Director MX 2004 and Flash Actionscript 2

Can anyone show me how to program director MX 2004 to run a
few Actionscript 2 programmed .swf (not frame-by-frame programmed)
in a row?

Rob,
Thanks for your replay. Here is what I want to do:
I have a Flash animation all done in Actionscript to playback
a few slides with title and description. The pictures are loaded in
the .swf runtime and the location of the pictures, duration,
transition, and text attributes are controlled by external XML.
Since this is all done with Actionscript, the Timeline is not
really an indication of real time (like in frame-by-frame
animation). How can I program Director to play the whole Flash
animation and stop when done?
How can I upload a test file to you to illustrate what I'm
talking about?

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Director MX 2004 and Flash CS3

Hi there:
New to Director, so I apologize if this question's a wierd
one, but I'm wondering -- is it possible to host a Flash 9 SWF
(authored, say, in Flex and written in AS3) in a Director MX 2004
project? I'd like to add some of the features of Director to my
SWF, and am hoping I can drop in my SWF and write some code that'll
bridge the two environments.
Thanks,
Chris

> is it possible to host a Flash 9 SWF (authored, say, in
Flex and
> written in AS3) in a Director MX 2004 project?
No, the last publically released version of the Flash Asset
xtra will
play version 8/AS2 files only. The next version of Director
(due before
the end of the year) is expected to include an updated asset
xtra

Director MX 2004 and MacOS X 10.5

Hi
I'm new to macOS but have to port in nearest future some
projects ,
developed for Windows on Mac
And therefore the question from newbie.
Is there any possibility to develope in Director under Mac OS
X 10.5?
Can Director 11 be started under Rosetta or does Version 10.5
have no
Rosetta in it?
Can older versions of Director (for example MX 2004) be
started under
Rosetta on Mac OS X 10.5?
Any help will be appreciated
Orest

Dear Dean,
First of all, thanks for your answer. Here some screenshot to explain the issue :
I launch the program on clicking the Play button. Then here is the first screen.
When the mouse over the 'A' (next) arrow, it displays the encircled text.
I continu to navigate to further sequences.
You can see that the page are correctly displayed, with the number of them at the bottom.
Clicking on next arrow change the number, and the page.
There is a link to a menu. When you click on it, it display list of thematic and you can see that a field appears with mouse over the icone (red circled one).
Everything works fine with the program using Director Windows Version.
But When i use the same program with Director MacOs Version, these issues occured :
First, when mouse over the next arrow, no text is displayed (cf. first picture)
Then page number are not displayed :
To finnish, nothing appears in the last screen :
the 'A' content is missing
the 'B' field is empty
the 'C' field (wich appears on mouse over) is empty too, but when clicking it, this page is loaded.
To Resum the situation : i took the program made on MX2004 Macintosh. I put it on a PC system.
I use th extra/update animation option to convert the program into director 11.
I open the converted files with director 11 on Windows and it works fine.
I open the converted files with director 11 on MacOS X and i expect these issues.
I hope these explanation should help you to understand my problems, and i hope you should help me to find what's going on.
Thanks.
Eric

Director mx 2004 won't display Flash 8 swf files & other Flash media

I have created a Flash 8 Project which has audio, video (which are converted to swf files fom flvs), flashpaper. This application is driven by XML.
However this application works fine outside director, but when I import the main swf file into director mx 2004 and RUN it, director won't display the videos (but I can hear the audio from the videos), Director wont show graphic images(eg menu icon movie buttons, and flash buttons). Also I can launch external files (eg text file) from flash, but again it won't work via director.
ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE

ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE
I suggest there's no need to shout.
Try linking the Director cast member to the external swf file instead of fully importing it. You also should have the 10.1.1 update in place - this is particularly important.

How to activate Studio 8 won't accept serial number of my previous versions of Dreamweaver and Flash Pro

In order to complete Studio 8 activation, I was asked to provide serial numbers of older version of Dreamweaver and Flash Pro. I did but it won't accept it.
Kindly help to resolve this issue

Jeff A Wright wrote:
I know that both Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 are two versions later than version 8.0.
Other way round, Jeff - MX 2004 is one version earlier.
MX 2004 (version 7) pre-dated Studio 8 (version 8) by two years.
Adobe Creative Suite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Released September 10, 2003, despite its name, it is internally version 7.
Macromedia Studio 8 Released September 13, 2005, Studio 8 was the last version of Macromedia Studio.
I have always found it odd that MX 2004 owners have been provided with non-activation serial numbers by Adobe.
However, Studio 8 owners (later version software) have been left stranded with no non-activation serials and no way to activate their software when they re-install. What do they do?

