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Problem : A Really Interactive Movie For An Interactive Web Page
Hi I am part of a hockey team and I want to build a website where people could specify if they come to play and when...

My question is : Is it possible to have a page in which people could move the items of a flash movie, and that those modification (telling others what they plan to do) stay even if your reload the page? In order that anyone going on the page could see the number of people coming and modify the animation to tell if they come or change their plans...

I am looking for any kind of help, trails, tutorials...

Thank You

Roievil

Interactive Layers Over An Interactive Flash File
I've always been frustrated at the fact that dynamic text and images pulled into flash have not been able to be spidered by the search engines.

So, with a client site I'm developing, I'd like to try something different. I'm wanting to create a flash file with buttons that when clicked, open up the flash and create a blank area in the design where a div layer can be placed on top of the flash, positioned in such a way that it looks like it is part of the flash itself. When you then click on a seperate button on the flash, the div layer hides itself, and another div layer appears according to the relevant section of the flash you have chosen.

I might not be explaining myself very well, but for anyone following what I'm sayinig, has this been done before and does anyone know how?

Cheers,

Guy Blomberg

[F8] How To Make An Interactive Swf Still Interactive While Playing In Another Swf
Sorry the titles a bit long winded but that pretty much what I need to do. On our website I've got popups showing examples of work, so far these have only been jpegs or swf's that arnt interactive, ie they just loop. I now want to add a popup with an interactive swf, one where when the mouse moves over a part of the image, the image scrolls. Ive done this but when it opens nothing happens, someone mentioned 'nesting' but I'm still not sure what im doing!
Our websites:
http://www.optical3d.com
If you want to see what i mean,

The bit I can't get to work is in the visualisation section, under architecture and its the top right image

Thanks Steve

Interactive Buddy Not Being Interactive
I've attached the .swf of an interactive animation i've been working on. The character is supposed to;

Walk towards where ever the mouse is clicked

Wave when the character is clicked

Wave after a certain amount of inactive time.

The problems I have, which you should see in the file are sometimes when he walks over to where you click he doesn't turn back to face forwards, but he does sometimes. Also after clicking on him to make him wave he now waves more frequently and starts waving while he's moving too (where as b4 he would only wave when stood still)

If anyone has any ideas on what's wrong please reply

How To Create An Interactive Image With Many Interactive Parts In The Same Image?
Does anybody know how to create an interactive image with many interactive parts in the same image?
To be more specific i would like to create an interactive image of a hotel where every floor will change color when we rollover it.
I am no flash programmer but if there is a tutorial out there can someone please point me in the right direction? Are there any flash software tools to do this or it has to be done from scratch using flash?
Has kirupa ever had a tutorial for something like this?

Please let me know.

Thanks

LoadMovie Trouble Trouble Troubles
hello,

i'm having a little bit of trouble here trying to load multiple movies into the same container. not all at one time. like this:

when a button is clicked this happens in my preloader clip which is located in my _root movie:

********************************
// set vars
sectionMovie = _root.currentSection + ".swf";

// un/load movie
unloadMovie("_root.SectionContent");
loadMovie(sectionMovie, "_root.SectionContent");
********************************

then the next frame of the preloader says:

********************************
// get the percent of the movie loaded
bytesLoaded = _root.sectionContent.getBytesLoaded();
bytesTotal = _root.sectionContent.getBytesTotal();
percentLoaded = int((bytesLoaded / bytesTotal)*100);

// if it's loaded then continue
if (percentLoaded == 100) {
this.gotoAndStop (1);
}
********************************

it all seems like it should work. i click "button1" which loads "movie1.swf" perfectly. then i click "button2" and it will unload the movie fine, but it just stops when it gets to "loadMovie"... anyone know what is happening?

thakns in advance for the help, it's a school project...mwaahaha!

xo

"Oooooh Trouble Trouble..." (Foghat Reference +1000 Points)
I am attempting to add X movie clips to the stage via script, with follow AI behaviors added to each of them. But for now I am just having them immediately start moving left until they hit the stage edge OR eachother...which is the problem.

I cannot get them ALL to stop when they collide with somehting else on the stage...

the way I atempted to solve this problem was to start an array... a list... and to add to that list the name of every object I add to the stage when I add it to the stage. So before ANYTHING moves it loops through this array to see if it is hitting anything else on the stage. Sounds simple right?

