Flash CS4 tutorials

hey, where are the tutorials examples of flash CS4? (as there are several practical 'tutorials and samples' in flash pro. 8 help)
thanx

I have animation/motion related sample files and tutorials for CS4 here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/learning_guide/animation/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/motion_migration_guide.html
http://flashthusiast.com/ (select categories down right hand side - for example, FLA files here http://flashthusiast.com/category/fla-files/)

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How to Make Dreamweaver CS4/Flash CS4 Website Function on all Latest Mobile Devices

Hello!
I am trying to add code into my Dreamweaver CS4 file and/or Flash CS4 file in order to have the website I have created work across all of the latest mobile devices as well as traditional online systems. My flash file has a transparent stage, and my dreamweaver file has a full-screen background image. I have reviewed various tutorials and articles available online, and some advocate simply adding code, which does not seem to be working for me, while others suggest having a similar separate site created solely for mobile devices. If this is the best option, I don't know how that should be set up. What is the best path to take with this?
This is the collection of various pieces of code I have tried adding to my files:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" user-scalable="yes" initial-scale="1.0" /> 
   <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" /> 
</style>
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
      <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
        <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
        <param name="var params = {          id: "flashID", name: "flashcontent", menu: "false", allowFullScreen: "true", fullScreenOnSelection: "true", scale:"noscale", salign:"middle"};"
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
//or//
this.stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
this.stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
next_btn.width = 133 * .5;
next_btn.height = 133 * .5;
//flash//
next_btn.width = Capabilities.screenDPI * .5;
next_btn.height = Capabilities.screenDPI * .5;
//flash//
this.stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, doLayout);
//flash://
<initialWindow>
   <width>320</width>
   <height>480</height>
   
</initialWindow>
* Convert inches to pixels.
private function inchesToPixels(inches:Number):uint
   return Math.round(Capabilities.screenDPI * inches);
var button:Sprite = new Sprite();
button.x = 20;
button.y = 20;
button.graphics.beginFill(0x 003037);
button.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.inchesToPixels(.75),
   this.inchesToPixels(.25));
button.graphics.endFill();
   this.addChild(button);
//hard-code title://
var titleBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
titleBar.x = 0;
titleBar.y = 0;
//stage width determines width of title://
var titleBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
titleBar.x = 0;
titleBar.y = 0;
titleBar.graphics.beginFill(0x003037);
titleBar.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.stage.stageWidth,
   this.inchesToPixels(.3));
titleBar.graphics.endFill();
this.addChild(titleBar);
//footer://
var footer:Sprite = new Sprite();
footer.graphics.beginFill(0x003037);
footer.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.stage.stageWidth,
   this.inchesToPixels(.3));
footer.graphics.endFill();
footer.x = 0;
footer.y = this.stage.stageHeight - footer.height;
this.addChild(footer);
* Center one DisplayObject relative to another.
private function center(foreground:DisplayObject,
   background:DisplayObject):void
      foreground.x = (background.width / 2) -
         (foreground.width / 2);
      foreground.y = (background.height / 2) +
         (foreground.height / 2);
//cont.//
var title:SimpleLabel = new SimpleLabel("My Application",
   "bold", 0xffffff, "_sans", this.inchesToPixels(.15));
this.center(title, titleBar);
this.addChild(title);
//override width and height getters
public override function get width():Number
   return this.textLine.textWidth;
public override function get height():Number
   return (this.textLine.ascent - 1);
if (Capabilities.manufacturer == "Android Linux" && Capabilities.screenResolutionY == 1024)
next_btn.width = 85;
next_btn.height = 85;
This is the code for my Dreamweaver CS4 file (without the additional erogenous code attempts):
<!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">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN"
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>My Website Title and Slogan.</title>
<style type="text/css">

<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<img src ="image.gif" width=90% height=auto>
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta name="Keywords" content="keywords…" />
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center">
<p> </p>
<p>
    <object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="900" height="630">
      <param name="movie" value="FlashFile.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      
      
      <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="FlashFile.swf" width="900" height="630">
        
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        
        <div>
          <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
          <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
        </div>
        
      </object>
      
    </object>
</p>
</div>
<div align="center"> </div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
I have tried various combinations of the code listed above, but nothing seems to be working. I am not sure as to the positioning of the code, and maybe that is the problem, or maybe it is because this code in not for CS4, or not appropriate for my project. I also do not know what code should be inside the Flash file, nor what should should be inside the Dreamweaver file.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!