Director mx 2004 log in system

hello
i am using director mx 2004 and i need to create a login and register system where it saves the clients details in a database so they can re login and carry on with the quiz, so would be saving a few details in the database linked to director, it is not going to be a big project only 3 names would be saved in the database, but i have no clue how to start doing this in director mx 2004,
thanks

You say "database". Do you plan to run the application on one computer only, and allow 3 different users, or do you intend to the application to run on any computer anywhere in the world, but only for the users whose login name and password is stored in a central server on the Internet?
Do you know the login names and passwords in advance, or will these be created dynamically at run-time?
In other words, what is this exercise intended to teach you?
How to work with data in multiple parts (name + password x 3 users)
How to create a database-type of functionality within Director
How to interact with an external database
Clearly defining the questions you have to answer is the first step to finding the answers.

Is there a marker limit in Director MX 2004?

I'm using Director MX 2004, and I have a very large project with lots of markers. Markers have quite long names too. Now I'm having some weird behavior when inputting new markers and naming them... I have tried many times to add new markers, but for some reason as soon as I move a newly added marker the name of the marker goes empty, and the name is added to the previous marker. For example, if I have a marker called "Markername 1" and I add a new marker with a name "Markername 2" and then move the marker with "Markername 2", it loses its name and the first marker is called "Markername 1Markername 2"... is there some limits in markers or what could cause this weird behavior?

Chunick wrote:
Director is so much more powerful than laying stuff out on the timeline over and over, project after project. I would challenge you to explore Lingo a bit more and learn what possibilities it opens up to make your projects of 3000-4000 labels much easier. We, as humans are natural pattern seekers, and that's where programming can help the most. If we can see the pattern - the repetition - then there's usually code that we can write that gets rid of the manual layout of something of that scale that you describe so that you'd just have to create a few markers and have the code dynamically generate the layout from the data/assets.
So, have fun with Director and explore... to steal from Mark, "Keep on Learnin'".
WOW. This sort of reply is a perfect example of why so many long-time Director users like myself rarely post, but instead just roll our eyes and walk away. The hubris in this last comment is amazing.
Let's review the thread. Someone posts that they are having problems adding new markers. You and both Mark responded. FWIW, I also would recommend the list solution that substitutes the actual name for a more systematic labeling method, so that's a great and helpful idea. But your first post, that noboby has ever experienced this over the last nine years, is incorrect. I've complained about the "marker bug" on numerous occasions over the years, probably dating back to MX, though I guess everyone just ignored the comment. So I chime in on this thread that I have, in fact, numerous large movies that exhibit the erratic label issues.Then comes your amazing reply to my comment about the unpredictable bug, which could be summarized as "My vision for Director involves templates, and anyone who deviates from my vision must be a moron who is completely ignorant of the complexity of Director."
LOL
So if you get your wish, will the stage of D12 would be locked down at 10 frames for the rest of us? Just because you can't step outside of the box you've put yourself in and EVER see the need for a movie with more than a handful of frames, does that imply that every other serious Director user has to limit themsleves with those same constraints?
I don't disagree with you that the power of Director is in creating an underlying architecture that allows sophisticated interactions to be used over and over with minimal fuss at the individual screen level. I haven't written a "go to" command in years! Why do you assume that I spend all my time "laying stuff on the timeline"? What is amazing is that you make these sweeping generalizations about every other user, based only on your initial programming biases, even when you have no idea of the complexity of my project or its intended use.
Like you, the bulk of my plumbing when setting up this large number of screens involves submitting (and cleaning up) large, complex data arrays (AKA - lists of lists). I have over 30,000 lines of Lingo for these input lists alone, which reference the 150,000 lines of lingo for my generic interactions. And of course this all ties in to a huge local DB, where I have over 500,000 fields, and the user generates another 10,000 new entries in the DB during their 100+ hours spent in the application.
But what does this "plumbing" have to do with markers? My vision for reusable code is to handle the hard stuff out of sight, and allow me to quickly create unique screen markers that have a "hand crafted" feel to every screen. I do this not because templates are beyond my conceptual grasp, but rather because I have rejected the idea of templates, for my projects, as creative "laziness". Easy to implement, but boring, tedious, and visually unappealing, Sure, templates may work for many other applications, especially those where the user experience is not so important. But in my case, where each projects involves about 40,000 hours of work gathering unique materials and constructing them into an interactive, it flies in the face of the very nature of the project itself. My users will spend 2-3 hours per week in my application, for an entire year. Why should I bore them more than necessary, just because I want to save 200 hours of layout on a 40,000 hour project? Each of my projects, over their lifetime, will have over 5 million hours of user time spent inside them. I'm currrently working on one that will have 10 times that amount. Since many labels will have users spending over 10,000 hours looking / interacting with it, my question is not "how can I save 5 minutes of layout/programming time per screen', but rather "is this screen visually, technically, and pedagogically worth thousands of user hours?"
So I use markers, in combination with my code, to reject the template mold, allowing me to quickly lay a few simple elements on each screen and create a customized, hand crafted look and feel to the entire experience. It is a very different approach than yours, and I'm glad you are happy with your view of the interactive world. But as for me, I use Director precisely because itt is possible to mix a powerful scripting environment, that reaches deep into the OS, with the ability to quickly customize each screen/label and provide an appealing visual experience for the user.
While you think I should "explore Lingo a bit more and learn what possibilities it opens up", I'd suggest you learn to put aside your predetermined solutions to problems that you have not even encountered yet. Who knows where new creative ideas will take you...

