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Some Basic Preloader Questions
some basic preloader questions

heh.. so in typical newbie fashion... i've created my
master piece.. stole some action scripts.. and somehow
pieced it all together... except for the preloader.

i dont really understand "scenes" and from what
i've been able to tell in the the tutorials i've seen
those are important in conection with preloaders!

i've downloaded a couple of preloader componets, but what
confuses me is they tell you to drop it into the
first frame of the movie.. well.. my movie has
4layers.. and each level only has one frame in it..

so where does it go?

i've tried a few tutorials.. i even once got the preloader
from a component to work.. but then when the movie loaded..
it started jumping back and forth from a blank black
screen (the background color)to the main movie..
and then to black.. then to movie.. then black... etc...

are there any idiot newbie proof preloader tutorials or compoents
out there that i can use for my completed movie, or if one of
you kind people could give me some insight as to what to do to
get a working preloader for my new "masterpice"!!!

cheers!

g-13

Basic Preloader Questions...
1.) When selecting/labeling the "last" frame(end) of the main movie, which layer do I select. There are quite a few "last" frames in my main movie...Same question for frame 1 of the preloader...

2.) On "scene 1" (my preloader) should the animation be a movie clip or just a layer with multiple keyframes?

3.) If I have a layer with multiple keyframes in sequence is there a way to select them all, move and resize them as one...I keep selecting the whole layer and making changes only to find out it edits only 1 keyframe at a time. As a movie clip this would be possible...

Most Basic Of Basic Questions
i just need to know how to do a navigation in flash...i have a lot of images so the most streamlined it can be the better...
for example, i want a series of buttons
and when you click one button, several come up, and those are buttons for images...nav, sub-nav.......ive been looking all day on how to do this, can anyone help, or direct me to a sight to help, or show me where i can download a sample file? im really desperate, deadline soon, nails bitten to the core, just need a simple website

Basic Questions
this is my site http://www.davidoffphotography.com/ I designed it a year ago and have forgotton some basic stuff. After the glint, my btns fade in. I would also like a photo to appear and fade out after either a gallery is selected or the testimonial, pricing or contact page is selected. Any ideas?
2nd question) A friend helped with this contact page that I have attached. Now I want it to work. Do I simply create a btn and link it to this MC. Sorry, but I haven't really looked at this stuff in a long whil and I would really appreciate the help.
Thanks in advance,
Mitchy

2 Very Basic Questions...
Ok, I have nearly finished designing my home page now... I'm almost ready to go on to the other pages and create the preloaders for in between. But I'm still very uneducated when it comes to actionscripting. I just got a few basic questions I need answering...

I'm thinking of having a preloader on my site, was building my homepage on scene 1 a bad idea?

What is this basic script to skip from scene/frame to scene/frame as and when I choose? Preferable with this if command so I can have events that trigger each command.

Thankyou in advance

Basic Questions
I am totally lack of actionscript 3.0
Please help me with changing the actionscript 2.0 code to 3.0.

I used to use
this._parent.emptyClip.loadMovie("musicVideo_print .swf");
to load the movie.

Now I am using actionscript3.0 file and need to put this function...but does not work...I need to put loadMovie("musicVideo_print.swf"); instead of gotoAndPlay('thing").

PLease look at my actionscript3.0 code and fix it for me. thank you.

t_schedule.addEventListener("click",t_scheduleClic ked);
t_schedule.buttonMode = true;

function t_scheduleClicked(ev:Event):void
{
gotoAndPlay("thing3");
}

stop();

Basic Questions
All:

I am a "noOb" to actionscript and I have some simple questions that I would like to be answered:

1. in this code snippet:
"if (this["speed"+who]>0.3) { this["speed"+who] *= _root.speedDecay;
----- What does the +who mean and does the *= mean that it multiplies the speed by the defined speed decay?

2. In that same code snippet where would the "speed" be defined and later in the code of this tutorial it also has "speedx" and "speedy" ... are those recognized by the flash CS3 compiler?

-MovementScript-

Basic Questions
1. What's the difference between a variable and a object?
2. Is actionscripting really a programming or scripting language?
3. Is php a programming or scripting language?
4. Where's the easiest php tutorial link to learn the basics?

That's all for now, thanks

Please Help With Basic Questions
I hardly ever use flash, as i'm always ending up kicking stuff out of sheer frustration. Just like with Quark Xpress, in Flash there seem to be several 'layers' between what my intuition tells me should work, and the actual execution of the things i want to achieve. But nevermind, I'm just severely annoyed.

