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Transforming A Flash Web Site In A Cd Projector
I must do the following:

Transform a huge web site in flash, with several movies that load on the main movie, into a projector to run from a CD. The projector will have buttons to open other projector files (director and flash) to show the portfolio itens.

The problem I´m having is that the SWF do not open .EXE files without asking to open or save it, so I must transform it to a projector?
is there another way of opening .exe files with a SWF? maybe .dat files?

hope I´ve been clear.
thanks for any help

Big Flash Site: Best Way To Build/Projector
Hi,
I asked a flash developer to build a very complicated, interactive flash about very detailed special information for the web and also as stand-alone flash projector file to send in emails or to download for clients.

After a lot of work the developer came back with a system of over 60 swf-files (300 hours).
Now he has problems to bring all the files in one .exe flash projector file.

Here are my questions:
- Is this the right and only way to develop a Projector file? Where are the benefits in doing it this way? Are there better ways to do it?
- Is there an easy and quick way to put all the .swf files in one projector (.exe) file?

Or in other words: what should I recommend the developer? Now and especially in future ventures together?

Thanks

Hubertus

Update Flash Projector Content From A Web Site With A Button?
Hi there-

I'm using Flash CS3 (but not too familiar with AS3) to create a projector file for a USB memory stick to be distributed at a conference to all attendees. I'm looking for a way to update some of the content on the memory stick with the click of a button.

For example, a user plugs in the stick, clicks "update" and the projector file communicates with an online source (my server) to load an XML database, a text file, a directory of images, etc. dynamically rather than off of the stick.

It would be fantastic if clicking the button simply downloaded a file or directory and replaced a file on the memory stick. Is that possible? Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks so much!

Transforming
hello out there

..how do you transform an object so that only one side of the shape is altered?

i.e if i wanted to give a square some perspective & make the far side shorter than the near side what should i do..? (preferably without going back into the source symbol & making a permanent change)

helpful hints much apreciated,
cheers

Please Help With Transforming This AS2 Into AS3
Could somebody please revise this short AS2 code to AS3 syntax so that the swf file can keep its interactivity when loaded into AS3 main swf.

This swf gallery (a free template) in its current (as2) state, can be loaded into as3 swf, but only as a plain animation, without 'click on pic' interactivity, and even with wrong size. (i have scaled it down from original size, via AS code)

Thanks a lot in advance

Transforming With Actionscript
Hello.

I am loading some images into a .swf but I want to make sure all the pictures fit in the frame. How can I set the Transformation with actionscript?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Transforming Colors On MCs
If i do a color swap on an MC with maybe 4 frames, will all frames be effected?

Transforming All Objects
i have a project im working on take up too much room on the working area. i try to select the whole thing, and only one set of keyframed tweens want to change, in this case, resize.

i want to take the whole set, begining to end, and shrink it, without loosing the tweens and the like.

also, the same idea with moving the whole thing around a page without screwing the tweens.

Transforming Text
Hello and thanks in advance for anybody's input..

What I'm trying to accomplish is something that I'm sure is rather simple, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. Here is what I want to do..

I want the user to be able to click a word, sentence, etc. And have the text's color change from one color to another, let's say black to grey. After the user has clicked the black text to turn it grey, they could click the grey text to change it back to the orginal color, black.

Should this be approached as two different button symbols that get switched from one to the other? Should it just be one graphic where the color values change? What would be the simplest solution?

Much thanks..

DuplicateMovieClip Not 'transforming'
I'm using the TransformManager together with a my script to duplicate a movie clip with a textfield inside it but it is not working out as well as I hoped.

I manage to duplicate the clip but it is not completing the imported script functions as the duplicated clip keeps being dragged...unless I get rid of part of the function itemHandler (_root["text_ti"+i].startDrag(false); etc) but that just leads to only the MC being duplicated without the textfield... I hope this makes sense?

This is the script I'm using
code:
import gs.TransformManager;

var manager_obj = new TransformManager({targetObjects:[test_mc, test2_mc, test3_mc, text_ti.text_ti], bounds:{xMin:0, xMax:550, yMin:0, yMax:365}, forceSelectionToFront:true, eventHandlernAnyEvent});
manager_obj.addEventListener("move", onMove);

function onAnyEvent(event_obj:Object):Void {
trace("Action: "+event_obj.action+", MovieClip or TextField: "+event_obj.targetObject+", transformed?: "+event_obj.transformed);
}

function onMove(event_obj:Object):Void {
trace("Moved mc: "+event_obj.targetObject);
}
root_cm = new ContextMenu();
root_cm.hideBuiltInItems();
root_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Add note", itemHandler));
function itemHandler(obj:Object, item:ContextMenuItem) {

i++;
text_ti.duplicateMovieClip("text_ti"+i,i);
_root["text_ti"+i].startDrag(false);
_root["text_ti"+i].onPress=function(){
this.startDrag(false);
}
manager_obj.addItem(_root["text_ti"+i]);
}
_root.menu = root_cm;

Could someone help please?

