Flash :: Exporting Data With Flash

Exporting Data From Flash
I just started with flash in the past year so Im still learning.

I am building a flash file that allows a user to build their own custom belt buckle design for a client. I need some of the information (what color they chose, etc.) to be exported out of the flash movie onto the server.

What would be the best strategy to accomplish this? XML data export? The data is very simple and all appears in a string of text at the bottom of the movie.

Thanks a bunch for any help.

Exporting Data Out Of A Flash Movie
Hi everyone,

Cool to be here. Thanks Whisper for the last guidance it worked well.
I need to send some data out of a movie to a text file.
Please guide how do I do this.
Thanks

Shahid Mughal

Mx Components - Exporting Data
I have created a form in Flash using the components but i cant see a way of exporting that data to PHP for example.

For example if an Option was selected in a DROP DOWN BOX and the form was submitted into an email...how could i go about telling PHP where to get this info from?

thanks

Combo Box - Exporting Data
I am using the COMBO BOX Component in MX. This is going to be used in a mailform with PHP. What kinda of actionscript will i requie in order to pass the selection made over to PHP so it is displayed in an email?

I can get this to work with INPUT TEXT boxes and alike as i am able to assign them a VAR name but I cant see how i can do that with these COMPONENTS.

I have scanned the web and this forum for help but to no avail.

Please help me !!!

Thanks

Exporting Data Via Email
I don't know if this is simple or not but I have created this customizing application that allows users to create a product, for instance, a t shirt. they select their colors, then their designs, then their sizes. once they have completed their selection, i want them to be able to click a button to submit it and what that does is it takes all of the selected elements that have been loaded onto the stage and it is emails to a designated email address. is this simple to do? the elements are being loaded onto the stage via actionscript that is calling out specific frames in movie clips. any help would be appreciated. thanks.

Exporting Data To Excel
Hey Guys,

Stuck with what seems to be a simple problem. We're displaying XML data within a datagrid based on some search the user does. one option we need to provide is to export the displayed data within the datagrid into excel. And we need to do it without using PHP or any server side language.(this is for a Flash CD presentation that won't have a webserver) .

Any pointers would help.

Thanks in advance.
cheers.
styrofoe.

Exporting Data From Authorware.
I am currently trying to learn how to use authorware for conducting experiments online. The problem I am running into is how do i get data out. I know some php and mysql, but I am unsure of a method to use in conjunction with authorware.

SO i guess what I am looking for is a short example of a command in authorware and the corresponding php page.

any help is greatly appreciated...

Sendig/saving/exporting Data From A Swf To The HD
I have a movie, but i want to be able to save my progress on the HD. The data consists of a few numbers and a name (a small array). How can I save it. (I tried it through XML, but I didn't know all functions)

Does anyone know how to make my save function?

Exporting Dynamic Data As A Graphic
I want to preface this post by saying that I don't think this is possible.

I've coded a business card proofing tool for a printing house...their clients enter in their contact information it displays the info in the right fonts and position on the card. The information is then emailed to the printer so that she can set up the cards. Pretty cool stuff.

Anyway, the printer has asked if I can send an image of the card along with the information (as a gif or pdf). So what I would need to do is export an image of the card template with all the data entered in and then somehow convert it into a gif or pdf. Any ideas? I don't know of any way of building a dynamic pdf in the first place, much less of getting variables from flash to whatever would generate it.

Exporting Data To A Local File
This may be a newbie question but I really need to find out how to export data to a file on the same computer as the swf file. I've looked at both sharedObject and loadVars in addition to XML and I'm still not clear on how to accomplish the data export. The local file needs to be a text file, I'm creating a data file for another program.

I've tried doing searchs on the database and have found nothing for FLASH/ActionScript. Can anyone help?

Problem Exporting Eps Format With Live Data In Fla
Is it possible to print document or export with data filled in dynamic textbox within component, that are changed and seen only with Control-->Enable Live Prewiev enabled. Can anybody help, please.
I would like to export this file with filled text in parameters in EPS format, but all I could get is EPS file with graphic and blank textbox.
I am exportin from fla source file not SWF or etc...

There is also no problem with components or SWF file, everything works properly. I see data in dynamic text-box only with option Control-->Enable Live Prewiev enabled.

Exporting Image Created With Flash.. Overlaying Image With Text Then Exporting As Jpg
Is this possible? Say I have a user insert certain text onto a image using flash which would not be hard, but then is it possible to export the image as a jpeg for the user to download? The seems impossible but I figured it might be possible.

