Flash :: Outlined World Map

Importing Outlined Text From Illustrator
Hi there...
Wondering if someone can help me out.
I'm getting a designer to do some work for me in Adobe Illustrator. Since he's on a Mac, and I'm on a PC, I get him to turn all the type into outlines (I don't have the fonts), and to save the .ai file as Version 8. When I import the file into Flash, the outlined text does appear to be vector shapes but the text is no longer intact and has some areas missing. I can open the file in my Adobe Illustrator and there seems to be no problem but even if I try to cut and paste the outlined text into Flash it comes in broken.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks

Outlined Logo For Flash MX And Flex
Hello there,

Do any of you have outlined logo (a vector format I mean) of Flash MX and Macromedia Flex? Can anyone post it here?
I need resizable logos to do some special effect in flash.

Thousand thanks.

V_Y

Making Dynamic Text Outlined
Hi all
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/i...s/confused.gif

I want to have a text field that users can enter their texts.
The text must be outlined.Also users can set the font
hmmm
The only solution I got is have texts in external swf s .I must make fonts and the outline and replace each letter wich its font
its really long story .Maybe there is other solution That I cant find
Whats your idea
I am really confused

Thanks for the help

Outlined Text From Illustrator 10 Looks Jagged
Please help! I have a logo I wanted to animate in Flash, so I copied and pasted the outlined text from Illustrator 10. I created my flash file and the text looks jagged for some reason. Please look at the attached swf file and help me figure out how to smooth out the fonts!

Creating Dynamic Outlined Type
anyone know how to do this.
It would seem that there should be a stroke capability on dynamic text but there isn't. Thickness will not work as its very limited in values you can enter.

Also using a bold set behind will not work with this type either.

I had this issue on another project and ended up using images as I didn't have time to fool around and find a solution. Anyway the issue is back again and I have some time to fool about with it. So I was wondering if anyone has tried to tackle this issue before and had some pointers or pitfalls when dealing with it.

thanks

Initial Thin Outlined Border - HELP
Go to this site to see what I am trying to accomplished:

Just pay attention to the first thin border that opens up smoothly from the center outward to form the border of the site. How do I do that? is it done with action script? or shape tweening as an independent movie then nested into the main time line:

http://www.mn8studio.com/index_normal.htm

Help!, advice, tutorial or sample of similar effects?

thank you so much!

edv1972

Picture Numbers Outlined In Image Gallery
Hi,

I have an image gallery.
The sequence of the pictures is being changed by ARRAY.

The user might give the order "proceed" or click on a picture number on the list of pictures.

01 02 03 04 05 and so on.

Then the image would appear together with some individual comments.

I planned to have an swf.file for each pictures which would be loaded when needed.

Now I want the numbers to stay marked (in red) when they are clicked on and to remain marked until another number-button is being pressed.

Since I am just starting with action script I don't know how to do it.

Happy if I could get some help ...

Aribert

Problem With Outlined Word Animating Smoothly
I have a word i am trying to animate. It is white with a 1pt red outline on it, sitting on a black background. Within flash i've broken apart
the text & made it a symbol. My problem is that it doesn't play smoothly. The red seems to hesitate at some points. I've attached a sample using the font i'm using. Has anyone seen this before and know a solution?
Thanks. I've posted a sample here:
http://www.karenkeeler.com/problem/problem.html

[MX] Can Flash Export VECTOR Or Outlined Text As PDF,Ai Or EPS?
We have a web based flash interface that allows customer to design a custom product online. The problem is that the flash then creates a PDF and that PDF never ACCURATELY matches what the customer designed in the flash application. The line and letter spacing is always off. I think the problem would be fixed IF we could create or export a PDF or a Ai file or a EPS file from FLASH that did NOT have the editable text. At the moment of EXPORT it needs to convert all text to vector or outlined text. That would alleviate the FONT problems. Does anyone know of a plug-in or some method for doing this?

-T

Import Illustrator Files- Outlined Type Problems
I am trying to import an illustrator 8 .eps file into flash. when I import the file, some of the type does not come in correctly. I created outlines of all the fonts. It gets broken and in some cases only displays a small portion of the character. Has anyone had this problem? and if so can you please help me get around it.
thanks,
Steven

Bitmap Image With An "outlined Path"?
I am making some minor changes to a website created by another designer. It is very basic flash, with one thing confuses me.

the prior images appear to have a "Photoshop path". I know about breaking apart bitmaps, but this looks as though they told flash to remove the black background so the stars show thru...any idea on what was done?

I'm adding a new item to the page and have a photoshop layered image, with the item on a flat black background. I checked the other images in the flash file to look for clues but dont see anything.

