Flash :: Old Frame Based Habits Dying Hard

Frame Based V/s Script Based Animation ?
I guess I'm looking for feedback about your methodoligies for animation. I've been practicing Actionscripting for 3-4 years now and sometimes I get stuck in the thinking that I have to animate everything by scripting the properties of movieclips. I know there are instances were its pointless to script animation or to animate what should be scripted.

What kind of balance if any do you peoples employ when doing a project. I'm working on one right now that I'm scripting out but sometimes I feel like I'm just doing extra work.

Do You Have Any Flash Habits?
I have a few... not really Habits, just things i ALWAYS DO.
1. I always CTRL+Enter, i never use the drop down menu for that.
2. I use Shift alot to select more than one thing or un-select something. (i'm sure most do that)
3. I ALWAYS import to library when it comes to pictures... don't ask...

I have others... post yours!

Eliminating Bad Habits...
i am new to flash... there is something i do as i am designing that i know is the wrong way to go about it, but have not realized a workaround...

as i am programing all the animations that roll out my web site, i am not sure how to go beyond a stop command.

ok, what i do is this...

if the last event that occurs is 30 frames long, i have to be sure that all of the events occuring before that one do not go beyond 30 frames. ONLY BECAUSE I HAVENT FIGURED OUT HOW TO HAVE ANYTHING HAPPEN ONCE I HAVE INSERTED A "stop();" COMMAND... As far as i can tell once you do that your animations stop!?

i know this isn't true but havent figured out just what to do...

so...whats the best way to break this habit??

Load A New Movie At A Certain Frame Based On Current Frame?
hello, i have a 36 frame movie clip

i have a button that is available throughout the 36 frames

if i am on frame 15 of the main movie, can i load in a new movie that opens on it's own frame 15?

whichever frame i am on in the main movie, i want the second movie to open to the matching frame number as the main movie

if this is possible, how would i do it? thanks

[CS3] Frame-By-Frame Tips
i wish to get more info on Animating frame-by-frame... some tips and tricks would come in handy for this...

For instance, if i have a character standing and i just want to animate his arms, on frame-by-fram i would have to redraw the whole character again.. right? But are there some tricks or tips i could use to sorta.... streamline the process a bit?

You see, the only tutorials i find that get at any sort of depth in their subject are about tweens... and stick figures. and i grasp their concept and understand it. but that's not what i want to do...

From what've seen and learned, it seems that i should focus on Frame-by-frame animation with the support of the Onion Skin. If i go that way, each layer i do can be a Full character, transformed into a Element - Image (not movie clip). Right?

And for some of my minor work, i could use the Bones system from CS4, puttng different parts of a character or object in their own layers, making those into Elements - Movie clips... im ok so far?!

So, some help here, please?

Track Specific Listening Habits WITHIN Podcast Using A Flash Player?
Hello! I am starting an internship and have been given a project that I hope you guys might be able to help me with.

Currently, the company has the podcast available in a few different ways. There is an RSS feed, and it is uploaded to Hipcast. Hipcasts player is then posted on a website setup for the podcast. It is also available through iTunes.

They are able to track how many downloads there are through various sources (Feedburner is what is used mainly to my understanding), but there is no real tracking as far as specific usage of the content is concerned.

They are interested in being able to find out (at least from a portion of users - maybe from one delivery method, if not more) what portions of the file are being listened to and how many of those downloads are actually being used, etc.

A thought of mine was to create (or find an existing) flash player that could be used on the podcast's website. This player would hopefully be able to log users (maybe differentiate them by IP address) and log when they press what buttons into a file/database.

Do any of you guys know if this would e possible? Are there any problematic implications on tracking in this fashion?

This info will be used for production purposes of the podcast (if people stop listening at 7 minutes then cut it shorter or change content, for instance).

Any thoughts or information on this topic would be HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!

Thanks!

Track Specific Listening Habits WITHIN A Podcast Using Flash Player?
Hello! I am starting an internship and have been given a project that I hope you guys might be able to help me with.

Currently, the company has the podcast available in a few different ways. There is an RSS feed, and it is uploaded to Hipcast. Hipcasts player is then posted on a website setup for the podcast. It is also available through iTunes.

