Basic flash

Just have a basic question here.
I have downloaded the flash trial and trying to find my way around.
I am confused about so many actionscript files .
I want to create a AS3 project of pure AS3. That is a class and a place to create objects for the class.
Am I creating a new a FIle/Class/Flash project?

You would create a new Flash File (AS3). When you save you will get a .fla file. You can do all your coding in a separate .as file and link it to the .fla through the document class. When you first make a new movie, or select 'nothing' you will see the movie properties come up in the properties panel. In the publish section is a field for class - this is the package/name of your document class. You can then create objects, import images etc. within Flash and have access to them through your code.
What kind of blinking? The whole interface? Never heard of that before.

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I've uploaded the swf for reference.

I always say to doublecheck the instance names... you'd be surprised how often some says they're okay when they're not. Sometimes they are using library names, not instances names, and something they simply did not assign instance names.
Your description of how the buttons are related to a movieclip isn't clear, but if the traces I mentioned come out, then the buttons are working.
I wish there was a way I could see the full set of messages for this posting (like the old system)... at this point I have to guess what I remember seeing... Do you have frame labels in your section mc that match the calls in your buttons functions?
For the home page issue... If it disappears it is likely going to another frame. If a command says gotoAndPlay... and you're already there, it will advance in the timeline even if there is a stop in that frame (the stop is used up)
Here's a routine that worked for another posting as far as getting the file to upload in the forum...
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Using CS4 Creative Suite. I little or no action script skills.
I created a 2 minute flash .fla file. At the end I added a button that when clicked, opens a window to another site. When I exported as an .swf file, the button worked fine. When I added the .swf file to an html page it worked fine too. The problem came when I wanted to add a skin with video controls.
I went through the tutorial which says I need to import the my video as a FLV or F4V file. The ony way I could do that was to export my FLA file as a MOV file and convert it to a FLV file in Adobe Media Encoder CS4. But when I did that I lost my link at the end.The video controls work great but how do I add the hyper link back in?
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(this message is so old the responses were lost during an adobe conversion a few years ago.)
the answer to the op's issue, is that you can't create an flv that executes actionscript. however, you can create an flv that contains cuepoints and the cuepoints can trigger actionscript to execute.
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Hi there,
I am a FLEX coder with 6 months experience by way of Flex
Builder. Coding business apps in AS3 is no big deal to me. The
thing is, is that I am on a new project that uses Flash... and I am
confused so I am looking for a bit of help.
Others on this project have created FLV movies - that is, the
ones like you see on Youtube. They created them by shooting the
content with a digital video camera and encoding it into FLV. What
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just in case you never got an flv file working in
flash......here's some code.....jus copy and paste on the first
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frame.....press F9...(shortcut for actions panel) paste this code:
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addChild(video);
// pass null object cus you're not connecting to a
server.....if you are....put in address
var connection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
connection.connect(null);
var stream:NetStream = new NetStream(connection);
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Change that smoke.flv....to whatever file thats on your
computer and save file as whatever you call it....and run file...
if you dont know how to run.......just hit (ctrl+enter)
........ewww....its sleepy time for me.....
...any other questions....while i'm on :D

After the ios7 update I have been unable to open the i-tunes store on my i-phone5, it basically flashes up for two seconds and then closes itself down, anyone else had anything similar and no a fix?

Since updating to ios7.0.2 on my i-phone5 I have been unable to open the i-tunes store app, basically it just opens for a second or two then shuts itself down, I've tried a soft reset, turning on and off, closing down all running apps but nothing seems to work, anyone else had the same problem and no how to fix it?

Hey there Fistycuff,
It sounds like iTunes launches for a split second, then quits unexpectedly.
I would recommend a few things for this issue. First, close all the running apps on the phone:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that, sign out of your iTunes account in Settings > iTunes and App stores, and restart the phone:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
If the issue persists, I would next backup your device to iTunes, and restore it:
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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D.

