Advanced masking with flash?

Let´s say I have 3 layers A, B and C. I want A to be the
mask for B which is pretty easy, but at the same time I want B to
be the mask for C. Is that possible?
thanks.

I only know up through CS3, so I can't speak to if this
changed for CS4 or not.
No, you cannot mask a mask in Flash, well, not as a mask.
You can make B a movie clip with a hole in it, which does the
same thing as a mask, or you can add another layer that is a
duplicate of B (lets call it B+), and have B+ mask C.
But, what are you doing that you feel you need to do a
two-level mask as such? Perhaps there is another way to get the
effect you are looking for.

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Flash Masks with multiple objects

hey i was wondering if anyone knows whats with flash and
masking an item to multiple graphics within a graphic
IE i have a bunch of squares. they are each individual
graphic objects. there are about 40 of these squares in another
graphic called squareContainer
im trying to mask a bitmap across squareContainer but when i
do it it will only mask against one of the 40 or so squares - how
do i get it to mask against all?
-Carl

I would also like to do this, any ideas?

Can I use more than one html5/js animation produced with Flash/createjs in a website?

Hi, I am producing some animations with Flash that will be delivered in html5/js trough createjs. The trouble is that, after including the first animation in my html website, the rest of the animations are overwriting with the first one, therefore, if I attemp to insert a second animation in my website, it will actually replace the first animation I already had placed...
I have already tried the following:
- change the default canvasID for another one
- change the resources and Javascript name spaces in Createjs export settings
- change manually the name of the functions (lib, img, cjs) in the Javacript file
None of these seem to fix the problem. So, I am now wondering if is actually possible to insert more than one animation in a website....
I would really appreciate a quick answer, as I am working on a project with a very tight timing, and really need to sort this out a.s.a.p.
Thank you very much in advance for the help.

then you made some mistake.
start with two different flas. one with a red rectangle on stage and the other with a blue rectangle on stage and nothing else. publish your html and js files.
combine the two into one and, if you have a problem, post the code from your one html file and your two js files.

I need help getting my Intuos5 to work with Flash CS6

Can someone give me some help with this? I can't find a single thing on Google that helps me.
I installed Adobe Flash CS6 recently and I have been using my Intuos5 Large for a long time now with Photoshop CS6. The thing is, with Photoshop, it took forever to get working properly. It turned out that I needed to use the 64-bit version because my 64-bit system and tablet drivers won't work with 32-bit Photoshop.
Concerning Flash, it's the same problems as Photoshop. It refuses to recognize my tablets functions such as pressure and tilt sensitivity. It also has an annoying lag or lack of response if I do small, quick strokes. I would switch Flash to 64-bit mode, but there isn't one. I can't find the little stroke-like icon in Flash to turn on sensitivity either. I'm really confused. I've tried it with Flash CS5.5 and it's the same thing.
That's my issue, and I have tried restarting the software and rebooting many times as well. There doesn't seem to be much for options. This all leads to it probably being a 64-bit and 32-bit compatability issue
I'm running Windows 7 with more than enough power to maintain Flash CS6. It is possible that I may need to update my tablet driver since I did for Photoshop CS6, but it was a pain in the *** getting Photoshop to work until I used 64-bit mode. I may need additional files to mod the software.
I would really appreciate the help so I can begin to learn animation. It's my passion. Thanks, in advance.
Here are my relevant specs:
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System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
       System Model: Satellite L675
               BIOS: Phoenix SecureCore Version 2.30
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             Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3954MB RAM
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        Windows Dir: C:\windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
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If you are moving from an existing Mac to a new Mac the easiest thing to do is connect the two Macs via a Firewire cable and run the Migration assistant. If you are moving files from a Windows platform or you don't want to use the Migration assistant review this article.
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Unable to view flash content with Flash 10,0,22,87 as an Non Admin