They are able to track how many downloads there are through various sources (Feedburner is what is used mainly to my understanding), but there is no real tracking as far as specific usage of the content is concerned.

They are interested in being able to find out (at least from a portion of users - maybe from one delivery method, if not more) what portions of the file are being listened to and how many of those downloads are actually being used, etc.

A thought of mine was to create (or find an existing) flash player that could be used on the podcast's website. This player would hopefully be able to log users (maybe differentiate them by IP address) and log when they press what buttons into a file/database.

Do any of you guys know if this would e possible? Are there any problematic implications on tracking in this fashion?

This info will be used for production purposes of the podcast (if people stop listening at 7 minutes then cut it shorter or change content, for instance).

Any thoughts or information on this topic would be HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!

Thanks!

Frame Based Easing, Into Time Based Easing (in Actionscript)
i have code to move something from placeA-placeB based on time...then i also have a code to move something from placeA-placeB with easing, but its based on frames...can someone supply me with an easing formula based on time?

Please Help Me, I'm Dying Out Here
Folks, I know I have alot to learn, but here's my dilema.

I want to use a telltarget action.

I have a 3 movies on the main timeline.

I want the movies to play all the way through, then at the end of each movie, to goto and play the beginning of the next movie, and so on.

Does anyone have a sample .fla of how to do this. I'm confused of where to name an instance, confused on _root and/or _level0 (which to use) and so on. Thank you for any help you can give.

If you want email me a .fla, send it to gwana@rcn.com

Thanks

Just Help Me Man Im Dying Over Here.
I bought a flash template.I've been able to
change text in flash on everything exept the text on the "buttons/links"(you know where it says about us,home,contact,products or whatever).Its probobly very easy,but does anybody know how to i change the text on these. Somebody whispered that it has something to do with changing it inside the group?I dont know, I need to get explained how to freekin do this.

Pls Help.. I'm Dying..
if i have a game.. and there will be 2 kind of different ball shoting out from a shutter..so.. in root how am i suppose to do it.. pls reply fast thanks

I'm Dying Here...
I'm really struggling with actionscript this week. Part of the problems I've been having is that I'm doing somthing for a client that wants it to be flash 5 compatible because they have viewers on older computers and they want it to be flash player 5 compatible. So I'm having to find work arounds for some of the scripts.

But why on earth isn't this working? I want the playhead to go to the next part of the movie once the first part has looped a few times. On frame one I define i=0; then I put this actionscript at the end of the first part:

i=i+1;
if (i == 3){
gotoAndPlay(76);
trace ("i "+i);
}
gotoAndPlay(7);

when i equals three it traces i but it goes back to frame 7!?! AAARRRHG!

Please Help Im Dying Here
can someone please let me know where can i find a tutorials to mask a movie clip so i can finish this site thanks.

[F8] Dying.
in my game you're supposed to only die if you touch the enemy but when you do your first jump you die also. i made sure the actionscript and instance names where correct but it still does this. any tips?

i attached the .fla file.

Please Help Im Dying
this problem is when i try to load a textfile w. variable
first, when i clicked the button, and try to trace the loaded text, its shows its "undefined", but when i try clicking once more, it works... whats the problem? im really confused... please help! THANKS!

PS:if you got a good tutorial about textfile and string manipulation, please send me some links... thanks!

on (release) {

var files

loadText = new loadVars();

loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
// trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
};
loadText.load("test.txt");
var snd = newsBox.getBytesTotal()

var strt = Array ();

strt= snd.split("#");

trace(snd)
gotoAndPlay(2);

//split code: split str on delimeter into an 'array'

//var strt:Array = snd.split("#");

//trace(strt[0])

}

FMS Edge Dying...
So we've got like 15 Edge servers setup wtih 5 Origin servers. Things seem to generally work for streaming live video. There are problems though where some boxed won't always come up as if FMS has hung.

Currently I'm checking the number of fmscore processes with a script since I can't seem to get the HTTP admin interface to return anything other than NetConnection.Connect.Rejected: Admin user requires valid username and password. Which is odd since it has the correct username and password and the config files say it should work.

But sometimes the servers won't even start correctly. We have all of the logging turned on. But it starts up, says it loads the applications, no second fmscore process starts, and the remaining processes disappear after 5 to 10 minutes. No errors anywhere on the system.

