Basic Flash CS4 Question

Hi all,
I am wondering why I can create shapes with the fill and stroke I specify only in templates and not when I select a new action script 3.0 or any of the other types of flash documents. Does anyone have a link to information on this or can explain what I need to configure?

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Basic Flash CS4 Dilemma 0_o

Hi all,
I am wondering why I can create shapes with the fill and stroke I specify only in templates and not when I select a new action script 3.0 or any of the other types of flash documents. Does anyone have a link to information on this or can explain what I need to configure?
Looking across the Internet, I have not seen anything on this. 0_o

Hi Ganesh,
Thank you for the reply. I know how to draw and make motion tweens in Flash CS4 after I select the templates upon opening a new document:
New
Template
My problem is being able to draw anything with a filled in shape in another of the other types of Flash documents. When I draw a shape or import a button it has a strange green hue or just a green outline. The only way I can get all of the functionality is to use the templates but these have limited sizes...
Is there something I have not configured? I do not know if I am describing this in enough detail. I should probably provide a screencast. : /

Basic Flash preferences question

F8as2 - (Flash8 - Actionscript2)
I frequently open 10 FLAs at the same time due to the nature
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time I open an FLA the stage is just a little too large for the
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logeye,
> Our company can't afford more advanced versions
> of Flash.
Sure, no worries.
> It seems there is a default presentation size when FLAs
> first come up. That's what I need to change I think but
> I can't find it.
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Flash, and I'm mighty confused - as I don't know much about Flash
and its timelines, etc.
I've been given a bunch of FLV files - movies from a video
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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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When you use just the one scene, all your gotoAndStop/Play commands only need to specify the frame... as in gotoAndStop(1);

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I'm so so sorry Urrami,
you see, English is not my native language, and this word
"spinnets" was
sitting on the tip of my tongue and I was so damn sure that
it's the name of
this panel.. After you told me that there is no such a panel
in DW, I opened
it to see myself what gone wrong.. I wasn't laughing long,
but.. the thing
is, this panel is called "Snippets".
The panel that allows me to store some code pieces and text
as a template in
a categories, so I can easily find it and insert, for
example, into the code
panel as I write PHP script.
Sorry for bothering you,
R.
"urami_" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gbpj9m$psp$[email protected]..
> Bare wrote:
>> Does anybody knows is there a "Spinnets" panel in
Flash CS4?
>>
>> Dreamweaver had this option for a long time, and I
was waiting and hoping
>> that some day Adobe will add this option to Flash,
too.
>>
>
> Totally no idea what Spinnets, is. I did look into the
dreamweaver
> interface
> as well as manuals, no mention of that sort of this
whatsoever. Mind to
> elaborate?
>
> on the Side note tho, there really isn't much difference
with the previous
> version.
> The interface has new look, there are bones (kinetics)
and 3D rotation of
> an object
> and a new motion tween editor but the rest is pretty
much the same and I
> don't believe
> whatever is that you asking for, is there, because if it
was, I would
> already find it:)
> I explored CS4 for past few days carefully to explore
all the new stuff,
> see what I can
> use for my work and what's useless - to me...
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Urami
>
>
> --
> "Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
>
>
> <urami>
> If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
> </urami>

(Help) Using Input text in Flash CS4 AS3

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Any help would be greatly appreciated, and i am sorry if this was already answered in the forums.
thanks for reading.

If your interested... here's some general "rules of the road" that are basically courtesies...
Don't post the same question in different forums (crossposting). Folks that help don't like that because they can waste their time providing the same response someone else already offered elsewhere, or their helpful info gets no attention because the OP (original poster) got wrapped up in the discussion elsewhere and never went back to the other forums. I saw one time where the OP suffered from doing this... the first person to respond in one forum said what they wanted couldn't be done, while my response in another forum showed them how to do it... but they accepted that it couldn't be done and never returned.
Don't post in someone else's posting unless the exact same situation applies to you and it is a current posting. It is a bit rude to step into someone else's posting just to get attention, which some people do... some with totally unrelated problems. Or if your problem is even slightly different, it can end up confusing matters for all involved... trying to juggle helping two people where different solutions are needed.
If you get one problem resolved and have another you want help with that does not involve the first, start a new posting. People search these forums so it helps to have topics match the postings, which will not apply if mutliple topics get resolved under one title. I recently saw one person tell someone to start a new posting even though they were following up to clarify something of the solution they received... that's wrong and is more likely someone with a case of points greed... as useless as points are, it happens.