I got 10 buttons, with a graphic as bottomlayer, and a number (1-10). Isn't it possible to turn the first button into a symbol, and then make copies where i just have to change the number? For now it doesn't matter if i copy/paste them or drag them from the library, when i copy the button and try to change the number in the copy, then the number in the 'original' changes as well.

Do i really have to 'make' each button from scratch?

This might seem like a very basic question, but i'm really bangin my head into the wall here. And theres tons og issues like that in Flash - for me at least - like if i say 'paste in place', things get pasted some random place on the canvas (anywhere but in place). If i convert to symbol, the referencepoint (or the point which it's supposed to rotate around) seems randomly choosen as well - at least it's never where i told it to be in the appropriate dialog.

HELP! :-(

Three Very Basic Questions
Hi!

I have a few simple questions regarding flash AS.

Here we go...

1. Apparently . onRelease doesnt work with keys, what kan i use then?

2.How can I check if a textfield is empty?
i tried both
if (text=="")
and
if (text_txt.length ==0)
3. How can i control so that an input field later comes out in a dynamic textfiel with all BIG LETTERS?

Thanks in advance

Adbul

Basic Questions About FMS. Please Help
Hi,
I have see Flash Media Server 2.0.4 that I use to make multiplayer game with shared objects. Now there are 2 more servers called
1 - Flash Media Interactive Server 3
2 - Flash Media Streaming Server 3

I have read the detail but not the clear about these 2 products. Do that have Shared objects that we can use multiplayers games and does it have all the things that are in Media Server 2.0.4?

Thanks

Very Basic Questions Im Sure
alright i have been making webpages for ages now using your basic html, javascript and php and all that fun stuff and i decided it was time to jump up to flash sites. i followed the tutorial here on making a flash webpage from scratch and that was fine and all... i can create my navigation and get all that working. however i have some questions about the content pages. i have a logo that i want to do a fade out fade in type loop. i can easily do it using frames and tweening but i don't know how to do it using actionscript. i assume for webpages you wouldnt use frames at all for something you want to loop so i was curious how to do it using actionscript. and then i downloaded some components in a mxp file format, and i don't know how to insert them into my project. so answers would be great, and help and suggestions would be great, and any links to tutorials that cover the most basic aspects of creating a flash website would be wonderful. thanks in advance, greendah

Basic Questions
Hey guys i just have a question
i uploaded the image i don't know if it gonna show if it doesn't then try to click the link...

Anyways if u see the image,
I got couple of business cards and brochures and stuffs like that....
help me out here

when your mouse are over the images... i want them to be bigger and showing up at the front !!!

i know how to make it bigger and all i know all those rollover.
But i am having trouble with showing it at the front !

so basically everything is fine, but waht do i exxactly have to do to make a pics show at the front on roll over ...?

2 Basic Questions About AS2...
Hi,

my action script skills are (still) very limited and I have two basic questions because I'm kinda stuck here...

1. Is it possible to run an 'if' statement after an 'on release' statement ?

e.g.

Code:
on (release){
if (_root.a ==0){
play();
}
}
Every time I try to run code like this nothing happens...

2. I declared a function on frame 1 of my timeline (_root) and I have no problems calling that function and running it as long as the code that calls the function is on the timeline (_root) as well.

But if I try to call the function from within a movieclip that is placed on the timeline, the function won't start...

Do I have to refer to the main timeline to call that function and if so how do I do that ?

e.g.

usually I just call my function with "fadedown();"

I tried "_root.fadedown();" but that doesn't work....

Thanx for your help in advance !

Mike

Basic Questions
i just wondering

wht is diffrent between - static text , dynamix text, input text

thanks

2 Basic Questions About AS2...
Hi,

my action script skills are (still) very limited and I have two basic questions because I'm kinda stuck here...

1. Is it possible to run an 'if' statement after an 'on release' statement ?

e.g.

on (release){
if (_root.a ==0){
play();
}
}

Every time I try to run code like this nothing happens...

2. I declared a function on frame 1 of my timeline (_root) and I have no problems calling that function and running it as long as the code that calls the function is on the timeline (_root) as well.

But if I try to call the function from within a movieclip that is placed on the timeline, the function won't start...