This is CentOS 4 with FMS 2.0.4 and FMS 2.0.3.

Anyone else having similar problems or have suggestions to things that we could trouble shoot? I'm going to resort to straces soon.

Urgent, Please Help...I'm Dying...T_T
Hi everyone, thank you for your time for reading this message,
I got a Key object question,
I'm trying to make a game for my final project,
and have no idea how to control the character by keys on keyboard,
like if I press"Q", the character will kick and if I released the key, it'll become a meutral pose....I got like 6 poses to control, and one neutral pose when I release the keys....help, I read actionscript the definitive guide and still didn't get the idea about how to do it, any example?...or tutorials?...please help, thank you very very much!!

Is This AS Or Frame Based?
https://www.dominioncorp.com/start-u...ssessment.html

the text in the header. i asked someone else what they thought and she said script, but then left for class so i'm still not sure.

any help is appreciated.

Heeeeeeeeeelllp Me....my Game Is Dying
all my textfields are just returning that _level1 bs. here is the code..Please help me. The output window returns no errors.
stop();
K = new Object();
var q = 0;//question #
var r = 0;//# right
var sm = 0;//# wrong
var b = "";//your answer
var a = s;//actual answer
switch (q) {
case 1 :
q2 = "blah";
b = 3;
break;
default :
q2 = "loading.....";
q++;
break;
}
K.onKeyDown = function() {
if (K.getCode() == K.ENTER) {
if (b == a) {
r++;
q++;
} else {
sm++;
t = K.attachMovie(smacked, blah, 1);
q++;
}
}
};

Goto Frame Based On URL
Looking for a way to move to a certain frame or scene based on the url parameter/link followed to get to the movie.

IE

Visitor comes from a link such as

...mypage.html?scene=2

Once the movie loads the playhead moves to scene 2;

without the paramater the movie plays normally.

Is ther a way to read the url of the containing page from within the SWF?

TIA

Frame Based Mouse Is Down
Hey can some one tell me how to run a code every frame that the mouse button is held down. Also Ineed it to be frame based. thanks.

Frame Based Loading
I am building a site using Flash MX, hosted by Media Temple. I want to have my load frame by frame. I want each frame to fully load before it is played. Basically the site will slowley build as the user is waiting for it to fully load, thus giving the effect of not having to wait. That is my main question, but I do have one more minor one. I have been uploading my .swf file with no preload script just to view it online and see how things a panning out. When I click the link to view, the pop up appears and the bg is white it stays white the entire time until the whole file loads. When I test the same file in Flash, it loads in order of the frames and the grey bg comes up then the loader bar, panel, etc. Shouldn't it at least load the movies bg when the pop up shows up online? I would have thought that it would have kinda preloaded it self in a sence? I am sure that I have made this all confusing at best, but any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Sorry so long winded.

www.remixgeneration.com
if you click on the upper right little square, you will find my secret link to the main site. Please keep in mind that it is in the beging stages and has a lot of work left.

Thanks again.

DYING Rollover Text FX Button PLEASE
Im new and I have MX and Swish. Im trying to have a word, like "Meetings" do a text fx on the rollover state, then when clicked, go to the MEetings page. Please help if you can, Ive been trying all day. Can a movie clip be a button.
Thanks.

Im Dying - Please Preloader Percent Counter
Frame One
total = this.getBytesTotal();

Frame Two (With A PercentBar MC Under It)
loaded = this.getBytesLoaded();
// optional code to calculate percent loaded follows
percent = Math.round((loaded/total)*100);
display = "Now loaded "+percent+"%";
if (percent>0) {
_root.percentbar.gotoAndStop(percent);
}
// end of optional code
if (loaded == total) {
gotoAndPlay(4);
}

Frame 3
gotoAndPlay(2);

Frame 4
My Main Site Animation Begins

Whats wrong? The thing hangs up in frame one. The bar wont activate, the percent counts off, but it wont say "Now Loaded" , in the dynamic box. Please Ive been up for two nights. I got the idea off of FlashKit download. I got to be done by tomorrow or Im in trouble. See http://www.gregmcgann.com to watch it fail.