We currently have an issue with in our Citrix farm with Windows 2003 Servers (x64, R2, SP1) Where Flash Flash 10,0,22,87 is installed and working fine when logged in as a Domain administrator but will not work as a normal (non administrative user) to confirm I've given a user who it did not work for Domain admin rights and it started working straight away. I'm using (and published within Citrix) the 32bit version on IE for compadibility reasons and have also tired this on a Window 2003 Server (x86 R2 SP1) and am getting the same results so I have to assume the issue is with Flash and not with my setup.
I've tried the following recommendations:
Remove with Adobe Flash removal tool and Reinstalling via website with an Domain admin login using the change user /install command
Remove with Adobe Flash removal tool and Reinstalling via install_flash_player_ax.exe installer with a domain admin account using the change user /install command
Allowing Domain users Modify Premissions (to both the Directories and Files) to the M:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx & M:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\Flash10b.ocx
Following KB article http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/624/624850b5.html and applying the premission changes recommended
Following KB article http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19148.html and checking the registry premissions on these items
I've enabled all ActiveX and Java related IE options in Group Policy to allow the to run for the Internet Zone
When going to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ either as a Domain admin or a Regular user it confirms that "You have version 10,0,22,87 installed"
Still I cant seem to get flash components of websites to load when logged in as a non Administrative User.

this is what fixed the issuefor me:
Be sure to try this on a test machine and back it up if needed.
In the system registry
For each of the following registry keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{D27CDB6B-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}
Right-click the key, select "Permissions"
In the Permissions Dialog click the "Advanced" button Click "Add"
Enter "Everyone" and click "OK" to accept Select "Allow" for the "Query Value", "Enumerate Subkeys", "Notify" and "Read Control" permissions. Do not change any existing permissions.
Source - http://www.adobe.com/go/624850b5

Uninstalled IE with flash player, installed firefox and added flash player - doesn't work!

Hey guys,
I have just used Revo Uninstaller Pro to remove IE 9 (I think ... it's the standard built in IE taht comes with my Win7 Home Premium 64 bit OS). I had flash player installed in IE. Upon uninstalling all flash components from my computer using Revo, I did an "advanced" search to find all leftover registry entries and files/folders associated with Flash. While doing this, Revo had warned me of some files that "have recently been added" (I believe since initial installation of Flash), and gave me the option of deleting these one at a time. I cannot remember what these files included, but looking at a posting from another person, i seem to recognize some files that I *may* have deleted while removing with Revo:
Flash10d.ocx
Flash10e.ocx
FlashUtil10e.exe
GetFlash.man
install.log
swflash.inf
uninstall_activeX.exe
(again, I have no idea if ANY of the above were the actual ones I deleted, but I seem to remember seeing a couple of these at least listed to me as options to delete)
I proceeded to remove ALL files from my computer.
Then, upon installing Firefox and, subsequently installing flash on it, I noticed that some flash websites load and work properly, whereas other ones don't. I also been to the adobe confirmation page stating taht I have successfully installed and am running Adobe Flash player. Is this simply a case of missing one key component in flash?
Before the entire uninstall mission I did, I remember revo as listing more than 1 Flash programs installed. I believe I had seen two flash 11 programs installed in Revo, which I thought were just simply duplicate installations. I vaguely remember one of them being listed as Flash player 11 and the other as Flash player 11 activex? (both were removed off my system).
Are these files different and did I, in fact, need both of these installed?
Anyway, I have no idea where to go from here. Help please!
Thanks!

So what Flash Player version do you have currently installed?
BadsantaKQ wrote:
some flash websites load and work properly, whereas other ones don't.
What exactly do you see on sites that don't work?

Problems with Flash Video

OK - I have had intermittent problems with Flash video, basically it gets choppy, usually after about 20 minutes - half an hour of watching - recently this problem has gotten worse - coinciding with a recent system update perhaps? - it's more or less anytime I stream something, and it happens on all browsers, even when the movie has clearly downloaded and is buffered way in advance of the playhead.
On 2 occasions recently leaving the movie to play just to see what happens has led to a kernel panic.
I've heard alot about Flash video generally being a resource hog and not playing ball sometimes - is there a way to solve this issue? Things I have tried - reset sound to 16 bit 44.1 khz in audio/midi manager; fixed permissions; run Tech Tool - everything seems to be fine hardware wise - I think there are some incompatible driver issues that are meesing up RAM usage but have no idea what or how to solve this... Any ideas anybody?
Thanks.