Also see attachment for ease.

Transforming Questions
Hey all,

I have a question about skewing objects in Flash. Is there an easy way, (I.E. - a way that doesn't require extrusion matrices or seriously advanced math) to control a timed skew to give a 3d rotation effect with actionscript? I know you can just keyframe it, but It's always smoother to make things mathematical and do it all with AS.

Any ideas?

Color Transforming Help
I am stuck on a program I'm trying to make. What I want to do is use input text fields to read two HEX codes from a use then perform a transformation on these two HEXes. The transformation is what I am stuck on. I want to take a random % (just raw Math.random() at the moment) and apply it to the difference between the two colors, so that a random point in between is chosen. My current method is to try and find a way to sift out the individual red, green and blue values of the two colors and to try and work with those. But I can't get it to work. I can get the input fields to apply directly to a movie clip and I can apply a totally random color to the same movie clip, but I can't get the parts in between to do what I want them to. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could work this or should I scrap my current method?

Transforming To Mobile
Hi all,

i want to transform some desktop based flash games fro mobile.is there any tool that transforms for mobile.so that i can do easily.

Transforming A Shape
Hi

I have an irregular shape (a square with on of the corners extruding).

What i would like to do is to have the point that is sticking out to anchor at a cordinate. When i drag the item, i would like to have that point to remain in the same position.

Im not sure how i would do this. Would i need to use a Matrix?

thanks

Transforming Bitmaps
I am thinking about a movie that will allow me to transform bitmaps. If you use adobe photoshop you can move an image from a flat view to horizontal or any angle you want with the transform tool.

Does Macromedia let me do that within flash? I would like to create a motion tween that pulls a screen shot off of an image and turn it into the start of a movie. Any suggestions? I will have to load a swf within fla to do this. Thanks.

Brandon

Envelope Transforming
Hey, for those of you who use this. Is there a way to create an envelope tween, through frames or even actionscript? I've tried with frames, but when I create the tween, the shape turns into a global graphic symbol. When I try to modify the shape at the last frame of the tween, it applies the modifications to the entire tween. Hope that made sense. Cheers.

Box Transforming Question
Hi guys.Thanx for all the replies on my last post,they both worked .Ive been lookin thru kirupa and ive yet to find a shape transform tutorial .Does any1 know were i can find 1?.Also,i dunno if u call this shape transforming,well im not sure wot u call it.If u go here,click studio then watch the intro,u will see how the boxes "unfold" if u will.Any tutorials on this?.Many thanx in advance for ppl who are kind enuff to reply.Peace,Tec

Transforming A Whole Layer.

How can I flip a whole layer in flash-Mx?

This means I want to flip an object in all frames after creating animation.

Open Flash Projector From Another Projector
I've got several flash movies I've made that are all .exe projector files. I want to keep them this way because a couple of the features I have only work from this. I need to make a portfolio of all my work and want to create either a .swf but preferably a .exe file with al my links. Each link will then be connected to each .exe project. Is this possible and how can I do it? Obviously can't do it with html due to security risks but surely it can be done from flash?!

Flash Projector To Director Projector
Is it possible? My professor doesn't mind my using of flash instead of director in order to present my portfolio however he feels Director handles Video more efficiently than flash. So is it possible to import the movie to director code the movie create a projector. Then when a certain button in flash is clicked it launches the director projector displaying the video?

Transforming Color Over Steps
I am doing a multimedia CD for an upcoming confrence and the main informational part is set up like a web site and I trying to set up the AS so that when you click on the buttons for the different sections it will make the background image MC change colors, ie. blue tint picture to green tint.

So far I can get the color to change by adding to each button a variation (depending on the color) of this:
//myBackground is the target
on (release) {
myColor = new Color (myBackground);
myColorTransform = new Object;
myColorTransform = { ra: '100', rb: '50', ga: '100', gb: '40', ba: '0', bb: '-255', aa: '100', ab: '0'}
myColor.setTransform(myColorTransform);

}

But what I want to do is make the color change over several steps. I am compleatly clueless on how to make it transition over steps to the new color.

