Interactive layers over an interactive flash file

I've always been frustrated at the fact that dynamic text and
images pulled into flash have not been able to be spidered by the
search engines.
So, with a client site I'm developing, I'd like to try
something different. I'm wanting to create a flash file with
buttons that when clicked, open up the flash and create a blank
area in the design where a div layer can be placed on top of the
flash, positioned in such a way that it looks like it is part of
the flash itself. When you then click on a seperate button on the
flash, the div layer hides itself, and another div layer appears
according to the relevant section of the flash you have chosen.
I might not be explaining myself very well, but for anyone
following what I'm sayinig, has this been done before and does
anyone know how?
Cheers,
Guy Blomberg

Well the easiest way is to publish it to a swf and then perhaps load all of those dynamically.
The only other way I know is to select all the frames, copy frames, insert a new movieclip and then paste frames. This usually results in centering everything and you might not like that.
If you want to avoid that you should include a background layer the size of your stage. And then you can edit multiple frames, stretch the range makers to cover the entire thing, select all, and adjust the upper right corner to where you want it. (Assuming that you don't have things off stage.
Of course the best thing to do would have been to just made them all as movie clips from the beginning. Either in one FLA or in individual FLAs. So chalk it up to live and learn.

Similar Messages

Interactive Flash Presentation with Quiz

Hello,
I am College student that has been asked to create a Flash based presentation for High School students, showing them some of the available facilities, some general topics for the major and what not. I am not Flash Savvy, but I do know that keynote can export a keynote presentation as an interactive flash
file (swf ?).
My question is this, does anyone know of a way to create a simple quiz type functionality in Keynote; where the High School students could enter the answer for a couple questions and get a score back ?
I hope that's not terribly confusing.
Thank you and best regards
quicksilver Duel 1ghz 1.5GB Radeon9800pro 128mb Mac OS X (10.4.8)

There's not a way to get a score back with Keynote as there's not a "counter" variable you can increment in order to report a total at the end.

Using Keynote for Interactive Flash Content

Hi,
I'm creating an interactive E-Book using Keynote,
In Keynote '08 I could export to Flash, and that would not be able to export transitions but apart from that, worked OK,
But in Keynote '09 I can only export to Quicktime, which works fine using hyperlinks only ( therefore it's interactive ) so everything is OK. Only this quicktime file is 27mb big, and I want to convert it to flash, but using Quicktime Pro to convert it always takes away the interactivity of the E-Book, it becomes a self-playing movie file,
I want to know if there is any way to convert an Interactive Hyperlinks-Only Quicktime file, to an Interactive Flash file??
And if I create this quicktime file in Mac will it work the same in Quicktime for Windows?
(I am creating the E-Book for a windows user)
Any help or advice would be deeply appreciated,
thanks
Harry

Okay so how much of that $25 is Adobe making;
50% margin would suggest $16.67 per unit.
$699 is suggested retail price for the latest incarnation of Flash CS4.
What the "OEM Software" merchants are offering is a pre-Adobe version of Flash 8 Pro, in German, for Mac, that obviously very few people would want. If they had accepted PayPal, I would have bought it, but I was not willing to reveal to them my credit card.
So: +what alternatives do we have?+
There's a Mom & Pop outfit called "Vertical Moon" that offers a number of modest tools with free demos, notably [SWF'n Slide|http://www.verticalmoon.com/index.htm]. I do appreciate frugality when it comes to solving technical problems (as opposed to bloatware, like Microsoft and Adobe's). The latest news from the "moon" people is dated September 2008, so maybe their future is dim, but I've just looked at their documentation and find it well conceived and well crafted. I'll give them a try.
In the future, perhaps we shall see some Open Source project succeed, like [JSwiff|http://www.jswiff.com/index.jsp].
Then again, it is a fact that *Keynote 08* (version 3.0.2, in particular) does almost everything I ask it to, including export to ".swf", except it fails to export when I embed certain things like midi or QuickTime. It's a lot friendlier, I must say, than any PowerPoint editor I've encountered. Don't you love those yellow alignment guides that show up spontaneously when you move things around?
That thought opens the temptation to edit to heart's content with KN'08, export,
and then edit the swf xml file with a text editor,
and the auxiliary file structure with Mac OS Finder!

Best way to embed an Mov file into interactive flash game?

Hey,
just a quick query. I'm creating an interactive flash game for a university project. It's along the lines of Guitar Hero, Tap Tap Revolution, Boom Boom Rocket etc..
At the moment the game comprises of streaks of notes generated by Actionscript which the user much hit the corresponding key when notes are in the receptor. The background at the moment is an audio spectrum analyser created using AS based on the music playing.
I want to add loop movie file as the very background of the stage and was just wondering what was the best way to place it there with the least ammount of overheads. At the moment I have it in a child movie clip placed on the stage, in which I use File -> Import and embeded the FLV file into the time line. This works, however lags out quite badly.
Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks in advance,
John Minns

Have you tried this method?
1. Save as new file.
2. With your usual color management preferences selected, run Xtras>Color>'Name all colors'.
3. In color swatches list, select all colors. From swatches pop-up menu 'Make RGB'.
4. In Preferences>Color, set color management settings to 'None'. The RGB colors should look about the same as they did with color management on.
Now you should be able to export to Flash with RGB colors that look quite close to your CMYK version of the file.
This should work the same in FH9 or FHMX. I hope it does the trick for you.

