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Quick Quick....masking Problelm
Hi everyone
Um facing a problem regarding masking
well, i know how to mask texts with objects that I CREATE like a circle, for example the masked layer has text & the mask layer has a circle that I DRAW USING FLASH...this if fine...it works well
My problem is my masking does not work when i the mask layer has an object that is imported, for example an imported heart instead of a drawn circle....it does not work at all....!!!!
What's the problem?? & How could i solve it??
Any help is highly appreciated
thanks in advance

Quick Question = Quick Answer
I have a movie with an animation on one layer. Just a motion tween over 5 frames. In this movie I also want to target a blank clip and have another .swf load into that clip.

I'm putting the loadmovie script on a blank frame in my actions layer (frame 1) telling the .swf to load into the blank clip.

nothings happening? any fixes?

Project Opp - Quick $ Quick Job
I have a project that requires a rotating menu. It needs to be done today. If anyone is interested they should reply with their email address or send an email to eerkel @ hotmail .com.

I will then send a Fireworks file that shows clearly how the menu should operate.

Thanks

I Need Your Quick Assistance, Just A Quick "check, See, Tell"
Hello! Could you please go to this address

http://www.geocities.com/friendlyflashfun/clock.html

And tell me if my clock shows up?? I have FlashMX 7 Pro and it doesn't show up on my computer.

If it does or doesn't show up on yours could you please tell me how to correct this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Kelly

Quick Bit Of Help Please
I am creating a site in flash 5. All that I need to complete the look is a moving background.

I would like flash to randomly chose one of number of movies clips e.g.
background1.swf background2.swf background3.swf

Then after it has played to end, choose another to play.
I have looked at other posts, but cant figure out how to transfer it into this.

Quick Help
ok, lets say i have a button, and when you click on the button i want a text box to say whatever is in a text file, is this possible using actions?

Need Quick Help
hi there

I am doin a job where i want to make a slide menu. Its actionscript but it dont function and i dont know what the problem is, in another fla it does function, i downloaded it from here. Please if anybody who knows about slide menu and know actionscript good or so. I want to send the fla to you, so can have a quick look over it and tell me what the problen is.

Please i need help,

zheelo

Quick Help Please
Hi there

Can i make an if statement with, if the mouse courser is out of the swf then do something. If yes how. Can flash recognize when the m.courser is out of the swf???

please help me
thanks
zheelo

HELP QUICK PLEASE
Just downloaded the swish demo and it won't let me use it without a key ?
There is a key displayed but not accepted !

Please help,

Regards
Mick

Quick Help...
I need to some help on linking a button from a movie to a Scene. I have tried all I can think of in order for it to work. Here is the Action Scripting I am using on the button:

on (release) {
gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", "Friends");
}

Yet evertime I run the scene it just replays the current movie again...

can anyone help me here???

Quick ?
if (_ymouse>70) {
reelSpeed = (_xmouse-center)/10;
reelPos = Math.round (reelPos+reelSpeed);

I would like to constrain this action to happen within (_ymouse>70 & _ymouse<125)

What operator should I use?
How would I write this?

thanks
sean

"Without deviation (from the norm),'progress' is not possible."

Two (hopefully) Quick Qs...
Ok my first problem is lame and is definately suited for this board.. How do I link a picture to a web site?

And now for moy OTHER question.. How can i make something transparent it flash? i make the background transparent in photoshop, but when i copy it over to flash the background is white, and i cant figure out how to get rid of it... (is there some kind of magic wand tool like in PS?)

Please Help It's Quick
I am new in flash and
I download a SWI file , and i have flash mx ,i only can read (Fla, and Swf), how does I read the swi file???

thanks,,,,

Its Quick , Please Help
why can´t i import an mp3 file, when i try to import it to the library or to a frame, it says "flash doesn´t recognize the file format," then it passes to quicktime and says that were errors reading them, but this passes with each mp3 file i want to import to my movie, please help....

Quick Help Me....
I got 5 days to complete all my flash files. I already got some codes for a helpful flash helpers. But now I got another questions.

I using a drag and drop objects.
My questions is how to let the users know if they have drag and drop the objects correctly.
E.G. I have two lots of objects which will be drag and drop accordingly to two groups Animals and transport.
How am I going to let the users know if they have drag and drop the objects at the place. And how to tell if they have do it wong.

I need help badly...5 more days to hand in my project..........

I Need Some Quick Help...
Can you tell me how to make the squares go the other way? I need them to go from the right to the left. If you could tell me how I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your time.

This is the link to the file:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...5269/index.php

Can Someone Help Me Quick It'll Only Take U A Min
can someone please download the attached swf file, import it into flash and save it and post it back up as a FLASH 5 fla please!

i done it at home in flash mx and im in uni now and i need it as a flash 5 fla urgent!

thanks!

Slinky

Quick Fix?
Ok, so I've wasted all day on this trying to set variables, I'm wondering if theres an easy way to do this.

