Flash :: Gray Line Aroud My .swf In The The Explorer

Gray Screen?
Hi, I haven't used flash for a couple of months and all of a sudden I can't open most of my flash files?? I'm trying to modify some fla but when I open them, the work area is gray?? I can't use the files. I tried increasing the RAM and also trashing the flash preference and reinstalling flash.

BTW I'm using flash 5 still

Please help if you know what is going on? I hope my files are fixable.

thanks in advance!

Gray Scale
Can you grayscale a bitmap w/ the flash tools and or with Flash MX scripts. Its more complex than turning all the colors down.

Thanks.

Gray Scale
can i set a grey scale property for some movie clip???

[F8] Gray Box Around Flash In IE
Hello.

I know this gray box thing is nothing new.
I followed some instructions online and it did get rid of the gray box
and the page looks totally normal. but the status bar seems to be loading slowly. It doesn't effect the website but just looks a little bit strange.
does anyone know what's wrong?

this is the website
http://www.9000.com.tw/chungshin.html

this is the code in dreamweaver 8

Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=">
<TITLE>union</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<table width="100%" height ="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="100%"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="970" height="70">
<param name=movie value="menu-c.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src="menu-c.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="970" height="70">
</embed>
</object><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
width="970" height="490" id="petplus" align="top">
<param name=movie value="chungshin.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF>
<embed src="chungshin.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF width="970" height="490" align="top"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object><br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script language="JScript" src="http://www.9000.com.tw/fixit.js"></script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

and this is the code in the fixit.js file also on the same server
I tried putting this fixit.js file on 2 different servers and got the same result

Code:

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}

thanks!

Gray Box Around Flash
Can someone tell me the code to get rid of the gray box around flash that you see when it first loads. Where you have to click to activate it.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

I Keep Getting Gray Lines Around .swf Why?
I have to click on each Flash thing I see to make sure it runs properly, and any time I hover over a .swf, it gets this weird dotted gray perimeter. How do I disable that?

Resize Gray Area
Ok, what I want to do is make the gray area on all sides of the stage much bigger. Is there any way to do this? I am not talking about making the stage bigger, I am talking about the gray areas on the sides of it.

Thanks for your help in advance,
David

Alpha Tween On A A Gray BG
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

http://www.drunkenpublik.com/misc/alpha_fade/
NOTE: look at the center of the screen

When fading a gray object on a gray BG of the same color you can see the shape of the box. I have tried fading it with a tween and script same problem?

Thanks in advance

Tint To Gray Scale
Hi all,

Is there any possible to convert movieclip to gray scale with action script.

Or any protos out there

Thanks

Whats Up With This Gray Area?
hey guys....check out the image below.. imported the banner "malameel photography" .GIF into flash..and for some reason there is a lighter grey color area around the banner.,.. why is it showing up like that?

THANKS!

Gray MultiFrame Print
It seems like whenver I print, the output is in B/W only even if original is in color. Even for 1-page symbol images that are in color, the print turns it into grayscale!

I didn't have this prob below, and I'm not sure why Flash is doing that.. any suggestions on debugging?

[CS3] When Image Loads In, Part Of It Is Gray Why?
hey guys,
right - take a look at http://copperimage.com - when i view it, sometimes one or two of the pictures look like they aren't fully loaded, because the rest of the image (mostly like half of it is missing), is filled in by gray (or grey?).. does anybody know why this happens?
christian

Gray Scale To Alpha Mask?
Is there anyway to create an alpha mask out of a grayscale image in flash?

i am using the color adjust filter to create a bleached out kind of image. I would like to make the white transparent. Any suggestions?
Thanks alot for any help.
q

Gray-out Some Items In List Component.
Hey all,

I need to be able to disable/grayout SOME items in a list component. Any help would be appreciated on where to start.

Thanks in advance.

Flash - Can't See Gray Stage Box (newbie)
Well I finally created my first flash animation. All seems to be going good except for one thing. I was using the LearnFlash tutorial to make a Movie Clip Button and before I realized it I could not see the gray Stage box anymore. I can not tell where my layers are in relation to the stage and I can't get it back. I can see the gray stage box when I click Scene 1 but when I am in the Movie Clip view no stage. Somewhere along the way I must have done something. Someone help this newby out .

No Stage
[IMG]
Stage

Is The Gray Piece Surrounded By The Red Pieces?
I've been working on this game for a little while and I got stock here.
Does anyone know if there is a way to detect if a movie clip is surounded by other movie clips as it shows in the above picture.

You can look at the game at this url:

Cathedral Game

hope somebody can help me.