Do I have to refer to the main timeline to call that function and if so how do I do that ?

e.g.

usually I just call my function with "fadedown();"

I tried "_root.fadedown();" but that doesn't work....

Thanx for your help in advance !

Mike

3 Basic Questions ?
Hi, i am a beginner using Flash mx, i have 3 questions
(1) how do i have my intire background in a photo, e.g. you have a stage at 550x400 pix but when it is viewed on the web you only see it boxed in, how do i put the intire background in a colour, or better a photo?

(2) if i have text moving around in a circle (tweening) but i want it to look like it's flat, in other words in perspective so when the text goes to the top of the circle it looks like it's going away from you how do i do that?
(3) how do i make a continious loop (e.g) i have a home page but you have some text running accross the page in a line continious until you actually enter the site and go on the the next stage, how do i achieve that?
thanks in advance
q

Some Basic Flash Questions:
This question relates to page size:

In Flash 5.0 when You open the Movie Properties by double clicking the frame rate in the time line window or by pressing Ctrl + m on a PC, you will se about half way down in that window there is a two button selection method that has MATCH: written to the side of it. There are 2 options that can be selected in relation to page size I understand what it does when you match your movie size to the page (To be printed on) size. But I really don't under stand what the other button does. I think it resizes my canvas to the content on my page but I'm not really sure.....If you can help me out by explain what this button dose I would really appreciate it a lot

John Taylor
E-mail: JohnyT9760@aol.com

Basic Flash Questions
I know this has been asked before, but i cant find an answer that suits me.

1. I want to stop line weight scaling and i cant make it hairline because i need it to have a certain thickness. I want to stretch the symbol, NOT have the line weigth scale.

2. I'm getting these wierd artifacts when i move a symbol fast. It looks like it just leaves a chunk stuck to where it was. Um...how do i get rid of that?

thanks.

Basic Flash Questions
I am somewhat student taught and self taught, mostly learning from tutorials and movies on this site and others. I have some questions that are pretty general that I am wondering about the best way to do things. Can anyone just clarify to me the best way to keep files sizes down and the best way to load .swf's into the main site. I have used loadmovienum and _root.loadmovie, but I am unclear on which one is better. Could someone explain that. If there are any other general things that are rule of thumb in creating flash sites, I would appreciate the advice or links to tutorials. Things I do work fine, but I know that I am not getting the best performance out of my files and there are things I am missing.

Thanks

2 Absurdly Basic Questions
Yola! Anyway, two question which i guess must be pretty basic stuff:
Question 1: er...forgotten it now...hmm...ok, i remember, how do you stop stuff from appearing out of the box when u play the movie? coz i have a few things that kind of gradually move into the box(the stage or whatever) and i don't want the viewer seeing the bit that isn't on the stage?
Question 2: AND, how do i enlarge the grey bit so i can draw more stuff there? by the grey bit i mean the bit that isn't the thing that i think is the stage, as in the box, thankya kindly

Super Basic Questions
I have box that will soon be a menu sliding in from the left,
<>Can I do this by a simple motion tween? Telling the box to move from off the stage onto the stage in a sliding motion?
<>Will the part of the box that isn't on the stage show up when published or are things not on the stage invisible to the viewer?
Also, I have downloaded scripts from the tutorials:
<>How do I add the scripts to my site?
<>How can I put my own images so the script matches my site instead of being the downloaded version?

Any direct help or links would be very much appreciated, thanks

Basic Flash Questions
ok
fairly new to flash and i just have some questions
-im making a slide show of images, just copying them from photoshop and pasting them in the center:

*how do i add music(properly)- when i did it by importing the library then making a new layer and dragging it onto it, the music didn't stop when the other layer did.

*how do you fade in images from a blank grey to when an image appears?

thanks alot in advance really appreciate it

Basic Questions On Designing
Have one simple question:

1. If I develop a site at 1024 x 768, is there a way for me to scale it down to 800x600 as well, without redesigning the whole site? Is there a way I can publish/export in both 800x600 and 1024x768?, Or do I have to create two separate movies for each resolution?

In other words, the index is going to detect the screen resolution, then go to an other pages based on that. so let's say that index1 contains a flash movie that is designed for 800x600 viewing, and index2 contains a flash movie that is designed for 1024x768 viewing.

Thanks ahead of time.

Basic And Complex Questions
Even though there are 3 questions, everyone with a single answer is really welcome!

