Flash :: Showing-through

Controls Not Showing Up On Page, But Showing Local And Via Direct URL. Why?
Hi everyone,

I'm new here, but a Flash guru I work with said this was the best site for Flash questions and answers.

My understanding of how FLA, FLV and SWF files communicate with each other is somewhat limited, but I get the general concept.

I turned an 11 minute video clip into a FLV file and it looks great (320x240, 30 frames, good audio settings). I then brought it into Flash 8 and chose the clear control overlay and then saved the FLA, the main SWF and the control SWF. I have all four files. All in the same folder. Locally, and on my web server.

Here's the catch. If I double click the SWF file locally, or enter the URL directly, I see the control bar. If I access the page where the SWF is both Object and Embedded, there is no bar. Because I can see the bar locally in Flash Player, and with three browsers (Firefox, Safari and Opera) with a direct URL to the main .SWF video file, I know the coding from Flash 8 was solid and the files are communicating properly. Therefore, my hunch is that I need to add a line of HTML or swap out some parameters in the page source. I see no settings in GoLive (which I know pretty well at this point) that reference controllers or secondary SWF files; i.e., the control bar SWF.

The file is both "embedded" and an "object" when I put it into the HTML layout in GoLive.

Any idea what I did wrong? I know it's one of those simple settings somewhere, but after eight hours of going back and forth, saving and resaving, I'm pretty frustrated. My web software is Flash 8, Flash Player 8 and GoLive CS2.

Any guidance is appreciated. This one stumped my Flash buddy too.

Thanks to all, and I hope I gave enough info. I usually tend to type WAY too much stuff!

Gary

Tween Not Showing, Only Key Frames Showing
I have a tween of a panel that comes into view on rollover of a button. The panel is of course masked, nothing out of the ordinary, and indeed all worked fine up until about 10 minutes ago.

Now i cant see the tween, i only see the panel when it is fully extended - rolloff the button andthe panel does not slide away as it used to with a tween but instead just disappears.

Does anyone know why this would happen.

I have been working with Flash5 for the past 9 months so am not a novice, but i have never encountered this before.

It is really weird, if i view the movieclip within the library window, everything plays fine, however out on the stage i only get the key frames of the animation.

Any views?>......

Showing-through
hi,
sometimes layered vector objects are showing-through the top-level Symbol, even if the top-level one-coloured vector object-symbol has its own Alpha=100% (Color=None)). For example I have vector object on bottom layer, than text on upper layer and then I superimpose it all with one-coloured vector object. so now should be visible only one-coloured vector object. but sometimes the objects under are showing through, sometimes are showing through harder, sometimes lighter, sometimes are not showing through. Why?
For better understanding see:
http://stef.host.sk/Flash_Quest/hardy1.htm
http://stef.host.sk/Flash_Quest/hardy2.htm

it doesn´t matter, if for my top-level Symbol is using Alpha, Tint, or None coloring. The showing through is visible always. What I forgot to say, is that showing-through of underlying Vector objects is visible only if the top-level symbol (through which are underlying objects showing-through) is MASKED.It´s very interesting, that if I in workonig .fla file just hide the Layer with Mask, the showing-through of underlying vector objects is not visible anymore. for example see:
http://stef.host.sk/Flash_Quest/hardy3.htm

so, anybody else didn´t met this problem?
the problem may be in such thing, that this flash is a large presentation, so my timeline has cca. 50 Layers (if not more), composed of many masked Layers, but I don´t think there are any unregular graphic solutions...
I don´t know...
thanx anyway

Mx Swf Not Showing Up In Mac...?
i made a decent website for a client that doesnt wanna show up on a mac or netscape. maybe theres a solid piece of html somebody knows i can drop into dreamweaver? here's a link to the site http://andybumatai.com/flash.htm and my html now. thanks for any help

<html>
<head>
<title>flash</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#6B767E" text="#000000" background="bgandy.jpg" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" LEFTMARGIN="0" RIGHTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" BOTTOMMARGIN="0">
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="1024" height="768" align="top">
<param name=movie value="andy.swf">
<param name=quality value=high><param name="SCALE" value="noborder">
<embed src="andy.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="0" height="0" align="top" scale="noborder">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>

.00 Not Showing Up
Please forgive my ignorance. I've built a form that calculates a price (based on the quantity of product ordered), tax, shipping and total.

Problem is I want the sums to show up in my dynamic text boxes as "$125.00", for example, not simply "$125". (I need to see the two spaces before the decimal point.)