I have fifteen button MC's. Each one changes some variables, sets some dynamic text and tells a "fader" MC ( a white rectangle on a higher layer that tweens its alpha down to 0, causing the illusion that the text is fading in) to play. The second time the button is clicked, the text "fades" back out. The problem is that when i click on one button, (b1) the text fades in fine, but if i then press another button (b2) the fader does not work properly.

I donno if thats enough info to solve the problem, but maybe someone has some insight or knows of a similar problem?

thanks in advance.

Need Quick Help If Possible
Hi guys/gals...

I've created a portfolio in Flash MX based on the pre-created template...you can go here to view the movie:

http://www.ks-studios.com/Jeff/port.html

The portfolio has "prev" and "next" buttons, as well as an "autoplay" to go through the slideshow...with a delay of 4 seconds between each image. Each image is on a separate keyframe in one layer....1 frame per picture.

What I need (quickly if possible) is to know how to START the movie on autoplay....as of now, when it loads, you have to click "Autorun" to make it autorun.

any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Plz Hav A Quick Look At This
http://images.flashkit.com/movies/An...ortch-4974.swf
i would like to make something similar, from a video that i took.
is there any software to make these kind of thing...
if u got any idea plz tell me. thanx in advance

Quick - For(i=0;i<100;i++) - Help
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
_width = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
for (i=0; i<100; i++) {
trace("looping");
_width=i;
}
}
This is inside a loading bar... I want its width
to increase. The problem is that is just keeps going,
but with no visual clue. The trace keeps going way past 100,
and the bar never grows, it just hits 100.

What am I doing wrong?

-Tyler

Just A Quick One....
i have completely forgotten how to launch a new window (using java to set properties) from within flash! i had i written down somewhere... any help? cheers guys(n gals)

Just A Quick One......
I would like to know how to count the number of images in a given direcotry, Can anyone help?

Thanks
Paul

Quick ?
I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. HOW DO I GET RID OF THE DEAD SPACE BASICALLY HOW CAN I GET THE HTML PAGE TO DISPLAY THE FLASH PAGE THE WAY I DESIGNED IT IN FLASH? WITHOUT THE OPEN SPACE, I WOULD LIKE IT TO FIT THE ENTIRE WINDOW, WIDTH WISE?

Quick One
Hi Guys,

i know this is an easy one. I have a CD rom exe presentation with an auto run command on it, now I want my movie to open in full screen right away. I know this has to do with the FS Command but just can't get it to work. I know I'm missing something simple - halp appreciated.

Cheers,
Å

Quick Help
I must be stupid.
Flash MX
Scene1 and Scene 2.
Scene 1 has a movie, inside this movie is a button.
This button should, when clicked start playing frame 1 in Scene 2.
Scene 2 also has a movie in it.

When I click button inside movie in Scene 1....it restarts Scene 1 Frame 1....not Scene 2 Frame 1.

What commands do i use to get this right...and how do i use them.

Frustrated....cause i aint stupid....why can't i get it right.

J

Quick Help, Please
first, sorry for the subject line. it's just that i'm in a jam and need some help. so, if you're reading this, thanks for taking the time.

ok, imagine this. i have an interactive arena where users can choose to select from a variety of objects to request via getURL when they are done with this flash piece.

every time they choose something, it populates a variable called "requestList". when they are done with the interactive arena, they go to the request page where they are shown a dynamically generated list of all the items they did choose as well as the ones they didn't.

if they want to select more items, they can do it here. by checking on the box of an item they didn't select, it adds it to the requestList variable without problem. however, when they uncheck it, it clears the whole requestList and therein lies the problem.

here is the code for the checkbox for when a user selects an additional item on the final page:

_root.request.makeChoice(this, true);

request is simply a blank movie in the root that initiates the function.

and here is the makeChoice function:

function makeChoice(obj, addChoice) {
var num = parseInt(obj._name);
var state = (_root.main.requestList.indexOf(" " + num + " ") != -1);

if (addChoice && !state) {
_root.main.requestList += num + " ";
} else if (!addChoice && state) {
var tempList = requestList.split(" ")
_root.main.requestList = " ";
for (var i = 1; i < (tempList.length - 1); i++) {
if (parseInt(tempList[i]) != num) {
_root.main.requestList += tempList[i] + " ";
}
}
}
this[num].gotoAndStop(addChoice ? 2 : 1);
trace("requestList:" + _root.main.requestList);
}

my theory is such that i imagine i must change the code on the checkbox button to say that if it is already checked and they check it again, simply remove it from the requestList and don't clear everything. i'm not sure how to do that.

sorry about the length of this message. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks! - matt.

Quick Key?
Is there a quick key (like F6 inputs a keyframe) that will delete a frame? Right now if I need to shorten the frames it takes me forever to go through and individually erase each layers specific frames. Thanks.

