Flash :: Hybrid Question... (please Help)

Hybrid Cd?
hello all,

i am trying to make an autorun cd for mac and pc.
i am using flashmx on the pc. i also have the fla.

can someone please tell me what i should do next?

i can export the fla to swf to exe on the pc. but should i do the same on a mac??? and even if i have done that what should i do next? i have the autorun script, but is it the same script for mac also??

your help will be greatly appreciated.

many thanks in advance.

Hybrid CDs On A PC
i can't seem to burn CDs on a PC that work on a MAC.

the file names get all messed up when i open it on a MAC.

i'm using Easy CD Creator Ver 5.0 and i've tried it with both the Joliet and ISO9660 file system.

Any Ideas?

Hybrid
I hear Hybrid is good way to do some flash if you do not have space. I only have 25MB. Anyone have any ideas that they could share about how I could make my web site better? www.elitesoccertraining.com
My brains are fried from learning and need help!

Hybrid CD
I use a PC system and I want to create a Cd that can play on both Mac and PC. I have therefore published my Flash file as a windows projector and a Mac projector.

What is the best way to create a hybrid Cd on my PC. Do I need special Cd burning software ( I use nero burning rom and easy cd creator). Ideally I would like the Cd to autorun on either platform. I know ho to set up autorun using an Autorun.inf file for PCs but I am not sure how to do the same for the mac files.

Also would it be better to publish my file as an swf and get that to autorun as this will play on both systems. ( The only reason I published to both a Mac and Windows projector is because I wanted a self contained player for the output).

Can someone please help me.

Hybrid CD
Hi!

Is there a easy way to make a hybrid CD (Mac/Pc)

I have a swf file and I have tried to make an Html index with that file, of cource it works On Pc with an autorun.info but is there a way to start html.index with Mac the same way?

Can I do this without any extra program?

I know that there is a tutorial about this, but i can´t get it...

Thanks
Swed

Hybrid Hybrid
i'm trying to use a header using a swf file but the whole site
is html and i'm using tables instead of frames, is there a way to
call the flash movie so it will always be the same one in every html page without having to copy it again and again?

Hybrid Set Up Help
Hello Everyone, I have a couple of uestions that i hope some of you can help me out with. Im going to be redoing my site and building it as a hybrid. Now the question i have in regards of how this is set up, i've been looking at some site, like http://avionics.flashlevel.com/ for instance, and wanted to know how the the background areas, like the sides and bottom wee set, im pretty sure i would have to use iframes form what ive read, but any tips and techniques in setting up? i want to have that whole continous look as iff the site was made up in one. Not too sure of the dimensions i should use for the indivual parts, it would be cool if it could look full screened at 800x600 and then like furthur out with the background looking like part of the site on 1024x 786 screens, like the older version of www.skyworksinc.com looked like before they recently changed it. Any help you guys can give would be a great help, thanks in advance.

[F8] Hybrid Cd
I'm working on a PC and looking to create a hybrid cd for my flash project. I'm pretty sure I know how as far as the procedure goes. What i'd like to know if anyone had any specific programs that they have used or could recommend. I know there is MacImage and CDEverywhere, but I haven't been able to find any reviews or opinions on them. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciate. Thanks for you time.

Hybrid Or Not?
Which is better:

A full flash based site, with maybe XML and PHP inside or a XHTML/CSS based site with eventual single SWFs?

Considering either a very simple site with just a few rollovers or one with menu with submenus, scrolls, photogallery, etc

Thanks

Flash Hybrid
I was wondering if the flash/html sites are made in flash. Meaning if you can insert html sections within flash. I am not real clear on the flash/html site someone please fill me in and a tutorial would be nice. Thanks DM

Hybrid Cd Autorun
I need to make a hybrid (PC/Mac) cd that will autorun a Flash projector on both the PC and Mac side. I know how to do it on the PC side, but not the Mac. Anyone know?

Hybrid Problem
i'm trying to use a header using a swf file but the whole site
is html and i'm using tables instead of frames, is there a way to
call the flash movie so it will always be the same one in every html page without having to copy it again and again?