Well it seems to only work for the LAST movie attached in my function.

I have attached the script to this post. Please take a look, provide some help, give me some alternative ideas, tell me a good joke :-P, just gimme some feedback. Thanks in advance to anyone who even tries to help.

Trouble Explaining The Trouble
i am having a hard time explaining this problem so i have attached my fla file with some notes attached to it.
i'm trying to customise the a.s. but alas i'm not very good at it yet.

i have an element on the page that when it is clicked on it zooms big and comes to the center of the stage. when you click on it again it zooms back to its original position. - i have this part working.

the problem is i want elements within the zoomed elements to behave the same way. essentially zooming further into the stage. i just can't get it to work.

at this point i am completely lost, any help on this is much appreciated.
thanks everyone

Interactive CD
I would like to create a CD using Flash with user input... name, phone etc. that will be used later in the same presentation. Online access is not an option.
Does anyone know if this can be done?

Interactive Nav Bar.
I have created a short animated sequence of a man climbing, comprising of 4 sections which make up one complete movement cycle. What I'd like to do now is to use this clip in a navigatrion bar so that when you point to any button on the bar the clip will play and the climber will follow a motion guide to that button, either going up or down the guide. Is this possible and if so can anyone give me some pointers as to how I can acheive this.
Thanks.

INTERACTIVE MAP
I want to build a interactive map so the user can move around it very easily how would I go bout this I dont have a clue??? Please help

Interactive CD
Is there any way to embed a swf file into another flash movie? I do not want to add another scene.

-interactive-
Just want to make a simple swf file that is interactive containing a list of questions. Where, whenever I would move my mouse over a word on the list, a diagram or sentence would pop up (not in a new browser window though). I'd maybe even like to make the new pop up interactive aswell.

Is this complicated for the novice?

Thanks

Interactive
Anybody here done any interactive and/or School material that could give out some tips about how should i organize content and what animation and scripting technics i should look out for?

Interactive Map
Hi everyone, I'm new to Flash. I'm trying to create a map that when you click on a county it stays highlighted. I have already imported a wmf file of state of New Jersey, each county is outlined. I can make a button out of each county, but I need to have it stay highlighted(color) on a mouse click and unhighlighted when you click again. Please any help would be greatly appreciated. I have attached file. The top county on the image is the only active button.
Thank You
Tony

Interactive Map
i have been tasked with the job of creating an online map of the large school where i work.

this map has to be editable by users in different areas of the school, to add or delete symbols and change the colour coding on different rooms.

also to mark the number of computers in each room and be able to remotely change that.

i come from a design background so the actionscripting is pretty basic. the main thing i need to know i think is how to save the changes made by one user so another user can pick these changes up in a different location.

hope you can understand this and help please.

thanks

mingoPig

Interactive
I have created a members site withFlash upfront php/mysql/apache-ssl backend.

I want to have a sound played saying "Welcome Back User" ------ "To The WebSite" .

Question 1: Can Flash MX read the numeric values passed, (via a php querry to the DB,) back into a dynamic textbox in flash.

I have read articles, posts, ..., ... nothing to my knoledge on this subject, unless you are talking about accessibility stuff or A.I. .
I don't want to interpret the english language just numbers zero thru nine.

Any thoughts or help or answers would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Interactive CD-Rom Help
Hello everyone..

i need to make an interactive cd with a flash infro and stuff for my final proyect at school, what i need to know is How do u make my movie full screen, i meen when some1 instert the cd the movie will open with an autorun but i need a blue mask coreving all the screen and in the middle my movie at 640*400px

Any help regarding this issue will be VERY VERY apriciated Thanx dudes!!!

Peace.

Non Interactive BG?
Hey guys-

I have seen a few sites in which there is an MC in the bg that is little white dots moving across the screen. A buddy of mine who had it on his sight for a while said that it was based on the mouse pos. Can someone direct me to a tut or a DL? Basically, it boils down to this: My site is quite boring and I need some BG movement to make it more dynamic. Or, if someone could make it up...

Interactive CD-rom
I am working on an interactive cd-rom, and ran into a glitch

on my main scene i am calling an external (video) swf file that is about 10 megs. everytime I go to this frame the flash projector chokes for about 5 seconds because of the big swf loading.

Anyone know a way where flash can instead of loading the whole movie, load it bit by bit so the projector does not choke?