Hi
To add to what Gramps has said, Adobe has ceased developing its flash player for ALL mobile devices so do not use Flash for any mobile device.
Depending on the complexity of your Flash program you may be able to recreate it using Edge, but the code generated by Edge does not work in IE8 or below.
For details on Edge, see - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
PZ

How to Make Flash CS4/Dreamweaver CS4 Website Function on all Latest Mobile Devices

Hello!
I am trying to add code into my Dreamweaver CS4 file and/or Flash CS4 file in order to have the website I have created work across all of the latest mobile devices as well as traditional online systems. My flash file has a transparent stage, and my dreamweaver file has a full-screen background image. I have reviewed various tutorials and articles available online, and some advocate simply adding code, which does not seem to be working for me, while others suggest having a similar separate site created solely for mobile devices. If this is the best option, I don't know how that should be set up. What is the best path to take with this?
This is the collection of various pieces of code I have tried adding to my files:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" user-scalable="yes" initial-scale="1.0" /> 
   <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" /> 
</style>
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
      <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
        <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
        <param name="var params = {          id: "flashID", name: "flashcontent", menu: "false", allowFullScreen: "true", fullScreenOnSelection: "true", scale:"noscale", salign:"middle"};"
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
//or//
this.stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
this.stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
next_btn.width = 133 * .5;
next_btn.height = 133 * .5;
//flash//
next_btn.width = Capabilities.screenDPI * .5;
next_btn.height = Capabilities.screenDPI * .5;
//flash//
this.stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, doLayout);
//flash://
<initialWindow>
   <width>320</width>
   <height>480</height>
   
</initialWindow>
* Convert inches to pixels.
private function inchesToPixels(inches:Number):uint
   return Math.round(Capabilities.screenDPI * inches);
var button:Sprite = new Sprite();
button.x = 20;
button.y = 20;
button.graphics.beginFill(0x 003037);
button.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.inchesToPixels(.75),
   this.inchesToPixels(.25));
button.graphics.endFill();
   this.addChild(button);
//hard-code title://
var titleBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
titleBar.x = 0;
titleBar.y = 0;
//stage width determines width of title://
var titleBar:Sprite = new Sprite();
titleBar.x = 0;
titleBar.y = 0;
titleBar.graphics.beginFill(0x003037);
titleBar.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.stage.stageWidth,
   this.inchesToPixels(.3));
titleBar.graphics.endFill();
this.addChild(titleBar);
//footer://
var footer:Sprite = new Sprite();
footer.graphics.beginFill(0x003037);
footer.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, this.stage.stageWidth,
   this.inchesToPixels(.3));
footer.graphics.endFill();
footer.x = 0;
footer.y = this.stage.stageHeight - footer.height;
this.addChild(footer);
* Center one DisplayObject relative to another.
private function center(foreground:DisplayObject,
   background:DisplayObject):void
      foreground.x = (background.width / 2) -
         (foreground.width / 2);
      foreground.y = (background.height / 2) +
         (foreground.height / 2);
//cont.//
var title:SimpleLabel = new SimpleLabel("My Application",
   "bold", 0xffffff, "_sans", this.inchesToPixels(.15));
this.center(title, titleBar);
this.addChild(title);
//override width and height getters
public override function get width():Number
   return this.textLine.textWidth;
public override function get height():Number
   return (this.textLine.ascent - 1);
if (Capabilities.manufacturer == "Android Linux" && Capabilities.screenResolutionY == 1024)
next_btn.width = 85;
next_btn.height = 85;
This is the code for my Dreamweaver CS4 file (without the additional erogenous code attempts!):
<!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">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN"
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>My Website Title and Slogan.</title>
<style type="text/css">

<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<img src ="image.gif" width=90% height=auto>
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta name="Keywords" content="keywords…" />
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center">
<p> </p>
<p>
    <object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="900" height="630">
      <param name="movie" value="FlashFile.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      
      
      <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="FlashFile.swf" width="900" height="630">
        
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        
        <div>
          <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
          <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
        </div>
        
      </object>
      
    </object>
</p>
</div>
<div align="center"> </div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
I have tried various combinations of the code listed above, but nothing seems to be working. I am not sure as to the correct positioning of the code, and maybe that is the problem, or maybe it is because this code in not for CS4, or not appropriate for my project. I also do not know what code should be inside the Flash file, nor what should should be inside the Dreamweaver file.
Thank you in advance for any assistance!