~ Seretha

Please Help Quick
hi!
can anyone help us- we have put a movie into flash but all our other layers have dissapeared when we view it. Only the movie plays- we know this is something probably really simple but we can figure out what we are doing wrong please help

Here's A Quick One...
Is there a way to do

Code:
html:
body onunload="..."
in Flash? Maybe

Code:
actionscript:
on (movieUnload) {...}
or something? I need to know because I'm making a chat room and I'm trying to figure out how to detect a user leaving the chat.

Thanks

Please Help ---Quick...
I just uploaded a little flash animation to a site that I have been working on...Is it possible to have a picture show up in the spot where the flash animation is located in case a viewer doesn't have flash...

Thanks for your help!!

This Should Be Quick
Just need a little help with Flash and window interaction.

This is a pop under question.

Right now the animation in the flash file doesn't kick off until you roll over the creative. I was hoping there was a solution so that the animation would kick off once the window becomes active?

Any ideas?

Please Help Quick
I have attached my .fla file to this post that I need help on. I want it so that when you hold up, the back image moves down and when you hold down it moves up. I have tried my hardest to get it to work but can't seem to do it, so look at my code and correct it if you can please, and send the .fla file to kaoru_cut@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your time.

Quick
I have a Empty MC that I am loading a .swf externally. shouldn't this work??

onClipEvent(load){
_root.holdermain.loadMovie("Spa_menu_main.swf","ho ldermain");
}

Quick Help
how do i write an actionscript that enables a button to replace a movie clip with another movie clip. i want to use it to change my navigation on my site from one set of buttons to another set in the same place when a given button is pressed. any help would be great..thx.

A Quick One...
This should only take a few seconds - in Flash MX where do you find the frameloaded command that you would use for a preloader [frameloaded (scene,frame number)] if you're using the Normal Mode & not Expert Mode?

Some Quick Help...
I thought I should post this here, since this forum has the most views...

I am working on the interface for my site, and I got done with the nav bar, fully confident that it would work. Tested it, and found an error with my buttons. Apparently you can't use effects from two buttons placed on top of each other... Hard to explain, just look.
http://www.seenew.net/onsetTesting/onsetIndex.html

I want the menu to drop down when you roll over "navigation" but when it does, the hit area for the button that keeps the nav bar down (while your mouse is over it) covers the hit areas of the actual buttons that I need to use! You can see, the rollover effect that was intended is not working now...

Any ways I can correct this? Or another method?

I can upload the .fla...

Quick Fix Or #$%ed ?
If this is the wrong forum, please post in the best.

My client wanted the entire site in Flash. I made the pages all seperate swf's that are loaded by the main swf.

but now wants to link to specific pages from his weekly newsletter. Is their a way to do this with Java Script or something?

Or is he screwed and have to link everything to the homepage?

Can Y'all Take A Quick Look At This
Hi there,

I'm really going nuts here. I've made this website for our new company, but i've been getting some remarks to it doesn't open in every browser.

Now you should know that html and javascript is not my strong point and i've tried exploring the flasdb pop up generator, but i'm a little confused.

It works fine on my pc (win2000 with IE6), our office pcs (winXP also with IE6) and the mac (osX ith Safari or IE?).

Could you guys do me a favor a check out the url for me? and let me know if it works on your computer (platform, browser)?
That would we an enourmous help.

http://www.apluz.be

And also if anyone has some ideas to improve the browser compatibility, your thoughts ar more than welcome.

(The thing I'm tryng to accomplish is a fullscreen popup (not really FULLscreen, but with the browser still visible).)

Thanks for your time
Wim

Need A Quick Help
hi,
I was just wondering if there is anyway that you can assign a button, to go to a frame inside a symbol.

Thanks

Need A Quick Tip
Does anyone know how to create a animation (for a btn) that plays backwards on mouse out? Example http://www.ignition-media.net/index2.htm in the photo's section.
Thanks

Quick Help
Ok, here's the deal, I need this to check the username witch will be typed into username.text (input) and then the code shuld check to see if it is a username (as in the code below, test, test2, ect.) and display in so.text the outcome if it is passed or not. I have somehow come accross an error witch has the code not diplay anyhting at all in the so.text dinamic text feild. Thanks for the time and I would appreceate all help.

on (press) {
user = ["test", "test2", "test3"];
logged = _root.username.text;
for (var i = 0; i<user.length; i++) {
equaled = user[i] == logged && passes[i] == passed;
if (equaled) {
_root.so.text = "Passed";
break;
} else if (i == user.length-1) {
_root.so.text = "Not Passed";
}
}
}

Quick HELP
Ok, I'm at school and have a limited time to get a responce. I need some qyuick help with dynamic text. Ok, I have the code

_root.so.text = "Passed";

Ofcose i have the on press and what not, but ok... I have teh dymaic text INCENCE NAME as so . Do I change that to so.text? Or put so in the veriable? Please respond, I don't have my other project here with me at school so I cant take it off that.

Thanks,
rc