Please help.

Unexplained Shape Transforming
When I run my movie, two symbols which are both black boxes inexplicably rotate and skew themselves. In live preview they look normal, and there is no actionscript that even references them. When I run the movie in debug mode they are rotated and skewed before I even let flash run the first line of code.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Transforming A Movie Clip
I have a bunch of short movie clips that i need to transform across the stage one right after another. when i try to apply the transform effect to the movie clip on the stage the preview just shows it spinning around all distorted.

Can i even do this or am I doing something wrong?

Problems With Scenes' Transforming
hi, I am newer to actionscript. I have some problems with scenes' transforming.
I want to know how to transform one scene to another scene by release a button.

I know it's code: on(release) and next scene but I dont know how to make them together.

The button's name is "ONE"

pls help.

[F8] Transforming Text Boxes
Hi there. It's been quite some time since I've been on here, but the help I have received on here has never failed to be helpful, quite an impressive communtiy here. Anyways, here's my mini problem...

I am working for a client that had an older program whipped up in Director. I'm basically just doing a screen for screen translation and having the info posted online for her students (she's' a professor). One area features a "brainstorming" section where the students enter text in a series of text boxes and submit it via a "next" button. The next screen now has boxes for every text entry they made, but they can drag the boxes with the content and arrange/organize them in groupings which they see fit. I'm pretty much a noob with action script, but does anybody have any suggestions as to what direction I should be moving in to accomplish this? Any help is most appreciated.

Component For Transforming Textboxes?
Hi,

Is there a component available where users can extend an input text box to suit the length of their writing which is also draggable?

I've been looking for a way to do this in flash but cannot solve the problem.

[F8] Perspective Transforming Tool
hi guys,
is it possible to scale a symbol *perspectively* using the 'free transform/distort' tool?

i tried it on a symbol and it seems to only work if i break down the symbol all the way.

anyway to work around this?

Big Problem With Transforming Dynamic MCs
I have 'sectionMC', which is loaded into a dynamically created MC with the following code:

Code:
_root.Container.createEmptyMovieClip("form", 501);
_root.Container.form.attachMovie("Contact", _root.Container.form, 501, {_x:20, _y:20});
then within the sectionMC, there is this code:

Code:
txt.textColor = 0x000000;
Box.colorTo(0xFFFFFF, 0);
Boxtween('_width', 60, 1, 'easeOut', 0);
(uses the Zigo tween component to change the Box MC to white)

The text colour changes to black.
But the Box MC colour remains unchanged, however the width tweening works!!

If the sectionMC is placed directly on the stage, it all works.

is it a path issue ?
How can i resolve this?

Transforming A Movie Clip
I have a bit of a problem, after reading a couple of good actionscript articles here on actionscript.org I managed to create a countdown from 12:00 to 00:00 in a movieclip. ( http://nieser.net/flash/countdown.swf )

Only thing I need to do is to slightly distort the movieclip so it aligns better with the background image. However when I drag the Movie Clip from my Library onto my Scene the "Distort" button on the toolbar is greyed out. All I can do is scale, rotate and skew.

Another problem which might be related is that when I skew or rotate the Movie Clip the Move Clip dissappears when I export the movie to .swf. Scaling works fine though.

Click here for the .fla file. (Flash MX 2004)

Click here for the font I used in the .fla above.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Color Transforming / Tinting
I love using the manual tinting feature plus tweens to transform from an mc's current color to another. I would like to switch to a scripted method of doing this. I have found that the color matirx filter or ColorTransform might be the best options= for this. I would like to be able to control how long the tween from the current color to new color is when I press a button. Which method is the best for achieving this. I'd just like toi tell it the new hex color and the amount of time it should take to transform to it. Will I need to implore both the transition class and something else?

Transforming A Drop Shadow
Hey there reader,

Does anyone have a clue how to transform a drop shadow? I want the effect of light coming from above a ball, and a skewed shadow on the "ground" below it. I can't apply the transformation matrices to filter objects, and i don't know a way to place the filter effect in its own Sprite to transform.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks!
Jesang

Problems Transforming A Movie Clip
I'm having the silliest problem transforming a movie clip symbol to 20% of its original size. When I click on the instance and then go to the Transform panel and enter "20%" for the size, then go back to the stage and select the instance again, it turns out the instance is still at 100% of its original size. I really don't know what the problem could be, since I had no trouble reducing the size of another movie clip in the exact same movie. Anyone have any ideas on what's happening? Thanks.

