Basic Actionscript Trouble in CS3

In MX, and in Flash 8 I had no problems with making buttons
and putting some basic actionscipt on it. In CS3 for some reason
when I make a button, look in the properties window and the button
windows there (which tells me I'm on the buttons layer) but when I
go to put the actionscipt in, it doesnt allow it. It says "Cannot
add actionscript because blah blah". It only allows it with the
frame, not the button if that makes any sence. Why is this?

Ok, will try. However I tried that one I think. I changed it
to AS2 (not from the beginning). So basiclly open a new Flash FLA
and how do I make it ONLY go to AS2? Thanks

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I'm having a difficult time getting basic Actionscript OOP
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package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.Stage;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import ChartPanel;
public class Chart extends Sprite
private var chartType:int;
private var chartPanel:ChartPanel;
public function Chart()
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
graphics.beginFill(0xffffff);
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graphics.endFill();
chartPanel = new ChartPanel();
chartPanel.setDimensions(600, 400, 0, 0);
addChild(chartPanel);
chartPanel.draw();
package
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class ChartPanel extends Sprite
public function ChartPanel() {}
public function setDimensions(w:int, h:int, off_l:int,
off_t:int):void
this.width = stage.width;
this.height = stage.height;
this.x = off_l;
this.y = off_t;
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+ this.height + " this.x=" + this.x + " this.y=" + this.y);
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// DOES NOT WORK graphics.drawRect(0,0,width,height);
graphics.drawRect(0,0,parent.width,parent.height);
graphics.endFill();

well... you still don't grab the hole width and height
concept, as I told you they are MEASURES not fixed variables, so by
setting a width and a height you are not defining a biding
rectangle with content in ti, the Sprite class simple doesn't have
the code for that, the Sprite is simply an elements with things in
it, now actual border or frame.
For what you want you'll still need your invisible rectangle,
but it will have to be a MASK of the sprite class.
As for the code (NOTE I'M JUST WRITING HERE SO IT CAN HAVE
SOME BUGS) it should be something like this:
public class Box extends Sprite {
private var border:Shape;
private var _width:Number = 100;
private var _height:Number = 100;
public function Box() {
border = new Shape();
addChild(border);
mask = border;
drawDispArea();
private function drawDispArea():void {
border.graphics.clear();
border.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
border.drawRect(0, 0, width, height);
override public function set width(v:Number):void {
_width = v;
drawDispArea();
override public function get width():Number {
return _width;
override public function set height(v:Number):void {
_height = v;
drawDispArea();
override public function get height():Number {
return _height;
}

Help! Trouble installing CS3 Design Premium

I have trouble installing CS3 Design Premium. I am using Windows XP. I had to deinstall CS3 after my PC had a little crash. Now I want to install CS3 again. But at the beginning there comes an error message "Setup is already running. You can install only ONE adobe product at the same time. Shut the other installation before starting the installation of CS3."
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Try this:
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AS3 - 1) Countdown Timer to the designated Date for Live-Broadcast-Event yet to take place; 2) Detect End of Live Stream on FLVPlayback with FLVPlayback.isLive = true - ActionScript 3 - flash cs3 cs4

Hi folks,
Ronny's here again on forums, having particularly 2 (two) questions/problems to resolve:
1) Countdown Timer to the designated Date for Live-Broadcast-Event yet to take place
2) Detect End of Live Stream on FLVPlayback with FLVPlayback.isLive = true
attached is the .zip file (as3_Countdown Timer_ver 1.0.1_by Ronny Depp.zip) with all flash source files containing:
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Please comb through the as code in files attached and Help Me Out !!!
Problem#2 Description:
Secondly I need to Detect the End of Stream state while using FLVPlayback component, an rtmp:// live Stream from FLASH MEDIA SERVER.
I need to Play a YuMe Post-Roll Ad when Steam Finishes/Ends.
Live Broadcast Stream Event starts every night on Wednesdays & Saturdays exactly at 10:59 PM EDT GMT-4.
Live Events only Streams/Broadcasts the stream for 50secs. exactly. When [playback stopped] it plays a PostRoll Ad and after the CountdownTimer again comes back to life. The Next upcoming Event is calculated & the Countdown begins until Next Event's time/date is reached.
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London Green Park 12th Jun 6.30pm </p>
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London Green Park 16th Jun 6.30pm</p>
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London Green Park 17th Jun 6.30pm </p>
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<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
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Form" id="Submit Form" value="Submit" /></td>
<td width="210"><input type="submit" name="Reset
Form" id="Reset Form" value="Reset" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

<form name="form1" method="post"
action="
http://fp1.formmail.com/cgi-bin/fm192">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="_fid" value="7T9PBG2C">
the form opens and closes in ONE of the td table cells- the
other form
fields are not within that set of form tags so their info is
not sent.
> <table width="427" border="0">
move the opening form tag to before the above opening table
tag, and the
closing form tag to after that table's </table> tag.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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I am doing my simple portfolio on Adobe Flash CS4. However when I am already looking just for the basic action scripting from the tutorial I can't determine which is the most accurate for the buttons.
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the texts that were listed below are my buttons such as ABOUT, PROFILE, PRINT ADS, MAGAZINE, LOGO, PRINT, ILLUSTRATION, and DESIGN CONCEPT
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Here's the example of next scenes that could be clicked from the homepage
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This is the PRINT scene
Please help me on how to do the action scripting by using the gotoAndPlay or anything else to function my portfolio. Thank you

Give each of your buttons an instance name via the Properties panel. As an example fr coding them, let's say you named the button "about_btn" for the scene named "about" that you want it to go to. Then to have that button make your file go to the about scene, you would add the following code into a frame of the timeline where that button is (in a separate actions layer preferably). Select the frame and in the Actions panel write...
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