Interactive Cd Rom
Hello.

I have recently been making interactive cd roms that autorun and open with a full screen command when you put the cd in the drive. I have been designing them at 800 x 600 since that seems to be the safest size to fit most computer screens.

Is there a way that I can add something/script to the cd that will figure out what the user's screen resolution is set to and automatically have my movie adjust to their resolution settings so my interactive cd rom looks the same on all/most computers? I wanted to do this so the user did not have to figure out how to switch their seetings to match my interactive cd rom. Some people will see the interactive cd rom too big or too small depending on their personal settings.

Thanks a lot for the help.
Doug

Interactive Map
Hello,

Working on an interaktive map like the one here http://www.goredsea.com/EN_gomaps.aspx. The zoom part of it I have gotten to work pretty well.

Having some problems with the navigation minimap though... I have posted the FLA here

http://www.thinkinteraktive.com/demo/imap.fla

If anyone can give me a hand with this I ould be most greatful

Thanks

Interactive Map
Could anyone tell me how to make a map like this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ml/default.stm

Interactive CD
...the problem is that I have som buttons that I linked to some pdf files through getURL action but every time I click on it ,it opens internet explorer than some pdf plugin , and i see pdf in explorer. I would like to add an action that could just execute pdf file so it opens in acrobat

THNX

Interactive Map
Attached is the Interactive map I've been working on. (Work in progress).

I'm still trying to figure out how to stop the map from panning left/right/up/down. Also wondering if anyone would change anything about it so far.

http://members.cox.net/scottlarue/interactivemap.swf

Interactive Map
Is there anyone who can help me make an interactive map exactly like this one:

http://www.thegoheens.com/sample_map.zip

Thanks!

Help With Interactive Map
Hello, I'm fairly new to flash and looking for some helpful resources.

I'm trying to make a community map that has 5 different clickable hot spots.

I would like for the user to be able to hover over each hotspot and have an image swap effect on the map. I have the image swaps ready (as graphics), I just need to figure out how to add non-visible hot spots to the map (graphic), and have them swap images during rollover.

Also I would like to be able to link these to pop-up html windows upon clicking.

I could do this in Dreamweaver using the image map to achieve the desired effect, however I would like to do it in Flash, to help with minimizing the file size.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Interactive Map
Hi, I'm wondering If anyone has a toutorial for an interactive map similar
to this one:

http://www.bearmountain.ca/propertie...ctive-map.html

It would be great to just be able to move the map in the 4 directions within
a mask.

Thanks so much!

W

Interactive
Hello all, boy am I glad I found this site.
I don't consider myself to be a total newb, I know the basics, but I wanted to know how to make something like this:

http://www.mrstair.com/iron/rail_program/SMLong2.swf

Are there any tutorials out there that can show me?

Basically I need a button, that when hit brings up another menu and whatever I choose from that menu will replace that button.

I figure I can set it up once and copy and paste for the rest of the buttons.

One million dollars* to whoever can help me with this or link me to a tutorial.

Thank you all so much!

Debbie

*I wish

Interactive Ad..
Has anyone seen those weekly interactive ads on websites like CompUSA or Best Buy?! Is there a program to design those types of things?!

It shows the pages of the weekly flyer and when you hover over an item it shows you it in a larger view. I want to do that for our company. It won't change every week like theirs does. We have one catalog every year.

FF RW Interactive
I dont know if you guys seen them but if needed ill upload it. Basically its a movie and when you go accross with your mouse it plays the movie at the pace your moving the mouse across.

So my question is, is there an easier way of this than copying each frame of a clip and pasting it to a corresponding button? I got it working just need something less difficult.

[F9] Interactive CD
Im creating an interactive CD ROM whick will contain flayer, brochures and interviews.

Heres my problems;

my video guy has recoreded one of the interviews, lasting 2min and has given me a avi @ 774mb.

What is the best why to convert it to flash, low files size and does not link to the original avi?

[F8] Interactive Map
Hi there,

I'm going to be making an interactive map soon. similar to the one found here:

http://www.touchlocal.com/flash/home_map.swf

I just had 1 question about it. After clicking on a region, it enlarges and towns are pinpointed with pink dots. On rollover the town names appear ontop of all else content. They also move with the mouse until it rolls off the pink button.