I'm Dying Here...java..html..dreamweaver
ok i have been searching for hours for the way to do this and CANT figure it out and it has to be SIMPLE...i have this page that someone made in dreamweaver and just need the button to load a flash file in a certain part of the screen...i am sooo lost

Brush Tool In Flash 8 Keeps Dying On Me
hi,

Sometimes when i use my brush tool in Flash 8.. At times it'll work perfectly and draw my lines out.. but sometimes! It just dies on me! And Whenever i click and drag to draw.. It comes up.. but once i let go of the click.. it dissappears!!

I have to draw a full touching circle with the brush tool for the drawing to appear.. But if i wanted to draw straight lines with the brush tool, then i'm screwed! lol

Does anyone know a solution to this?

Also, I've checked my brush modes and it's always on normal!

Won´t Work Online -- I´m Dying Here - Levels?
hey hey!

ever had a problem that a flashsite you´ve made works perfectly on your computer, music and everything, but when you upload it 2 a server, listen to this, the music won´t work and changing movies in flash itself takes about 30 sec-5 min depending on the server (the movies r small, about 30 kb and i´m sitting on a 12mb/s line)
can it have something to do with the levels? i´m only working with one level.. (i don´t think it´s the servers i´ve tested on 3 different ones)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!

thanx

/Moses

Actions Based On MovieClip Frame
I am trying to set up a script where a button on the main timeline targets a clip, but depending on the current frame of the clip's timeline, it will trigger to a different area on the movieclip timeline.

something like this:

tell target "animationclip"
if currentframe==1
goto and play 10

if currentframe==10
goto and play 25

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Using Actionscript To Load Mc's Based On Frame
hello

i have say for instance a main movie that has frame labels 1-10...say i have three movie clips names mc1, mc2 & mc3...i need mc2 diplayed at frame 3 and mc3 displayed at frame 7 with mc1 being displayed at the rest (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, & 10)...how would i go about using actionscript to do this...thaks a bunch

regards,
mark

Targeting A Frame Based On A Variable Value?
I want to be able to target a specific frame of a movie clip, based on the value of a variable (set by the button a user chooses).

The Flash movie I'm creating is a jeopardy-style game, where the user clicks on a question within a certain category. I've set it up so that clicking on each button assigns 2 variables: "category" (either 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) and "value" (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600). A movie clip is also loaded which I would like to jump to a frame to display the appropriate question, by targetting the frame label. I wanted to avoid manually creating 30 instances of a movie clip with different names. But I can't figure out how (or if it's possible to) target a dynamically specified frame label.

If anyone has any advice, I'd really appreciate it.

Position Based Frame Control
Hello all...

I have a slider at the bottom of my screen that I can grab. I want this slider to control where in time the movie is.

I am trying to set it up so the frame of the flash movie will be derived from the X position of the that slider. The problem I have is that I have been unable to find the syntax to set current frame of the whole project.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... or if anyone knows a better way to achieve this... that would work too.

Thanks,
J

Can You Go To And Stop On Frame Based On Variable?
Basically I have a preloader that's 100 frames long since it's an animation. What I need is for the movie clip to go to the frame of the percent, so if it's 50% I want to go to frame 50.

I'm using this with the MovieClipLoader functions and using the onLoadProgress to retrieve the percentage, which works fine, but the gotoAndStop doesn't seem to work. Here's my code:

ActionScript Code:
l = 0;
var mcListener:Object = new Object();
mcListener.onLoadComplete = function(loading_mc:MovieClip):Void {
loadedImage();
};
mcListener.onLoadProgress = function(target, loaded, total) {
percent = Math.round((loaded/total)*100);
_root.preloader_mc.gotoAndStop(percent);
trace(percent+"% completed");
};
function loadingImages() {
if (l<total) {
var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
mcl.addListener(mcListener);
mcl.loadClip(image_mc[l],loading_mc);
}
}
function loadedImage() {
++l;
loadingImages();
}

As you can see I'm using functions to loop it around and load one image after another. There's more to this from it loading data from an XML but that's not important, all of that works perfectly. The preload function also works perfectly. The trace comes up with the percentage moving along up but the movie clip does nothing.

Anyone know what's going on? I can do the whole thing with script and if statements but that would take a bit longer to do if this isn't simple, though I might go that way for smoothness' sake.

