Flash :: Some Suggestions

Can I Get Some Suggestions?
im making a website and its going to be mostly flash, so can you guys give me some suggestions on things i can put in it? remember i am pretty new at this, i know alot of the basics so if you tell me something thats rather hard you might have to explain it first

but just post it and i will tell you if i can do it or not

mmmmmmk so can anyone give me suggestions or links to sites with good web building flash tutorials? thanx alot

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Suggestions Please...
I could really do with some advice on linking scenes in my movie.

I'd like to have each current scenes contents move out of view before loading the next selected scene...

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated!

Cheers if you can help, Dan <>

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Any Suggestions?
they say there is no such thing as a stupid question, well we will see. I want to make a search box for my site. there are 740 items on my page. I want it so they can type what they are looking for and after search it gives them a list of things like that. Any suggestions or ideas?

thanks
eclipse

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Some Help/suggestions?
Hi all here is my website www.justinjeng.com i was wondering if anyone can help me in designing the main site. Nothing too fancy, just a simple template. I am planning to have a lot of photos on the site and am considering to make it a flash/html hybrid. If possible i would like the site to be purely flash. Thx for ur wonderful help etc etc.

sincerely, Justin

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Suggestions - Best Way To Do This
ok - goto peteyorn.com - skip intro.

in his site he has a little flash movie going that seems like it actually contains video. and images morphing, etc..

what's the best way to accomplish this? to keep load times down and quality up.

thanks

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Any Suggestions?
Heya!

I have a background plate faded from light blue to blue. On this background i would like to "pop up" sushi bits, one by one, that i have (with shadows) on the same background plate.

So if you guys have any suggestions on how to make this smooth i'll be grateful!

faded bg:

faded bg with sushi bits:

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Suggestions?
I really like looking at and learning from some of those "experiemental" or demo-for-the-hell of it type Flash-er's sites, particularly the ones that give you a download-the-fla option, like http://experiments.coldstorageonline.com/ for example...
I used to have a list (I mean on actual paper) of a bunch of cool ones, and I seem to have lost the $#@* thing... Can any of you guys make some suggestions? I think you probably know the type of sites I'm referring to... not really portfolio sites per-se, more like a list of numbers, usually, and each one represents some cool effect this person has created... and as I said, sometimes they include the Flash. I have been out of the Flash World for a year or so, and I'm trying to get myself up to speed again.
My apologies to all if this is the wrong forum to put this on, please move it if there is a more appropriate place...

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Looking For Suggestions
Ok,

My site seems to be CPU hungry. Now, on my machine I have no problem with it, but I'm running 1GB of RAM with a 2.6Ghz P4 processor. On
machines running 256 or less it becomes sluggish.

The site is set up in a HTML table - where the center column holds 3 swf's. The middle being my main movie, the top "header" an animation, and the bottom holds another swf that actually loads in the swf playing in the header and masks off a portion of it.

Now the file sizes arn't too bad, my main swf (w/preloader) is about 20KB - and loads in content on request. The top swf is about 68KB with no tweening, all scripted using an empty 500 frame MC as a filter to achieve the transitions. The bottom swf is only 4.3KB (at this time) and then loads in the same swf running on top <<<wondering if maybe I should copy that file, use a different file name to stop from accessing the animation from two different swf's.

:::HERE IT IS:::

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Suggestions?
Hi,
I am working on a demo project and using a software called `ToolBook`. We have to prepare offline versions of some online systems. So If you are familiar with or not with ToolBook, what can be the pros and cons of flash against this software or just pros and cons on preparing demos?
Thanx...

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Any Suggestions
for my site i am using all several swf files and i hate the elapse time that it takes for them to load. like when you click the menu button and select a choice the site flickers and then the scene is loaded. anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem

http://mjsst33.tripod.com/flash/kumkwat.html

thanks spazbaby

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Suggestions
Hello World,

I'm new to Flash and was wondering if you could make any suggestions on how to improve my site. Again, I've only been using the product for about a week and would really like to create a quality page for my first child that is due November 25th.

http://www.jamesparkersmith.com

Thanks,

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Any Other Suggestions?
does anyone know how i can customise the scroll bar in the components panel sounds simple but i haven't the faintest idea what i'm doing
any suggestions anyone?

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Need Some Suggestions
http://www.sportsbabble.net

new site i started. i was thinking of making the logo in flash. i want to keep it about the same size (300x85). was wondering what i could do with the logo to make it kind of stand out but not so much that it distracts the users.

the site has the forums for all the sports and it has a sports arcade that members can play .... maybe something that incorporates those ideas of the site??