How could I go about doing this? would I, on rollover, attach the specific movieclip with relative town name to the mouse and set it to the top level?

If that approach is possible, I'd love a few pointers to code it. Or if it sounds like the wrong direction I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks

[CS3] Interactive Map Using XML
Hey all, I'm new to Flash and I'm working on a project where Flash loads a map with a mask over it, allowing the user to pan, zoom, and select objects (buttons?) to learn more about the room/booth in the map.

I've gotten a map that can pan and zoom (while keeping the current screen centered), but I need some help populating the actual map, as I've never done it before.

What I want is for Flash to read in from an XML and create the "booths" dynamically (so I can change the map by editing the XML). So two main questions:

1. How do I draw the booth from the coordinates in the XML? (Is there some kind of drawLine(x1,y1,x2,y2) function in Flash?)

2. Just drawing the booths isn't enough. I need to be able to click the booths to bring up more information. Basically, is there a way for me to dynamically create buttons on the fly and edit their coordinates/shape, orientation, instance name, etc?

The reason I need to be able to alter the buttons is that the rooms won't all be square, nor will they all be perpendicular (some hallways are at a 45 degree angle, for example), so I can't just use one square button and change it's scale. But I *need* to allow the user to click on any room (which would then trigger an onPress event or something so I can pop up more information, unless there is another way?).

Any help would be appreciated, whether by post or link to a tutorial. Thanks.

Interactive Map Help
Hi forums,
new to the forums and kind of new to Flash. I did some searching and found a few tips but I am still having some problems. I've been working on this project for a little while, but have come to a halt.

Basically what I am producing is a local area map, divided into several section that will flash alert zones when there is a problem in that section, from machines that we are tracking. I have the map done (non-zoomable)and all the alert areas are movie clips.

All the alerted info will be pulled from a mysql database. I'm planning to write to an xml file (alerts from the db), then send the necessary info to the map that then will play the 'alert' movie clips for all the necessary areas.
Also, I'm trying to make everything (or mostly everything) function automatically, with basically no buttons.

So, what would happen, is the user on the net will log on to our system, navigate to the appropriate section and the map will be loaded and if there are any 'alerts' in the field, that section of the map will "flash" red (ie ... the movie clip will play).

I'm not sure if that is a good enough explanation, but I have decided to start fresh with new code because I seem to be just spinning my wheels.

Anyone's help/input/suggestions/examples we be greatly appreciated. Or if you would like more info, just ask.

Thanks in advanced

PS
Great forums, I wish that I had found them about a month ago ... I wouldn't have as many chewed pens on my desk hahaha

[CS3] Interactive Map
Hi,
1. I want to make a map of the country.

2. I want to be able to have certain states to be outlined when mouse rolls over.

3. I want the user to be able to click the state, it enlarge a bit, and have the mouse light up buttons of cities on that state.

4. I want the user to click the state and it will go back to normal.

I tried to do this, but I think I am doing it the wrong way. I made a map and made a button for the state, so that it would outline. I also made a movie clip of the state that can be clicked, enlarged, has buttons that light up, and closes when clicked. My problem is that I cannot click the state and make the movie clip pop up.

If there is an easier way. Please let me know!

Thank you!

Help With Interactive App
I'm designing and scripting a fashion app which will enable the user to click on an item of clothing and place it on the model. Here is a screenshot http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...screenshot.jpg to give you a more clear idea, the section on the right is where the sub movies will loaded in for each section of clothing, there will be sub movie for tops, shoes, trouser and shades. And the section on the left is the host movie where the model will have the clothes placed on him.

I'm using this script to load my submovies into my host movies.

stop();
tops_btn.onPress=function(){
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("container1",1);
loadMovie("tops2.swf","container1");
container1._x=413.2
container1._y=28.0
stop();
}

My problem is how do I get the jacket which is a movie clip in my library to load into the host movie and have it position correctly when I click on the jacket button which shown in my screen shot. I've read that an onRelease handler would be best for this, but I have no idea how I would script properly.

Interactive Map?
ok, gonna make a nice vector map of the US and plot points on it via XML.

how the heck do i figure out the plotting/griding system of the map. I'm assuming i use X and Y coords. i know if need be i can go to google and get latitude and longitude points.

If you were me how would you design a map to plot its own points that are stored in an XML file. i have no idea what type of conversion to use.

any ideas or alternative methods would be great.