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I've coded several Flex applications (I'm a programmer by
trade) for the last 6 months. Now I have a new project to do with
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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audio that's synched to the video, but otherwise will be
problematic. You'll get better performance overall by linking to
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These can either be added via ActionScript or embedded into the FLV
using something like Flash Video Encoder. You can use the cue
points to trigger whatever actions you require.

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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:
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Template
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How much Actionscript do I need to know to create basic Flash projects?

Hello everyone,
I have recently started learning Flash CS3.
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1. Create Animated Banners for websites
2. Create Flash Slide shows, Buttons and Image scroller
(Scroll Thumbnails)
3. Flash websites (In the Future)
I am not interested in creating Games, movie animations or
anything other then what I named above.
So my confusion is, how much Actionscript do I need to learn?
How do I start to learn Actionscript?
I have been reading many post regarding similar situations
but I just need to know which direction to take.
The deal is, I am more into learning ASP.NET 3.5, PHP,
Javascript.
But need just a little touch of flash.
I could use these pre-configured Scripts and software that
can create Flash banners and slide shows but I would like to learn
to do these on my own.
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AI

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Basic Flash preferences question

F8as2 - (Flash8 - Actionscript2)
I frequently open 10 FLAs at the same time due to the nature
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logeye,
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> It seems there is a default presentation size when FLAs
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> I can't find it.
Aha. When you put it that way, that puts me in mind of the
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inspector. Open a new, blank FLA. Let the stage dimensions be
whatever
they happen to be. Now click the stage, then notice the Size
button in the
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number] x [some
number] pixels" written on it). Click that button, and you'll
get the
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How do i make an image pause in a flash movie clip

Please can someone help me. I am trying to find out how to pause or stop an image in a basic flash movie clip, after it has entered from one side and before it exits the other side.
I have been trying to work it out myself for three days but no joy. I am practicing for a test with a training agency which gave me a disk to use but nowhere in it does it say how this is done. I am also having a lot of difficulty making stop start buttons work with this movie clip. I am using a trial cs5.5 version of Flash which expires in 7 days so i need to know this soon. I am up to speed on most of the features, its just this one thing that has me stumped. A lot of the tutorials or examples i have found on the net are very long winded and hard to follow exactly. Could someone let me know, step by step the sequence i should follow after i have created an object and made it go from one side of the stage to the other.

Hi
Thank you for getting back to me. Yes i am using a timeline tween. I have an image on my stage which moves in from one side and out the other side. I am trying to stop or pause the image. The effect i will be asked to reproduce in my exam will be something very much like the banner on the website http://www,iactweb.com. If you go to this website you will see images arrive on the banner and pause before exiting the other side. I am fairly up to speed on all the aspects of getting this effect but i have forgotten what i learned during the course on how stop or pause the images. I am using the trial cs5.5 version of flash . Thanks again for getting back to me.

Flash video on web page takes long very time to load before it starts playback

I just created a basic flash file to play a video on my web page and it's taking several minutes to load before it starts playback.
I'm using progressive downlaod and the file is in *.mov format and is 84MB in size. At first that seemed large to me for web play back, but I thought it could handle it since I thought the way progressive download works is that it would start playing the first frame right away and progressively play other frames as they download. However, this seems to be downloading the whole file first (or a major part of it) before starting any playback at all.
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- I'm using Flash Pro CS5
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1) swf file containing the FLV component
2) the swf file related to skin
3) the actual video (84MB, mov file)
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Thanks for your response again. Looks like things have changed a bit to complicate this a little more.
adninjastrator wrote:
Are you saying that if I wait long enough it will start to play .... from the link you posted?
What you are implying here is correct. The file won't play no matter how long you wait. Looks like it's because of the "source" file settings in the Import Wizard may now be incorrrect. This is why it's not playing in the new file.
When I created my original Flash Video using a MOV file, during the import wizard, when asked "Where is your video file?" I selected the option "Already deployed to a web server...". Here I entered the url to where the video file is located on my production server.
When I created the new Flash Video using F4V file, during the import wizard, when asked "Where is your video file?" I selected the option "On your computer". Here I selected the file from my local drive.
Sorry for not pointing out the inconsistency earlier - I didn't think it mattered and plus I couldn't get the F4V file to import from the web server.
Anyway, I've changed my object tag using the acutal published html that flash generates and have uploaded all source files to same location.
http://www.upperhand.com/tv/video-intro.html
To sum up the problem(s) I need help with:
Issue #1 - When trying to import F4V file using import wizard, I cannot use "Already deployed to a web server..." as an option for the file location. I believe this is creating issue #2
Issue #2 - For some reason, the F4V file will not load into the SWF file when it's published to my production server.
It works when viewing locally through browser as c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebsite\video-intro.html
It doesn't work when viewing on development server through browser as http://localhost/mywebsite/video-intro.html
It doesn't work when viewing on production server through browser as http://www.mywebsite.com/video-intro.html
Issue #3 - When the above are resolved, I'm not certain if my orignal question/issue will be resolved... browser tries to downlaod full file before any playback.

