Create a scaling flash movie

I want to create a xml image gallery using flash. My problem
is that I do not know how to create the movie in such a way that it
takes up all the space within its containing box (div). (It should
fill the horizontal space of the monitor.) At the same time it
would be great if the height adjusts itself to be in the format
16:9.
Is this possible?

In the file menu, there is an option called "publish
settings" that allows you to decide how your project will be
published. Under the html tab you can select plenty of options that
will show up in a HTML file along with your project. While this is
probably not what you want entirely, the code inside that file
might help you.

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Creating Hyperlink for Flash Movie

Hi Guys
I have just created a flash movie. I have inserted the flash
into dreamweaver and when somebody clicks on the movie I want it to
take them to a certain page. If possible could I send you the .fla
file and you can send it back with it all linked up as I have been
getting annoyed with this all morning.
Thanks
J - 17 from Brits

ForensicBop,
> I have just created a flash movie.
Okay.
> I have inserted the flash into dreamweaver and when
> somebody clicks on the movie I want it to take them
> to a certain page.
Easy enough, once you know how to proceed. :)
> If possible could I send you the .fla file and you can
> send it back with it all linked up as I have been
getting
> annoyed with this all morning.
It's possible, sure -- but that goes agains the grain (and
benefit) of
why these forums are here. A dozen other people may have a
question similar
to yours, and by participating in a public conversation about
it -- and also
working it through publicly -- you not only learn a knew
skill, but
onlookers can learn it as well.
If you want the whole Flash movie to respond to a click, you
can either
create a so-called invisible button that matches the
dimensions of the whole
movie, then set that above all other layers, or you can code
your movie to
respond to mouse clicks globally.
The invisible button approach usually seems easier to
newcomers, but
neither techniques is especially difficult. What version of
the Flash
Player are you publishing to? (Most importantly, what version
of
ActionScript?)
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Creating a Simple Flash Movie With Poster Frame and Play/Pause Buttons

Hi, It's been over a year since I played with Flash last, and
I have completely forgotten everything I learned.
I have a .flv file which I want to play on my website. It
should display a poster frame when the page load, and not autoplay
the movie. It should have the play button I made in photoshop
sitting on top of the poster frame. When pressed, the movie should
start playing and the button should be shifted for the pause button
I made in PS (it should work just like the play/pause button in
iTunes). When the movie has finished playing, it should jump back
to the poster frame.
I have tried using the flvplayback component and also played
around with just embedding the flv directly and inserting a play
and pause button from the common library, but I can't seem to get
it to work. With the flvplayback component I have managed most of
it apart from using my own buttons and getting the poster frame to
work (which apparently has to be done with Action script).
Any help appreciated.

Which version of Flash/actionscript are you using? Since you
are just starting out, you should read one of Adobe's tutorials on
the matter. Either use Flash Help to find examples on how to use
Flash or go to their website. Here is a great tutorial for someone
just starting out. Make sure you read all three tutorials in "Using
Flash for the first time".
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/getting_started.html

Creating an iWeb flash movie with Keynote

It plays correctly in Safari, Firefox, and others, but in IE, it just keeps making a clicking sound and starts the show over again from the beginning. the code I've used is:
<object width='800' height='450'>
<param name='movie' value='http://web.me.com/newbeginnings/follow/finalversion.swf'>
<embed src='http://web.me.com/newbeginnings/follow/finalversion.swf' width='800' height='450'>
</embed>
</object>
Any suggestions?

It plays correctly in Safari, Firefox, and others, but in IE, it just keeps making a clicking sound and starts the show over again from the beginning. the code I've used is:
<object width='800' height='450'>
<param name='movie' value='http://web.me.com/newbeginnings/follow/finalversion.swf'>
<embed src='http://web.me.com/newbeginnings/follow/finalversion.swf' width='800' height='450'>
</embed>
</object>
Any suggestions?

CANT PREVIEW FLASH MOVIE???

i created a simple flash movie...but when i tried to plug it
into my web page it would not allow me to preview it in the
browser....PLEASE NOTE: i already set my browser to "ROSETTA" but
still no luck..what is the problem... also i when i saved the file
i was sure to keep it all lower case letters and no spaces.....im
sure im looking over something minor..but could someone HELP PLEASE
thanks

I think I have just found the answer to my question. In case anyone else has this issue, I wanted to re-post with the answer. I work from an external networked drive. I have no idea why I never tried to test locally, I just always work off of that drive. Anyway, when I moved my files (the flv and fla files) to my desktop, everything works perfectly. Just a note, I did add my external drives in the security settings of the flash player but that obviously did not work.

