Flash :: Where To Start?

Rewind, Pause, And Start Start Buttons For Base Movie And External Mov

I'm lost...

I have a base movie that contains three buttons (Rewind, Pause, and Start)

The code for the rewind button that sends the base movie to frame 2 which is set to play and then reloads the external movie (images/4_24.swf). works perfectly and is shown below.

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on (release){
    function test(){
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container",25);
    loadMovie("images/4_24.swf", "container");
    container._x=15;
    container._y = 95;
}
test();}

My question is does any one know how to now pause both the base and external movie with the pause button and then start both movies again with the start button????  Some how I need to control both movies with these three buttons.

Code for play button is ---
on (release) {
play();
}

Code for pause button is ---
on (release) {
stop();
}

Thank you MJR

Start And Stop Streaming Sounds (start Stopping Currently Playing)
Hi there

I am novice user of flash and have no real AS experience.

What I want to do is..

I have 18 songs from an album and have taken 30 sec from each and down sampled them ready for flash.

I want to be able preview them all from one flash file.
I will be streaming the songs in, so the initial download time is minimal.

With 18 start stop buttons for each one, but because customers are lazy, they are likely just going to click the next play button for the next preview, so I need the play buttons to stop 'this' preview before playing the next with stop control also being a stop control for those who have had enough or are well behaved browsers : )

I hope this makes sense and look forward to hearing from someone.

Cheers

Ian Hill

How To Delay The Start Of External Swf(start From Say 10th Frame)
I am using the following code to load an external swf.Now I need to start the playing of the swf movie not from frame 1 but from say 10th frame.
Please help

Code:
var myMcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();

myListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes, totalBytes) {
//swfToLoad._visible = false;
loadedPercent = Math.floor((loadedBytes/totalBytes)*100);
_root.bar_mc._xscale = loadedPercent;
//trace(bar_mc._xscale);
c.text = loadedPercent+"%";
//trace(loadAnim.percLoaded.text);
spacer.loadMovie("images/loadingss.jpg");

};

myListener.onLoadComplete = function(targetMC:MovieClip) {

swfToLoad._visible = true;
loadAnim._visible = false;
//swfToLoad._width=367;
//swfToLoad._height=255;
}

myMcl.addListener(myListener);
myMcl.loadClip("Jason_500.swf",swfToLoad);

How Can I Start An External Program And/or Start A File
I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "program.exe");
stop();
}

Also I've tryed:

on (release) {
fscommand("Exec", "start.bat");
stop();
}

And in the .bat file I've put this:

@echo off
start file.doc
exit

But this does not seem to work, what Am I doing wrong???

Thanx alot!

FLV Start Time? Can I Start It Playing 2 Secs In?
Is there a way with actionscript to tell an FLV to start playing 2 seconds into the video. What I have is an FLV that has 2 seconds of black at the beginning, but I don't want that to play.

Or if anyone knows a way to re-encode an flv so that I can get rid of the 1st 2 seconds. I've tried re-encoding it with Riva Encoder but it just gets all screwed up. And the Flash encoder won't even let me add it to the que. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Lady

Sound Start Doesn't Start
I've been experiencing this problem. Sound.start() doesn't always start. A lot of times, it does, sometimes, it doesn't start for me. Sometimes it happens even after sound load has just finished. Has anyone experienced the same? any suggestions?

Edited: 08/24/2007 at 01:26:57 AM by nehcdet

To Start Again, Or Not To Start Again, That Is The Question
help!

I know I'm a dumbass, no need to rub it in. Guess who just learned what a smart clip is. now here's the issue:

http://www.7inone.info/test4/

everything on this site that SHOULD be a smart clip, ISN'T. Every single button and movie clip and movie clip holder has been scripted individually. And now, this far along, I realize that the smarter thing to do would have been to use smart clips. So do you think I should start over, and do it right? or should I just leave it, and learn from my mistake for future work. I would love to start again and get it perfect, but the reality of the matter is that the boss want's the site ready to go - and SOON.

any additional comments on over all design, etc. would be appricated.

thanks guys

sid.

Immediate Start Instead Of Clic Start
I have a fla-file which almost is just perfect for my needs. The only thing I need to change is :
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>") {
gotoAndPlay ("start");
}

I would like the movie to start immediately instead of after the visitor clicking a key. No need for saying that I am totally new to flash, is there.