Transforming FONTS Makes Them Disappear - HELP
I'm pretty new when it comes to flash and working on some real basic stuff. I'm trying to add text to my background and whenever I rotate or skew a text it does not appear when the movie is published. Just wondering what I've done wrong and looking for some help.

Transforming And Skewing Dynamic Text
I had asked before why my dynamic text was not able to be transformed. Now it appear as though it can but only with certain embeded fonts. And not only just the fonts in general but specific fonts in specific movies. For instance: Goudy Old Style will be able to transform in one movie but not in another. Is it a problem with the way I am embeding them, those that work and those that don't were embedded at the same time... Any suggestions will be praised! Thanks guys

James

Transforming Circle Shape Into A Square
Hi,

I have a created a shape object circle that I want to transform into a square on mouseover (all should be handled with code - no timeline anims). I know how to do this in the timeline (using shape hints) but how on earth do I do it with AS 3?

Thanks in advance,
Cristian

More Help With Code For Transforming Scale And Color...
Here is some code I'm trying to finish. It does two things: Fades the color of a movieclip to another color, and scales (increases the width) the rectangular movie clip - all of this I figured out with the help of some very nice folks on this forum, so thanks!

The code works, the mc resizes and fades to the desired color, BUT I need the movieclip to scale back (decrease in width) once it reaches it's target width of 400.

I've tried a few things, but uh, not quite finding it...any ideas? Thanks again! Here's the code:

// mc_retangle contains a black retangle...
var mycolor = new Color(mc_retangle);
var change = {rb:169,gb:195,bb:217};
mycolor.setTransform(change);

button.onRelease = function() {
// scale movieclip
mc_retangle.onEnterFrame = function(){
if ( mc_retangle._width<=400) {
mc_retangle._width += 40;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}

// fade color
//varibles to mix desired color
var red_dest = 219;
var green_dest = 201;
var blue_dest = 174;

onEnterFrame = function(){
//change red//
if (red_dest>=change.rb) {
if (change.rb<red_dest) {
change.rb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.rb>red_dest) {
change.rb -= 3;
}
}
//change green//
if (green_dest>=change.gb) {
if (change.gb<green_dest) {
change.gb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.gb>green_dest) {
change.gb -= 3;
}
}
//change blue//
if (blue_dest>=change.bb) {
if (change.bb<blue_dest) {
change.bb += 3;
}
} else {
if (change.bb>blue_dest) {
change.bb -= 3;
}
}
mycolor.setTransform(change);
}

}

Transforming A Static Symbol Into A Dynamic One
hello guys (me = total flash noob)

I bought a flash template from Template Monster for a client.

I'm a seasoned developer but completely new to flash, or mostly anyway.

After hours (and hours) of browsing thru the .fla file, i got a understanding of how it works and how it all ties together but still find myself dumbfounded when i try to make anything else than a light change.

Here's the thing, the website ill deliver needs to be bilingual and the template is in english only.

Fortunately, its a dynamic template so most of the text is in an external file and all i had to do is create to separate instances, one in french and one in english. That part works.

What doesn't work is those parts of the template that were static and changed to dynamic text.

i put the variable name in the .fla, I put the variable in the text file. render the movie but flash doesn't take it.

I'm guessing that the part where the player reads the file doesn't bind the new dynamic text but...

I think you understand whats my problem...

Can someone briefly indicate me the steps for transforming a static symbol to a dynamic one please ?

Transforming A Text Field And Resetting The New Size To 100%?
I'm trying to precisely size up a text field, and for the life of me can't figure out a proper way to do it. You'd think as soon as you click the canvas with the text tool, you'd be able to input the height and width, but you can't. It just snaps back to whatever size it is unless the size you specify is less than the origional size.

This issue gives me problems because I'm using dynamic text to load a .txt file with html properties - and I use this .txt with the IMG tag to load images - well, as I found out, no matter what size your text box is, if it has a distorted aspect ratio (I.E. anything that's not a square) your image will be distorted with the same aspect ratio of said text box.

So the question is: Once I resize my text box, is there any way to have the transformation applied to the text box in such a way that it will accept the new size as 100%x100% as opposed to 153%x235%? Unless I can figure out how to do this, images will load distorted.