How can I use LCCS with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4?

Hi,
Using Stratus I was able to create an an application using Action Script 3 and Flash CS4. The sample code on the Adobe site was quite straight forward and easy to understand. I now want to switch over to LCCS but can't find anything any where on how to use Action Script 3 and Flash CS4 with LCCS. Do I need to know Flex to be able to use LCCS? Everything was quite simple and easy to understand with Stratus and makes complete sense. But LCCS is really confusing. Is there any sample code on how to establish a connection in Action Script 3 and then stream from a webcam to a client. There is nothing in the LCCS SDK that covers Flash and Action Script 3. Please help! I found the link below on some forum but it takes me nowhere.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=75 9&threadid=1407833&enterthread=y

Thanks Arun!
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:44:10 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I use LCCS with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4?
Hi,
Welcome to the LCCS world.
Please refer to the SDK's sampleApps folder. There would be an app called FlashUserList. The app demonstrates how LCCS can be used with Flash CS4. Its a pretty basic app, but should help you moving.
We are trying to improve our efforts to help developers in understanding our samples. Please do let us know if we can add something that would help others.
Thanks
Arun
>

Director and Flash Paper

Hi Adobe forums,
I've just about putting the finishing touches together for an
interactive CD at work using director 1.0.11. I've provided users
with a print button that then in theory should open the
corresponding flash paper file and then the user can just print out
what ever he or she wants.
Don't ask me why I used flash paper over pdf, it was
something new and I wanted to try it out. It works fine on my
machine but when I burn the projector and accompanying swf and xtra
folder to cd it won't work on other machines.
I'm guessing this is a Flash Xtra problem, but I've already
selected Flash Assest and Flash Asset Options X32 via modify >
movies > xtras but this doesn't seem to solve the problem. To
handle the opening of this file I've also downloaded and installed
BuddApi as well.
Here's the code I use to open the swf file:
property pFile
global gDelimiter
on getPropertyDescriptionList
description = [:]
addProp description,#pFile, \
[#default:"test.swf", \
#format:#string, \
#comment:"Type the full filename to open: Example: test.swf"]
return description
end
on mouseEnter me
-- sets the cursor to the hand
cursor 280
end
on mouseLeave me
-- sets the cursor to default
cursor -1
end
on mouseUp me
--- setting the file path to go to, you need to put your
folder name or file structure in.
--- the moviepath is the path to the actual .exe file. So you
just need to
--- add the structure from that point on. In the below case
there is a
---folder called "pdf_files" in the same directory as the
.exe
sPath = the moviePath & "swf_files" & gDelimiter
& pFile
--- & is simply appending each item, so it is appending
pdf_files to the
---existing path, and then appending
--- gDelimiter which is either a \ or : and then finally
appending the name of
---your file
baOpenFile(sPath, "Maximised")
--- buddyAPI command you will have to download and install
buddy API
---Xtra. It is free, do a google search for BuddyAPI and the
site will come
---up, simply download the appropriate version and place in
your Xtras
---folder.
cursor -1
end
If anybody could point me in the right direction I would be
very grateful.

Thats the strange thing, at work all machines are set up the
same way via an image ripped down to them when they are first
configured. Part of the standard desktop image is the Flash Plugin.
For some strange reason the .swf file isn't recognised on the
CD. Drag the associated file to the users computer and the file is
recognised.
I'll give the error reporting alert a try and feedback the
results. It might be that I just have to embed the Flash Paper
within the Director Projector.
If anybody else has any ideas I would be very grateful.
yiendos

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 for AE and Flash CS5.5?

Good evening, I have no idea what's actionscript but I think it's cool. I'm willed buying a book but I have one here ( Flash CS4 The missing manual by Chris Grover) which has 7 lessons about Actionscript 3.0. Does it work for AE and Flash CS5.5? Do I have to buy another book? Which book you recommend? Thanks a lot again.

Do you mean After Effects? AFAIK, the file formats that After Effects outputs wouldn't support ActionScript.

