Dynamically generating a gif from Flash

I've written a Flash program that lets users design their own
fantasy character. One they've completed the design, I'd like them
to be able to generate a gif from it that they can save. Anyone
know how to do this? Thanks in advance.
You can find the program here:
http://www.thelionscall.com/activities/character_builder_v2.cfm

Check out:
http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/index.php

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Animated gif from flash

CS4, AS3.Windows XP SP3.
I've created a pretty simple flash animation with some text that fades in and moves around a bit. Nothing fancy. It runs just fine both locally and on my client's site. I need to turn it into an animated gif so that non-flash viewers will see the animation. But I can't seem to get it to come out right. It needs to have a transparent background and it needs to run just once. Like I said, all that runs fine as an SWF.
When I choose the export option in the file menu (export movie as gif), it does export and I can run the gif but the background is definitely not transparent and the thing loops continuously. Yes, I've checked the "transparent" checkbox and also set the repetitions to 1. Neither of those settings do anything.
I also tried "publishing" the gif. That's even worse. The resultant animation doesn't even resemble my SWF. It's a blocky mess when it runs. It does appear to have a transparent background but it loops over and over and again it's a blocky mess (not sure how else to explain that).
The whole thing is just about 10 layers of different lines of text that are tweened in various ways to get the effect I need.
You can see the animation on the right hand side of this page: www.ssrights.com. It's the one that says "FREE! Consultation..."
Hope someone can help.
Thanks,
Keith
PS: The gif is not in place. I currently have it set to just show a static image if someone does not have flash.

Look, I appreciate that you are making an effot to help, but I hope you realize that most pages like that are just there to attract advertisers. They are mostly nonsense. Filled with fluff and little that's actually helpful. Often copied verbatim from the help file of some application. Not the least bit beneficial. There are tons of "how to" sites out there that say next to nothing and still use a lot of words. I run into them countless times each day. It's beyond irritating when you're trying to learn how to do something. This paragraph on that page you referred me to is a perfect example:
Set other options for your animated GIF publication. Optimize the color of the GIF to remove unused colors so that the image size will be reduced. Set "Dither Solids" so that the colors will be mixed in the current existing palette. Other options you have to set up are Interlace, Smooth, and Remove Gradients. Set all of them very well so that your animated GIF will be published at its best quality.
Just look at the grammar in the last sentense. It doesn't even make sense and offeres zero useful information. Probably came out of the entirely useless Adobe help system that's fond of defining a term with the term itself.
Back to the GIF settings. I've chosen nearly every combination of settings on the GIF publish tab. Nothing I do works. The only thing that solved the problem (and it's a crummy solution) was to change the text to a broken apart graphic. I'm sure you are more expert in Flash than I am and so you likely know how to solve this. Have you created a simple example with text and successfully published it as a GIF? You don't even need to tween the text. It can be sitting still on it's own layer and it still fouls things up. If so, what settings are you using to make this work right? That inforamtion would be very helpful!
Again, is there anyone out there that has specifically dealt with this problem and can offer a specific, viable solution?
Keith

Generating images (GIF) from iViews

Hi,
I am looking for a way to generate GIF images from my iView.
If I use a regular servlet as a portal component and set the response type to "image/gif", I get an empty HTML page.
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Dmitry

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Import animated GIF from Photoshop?

I have a question... I am unable to create custom animated gif's in Photoshop 5/6 and import them into Captivate 7. It just says "The GIF file contains errors". I've tried exporting on multiple settings and still no luck, same with exporting from Fireworks.
I am however able to import an exported gif from Flash, yet the quality is horrible and the transparency is buggy. Is anyone else having this issue, or is there some setting that I am missing? Basically I need to animate some images within a Captivate project, without the need of using a .SWF (for HTML5 output). Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