1 When a sound is loaded in to a flash movie, were is it stored during runtime?

2 I've seen it is possible to create a MC with predefined number of frames, is it possible to attach different sounds, and events to every single frame in this dinamically generated MC?

3 Is there a way to load multiple sounds by using an array and a loop?
I can't find a way to declare several sound objects with a loop like this:

Code:
var n:number = 0;
for(a=0;a<MyArray.length;a++){
var the_dinamically_generated_name:Sound = new sound();
}

Basic Button Questions
I created a button by creating the button on the up state and inserting blank keyframes for the other states one at a time and then copying-and-pasting in place for each state one at a time.

1. Is there a way to duplicate the Up state for the other states all at the same time? I tried highlighting the other areas and choosing insert keyframe, though this did not work.

2. I placed the button onto the stage and now I want to apply an action that tells it to go to a website when it is clicked. When I select the button on the stage, the actions palette indicates that the current selection can not have actions applied to it. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Basic Button Questions
I want to make a button that onClick simply advances the user to another scene.

1. Does anything done with ActionScript 3.0 require the latest version of the Flash Player?

2. I insert a new button and simply type some text and use F6 to copy the text to the other button states. I drag this new button to the stage of my scene. I simply want to apply an action to this using Actionscript 1 and 2 that will enable this button to go to the next scene when clicked. How is this done?

Thanks.

Basic ActionScript3 Questions
1.) Are there any issues with starting a new Flash file from the welcome
screen as a Actionscript 3 file and later changing it to Actionscript 1&
2 in the Actionscript window?

2.) What will happen if you set a file up as Actionscript 3 and use a
combination of Actionscript 1 & 2 as well as 3 for the code?

Thanks.

Basic Questions About Flash
I got this rather weird question about flash. I don't get the program itself. Like I know what a frame is, but what the hell is that when I double click on it.

And also, what about the layers? is it the same as in Photoshop? Do I need to make a new layer for every graphic?

And what about importing images? they seem to get really choppy and they're low quality? Find it really hard to understand the basics of flash. Photoshop wasn't that hard

A Couple Basic Questions. . .
Hey-- I have two questions that will be pretty easy to answer, but it's been a while since I used Flash, and I learned using Flash 5. . .

1) How do I go about attaching an animation to a button when I click it?

and

2) I'm having trouble with the scroll bar function-- attaching it to my text boxes. . .

Any help would be greatly appreciated-- and thanks in advance.

- Andre

3 Basic Flash Questions
How do I...

- Erase the edge of a picture that is apart of a movie clip?
- Make the 'hit' area bigger on a movie clip acting a a button?
- Compress my flash file more for the web?

Thanks, Daniela

2 Basic General Questions
hi there, i can say now that i'm quite good in scripting but i'm not a pro coder =)

i've been wondering since forever and i cudnt get any answer from anywhere. so it might worth a shot to ask here.

here's my questions:

var status:Boolean = true;

if(this.status){
gotoAndStop(10);
}

1. why do people always add the word "var" and the sxplanation ":Boolean" behind variables ALTHOUGH you dont need it?

2. why "this.status" doesnt have an argument? Does this statement make more sense > "status == true" ?

thx for replying. this is important to me =)

XML Questions Several Good Ones To Add To The Basic XML Tut
Ok.. so..I want 3 different pictures to show up in 3 different holders on my stage. (1st problem)

In addition, I'd like to randomly select one of the pictures in the xml file.

for example. holderA (MC instance on my stage) should show a randomly selected picture from set1.xml file.

Code is here...

I have 3 boxes on the stage with each being a movie clip with the instance names of :

holderA
holderB
holderC

i have a seperate xml file for each holder. they are:

set1.xml
set2.xml
set3.xml

each xml folder looks like this:
Code:

//set1.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<slideshow>
<set1 url="Set1Pic1.png" />
<set1 url="Set2Pic1.png" />
<set1 url="Set3Pic1.png" />
</slideshow>

//set2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<slideshow>
<set2 url="Set1Pic2.png" />
<set2 url="Set2Pic2.png" />
<set2 url="Set3Pic2.png" />
</slideshow>

//set3.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<slideshow>
<set2 url="Set1Pic3.png" />
<set2 url="Set2Pic3.png" />
<set2 url="Set3Pic3.png" />
</slideshow>

my AS in the first frame looks like this:
Code:

// Set 1
var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;

var urls:Array = new Array();
var whoIsOn:Number;

x.onLoad = function() {
var set1:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(i=0;i<set1.length;i++) {
   urls.push(set1[i].attributes.url);
}
holderA.loadMovie(urls[0]);
whoIsOn = 0;
}

x.load("set1.xml");

// Set 2
var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;

var urls:Array = new Array();
var whoIsOn:Number;

x.onLoad = function() {
var set2:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(i=0;i<set2.length;i++) {
   urls.push(set2[i].attributes.url);
}
holderB.loadMovie(urls[0]);
whoIsOn = 0;
}

x.load("set2.xml");

// Set 3
var x:XML = new XML();
x.ignoreWhite = true;

var urls:Array = new Array();
var whoIsOn:Number;

x.onLoad = function() {
var set3:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for(i=0;i<set3.length;i++) {
   urls.push(set3[i].attributes.url);
}
holderC.loadMovie(urls[0]);
whoIsOn = 0;
}

x.load("set3.xml");

Why does it only show the the first picture of the first url in set1.xml??
I get that same picture for all 3 holders?? why??
Please Help!
thanks
ZG

Some Basic Questions Regarding Classes
ok I'm finally learning AS3, and, using classes. I've done well without classes til now, understand them to a degree but have little experience with them.

A question I have regarding them. I've done all kinds of tutorials, read etc., and have built a few. One in particular, I've decided to code up a photography site function the same way I did in AS2, but in AS3 using class files.

I built a class file that uses the loader to load a jpg etc. and have gotten to know a little about the new display object. Here is my simple class file:

Code:

package com.testSite.display {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;

public class LoadImage extends Sprite {

public function LoadImage(fileName) {
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
configureListeners(loader.contentLoaderInfo);
var fileRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(fileName);
loader.load(fileRequest);

addChild(loader);

}

private function configureListeners(dispatcher:IEventDispatcher):void {
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.INIT, initHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.OPEN, openHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.UNLOAD, unLoadHandler);
}

private function completeHandler(event:Event):void {
//trace("completeHandler: " + event);
}

private function httpStatusHandler(event:HTTPStatusEvent):void {
//trace("httpStatusHandler: " + event);
}

private function initHandler(event:Event):void {
//
}

private function ioErrorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
//
}

private function openHandler(event:Event):void {
//
}

private function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void {
trace("progressHandler: bytesLoaded=" + event.bytesLoaded + " bytesTotal=" + event.bytesTotal);
// *** can I run a preloader from here? ********
}

private function unLoadHandler(event:Event):void {
//
}

}
}

Question is, using the loader in a class file like this, what is the best way to setup, and use a preloader? Also, I use the event init in as 2 to fire the next preload of the image, making a sequential image loader. But I am reading (and discovered) classes can't access functions defined on the timeline (I tried with parent etc.).

Any ideas help is much appreciated.

Basic Flash Questions, Where To Find Help
I'm trying to figure out how to program in Flash, but there is something specific I want to set up and I'm a little overwhelmed by the scads of tutorials and books that give me information I don't need.

I want to make a Flash program that measures reaction time, in the same vein as the programs found at www.mybraintrainer.com.

Basically a little symbol pops up and the user presses a button as fast as possible. Can someone point me in the right direction? Either some online action script tutorials or even a book... I'm doing some looking on my own too

Thanks,
Brendan

VERY Basic Button Animation Questions
Hey there, I am very new to Flash and I need help with some of the basic programming. I've been able to teach myself the simpler aspects of animation, but programming it to do what I want through action scripting has been a headache. I made the mistake of purchasing Flash MX 04, the version of Flash with only expert mode available for action scripting. Here are some of the problems I've been encountering.

-I've created buttons with animated mouse overs which work, but the animation stops abruptly and doesn't finish if the cursor leaves prematurely.

-Those same buttons activate animations, but I have to hold the button down in order for it to play. The moment I let go, the animation stops. I've tried various different scripts to correct this problem, such as toggle, components>button>click, and onpress, but I must be doing something wrong.