THANK YOU!!!!

Interactive Map
hi all,
I'm planning to make an interactive map which have feature to search places, what I want is when user input the place name in an inputtext , then the place was correct, the map picture slide and show the point where the place locate...
How can I do this?

Interactive Map
Hi Everybody!
I'm the beginner in flash/ActionScript. I need to create an
interactive map in FLASH. Could You give me some advice? Where should
I look for infos and examples? How to create 'menus' and 'search'?
Should I use components or create my own objects(buttons etc.)?
Thanks for any help!
Bartek Debkowski

Interactive Map
Looking for tips on building an interactive map that gives tourism information by location as well as weather. The last feature will be to display river water levels. All three options populate the map points dynamically via drop box.

I know this is all possible, but I simply don't know where to begin. What backend should I use? I found a weather script in PHP, but as for linking for tourism information...should I use a cgi script or php script to spider local info based on community tourism sites? ie Click on Vancouver Canada and it sends a spider which auto completes the built in search for Tourismcanada.ca and retrieves the strings the search populates?

The map will be of Canada (though the same concept could be used for anywhere) and should return a pop-up box with the filtered data strings as either links or blogs when a user clicks on a region.

Sample interaction:

User clicks on the Lower Mainland segment of the map of British Columbia while the drop box selection is set to 'Local Events'. This retrieves information from various local sources and returns a string (or array/object type) and then displays it in an informational pop-up box in the form of hyperlinks to the sources, or text.

Not neccessarily looking for code so much as what language to code in, and/or where to begin.

Interactive Map
hello all..

i have a map in my flash.. what i wish to do is to make it interactive.. which means i can drag the map to zoom it.. or i can click to zoom it.. anyone can help with the helpful example? or idea? pleeeaaassse...

Interactive Map
im currently making an interactive map but i need it to slide to the building when a user clicks on the buttons on the right side ckeck out http://www.uconn.edu/map/ .so when it reaches there an arrow points to the building .
what code is needed to have this effect .thanx

Interactive .swf In An Interactive .swf, Is It Possible?
I'm building a portfolio for my Digital Arts program. What I need to do is place and existing, interactive .swf (or if I need to change that, its fine, I have the Flash file) into a new Flash doc. I want it to maintain its interactivity and not play through itself automatically. I would like to allow this to happen in the main window, if at all possible.

When I import the .swf, it comes in with all of its layers. When I test scene, it just starts playing through as soon as it comes into existence. I've tried changing it into a graphic with a single frame play, but then it is just a static image. I've also tried reexporting the original as a Quicktime VR, but then when I import it, it is a string of key frames.

I'm using Flash 8 Pro.

Any help on this issue would be brilliant. Thanks.

Interactive Map Of USA
Hey guys I need some help, does anyone have a clean interactive flash map of the United States. I really have absolutely no idea what I am doing with flash, but I am sure that I will figure it out.

In a perfect world, this map would be one color and the roll over would effect just that state. I would like to add our logo to notate the marlets that we have for club scene. Here is the website www.clubscenenetwork.com, be kind, it is the second site that I have ever designed and I am not finished with it yet.

Thank you very much for your help

Brettnullwww.clubscenenetwork.com,

Interactive Map
I need to build an interactive map like this one http://www.onebrooklyn.com/. Any ideas where I can get a tutorial or code that I can look at?

Interactive CD In MAC OSX
IÂ´m trying to build a "Save to Disk" working button for MAC, i already have it for PC working FINE.
This is the case, iÂ´m building an interactive cd for a music band. You can hear the MP3 files form the interactive CD, and you can save to disk any of this files, so you can play them with our the CD anytime. This CD should run fine in PC or MAC.

The problem is that i have no idea how to do this for MAC, i already have it working fine for PC through the FScommand and a exe file called copy2.exe

IÂ´m thinking that the solution for MAC is something similar? calling a app file from the FScommand?

Please help!

Thanks!

Interactive Map Help (Please)
Hello,

Working on an interaktive map like the one here http://www.goredsea.com/EN_gomaps.aspx. The zoom part of it I have gotten to work pretty well.

Having some problems with the navigation minimap though... I have posted the FLA here

http://www.thinkinteraktive.com/demo/imap.fla

If anyone can give me a hand with this I ould be most greatful

Thanks