Flash Data Intergratino Useing Xml Data Bases
im not huge newbee to this , iv overcome the majority of the studid little qustions but i ask you this , how do you create adatebasse of say mp3s thru flash using a xml database. first, how do you embeed say mp3 files into a xml document and so on and so on

Flash Sends Data To PHP, Browser Waiting For Data
Hi,

I have the following problem. I'm implementing a flash form mailer using PHP to send out the mail. I'm doing this in the actionscript to sed out the data:

_root.mcDataField.loadVariables("form.php", "POST");

Then my PHP script looks like this:

$sendTo = "xyz@server.com";
$subject = "Some title here";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["Name"]. "<" . $_POST["Email"] . ">
";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["Email"] . "
";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["Email"];

$message = $_POST["Message"];
$retVal = mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

When I sendthe data, it gets emailed, but the browser shows (in the bottom left corner): "Waiting for xyz.com", where xyz.com is the server I have my files on.

Any idea would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Exporting As Flash 5
Scene=preload, Layer=Layer 5, Frame=1: Line 4: You must export your movie as Flash 5 to use this expression.
objTime = new Date();

can anyone help me with this error?

Exporting From Mx To Flash 5
Hello flashers
I have a movie made with flash mx, and now i need to go work on it on flash 5.

in flash mx, when i save the file, and after filling the name of the saved file, i can choose between (flash mx document and flash 5 document) , so i chose flash 5 document.

when i go to flash 5 and try to open it, it says "fails to open document", knowing that the movie is simple and doesnt use any features in flash mx that are not available in flash 5.
please help
regards

About Exporting Gif From Flash 5
i hv drawn a button in flash and i want to use that button as an image in html and so i click file/publish setting and choose gif image and choose transparent but when i post the image in an html file,it displays the button on a white background instead of only showing the button.Can anyone tell me what to do,thanks

Exporting Flash
Im such an idiot. I totslly forgot how to insert flash into an html page. I forgot the stupid code. I can tbelieve it.!!!

Exporting MX To Flash 3
How do I export a Flash MX file as a Flash 3 file?

Exporting Swt In Flash 5 On Mac
I'm using flash 5 to export to an SWT format on the Mac. When I export it can up to tripple the file size e.g. a file I'm working with at the moment publishes to swf at 96k and when I export to SWT it is 300k. It happens with every file, can anyone tell me why this happens and how it can be avoided?
Thanks, Sam.

Exporting From Flash
Hi

I downloaded one of the full sourced games on flashkit and wanted to muck around with it. I wanted to edit the graphics but I cant work out how I get them out of the library and into photoshop.

Am I missing something?

cyberfez

Exporting From Flash
Ok, I'm trying to export a Flash file as an .avi to use in DVDit! and no matter what video compression I use something in the movie is compromised. Whether it's the action in the movie or the way the movie looks as a whole it comes out like &%$#! What is the best solution.

Exporting In Flash
heya,

I have made an animation that consists of about 20 movieclips on a main timeline. These all play with a _parent.stop() and a _parent.play() in each of the child movieclips on the _root timeline.

All of these movies are scenes to my main animation, so they are quite long.

My problem is when trying to export to quicktime, avi or anything like that.

It seems when exporting, flash just ignores the actionscript and treat my movieclips as if they are only one frame. So I just get an export of the first frame of every movie clip.

is there a workaround for this?

cheers for any advice.

Exporting From Flash
is there a way to export an image from a flash site and keep it vectorized (pdf, ai, eps)?

Exporting XML Through FLASH To PHP
I am attempting my first XML/FLASH export to PHP, and am wondering is there any SPECIAL way that I need go about doing this?

right now, I am importing my XML file, into an XML object...and basically setting up a visual feedback/GUI, that displays what is currently there. this 'GUI' (check box's & inputFields) iwll then edit the nodes elements/values of this XML object.

I assume I just send the WHOLE xml object as a var to the PHP script to dump it to .txt file (.xml file). Correct?

How can I add formatting to it?..so child nodes are indented..and subsequent child nodes are also indented?

thanks for any tips/ideas.

Exporting Flash Art
How can i use my FLASH art in photoshop or illustrator. I know "real" designers would rather use Illsutrator directly, but i can create graphics much better in FLASH.

I would like to use these graphics in Photoshop, but i need them to be bigger then the biggest JPG orPNG i can create by exporting or publishing in FLASH....

[F8] Exporting FLV's To Flash 7
Hey,

I have imported my FLV into Flash 8 and tried to export the video to Flash Palyer 7 format. I keep getting this error:- "This movie uses features that are not supported in the Flash 7 player".