Hybrid Website?
Im very interested in doing a hybrid site. I would like to use this template ( http://www.xscapeproductions.com/miami/ ) i have created for the the hybrid site. I m just not sure where to start, i dont use html much and im unsure how to place the flash at the top so it stays constent and have the html be striclty in the middle of the page. Do i use tabels? frames? someone please guide me in the right direction!!

thnx in advance

Applescript And Hybrid Cd-rom
Hello

I'm creating a simple enough cd-rom that basically lets the user choose from a number of files (either pdf, ppt and mpg) and open them in their native applications. I used Northcode's Proxy.exe for the PC part and it works perfectly. However, nothing seems to be working on the Mac side. On that side I use applescript to call the files, and fscommand to call the applescript. When running the applescript on it's own it works perfectly (calls the right file on the cd and executes it). But called from the Flash-application nothing happens. Does anybody know why that might be? Could it have anything to do with that I'm running Mac Osx? It really shouldn't ... but I'm all out of ideas.

To explain a bit further what I'm talking about I'll give here both the applescript and the function that calls it.

*********** the applescript ************
tell application "Finder"
activate
select file "Sigga.pdf" of folder "pdf" of folder "fscommand" of disk "Fabrikan"
open selection
end tell
****************************************

*********** the actionscript ***********
function SmartExec(target) {
platform = $version.slice(0,3);
if (platform == "WIN") {
fscommand("exec", target + ".exe");
} else {
fscommand("exec", target + "_script");
}
}
****************************************

The applescript is in a file called "siggapdf_script" in the folder fscommand. And the file Sigga.pdf is in a folder called pdf within fscommand. The actionscript gets passed a variable containing "siggapdf".

Hope you have any idea, somebody must have come across this before.

Thanks in advance,
BK

Hybrid CD Created On A PC
Hi,

I've seen various threads here but what I would like to know is there a way to create a hybrid CD with projectors that can be made on a PC? I don't have a mac and would like to find out if ther is a way to do this somehow. I use software such as nero for burning ... thanks

Hybrid CD Problem
I have developed an application in flash and burned the CD on Mac 10.4 (tiger) using Toast 6. Now this CD doesnt seem to work on Mac 10.2 or 10.3 version.

if anybody have any idea what could be the problem or any setting to be done while burning the CD

point to note: The CD is auto open on Mac and its a hybrid CD which runs on windows and Mac

Thanks..

Hybrid Cd Softwares Which One Is Better?
I want to create a hybrid cd (windows/mac). if any one have any idea about which software is easy to use, better performance, and other related thing it will be great help.

Is toast or MacImage good? Which software is used most?

Regards
Nitin

Hybrid Gallery
Hi all

I'm attempting to combine this idea stringy demonstrated: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost...3&postcount=11

with Scotty's resize gallery. The main issue I'm having is translating the container which holds the pictures from stringy's code to the Resize code...so that the container actually *resizes*. I know it's probably just a matter of switching a few variables, but I just can't seem to figure this out. I've attached my .fla. Any help would be appreciated.

Hybrid, What To Load First
how to you control what to load first for your hybride site? flash or static content like graphics, text...

or there is no way controling this.

Hybrid Site
how do i make a hybrid site. i am wanting to make just the top of the site flash which will include the buttons but i would like to keep that page there at all times meaning i dont want it to refresh everytime the user clicks a button to change the html..

thnx in advance
sean

Another Hybrid Question?
ok, here is the site i currently have:

http://www.xscapeproductions.com/nicole

currently the scroller is at the bottom right hand side of the screen.
the first thing i need to figure out is how to properly get the scroller to lineup with the outer right edge of my bottom content box? I am also curious how to go about skinning the scroller? but my main concern is getting it over to my content first, much like http://flashlevel.net/
My second question is, once i am able to line up the scroller where it needs to be, how do i adjust my content and top naviagation(flash) to line up properly, i currently setup my flash to be 50 or so pixels bigger then the bottom content, so it would lineup properly with the bottom section. for some reason when i made them the same size, the scroller at the bottom was pushing my content over to the left, thus throwing off my top section with my bottom!!

PS:the way i currently have everything setup is by frames, the top is naviagtion and my bottom is named content, i am simply loading seperate html pages into the content frame

any help would be greatly appreciated, this is my first attempt at a hybrid site, so i apologize for so many questions at once, but i am clueless

thnx
sean

Frames Html Hybrid
hi, I am creating a site with two frames, top and main. The top has my main movie with all navigation. I am using pretty basic ActionScript to update the nav and headers in the flash movie and using a geturl to change the content page in the main html window. Is there a way I can access the main flash movie from an html page in the main content frame? If I have a simple html text link that is calling another subpage in another section, how can I get it to also tell the main flash movie to reload the proper graphics for that section? Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance!
BD

Hybrid Site Problem
Hey im making a site ( http://xpressivemedia.com/templates/server )

As you may be able to see on the labtop there is a black line that runs though the picture where the flash and the html meet, i did this in photoshop is it my exporting or slicing that did this.