Flash movie file size rather large?!

just created my first flash movie, but it is 25 mins long and
is 264mb in size!
is this normal, or can i get this file size down some how
without reducing the length of the movie or the quality where it is
not reasonable.
I have seen stuff on myspace and seen movie longer and the
quality is fair good, but does the files size have to be this much,
if so myspace must have 100000000 of gigs !!!
any advise is appreaciated.

hi again.
i have just saved the SWF file and when i play it, it does
not show the whole movie, it only shows about 80% of it length and
height.
what i mean by this is the following...
for example.. this is the whole movie screen size
but i only get this size
the right size and botton parts of the movie are cropped off
the screen
i have just uploading it to my site to test it out there too,
and the same thing happen there.
www.roundshaw.com/swf
does anyone know why does it not show the whole movie?
please advise what i should do next to fix this.
i have looked at the help files but have no idea where to
look as i do not know exactly what problem i am looking for in the
files.
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Scaling My Flash Movie Proportionally To Fit Any Browser

Hi,
Thanks for any help.
I am trying to make my flash site scale to the browser size, just like this site: http://www.flashcomponents.net/upload/samples/1213/index.html?full=true
The reason is because I want to design for bigger screens (that most of us have) yet still be able to view my website on small monitors i.e. 800 x 600.
I don't think I want a 'liquid/fluid' layout (as mentioned in many tutorials) because they can compromise the design aesthetic if browser window is too big or small.
I just want the movie to shrink or grow proportionally with the browser. I would also like it to stop growing beyond the dimensions that I build the flash movie- to avoid losing bitmap quality.
I currently have my flash centered in the browser with fixed dimensions. What settings do I need to change in Flash or Dreamweaver to make this happen? Also, if you have any comments or criticisms about this type of layout please do mention it. I have found only one issue with this layout - it does not zoom in when you press "command & +", but other flash sites do.
Thank you!

Hi animated_cloud.
In all honesty, I dont think you should create a scalable template if you will be using bitmap images in your movie. On the other hand, if you will be using vector images, or dinamically drawn content within your movie, then making it scale is fine. But this is up to you! =)
ok. first off, you should go check in your File ---> Publish Settings. In the SWF Tab you should see scaling options. You should play around with some of these to understand what each do.
Have a look through those settings, and if you cant find what you want come back and we'll go from there.
good luck.

Drop down list created by fireworks MX disappears behind Flash movie. Is there a way to have the menu list display front of Flash movie?

Drop down list created by fireworks MX disappears behind Flash movie. Is there a way to have the menu list displays in front of Flash movie, pls. let me know what I should do to have the drop down menue not disappear behind the Flash movie.
Thanks,
[email address removed by host]

Wrong forum... this is to discuss the operation of the forums, not products
You need a forum for Fireworks or Flash or maybe Dreamweaver
Go to the index at http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa to find the correct forum for your question

Flash CS3 says"Error creating Flash movie...not enough memory available."have 100GB of virtual mem

With large .fla files I often can't get Flash to output .swf files. Usually I get the message "Error creating Flash movie. There was not enough memory available." Sometimes though Flash looks as if it has finished publishing (although slightly too quickly to have really done it), and then there has not been a .swf file created.
Sometimes it's simply a matter of restarting Flash and trying again a few times until Flash decides to cooperate. But now I have a file that just seems like it will never output. My computer has 3 GB of RAM and 100 GB of virtual memory. The .fla file is 152 MG and the .swf would probably be about 20-25 MB.
If there is a workaround in CS3, that would be great. If not, I would upgrade to CS5, if I knew that it would not have the same problem.
I was told by at least two people at Adobe support that the problem has gone away with CS5, but I downloaded the CS5 trial version, and it will not output a .swf of my project. In this case it doesn't give the error message, but just fails silently.

Has this memory limitation been fixed in CS4 or CS5? I have to say, I'm geting really fed up with having to
spend hours coaxing Flash to output .swfs. Is there a reason that it can't use the
3MB of Ram available to it?

Creating FLASH movies without Macromedia??

What would be the easiest way to create FLASH movie files? Every time I try to do it with Macromedia I end up juggling three apps (after spending an hour or two in the manual) and having to interface with the net before I can see my results.
Is there some app out there that will let me output directly from Final Cut, or that will allow me to just export to a Flash from a Quicktime master?
All ears,
Ben

Aie yie yie,
Thank you guys. I remember I did make an flv file using FCP and Quicktime Conversion - And again with the Flash 8 Video encoder. I think my first dilemma (not being able to just see it immediately) has been solved by using Perian (I'm about to try it out). The second problem is the whole embed thing with the web. I've read through the Macromedia instructions a number of times ... always get lost in their assumptions that I know what their lexicon means. I've put hundreds of Quicktimes up, Windows Media Player, all kinds of formats, no difficulty ... I only put up one Flash file six months ago, with the help of a web designer, and was foolish enough to think I would remember the moves months later. Not.
Thank you for your help,
Ben

Creating a DVD from flash movies (flv)

Does iDVD 6 support flash movies (flv) importing?
-pom-

Does iDVD 6 support flash movies (flv) importing?
No. You could probably convert the files to DV video (which is supported) using VisualHub at http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
You can try it for free.
Keep in mind that the DV files will be MUCH larger. DV runs about 12 to 13 GB per hour of content.

