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| flv or swf for downloaded language program | 7/1/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I'm an English Second Language teacher who made 30 powerpoint slideshows (240 slides) to teach ...
A: The initial question was about previewing files, I believe. I do not know how Flash Movie Player ...
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| jpegs into flash | 6/30/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Ive drawn a couple of characters in sequence, scanned them in using photoshop, and made each ...
A: I am sure there is a program that can export animations to flash, search around online for character ...
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| Flash Video Works In CS3...Not On The Web... | 6/22/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: Website Address is: http://hwc.ccc.edu/newsite/indextest.aspx. I took the .html file that was ...
A: Are you talking about the photo slideshow? It displays for me just fine with Firefox 3 and Safari 4 ...
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| Flash Video Works In CS3...Not On The Web... | 6/22/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Website Address is: http://hwc.ccc.edu/newsite/indextest.aspx. I took the .html file that was ...
A: Coould be many things. First thing I would do is upload the html. if it works, its you asp page (why ...
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| flv or swf for downloaded language program | 6/2/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I asked this question of another person, but would also like to have your opinion. I'm an ...
A: My apologies for the late reply. I've been away on vacation and forgot to set the vacation timer on ...
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| flv or swf for downloaded language program | 6/2/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I'm an English Second Language teacher who made 30 powerpoint slideshows (240 slides) to teach ...
A: the quickest way to do this is also the way that will ensure most people will have no trouble ...
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| Web design | 5/29/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I would like to learn how to make web sites using flash. www.christophercross.com and ...
A: The first step in creating Flash-based sites is to acquire Adobe Flash. It's the only real Flash ...
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| Using the entire stage as a button | 4/28/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I have created a map that I want to be clickable. When you click it, it will play an animation of ...
A: I suggest that you create a layer on top of everything and draw a transparent rectangle. Next, turn ...
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| flash loads slowly do u need toput flv file on ? | 4/12/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: . http://www.mangiaitalianfood.com/menus/pastashow/ I have a program called Photodex Producer. I ...
A: Depending on how the clip is set up you might need to have the fla on the server. You'll know if it ...
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| Loading movie clips via buttons | 4/10/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Is it possible to have a button load a movieclip from the library? If so, any ideas how to go about ...
A: Michelle, Yes it is possible. If you are using AS2 yu would use attachMovieClip. In AS3 you use ...
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| flash scenes | 4/6/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I'm trying to create a website that has several scenes. Scene 1 is the home page, scene 2 -7 are ...
A: SCenes are only used when developing, once you publish the file flash removes the scenes. The best ...
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| How to Record changes in MovieClips | 4/5/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I am new to Action Script2.0. In this program below I had created an instance of MovieClip with ...
A: The reason you get that error is because the 'color' variable is only available inside each ...
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| Flash Movie question | 4/2/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Can you make a swf. flash movie open on a homepage of a site automatically only once, browse the ...
A: Ken, I am assuming you mean an html site with some kind of introduction on the home page, and not a ...
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| Antipasti News For You! | 4/2/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: how do you edit files ... what program do you use? flash? do you edi the fla file or the swf file.. ...
A: Flash can only be edited in Adobe Flash. There really are no alternatives for serious developing. ...
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| Flash - Nested Movie Clips | 3/21/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Dixon, I'm building three short flash movies that explain how different 'Alternative ...
A: Claran, From what you describe it is hard to tell, sounds like everything should work. If it is not ...
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| Importing into flash | 3/18/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I have created a slide show of pictures and saved it as a .swf. I have all the pictures + the xml. ...
A: So you have a working SWF and want to incorporate it into another Flash movie? If so, have a look ...
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| Animated gif to flash | 3/13/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I am trying to make a flash animation for our company web site. I had previously made some animated ...
A: Kyle, Animated gifs are not the way to go. Flash was initially an animation software for web, so it ...
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| flash rollover button | 3/10/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: http://agostdesign.com/amici.html . . . . . . I want the buttons in the top menu to only show ...
A: Leeann, There are several ways to do this - heres one: 1. make the buttons one movie clip by ...
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| wHat programs do i need to edit this website www.antipastiny.com | 3/10/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: wHat programs do i need to edit this website www.antipastiny.com my friend owns it and wants me to ...
A: you will need flash and the original .fla's, which are the source files used to build flash ...
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| Photoshop Buttons in Falsh | 3/8/2009 | Vishal Arora |
Q: I'm creating a flash button menu that will be made up of buttons graphics that I've imported from ...
A: It's hard to answer that definitively without seeing the .fla itself. There could be a couple ...
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| Brush tool bug? | 2/5/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Well I am using flash 8 at the current moment and when I paint with my wacom tablet (not sure if ...