I know it's pathetic, but I've read up on action scripting, bought a book, and spent hours trying to figure this thing out - but I can't seem to get it right. I'm making a web site, and my goal is to have animations appear when you click (not hold) a button. Also, I'd like to include a closing animation that leads to another opening animation when you click a button leading to another part of the site. Hopefully that makes sense, if not I'll try to elaborate. If anyone could help me it would REALLY be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Basic Actionscripting, Couple Of Questions
I am trying to learn actionscripting and I have gone through some tutorials, but I am still way confused.
One of the questions I have is when it says like setvariable: what does setvariable mean? and what is it?
If anyone could help me out it would be a big help.
Thanks
The Lost Guru
This is my email

2 Basic Questions Hurting My Head
Two Very basic Questions (I Think)
1. Once I've published my .swf file, and Ive uploaded it to my host, is there a default HTML page that I must also have to load it? Or do I simply name the .swf something that directs the browser to It?

2. How do I make a button that lets the user download a file? lets say I have a MP3 called "yes" that I want users to be able to download from my site. What is the Actionscript for the button?

I think these questions are so basic, none of the books I looked at at Barnes & Noble even covered them, not even the "Dummy" One. someone please help me.

Keep In mind that I know very little about HTML... which is why I'm doing it Flash, thanx for any help

[MX] Basic Questions, A Flash Noob Is Me
Hello. Im currently building my first actual website with Flash. I took several classes in Flash about 2 years ago but have never actually built a full site in Flash. Hell, I dont even remember much from my classes except the basics of Flash being as I havent had to even touch Flash since then.

But, Ive got an opener movie I made in After Effects for a local, small town coffeeshop. Ive got a still screen from the final frame that I want to use as the background for the site. After the movie is done, I want the navigation to fade in and a slightly transparent box over the still containing the information. I would like to set it up so that when they click on a link it pulls up a new slighlty transparent gray box with the information and possibly a scroll box if need be (if the text is longer than the alotted space.

I assume I can fadeAlpha to call in the link I want, but how can I use that to fade out the link that's currently up. Ok, say they load the site and then click on Menu. How can I fade out Home and fade in Menu. Again, I assume it's a mouse click and fadeAlpha, but not sure on fading the current page that's up, out.

Also, creating a scroll bar is still new to me. I would like to have it inside the slightly transparent gray box and have a similar color scheme.

Any thgouhts or good links I should look at? I dont need anything too major for this project, just simple crap really. Its a small town and theyre just fascinated to have Flash at all.

Thanks!

EDIT:
I guess I should mention Im using After Effects 7 and importing the intro as a .mov and using Flash MX to do the rest.

Basic Questions On MovieClip Behavior
Hello,

I have the following two questions that I'd like to get help with:

1) I have two classes and each one extends MovieClip. The first class has the following code in its constructor:

beginFill(0xffCCCC);
moveTo(-100,-50);
lineTo(100, -50);
lineTo(100, 50);
lineTo(-100, 50);
lineTo(-100, -50);
endFill();

The second one has this code in its constructor:

this.loadMovie("logo.jpg");

I use attachMovie function to attach an instance of each of those classes to the root. My problem is that the onEnterFrame method of the first class (the one with beginFill) is called, while the same method of the second class is not.

Could someone please explain why this is so? When I add trace statements to the first onEnterFrame method tons of them are printed, while trace line in the second onEnterFrame method is printed only once.

2) The logo.jpg image loaded in the second class constructor has dimensions 300x300 pixels. When I print the _width and _height of the movie clip, however, both are zero.
Then I copy the code from the first class (beginFill -> endFill), which draws a 200x100 rectangle, and then dimensions are 200x100. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain in lengthy detail what's going on inside that MovieClip object. All I'm trying to do is to move (or rotate) an image, and for the life of me I can't get it to work.
Thank you,

Martin

Basic Flash Video Questions
1.) What flash file formats can be viewed on the web? Prior to Flash video it was just .SWF? Is the other format the .FLV? If so, what is the uncompressed version of .FLV? Is it also a .FLA?

2.) Which version of Flash from CS3 will encode Flash video?

3.) Which version of Flash Player is necessary to view Flash video?

Thanks!

Basic Flash Video Questions
1.) When importing video, when should a FLA be saved as a FLV vs. a SWF?
What if only part of a file has small segments of video, should it still
be a FLV?

2.) Are there any file size limitations or limitations to the length of
time a .FLA can play? What about a .FLV?

Thanks!!!

Shape Tweening Basic Questions
1. Can symbols be shaped tweened?
2. I want to have a circle tween into a letter. I tried this by shape tweening over several frames, and then I added a blank keyframe on a later frame and typed a letter, and shaped tween between the last keyframe and the letter and I got the broken dashes. What is the correct way to shape tween between a shape and a letter?