If, as you show, you are running 10.5.2, that is out of date. You need to install the 10.5.8 combo updater.
It is also possible that your FlashPlayer is out of date.
The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
You should first uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first before installing. You must also carry out a permission repair after installing anything from Adobe.

Problems with flash in VMware

Hi all,
I am currently having trouble with flash player in VMware. Some flash content works fine while others do not. For example, when navigating to youtube the banner will not load correctly but I can watch a video with no issues. Have gone through the reinstallation process to no avail. Flash player was working properly before the update and the issue does not occur in a native machine with the same specs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Specs:
Native OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8
VMware Fusion 3.1.3 running Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP 1
Browser: Internet Explorer 9 32bit
Flash Version: 10.3.181.34

Thank you for adding this. I've added my vote and I'd like to suggest to others impacted by this to take a minute, visit the bug, add their vote and make a comment.
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2940665
Chris

Problems with Flash thumbnail gallery

Hi there,
I am an artist trying to remake my website...I have a picture of a window on my homepage. The window is a movie. When clicked on, the window lights turn on and a grid of thumbnail pics appear. Each thumbnail is a movie clip. When a thumbnail is clicked on, the movie plays and a larger image appears over the window. The problem is, the window is still active underneath the large image, so if I click on the large image, I am really clicking on the window movie clip underneath, and the thumbnail grid disappears-starting the window movie clip over. How do I make the window clip inactive after it is initially clicked?
Also, I would like the larger images to end their movie clips after another thumbnail is clicked, so that there aren't large images piled up on top of each other.
Is there anyone that can help?
Thanks in advance!!

Hi again,
First off, thanks so much for your continued help...
So, I changed my design a little and format. Now I'm using as3, with Flash CS5.
My thumbnail gallery is still based on the same concept, I want a movie clip of a window to be clicked on that reveals a thumb grid, but now the thumbnail gallery should appear over the window, and the large portfolio images appear in the blank space to the right. I followed a tutorial for the gallery, here's my code on the main timeline:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetFirstImage)
function GetFirstImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic1")
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetSecondImage)
function GetSecondImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic2")
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetThirdImage)
function GetThirdImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic3")
But now I don't know how to go about adding in the initial movie clip of the window (which when clicked should light up and fade into the thumbnail grid) Right now I just have the gallery set up. How do I set up a movie that contains my gallery?
Sorry if the question is redundant, but as you know, I'm new to actionscript.
Thanks!

Firefox 7 consistantly crashes with flash content

This is quite frustrating. Ever since the release of FF6 the performance of Firefox with Flash related content literally sucks! The plugin container is ALWAYS crashing consistently.
It seems that in Mozilla race to compete with Google Chrome in their rapid releases has resulted in rapid blunders. If better testing was in place this crap would not be happening. Mozilla needs to slow their roll in all honesty of people that have been long time Firefox users are going to move to Google Chrome since it is not plagued with issues that are getting all kinds of loyal Firefox fans pissed off over something so simple as flash.
I have had more problems with crashing since Firefox 5 has come out. Obviously the proper testing has not been done by Mozilla. In the 3. series i maybe crashed once a year, now is daily! WAKE UP MOZILLA!
Before I go any further i have read numerous post in here with people have the same problem. I have also done some testing on my own from what Mozilla suggests, in which NONE of their solutions corrects this issue. My solution however, which is not a solution but more a work a round solves totally any plugin-container.exe crashing. It was simply to roll back to Firefox 4.01. I updated to the newest flash player via their site.
I have been crash free for days now! THIS IS NOT AN ADOBE FLASH ISSUE. If it were then i would have crashed in 4.01 as well. For those concerned with the update nag, simply go to options->advanced-> and the tick boxes. that will prevent the nag
I thought that i could re-install Firefox 7 and simply replace the plugin-container.exe from 4.01, however that did not work. It resulted in a complete lock up of Firefox 7.01, and was honestly hoping that it would be that straight forward.
I read some peoples success with the 8b3. So, I tried that, and didn't solve my problem. I crashed within 24 hours again on flash related content. ( the crash ids are for the 8b3 i listed ).
Maybe someone needs to take the plugin container, and associated components in 4.01 and incorporate it in a new release, or revert back to that engine all together so that we can have a nice web experience without all the crashes.
You can get Firefox 4.01 here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/4.0.1/
edit: replaced random unofficial download site link.