A: thats strange... without the source file its difficult to say. It might be a stroke, it might be ...
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| Simple question about Flash cs3 | 1/15/2009 | Scott Valentine |
Q: I haved recently begun learning Flash cs3. When you go to "Publish" your animation, when it creates ...
A: The scripts are typically generated from a template, but can be modified by the application ...
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| swf websites | 1/15/2009 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Whenever I go to a website with the ending of swf on it the web site shows up as a blank screen. I ...
A: webpages should not end in .swf, it should be .html, php, ect. I believe files that have been ...
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| SWF files | 12/13/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Using WinXP Home,Service Pack 3, IE7, Outlook Express 6.0. I used to be able to open SWF files just ...
A: I have been getting a lot of requests along these lines. My expertise lies in developing flash ...
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| email a swf file | 12/8/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I am trying to understand how to make a swf file open up automatically in an email. I have read ...
A: What you are asking is not a flash question per se, but rather an html email question. The process ...
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| Embeding SWF Below Text and or Images | 12/4/2008 | Vishal Arora |
Q: Is there anyway to embed swf as like a background image, or anyway to have swf in the background or ...
A: You can use Flash's wmode and CSS z-indexing to layer your other elements on top of your SWF. Have ...
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| Flash Player 10 Won't Install | 11/30/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I used to watch videos on YouTube. At some point the area where the video plays went blank. It's ...
A: I am not an expert at os and plugin installs. There seems to be issues with the flash player since ...
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| Flash to avi to dvd | 11/27/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I'm using Flash MX, which I have imported photos and music, at 700 x 500 resolution, then export to ...
A: The problem is in the conversion by nero to dvd I would assume. IF it is compressing the video to ...
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| help flv | 11/18/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: i put up a video on youtube it loads quickly there.. but when i use the flv file i have or the mpg ...
A: youtube compresses the videos then streams them in. you will need to use something to compress the ...
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| using flash with buttons | 11/13/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I am a beginner web designer who wishes to use flash for building a flash slideshow with back and ...
A: couldnt find the sound page- did you mean music page? regardless, i design my sites, including ...
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| Button linking | 11/13/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: how do i link a buton with am animation on two separate scenes. I am using flash 5 so tell me the ...
A: the answer to this is very involved. i would recommend tutorials on kirupa.com. i personally use a ...
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| Button linking | 11/9/2008 | Vishal Arora |
Q: How do i link a button with other animation on 2 separate scenes i am using flash 5 so tell me the ...
A: As I understand your question, you're looking to link one portion of your Flash file to another ...
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| as2 and 3 | 10/31/2008 | Vishal Arora |
Q: i am trying to impliment and avatar service into a flash cs4 file using AS3. is this even possible.? ...
A: That's correct. That's exactly what you'll have to do. In fact, it doesn't really matter what ...
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| as2 and 3 | 10/31/2008 | Vishal Arora |
Q: i am trying to impliment and avatar service into a flash cs4 file using AS3. is this even possible.? ...
A: It depends on the service and how you're interacting with it. In general, it should be possible. ...
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| Lee Brimelow's carousel: controlling the timeline of swf loaded via XML | 10/27/2008 | Scott Valentine |
Q: I've done Lee Brimelow's carousel tutorial and made some changes, one of them being loading swf ...
A: Sorry for the delay - I didn't see the notice for your question. I haven't tested your code, but ...
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| flash files on my web site | 10/22/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Not an expert, but compiled my own website, checked it out on the machine i built it on and it ...
A: Geoff, That could be anything. As I have responded to others about, flash cs3 has issues to say the ...
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| flash mx - make a graphic symbol a link | 10/21/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: Greetings- Thanks for any tips. I am teaching myself a bit about Flash. I have a simple animation ...
A: you can make new layers in the timeline. in the top menu go to insert>timeline>new layer. Select the ...
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| Flash won't install | 10/21/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: I'm not sure if you are the right person to ask this to, but here goes. I am using XP and Firefox, ...
A: Joost, I don't know off the top of my head what the problem is, and this is for flash development ...
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| adobe CS3 stops responding | 10/19/2008 | Vishal Arora |
Q: my operating system is Windows vista and my i have a 3GB harddrive. Inspite of this when i am ...
A: Adobe CS3 products are very resource intensive. If you truly have a 3GB hard drive, than I would ...
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| adobe flash CS3 stops responding | 10/19/2008 | Mike Dixon |
Q: my operating system is Windows vista and my i have a 3GB harddrive. Inspite of this when i am ...
A: Helina, I do not know what the problem could be, but I do know that flash CS3 is buggy. I have ...
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