Thanks!

Basic Questions Regarding Trace Bitmap
Hello. This is a novice question so please be patient (i already checked the tutes on this site)

i am trying to do a trace on a photo, i want to empty the color of a person in the photo and fill the white space with color using a tween, like kind of "filling up" the persons shape. then i would like to replace the colored space with the original persons image.

i have been told to do a trace. which i did, but that took ages. my real problem was, once i have emptied the image of color, how do i return the overall photo to a bitmap ?

im simply trying to master what is done on this site
http://www.nanand78.com

i have had people tell me today in such superior tones how "easy" this effect is, but they havent bothered to explain it.

if anyone has any tips for this i would really appreciate it thanks a lot.
-dj

Basic Flash Questions [Newbie]
I'm new to flash..(Just started using it last nite) and have some questions about how things work and faster way to do things.

I'm Using Flash CS3 on OSX

1. Quicker Motion Tween - Right now I have to do alot of image fading in/out so I have somethin like 15 frames for the fade in.. 60 frames for the image to be on screen.. and then 15 frames for the image to fade out. And then I repeat for the other images.. it works fine but it seems to take a while to do. Is there a faster way to do this?

2. Inserting a certain amount of frames - Instead of hitting F5 say 20 times or highlighting 20 frames to create 20 is there a way I can just just insert 20 frames at the cursor by entering 20 in a field/box and pressing OK or Enter?

3. Frame Number - Is there a way to know what Frame I'm on? Like if I'm on frame 3 of 10 of 10 total frames it would say somethin like "3/10" or somethin like that?

4. Frame Rate - I'm goin with 30 fps since im fading images back n forth but was wonderin if this was 2 much? Would like to try higher but I don't want my file 2 big in the end.

5 Specific Animated Button - I would look for a tutorial for this, but I don't think I know the right terms to look them up and find what I want. What I'm trying to do is a basic horizontal Menu with Home/Photos/About/Etc.. links but link a word like Home is moused over, It moves up smoothly, and an arrow fade in below it.. and it holds this position until the mouse over is finished and the arrow would fade out.. and then the link would drop back down. Can someone help me figure out what exactly this is called or where I can find a tutorial on it?

6. MP3 Player w/ External XML File For Songs - Either some tutorials have way too much, or not enough at all that I've seen.. one I tried didn't work out well so I came here. I'm looking to display trackname, have a Play button that turns into Pause when pressed, next track, previous track, stop button, and volume control.. To me it doesn't sound like much. but I just started usin this program so a little lost.

7. Looping Between A Certain Amount Of Frames - When flash first starts I would an image to have a blur..than slowly fade into focus and then fade out to white.. and then fade into the next image which will also fade out to white.. now when all the images are looping and it goes back to the start where the image was blurry and faded into focus, I want that image to fade in like the rest and then I want them to rotate from that point on. So basically I want the blur only in the beginnin. How do I do this??

Hope thats not 2 much questions but thanks for readin

Flash Website -- VERY Basic Newbie Questions.
I have a basic website that I built in Dreamweaver ( Don't laugh ) but after playing with Flash for a while now and doing alot of the tutorials and stuff I decided I want to make my site in Flash now. I need some rather basic questions answered that seem to be skipped over in most tutorials.

1. Is it best to just make my layout in Photoshop, slice it up and import it into Flash as separate pieces/pictures (i.e. header, navbar, etc) or just make the layout and import it as one big picture? If its better to just create the site from scratch in Flash, then skip question #2, and if you could provide a link to how this is done because it seems the tools are little more basic in Flash compared to Photoshop to get the cool results on a lot of the Flash sites that I see.

2. If I do make my layout in Photoshop, should I make it a detailed design and then bring it over to Flash or just a basic design and then detail it in Flash? What I mean is, do I put the text on the header, any special clickable areas detailed (image maps?).

3. After I bring my template into Flash then do I publish it as my site from Flash or do I export/import it into Dreamweaver and publish it from there?

I followed the tutorial here at Kirupa.com on how to make a flash website and it shows me the structure of the site and how its put together once you have the parts but I guess my problem is getting the parts together in the first place.

Thanks in advance for any help, and if you don't want to answer any of the questions then if you could please provide a link to where I might find some of these answers. I've searched Google and come up with all kinds of stuff on how to make the site but they all assume you have the graphics at your fingertips and ready to go.

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