ScrollPane in Flash MX and flash Mx 2004 professional

Summary:
The refreshPane method works differently in Flash MX and
Flash MX 2004 Professional
What went wrong?:
I have used scrollPane component in Flash mx and loaded some
content. I changed the content size i.e. width and height
at runtime and after that called the refreshPane() method to
resize the scrollPane. It works fine with Flash MX
But same I tried with Flash Mx 2004 Professional, but it
doesn't work, since in Flash Mx the refreshPane() method resizes
the content and in flash Mx 2004 Professional the
refreshPane() metod reloads the content.
What should have happened?:
Can there be a method in flash Mx 2004 Professional which
just resizes the scrollPane and not reloads the whole content?
Since if I have to generate a content at runtime and resize
it also at runtime then just by calling the method refreshPane() in
flash Mx 2004 Professional, it loads the content what it was
originally and not the changed one.
Product version: flash Mx, Flash Mx 2004 Professional
Product: Flash
Component: scrollPane
I would like to request you to help me in the same as early
as possible.
Thanks and regards,
Shreeram Shiralkar

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>
> I was wondering are files produced from Flash MX
compatible with
> Dreamweaver
> cs4? I have Flash MX and don't want to buy Flash cs4 if
I don't need
> to.
Flash MX creates .swf files. Dreamweaver CS4 creates HTML
files, and
has the capability of inserting .swf files in a web page. It
doesn't
matter which version of Flash you use to create your .swf
files; they
can be inserted into a web page in any version of
Dreamweaver.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com

Installing Director 11 and Director MX 2004 (10)

On a new PC, I installed Adobe Director 11 and several other
parts of the Master Collection CS3. Due to problems with some
extras that don't run with Director 11, I have to install also
Director MX 2004 (10).
After installing this version, the program can be started,
but it exits without any warning after about 15 secs.
Then, I tried to uninstall Director 11. A messages told me to
'deactivate' the program first. This process failed. I still
uninstalled the program and reinstalled Director MX 2004. No
change, it still won't work.
Does anyone had similar problems? Any suggestion on how to
solve this? All help is appreciated.

Fast answer: no! (utf8 and other file/byteorder-specific
reasons)
Sorry
Aldus

Comparison of Director and Flash

Why Director and why Flash? What Director can do but Flash
can't, and vice versa.

kikibian wrote:
> Why Director and why Flash? What Director can do but
Flash can't, and vice versa.
I suggest adobe.com and just read , there really is just way
too much to list down
in a post. Two totally different programs, different
languages and power.
Some 'bottom line' things perhaps.
Director way larger than flash, just the player is so big
that not many people like
to download it just to view small intro or menu.
Director unlike flash can handle video, interact with OS,
expend its power with "Xtras",
something like plug ins. It's design for heavy multimedia
with images and video and sound.
Capable of 3d.
Flash is for web, fast download small files, video is
supported but it was not design to
handle big files. More of a vector based small web based
content.
Really, go to adobe and just read away.
Regards
Urami
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Webservice, actionscript 3 and flash

Hi,
a simple question : Is it possible to use webservice with
actionscript 3.0 and flash?
I know it was possible with actionscript 2.0 and actionscript
3.0 with flex, but under flash....
Thanks,
Pascal

Pascal,
> I don't find the three classes show on Michel's page
> :Operation, OperationEvent and WebService. I get
> a unique item instead called as3webservice whose
> icon looks also different...
The single component is in your Library, which is all you
need. Just
start coding, and the classes should work just fine.
The three items showing on his website are taken from a
snapshot of an
older version of the component. Pieter changed it at my
request when I
discovered that his component didn't work in Flash CS4 (it
does now). That
wasn't his fault, by the way ... in fact, it wasn't anyone's
fault. Adobe
engineers corrected a bug in the way components are
implemented in CS4, and
that fix meant Pieter had to recreate his component ... which
may also be
true for many component developers.
Here's a free tutorial at Community MX on a suggested usage
scenario for
this component (in fact, this is an excertp from the book I
mentioned) ...
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=2266C
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
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http://www.quip.net/blog/
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I have flash mx 2004 and I want transfer it to other PC,

I have flash mx 2004 and I want transfer it to other PC, what
to do ? (is only for one pc_internet verified software - one pc
usage, please note that I buy MM-Studio mx 2004, not flash alone)
?

> How many times I may change usage of studio mx 2004
between two PCs
> [De-authenticate/Authenticate ] ?
Unlimited.
> When De-authenticate I must delete software ? If not,
Then Software opens
> to authenticate again ?
Yes.
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> When De-authenticate I must delete software ? If not,
Then Software opens
> to authenticate again ?

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