John Tubert

Streaming/preloading/LOTS Of Gray Hair
Hi all...
ok I am making progress byte by byte I am designing a flash web site...the main idea is that I have a Main page, same home.swf loaded into an html page. there is only ONE html page...the home swf loads and then the other swf files load when activated by a button. ok. here is the issue. each of these swf files are fairly decent in size. I would like to have a preloader (not just the bar) but like maybe some quotes fading in and out and the WHOLE movie to load. the home.swf file is only like 120K and I have the other swf files loaded in the first few frames of the home movie using loadMovieNuM. I thought the purpose of using this loadmovie was so it would load in the cache before the user actually clicked on a button. so basically what I want to happen is for all of the swf files to load before the home.swf file is even shown.

right now what happens is you see the preloader for like 2 seconds then home.swf comes up....but lets say you go and click on the last button (which would load the movie contact.swf which should load on the like frame 5) and then is activated when you click on the button.

does any of this make sense?
so I guess what I am not understanding is #1 how to create a preloader with animation (fading quotes)
and then if I use a preloader, how come it doesn't actually keep showing until after all of the swf files have actually been loaded?

thanks for your advice and help!

Kari

Internet Explorer And Flash - Freakin Explorer Bar
Okay, I'm pretty new at with Flash, and the whole actionscript/xml/xhtml stuff. When I upload my .swf to the web, I always get that explorer bar dropping bombs everytime I open the page. And I get it on just about every computer. Is there a special embed tag or some trick I'm missing to make that thing go away. Also, why do some sites automatically focus and others not. How do I do that?

I Want To Display A Pink Colored Square Inside The Gray Area When I Press The Button
I am getting crazy with this problem..
Simply, I want to display a pink colored square inside the gray area when I press the button I
have on my scene but It wont work. When I debugg the movie there is a problem at row #10.

Please download my FLA file here: http://www.mediafire.com/?djadmrxmmmb
Help me with this simple(?) problem!

Thx in advance!

Intermediate Gray Screen Seen While Moving From One Screen To Another
I am integrating flash with VC++ using ActiveX.Here when I click on buttons to go to the next screen an intermediate blank screen flashes for a second that looks very odd.In fact for some screens that have many movie clips the blank screen stays there for a few seconds before showing the actual frame. This causes a blinking effect that is not proper.I wish to know why this happens and how it can be removed.
Thanks in advance.

[F8] Im Going Gray By The Secound Save Me Somone, Save Me :(
Thanks for taking the time to have a look
This problem is driving me mad so i hope you can help, i will try and ex plane to problem as best i can.
programme :flash 8
i'm trying to load a external swf in a main motive use a movie clip holder, useing
loadMovie("name.swf", "_root.Mc_holder"); the move loads but the coding don't work( i.e. animation) the effect within the swf was made in action script 1 using Absolute and the motive is 2 using relative also the player setting on the swf are for player 6 unlike the movie which is 8
it does work if i use levels but overlaps on to the main movie which does'nt look great
and not what i need.
this is very hard to ex plane so any help would be great.
i will post some links if it helps please let me know
thanks

[MX04] Dynamically Created Textbox Won't Go To Next Line When Text Exceeds First Line
Hey all,

I've dynamically created a textbox and then applied a new text format with the following code:

Code:
{
createTextField('welcome',4,-100,-25,160,100);

welc = new TextFormat()
welc.font = "Sydnie";
welc.selectable = false;
welc.size = 12;
welc.color = 0xfffafa;
welc.multiline = true;

welcome.text ="Text that exceeds one line."
blackbox.welcome.setTextFormat(welc);
}
How do I make the textbox go to the next line when the first is full and not go beyond it's right border?

Thanks for your time,
Greenham.

Attach A Line To Two Movie Clips. So The Line Moves And Adjusts To The Positionning
Hey

ok I'm working on a project, I have two movie clips moving to different locations, and I want a line connecting both clips.

The line will need to adjust dynamically to the mouvement of both clips.

Can someone give me a heads up on how to accomplish such task.

If more information is needed, post areply saying so, and I will add more information about what I am trying to accomplish.

Thanks
Jean

[F8]Text/Paragraph/String - Line By Line Write Effect
howdy - ive seen some nice text effects recently, and im looking for some resource on recreating them. Ideally im after a nice function / prototype for outputting a line of dynamic text, to a textfield in a nice way, rather than just dumping it on screen. So either letter by letter, or line by line, without having to do all the rubbish faux-effects by masking and tweening.

any ideas?

cheers.

Reading Textfield Line By Line ? Selecting Multiple Textfields At Once ?
OK i need some serious help/advice !

I`m trying to make a sort of program like word , i want to have a text field , but the problem comes when i want to create like borders around each line of text and have DIFFERENT background colors for each line.
So i was thinking if i can read line by line and get get the height of each line by examining char by char for it's size and get the biggest one ( since my text may have different fonts sizes ect on a single line) and then have like BLOCKS that are behind each line and adjust their sizes accoring to the line size and change their color also.