I know you be wondering why i used flash because at present its static, still a work in progress and animation will come after i fix the evil black line.

Also tell us what you think and any surgestions on the site.

Hybrid Dual Publish
Can anybody help, i know it can be done i am just stuck on how.
I need to auto-run a CD presentation which has been created in Flash MX but i need the CD to play on both Windows and MAC. i have no trouble getting my windows to auto run but i am cabbaged on getting mac to run.
thanks in advance
Danus

Hybrid To Pure Flash
Hi...

Right now I have a complex page built and I want to remake this page so that it functions the same, but uses only flash (no more hybrid design).

The problem I am running in to is tying the PHP together with Flash. I can pass variables back and forth no problem, but I do not know how to detect if this variable is fully loaded in to Flash. When using a textfield it is no problem because Flash will automatically place the text in to the textfield whenever it's done loading. However, how is this done otherwise?

If I query the PHP page and have it return the result (for example: echo "&result=blah,blah,blah,blah,blah" and I want Flash to take that returned string and split it at every , (NOT do this with php's explode function), how do i determine if the return string is fully loaded <B>WITHOUT</B> using a timeline loop?

basically, let's say I have a button that has this:

Code:
on(press)
{
loadVariablesNum("page.php?section=1", 0, "POST");
myArray = result.split(",");
for(i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++)
...
}

and the php is something along the lines of

Code:
<?
$section = $_GET['section'];
switch($section)
{
case 1:
$message = "&result=blah,blah,blah,blah,blah";
break;
...
echo $message;
}
?>

how do I check, in flash, that "result" is fully loaded in to flash so that I can continue with the actionscript to manipulate the string.

Sort of like doing the following, which makes logical sense, but does not work:

Code:
on(press)
{
loadVariablesNum("page.php?section=1", 0, "POST");

while(1)
if(message != "")
{
myArray = result.split(",");
break;
}
}

Hybrid Flash+html
Hi guys,

I've spent way too much time on this problem without solving it. Please point out some sources or anything that has more elaborate(exact) explanations how to be done. I have a flash navigation on the top frame and I use iframes for all of my content. I don't have flash to flash communication. I'd like though when the user clicks on a link from the flash nav to refresh only the html part(flash nav doesn't reload). Thank you in advance.

Hybrid Disc = Impossible
It seems like a hybrid disc is impossible. I have to projecters that need to pull from the same swf files. The pc version works. I have created a ISO9660 and mac disc.

I dont know if I need an autostart file for the mac part though. I have been through the tutorials but they are no real help.

I also have been using Roxio Toast Titanium to burn

Does any one have suggestions for an autostart for mac

Help With Hybrid Site Linkage
I really need help with linking my flash buttons to html pages! I am using dreamweaver mx04 to create my site and flash mx04 for the navigation. I am trying to do a school assignment and what I'm aiming to do is have flash buttons that will open up a html page in the mainframe while the navigation bar is in the menuframe. Help with the actionscripting would be greatly appreciated!!

Currently my knowledge only extends to
on (release) {
getURL ("nameoffile.htm", _blank)
}

I have a hunch that it's something do to with the _blank part, but im not entirely sure. Thanks for your time!

SWFAddress/HTML Hybrid
So we're in the super early stages of a site redesign at work, and we're facing our first big decision.

The intent as of right now is to have a hybrid Flash/HTML site, with the bantop & main navigation, as well as the primary content (video), all contained in a Flash file at the top, and the secondary elements (About text, comments, other information) all done by HTML/CSS below the fold (static, but with a bit of PHP to variablize/templatize as much as possible).

So, my question is how well will this approach play together, assuming we go with SWFAddress to handle a good deal of the primary navigation. Our biggest concern is maintain static copy & paste-friendly, "marketable" URLs. SWFAddress addresses this (ahem, no pun intended) partially, but is it feasible to have the navigation within Flash update the HTML content on the pages without window reload while simultaneously going to the appropriate Flash section?

The only reason for this, really is to keep the experience somewhat seamless. Is this an approach you'd recommend, or would we be better off keeping everything static, and having full page reloads (as we currently do)? If we kept the same approach, there would be no additional SEO issues, marketable URLs would remain (without the "#"), and it's technically MUCH easier from my mostly-designer/partially-dev perspective.

THANKS!

Basic Hybrid Question
hope this is the right place to post the topic.

how do you link an html page (the html content) to a special frame from within flash (the navigation)?

thanks.