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Need Suggestions
I would like to be able to let people download my flash movies so they can have their own copy and be able to view them offline. I'm sure this has already been asked but I kept getting timed out when searching. I first tried to export to avi but the file sizes are huge so I'm looking into zipping up the swf's. The only problem I'm having now is finding a decent, free flash player. I found Infranview which actually seems pretty good but you have to download plugins for it play swf's. Which isn't a problem for me but I want to make it as easy as possible on my viewers. Any suggestions?

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Any Suggestions?
My question is how to make a movie symbol move in relation to the coordinate system of its parent.

Consider the following code. This function is placed on a layer of a movie symbol. A rectangle, named "box" is also placed on a layer. The function simply centers the rectangle and scales it to the size of the document when it is clicked.

box.onMouseUp = function() {
xCenter = 400; //horiz. center of document (width=800)
yCenter = 300; //vert. center of document (height=800)
bWidth = 800; //desired width of full sized box
bHeight = 600; //desired height of full sized box

onEnterFrame = function() {
if(box._x != xCenter) {
box._x += ((xCenter - box._x)/5);
}

if(box._y != yCenter) {
box._y += ((yCenter - box._y)/5);
}

if(box._width < bWidth) {
box._width += ((bWidth - box._width)/5);
}

if(box._height < bHeight) {
box._height += ((bHeight - box._height)/5);
}
};
};

My problem is that when the movie symbol described above is placed onto the main timeline and scaled, or moved, it centers and scales itself to the wrong size and place. I hope this isn't too confusing. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

-Kevin

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Any Suggestions
Hi

I have a food menu that I am trying to build which lets the user select and remove items before commiting to order.

I also need a text box or somthing also in the movie to show the current state of thr order.

I am only looking for some pointers as to the best way to implement this, I dont no if to use Arrays to keep track of items and totals or somthing else.

Any pointers gratefully recieved.

(Rough outline of movie uploaded)

Thanks for any help.

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[F8] Need Some Suggestions
I need some advice on how to go about creating a song playlist. I am creating a site for a friend and there is a section that i am developing that has a list of song/artist samples of songs, about 60 in total at roughly 30 sec. a clip. Im trying to figure out the best way in achieving this is. I figure I wouldnt need the whole player functionality for this. Would anyone have any suggestions?

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I Need Some Suggestions...
I just started a Big Ten boarding schools' forum, and I want to make it popular, what should I do?
By the way, here is the link: www.bigtenschool.com

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Any Suggestions?
I dont have anything that doesn't work, but I was wondering what kind of feedback I can get. This is my first game attempt. I want to know if I'm going about doing everything correctly/efficiently, or if there are ways that make much more sense than I can even comprehend.

Be aware, the game doesn't do much, just basic movements.

But any feedback will be greatly appreciated, even if you say its the worst thing you've ever seen.

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I Need Suggestions
HI all

ok..i hav 10objects, which doing drag n drop.using if else statements.

i need to put a next button after i hav drag all the 10objects.

Hav any suggestion on how i shld put a counter to count every object doin the drag and drop till it reaches 10 and the next button appear?

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Need Some Suggestions Please...
I am a high school student and i have a project. My project is to produce an interactive online encyclopedia(searchable) all about a certain city here in my place (country). I want it to be full flash. And I want to produce two things: (1) a stand-alone program and; (2) swf file (embed to html so that it can be viewed in the internet). I have already collected all the data I need. I just want to get some ideas or suggestions from you on how am i going to do it (start it) with flash. What do you think i need to consider before and after i'll do it in Flash 8?

Thank You!!! I'll wait for your replies .

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Suggestions
I have a moviecliploader which first comes up then loads content into _level1 and _level2. After each loads I have a statement that tells _level1.gotoAndPlay("loadedSWF"); which works great on macs.... but on windows the player doesnt switch frames at all.... and on top of that I threw in test buttons and they do nothing when pressed (i have that last statement on them). All files are flash 8 and AS 2.0. I cant figure out what the hell the problem is. Attached is the last part of my MC loader. If you have any suggestions as to why its doing this I would love to know, thanx

ActionScript Code:
lo.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip):Void {
if (String(target_mc) == "_level0") {
trace("Error: i_level0");
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level1") {
//trace("i_level1: " + completeMessage);
lev1 = 1;
if (_root.lev1 && _root.lev2 == 1) {
progress_mc._visible = false;
_level1.gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
//trace('1');
}
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level2") {
//trace("i_level2: " + completeMessage);
lev2 = 1;
if (_root.lev1 && _root.lev2 == 1) {
progress_mc._visible = false;
_level1.gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
//trace('2');
}
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level3") {
trace("i_level3: " + completeMessage);
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level4") {
trace("i_level4: " + completeMessage);
} else {
trace("Error: onLoadInit string missing");
}
};

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Any Suggestions On How To Do This...
I was hoping to create the following...see this link http://www.isninv.com/main.asp
the bottom menu bar, when you mouse over, a description will roll in from either side and spell out a brief description.
Any ideas on how his is done?