Also another thing that I would also want to do , i want to create a table which i did , but now how do i put the table into my text ...and not just lie on top blocking text behind it ..how do i like "push" the text around it ?? ANY IDEAS would help...thats why i thought maybe create lots of textfields just stacked from top to bottom..but then i will have the problem of selecting them all at once like in a REAL word processing problem...and also if the text becomes too big it will need to "flow" into next textfield...

Is there ANYWAY to do this ??! HELP ME!!!!

THANK YOU

Multi-line Text Field Auto Line Break
When a Dynamic Multiple line text field is used in Flash CS3, it has a very annoying feature that auto inserts a line break at the end of inserted text. It also auto inserts a line break if no text is entered too.

I'm having a problem with this because the text is being saved from flash to a text file on the desktop. With every multi-line text field there's a nasty looking line break.

Any way of "turning off" this auto-line-break-at-the-end feature?

Txt File Double Spacing Off Line, Single On Line
Has anyone else seen this?

When I'm setting up a .txt file for import (the swf is v5 code, authored in MX), I'm noticing that if the .txt file has a single line break between paragraphs, this represents as a single empty line when the swf file is viewed on-line, but it shows as a double blank line when the same file is opened off-line.

Does anyone know a trick to getting imported txt files to display the same way on- and off-line?

(Or am I going mad and no one else has noticed this...)

Flash Getting PHP To Feed It A Text File Line By Line
Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I want Flash to access the text file, separated my newlines, that can get quite large. I want Flash to access each of those lines one by one and process them with Actionscript.

I am getting the idea that I should use PHP to open the text file and store the lines in an array. But how can I access each array element in Flash?

Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Have you seen where this has been done before?

Is It Possible To Get Data Printed To The Screen Line By Line As A Ping Does?
I have a Flash web app using AMFPHP remoting that calls a unix script that runs either a ping or a traceroute command based on some parameters I pass it.

The methods in my remoting method table for ping and traceroute are:

PHP Code:

function doLsPing($addr)
{
    $ping = shell_exec("/path/to/my/pingScript.sh " . $addr);
    return $ping;
}

function doLsTraceroute ($addr)
{
    $traceroute = shell_exec("/path/to/my/tracerouteScript.sh " . $addr);
    return $traceroute;
}

The unfortunate behavior I am getting is that the returns, naturally, just send me the completed data from the ping and traceroute in one big lump. Of course I would like to have the data returning to me line by line as the data is collected...like it would if you ran the script in a shell or terminal window.

You can see the danger in getting the one-big-lump-of-data scenario. If you ran a traceroute on an address that did not exist and say the traceroute did 30 hops then you could potentially be waiting a loooooooong time without anything printing to the screen. Plus the user, if familiar with ping and traceroute, would be expecting to see the results printing to the screen line by line as the command ran.

Now the caveat to this is, my PHP skills are nil to none, so maybe I am just missing something that I could use rather than just a 'return'.

Any help here would be most appreciated!

Make Line Movieclip Turn To Dotted Line
hey Everyone

Just wanting to know how to use actionscript to make a line dotted. I want to have a movieclip (a solid line) and when u click on it it will become a dotted line, then be able to switch it back to solid with another click.

Cheers

Reading Data From Text File Line By Line
I want to read some data from a text file into arrays.
In the text file, I have:

data = 1234567890

This works ok, but I want the text format in the text file to be:

data =
12345
67890

So after reading 'data', i will have 2 arrays.
[1,2,3,4,5] and [6,7,8,9,0]

Any idea how to go about doing this?
It will be even better if I dont need to use any variable.
Like this:

12345
67890

The main thing is just to read the text line by line and get them into arrays.
Thanks.

Line Break Or Line Feed For Dynamic Text
I am usin a textArea so now it is different than the last post about styles.
This text is dynamic and is assigned from within the Flash file it resides.
It comes from a list selection listener and I want to pre-format it with line breaks.

Since it resides in the file I will be using a textArea with HTML on to get the line breaks.
But now I can't Style it the same way with the setStyle methos

Currently I have one line is like this.

myNotes.text = "This is Line one<br>This is another Line<br>and another line";

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
WBell

Edited: 01/24/2009 at 12:49:08 AM by W_Bell

Two Objects Conected By A Dinamic Line + Physics Of The Line
Hi

I have two Movie clips, and I have to conect them with a dinamic line, like a rope. The movie clip A will be interactive with the mouse, changing X and Y positions, so the line should act like a rope.

Does anybody knows some code to do that or have a example?

Reading A Text File, Line By Line
I am using loadVar to read in a text file for processing by Actionscript.
Is it possible to just read in a portion of it (instead of the whole thing), process it and then read in some more? Specifically, can one read in up until a linefeed?

Multi-line Text Box Line Break?
I am trying to make a multiline text box do a line break. a quick example:

You run into a tree.
You found something!
It glows with a blue aura.