Roger

Flash Wont Start, Quicktime Wont Start And Wont Uninstall
Quicktime will not run.
I have tried to uninstall quicktime v 7.1.5 and recieve the msg fatal error during installation.
When I try to run flash 8 it crashes with no error message.

I think it is a problem with Itunes and quicktime conflicting with flash. I require flash and use it frequently am not so keen on itunes yet i'd like to use my ipod.

If anyone can help, I'd be verry appreciative.

How To Start And Do Nothing
I have made it through the tutorials and now am trying to create my first flash movie. I don't want it to go from frame to frame. I want it to go the first frame and then stop. Then I am going to build some buttons for frame navigations.

My buttons are on one layer, the different frames I want to navigate to are on layer 2. 5 frames, 5 different pictures.

How do I stop the movie from just shooting from frame 1 to frame 5. I just see all 5 frames flash by when I play the movie.

Thanks,
Peace

Where To Start
If all you knew about FLASH is how to spell it, where would you start? What software must you have. Is there any freeware that one can use to learn?

I am older, and not wealthy. Thanks

Its Just A Start So Lz Help
well,im working on a construction site and they need a flash verison,so my question is how do i make a site simply like 2advanced projects,like loading the middle part from my movie from an external swf file,and load it in the middle and if i choosed another link another text"clip" is loaded in the middle with a preloader,i dont want to make my site into scenes,i think this a very old way,is there a way to preload a symbole or is it just that ther is a code that calls this movie clip,plz help me with the code.

Where To Start?
I am new to Flash and I am contemplating a nice starting book.. I am conflicting between Foundation Flash 5 and the Visual Start Guide for Flash 5. Anyone have an opinion, good or bad on these publications or perhaps another that I may have overlooked. Thanks

How To Start, Anyone?
Ok, planning to make a board game, anyone got any idea how to make one?

I am a real dummy in creating action script and therefore, i need advise. Example like for the things to move on the board, how to program the board etc...

What is recommended to program a board? Is there is special way? What about multi players? My board game is played up to 4 players. How to program a dice, any example?

I really know nothing much about it. Hope to get some help, thanks!!!

Rgds,
CL

Where Do I Start?
Hi - I would like to know how to do the kind of animations (quick, flickering and smooth as in this site: http://www.skvisual.com). Are the home box animations in actionscript? Does the smooth collapse and expand of the "more>" button also result from actionscript? How do I do this? I'm just getting started with actionscript, so any help is gratefully accepted!

Where Do I Start?
Hi
I'm fairly new to Flash, and I'd like to take it on as I've gotten bored of HTML.
Any help would be useful.
I would like to "write" a web page in Flash but I'm not sure if this is possible. Write back with suggestions - nice and slowly

TBo6

Start
im new in this how can i start to work with
flashtyper

.start()
in sounds control i can't get the .start() funtion to do anything.

I have a sound clip playing and I have 2 buttons that can adjust the volume, they work
another stops the sound altogether, this works

another starts the sound, and i've been told from the reference that it can also start it form a certain position of the song.
I cannnot get this to work )=/

what the hell!?

help please =[...

Where Should I Start?
ok.. How should I go about learning actionscript? I mean, where should I start? How did you guys learn?

Any kind of feedback would be great.

My MC Won't Start
Hi,

I've posted a message earlier about this, but now I putted the file on the internet so you can download it and maybe then you can check out what's wrong.
http://users.pandora.be/cambien/interface.fla
The problem is, I have a button that is linked to the frame with instance dornbracht.
When I push the button everythingn works except one thing.In the frame with instance dornbracht I putted a movieclip with the instance dornbrachtmc.
Then I added the following actionscript to the movie:

on (EnterFrame) {
dornbrachtmc.play();
}

But when I go to the frame with the movieclip in it, the movieclip doesn't work. If you can't figure it out from here, then you can download the flas file from the link above.

Thanks in advance
Greetings
Camme

I Don't Know Where To Start.
Can some please point me in the right direction?

I want to create a flash site that looks like you are walking around in side of a building/house and there are interactive things going on inside it and you can move from room to room and so on.
I have seen something like this before but I don't know where to start.

Any suggestions?
Thank you.