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I Need Some Suggestions
Hi group..
I'm tryin to make webpage with flash.. its something like a product display page.. on one side of the page i will have some thumbnail pics when the visitor cliks on them i want an larger version of of the pic to slide in like a window.. and one more smaller window with the description like color,size etc... and when another thumbail is clicked i want the previous one slide out and the new one slide in ... now i've done this with simple animation but i'mm not gettin slide out propperly.. and also this way i think the movie becomes very less flexible i guess.. thats if thr are any chages i've to make the change in the movie itself... since i don've much experience can any one suggest me a good structure for this kind of page... how do make it flexible and modifiable for the future thats wen i wnto add more product or remove older products.. also some flexibility interms of its apperence..

one more thing i want to know how to make tables in flash... or arrange things in tabular fashion...

witin to here from u...
AC

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Help - Suggestions - Please
I recorded narration and converted it to aiff. I have ppt images that I'll convert to useful format. I want to create a Flash-based online presentation with images changing at specific audio cues (basically a linear presentation -- player controls and interaction are not primary considerations at this point).

What's the preferred approach:

1. Import audio and images into Flash and build there?

2. Build everything in a video editing environment (I'm experienced -- Avid MC, Final Cut Pro, Premiere), then convert to fla?

Thanks.

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Suggestions On How To Do This
Not sure this is the right forum for this. Can anybody give me some suggestions on how to do something similar to the the education page on the www.moma.org site where one photo starts small and then widens on top of another photo. I am more familiar with fading images and user interaction.

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Suggestions....
I have a moviecliploader which first comes up then loads content into _level1 and _level2. After each loads I have a statement that tells _level1.gotoAndPlay("loadedSWF"); which works great on macs.... but on windows the player doesnt switch frames at all.... and on top of that I threw in test buttons and they do nothing when pressed (i have that last statement on them). All files are flash 8 and AS 2.0. I cant figure out what the hell the problem is. Attached is the last part of my MC loader. If you have any suggestions as to why its doing this I would love to know, thanx

Attach Code

lo.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip):Void {
if (String(target_mc) == "_level0") {
trace("Error: i_level0");
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level1") {
//trace("i_level1: " + completeMessage);
lev1 = 1;
if (_root.lev1 && _root.lev2 == 1) {
progress_mc._visible = false;
_level1.gotoAndPlay("loadedSWF");
} else {
//trace('1');
}
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level2") {
//trace("i_level2: " + completeMessage);
lev2 = 1;
if (_root.lev1 && _root.lev2 == 1) {
progress_mc._visible = false;
_level1.gotoAndPlay("loadedSWF");
} else {
//trace('2');
}
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level3") {
trace("i_level3: " + completeMessage);
} else if (String(target_mc) == "_level4") {
trace("i_level4: " + completeMessage);
} else {
trace("Error: onLoadInit string missing");
}
};

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I Need Some Suggestions..
Hi group..
I'm tryin to make webpage with flash.. its something like a product display page.. on one side of the page i will have some thumbnail pics when the visitor cliks on them i want an larger version of of the pic to slide in like a window.. and one more smaller window with the description like color,size etc... and when another thumbail is clicked i want the previous one slide out and the new one slide in ... now i've done this with simple animation but i'mm not gettin slide out propperly.. and also this way i think the movie becomes very less flexible i guess.. thats if thr are any chages i've to make the change in the movie itself... since i don've much experience can any one suggest me a good structure for this kind of page... how do make it flexible and modifiable for the future thats wen i wnto add more product or remove older products.. also some flexibility interms of its apperence..

also i wanto know how to make tables in flash .. or arrange things in tabular fashion

witin to here from u...
AC

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Suggestions
Hey guys. I'm a graphic designer that has dealt with all print needs. I'm looking to learn flash and I was wondering if I could design my site in illustrator and then import into flash 8 to do the animations etc.. Any tips would be helpful but I'm extremely comfortable in ill - so hopefully this is the way to do it.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