Flash Movie Creating

I have an Imac G3 grape that does not have internet and has at least 128mb of RAM. I am hoping that there is a program to make flash movies with my computer, help would be helpful.

The program that makes Flash movies is called, strangely enough, Flash. It used to be made by Macromedia, but was recently purchased by Adobe. There's a free, 30 day trial period available, but you need to get someone to download it for you (since you don't have internet) and you also need to check the system requirements against what you have in the grape iMac.
For the trial version that is currently available for download you would need:
600 MHz PowerPC G3 and later (which leaves a grape iMac out of the picture)
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4
256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
1024 x 768, thousands of colors display (millions of colors recommended)
360 MB available disk space

Centering a Flash Movie

Here's my problem:
I've created a Flash movie I've saved on a CD as a .exe
projector file. The .exe file will automatically open once the CD
is placed in the computer's CD drive. When the movie is opened, I
want it to play in the center of the computer monitor. Thus far
I've not been able to figure out how to configure Flash so the
centering on the monitor will occur. I know in Director, you have
an option you can choose to make the centering occur. Is there a
way in Flash to have the centering take place. Even if it means
performing some Actionscripting.
An additional Note: I know I could use an FS Command to make
it so the movie will place full scrren no matter the scrren monitor
size. But since my Flash movie contains Bitmapped images whose
resolution quality depends on having a stable monitor size, I can't
use the FS Command because my bitmapped images get distorted.
Any help in this matter will be appreciated.

you can use the stage.allowscale method to stop scaling and
also make
the entire window cover the screen. It also has align to you
can center
or otherwise position it in the window
a more comprehensive solution is available if you convert
your swf to
an exe with mProjector it includes a full set of window
manipulation
commmands include center
here are the docs for that commands
http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/docs/mWin_center.htm
all apis by class
http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/docs/
and a demo download...
http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/demo.html
John Pattenden
Screentime Media - Flash Tools since 1997
http://www.screentime.com

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.

How can HTML call a Flash movie?

Greetings Everyone!
I'm sincerely hoping that someone has the answer for me. I'm
a newbie, but trying so very hard to understand... :) I've read
books, pages & pages of this forum, 'net searches - I haven't
found a complete answer to my challenge so far - thanks in advance
for any help you can give...
Here's where things are:
1) I've created a series of swf Flash movies that loop (at a
particular size so they can play inside of an html table cell)
2) I've created html buttons in another cell
What I'm trying to do:
1) Like a swap file in HTML (where you click a button and an
image changes elsewhere on the page, click another button, and that
image swaps to a different image file)
I want to have a flash movie play on a click of a button, click
another button, and a different flash movie plays in the same
spot.
The challenge is the interaction between Dreamweaver and
Flash and getting HTML to talk to Flash.
Here's the code direction I've been heading ...
...IN MY HTML code...
I have a onMouseClick event for each button link. In this
code I set some variable names inside it.
onMouseClick="setFlashVariables('sendmovie','myMovie=activeMovie1')"
---- this would be for button 1.
onMouseClick=
"setFlashVariables('sendmovie','myMovie=activeMovie2')" ---- this
would be for button 2
onMouseClick
="setFlashVariables('sendmovie','myMovie=activeMovie3')" ---- this
would be for button 3
Basically, I'm setting a 'myMovie' variable to 'activeMovie1'
or 'activeMovie2' or 'activeMovie3' when one of the buttons is
clicked.
If 'myMovie' variable is equal to 'activeMovie1' by clicking
a link, this will tell a flash movie: (" Hey flash! Variable
'myMovie' is equal to 'activeMovie1'. Act accordingly."). When the
2nd button is clicked, 'myMovie' will be equal to 'activeMovie2'
and so on.
I need to declare the 'myMovie' variable in my flash movie -
how do I do that?
...IN FLASH...
1. I need to create one variable which will act as a variable
receiver from HTML. (What I called "myMovie")
2. I gather I need to create an IF statement so that
"myMovie" is set to which "activeMovie" ( it could be
activeMovie1/activeMovie2/activeMovie3 etc ) ,
----->Question:
Where should the IF statement be and
How should it be written?
Admittedly I don't know Action Script 3 very well.
if myMovie is equal to "activeMovie1"
then load a movie. (This movie will be a movie related to my
1 Button.)
else if myMovie is equal to "activeMovie2"
then load a movie. ((This movie will be a movie related to
your 2 Button.)
else if myMovie is equal to "activeMovie3"
then load a movie. ((This movie will be a movie related to
your 3 Button.)
Here's where I'm stuck....
1) If I've already made my movies into swf files where does
an IF statement go?
2) I'm missing the mechanics of how to connect the dots here
- how do I get button 1 to load movie 1 and start playing
automatically? When I click button 2, movie 1 is replaced by movie
2 and starts playing automatically.
It's a detailed explanation (I know) - I'm hoping someone has
an answer for me that's equally explicit. Thanks so much much for
taking the time to read it!!

Anybody?

Create a scaling flash movie

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