I have found the bug thread, and have posted several posts with information and some examples of sites that provide positive crashes.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561019
From reading the posts, it looks as if Mozilla has moved this up a bit in priority according to reading into a post from one of the mozilla's team members since I have provided information concerning the crashes.
That particular bug ( Bug 561019 - Plugin waveOutOpen hangs ) is the TOP crasher of plugins:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/7.0.1/7/plugin
As far as reporting bug/hangs. The end user has to press the " submit crash report " link to submit it. If they do not it will sit there until you go into about:crashes
For hangs that DO NOT produce a crash you once again have to go into about:crashes and click on all the reports that DO NOT have a " bp " in front of them to get them to actually submit. They will post in about 3 minutes.
So for the "400 million" said users and " hard facts tend to suggest that most users do not crash " is unreliable to state since it is TOTALLY up to the end user to submit the report providing they know how. I know from working in a professional environment 99.9% of users do not submit error reports of any kind when something crashes the OS or any program. Even with the 9 members of my team they always click "do not send" except for myself.
" Get rid of plugin container " is a non option since you run the risk of features not working as i have found when you do that.
It does seem like a Firefox issue for several reasons: latest version of flash with Firefox v4.01 works flawlessly, and Chrome and IE do not have this issue with flash.

Whats new with Flash Player 9.0

Hi all ..
i want to know whats new with flash player 9.0. what are the
new features etc..
thanks in advance

> He is using stopAllSounds to stop sounds that are in
seperate swfs on an html page. I tested it, and it does not work.
In my
> tests
> I put 3 swfs on an html page (not loaded into each
other). On the third swf I have the stopAllSounds command. It stops
only it's
> own sound in the third swf but has no effect on one.swf
and two.swf's sound.
> The thing is I don't know if stopAllSounds ever worked
across separated swfs before in players before version 9.
> tralfaz
I have confirmed his complaint. stopAllSounds works correctly
across multiple swfs on an html page using Flash player 8 but not
with Flash Player 9.
Incidentally, there is another big "improvement" (they say)
that prevents you from uninstalling the Flash 9 player without
running
their uninstaller exe. Unfortunately, their uninstaller
uninstalls all flash player versions (not just version 9) from ALL
browsers
so if just want to remove player 9 from IE you are forced to
also uninstall it from FireFox etc as well. Great, huh?
tralfaz

How can I align mask with object in Y axis?

Hi
Can anybody help me? I want to put small band on the upper arm of man in the scene, he is walking from right to left, I put my image in upper layer and made rectangle band and animated it with his arm but the problem is that I cant align the band with arm in Y axis, because of that there are some small tremors in the band, how can I define exact point on the arm and align my mask with it?
Appreciate any help in advance

^ Yep, Mylenium is right. There are two ways to do things - the easy way and the hard way. The easy way always involves thinking things through and establishing what you want before you shoot. Can you shoot with the band in place? If not, can you add tracking markers to the arm to facilitate adding the band later?
The hard way occurs when you have no choice and the work has to be done after the shoot. And Mylenium is dead right - before computers, EVERYTHING was done by hand, manually checking frame by frame until animations were correct. If your footage does not have the adequate preparation or detail for a computer to track, and you're unable to reshoot, the only option is to animate manually, check, fix, re-check, fix etc.
The Motion Tracking Workflow section of the manual is an excellent introduction:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/index.html