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Need Some Suggestions
Hi its me again,
I need some help-suggestion on what to do to create some nice looking simple buttons-navigation orizontal and vertical,the problem is I dont know where to start from,photoshop,flash,dreamweaver???
I dont even know how to use them in order to create something,what I've done so far I've done it just looking for tutorials,now I am stucked.I am not asking you to do the work for me,I am just asking for suggestions on how to create some nice buttons,not too simple because I would like too give my site (home made) a good look.If anyone could help me I'll really apreciate it.
Thank you very much
Thomas18

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Need Some Suggestions Please...
I am a high school student and i have a project. My project is to produce an interactive online encyclopedia(searchable) all about a certain city here in my place (country). I want it to be full flash. And I want to produce two things: (1) a stand-alone program and; (2) swf file (embed to html so that it can be viewed in the internet). I have already collected all the data I need. I just want to get some ideas or suggestions from you on how am i going to do it (start it) with flash. What do you think i need to consider before and after i'll do it in Flash 8?

The deadline of my project is somewhere February/March 2007...

Thank You!!! I'll wait for your replies .

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Suggestions./
hey . take a look http://www.gucci.com
really cool site. simple nice colors
and i would like to do something similar, but i would like to know if someone has an example or a tutorial on how to make the menu . how the text appears , how the rectagle expands on roll over etc.
thanks alot.

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Suggestions.
so I would like some oppinions and suggestions and the diference between professional MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004.
and if you recomend me to download it or wait until the bugs are fixed ? because what ive seen on the past threads. it has alot of Bugs.
Thanks.

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Suggestions?
i am having a terrible time with an intro to my web site. its for a cabinet company, so it needs to be very prfessional, (aka. not like cool effects, or anything crazy) i need to include the 4 words "elegance", "craftsmanship", "enduring quality", and "variety" does any one have any ideas. i am just completely not thinking of anything thats lookin nice.

if you know any other webpages that have a simple but professional intro, could you show me as well, i could really use any ideas out there.

thank you

=ryan=

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SUGGESTIONS TO ALL NEWBIES
OK...I suggest that ALL newbies get books on Flash 5. You can pick one up for little money like:

1. How to Do Everything in Macromedia Flash 5 by Bonnie Blake (the one I have! so far most of your questions are answered here)
2. Flash 5 Bible (above book is rated better but this is bigger)

Next, before you post anything SEARCH THE TUTORIALS!!! We find ourselves giving you tutorials all the time! If you don't know how or were not listening, do this:

1. Hit yourselves
2. Go to the Tutorials Section of FlashKit
3. Then under the yellow bar there is a search field. Type in your search! e.g. Preloaders, Scroll, Cube, etc.

I'm not mad, just letting you guys know and it will save time for you and make this website a lil faster. :-))

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Suggestions For A Gallery
I am building a gallery but I am not sure of the best way to approach it. I am using a mask to reveal the current image and would like (when the button is clicked)for the next image to slide in and push the old one out.

Any suggestions how this should be approached?

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Hosting Suggestions?
yO, im maken a site, and i dont know where to put it! heres a few things i must have
-.cfm extentions
-odbc
-ftp
-at least 20-30 megs space
-www.whatever.com
and i guess thats about all i NEED. but i dont want to pay a million dollaz. maybe like 40 a year or something...any suggestions?
i also could just use a free host i have, but i still want a domain, so dose anybody know of a good domain registration? i needs cloaking tho, so i can foward to my free site and cover the url...gimme ya suggestions!
-CRISPdollaz

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All Suggestions Welcomed
Hi everyone,

I need a little advice here, and I was wondering if anyone might be able to offer suggestions.

I am creating a flash menu in which the user chooses a color. Does anyone have any ideas on how I would be able to record the color choice, say, in a separate file? I've heard that I may need to use ASP, PHP, or CGI, but I'm not sure which one or why.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Suggestions Please? M/over To Reveal M/c
Hi there - just about to start a CD project and have a few ideas about how to approach, but there are a couple of puzzlers that I wanted to ask ya'll opinion on.

The first is that there will be a scrolling text area in the middle of the screen. It will contain rollover text (see later), little icons for pdf, word docs etc and links to download the file to the desktop. I was thinking about loading the text in from a sep. file, but then the rollovers won't work. Any ideas?

Secondly, the rollover text (Title of the document to be downloaded) will reveal a m/c on another part of the screen with a picture of the document cover to be downloaded. I was thinking of creating X-number of movie clips, placing them in the same spot, on different layers, and setting their visibility to 0 and then setting it to 100% when the user mouses over the appropriate title? What do you think?

Also just had a thought about the text area - should I create a movie clip containing all the images, text, text-mouseovers etc which is then scrolled? Can you do that in Flash 5? I know you can load in a text file and scroll that, but what about a m/c? I assume the mouseovers for the document titles (Which reveal the document cover image) would be handled by a mouseover event on an invisible button?