Is It Possible To Goto A Scene Or Frame Based On URL?
If I have a Flash movie with several scenes that I want to use as different "pages" on my site, rather than creating 4 versions of this file with "gotoAndStop("scene2",1) at the beginning of the page to get it to the right place...

Is it possible to have the Flash movie automatically goto a specific scene (or frame) based on what the URL, or perhaps the HTML in the page says?

Button To Sum Variables Then Go To Frame Based On Total
Hi:
I have a script on a button set to calculate the sum of two variables and move the playhead to a designated frame depending on the result. I also have two movie clips containing 4 radio buttons each.
When the user selects a radio button from the 1st set and clicks the "Calculate" button, the variable x is set to a number between 1 and 4. Likewise when a radio button is selected from the second set and the "Calculate" button is clicked, the variable y is set to a number between 1 and 4.

When the calulcate button is clicked, the variable z is then set to = x+y. Depending on the value of z, I wish to goto a certain frame in the main movie. The variables appear to be set up properly when tested (i.e. returning the correct values) until I add the code to move the playhead. Code for the button appears below. Help will be greatly appreciated!

on (release) {
if (_level0.ques1.ques11.getState()) {
x = 1;
} else if (_level0.ques1.ques12.getState()) {
x = 2;
} else if (_level0.ques1.ques13.getState()) {
x = 3;
} else if (_level0.ques1.ques14.getState()) {
x = 4;
} else {
gotoAndStop ("Scene 4", "noselect");
}
}
on (release) {
if (_level0.ques2.ques21.getState()) {
y = 1;
} else if (_level0.ques2.ques22.getState()) {
y = 2;
} else if (_level0.ques2.ques23.getState()) {
y = 3;
} else if (_level0.ques2.ques24.getState()) {
y = 4;
} else {
gotoAndStop ("Scene 4", "noselect");
}
}
on (release) {
z = x+y;
if (z=2) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=2");
} else if (z=3) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=3");
} else if (z=4) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=4");
} else if (z=5) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=5");
} else if (z=6) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=6");
} else if (z=7) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=7");
} else if (z=8) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "z=8");
} else {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 4", "noselect");
}
}

How To Stop Script Based On A Frame Number
Anyone know the best way to stop your actionscript based on the frame you are in once inside a movieClip? Once I'm in frame 15 of my movieClip, I don't want any other actionscripts called until the user exits out of frame 15.

Jumping To A Frame Based On Query String
Is there a way to jump to a specific frame in a flash movie based on the query string in the url?

For example, if the url ends in "flashmovie.html?frame=5" how can I grab the value of the frame variable and make the flash movie jump to that frame?

..........How Do I Tell A Movie To Go To A Frame Number Based On Where The Mouse Is..
If someone could tell me how to tell a movie clip to go to the frame number that is the same as my mouse x position, I would be very grateful.

Loading A Mc Based On Current Frame Number
hello

i want to load movie clips based on the current frame another movie is running on. what is the coding for that.

for instance: if movie clip "strip" is playing and happens to be at frame 12 when it is stopped, a movie '12.swf' will be loaded.

thanks in advance

Load A Frame Based On Todays Date?
I am using flash 5 and i was wondering if it is possible to load a certain frame of a movie based on what day it is today. i.e today is March 2, i would like it to load and stop on frame 2 of a movie. thanks in advance...

Go To Frame Label Based On User Input
Hi...

I was hoping somone could help me.. I want the user to hit the navigate button and when he does so.. I want a box to come up saying please enter a slide number.. based on the number he enters it takes him to the appropriate frame label..

Thanks

uday

MC Frame Change Based On Slider Position
Hi guys,

I'm trying to make this thing that basically acts as a video 'scrub' - fast forwarding and rewinding the video depending on a bit of user interaction, in this case the movement of a slider bar - and despite the fact that its probably been done a million times, I can't find any examples of how its done.

I guess the easiest way to do it would be to put each frame of the video onto a frame inside a movieclip, and then have the slider control the playback of that movieclip, but, ah i dunno, maybe i'm searching with the wrong words.

Any suggestions on how this could be done would be greatly appreciated... am tearing my hair out here!

cheers,
md

Movieclip Loader W/ Frame Based Preloader
I want to use the Movieclip Loader class and have a preloader that show it's progress based on a timeline animation. Can anyone show me a simple way to do this?