Some Flash Sites are not displayed with Flash Player 9

Hello everyone,
After having upgraded to Flash Player 9 I cannot view some
flash sites on either FF or IE.
I have checked around with other users also and they cannot
see them either.
Although the page seems to be loading with title etc. it
remains blank or it shows a blank block where it is supposed to be
the flash movie.
The problem is that it only happens to dynamic flash sites
that load text and images from external documents.
With Flash Player 8 they worked just fine.
The problem is that it is our company's page so we want to
have it up and running for everybody.
You can check the page here:
http://www.ideaspot.gr
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance

"Jeckyl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e975l6$94n$[email protected]..
>> I had this kind of problem with Flash sites that
were made with Swish Max. Swish had to release a patch to fix old
swfs made with
>> Swish so that they would work again with the Flash 9
player. It was still not 100% working right so I had to convert
files to
>> Adobe Flash. Took a lot of work and was a real pain
in the arse.
>
> What do you mean "still not 100% working right" .. the
patch from SWiSHzone fixes SWF files correctly to work with FP9 ..
there
> was only one issue involved and it corrects thar ..
there should be no need to do anything with converting to Adobe
Flash to fix
> the problem. Perhpas you simply uploaded the wrong files
( a lot of people who fixed their swf files then loaded the old swf
> files back to their server .. or didn't clear their
internet caceh and so did not see the fixed files anyway).
When a customer's business website goes down after installing
Flash Player 9 he just wants the site back up. First I had to
figure
out that they installed the Flash 9 player and then I had to
go to the Swish site to find out that Swish files won't run right
on
the Flash 9 player unless they get patched first. After
running the downloaded patch on all the swfs on the site (yes
uploaded
correct files and cleared the cache) there were still odd
things happening. I didn't have time to analyze why this was so, I
just
had to put the site back up and fast. Now that I have that
site back up (I have others that will need fixing too, no doubt), I
will go back and test everything again with Swish.
There are a whole lot of hours being lost over this
Swish/Flash9 player issue. Regardless of who's fault it is, there
are many
Flash sites down now.
tralfaz

Using web services with flash cs3 and actionscript 3.0

Hi,
I want to use web services under flash cs 3 and by using as
3.0.
It was possible with as 2.0 to do it easily thanks to the
webservice Connector.
But I can't find how to use web services under flash and as
3.0.
I thought web services took part of the many improvements
flash cs 3.0 contain, but obviously it does not:(
Can anybody help me to use webservices with flash cs 3 and as
3.0?
Thanks in advance,
Pascal

Dark Armor, You mentioned the book Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book, which I have. I could not find anything in there. Did you mean to say Actionscript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional? I do have that book and it looks like there is information there. Just wanting to make sure that you meant what you said. Thanks!

Adobe AIR 2 Beta with Flash Builder 4 Beta 2

I'm trying to figure out how to use AIR 2 with Flash Builder 4. I was initially under the impression that FB4 has AIR2... but the when I create a File object and try to call the function openWithDefaultApplication(). An error occurs saying the function doesn't exist. This is the AIR application I created in FB4. Am I doing something wrong or do I need to install AIR 2 somehow -- and if so, how do I do so?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                            xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                            xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">
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               private function launch():void{
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                    myfile.openWithDefaultApplication();
          ]]>
     </fx:Script>
     <s:Button x="439" y="155" label="Button" mouseDown="launch()"/>
</s:WindowedApplication>
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Download the AIR 2 SDK, make a new copy of the Flex4 SDK (or whichever Flex SDK you want to use) and copy the AIR SDK over it. (If you are on the Mac, you have to be careful that the directories themselves aren't overwritten -- just the files inside them.) You then add the combined SDK to the list in the Flash Builder project properties dialogs.

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