I experienced this issue with Captivate 8 and Photoshop CC...
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Hello,
i'm trying to develop a game in flex builder and i got a problem with the dymanic text i've imported from flash. I want to insert a scoreboard in my application and for doing that i should use dynamic text in flash. I create a dynamic text in flash and then a import it to Flash Builder in a movie clip, and i called the dynamic text "Score". Now i've tried to use the "Score" variable to change the value of the dynamic text box un my flash builder application, but it doesn't change anything.
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Thanks Ned,
I always welcome learning something new.
I did not know creating a new keyframe,
creates a new instance.
Yes, I had used the same dynamic text field instance name in
numerous, new layers (great observation).
With the objective to display the User's name throughout
the timeline (on and off)...
I'll attempt to paraphrase your solution;
Use a single layer to display the dynamic text field.
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Help with this one ??
Set the visible properties to true or false as need through out the timeline.
( Does require an AS3 ? )
I'll give that a try.....
~~
Side of effect of using the above solution;
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(i.e. the User's first name appears in different sentences...)
Per the solution above,
I believe I will be limited to One location, one format setting.
Is this assumption correct?
I can make this work from a display / Movie point of view.
However, your first VAR concept, noted above, might be
worth exploring should more flexibility be required.
Thanks for making the time to coach...
D-

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Any normal html code is just wrapped inside a out.println(...) statement. Scriptlets should have the <% %> stripped and coppied to the output. Expressions should have their <%= %> stripped and be added to the surrounding out.println...
for example:
<a href="<%=thePage%>">
should become:
out.println("<a href=\""+thePage+"\">");
All the content should be added to a _jspservice method. Then, things between <%! %> should be coppied to source file as methods.
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When someone other than myself downloads an image from my web album, a dynamically generated file name replaces the original file name. How I can prevent the file name being changed during this downloading process?

Hi Glenyse,
Here are my steps.
1. I upload multiple image (jpg) files onto my photo album.
2. I select the "sharing" by email option for this album.
3. I enter the recipient's email address.
4. The recipient receives my message and clicks on the link.
5. The recipient accesses my photo album and clicks on one of the images.
6. The image opens up to its own screen.
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I have an avi video file that i'd like to make into an animated gif in flash. How do I go about doing this? I know there is an option in photoshop where you can import the video frames onto layers. Is there something similar in flash?

[http://wetpixel.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t16884.html]
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How to create a GIF from inside an SWF?

I have a Flash application that allows users to arrange
images, in the form of imported SWF MovieClips, into a scene of
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solely with ActionScript or if I'd have to do some work with PHP/GD
or Java, but I have seen it done before (Yahoo! Answer avatars) so
I know it's possible.
I'm very new to actionScript. So far I've found the functions
for dealing with bitmap data but none for file creation. Can anyone
point me in the right direction? As you may guess, it's hard to
Google for variations of "flash create gif" because this is also a
function of the development tools.
Thank you for your advice and suggestions!

I'm sorry octav20xx, was there a particular result of that
search that you thought I should look at? Of the first page of
results, most are links to utilities for converting SWFs to
animated GIFs, which as I mentioned is not what I want to do. The
rest of the results seem irrelevant to my question.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I need the SWF to automatically
generate static GIF files based on dynamic user input. I have
already done a lot of searching on Google for a solution but found
none; this is why I am asking here instead.
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Loading a dynamic generated profile... not really working

