pages or anything. I don't want this 'thank you' frame to show any of the info sent though.

I've looked into making forms but can't find exactly what I need as my server doesn't support asp and I'm not too sure whether it supports PHP - ideally, I am looking to do this using CGI or something fairly basic. I'm hoping all that has to be done is add some actions to the send button and have an external script or something.

Can someone tell me which actions to add and where and tell what what script to use please?

Thank you very much and I hope to hear from someone.

Take care,

Mark

Visual Basic ( VB) And Flash
Hello!

I have been asked to create an animations collect data and send to a VB program...

Has anyone communicated between flash and a VB script before? The details are just a var (numeric)to pass.

Anyone?

Basic Flash Questions
ok
fairly new to flash and i just have some questions
-im making a slide show of images, just copying them from photoshop and pasting them in the center:

*how do i add music(properly)- when i did it by importing the library then making a new layer and dragging it onto it, the music didn't stop when the other layer did.

*how do you fade in images from a blank grey to when an image appears?

thanks alot in advance really appreciate it

Basic Flash Question
I am sure this is going to be so simple and I am going to kick my self, but thanks in advance for your help.

MASTER SWF ---> Buttons --> Trigger 4 galleries

How do I get back to the master swf? I want to have a home button in the gallery page.

Should I create a main swf in the master swf or can they be the same thing?

Thanks.

It's a page with 4 galleries
//I did a search and I couldn't figure it out, thanks again.

// Code
Pardon the bad commenting

/*
Movie Clip Loader
*/
var MCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var listener:Object = new Object();
MCL.addListener(listener);
//loading trigger shared lib ||
MCL.loadClip("trigger.swf", 5);

//Then for the buttons on frame 10
stop();
Button01.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndStop(15);

}
Button02.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndStop(25);

}
Button03.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndStop(35);

}
Button04.onRelease = function () {
gotoAndStop(45);

}
//_level0.MCL.loadClip("gallery_01.swf, 5");

Then on the stop load frames the different swfs are loaded

stop();
MCL.loadClip("gallery_01.swf", 5);

How do I get it back to the frame 10 in the Master.swf or a Main.swf file?

TIA.

Basic Essential Flash Q
hello,
have been visiting many flash sites that work in a very attractive way, meaning:
there is a steady background (never disappearing while browsing the site) and all the contents appearing inside a shape (most usually a rectangle)which is the only thing changing while browsing.
I am sure this is a rather stupid q, but would you please give me a hint or redirect me to a relevant thread (can't figure which keywords i should use for searching)?

Thank you in advance.

Basic Filehandling With Flash
Id like to make a graphical editor with flash that has some basic features like copying and moving files, and editing text-files.

The editor is to be used exclusively offline.

I know that AS doesnt provide such functionality, but perhaps its possible with some backend script that doesnt require any installs (like php does)?

Javascript, perhaps? Does it have the power to edit files etc?

Thank you

Btw, it has to be a free alternative. Can only afford flash-license :/

Basic Help, Right Click On Flash
HI, I have a problem with my game. Every level is a new frame and all you need to do is right click and play to skip a level. I used to have it but what is the actionscript for removing the play, forward, back etc, until all the have is settings and about flash.

Basic Help, Right Click On Flash
Hello, i put this on flash but I think it's better suited for actionscript. Right, this is pretty basic and I won't go into a story about why I need it. When you right click on a flash document it mainly will come up with play, back, forward, 2 zoom buttons, quality etc... I have notice that you are able to remove them. How may I ask so your only left with about flash and settings.

Basic Preloader In Flash 5
Ok, I've gone through about sixteen different tutorials and I still can't get this right. I'm trying to come up with actionscript for a VERY basic preloader.

I titled the first scene "preloader" and put the script on frame 1. I want it to just stay there on the first frame of the preloader scene, until the last frame of the movie (Channel 4, frame 38) is loaded and then go and play Scene 1, frame 1. This should be incredibly simple, but I can't get it right.

Please help. My website is looking good, just need a preloader.

Basic Flash Apps
hows it going. I don't even have macromedia but will soon but i would really like to get into making apps like the one i will include in this thread. where do i start? I have graphic design under control (photshop illustrator) and know vb6 pretty well, so im sure ill pick it up quick. please respond if you can help.

EA5YLIKE

www.sirness.com
flash loopers
check em out. some are pretty dark but i like the
mart1 primehero ver 5 one...hahahaha

Help With Basic Flash Problem
i want a text box with a scroll bar. im pretty new to flash and just learning alot of it, but any help would be grateful. and hopefully before the 14th may aswell, as thats my deadline!

cheers

Gazza!

Basic Flash Website Help
Can someone help me with a basic website..

Im trying to make a button where when you click on it and release a little box popes open and becomes bigger on the same page, im sure you have all seen it i jsut dont know the actionscript for it and what layer... and whatever els i have to create or the script for the button. I dont want anything on the page to move jsut a box to appear

Flash MX Or Any Other VER. Basic Skills?
Hello everyone,

Just wanted to know if anyone had the definitive answer to this question, or at the very least your opinions.

Many Tutorials and even books, at some point, say that the author, or something to that effect, assumes the reader has a "Basic Understanding or Knowledge of the Flash ver. the tutorial covers, so....

What is considered or meant by the statement a "Basic Knowledge or Understanding of" in this case Flash, or in my case Flash MX?

I, for one, am quite familiar with the tools in Flash MX, I can honestly say that I've used them all at some point or another, and I've experimented with at least 98% of all the items on and in the menu bar; I do not however, have a good grasp of ActionScript yet, their I would say I'm still an newbie after all these years.

So, I have a basic, or rather a good understanding / knowledge of the tools of Flash and it's interface, I'm just lacking in ActionScript; so I've narrowed it down and so my question now becomes how much ActionScript does one need to know to have a "Basic Understanding / Knowledge" of Flash?

Please, I would really like to hear your opinions on this, I mean break it down to the bone like "in order to have a basic... you need to know... or should know... I promise I wont hold anyone accountable for their answers; if anything we might learn something, or at the very least I will.

Peace
Jose Antonio