Building a Flash Banner

Flash is about to beat me. I have bought books, searched the
totorials and studied the help files and I don't get it. All I need
is a banner that I will slowly fade from one picture to another and
then loop without using up too much bandwidth.
I am a video man so I use transitions to go from one segment
to another, but there is no word like transition to be found.
I can open a new document, size my work space, build a
library of my pictures, and I can't go further. I have been told to
use layers and symbols. I understand layers but not symbols. A
little help here would go a long way.
Thanks, Warren

Hi,
Here's a thread which deals with fading in/out pictures.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=1108106&hi ghlight_key=y&keyword1=alanwallace4
Hope this helps
Cheers
Alan

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Assuming that you are making the Flash website, just use a loader to load the .swf file and add it to the stage, like you would an image:
pseudo code (meaning that im just typing from memory, so it should work but might have an error)
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Flash banner won't play

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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="963" height="113" class="imgpad" vspace="0" id="FlashID" title="Innovative Manufacturing Solutions">
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<object data="images/IMSbanner.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="963" height="113" vspace="0">
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Well I done some more work this time. As i had some problems uploading files I'v made these screanshots.
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var secTimer:Timer=new Timer(1000,7);
startTimer();
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//secTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, tik);
secTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, skipFrameT);
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resetTimer();
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I also tried doing exactly the same, adding the flash to the header of my template and saving it. However this did not update all of the pages that use the template, the flash ad would play in the browser if I load the template in the browser. (in this instance the actual swf file was in my templates folder with the template page).
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Thank you in advance.

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</object>
I also added the following to the head section of the page the flash is used on.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Regards
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2.) Assets - that's why I asked
3.) Project - could still be a possibility
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I am using one of the provided Dreamweaver Templates (CSS).
All is fine, except that for some reason it does not like Flash
imports. I can alter the template as much as I like and it will
always successfully change across the site, BUT if I try to insert
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> BUT if I try to insert a Flash movie/banner into the
template - then it
> does not appear of ANY of the site files.
Because of the active content .js fix, when you insert a .swf
file into a
template, you must use a Site Root relative path for it.
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Double-click on the .swf in design view- the "browse to file"
dialog box
should come up showing the currently selected file.
look in the bottom of that dialog box for the pulldown to
change from
document relative path to site root relative path. Change it
to site root.
click okay and save the file, and let changes propagate.
does it show in the child files now?
[note- It may still not show during local preview because
site root relative
paths in javascript will not make any sense during local
preview- they
should work fine on the remote host if the site has it's own
domain name
though]
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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<CFIF #file# IS "fox">
<div><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
width="468" height="60" vspace="0" hspace="0"><param
name=movie value="
http://www.site.com/banners/#address#"><param
name=quality value=high><embed src="
http://www.site.com/banners/#address#"
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http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
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=
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Kevinsoffice wrote:
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http://www.businessinsider.com/adobe-to-kill-mobile-flash-starting-august-15-2012-6
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/adobe-flash-for-android-gone-with-barely-a-whimper/
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describe it.
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Hi I have created a html5 video banner but I also need to create a flash banner that will host a video in it
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Thanks for your response...
I can wait. After all, it was by waiting for the release of the 10h version after the 10e version sabotaged my flash installation, that I was eventually able to at least get Firefox up and running flash again...
It's just frustrating to think that the folks at Adobe can't come up with a better product testing cycle so they are unleashing these problems on end users systems...
I recognize that there may be some sort of issue with my particular system registry. If so, I wish I knew what it was...but flash releases are the only installations I ever have any difficulty with...All of the other software I run updates without failing....sad to say...
Perhaps I will try running a home edition version of secedit (See here)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222 instead of the clean or repair install...I'll let you know what I decide and how it works out...
Anyway, thanks for the input..

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Hello,
I have website (basic) that i created with a flash rotating banner. Banner works fine on all computers but won't play on iphone. I'm aware that there are limitations at this point with flash and iphones. How are webdesigners creating rotating banners and the like that play on iphones? Can this be done in flash cs3? thanks, Owen

Well you are on your way to success then, GOOD JOB!!
Here's the simple, easy way to get this going:
Download swfobject ver 1.5 here (my site):
http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/swfobject.js
Let's just put all your Flash files in the the same folder to simplifly things during testing... later you can move them to any folder you want, just remember that the paths to those files then need to be changed to be relative to the Web page that your .swf file is on, not the physical location of the actual file.
Practice in a brand new html Web page......copy and paste this into the code view, or copy and paste into NotePad and save as file type .html
Be sure to put the swfobject file, the Flash .swf file, the .mov file and this html file all in the same folder during testing.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject_off.js"></script>
<title>Flash on the iPhone</title>
</head>
<body>
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// ]]>
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Edit to match your .swf and .mov file names and change dimensions to suit.
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so.write("flash");
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The best of both worlds!
Best of luck!
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