You can view the site click here

How In The World Can I Do This?
ok i made my little tank game moves perfect hittests work perfect tank shoots heres my problem!!yeah the tank shoots but when you hit the left or righ arrow and the tank faces that direction you press, and then shoot it comes out the side of the tank! my question is how in the world and i going to make the tank shoot in the direction your facing??
thanks

How In The World Can I Do It?
How can I make a button open an application like Powerpoint (yuk) from a Flash button. I would need to open the presentation not from within a browser but from the applcation itself. Please help.!!

World Map
My name is Raghu Raman. I am given an assignment by my boss to develop a world map in flash and color the countries in the map according to the database values. For example if population is the area of interest and green is the chosen color, I need to show the most populous countries in darkest green and least ones with lightest green. How shall i proceed. Please do help me.

How In The World? Never Seen This Before
If you go to http://devlab.swift3d.com ... and click on one of the navigation links, it will pop up a window, click again and it does this cool "SHAKE RESIZE WINDOW" thingy.
How was that possible?

What In The World?
Hi all,
I apologize if this post is in the wrong place. I took a guess as to where to put it.
Here's the deal:
I created a site for my employer:

http://www.demonstratives.com

If you can see all the text, and all the files, load/play GREAT!
(you can tell if they don't)
There is a person @ work who can't see the text. It's like it doesn't load. Some of the swf files don't load in either.
If it matters, the text (on the left) is dynamic and read in from external txt files.
This person is running XP/I.E.6/ and has the flash 6 plugin.
Has anyone ever heard of this? I have no idea what is going on.

Thank you for your time!

How In The World Can I
how in the world can i make one of those audio things that show the diffrent pitches of sound. like the thing to the left of the jupiter plugin text. i dont know what its called, but i want to know how i can go about learning how to make 1

Pan The World
I am in need of some code that will move a movieClip up and down smoothly, with the use of a up, down, and slider button. The catch is it needs to work with a flash 5 Player. I have been looking for a tutorial all day and have become extremly pist. I recall my teacher showing me a way to use a percentage of the slider bar and the sliders Y value, but that was 2 years ago and my examples are long gone.

If anyone knows were a tutorial is or has an example file I could use the help.

Thank You
gartmann

Around The World
Hi folks

Just joined - great site.

Brief background: After a life in printing both traditional and dtp am making the logical step into web design (silly bugger aren't I). Anyway to cut a long story short, have been asked to do a revolving world with the company's name appearing to revolve anti-clockwise around the equator. Does anybody know the best way to do this. I can't believe it hasn't been done before so before I spend ages on laborious animation is there a quick way to do this. Don't be afraid to call me a lazy sod.

Yours in anticipation
Gary

I Beg You For The World
yo i hope your going good

if im gonna make a maze i want the walls so you cant go through them, im using the script to move the thing (ball tihng that shows you were you are in the maze) im using [code]onClipEvent (load) {
// Choose a movespeed
moveSpeed = 20;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
if (_root.Walls.hitTest(getBounds(_root).xMax, _y, true)) {
} else {
this._x += moveSpeed;
}
// Move Right
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {
if (_root.Walls.hitTest(_x, getBounds(_root).yMin, true)) {
} else {
this._y -= moveSpeed;
}
// Move Up
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)) {
if (_root.Walls.hitTest(_x, getBounds(_root).yMax, true)) {
} else {
this._y += moveSpeed;
}
// Move Down
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
if (_root.Walls.hitTest(getBounds(_root).xMin, _y, true)) {
} else {
this._x -= moveSpeed;
}
// Move Left
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.player._x > 500) {
this._x -= 10;
tellTarget ("_root.walls") {
_x -= 10;
}
}
if (_root.player._x < 50) {
this._x += 10;
tellTarget ("_root.walls") {
_x += 10;
}
}
if (_root.player._y > 350) {
this._y -= 10;
tellTarget ("_root.walls") {
_y -= 10;
}
}
if (_root.player._y < 50) {
this._y += 10;
tellTarget ("_root.walls") {
_y += 10;
}
}
}[code]

so if i want the walls so you cant move through them what code should i use on the walls of the maze?

How In The World?
This is an incredible site. Does anyone know how they do this? Got to http://xenao.com/
Click on contact. Type in "a/any"name in the name field and click submit. It checks for blank fields then goes back to the form and retains your name. Also, how do they do the word wrap in the "message" section? Whew. Thanks alot...

What In The World?
Alright this is really weird. I have a site I'm working on (before you ask, I'm sorry but no, I'm not able to allow you to see it) and there's a bunch of pages, each of which has the same preloader. And by same I mean a direct copy and paste from one to the next.