Interaction with Flash files

Hi,
Whats the easiest way to interact with a flash file from flash builder?
I wish to change the speed of a tween in a flash file based on a value set in flash builder.
Do you have to do make my flash file a component? .. Could someone point me in the direction of building components in flash builder?
Thanks
Aidan

The multi-SCO intro video shows it packaging Flash and Dreamweaver as single SCOs and they are both part of Adobe's e-learning suite.
I know Flash has learning elements and Dreamweaver has the course builder extension but I need to package Flash with no learning elements. I have the content of a couple of dozen courses in Flash and I can build the quiz easily enough.
Is there anything that can package up a single Dreamweaver (with embedded Flash) as a single SCO in the same way that the SCORM runtime wrapper used to do before it became out of date?

I'm so confused!! I just want to create interactive pdf files (with video and flash files), but this free trial version is confusing!! help!?!

i'm so confused!! I just want to create interactive pdf files (with video and flash files), but this free trial version is confusing!! help!?!

Thanks for your suggestions. I checked to see if the options you suggested were set incorrectly but they were set to sync all. This led me to think the problem was actually in the iphone. I re-initialized the iphone and did not allow the system to restore any of the previous settings. In essence, I forced the phone to reset to factory settings. Then my video podcasts started syncing. All is well now. I did notice that I had seven podcasts selected that were "HD" presentations, and as such, are not compatible with the iphone. I don't know if this had anything to do with my earlier situation, but now I'm getting the video podcasts automatically. I'm happy. It wasn't much fun forcing the iphone to forget all of my preferences and I'm still customizing the phone now several days later. I think I have everything working and back to normal except I haven't identified any of my email accounts as of yet. Thanks for your help.

Creating interactive swf files that contain flash files that don't play once loaded on server

I am creating an interactive swf file that contains a flash movie f4v file and when I preview the page in ID it plays, but once I export the InDesign file to swf, insert that on a html page using Dreamweaver (so I can send a link and not a file out) the movie doesn't play, just the first frame of the clip. I have uploaded the f4v file to our server and linked in the original ID file and it still doesn't play. Any suggestions or similar issues?

I have left the page up for quite a while to see if it is just taking longer to load that clip and that doesn't seem to be it. I am just stumped and honestly not knowledgable on how websites and servers work - just know how to get my documents up so I can send links.

Is this interactive flash movie possible in Adobe Edge?

Hi,
I´ve done this interactive flash applikation:
http://bit.ly/Uy6GEF
Is it possible to create this exactly the same in adobe edge? If you click on a hotspot, then a 3d-video (this video is already done in a 3d-animation-software) with a transparent background appears over the car-layer and on click to "back" it softly disapears.
(For this online version, I´ve just put a compressed video into "Gasoline & Diesel system". Normally, every hotspot has a different video.
So, are those interactions possible in Edge?
Best regards,
Maw

Everything except for the alpha transparency video is easily doable in Edge.
Rather then trying to shoehorn html5 video with an alpha transparency into Edge (not sure if this is doable), you could potentially use a png sequence or spriteSheet to play back those animations. Though the file size will be very large, and Edge does not have native implementation for png sequences or spriteSheet playback. yet.
John Dunning built a plugin for Fireworks to export a spritesheet as an Edge symbol:
http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/EdgeAnimate

Interactive Flash on a DVD?

I have a SD DVD with 3 Videos and I want to also put 1 interactive Flash video on this same DVD. Is this possible?

You can certainly do it by adding a microsite, as you describe. The bigger issue is getting it to autorun when you click a link in the menu of the DVD. Currently there is no reliable way to get such links working effectively on both macs and PCs, and as you have already pointed out, you can't play enhanced content on the set top player anyway.
On the Mac side of things, the technology to get interactive links is called DVD@ccess. This works, to a fashion, on a Mac. It \sometimes works on \some PCs \if you persuade the user of the PC to install the DVD@ccess software and \if their system recognises it and allows it to work. Many don't.
In essence, the viewer would see the link on a menu, click the button and be taken to another menu (@ccess links can only be embedded in the menu - i.e work when the menu is played, not when a button is clicked). When the new menu plays, the web browser will launch over the top of the DVD player app. Therefore, in the background you could 'time out' the menu and go back to the first one almost immediately. The user would never see that happen, because the web page was in front, starting up and distracting their attention.
Since DVD@ccess is so unreliable the only way to do this would be to give the viewers the instructions on how to find the content - possibly as text on a menu - and rely on them navigating to the folder you have created and double-clicking the index.htm file (or whatever) to get it running.
All you need to do to get this set up is add your microsite as ROM content to your DVDSP project, taking care to nest the folders carefully and set the disc based URL correctly.