Make Flash Hybrid Cd
hi all,
im trying to make a hybrid cd (so users can view my animation on both macs and pcs). ive got my hqx file, exe file etc... and am using macimage to create the iso file. now im using nero to burn make the disc. my question is: do i just need to burn the .iso file? ive tried this and the cd just didnt work or do anything? do i have to burn all my files (hqx, exe etc...) and the iso file? whatever i do it doesnt seem to work. please help!
- D

Hybrid HTML And Flash Forms
I'm trying to figure ouut how I can set up a form that contains both html and flash elements. I have a flash movie with some input boxes, then just an html form with a few more input boxes. How can i post the flash input box data with the html post data. Is this possible? I was thinking that I could use hidden form elements and populate them with the flash data as it is filled in. But i don't know if there is a better way. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot.

matt

Flash/HTML Hybrid Sites
I'm wondering what the best way to create a flash&html hybrid site is? tables/frames?

tia.

Drop Down Menu And F Hybrid Problem
hi guys i have never tried to make an hybrid site before and i am having some problem makeing a drop down flash menu working on a html page
what i want to do is to put the drop down menu on the top of the page while on the bottom i have other html stuff

also the dropdown menus will have at least 10 buttons each
is there an easy and organized way of making this work?
i am using dreamweaver for di html editing

can anybody help examples/flas/tuts/ anything

thanks in advance for your help guys

Flash / Html Hybrid Menu
Hi All,

I am trying to create a hybrid site using a flash menu system and a html body. My question is:

How do I maintain the state of the menu tree (for example Products>Monitors>Samsung) when the page loads, without reverting to the original state of the flash manu file (ie Products)?

I know that one way out is to use a frameset for the html page. I do not want to do this. A good exmaple of what I want to do can be found at http://www.mica.edu.

Thanks in advance,

Maddunr

[F8] Hybrid Site - Very Newbie Questions
Hi everyone!

This is my first post - and I'm so green at this it's not funny, so please be gentle (and detailed).
I'm using CS3 - but haven't found answers to these Q's so far.

Here it is...
I'm creating a hybrid site in HTML that will have some Flash elements. I've included a jpeg attachment that helps visually explain what I'm up to.

For me there are several issues I need help with:

1) Can a button (I'll call it an "Example button" which is HTML) trigger a Flash movie inside of a placeholder? If so, how?

2) For control of where the movie placeholder appears on the HTML background - am I correct to make it a cell inside a table? Or is it better to use X,Y coordinates that stand free of a table? If X,Y - how do I code position and size in HTML?

3) The Flash movie is on a black background in Flash, but I’d like to make the black only semi-transparent so that it blends with the HTML background. Is this possible?

4) I feel foolish asking this, but how do I loop the movie so that it continually plays until I click the next “Example button”

5) I'm thinking I should probably have a 1-2 second entrance and exit animation of the Flash movie when I click between “Example buttons”. Like a transition between movies. I’m open to suggestions, and how to do it?

6) Is there a way to preload the animations, each of which use jpg images inside?

That's it ... you know, I'm probably missing something - but these are the questions I'm really struggling with. Thanks so much in advance to any in the Community who can help me solve this mountain.

nucks

Hybrid Website Centering To Browser
Hi,
I created a flash/html hybrid site and cant get the dam thing to center the browser. Here is the link http://www.forexmarketforecasting.com/

if you look around at the other pictures i was able to center the html and flash, but the homepage wont do it for me!!!! please help!!!!!!!!!

p.s do you also know why the content is got all funky

Debugging Flash Projector On Hybrid Cd-rom
Hope someone can help me with this - I finally finished my flash project and tried to burn a hybrid mac/pc cd-rom for distribution; unfortunately when it was tested on a mac, the application stops working. This only happens in one of the sections of the application, always in the same place (while preloading content).

On a pc it works fine, and both the mac and pc share assets from a common folder to both volumes.

The whole application was tested thoroughly on a mac before burning, and the rest of the app works fine, so there isnt an issue with the mac portion being able to access any of the shared assets (xml files, images etc).

Could it be a speed issue to do with accessing data from the CD rather than a hard drive? In which case it should just take longer to load, rather than just hanging, surely?

I'm not sure how to go about trying to fix this - im going to try running X-Ray off the cd rom to debug, but if anyone knows of anything else I could try, it would be very much appreciated!

cheers,
J

Resolution Issue With Hybrid Site...
ok guys, here is my problem...