There must be a way of playing FLV's in Flash Player 7 surely?!

Any ideas?

[CS3] Flash Not Exporting To SWF
I am working on a game that has a publish setting of Flashplayer 6 and Actionscript 1.

I am using Flash CS3. I save the .fla to Flash 8 format for obvious reasons. Now the problem comes when I try to export the movie. It would go as it should behave when Flash exports movies but when the process is done, I looked into the folder of which the .swf should be there and it's not.

I tried to preview the movie as well by pressing Ctrl+Enter in the authoring environment and nothing happens as well.

Tried to export it on another folder and the same thing happens. Can somebody please shed some light on this?

Exporting Flash To SVG, Can You Do It?
Hi I have just been introduced to the concept of using SVG data for vector based animations. I have done a quick search around the web to find out if you can export flash files (swfs) to svg format, so far I have found very little. Does anyone know of any programs that might facilitate this or failing that if adobe is planning on supporting such a thing in the future. I see that they support svgs out of illustrator but that doesn't really help me with my flash movie.

If anyone has any knowledge about this I would be very grateful if you could share, this is all very new to me.

Thanks

Exporting Into Flash
Hi,
I have a problem with exporting some images from imageready into flash. I have made some post-it notes in Photoshop and export them as swf's through imageready. No matter what i do once they are in Flash and i publish teh file the quality looks terrible. Anybody know what im missing?

Thanks..

Flash CS3 Not Exporting To .swf
Okay, so here's my issue.

I'm trying to export a website created exclusively within Flash CS3. I have had no issues up until this point with exporting to .swf or publishing to html/swf. I added a few more elements to the file, a few vector elements and text elements, nothing fancy, and now every time I export to any medium (but I specifically want to fix this for .swf so I can get this finished) it goes finishes the export progress bar, and everything goes okay (or the program crashes out), however NO FILES ARE CREATED. I'm not sure which element I added could be causing this issue (and actionscript debug finds no issues) and there are simply too many elements to try deleting them one by one.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Exporting Flash To MOV
Hi,
I am a 2D traditional animator. I am trying to export flash animation to MOV or AVI and I am having problems.
I did the following:

I enabled in the publish settings, quick time ( .mov)
and then tried both:

file/publish and file/export movie
both gave me this message :

"an error occurred because a required Quicktime component could not be found."

What do I need here?

thanks for any help.

Exporting Flash For Web
I'm making some web edits on an existing Flash based website for a client, and we're having difficulty uploading my file to the site. On my computer, it works perfectly when I go to the site, but on every other computer we've tried, it's very fritzy. (All the computers we've tested on have Internet Explorer and various versions of Flash Player, I have Mac OSX and Flash Player 9) Am I messing up the exporting of my file for web? I do Export>Export Movie> .swf >on the export screen, I've just been leaving the default settings. I'm just a graphic designer and I don't normally do Flash and/or websites at all, so if you have any ideas, please be clear!

I have Flash CS3, Flash Player 9, Mac OSX, and their website is just an HTML file that calls for the .swf file.

Exporting Flash --> Avi
Having a lot of trouble with this. I've got a very short little Flash movie that I'm trying to export as an .avi file. Trouble is that it only exports as one frame.

The movie only has one frame on the main timeline because I've compacted the animation into smaller ones and placed that on there. Is that the issue here? Does everything have to be on the main timeline?

Suggestions?

Exporting Flash
Hi, i have a flash file i want to bring into after effects and its running into problems, if i a) try and export the fla as a quicktime mov it says that quicktime does not have a handler for this type of flash movie (i have the most upto date quicktime pro!) if i try to bring in the swf into after effects it says error retrieving movie any ideas!

i am on a mac with after effects pro 6.5 and macromedia 2004 proffestional

many thanks

james

Exporting Flash 5 To .avi
Heya!

I am trying to export a movie to a .avi format, however I am just getting a black box when I view the avi movie. I have tried full frame processing (no vid compression) but then all I get is a huge file with the same result. The movie uses almost no action script except for a Stop at the end because I do not want it to loop. Any ideas what could be the problems when exporting the movie? It contains movie clips embeded in it, but when I export it to a .swf format it looks fine.

Cheers!
-Niann

Exporting To Flash From CS3 - Please Help
I am having trouble exporting a video sequence from Premier CS3 as a .flv file. It works great for one Premier project I have, but all others won't work. I must be missing something.

Here's what I'm doing...