The dollar sign is not important as it is placed as a static text box.

Thanks in advance for all help.

Just Showing Off....
Those of you who've read my posts know that I try to push the envelope on what you can do with Actionscript. This evening, I found a way to do something I've been thinking about for a while -- interact with stuff the user draws in real time. I was starting to think it couldn't be done.

Check it out here

Swf Not Showing
Hi everyone,

Why is it that when ever I export an .swf and then click on the swf nothing is visible and no sound works...

however, when I link it to a html file (when I publish it)...it works

Its starting to annoy me that the only way I can view my work is if I publish with html...

any suggestions would be really appreciated...

thanks.

Swf Not Showing Up
I have a flash banner that is about 42 kb. It seems that it is too large to load, maybe I'm wrong. It has only worked on the my computer. I checked all the sources, they're good to go.

The .fla is attached, and the contents of the page can be found at http://free.hostultra.com/~FaithOmit.../filename.html . I have tried making a simple preloader, but that didn't work either. Can someone help me make this .swf viewable?

Swf Not Showing In Win Ie
Big problem, hope someone can help, i have a page with an swf on it, it works in every browser except ie, in ie the swf doesn't load, even right-clicking where the movie should be brings up the ie menu instead of the flash player one.

any ideas?

CSS Not Showing Up
wdf is up with this heres me code

PHP Code:

//Load CSS

var myCSS:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();
myCSS.load("/styles.css";
myCSS.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
myBox.StyleSheet = myCSS;
myWords.load("/Lorem.txt";
} else {
myBox.text = "error occured ok";
}
};

//Functions

var myWords:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
myWords.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
myBox.htmlText = this.myText;
} else {
myBox.text = "sorry";
}
};

i get no error messages, my Text Loads up but my CSS is not being applyed what am i doing wrong?

#s1, Etc., Showing In URL
Hi all,

Hi all,

I have a 5 scene movie that runs on my home page. The ref' number for each scene appears at the end of the page URL in the address bar, as if each different scene were a separate page (separate URL):

For example, . . . mydomain.com/home.html#s1 (. . then #s1Out, then #s2, then #s2Out, etc., as the movie plays through its five scenes).

I think Google bot is seeing this as duplicate content, even though I have only one true home page.

Any idea what's causing this? How to fix?

Thanks for your help!

Swf Not Showing In IE 7
OK, so I created a few swf files throughout a website. Now, in FF and IE 6 everything is viewing fine but in IE 7 all of the swf's are viewable except on one page http://www.its2cool.com/photos.shtml.. I don't understand why this one swf file is not showing up while all the other ones are fine. Any help on this one?

CSS Not Showing Changes
Hi folks.

I'm busy following a "training from the source book" to learn Flash. I'm doing well so far except that the style sheet part wont work. I've created my stylesheet file styles.css as follows
P
{
FONT-SIZE: 24px;
COLOR: red;
FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif
}
.healdine
{
FONT-SIZE: 24px;
COLOR: blue;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif
}

My Action script is...

var flash_css = new TextField.StyleSheet();
flash_css.load("styles.css");
flash_css.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if(success) {
review_txt.styleSheet = flash_css;
}
else {
trace("Error loading CSS file");
}
};

But headline size's not 24 , & paragraphs color is not red. In fact, the css file did not work... Didn't get any script error or load error..

SWF Not Showing In IE
Howdy!

Man, I'm having the darnedest time getting an SWF to show in IE 6 or 7! Imean, I can see it in Firefox, but not IE. I don't get it. Here's my code:

<tr>
<td>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="202" height="130" id="media_center2up" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="media_center2up.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="media_center2up.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="202" height="130" name="media_center2up" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object></td>
</tr>

I sincerely appreciate any help and insite anyone can shine down on me. I'm going bananas!

Best,
HM

BR Tag Not Showing.
All the other tags work EXCEPT 'br'.

Here's the code:

ActionScript Code:
var video_text:TextField = new TextField();
video_holder.addChild (video_text);
video_text.htmlText = "Blah Blah";
video_text.selectable = false;
video_text.multiline = true;
video_text.wordWrap = false;
video_text.x = 7;
video_text.y = 3;
video_text.width = 250;
video_text.height = 250;

FLV Not Showing Up
I've got some FLV files (inside of a SWF) that work fine on the web but aren't showing up when running off the HD or CD, and yes, I've made sure the contentPath is pointing to the local file. Stranger still is they work when I "Test Movie" from FLA, but not after the movie has been published.