There is no simple code to add that will display the same on all mobile devices....
you do know that the iProducts (iPhone, iPad, etc) don't display Flash at all, right?
So as a start for "functioning on all latest mobile devices" you should drop any Flash content you have and move on.
Adninjastrator

Creating a vertical marquee in flash cs4

Does anyone know how to make a vertical marquee in flash cs4? I can make a horizontal one with no problem but I am having problems creating one that is vertical. any help or if anyone knows any tutorials it would be very much appreciated.
thanks in advance!!

I am just using simple tweens( that is all I know) changing the x to y is a good idea but I am new to action script and dont know how to write the code to change it from x to y. Do you know of any tutorial or anything that discusses this?

Flash CS4 Help File Offline What Happened to Tag Defintions Showing UP?????

Ok I know I can set the help system to browse offline however
this doesn't work correctly for any less then ActionScript 3. When
you highlighted a word in the past such as "null" it use to pull up
the word and the info in all the books. Now all I see is a web
browser that doesn't do this for me. I mean who sits there at
adobe's end and thinks up of ways to slow someone down like this??
How can you remove the core help quick linking from the program.
Number 1 not everyone is on AS3 and some of us still have to update
AS2 code.
Bigspace ships has an air application that installed AS3 flex
reference but again useless unless you are on AS3. Has anyone found
another way to get this old school functionality to work on
CS4???

Jay Armstrong here. I’m one of the writers who works on
the Flash docs.
Regarding this comment and the many others in other threads
that have added important details about the issues with the help
workflow, and in particular the ActionScript help workflow: We hear
your pain and we are working to implement solutions to these
issues.
I understand that this new help workflow is more painful than
in CS3 when you had the Help right in its own panel in the product.
Here’s some background:
The implementation of Help within the Flash Help panel prior
to CS4 required that *all* the Help files be installed on the local
drive with the product, resulting in some issues that we tried to
address in CS4. Including Help on the installation disc caused
issues including:
- Required that Help be completed much earlier for
localization and end-game testing.
- Resulted in static Help files that had been completed early
in the development cycle, sometimes not accounting for last minute
UI or other changes.
- A long install process.
- Crowded the installation disc.
These aren't meant to be full explanations of why we made the
changes, but just some background as to some of the things we were
thinking about. Clearly the decisions we came to weren't the right
ones for many users. We are intent on making things better.
Moving Help online makes it possible to update Help on an
ongoing basis, allows users to comment on and embellish the Help,
and allows us to add links from the help out to new articles,
tutorials, videos, and code samples on adobe.com and throughout the
Flash web community. One of you rightly pointed out that the Adobe
Updater could have been used for some of this, but I believe that
the updater would have required much more rigorous certification by
us of any update packages and the update/install process for each.
We actually are updating the online help files very frequently, so
this process would have been a major barrier to these updates.
We’ve had a struggle about how to deliver the Flash
Help for a long time, as we have a lot of users who have been quite
vocal about not liking the Help panel consuming space within the
Flash window as well as users who really want it there so they
don’t have to leave the IDE.
Having said all that, I still totally understand what
you’re saying about losing your code, glance, code, glance,
code workflow. As you probably know, we’ve been getting a lot
of feedback about this, along with other issues that online Help
has caused. We are actively looking at ways of solving these, but
the Help-in-a-browser issue a difficult problem, as this aspect of
the Help implementation is baked fairly deep into the CS4 product.
Since CS4 shipped, we have implemented solutions to some of the
issues with Help raised by users, such as allowing you to select
the default destination of F1 (though Flash CS4 always went to the
actual Help system rather than the Flash Help and Support page,
which is what these users wanted in other products). I just
don’t know if there will be a solution in the CS4 time frame
for viewing Help within Flash itself. As noted in this thread,
there are a few independent developers working on non-browser help
viewers, such as Jamie Kosoy, Technical Director at Big Spaceship,
whose AIR application for the CS4 Language Reference docs is
available at
http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2008/12/09/air-app-as3-language-reference/.
We knew that people use the AS3 Language Reference a lot, so
we did install a local, abridged version of that with the product.
You only see it when not connected to the internet or if you
disable online connections as described earlier in this thread, and
it still opens in a web browser and still has the same navigation
interface as the online version. You can also download a local copy
of the AS Reference, which does get updated periodically and can be
viewed locally regardless of the state of your internet connection,
but it also is all html and opens in a web browser. As previously
noted, the download is available here:
http://help.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/10/ActionScript3LangRef.zip.
I know this thread started off with AS2 concerns, and we hear
those too.
In some of the other threads out there about the Help, people
have raised issues about the contents navigation in the CS4 version
of the ASLR as well. We are listening to all these issues and
actively working on solutions that will address these questions.
We’d really like to give you better control over whether you
see online or local content, whether you see it inside the IDE or
in a separate application, etc.
I know that you are all really frustrated at some of these
help changes, and so I want to say how much we appreciate your
feedback. I’m sorry that my reply doesn’t give you the
magic bullet that you are understandably hoping for.
-Jay

