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  - frame rateHi.
    I have two scenes.I want to increase the speed of one scene.
    but when I change the frame rate for one scene ,the other scene is changed.How can I just change the frame rate for one scene?
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  - Window Title with Flash Express DetectionThe window title still displays the title defined in the HTML page plus " -
    Flash Player Installation" after installation of the Flash player 8 via the
    Flash Express method. Shouldn't the title be normal again after the
    installation of the Flash Player?
    
    Anybody any ideas?
    
    (Mac OSX, Safari and Firefox)
    --
    Lucas
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  - Custom Cursor problemsI have successfully created a movie clip cursor that I would like to use, but
    when I go to test it, the actual cursor is way far off from where my movie clip
    is. I set my movie clip up at x=0, y=0. If I start my real cursor there to
    begin with, it moves it about just fine. But when starting up the flash file,
    if I have my real cursor in another location other than x=0, y=0, it sets and
    locks the distance between it and my movie clip for the rest of the session.
    The movie clip floats around at that distance from the actual cursor then, but
    the real cursor still controls all the actual click functions and because it is
    "invisible", it is rendering this frustrating and pretty useless as-is.
    
    This was the code that I was recommended to use on my Movie Clip:
    
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    onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    
    Mouse.hide();
    startDrag(wandcursor);
    
    }
    
    -----------------------------------------
    
    How is it that I can get the movie clip to lock on the coordinates of the
    actual mouse cursor upon entering the file/scene?
    
    Thanks in advance... (and I hope I didn't confuse the heck out of you all!)
    
    Cass
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  - Learning Interactions Quiz templatesI am new to Flash, and have just started using the Learning Interactions quiz
    templates.
    I have edited the interactions in a template to add my own questions, but
    when I test the movie, clicking on the the forward navigation arrow doesn't do
    anything.
    I understood from the documentation that navigation is in-built in the
    templates.
    Can anyone help, please ?
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  - MediaPlayback Componentkeep everything the same and try placing your stop action one frame after the
    frame it currently sets on. In other words have your media playback comp
    spanned across 2 frames with the stop action on the second frame. see if that
    fixes your problem
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  - "Play" buttonHow do i add a play button that you click on and then it plays my flash animation??
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  - Publish Preview at 100%Hi Y'all,
    
    I am new to Flash 8 and have developed some web banners for a client. When I
    show it to the client it (published) they open it in a browser and shows the
    .swf at "fit-to-page" size rather than 100%. Is there a setting that I could
    change this to show the .swf in a browser at 100% rather than 'fit-to-page'.
    And another thing is, how would you show a client the web banner comp without
    having a Flash Player? Thanks in advance.
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  - Point me in the right direction please... Flash movies in a browserPlease bear with me as I'm not even sure if I'm in the right forum for this.
    If not, a suggestion to the right one would be appreciated.
    
    I'm currently in the process of creating several video tutorials using
    Camtasia Studio from www.techsmith.com With this program I can export the
    avi to flash but their menu system leaves a little to be desired.
    
    I'm interested in being able to play these videos based on the example in
    the link below.
    
    Select the 1st instructional video from this page:
    http://www.powerquest.com/support/videos/driveimage7/
    
    In the upper right hand corner is a drop down with some fairly basic
    commands, I'd like to also be able to add a fast forward and rewind "button"
    I'd also like to have a separate drop down on the upper left that can list a
    bunch of video tutorials to choose from.
    
    What is necessary to accomplish this ?
    
    Thanks,
    
    David...
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  - Flash / Illustrator image helpI am a senior developer that has inherited the beginnings of a Flash project. I
    have no experience in Flash but I have coded a number of GUI's in other
    languages.
    
    The project is a conversion of an application that used Adove SVG Viewer to
    display a map that has several types of icons; each icon has a text box next to
    it with a name. When one of the icons is clicked, a request is sent to a
    service for information on the location for that particular name. The map has
    several layers, the base map image, 3 images of different icons and a
    boundaries image.
    
    The new application at this point is in Flash 8. The images have been
    converted with Adobe Illustrator to .ai files. The application shows the
    finished images and allows several of the layers to be shown or hidden through
    a context menu. This is the state that I come into the project.
    
    I need to retrieve the name for each individual icon when it is clicked on.
    I need to change the color of the individual icon when it is clicked on.
    
    I have been scouring the web for a tutorial or information on how to do this
    have been coming up blank. I have ran across information that suggests I may
    need to convert each individual icon to a symbol and then work with the symbol.
    However, as the application is now I can see the the names associated with the
    icons when use the Debug-> List Objects and List Variables menu.
    
    As a variable I see the following:
    
    Movie Clip: Target="_level0.layers.stations"
    Edit Text: Target="_level0.layers.stations.instance1"
    ...
    text = "ALPHA\r",
    ...
    
    As an object I see the following:
    
    Movie Clip: Frame=1 Target="_level0.preview.instance213.stations"
    Shape:
    Edit Text: Target="_level0.preview.instance213.stations.instance214" Variable=
    Visible=true Text = ALPHA\r"
    
    Alpha is the text I am after.
    