On every page but one it works exactly like you would expect. The code is:

(frame 1)

Code:
percent = Math.floor((this.getBytesLoaded() / this.getBytesTotal())*100);
percentText = percent + "%";
totalStuff = this.getBytesTotal();

(frame 5)

Code:
if(percent < 100)
gotoAndPlay(1);

percentText and totalStuff feed in to a dynamic textbox on the stage.

Same with every file, mind you. What happens is all the other pages show whatever they have loaded. But, on one of the pages it stays blank for a few minutes (the page is 4ish mb... the others rang from a couple hundred kilobytes to more than 9mb) then quickly jumps to 90 some then to 100.

I do not believe it is the code or the preloader, but actually something with Flash. There are a bunch of .jpgs and .pngs that I imported in to the errorenous file.

Ive also put a distinguishing mark on the first frame on the stage so that I know if it's actually there. This mark, like the rest of the file, does not appear on the stage until it's 90% loaded.

It's like the preloader isn't being loaded first, so the user waits with no indication of what is happening. There's nothing but 2 text fields to load on the preloader... so its not like there is an enormous background image to load or anything. The preloader is definately the first scene, and I have the load order the same for each file (bottom up... although top down didnt make any difference for me).

I'm completely out of ideas. I must somehow be able to tell it to load the preloader first. Any clue what's going on here?

The Whole World Is Mad About XML, Why?
Hi,

I've created a simple database program that stores the data in a .txt file. It works well and loads/saves fast. I'm thinking of expanding this program, but whats holding me up is that i'm not sure if I should convert everything over to use XML.

So my question is, should I do that? what are the advantages over using a .txt file for a database. Is using XML just a fashion?

thanks for any advice.
boombanguk

The Whole World Is Mad About XML, Why?
Hi,

I've created a simple database program that stores the data in a .txt file. It works well and loads/saves fast. I'm thinking of expanding this program, but whats holding me up is that i'm not sure if I should convert everything over to use XML.

So my question is, should I do that? what are the advantages over using a .txt file for a database?. Is using XML just a fashion?

thanks for any advice. (sorry about re posting this!, but I need to start!)

World Map
Hi there,

does anybody have template *swf of world map with country borders? If yes send please to my email bigmad@bigmad.net .

How In The World Do I Do This?
Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out how to do something. I have a main swf file with multiple layers. One has a container movieclip called "bgContainer" (that's the instance name) and another layer has a container movieclip called "playerContainer".

Then I load another swf, background.swf, into bgContainer.

Now the problem. background.swf has movieclips in the library (e.g. "tree" (that's the linkage identifier for exporting)). I want to attach "tree"s to the main movie's playerContainer. Because I want the player to be able to walk in front of or behind the trees (depending on the depth of a tree vs. the depth of the player's image).

Unfortunately, someone told me that you cannot attach library items to a .swf movie other than the .swf that includes the library items. Meaning I can't attach the background library trees to the main movie. Is this so? Why would Flash be so stupid? And if true, then how could I simulate what I want to do above?

Thanks for any ideas.

Cfc Hello World ;;
Hi.. ive done some small apps with flash mx 2004 using cfcs to update/delete/edit dbs.. and ive just recently got flash 8.. im trying to just get a hello world to work and i cant even manage that.. ive looked around for nearly week for tutorials/working exmaples.. and i cant find anything ;;

the best ive found has been in the help files.. so ive tried to alter it.. But im not the best at programming by any means and i dont understand the help info they give

i have the feeling that im completely wrong.. if anyone could help i would be eternally gratefuly..

can someone tell me point me the right direction..

cfc :

</cffunction>

<cffunction name="sayHello" access="remote">
<cfreturn "Hello World">
</cffunction>

flash 8 : edited from help files

import mx.remoting.Service;
// import Service class
import mx.rpc.FaultEvent;
// import FaultEvent class
import mx.remoting.PendingCall;
// import PendingCall clsas
import mx.rpc.ResultEvent;
// import ResultEvent class
import mx.rpc.RelayResponder;
// import RelayResponder class
mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug.initialize();
custService = new Service("http://localhost:8300/flashservices/gateway", null, "survey", null, null);
// connect to remote service
var pc:PendingCall = myService.sayHello();
// call service method
pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "getData_Result", "getData_Fault");
trace("no response from server yet.");
function getData_Result(re:ResultEvent):Void {
// receive result
trace(result);
}
function getData_Fault(fe:FaultEvent):Void {
// receive fault
trace("got the response");
}

thanks for any help

Stephen

World Map - How'd They Do That?
Can someone give me tips on how to create something like this:

http://www.china-airlines.com/cinfs/eroutec.htm

Thanks!