Android development with Air 2.5 with Flash CS4 is this possible?

Can anyone point me where or fill me in on if this is possible which I think it is... I need to figure out how to set up flash cs4 with the AIR 2.5 SDK Because I think it is possible to still build the air app in cs4 and then package it for android using the sdk adt.bat??? Any tutorials or info on this would be great I'm struggling to find any real clear answers everything really mentions cs5 or flash builder... Thanks answers greatly appreciated!!!

This was part of the AIR 2.0 beta release note, but I used this for 2.5 and it works nice.
You can try it too an make sure you use 2.5 wherever the not says 2.0beta2.
Goodluck.
How to Update Flash CS4 to Use the AIR 2 Beta SDK
If you use Flash CS4 Professional to build Adobe AIR applications, please follow the instructions below to manually update the version of the AIR SDK to use version 2.0.
Update Flash CS4 Professional to version 10.0.2 at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html or select "Help > Updates... " from within Flash CS4.
Quit Flash CS4 Professional if it is open.
Navigate to the Flash CS4 installation folder. The default location on Windows is "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\" and on Mac OS "/Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/"
Within the "Adobe Flash CS4" folder you should see a folder called "AIK1.5". If this folder is not present repeat step #1.
Rename the folder "AIK1.5" to "AIK1.5 OLD" or delete it if you do not need to save a copy of it.
Make a new folder called "AIK1.5"
Download the Adobe AIR 2 SDK from the labs website and uncompress the contents of the folder to the new "AIK1.5" folder you just created.
Copy the "airglobal.swc" file located within the "Adobe Flash CS4/AIK1.5/frameworks/libs/air/" folder into the "Adobe Flash CS4/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/AIR1.5/" folder.
Flash CS4 is now configured to use the AIR 2 beta 2 SDK.
In order to take advantage of the new AIR 2 beta 2 features, you will need to update your application descriptor file to use the "2.0beta2" namespace.

3rd Party Plugins for Flash CS4

Are there any resources to find 3rd party plugins for Flash CS4? I've used plugins in older versions of Flash, but I'm new to CS4. I'm wanting to a lot of cool things with a site including photo carousels, image transitions, visual effects, etc., but I'm not sure where to get started. Perhaps I shouldn't even be looking at plugins? Maybe I am really looking for tutorials on how to make cool effects in Flash?

Mari-Anne Ennor wrote:
Is there a list of 3rd party plugins which will work in Photoshop CS4 Extended? I am thinking - in particular - of Blade Pro, Filter Factory, KPT 3 & 5, Sinedot and Super Blade Pro.
Haven't seen one. Anyway lists get out of date.
I guess the best way to get the latest information is to visit each manufacturer's web site.

Flash CS4 and database use (MySQL, ACCESS, etc.)