Code:
//MoiveClip Loader
function loadExt(movieName, targetMovie) {
var mcListener:Object = new Object();
mcListener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
};
mcListener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, bytesLoaded:Number, bytesTotal:Number) {
// This is what I am not sure about?
progressBar_mc._currentFrame = (bytesLoaded/bytesTotal)*100;

};
mcListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
};
var image_mc:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mc.addListener(mcListener);
image_mc.loadClip(movieName, targetMovie);
}

Goto Frame Based On Mouse Position
Hi..
I have a movie clip(instance:carousel) with 200 frame animation. I want it so that when mouse is on left side of the stage, carousel.prevFrame() and when its on the right side of the stage, carousel.nextFrame().
All works well with my code, but i would like to push this a bit further and add when mouse is further away from stage.center, it animates faster, skipping more frames and when its closer to the center, slows down and do nextFrame(). How could i achieve this effect?

my newbie code:

Code:
center = Stage.width/2;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (_root._xmouse<center) {
carousel.prevFrame();
if (carousel._currentframe == 1) {
carousel.gotoAndStop("end");
}
} else {
carousel.nextFrame();
if (carousel._currentframe == carousel._totalframes) {
carousel.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
};

Simple Frame Based Time Slider
I am trying to fix a playback controller that has a Play/Pause button and a scrubber. It divides the number of frames in the animation by the lenght of the slider bar to control the movie. The scrubber works fine going to the right, but when you drag it left, it wont go to the beginning frame. sometimes it will go very close, other times far away. You end up having to click and drag it two or three times to get to frame 1. I was told the original code came from a flash component from a few years ago, but I cant find anything like it. Its not for streaming, just short clips of embedded video or just boxes moving.

an example is located here:

www.webunleashed.org/Controller.html

and this is the code:
(thanks in advance for any help. it will be greatly appreciated)

_parent.stop();
faderbackground._width = width;
looping = false;
playing = false;
top = knob._y;
bottom = knob._y;
left =-2 ;

faderWidth = faderbackground._width-knob._width;
segmentWidth = faderWidth/_parent._totalframes;
right = knob._x+faderWidth-segmentWidth+6;
faderbackground._width -= (segmentWidth-2);
with (backing) {
_width = Math.abs(_x)+faderbackground._width+((_height-faderbackground._height)/2);
shadow._width = _width;
}
_parent.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (_parent._currentframe == _parent._totalframes && !looping) {
playing = false;
_parent.stop();
}
if (dragging) {
playing = false;
_parent.gotoAndStop(Math.ceil(knob._x/segmentWidth));
} else {
knob._x = (_parent._currentframe*segmentWidth)-segmentWidth;
}
//
playhilite._visible = playing;
loophilite._visible = looping;
//
};
//
// playback controls
loop.onRelease = function() {
loophilite._alpha = 100;
};
loop.onPress = function() {
looping = !looping;
loophilite._alpha = 0;
};
playButton.onPress = function() {
playhilite._alpha = 0;
};
playButton.onRelease = function() {
playhilite._alpha = 100;
playing = true;
_parent.play();
};

knob.onPress = function() {
_parent.stop();
startDrag(knob, false, left, top, right, bottom);
dragging = true;
};
knob.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();
dragging = false;
};

Flash Based Email Wont Go To Next Frame... Help
Hi, im doing the flash based email thing as seen here.

i did it all, but when i take the finished product,m and hit send, it does nothing. please help. i am attaching the .fla file alonng with this, but not the .php. here is what is on hte .php

Code:
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<title>Contact Naaman</title><div align="center"></div>
<?php
$sendTo = "naaman@atomicmatches.com";
$subject = "Contact From Website";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["name"];
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["email"] . ">
";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"]
;
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = $_POST["message"];

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<div align="center"></div>

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How To Make A Preloader Based On Frame Animation..
im just wondering on how can i create a preloader based on a certain keyframe animation. Thanks guys

Play To A Frame Based On Mouse Position...
i need to create an effect similar to this >> visit www.c-class.co.uk then click on C The Car...

i'm workin on a car site..i'll be getting the 3d renders as frames...wat i want iss the car to turn in the direction of the mouse pointer...except that it wont be 360 like the c-class site...it'll need to turn jus about 45degrees.

please help...

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