Flash CS3 Site

Hi,
I'm building a portfolio website in Flash CS3 for a school
project . It's going well.
I have several .SWF movies that I'd like to place in my
portfolio website. Here's what I want to do.
You come to a page and see a screen shot from one of the .SWF
movies. Below the image is a play button to launch the movie. When
the user clicks the play button it launches the .SWF movie. Once
the movie is launched the user should have use of all of the
controls in the movie (pause, stop, etc).
If the user decides they want to check out another area of
the website (btw I'm only using Flash to build this) I need the
movie to stop playing (including audio).
So, in summary - I have a new Flash CS3 project that I want
to add .SWF movies to. Is there a tutorial out there that explains
how to do this?
Thanks,
mindforge

check the loader class. you can use it to load external
swfs.

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http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex/3/langref/flash/filesystem/File.html).
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Recently downed Flash CS3 - Dreamweaver and PS
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memory.
i've been noticing little things like - when i save my fla -
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name)
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whethr browser or flash.
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scripts html etc etc - it was fine
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installed - i've installed it at least 8 damn times today. I dont'
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Flash did it again, emptied or changed the back-up copy of
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open it up?
did a virus scan - a spy ware scan - nothing - didnt' think
there would be - but better safe than sorry.
These issues just really kicked in today - while i was
working on a final .fla and considering some changes additions -
going to experiment and get deeper into what i wanted to create.
Till around 4pm today my .fla's and .swf Previewed fine and
played fine - then just quit - and though it won't preview - i
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tia
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thanx for the reply jdmajor -
as mentioned - i scanned yesterday - first thing was a boot
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a Avast stated a cab file was corrupted on the boot scan -
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memory scanned.
Nothing showing as corrupted as far as viruses trojans worms
etc
did the usual maintanence - defrag - etc etc which
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checked all updates for wares - nothing.
drivers - nothing new.
The flash player needing to be re-installed has been from the
begining - lasts usually a couple days - then it shows as not being
installed and i have to re-install it - now it's worse - yet
thoughit shows not installed via the Flash Player page - it plays
flash fine so i know it's installed.
there are no hacked warz on the comp.
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coding anything for IE. It has always been broken. Did you know
that to display PNG graphics properly, you need to enable Active-X
controls? Probably the same thing with Flash. For that reason, I
suggest adding a line to your website that can only be viewed by IE
users that says "Please visit this site using any 32-bit web
browser other than Internet Explorer. Adobe just doesn't have
anyone that is able to compile a 64-bit browser at this time, and
does not support those who know what they are doing. Thank
you."

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I am only trying to do a web link from a button to some web
site.....
I wrote
on (release) {
getURL ("
http://www.yahoo.com", "_blank");
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month ago...people told her it is different from the AS2.....still
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or can I ?

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can use as3 in a swf created in flash cs3. but you cannot mix as3
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I would say that if you're not not familiar enough with Flash to judge how well it might work for you, then you're better off putting Flash to the side and worry about a tool like Dreamweaver for now.
Dreamweaver has many competitors, but you're unlikely to find any to match it for production work. However, for iTunes U, the tough part is getting your transfer CGI working -- that is your biggest concern -- and neither Flash nor Dreamweaver is going to help you much in that department. Best to concentrate on getting the transfer CGI working, in my humble opinion. 'Course no harm in learning Dreamweaver while doing so.

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Hi
I have the same problem of you, and the same dont find a
solution. Me it's Kaspersky Anti Virus (AV) which find this
problem.
So (and I dont know if this solution is perfect), but I open
Flash CS3 with the Java update choiced and apparently Flash
fonctionnely well and Kaspersky dont find this
prob now. But I dont never use Java in Flash (or without that
I know that..), and same, I dont know at what Java is used in Flash
I think that "JRE v 1.6.0_04" and more recent Java version is
not good, because it's not quite the same Java application that in
Flash CS3, In Flash CS3 it's "J2RE" and
not "JRE".
The history of all Java versions (and this) is here (
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/)
(but in all this versions... seriousely it's a true shambles !)
If you want the last version for J2RE in this archives it's v
1.4.2.18 but the last version is J2RE 1.4.2.19 but dont again in
this archives
(search on Java site, maybe first page ? I dont remember
where I to find it...). But the problem... it's that this last
version (19) is always detected bad by my AV...
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version in this series (in archives site) which is the "JDK/JRE -
5.0 v 5.0.16" but again named "Java 2 Platform
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archives page
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_16/index.html),
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the case for the equivalent same download page for Java 6...)
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(https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/View ProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=jre-1.5.0_16-oth-JPR@CDS-CDS_Dev
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terms) and choice the "JVM" folder of you Flash CS3
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When I open up my site, the old buttons work fine to navigate
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layer instead of having an onRelease on each button.
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but that also doesn't work, those buttons won't open up the URLs.
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I just googled in the hope to find some resources about how
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couldn't find any info on Adobe's Flash developers center.
Do you know of any resource that sheds some light on this
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I have a PowerBook G4 with 10.5.2 on it. I am wanting to do
more interactive website design so I was looking at DW & Flash
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at the time. I am more of a visual type person so I prefer being
able to use the design over having to do a lot of code. I want
something that saves time because I run a small business and so web
deisigning as much as I like to do it, is not my only job.
I have been looking through all the forums and trying to
weigh the pros and cons but I am getting really confused. With all
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are not having any problems with DW CS3 on macs.
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use in designing?
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PhotoShop & Illustartor the best and have only dabbled with the
others.). Will they work with the DW CS3, Flash CS3 & GoLive 9?
and if they do how well with each of them?
I'm still a beginner in many ways with web design and using
the adobe programs so I would greatly apreciate your help on
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of money on something and then not like it and have to go find
something else.
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You have to switch the focus back to the application and then
to the test window. Evidently between Flash MX04 (the one I have to
test) and CS3, they made it so that just clicking in the AS editor
window doesn't return the focus to the application. In that case
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re-tests the already compiled version.
If you click the application window, then click the
actionscript window, it will recompile the swf. However I
personally don't find apple-w to close the window so
onerous.

Flash CS3 timeline display problems

I have just upgraded to Flash CS3 and immediately noticed a
problem when viewing and working with the Timeline window. When I
click on a frame (keyframe or other) it highlights that frame
completely white, which means I can no longer tell what type of
frame it is. The same happens if I highlight a series of frames,
they are all white and hard to interact with. If I highlight a
series of frames and attempt to Right-Click, I can rarely get a
sub-menu to show for quick options like 'Remove Frames' and 'Create
Motion Tween'. Most of the time my Right-Click is ignored
completely (ie nothing happens).
I have searched Google, Flashkit and Adobe site for help with
this, but no love. Has anyone else experienced this problem? The
rest of my CS3 install is working perfectly.
Computer: 20" iMac Intel 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2Gb RAM, 250Gb
HDD (~100Gb Free)
OS: Mac OS X 10.4.9
Version: Adobe Flash CS3 Version 9.0

quote:
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sczulu
Since upgrading from Flash V8, I'm having an issue where
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published, making layout and design difficult. I've checked the
text display settings with now change in appearance. The files do
publish with anti-aliased text.
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