Hi,
can somebody please tell me where to find tutorials on how tp use databases with Flash CS4 ?
I have created a form, an email page and a username/password protected pages, but I cannot find any tutorials that would help me how to connect to a database.
Thanks in advance for your help !
GGour

Hi Kglad,
thanks for the info....
Do you know of any tutorials about this subject ?
I am new to action scripting and learned Flash by studying tutorials at Lynda.com.
I was just wondering if there was a title touching that subject, from Lynda or any other provider.
How did you learned how to use databases in conjunction with flash ?
Thanks again for your help !
GGour

I am trying to create interactive floor plans for my website Is it possible to do this in Flash CS4?

Is it possible to create interactive floor plans in flash CS4? Are there any tutorials out there to do this?

I don't see why not. Just create the elements you want to move around as MovieClips or swf's, add event listeners to these items listening for MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, drag and MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, drop.   writh the drag and drop functions and you're set.
function drag(e:MouseEvent):void {
     itemx.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, drag);
     e.eurrentTarget.startDrag();
function drop(e:MouseEvent):void {
     itemx.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, drop);
      e.eurrentTarget.stopDrag();

Using Flash CS4 Scroll Pane

Hi all,
I have been looking for an app or something to make a scrollable window for a site I am working on and realised Flash CS4 has a Scroll Pane, great!
Watched one to two tutorials and for some reason they are all CS3 but I think I can work round that but have one question.
I am making the background transparent as all I want to display is scrollable text but can I colour the scroll bar itself?
I don't want it the gray and white, I would like it coloured or better still semi transparent, glass effect looking.
Is this possible? Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance, P.

Hi,
Well kinda sorted this and did find the Component Assets folder but think I messed this up by deleting or editing stuff I shouldn't.
Does anyone have any tutorials on doing a Scroll Pane in CS4 that also shows how to edit the scroll bar?
I thought this would be easy however I feel I'm making a pigs dinner out of this ;-)
Thank you.

How do I import SWC files created with Flex info Flash CS4?

I've created very nice UI component using Flex 3 and I have exported it into a SWC file.
How can I import it into Flash CS4 to use it there?

Hmm... if you happen to be familiar with C#, then you may probably know about the problem of P/Invoke (this is a command that lets you access Windows API through C# code, which will apparently prevent it from functioning on other OSs).
What happens with Flex framework is somewhat similar to this. I.e. it relies to much on the features of Flex compiler and the components of the framework create a lot of cross-dependencies, which makes them barely usable outside the framework.
So, if you have time and doing this just as a matter of learning, I'd suggest you start an AS project in Flex builder and advance with it compiling it both with Flex and Flash to see if there are any differences (basically, once you see it doesn't compile / doesn't behave as you'd expect in Flash, you'll know you used something that is specific to Flex). These would be mostly meta tags, like [Bindable] for example.
And, if you need any tutorials on how to code in pure AS, then, well, there are really to many So that you can even choose what's appropriate / goes better with your learning habits.
If you like video lessons, there're tons of them at gotoandlearn.com, if you prefer reading documentation, here you go: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/class-summary.html
if you prefer forums / written tuts, then, kirupa.com, actionscript.org, flashkit.com as well as Adobe forums will provide you with a lot of information.

How in Flash CS4 to change text words of .fla file from a website template?

I have a website template in which I am trying to change the header text words and menu text words to customize the template. How do I do this in Flash CS4? Thanks!

There are any number of ways these text elements might have been designed into the file. So you pretty much have to search for things. If you do not see the text that you want to change when you open the fla file, then you may need to either make some layers visible that are not (eyeball icon next to layer name) or you may need to look into the actionscript code to see if the text is being dynamically written when the file opens. If you happened to receive any .as, .txt, or .xml files with the template, the text elements may also be defined in those files.
Just so you know, and this is just an observation, it appears from experience in these forums that template designers tend to make templates so that you are more likely to hire them to update things than to be able to solve it yourself.