Where To Start?
Yeah, I'm dedicated to learning flash before the new year. So, where is a good place to start. I tried some tutorials from this site but they seemed to difficult. Even the help files of Flash gave me a bit of trouble. It isn't like I am dumb or anything. I know HTML,Photoshop,Premier, and various other design programs and languages but Flash is just hard for me. So any suggestions??Thanks in advance.

How To Start?
i am having problems with my flash projects and would really appreciate some advice. my problem is that everytime i start a project i never follow what i first planned, and tend to rush things. the worst thing is that i start, then get discouraged after being blown away by some other flash guru's work. so i start over again, without a script or plan, just putting anything anywhere, only to end up starting over again. HELPPPPP!!!!. please give some advice or offer some words of encouragement to this frustrated flasher.

Where To Start?
I am so overwelmed I have no idea where to start I own flash mx but have no idea how to use it. Where should i start? I see these awsome websites that jump off the screen and id like to do somthing, i dont expect to learn in a day or even a year but i REALLY need to start now its too cool not to. I have no problem with html i dont know if that matters at all but i tought myself.So where should i start? id be useing it primarly as web design i dont even know where to begin any suggestions or tutorials to follow?

Where To Start...
Hey.

Right, I'm totally new to Flash, and want to make an Intro movie to my site.
Just something simple, showing the name of the site etc.

Anyway, I have absolutely no idea where to start. What program(s) do I need?
I'm willing to learn, so complication of use isn't that much of a problem.

Any feedback appreciated, cheers.

Where Do I Start?
i dont know anything about flash where do i startjavascript:smilie('')
Mr Smoov

Where To Start?
Hey guys,
I want a calender based news section on my site.

I want it to start at any year I want and go up to any year I want.
With buttons you can skip thru years/months/dates and the days will have whatever news I put there.

The main problem I have is where to start? I don't know how to get flash to align the days to the dates? Any pointers??

Where Do I Start
I currently come across websites where you are taken through morphed animated scenes on the website.

Before I take my action script newby self to learning -- How do those guys actually do that?

Is it like director with marker jumping with that specific animation.

If yes please give me some resources also for that along with a good STARTING POINT for action script. To be quite honest some of these tutorials on the site still gets me lost

Thank You

How Could I Start To Do This?
I am a Flash Developer that is fairly new, 1 1/2 years experience. I have had no formal training. I am probably much more a newbie when it comes to actionscript and ASP.

I would appreciate any resources (knowledge, code, tutorials, etc.)you know of to point me in the direction of doing a flash project with the following criteria:

1. I'm working with ASP and Flash technology.
2. I would like to do a project where you click on a link. The link calls an ASP page that queries a database, the results of the query return a set of URLS for some media (pictures or MP3s) that will in turn be dynamically loaded into a Flash widget (application) to be displayed in the case of an image(s) or listed and played in the case of MP3s.

Anyone got a good starting point?

What would be a methodical way of completing a job like this?

Thanks in advance

Where Do I Start?
I am 100% new to Flash. Just hired in a new job and they want me to learn!!!
So, my question: what program do you need to create Flash movies? I've got Dreamweaver - can I do it with that? And where do you recommend I start learning?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Michelle

Where Should I Start?
I think I'm well ahead of my self. I don't know the first thing about Flash MX and I'm already trying to do motion tweens and such without even familiarizing my self with the program. I'm gonna make a fresh start, but I don't know where to began. Can anyone suggest a site where I can first learn the basics and capabilities of FMX? Thanks a bunch

Where To Start?
If i want to be able to get really godo at flash stuff where should i start and can anyone help me so i can start designing my stuff for a site i would like to build.
thanks

-Sayles

Where To Start? Lol
yes, Today is my first day at Trying to learn flash..except..a dumb question..WHere to start?! ..i wanna just learn how to make like..movies and stuff (Like on NG) and buttons so people can play it and stop it and stuff like that. Anyways, please list things i need to DL, books, tutorials, etc, etc. Thx alot, sorry.
-Cadmium

How Do You Even Start Going About Something Like.......?
2advanced.com. -------------how do you do a whole site in flash like that? are there any tutorials ? do you even use dreamweaver?

do you setup tables first,then animate each section on its own???? explain this plz............. im fascinated.

ty avnos

Where Do I Start
I know the basics.... but how do I go from pictures fading in and out to something likr this
http://www.nadinagafoor.com/Portfolio.htm

How To Start
ok, i need to know how to start making a flash movie. how do i start. if some one could pm me a step by step instuction to how to make one, that be great. thanks.