Hey all - ok simple question sort of.
I am generating a dynamic profile for the encoder. It's to save to c:\videos on output with each user's unique id in the file name. The user goes to a secure login, clicks the download profile link - and bam I have the XML file set to auto-open in Flash Media Encoder. Problem is - it is not using my dynamically generated filename. If I go to flash media encoder and OPEN Profile - and open the profile that was downloaded - all is well and the filename in the save to file is correct. If you try to click on the profile file (xml file) or have firefox auto-open xml file into flash media encoder - it opens up the encoder but does not adjust any settings including the save to file location.
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I bolded the part that gets dynamically generated....
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        <output>
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Unfortunately no.
Put simply, there are a few major intel-related changes going on right now, and the short story is that the intel drivers are using newer tech than Mesa and such are. However, the required packages haven't been brought up to date yet (I think they haven't been marked stable upstream and such).
The first step however is kernel 2.6.28, which includes half of the "fix", to simplify. Now, this won't make your FPS go straight back up - you'll need to wait for newer versions of Mesa and such to be rolled out - but it's a start, especially if you don't already have 2.6.28.
From there, I'm sure you've seen this thread which outlines what to recompile. I'll probably wait though, since 100FPS is quite an upgrade for me - I didn't have hardware rendering until a month or so ago (I think) - and my system is slow enough as it is (it can't use DDR2 RAM) for me to really bother with fast graphics anyway.
-dav7

Save dynamically generated audio?

Hey all -
Short and sweet: Is there any way to save a dynamically generated sound to a file?
I'm developing an app that (so far) records a person's voice and then allows the user to manupulate the tempo, rate, and pitch. Playback is fine. Thing is, I want to save the manmipulated sound, but I haven't found a way to capture the manilpulated playback into a ByteArray (I'm sure I can work with the data from there). Has anyone tried this? Is it simply not possible?
Working with Flash IDE (CS5.5).

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Animated Gif, XML & Flash 8

I created an animated gif in photoshop cs3. I'm opening the
gif file from inside an xml file using flash 8. It displays the gif
just fine without the animation. I noticed that when I open the
same gif file from an html file the browser (IE7) ask permission to
run activex. Once I give it permission, the animation runs fine.
When I run it from flash 8, IE7 doesn't ask permission...it just
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One thing you may want to look at is the way your symbols are being triggered on the timeline. For example: you have an image of a ball bouncing, it goes down then up over the course of 30 frames and you are playing the FLA at 15 FPS so it takes a full two seconds per "bounce". If you are then putting that symbol into another timeline (probably the main timeline) you need to give the instance of that symbol the full 30 frames to go through the bounce before it stops, but if you give it 31 frames or forget to put a stop() command on the last frame, the sequence will repeat before clearing the stage.
I would look at how you have positioned the object that is being looped in the main timeline and remember that with each keyframe you add to the timeline the animation will restart from the beginning. Imagine the bouncing ball graphic is a video clip of a ball bouncing and not a collection of vectors being repositioned on the stage. Every time you have a keyframe on the symbol of the video on the main timeline, the video restarts and appears to loop. The same may be happening with your animation on the timeline.
Hope this helps.

Animated Gif to Flash... Newbie

Hi all. I'm pretty experienced with using most of Adobe's
software with the glaring exception of Flash.
I've been asked to create an animated banner which I have
done as an animated gif from within PhotoShop. However I'm fairly
sure this sort of animation would be better created in Flash.
The animated gif is
here
Ive imported the PSD file into Flash CS3 but I'm not doing
very well at either selecting different layers or indeed moving the
photo and the text over a certain time span.
I imagine this sort of thing if easy to anyone with some
experience.
Can anyone offer any help on how to do this?
Also, the animated gif file size is about 150kb. Would the
flash file be significantly smaller?
Thanks.

Let Flash do that for you. First you have to create a symbol
out of the background image... a graphic symbol will suffice. A
quick way to do that is to place the image on the stage, right
click it, and select Convert To Symbol.
Then, place that symbol in a keyframe. Somewhere down the
timeline, right click on another keyframe and select Insert
Keyframe. The symbol should now extend from the first keyframe to
the one you just added. But for the keyframe you just created,
physically move the image to the slid over location you intend
Go back to the first keyframe, right click on it and select
Create Motion Tween. An arrow should now be joining the two
keyframes which should have blue-colored frames between them. Run
the movie.
For a competent developer, maybe a half hour tops starting
from scratch... it depends on how much content has to be added to
the image(s).

Dynamically generating a gif from Flash

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