Issues with flash and other adobe products.

Ok, so i've been using flash player for quite a number of years now aswell as other products like acrobat reader when i used windows, over the years flash player has developed into a totally inneffecient and almost unusable product. on top of the security issues of past with flash player and especially acrobat reader, with remote code execution vulnerabilities, i have, as have thousands of others noticed a very large decrease in performance with flash.
i should note that a year or two ago, i could play HD flash content no problem, both 720 and 1080 resolutions, full screen without any issue. i would expect it to take up a decent portion of cpu cycles, which it did, i use to be able to run flash content at 720 with about 30 - 50% cpu usage. now it seems with flash 10 my AMD Athlon 4000+ struggles to play even 720 videos. My cpu is by no means a top performer, it is however capable of handling somewhere in the region of a billion instructions per second. for video content to require that amount of data to be handled is rediculous.
HD content played back on my local machine using a different codec, my cpu barely even uses 5 - 10% cpu time, not only that, these videos have roughly about the same compression rates as flash videos. i just don't understand how flash can require so much resources without taking into account innefficient and bloated code.
today i tried to access a web page that required flash content to display images, it was not a video, but an image database, going from one page to the next took somewhere in the region of 20 - 30 seconds, while my cpu maxed out at 100% and firefox stopped responding, which is totally unnacceptable.
it wouldn't normally be a problem if there were good alternatives, but there aren't any, im stuck with this piece of crap software if i want to view any flash content. the only real alternative is to upgrade, which i am not prepared to do if the next version of flash is just going to push those boundries even further for features i don't need.
my proposal is to:
1. rewrite the code with effeciency rather than new features in mind, if that means getting able programmers in, then so be it.
2. make flash modulous, where the basic package provides capabilties to play flash content and separate plugins to provide for all the individual unnecessary features that are not required for basic flash content. surely you can build a package that provides all those plugins for regular users and a basic package + optional plugins for those who know what they want or need.
it really makes no sense why such a large corporation with all this experience to provide a product that quite simply.. sucks, well it does actually, either your programmers are incapable of creating a stable, efficient product or you are purposly trying to push hardware upgrades onto people. lets not forget that flash content is huge business on the web, adobe flash player has a strangle hold on that market, it would be naive to think that hardware vendors have not approached adobe with specifications to further make the money wheel go round.
sort it out, because i for one, am in the process of completely removing my dependancy on adobe flash, if the right product comes along, others will do to, in droves. it's a bubble that is going to burst and there is no way back when you have millions of lines of quite frankly, amateurish code.

Eric,
The GTX 650 would be priced slightly higher than the GT 640 - and then, the OP would have to "settle" for only 1GB of graphics RAM instead of 2GB. The GTX 650 is currently not available with 2GB of RAM.
Both the GT 640 and the GTX 650 are based on the same GPU - the GK107, with 384 CUDA cores. The two major differences are that the GK107 on the GTX 650 is clocked higher than the one on the GT 640, and that the GTX 650 has almost triple the memory bandwidth of the GT 640 (80 GB/s versus 28.8 GB/s).

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