This is a very stupid and angering issue that really shouldn't be this damn annoying

Difficulty Transforming Dynamic Text Fields In MX2004
I know its gonna sound very amateurish but its frustrating. I know, at least I am pretty sure you can distort dynamic text fields using the free transform tool,just as you can static fields, but whenever I distort or rotate the dynamic fild in the slightest on my new site the text disappears. Can anyone tell me why and/or tell me if I how to distort these fields. I am looking to create a laying on the table (perspective) effect. Thanks alot for any help

Motion Tweening Large Images And Transforming Size...
Hey,
Im making a basic TV Commercial for a project....and basically im making it out of Images...so i want to make an Animation out of it so what im doing is using lareg image files and motion tweening them while the reduce in size or increase in size whilst moving slightly across the screen...

my problem is that whenever i do this it comes out very choppy as in the edge of the image is very choppy when it moves and reduces/increases size....is there anyway to fix this??? or should i even use a different Application???

Thanks heaps to Anyone who can Help me...

Seb

Security Sandbox Violation When Transforming Mc Inside OnLoadInit
I'm trying to load an image into a placeholder movieclip, using movieClipLoader.loadClip.
When the onLoadInit event fires, i do some resize and alpha fade-in code. The resize code causes Security Sandbox Violation. This is the culprit:

if(frame2picRatio<=1){
mat=target.transform.matrix;
mat.scale(frame2picRatio,frame2picRatio);
target.transform.matrix=mat;
}

When I comment it out in the onLoadInit, the error goes away. I don't know what connection is there between scaling a matrix and Security Sandbox.

Any thoughts?

Security Sandbox Violation When Transforming Mc Inside MovieClipLoader.onLoadInit
I'm trying to load an image into a placeholder movieclip, using movieClipLoader.loadClip.
When the onLoadInit event fires, i do some resize and alpha fade-in code. The resize code causes Security Sandbox Violation. This is the culprit:

mat=target.transform.matrix;
mat.scale(frame2picRatio,frame2picRatio);
target.transform.matrix=mat;

When I comment it out in the onLoadInit, the error goes away. I don't know what connection is there between scaling a matrix and Security Sandbox.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Help Finishing Up My First Flash Site - Using Navigation To Display Different Sections Of The Site?
Thanks for looking! i am making my first flash site, and im not sure what to do next in regards to navigating through the site. I have different sections, home, info, hardware, equipment, etc, but im not sure how to make each section appear when you click the corresponding navigation link. i have an idea but im not sure how to execute it.

Should i make a movie clip for each section (home, info, hardware, contact), then place each movie clip in its own frame on the main time line, and on each navigation link button (each one is a movie clip) use action script and put a gotoAndPlay() code with the frame number of the corresponding section? so when you click it, it goes to that frame which has the movie clip that has the content for that part of site, say contact, or info?? if so how can i do this?

that sounds really confusing and im sorry but please help out a beginner! Thank you and happy halloween!

-Matt

here is a link so you can see the.swf

[url]http://www.filedorm.com/show.php/7839_INTOUCH.swf.html[/url]

and also here is a link for the .fla

[url]http://public.me.com/mattsh*t[/url]

your going to have to copy and paste that in your browser since the world filter on here. just repleace the " * " with an " i "

Need To Retrieve Site URL (http Referrer) Of The Site My Flash Player Is Placed On
Hello All,

I am trying to implement a custom flash player where my embedded source code (<OBJECT></OBJECT>) can be placed on various websites. I would like to gather some information of the users who are using my flash player on their site. I wrote the following code inside the flash player to gather the site URL (http referrer) so I can send this piece of information back to my server.

javascript: if(null != document.all) {
window.document['adbVcmAd'].Movie += ('&site_url='+encodeURIComponent(document.URL));
}
else {
window.document['adbVcmAd'].setAttribute('src', window.document['adbVcmAd'].getAttribute('src')+'&site_url='+encodeURIComponent(document.URL));
}
void(0);

var sl = _root.site_url;

I am able to get the site URL in IE, but I cannot get the site URL from users using Fire Fox.

If anyone has any ideas, please post a reply or send me an email.

Much Appreciated!

Edited: 01/24/2008 at 02:48:16 PM by Flasher37

Have A Flash 6 Site That Loads External Txt, Swf, And Mp3 And The Site Works On My...
mac,but when viewed on PC...none of those external files load into the main movie. Anyone know what may cause this to happen? another thing...this site was done in flash 5 (worked fine then), but went with 6 at the end to use the mp3 streaming feature.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated!
[Edited by JuanBenedit on 09-06-2002 at 10:19 AM]