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Hello everyone,
I must warn you I am an absolute beginner with flash, however am proficient in Illustrator / ps cs4 and now have flash cs4. I have a mountain of graphic work for a client and as part of this welcome work I've inherited a flash header that I need to finish for a website. The only problem is, I usually work in print and know nothing about flash, but would like to tackle this if I can. The inherited header is 980 x 230 with 8 images that fade in/out as they change over each other (morph). It was originally done in flash 10 using tweens but I gather flash has changed a bit with regards to this sort of thing.
I like to learn new things but I have spent HOURS online and just can't find out how to do this. I've had a good look around flash but unfortunately I just can't dedicate days or weeks to learning the entire program.
From what I can gather so far:
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I
don't have CS4 so I am not familiar with the new way of tweening, only
with what CS4 calls classic tweens, which is what I grew up with in
Flash. What I described for you is based on classic tweens.
While those in in the know
(a few) praise the wonders of the new tweens, general concensus in these
forums for those that question them is that trying/learning to work
with the new tweens is not straightforward.
As far as movieclip versus
graphic goes, neither is preferable over the other. Both will perform
in a tween. Movieclips are useful when you have more to do with the
object than just display it.
The difference with the motion tweens is that the motion tweens are built to be easily scalable and to provide a graphical interface for easily updating/editing the tweens visually (including path, timing etc). Classic tween is what you want for your project so you're on the right track. As far as the difference between a movieclip and a bitmap not mattering, well it depends really on the scale of the project but best practice is to go with the smaller class. The movieclip class is massive, one of the largest because it is a dynamic type and is near the bottom of the chain of inheritance on the flash displayobject list. So, the bitmap class would be probably like 1/10th the file size of the movieclip class, so go with bitmap. Since flash is primarily a web technology and I'm sure you're doing this project for a website, every byte matters. Imagine the difference in filesize is 5 kb just because of what classes you decide to use but you decide to deploy the project on a website with 5 million users. Thats 25 gigabytes of wasted bandwidth. Anyway that doesn't really apply to you because you're doing timeline tweens and the flash IDE will automatically import all of those bulky classes anyway, but it's good to keep in mind if you decide to pursue getting deeper into flash and working with actionscript.
Anyway it looks like you've almost got your project all sorted out but there is the problem with doing everything inside flash using timeline tweens. As you're aware, it's a pain if you need to update. Below is some basic actionscript you can paste inside of a new fla file. It's not the best example but I just kind of wipped it up and should be more than enough for you to pick apart and learn how actionscript 3 works in flash. So.. create a new fla set the stage to the size of your project (980 X 230) pixels. Create a new blank movieclip (might as well, read up) and give it an instance name of "imageContainer". That's it for setup in the FLA. In the same folder as the FLA create a folder beside the fla called images. Create a new text document inside that folder and name it "filelist.xml". In that list, paste this:
<files>
    <file filename="171_2784_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="165_2564_0.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2690_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2735_1.jpg" />
</files>
Copy all of your images for this project into the images folder. Now modify that XML to include the name of each file in the folder.
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Now paste this into that frame:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.Strong;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
var listIndex:int = 0;
var nextImage:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
var listOfImages:Array = new Array();
var listLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
listLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, parseFileList);
listLoader.load(new URLRequest("images/filelist.xml"));
var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var cycleTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 0);
cycleTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, beginImageCycling);
function parseFileList(e:Event):void
    //trace(e.currentTarget.data); //Uncomment this to debug and see what data is coming in
    var fileListXML:XML;
    try{
        fileListXML= new XML(e.currentTarget.data);
    }catch(e:Error){
        trace("The file list is either not well formed XML or not XML at all");
    var a:Number;
    //Get an XMLList object which will contain all of the children of the fileListXML
    var fileList:XMLList = fileListXML.children();
    for(a = 0; a < fileList.length(); ++a){
        trace(fileList[a].attribute("filename"));
        listOfImages.push(fileList[a].attribute("filename"));
    trace("Done parsing file list XML");
    beginImageCycling();
function beginImageCycling(e:TimerEvent = null):void
    imageLoader = new Loader();
    imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, showNextImage);
    imageLoader.load(new URLRequest("images/" + listOfImages[listIndex]));
    listIndex++;
    if(listIndex >= listOfImages.length){
        //This will reset the index and begin looping from the images from the start
        listIndex = 0;
function showNextImage(e:Event):void
    trace("Image loaded, get ready to show it");
    nextImage = e.currentTarget.content as Bitmap;
    var tw:Tween = new Tween(nextImage, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 0, 1, true);
    tw.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, changeOutImage);
    tw.start();
function changeOutImage(e:Event):void
    while(imageContainer.numChildren > 2){
        trace("removing old images");
        imageContainer.removeChildAt(0);
    //Add the new image to the container, in this case the stage
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    //Restart the timer to cycle images
    cycleTimer.reset();
    cycleTimer.start();
In the menu go to Control--->Play. That should do it, it should cycle through those images over and over. I'm at work doing this on my lunch I'll post a completed project/demo of this later when I get home and give you an intro to actionscript by covering the code I've put here. Anyway so now the benefit of doing things this way is that if you want to adjust the transition time, you simply go to the :Tween = new Tween lines and change this:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 1, 1, true);
to:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 2, 1, true);
Which will change the transition time from 1 second to 2 seconds. Or, say if you want to add new pictures, all you have to do is change that XML and copy in new pictures, something even your client could do (which is sure to make them happy).
Anyway I'll post later even if you don't need this anymore it may be useful to somoene else who finds this topic one day. .:)
-Jesse

Automating tasks in Flash CS4

I have a question regarding the possibility of automating repetitive tasks in Adoble Flash CS4.
My wife is pregnant and we are taking a picture of her every day so that at the end, we will have a flash movie of her belly growing throughout her pregnany. This is basically what I am doing:
1) Take the picture
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3) I import the resized photos into flash
4) I create the keyframes etc (3 frames per photo)
5) The canvas is the exact size of the photo, so the photo fits perfectly (drag and drop)
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AI vs PSD Import to Flash CS4 - Difference in Quality?

I have a bunch of vector and bitmap images I'm importing into Flash CS4 from Illustrator and/or Photoshop.
I can import the PSD directly into Flash
and AI directly into Flash
or
import the PSD into Illustrator, then import ONLY an AI into Flash.
Is there any degredation in the quality of the bitmaps, if I send them through Illustrator?
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hey xchanin,
My question is whether a bitmap loses quality if it goes from photoshop through illustrator to flash. I think illustrator files tend to import a little better into flash than photoshop files.
I do agree that vector is sharper in most cases. I try to keep all of my text & basic graphics as vector. Most of my bitmaps are full blown illustrations though.
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