    This leads me to think that it is possible to work with the icon and text,
    without having to create the symbols.
    Also, the Adobe SVG Viewer FAQ suggested that I should be using Flex instead
    of pure Flash.
    
    Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Although I do not mind going
    through tutorials and reading documentation, it would be a great time saver to
    have some information on the best way to do this.
    
    Thanks in advance.
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  - SWF Scrolling - is it possible????? Hi all,
    Have a deadline and really want to know the following:
    
    I am doing a website with basic navigation buttons.
    
    The website is for a business and is text heavy. Each page has differing
    lengths of text, so I have set each page up with the same width.
    
    Under the comand of modify, I have only changed the length of each page where
    there is a lot of text. My theory was that when I published the flash, I would
    get a scroll bar on the side - Is this possible. Whats happening at the minute
    is when I click on a button the page loads at a different proportion to the
    first or I have no scroll action. Is this something I can control.
    
    I know I can make a scroll bar within a text box and have dynamic text, but I
    really want the whole page to scroll.
    
    Could anyone sugest in laymans terms to me if this is possible or am I only
    dreaming?????
    
    Um is there a piece of code I could put in the actions to make this happen and
    if so where do I put it?
    
    Sorry If I explained that badly.
    I hope someone out there can help.
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  - reference sound in main movie from other movie clipI have in the main movie clip with a bg sound that loops called
    "bg_loop" playing. i click a button, this loads an external swf
    "track1.swf" into an empty movie clip "container". the bg sound
    "bg_loop" is stopped. the loading swf "track1.swf" preloads, then plays
    a sound file. once the file stops, i want to tell the "bg_loop" in the
    main movie to start playing again.
    
    how do i reference it back in the main clip?
    the actionscript in the loaded clip "track1.swf" is
    **********************
    this.mysound = new Sound();
    this.mysound.attachSound("Track 1");
    this.mysound.start();
    this.mysound.onSoundComplete = function() {
    _root.default_loop.start(0,999);
    }
    stop();
    **********************
    
    cheers
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  - Will it work....Will it work if I publish a project from my PC to Mac? or do I need to do something else?
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  - Suggestion for Flash 9... fix???Not sure if this is where to put this, but here is something that's been
    driving me nuts, and I'd love to see added or fixed to the next version of
    Flash!
    
    I use loadVars a lot to load somewhat lengthy html files and use css etc. I
    find using XML overly complicated in Flash and this is much easier.
    
    However, since everything I do is government work, and always in both English
    and French, I run into many issues of how text wraps in a textfield.
    
    For instance, if I need to keep certain numbers together like say 200 000,
    often the 000 will wrap to the next line. Can't use a comma or anything like
    that to keep the numbers together because you just can't DO that in French!
    
    So, naturally in our html pages etc, we use : BUT since I use loadVars, I
    can't use since Flash assumes it's a new variable!! Argh!!!
    
    I would REALLY like to see Flash add some sort of non-breaking space function
    that can be inserted into an html file that Flash would then recognize.
    
    RIght now I have to put in a bunch of bad code like %26 %26 etc etc to add
    fake spaces (I use .condenseWhite for appearance issues, so normal spaces or
    tab code won't work etc)
    
    PLEASE macromedia...fix this in the next release. It's becoming more and more
    vital as people come to our site often for our Flash presentations, and they
    are getting quite annoyed by obvious mistakes that get missed!!!
    
    Thanks!
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  - compression settingsI have about 10 flash files and would like to know the best way to combine them
    into one avi file.
    
    Will I lose more quality if I:
    
    convert all 10 files to .swf
    import all .swf to one flash file
    export to avi
    
    or I:
    
    export all to avi
    import all .avi to one flash file
    export to avi?
    
    Also, do I lose more quality with .swf or .avi?
    
    Thanks.
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  - The perfect preloader? Is it possible?Is it possible to really preload the entire movie?
    
    I ask this because some of the stuff I am doing, the preloader will
    completely load, play for about 2 seconds and have a slight pause or seem
    jumpy. My file sizes range from 10k - 35k.
    
    Does anyone know what might be causing this?
    
    Thanks so much for your help!
    
    /z

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chrscote

Posted: 2005-12-16 1:39:54

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Flash, Issues with Running app on WinXP I have an HTML page that loads a frame-less window in which I load a Flash
application file. This file was created using Flash MX 2004 and consists of 3
frames. The first frame is used to log in to the application, the 2nd frame
displays a welcome message and a drop-down menu at the top. After selected an
item from the menu, the app goes to the third frame. This last frame contains
functions that are used when users click on objects on the stage and for
dragging those items if certain settings are met.
When I run this application on my Windows 2000 machine, everything runs
smoothly. However, when it's run on a Windows XP machine, after selecting an
item from the drop-down, the whole Flash file starts to drag with the mouse
with the mouse being at the upper left corner of the screen. I don't have any
code outside of the functions to drag anything, though.
Does anyone know what could possibly be the problem? It seems like Flash is
actually running the code in the functions even though nothing has been called.

Chris Cote

the fleece

Posted: 2005-12-16 3:05:00

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Flash >> Issues with Running app on WinXP can you post an example?

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