I have a website, hybrid type, and my background (set in dreamweaver), is a 1 pixel line (vertical) to fill de "gradient" background.
The thing is, in 1280x960 resolution, the page shows a block, in the bottom of the page...like an horizontal line with 2 or 3 cm.
I this happens? It wasn´t suposed the background go to the end of the page, in every type of resolution?

Did I explain myself right..?

Thanx in advanced

Hugs

Hybrid Flash Site For Blinds
I'm currently working on a flash web site which the clients wants it to be compatible for blinds. I never saw a blind navigate on a website with a braille keyboard but i already know that frames are not good, that every image should have a alt attribute to describe the image. I'm also gonna use xhtml so that the structure of the page is perfect.

I would like it be to be an hybrid site with a flash menu. I don't think that flash would be adviced for blind people but is there anyone who already had such experience and that have used flash.

If flash is not compatible with braille keyboards is there a way to detect either if the person is using a braille keyword or not?

Hybrid Flash Site Question
What is the standard for creating hybrid sites? Do most folks use flash navbars to move from page to page with the navbar loading on each page or are they creating top and side menus that deliver content to frames?

Frames used to be frowned upon but i've been looking at flash sites lately and noticed that frames seem to be used heavily. Are frames not hated anymore?

I haven't been able to find any resources concerning this matter on the web so any links would be apreciated.

Hybrid Page Load Order
is it possible to define loading order in a hybrid page like this:

first load all html things... then when all is loaded, load the swfs?

I´ve searched about this, but didn´t find anything...

Hybrid Site Sound Control?
I have an HTML site with a flash header with music. How can i make it so when someone turns the sound off on one page the next page knows to keep it off?

thanx in advance

My First Hybrid Site And Flash Nav Gets Refreshed
Hi guys ,

I've been registered for like ages and this is the first time I'm writing..... anyways what I'm bout to ask is very simeple and I know I'll slapped around..... but its urgent....

I'm a DJ and just started a new Grphx job.... so my time pritty tight....

Its the first time I'm making a hybrid site and am lost bout how to call up the html part up..... my innitial plan was to use the Get URL but my flash NAV gets refreshed....

To be honest I suck in programming but know enough to get about....

Would appriciate some link or a guide....

Respect to the kings of flash

DJ Subandrio
(((((((0)))))))

Flash/HTML Hybrid Menu?
Hey All,

I'm building a site that's essentially HTML driven, but the client would like to have a Flash navigation menu. The whole thing is VERY simpe - just a bar with a block that will slide back and forth to show which section the user is in.

My question is...is there a way to pass a variable into the Flash file from each html page so that the section the user is in is shown on the menu. (without frames preferably)

In other words, let's say the menu looks something like this, with the "V" being the marker for the current section:

V
SECTION 1 | SECTION 2 | SECTION 3

When the user clicks on section 2, it will load up a new html page (with the same .swf file as the navigation bar), but i'd like the "V" to go to section 2 when this new page loads up. Does this make sense? Is there an easy way to do this? Any help would be great!

Thanks,
CB

Hybrid Flash/HTML Forms
I'd like to create a form that will post values from an html form and from a flash form at the same time. Both the html form and the flash form reside on the same page. I can't get it to submit both. Is this possibe. I was thinking of putting the flash field values into hidden variable fields on the form. Is this possibe? And/or is it the best/only way to do? Any input would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Matt

How To Make Flash/html Hybrid Sites
so what's the basic concept of this?

i just want a flash menu, and all the content in html. do i have my main flash movie act as a border and load the html into a dynamic textfield? can you even load html? or does it have to be txt files?

~david

Hybrid Pages, And Flash File Interaction, Is It Possible?
Hey again folks!
I want to dive into the world of hybrid pages, and are still developing my ideas on how the design for this should be. One problem I encounter is that I want to use multiple flash files in my document, but do not know if they can interact. I was thinking about making a large transparent flash file, but as I read some of the posts on here about the problems concerning transparency and mac I understand that it will be a bad idea.

Is it possible when pressing a button in one flash file to send a message to another flash file asking it to play from a certain frame?

This would improve the look of the hybrid page a lot. If it is not possible, please tell me so I can delete these ideas from my brain cells.

Frameset Hybrid Flash/HTML Help Needed
I have a website where I want only 2 frames.
In top frame I want Flash Navigation and in the bottom frame
I want to open html page (which is of course controlled by the top frame). My question is: How can I set it so that the scrollbar goes through the whole page, not just the bottom (html) page??
In other words, when I scroll the page down I want the flash navigation to scroll up along with the html page.
I'm pretty sure this can be done but I have no idea how to do it.
Can anyone help me???

Thank you in advance.