Flash tutorials

I'm trying the pub menu tutorial (building your first flash
app) in Flash 8.
I have created the imageHolder okay but when I create the
slides and drag an instance of imageHolder into/onto slides the
size of the instance is different from imageHolder.
My imageHolder is 700 x 150 as specified but when I drag it
onto slides it is magically 885 x 203 and the "extra" part is not
grey.
Any ideas, please?

Yes - cut-out style animation can apply to every version of
flash - the timeline and symbols have
not changed.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
roy21 wrote:
>
Hi Out there. Being a raw beginner I have downloaded
a trial of
> Macromedia Flash 8 Professional. With this varsiom came
a video tutorial about
> creating animated characters using the Cut out video
method, which I am
> interested in.
> However although the trial is for Flash 8 professional,
the tutorial
> clearly states that it is for MX 2004. Will the
instructions therin apply to
> both versions of Flash. Thank you for reading this and
hopefully advises.
> Regards from Roy
>

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http://www.gotoandlearn.com is a good site for tutorials but, you should just lean to use a search engine like google to find tutorials that appeal to you.

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there is a Java3D Tutorial available at java.sun.com. You need to install the Java3D package in order to develop 3D with Java. This can be downloaded from java.sun.com as well.
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Looking for some Flash tutorials

I'm doing some webstuff in Flash CS5 using actionscript 3, and I could use some help with a couple of things. Can anyone recommend some tutorials on how to make an effective image gallery? Like with a picture slider or something? But ideally nothing overly complicated to do. I don't wanna just copy and paste code off of a website either, I wanna know how to actually make the code using Flash...maybe even just using the snippets if that's doable.
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You can create mask for the movieclip as exactly as in your tutorial. and use below code (I think this is what you want).
For using the below code you should create some user defined components.
For Horizontal Scroll Bar: create hscrollBG for scrollbar background and hscroller for scroller.
For Vertical Scroll Bar: create vscrollBG for scrollbar background and vscroller for scroller.
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var hscrollbar:MovieClip;
var vscrollbar:MovieClip;
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private function updateScrollPosition(e:Event):void {
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Hi,
Going through the tutorial videos, sometimes I have to call a friend to find out what the word I can't grasp is. Example, on one of the tutorials, the lady says "in the authoring environment", but I could not hear the word "authoring" properly. My neighbor friend thought she was saying "operating environment". But after searching the help pages for "Flash environment", "authoring" came up and was able to finally guess the word I was not able to distinguish.
This happens to me frequently. My simple wish is for those videos to include caption text. Hey, they do it for most TV programs nowadays, why not tutorials. After all, tutorials are so much more important to be understood.
Just a thought ...
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Ronald

Oh well, if they prefer to hide ... they'll never know what
customers want.
BTW, I have two other [major] problems with the tutorials.
1. When I bring them into full screen they eventually freeze. I have to scale them back into normal size video.
2. After about an hour away from the PC, the pending tutorial starts to play on its own. Last night while I was sleeping, my PC started to play the last tutorial on its own. It just happened now. While having dinner, the current tutorial started to play again, as if it had a mind of its own.
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Navi,
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I would like to load an XML file from the location locally or on the server being unaware of the name of the file. I am using PHP for sending the filename to Flash.
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<?php
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import flash.net.URLRequest;
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But in the next two lines where the loading occurs it does not load the file i.e the swf file from xml doesn't play.
I have been searching the Internet for answers but not able to find any solutions.
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import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
stop();
var cons_xml:XML;
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xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest("mainOpenEndedXML.xml"));
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
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          cons_xml = new XML(evt.target.data);
          gotoAndPlay(2);
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Yes. you already said that, but I guess you don't understand what I said. You are loading the PHP fle to get the filename, but nowhere are you taking that filename and loading the file that was named.
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import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
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function processXML(evt:Event):void
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How to add link to flash file (using AS 3)?

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I have created a Flash banner ad for our company that is to be hosted on another website. This banner ad needs to have a link added to it, within the Flash file. This link will take users straight to our website but is also for the purpose of tracking.
How do I go about adding the URL? I have searched through these forums but cannot get it to work.
I am using Flash CS4 (selected to use AS 3 when I first created the file.)
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http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3it_firstflash_pt2_06.html
Using AS 2:
http://www.spoono.com/flash/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=16
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