How do I create a downloadable link from an Interactive PDF file created out of InDesign CS6?

Hello,
I created an Interactive PDF file out of InDesign and would like to make the large file a downloadable link and share it with the user in an email. I do not want to use DropBox or GoogleDrive.
The company I contract for has their own site - do I insert the file into the site or can I create a separate link for it?
I will be recreating these presentation PDF's constantly, so I would like to know if there is a simple way to create this link for files in the size of 7-12MB.
Any ideas on downloadable links? I do have flash - but rarely use, perhaps load the file out of flash?
Thank you so much for your help,
Megan

Hi Willie,
Thanks for your help. Most likely contact the company who maintains the
site then to share the file with them I'm assuming?

How do I create an interactive PDF file in InDesign CS6 with Folio Overlays?

I have been trying to export an interactive PDF file using InDesign CS6. It exports fine, and all the content works except for the Folio Overlays I created. I created two Folio Overlays (one Pan & Zoom and one Scrollable Frame). The overlays work if I preview them from the Folio Overlays panel, but they do not work on the PDF document.
I am using File >> Export... to create the PDF document, and I am sure the PDF document is of the interactive type and not the print type. Am I exporting it incorrectly? Is there a specific step that I have missed somewhere? Do I need to create a Folio Build to make the Folio Overlays work?
When I mouse over the Folio Overlays, I get the crosshair cursor which only selects part of the image when I click and drag it.

PDF is one thing. Folios for DPS is another. There is a little bit of
overlap but not much.
The interactivity in the folio overlays panel is for DPS only.

How to embed interactive flash in PDF

I am trying to place an interactive Flash .swf file into a
PDF. I don't want it to just play through like a movie. I need
people to be able to click through it, and interact with it as if
it. There are, for example, 4 matching problems. So a person will
match for the question in problem 1, then click a button to see if
they got them right or wrong, then click next to go to the next
question. We've gotten it so that you can do all the interaction in
the PDF, but it first playes through all the questions and actions.
Basically it playes through it like a movie. Does anyone know how
to get it so it doesn't play through like a movie and instead is
just an interactive piece? Sorry that this is really
confusing.

If this post answers your question or helps, please mark it as such.
You can use SWLoader for that:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=controls_15.html
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/SWFLoader.html

Interactive PDF file with layer visibility issue.

I have created an interactive PDF file in InDesign CC and added buttons in Acrobat CC. The buttons reveal layers with the layer visibility action under properties. The problem is that Reader takes 3-4 seconds to show the layer in full screen mode and flickers in any other view.

For that kind of volume and unattended operation, you want InDesign Server – which is the server/high volume edition of INDD.
From: Adobe Forums <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 06:58:07 -0700
To: Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: How do I create an interactive PDF file with variable data
Re: How do I create an interactive PDF file with variable data
created by Ti26E31DSxxx<http://forums.adobe.com/people/Ti26E31DSxxx> in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full discussion<http://forums.adobe.com/message/4005459#4005459

Interactive SWF files on Smartboards.

Can Flash interactive SWF files be used on Smartboards with their interactivity intact?

The installation requirements asking for FP11.1 or greater is encouraging but how much interactivity do you expect? While it serves as a basic mouse input, the AS3 MultiTouch class will give you information on what it detects support for.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/ui/Multitouch.htm l
The inputMode property will tell you what mode it's supporting (multitouch, gestures or basic mouse), maxTouchPoints tells you how many points Flash will support via the driver and the supportedGestures vector will let you know what built-in gesture detection (rotate, scale, touch, etc) will be supported.
Contacting SmartTech would be the fastest way to get your answer but there's a good chance you at least have basic touch input with gestures, as long as you're on Win7 or higher (Note: they do say Win8 is not fully supported yet).

Embedding an interactive flash into Authorware

I want to embed a flash interactive into Authorware (see:
http://www.cellsalive.com/meiosis.htm
In the past I embedded a basic Flash animation into
Authorware and it seem to work ok. I'm not sure of more complex
ones i.e. that have interactive controls etc. I assume its not so
simple as to embed into authorware. Is it the case that it is
doable, but requires some configuration/programming? Or does it
work be simply embedding the complex interactive flash into
authorware?
thanks in advance
Jon

webacity wrote:
> I want to embed a flash interactive into Authorware
(see:
>
http://www.cellsalive.com/meiosis.htm
> In the past I embedded a basic Flash animation into
Authorware and it seem to
> work ok. I'm not sure of more complex ones i.e. that
have interactive controls
> etc. I assume its not so simple as to embed into
authorware. Is it the case
> that it is doable, but requires some
configuration/programming? Or does it work
> be simply embedding the complex interactive flash into
authorware?
>
> thanks in advance
> Jon
>
If the flash file id published for player version 6 (or
earlier) then
you can embed it using the Flash Asset Xtra, probably in the
same way as
you have before. If it is a later version you will need to
use the
Flash player ActiveX control.
Mark

Interactive layers over an interactive flash file

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for