How In The World Do You Do This?
I'm trying to bring in external text in the form of paragraphs and titles. I want to create text boxes for the paragraphs that fit exactly to the number of lines the paragraph will require. I want to do this so when I place them in a vertical line I can space them evenly.

If I just create a text box a certain size and the text only ends up being 1 line and the text box I created allows for 3 lines then the space between the paragraphs with less than 3 lines is much greater. Is there a way to create a text box based on your text and not size?

Thanks

Hello World
I am very new to Flash. I have about a week of experience. I would like to know how to create a function library.

I put the following code into a standard text file named mylib.as

function helloworld()
{
trace("hello world");
}

created a new flash project named test.fla

code in frame 1 layer 1
#include "mylib.as"
helloworld();

wow. it works. However, what is the preferred method of sharing code across flash .fla and .swf files?? How do I create my own function libraries and include them in my .fla projects??

Thanks

Hello World Help
I am a newbie to Flash Media Development Server 3, on Vista, trying to get the Hello World sample to work.
When I follow the instructions and place the Hello World folder in the applications folder and try to test the movie, I get a "read only" error. I have used the publish settings to make sure the default paths are used. I read about MS file folder permissions using cmd prompt ATTRIB, but discovered if I place the Hello World folder on my desktop I don't get the "read only" error.

I'm seeing the connect button, when I publish to html, but when I hit the button I just get the disconnect button, and no "Hello World".

I have the .as, .fla, .swf files on my desktop Hello World folder, and the .asc in the applications/Hello World folder.

Could someone give me some advice on how to get Hello World working?

Thank You.

HOW IN THE WORLD?
http://firstbornmultimedia.com click portfolio.... how the heck is this done. Can someone please expain? thanks

World Map
started making this for the fx comp but realised it is too processor intensive.
started with a bitmap of the world and then used the commented out code to generate the arrays.
http://www.fmx6.com/teststuff/worldmap.html

How In The World Is This Done?
http://www.asymptote.net/

I'd love to know where to start looking so I can reproduce this menu system? any pointers much appreciated!!

How In The World Do They Do This?
http://www.asymptote.net/

I'd love to know where to start looking so I can reproduce this menu system? any pointers much appreciated!!

How In The World?
Ok, I am getting pretty good at flash (at least I think) however how do you make a flash site like this? Where would one even start? There has to be somekind of reading I could do to accomplish this. Please advise smart flash people. Thank you

http://www.templatehelp.com/preset/p...54x7lHg265esQR

Thanks again

How In The WORLD
How in the world is this done. Someone please give advice. Thank you.

http://www.cpluv.com/www/creativenetwork

World Map
Hi All,

Does anyone know how to create a world map in Flash? I have an example if you go to "montblanc.com" and click on the "Boutique Locator" link on the bottom left corner.

Play around with it because it can get pretty detailed. Anyway, I am creating a "Distribution" page for my website and am looking to create a really cool world map in Flash.

Thanks!

World Map
Hello,

I have drawn out this world map and wanted to show all the places I have visited, and places I will be going to visit. I'm not really sure the best way of doing this though.

so each dot is placed where the city is, as you hover over the dot, the city name appears (it's just a button). is there an efficent way of doing this through script? I can easily place the dots, but the naming of each city im not sure how to do.

cheers

HOW IN THE WORLD?
http://firstbornmultimedia.com click portfolio.... how the heck is this done. Can someone please expain? thanks

World Map
anyone knows how to create a mc like the one in www.nec.com with the world map and when you move your mouse over the map also moves.
thanks

World Map?
anyone know where I can find a good world map that isn't skewed somehow? I've looked on google and such but couldn't find anything to work with. I just need a world map with one color on it and no layer effects or anything like that.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

World Map
I'm being cheeky but does anyone know where there is a free basic world map with xml feed data? I would do it myself but I need it in a rush (as usual!)
Thanks!

DUMBEST Q IN THE WORLD FROM ME
Alright
the ultimate newbie question
i've made a little digiport type thing
and i've got a few scenes and a button on each all i want the buttons to do is be able to go forward or back on the scenes

i've tried

on (press) {
gotoAndPlay (2);
}

or gotoAndPlay (nextScene);
or whatever
it just ends up running through every scene over and over
HEEEEEEEEEEELP PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE

thank you!!!

Outlined World Map

i need an OUTLINED world map in vector format...can n e one help me with that....??thnx

i need an OUTLINED world map in vector format...can n e one help me with that....??
thnx