Within a Premier CS3 project, I select a sequence to export, then select:

File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder

The Export Settings window opens. Then I set the format to Adobe Flash Movie, set my settings, frame rate, bit rate, etc. and click OK. At this point it SHOULD open up a window to prompt me to assign a name to the file and designate where to save it, but nothing happens. It's almost as if the pop up window for the file name is getting stuck somewhere. Anyone experienced that? As I said, I have done this successfully with one project, but none others will work.

I am just getting back to video editing (I used to edit on Final Cut Pro years ago) so exporting to web-friendly and mobile device formats is new to me. Any help is so appreciated!

I Started Exporting To Flash 8 Instead Of Flash 6 And My Loader Quit Working
I am using a loader component which I named tstone. I was setting the ContentPath to a variable on the first frame of the timeline containing this component by using:

tstone30.ContentPath=_root.page3_tphoto30;

However, I decided I wanted to take advantage of the justify feature for my dynamic text fields and began exporting to Flash 8 instead of Flash 6. For some reason, my loader quit pulling the images into the loader. If I switch back to Flash 6 it works again. Any ideas cause this is driving me crazy?

Exporting Video And Flash
Here it is then,

Have imported a quicktime movie into flash - main timeline.
Frame length is the same as the duration of the quicktime movie.
Have added modular video controls that are controlling the main timeline.
Exported this as a quicktime ".mov"

My controls do not seem to control the quicktime movie
If i preview (ctrl + enter) i see that the controls are moving the main timeline.

But when i export/publish i cannot control the quicktime movie

I know that if i export from premiere into flash as a series of bitmaps, jpegs, whatever, i can control the movie play - but doing things this way means i cannot import the sound.

Would like to be able to import the sound and the video, maybe as separates and then sync them in flash and export as quicktime embedded.

Anyone able to help or know of any good resources?

Exporting Flash As GIF89
Has anyone exported their Flash file as a GIF? This allows the end user to view the animation without a plug-in. Is there a good reason NOT to do this (i.e. file size, loss of quality, etc)? Thanks,

Exporting My Flash Button
Hi there. I've gone through a flash lesson and read parts of the flash manual but nothing has helped me explain how to do this:
I'm in Dreamweaver UltraDev4 and I'd like to insert a 'flash button'. When I go to do this, there are several pre-made buttons to choose from however I'd like to select the one I've created.
While in Flash (5) I can only figure out how to export/publish as a flash file, not a button (a .swf). So - my question is: How do I add (export/create/publish??) my flash rollover button to the pre-made flash buttons list, so I can insert it as a 'flash button' in Dreamweaver? (hope that makes sense)
If anyone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it!
Kelly

Exporting Flash For Powerpoint?
Can anyone please tell me how I can export a Flash Movie designed on a Mac, to be compatible with Windows Powerpoint?
I tried exporting as a Quicktime Movie (.mov) and also as a Windows Projector (.exe) - but neither work.
I have been told that .avi files are compatible with Windows Powerpoint, but don't know how to export a Flash Movie into that format.
Does anyone know how to do this? I don't mind what file type it ends up being as long as it's compatible and as long as it's free!
Thanks in Advance!

Exporting Flash Movie
Hi, in my animation, I make alpha for the animation, but when I export the movie as flash(swf), there isn't any alpha effect. When I export the animation as gif, everything work fine. Does anyone know what I did wrong? please help out, thanks in advanced!

No alpha effects - http://www.crosswinds.net/~truongh/Viet4All.swf

This is what I want - http://www.crosswinds.net/~truongh/Viet4All.gif

Work file - http://www.crosswinds.net/~truongh/Viet4All.fla

Exporting Flash As A Projector
Um, when I export my flash file as a projector (exe) I want to get rid of the bar at the top (the one that says "file, edit, control, etc"), is there a code I can add to get rid of the toolbar?
I bet there's a simple answer but I'm too retarded to know it.

And I guess while I'm on the topic, can I change the title of the swf/exe so it says something other than MACROMEDIA FLASH 6 blah blah blah?

Thanks folks

Exporting For Flash 5 Player?
Hi,
Do all the new features and components in flash mx work in the flash 5 player when exporting from flash mx as a flash 5 movie?
I was just wondering if all the new features (SCRIPTS, COMPONENTS ETC) work when exported and played with the flash 5 browser.. which is still standard on most new browsers

cheers
speakerz

Exporting Flash Graphics
I have created 10 flash illustrations with gradiants. When exporting image flash does not allow export to newer versions of illustrator(9,10)...what gives?
My problem with these exported graphics, is that the color is completely distorted. Any tips or hints on exporting flash graphics to illustrator?