FLA CS3 - Mac OSX 10.4.10

any insight would be greatly appreciated!

thanks, Dave

Nothing Is Showing Up
Out of no where, the fills of anything, and my images wont appear on the stage, it all just shows up ass an outline. When I test the movie it's showing up fine, but while on the stage I can't even select it.

It was working perfectly fine yesterday, I did absolutley nothing to any settings. It's still working in old files though, but when I make any new projects it just doesn't work.

Edited: 10/14/2007 at 09:32:15 PM by Faavtro

Help SWF Not Showing Up
I don't know why
But my flash isn't showing up on other computers. It shows up on mine and I checked the path several times.
here's the link
http://yael.pbcsnews.com/lccj/tri.html

Edited: 12/10/2007 at 10:53:25 AM by Yael_K

Showing All The Fla
In flash i have this file designed and it runs off the screen...which is what i want. I know you can make this work in java but is there anyway to display this in flash?

http://www.versusmediagroup.com/nextlevel

Thanks

A Little Showing Off
Firstly id like to thank kirupa for having all these great tutorials on the site, i truly could not have done it without all the step by step instructions on this site.

I'd also like to thank the members of this forum who helped me when i was stuck at 4 am, drinking my 4th coffee, and not being able to figure out why my *insert newbie flash problem* wouldnt work

so thank you again, and here is my site

http://www.escapedroute.com/

(is this spam?)

Flv Not Showing
I have a problem with an SWF file playing a flv movie.

It works fine on a local machine but when i transfer it to my windows 2003 server it just doesnt play at all.

I have changed the mine type for .flv to video/x-flv but still no joy.

Can anyone help?

Swf Not Showing?
hey guys in dreamweaver i insert media the swf file.

upload it to my server.

when i call the swf directly tru the browser it works

but on my page nothing shows??i checked the path and evrything is good??

Showing The Time Of An MC?
Hi
I have various songs as seperate swf which are loaded into a target into a player, these swf files are streamed. Anyway, I have been able to get a timeline which shows how much of the song has played, but i would now like to add a time which shows how much time of the song has played.

I would prefer the actionscripting for this app to be in Flash 4 but i don't mind Flash 5, if it is not possible in Flash 4.

Thanks in advance

Ashwin

Showing A Time Of A MC?
Hi
I have a music player, where the music files are loaded from external swf. into a MC in my main player.
I would like to display the times in these songs.
Something like the time on the music player at http://www.spalab.com (notice if you ffwd or rewind a song the time changes accordingly)
I don't thinks i can use getimer() because when i ffwd or rwd the song the time will not change accordingly.

Any ideas?

Hope you can help

Thanks
Ash

Showing A MC W/ Actionscript...
i want to show a movieclip whenever a certain button is pressed and a certain movieclip is at a certain position... i want it to work like this:

if (movieclip1._x = 0 && movieclip1._y = 5) {
showMovieClip(movieclip2, movieclip2._x = -10, movieclip2._y = 10)
}

I know that there is no function "showMovieClip" (i made it up to show what i'm looking for), but i want to know how i could do something like that

Preloader Not Showing
Well, i have a preloader using getbytesloaded and all tha jazz. It works fine on the main movie, but, if i use the same loader on a loaded movie, only ofcourse chaging the _level0 to whatever level i load the swf to, it will not show the status (percentage) of the load. The loader works as far as waiting till the load is done then plays, but just dont know y it wont show the status. Any ideas?

Showing Time
I am working on a flash piece that would display the amount of time a user has spent in a course. The time is being passed in seconds and then I am using code to break that up to hours, minutes, seconds. I've got the hour part under control, the minutes and the seconds are a little tricky. I found math.round(variable) which rounds the number up or down and this is great for hours, but for minutes, I need only the minutes like 121, I need 1, or 90, I need 30. A bit confusing. But, for example, I am trying to take the number 7285 and display that as 2 hours, 1 minute, and 25 seconds. I can't get substring to work on these numbers. I've tried toString as well and then substring, but to no avail. If any of you have any ideas, I would really love to hear them. Thanks a lot.

Johnny

Help With Showing Date
I am New to using flash.
Can someone help me with showing the date, for
e.g. 13/11/01. I can get the time working but i get
confussed to make the date work. Can
anyone help?

Loader Showing KB
How do I create a loader showing the amount of KB to go? Is there a command in Actionscript to find out how much as been loaded already?