Calling a variable from inside a movieclip AS3 in Flash CS4

I am trying to trace a variable string from inside a movieclip which is inside another movieclip on the main timeline using:
trace(VariableString);
and also
trace(stage.VariableString);
Neither work
The variable is an input textfield and traces fine when it is on the main timeline but will not work from inside the movieclip. I am using Actionscript 3 in Flash CS4.
I appreciate this has probably been discussed previously on this forum but I cannot find a difinitve answer that seems to work.
Thanks

Thanks for the reply. However this did not seem to work.
I think I had better explain a little better.
On Keyfrme1 I have a MovieClip1 containing a text input component. I have created a variable on keyframe 1 using:
var VariableString1:String = new String();
When clicking on a seperate button this happens:
VariableString1 = MovieClip1.text;
I can trace this correctly on the main timeline using:
trace(VariableString1);
However, if I try to trace this from another keyframe inside a movieclip2 which is inside another movieclip3 using:
trace(MovieClip1(root).VariableString1);
I just get the error 1180 call to a possibly undefined method MovieClip1
Sorry if this is not very clear but I am getting very confused with this.
Thanks again

Flash CS4 Link to a Movie Clip from inside another Movie Clip

I am working on a Flash CS4 project which has 5 buttons with 5 corresponding movie clips all on the main timeline. Everything in functional so far.
My problem is this: I want to be able to mouse click on a particular word in the text inside movie clip 4 ("mc4") and have it link to movie clip 3 ("mc3") (on the main timeline).
I've tried many things, and I can't get it working.
I have tried to highlight the word then link it to "mc3" in the properties panel where it says link (I successfully linked to an email address and to an outside website in other parts of the project)....
I tried to link it in the properties panel to "mc3", I tried & "parent.mc3", "root.mc3";
Linking it this ways seems to be the simplest, logical thing to do, but I don't know what kind of prefix it needs.
Then, I tried making the word (inside mc4) an invisible button (button6) then linking it to the mc3, with it's actionscript in the main timeline with the other button functions.
I tried duplicating mc3 and duplicating invisible button 3 and moving it's hotspot to over the word.
I tried putting a copy of mc3 and the button inside mc4, with the actionscript also inside mc4.
I tried duplicating mc3 and calling it mc6, and putting that inside mc4, with the actions back on the main timeline, and tried again with the actions inside mc4.
I tried with mc6 and invisible button 6 on the main timeline, but that doesn't seem possible.
I tried using this code from Adobe Actionscript 3.0:
button6.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startMovie);
function startMovie(e:MouseEvent):void
this.play("mc6"); [and I also tried with "mc3"]
Nothing works!! Please, I would appreciate any suggestions!!
Thanks,
Suzanne

If I limit my attention to the second sentence of your posting, then I suggest the following (borrowing from the rest of your posting)...
If that invisible button6 is inside MC3 (on MC3's main timeline), atop the word you are trying to link to the movieclip, and you just want to make mc4 play by clicking that invisible button6, then assign the following code to the button6 inside MC3...
button6.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startMovie);
function startMovie(e:MouseEvent):void
MovieClip(this.parent).MC4.play();
If I missed, then I missed following your explanation.

Flash CS4: My animated gif isn't playing right in flash

Thank you so much for your help.
I made an animated gif in Photoshop CS4 and opened it in Flash CS4, but for some reason the gif won't play without interruption. I opened and played it without a problem several times in Internet Explorer and Safari, but when I open it in Flash or Captivate it won't play so smoothely. It goes blank for a few seconds, then reappears, then goes blank and only shows parts of the graphic - as if it's reloading or something. The timeline in Flash shows black dots whenever it pauses. here is a screen shot:
See those black dots in the timeline? I will insert a picture of what happens on one of those black dots:
It's the same animation, but only shows a little of the graphic. Like I said, it plays fine when I open it with an internet browser, or photoshop, but not in Flash or Captivate.
Thanks so much for helping me with this!
Nat

When you exported from Photoshop did you use LZW compression on the GIF? If so can you try disabling LZW compression and reimporting to see if your issue goes away? What you depict there looks like updated frames only contain the part of the picture that's changing, which is compression. GIF isn't compressed by nature and each frame should be a whole picture, unless compressed. I'm not certain LZW would even perform spatinal compression but it's worth a shot to see if it does.
Aside that have you tried using Import to Library, then dragging the image from the library into the timeline?

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