It is just for a simple break, if I try to do it normally, it ends up like this:

You run into a tree. You found something! It glows with a blue aura.

without a line break. Can someone please tell me what the line break command is?

Reading Text File Line By Line
Hy all

Got the following code:

Code:
var strContent:String;
function fillContent(folder:String):void
{
var arrayMenuItems:Array = new Array();
var arrayContent:Array = new Array();
var arrayNews:Array = new Array();
var myContent:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myContent.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
myContent.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, getString);
myContent.load(new URLRequest("content/" + folder + "/_content.php"));
contentText.multiline = true;
trace("./content/" + folder + "/_content.php");
trace("MY DATA: " + myContent.data);
contentText.htmlText = strContent;
contentText.setTextFormat(format_ContentRegularText);
contentTitle.setTextFormat(format_Titles);
menuItemFont.setTextFormat(format_MenuItems);
}

function getString(e:Event):void
{
strContent = e.target.data;
}
What I actually need is to be able to read the _content.php file line by line. I'd like to store each line of the text file in an array (arrayContent). But I haven't found ANY solutions yet for this problem.

Best thanks for trying to help

Regards

Read External Txt File Line By Line...
Hi guys i am currently rushing a project on flash.
i did the project in java, C++ as well as tcl/tk
now i am doing it for actionscript.

i needed help on:
-read external text file which contains coordinates
Eg:
123,321
34,43
233,785
745,3

-i need the action script to read these coordinates and store them in an array. can anybody help me out pls.

Draw A Line Using LineTo Then Hit Test That Line
is there a way to hitTest a line drawn with the following method?

Code:
clear();
lineStyle(1, 0, 100);
moveTo(obj1._x, obj1._y);
lineTo(obj2._x, obj2._y);

perhaps turn it into a movie clip and hitTest that?

...I'm stumped here...

Read Line By Line In External Txt File?
I found the answer to this problem somewhere on these forums, and I've searched and searched, but I can't seem to find it again. =( Google has let me down as well.

The person wanted to know if there was a way to read in each line separately from an external txt file without using the crazy syntax, but the person who replied said that you could just make all the text one variable, and then break it up by newlines inside the AS code using a for loop.

Whoever can find that topic for me or figure out what methods are needed for it will be my hero. =)

Is Actionscript Processed Sequential (line By Line)?
Ok, so long story short, I have a loop that fills three different arrays. As soon as the loop finishes, on the next line, a function is called that loads dynamic images into movie clips. However, this isn't working as I thought. Instead, the function is being called at the same time as the loop is running. Therefor, the first few images don't show up and I get undefined errors. However, if I delay the function being called by 50ms, I don't get the error. This means that it is a timing problem and that flash is executing the loop and the function call at the same time.

Does anybody have any experience/advice on what or why this might be happening?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Also, my entire movie is implemented using actionscript in the first frame of the movie.

Edited: 07/18/2007 at 02:27:48 PM by nateyboy044

API-draw: Check If Line Intersects Another Line
It been a while and I need some help on this one...

I'm making a very simple game that lets you draw a curve by hand (using lineTo to the mouse position on mousemove) but now, I need to check wether the line intersects wiith another part of the same line (e.g. a loop)

I first used an onrollover command, and that worked, but not always because the mouse moved too fast (same with hittest with mouse). Then I pre-drawed the line in another mc, used hittest on it, and if it wasn't intersecting, draw it in the real mc. But that didn't work because it used the bounds to test. I guess the best way is to use some mathematical formula, but that would mean I have to save all my coordinates in an array...

Is there another way?

TIA

Read Text File Line By Line
Hy all

Got the following code:

Code:
var strContent:String;
function fillContent(folder:String):void
{
var arrayMenuItems:Array = new Array();
var arrayContent:Array = new Array();
var arrayNews:Array = new Array();
var myContent:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myContent.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
myContent.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, getString);
myContent.load(new URLRequest("content/" + folder + "/_content.php"));
contentText.multiline = true;
trace("./content/" + folder + "/_content.php");
trace("MY DATA: " + myContent.data);
contentText.htmlText = strContent;
contentText.setTextFormat(format_ContentRegularText);
contentTitle.setTextFormat(format_Titles);
menuItemFont.setTextFormat(format_MenuItems);
}

function getString(e:Event):void
{
strContent = e.target.data;
}
What I actually need is to be able to read the _content.php file line by line. I'd like to store each line of the text file in an array (arrayContent). But I haven't found ANY solutions yet for this problem.

Best thanks for trying to help

Regards

Gray Line Aroud My .swf In The The Explorer

how can i make that this gray line around my swf files do not apperars when a open my site? and so evoid to activate with one click my swf files before to use the bottons in the swf file.... thancks!!