Flash Showing Different On Mac Vs PC
Hello and thanks for all your help so far. I've done some very small intros for these webs: luhrs.com, mainship.com, and huntermarine.com and they show up and work great if your viewing on a PC. But look very different on a MAC.
ie..
1. At Luhrs.com, the popup window is too small for the animation. The bottom
1/3 is chopped off, so there is no place one can click on for more details.
2. At Mainship.com, the portion of the animation used for "click for
details" disappears before one can click on it.
3. At Huntermarine.com, the entire popup window is blank white.

Can anyone tell me what is going on?
Thanks so much,
Wowwie

It's Not Showing Totally.
I dunno what I did, but the other animation I put onto a page worked...but this one is missing the right and left side. All I'm seeing the middle part. Here's the site, let me know what you see http://www.neopets.com/~Piscean_Flame

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Oh yeah, I've tried adjusting the size (smaller and bigger) but I'm still not getting the sides in view.

Swf File Not Showing Up...
Hi all.

I am new to the board, glad to see so much active content.

I have a beta site up, but am puzzled as to why the two swf files are not showing up on my browser (upper 20% of browser, and left 25%).

Also, if the swf file on the left (a menu bar) DID show up, I am having some problems with that as well. I embedded the buttons in movie clips to allow dynamic display of titles, but when clicking on any of the first three all three of the corresponding URLs pop up. Any suggestions??? Thanks..

This is the site...
http://project.terrykim.net/hmis/index.html

Pop Up Window Showing Asp ?
Ok this is the deal...
Got a database in access with some results that i want to show so i was wondering how to make theese come up in a popup window instead of leaving the whole flashmovie..
Will be having up to 60 links with seperated id numbers got it working with one popup window straight to the results id a can pick a number by typing it directly in the html page where i call the popup function..but to be able to get all 60 results it seems that i need to have seperated pages for each number but there must be a way to call them all through flash???? just by renaming the links one by one??
or is it perhaps easier do do this through a txt file where a load all the links in a scroll where i point out the id numbers for the results_detail.asp page??? anyone got some ideas im stuck right now..

Preloader Not Showing Up
i made my preloader, i uploaded it to my site, i open it, loads the whole site without showing the preloader, maybe its just my computer but i dont know. can you check it out for me to see if it shows up on yours?
http://www.geocities.com/bmx_sk8er_2000/test.swf
the pictures were just to make the file bigger so it would actually load.

How Do You Go About Hiding And Showing MC
If i have 2 buttons that target MC 1 and MC 2

MC 1 = false
if MC 1 = true
else MC 1 = false

MC 2 = false
if MC 2 = true
else MC 2 false

((I think that is the logic????? i don't know))

if i want so hide MC 1 and show MC 2 when I click on button 2

Is there a tutorial out there?

Showing A Bubble Help.
Hi,
I am struck at one problem.
I have a requirement of showing a bubble (baloon type) help message when user clicks any MC. The bubble screen should be shown on top of the actual content. It should have ok button. Once user reads the help about the clicked MC, if he press OK button, the bubble help should be closed.
Please let me know implementation.

regards,
Praveen.

Animation Not Showing
I am attempting to post my first ever Flash animation. I have embedded it in a Web page made using Dreamwever. When I "preview in browser" all is fine. However, after putting it in my Web space, the animation won't render... the Web page comes up, but there's just a big white space where the animation should appear. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Suggestions? Advice? Help!

Too Much Tweenage Showing
I'm working in Flash 5, and when I access the project's library I see the elements I'm using, as well as a whole bunch of graphic clips labeled TWEEN. What's their purpose and how can I minimize them from accumulating in my Library?

Showing The Variables (PHP)
allright,
well I am having a hard time loading variables from a PHP .txt file. Keep in mind that what I'm asking is, not how to load variables from a .txt, but how to load them from a .txt that has been created by a .php. So like if a user submited their name, I would desplay it in a text.

Thanks in advanced

Loaded JPG Not Showing Up
hello!
So I have an empty MC on the root timeline called 'picContainer'
in the first frame I have a the following line of code...
picContainer.loadMovie("goddess.jpg");
nothing loads. Both the swf and the jpg are saved in the same directory...yada yada yada...

I also tried just loading a swf and it WORKED
picContainer.loadMovie("testSwf.swf");
So I know my path is right and that everything is named right.