Where Do I Start?
hey!

i'm trying to find out how to make a site in flash and put it on the internet... but i'm completely ignorant. I don't know anything really, so i was wondering if anyone could help me find tutorials explaining everything!

i'm using a mac and flash mx,

thanks in advance.

alexis

Where Do I Start?
I want to make a flash intro for an existing site, where do I start?

Where To Start?
Right now I'm going over step by step training with flash...but otherwise Where do you start with flash, first step? I've played around with the timeline in the past, but basically I'm all new to it.

Thanks,

Fred

Ok - Where Do I Start.
I am an experienced web user and know enough about computers to be dangerous. So, where do I start. Are there tutorials to watch, books to read or should I just go out and buy 2004 w/flash pro and jump right in? I take suggestions well, so don't hold back.
PS- I am also very determined and never give up!
Thanks Jim

Where Do I Start With This?
I would like to create from scratch something similar to the spinning grid on this page. http://www.tothweb.com/design.htm Move your mouse over the boxes and observe their reaction.

I am brand spanking new to flash and am not really sure where to begin with something like this.

Thanks

-Tex-

Start MC If MC._x= 700
ok is there away to start a MC going when a mc comes into a certain position?

example would this kidna thing work

code:
if (MovieClip._x = 700)
_root.OtherMC.play();

hope u can help.

Where To Start?
Hello all. I just installed Macromedia Flash MX and i have no idea where to start. Any tips? Im not new to web design, so i should pick up on stuff quickly. Thanks

About To Start
Hi i'm new in flash i have flash mx 2004 trial and i've never used it before nor do i have any programming experience i'm preety good with photoshop my friend recommended me a few books

for learning the basic he said to get
1. Flash mx 2004 Hands on training or
2. foundation in flash 2004 by friends of ed

for actionscritp he said to get
1. actionscript definative guide for flash mx by moock or
2. foundation in action script 2.0 by friends of ed

my question is that i dont want to get the wrong book and i was hoping if you guys can decide which book for actionscript and for the basic learning out of these two and tell me why

remember no programming experince at all lol

How To Start?
I'm trying to make a website fully flash enabled, but I don't even know how to start on making it....

If I want to make a site with links, in which clicking the individual links brings up different animation on a main stage.. how do I start?

Is it done with just 1 huge fla file with many layers? Or should it be done with many individual modular flash animation files, loaded on demand from a main fla navigation frame?

Thanks in advance

Where To Start...
I want to start learning how to make flash templates for websites. I have a little bit of webdesign experience. I was told this is probably the best place to come to start learning. This stuff. Is there any tutorials that would help me out with this. I downloaded the 30 day free trial version of flash MX.

Where Do I Start?
I want to figure out how to make this.
Flash Magazine
It's absolutely ridiculous how foto-smooth this thing is. Play with it for like 2 seconds and you'll see what I mean. I can figure out different bits of it. But this looks so complicated and involved. Does anyone know where I can find some hints on making the "page turn" so crazy interactive?

Where To Start?
I have some design experience, photoshop, freehand ect. I would like to learn flash, but I'm not sure where to start.

Should I buy an eductional version of flash?
If so can it be upgraded to pro version?

Is it worth it to buy Studio mx?

Sorry if these questions have already been adressed and thanks for the input.

Hmm, Where To Start?
yeah, i have a great idea for a navagation bar, but i cant find any tutorials for anything like it and i dont know where to start!

ok, this is what i want to be able to do- i nice horizontal nav bar, and a tube kind of thing behind it. and whenever you hover over one of the words a red thing goes behind it..and whenever you click it you go on that page and it stays behind the word unless you hover over another word and then if you dont click it it goes back behind the word you are under..i dont know if anyone understood that, but if you did, could please help me! please send some tutorials or some advice or somewhere to start!! i can create the design and everything, im just not very good at action script or anything.

Thanks in advance,
PKv2

PS-the tube thing will probably look a little like this, but a little larger and with words over it.>> here