I know it probably sounds like I'm answering my own questions, but I'm just trying to get everyone elses thoughts on my ideas!

thanks for any help

frank

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Audio Suggestions
I am currently in the process of creating a flash file that will contain narration. Can someone please suggest what rate I should convert the mp3 to?

Right now I am recording at 44100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo in a wave file just to get the best quality for the recording, I later will convert it into mp3 format. Right now for testing purposes, I converted the wav file to a 128kbps, mono MP3. This is still too large of a file and was wondering what other people use when converting audio to be used for narration.

Cheers

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Any Suggestions On My Problem?
I'm using flash mx. I want to create a moving button that users want to try to click. But I dont know how to make it correctly. I made it before and it when I clicked it, sumtimes it didnt goto the frame specified. I want it to be moving a lot, and the main purpose of this is to click it to goto an animation of the button "dieing" since it is in the shape of a man. I dont know how to do this seeing that the button is moving and I want the animation to occur in the same spot the button is clicked. If you understand what i'm trying to ask, it is quite simple...thanks.

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Help Needed Please Any Suggestions Welcome
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but im gonna give it a shot and hopefully someone can help me.

My university design team is developing an application, requires a java server, talking to a Flash client interface. From the research I have conducted, it seems I have two options, using JRun to integrate flash and java, and have that java talk to the server, or, have flash talk directly to the java server using activescript. For the application we are designing, it would be a much better design if we have flash and java integrated on a client box, and then have that java talk to the server. However, from all the research we have conducted, we have no firm concept of how JRun works, as well as have no idea how to syntax activescript to send and recieve information from a java server. The closest example we have found to our application, is the PetMarket designed by Sun.

I just really need some help finding a) some websites or documentation that explains in simple yet detailed how JRun works, how flash and java can talk to eachother through activescript, and anything else that would seem relevent. We have searched through countless sites and found nothing particually useful.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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PHP Security Suggestions
I made a small interface on my website that will allow users to send me a SMS message via PHP.

It requires the user to enter their name and message then click submit.

I then take this info and send it to my SMS email address where I receive it as a SMS message.

Unfortunately, I published the website on this site and someone hit me with 68 messages this morning with bogus text in the message. I have since removed the PHP file until I think of something better. This question alone may unleash the deviants.

My questions are...
1) Is there a way to make this a bit more secure?
2) Is there a way to require fields to be filled out?
3) If I added an email address field...even if I didn't use it in the PHP and even if the user entered in a bogus email
address...how do I only allow properly formatted addresses?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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Looking For Book Suggestions...
I am looking for a complete Dreamweaver MX book. I would like it to contain information about dreamweaver itself plus about the *other* things like PHP, CSS etc. I would like it to cover as many areas as possible. Must add that I have self taught myself in dreamweaver but now I am in position wher I need a good resource what can help to take my future web designs to the next level, would it be dynamic or static.
Also I am looking for a good book what covers Flash in dynamic content aspect. How to integrate Flash into databases, how to create them, how to use them etc.
thank you.

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Pic Viewing Suggestions...
Hi there all

I have a website with a bunch of thumbnails on it. I would like to open them up in a new browser window, but can I do it so that the browser automatically resizes with each pic (as they're aren't all the same size)?

Alternatively, any other way to do it, pulling the Jpgs into Flash (instead of having 'em sat in the library)?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

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Book Suggestions
Do you guys have any recommendations on good flash books? I'm trying to create a shopping cart using xml, dynamic images and most likely objects, so those topics would be high on the list

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Tutorial Suggestions
I started teaching the basics of Flash to a friend and realized I'm not a good teacher. I was hoping to get some suggestions on where to point him to on the www, that will not only go over the basics again but explain further, maybe even some basic AS. I'll comb through the tutes here on FK and see what I can find, but other sites that yall know of would be cool too. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I forgot.....for mx.

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Site Suggestions
Please visit

http://www.rdscorp.com/newweb/motionheader.html

poke around, not everything is working but i want feedback on the design of it in general. any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Scott

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Mouse Suggestions?
Reposition Mouse
I have a simple routine that detects when the mouse has moved by Nth amount, i'd like to have the option of repositioning the mouse to the center of the stage. I've searched and searched with no success for the magic command...

I need this because im toying with an app where the user is rolling a ball around a game level, top down view. Ideally i'd have a trackball peripheral, but the problem would be the same.

When the mouse leaves the scene I can't listen to it anymore.

Ideas?

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