I've done this before and it worked! Does anyone know of any wierd bugs with loading jpgs into Flash?

ideas...thoughts...encountered this before??

thanks,
morgan

Random Showing Of Mc
I was wondering if any one knows how to have an mc show at random times. I was trying to think of a way to call it from the library, and show it for a certain amount of time, and it disappears. I could just have the animation inside the mc, with filled and blank frames, but then it isn't random. Anyone know how I could do this? But I don't want it to random, if that makes sense. I want it to show atleast once every two minutes or so. Thanks for any suggestions.

Symbol Not Showing Up
I have text with the symbol é in my loaded text but it won't show up.all the other text shows up but not "é" here is how it looks like

Traditional off the shoulder ball gown with vintage inspired hand embroidery appliqu�to neckline.

Sample is soft white peau de soie.

This is messed up
It should be

Code:
appliquéd

I have tried macromedia's url encoding %E9 but it did not work.
Can anyone please have a look at this and let me know what I can do with this. I am about to get my ass kicked by my boss please help.
I have placed the file and the txt file so you can see what is happening.

Dhtml Not Showing Up
kai...

I'm working on flash mx doin all the stuff dat i needed...den i test movie, and all of a sudden my dyanmic textbox [script alredy put in] doesn't show up...n i also want it 2 scroll...xcept i cn't scroll it if i cn't work it....

plz help...iz a skool project....

Preloader Not Showing Up
I have an externally loaded movie clip that loads into another clip that is on level 9. The preloader works fine in the external swf, but when testing from the main movie, the preloader never shows up. The main movie just loads the entire clip, and then plays it? Fine for high speed, but it would be nice if you could see something happening if you are on dial-up, and you just see a black screen untill it loads.. any suggestions?

Mike

Preloader Not Showing Until 70%
I have made a preloader (in fact 2 completely diiferent preloaders) which doesn't seem to work.
It always starts at about 70%, then continues onwards, at which point my page works correctly.
I even tried a different version, which was a shell swf which loaded my main swf, which had exactly the same result.
I'm not loading any of the MCs to the stage thru script, they all sit on the stage on frame 1.
Has anyone got any ideas?

Image Showing Up Different On A MAC...?
Hi. I have a grey jpg as a background in a swf. On a PC it shows up perfectly, but for some reason on a MAC it comes up really light and looks pointless and hard to see. Everything else looks fine. So the question is can anyone shed light why the jpg looks different on a MAC?

Showing Coordinates
I'm tring to show the coordinates of my mouse cursos in my movie and do this by the help availeble in Flash MX.

Only everytime I try to run it I get this debug report:

Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

I have put the onClipEvent in the action of my movie clip.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Loading Bar Not Showing Up
i'm using a simple loading bar to show the progress of an externally loaded swf file. it works fine when i test the movie in flash and simulate the download speed, but when i upload it to the server it doesn't show. additionally i had a slide show with it that used the getTimer function and it worked fine in the test movie environment but not when it was an uploaded file. here's a link to the page if it helps anyone.
john oaks

Xml Seems To Load But Not Showing?
hi,

I am loading an xml file for a list of buttons on a menu an eg of the xml is

<client name = "button 1 name" link = "xml/client/client01.xml"></client>

there are any number of these (ded simple)

I have the xml object on the first frame where the loader is, I ALSO set about 3 other menus using the same syntax (different names)

Code:
clientXML = new Xml();
clientXML.ignoreWhite = true;
clientXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success == true) {
trace("clientXML success");
showClientMenu();
loading_client.gotoAndStop(1)
} else {
trace("fail");
}
};
When the entire mov has loaded I go to the main movs second frame and the xml doc is called there with another menus xml as follows

Code:
sectorXML.load("xml/sector/sector_list.xml");
clientXML.load("xml/client/client_list.xml");
the function that gets called when loaded is as follows

Code:
function showClientMenu() {
client_RootNode = clientXML.firstChild;
client_noOfItems = client_RootNode.attributes.number;
client_array = new Array();
client_array = client_RootNode.childNodes;
client_name_array = new Array();
client_link_array = new Array();
//------------------------------------
for (v=0; v<(sec_noOfItems); v++) {
client_name_array[v] = client_array[v].attributes.name;
client_link_array[v] = client_array[v].attributes.link;
}
client_menu.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
The problem is it works about 80% of the time on broadband and Ive only got it to work a couple of times on dial up

Sometimes it acts as if the xml has come in but wont show the buttons? and that code wotks.

Am I missing something, I'd rather not load one then the other.

Any help greatly appreciated

Cheers