Liquid sites on Flash Catalyst.

Hello everybody, I'm here again to address other questions cruel.
I want it to migrate my projects to Flash Catalyst CS5, but I know that at least 70% of this incredible tool. Well, let the doubt:
I wonder if it is possible to sites that meet all the browser screen (called liquid sites). Is there any way to do this in Catalyst CS5 without using codes?
Thanks.
@eldermarx

Hi,
Flash Catalyst only supports fixed dimensions at the moment. Projects don't scale to the size of the users browser.
Take a look at this FAQ on liquid layouts. It may help you. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/652613.
Best,
Tanya

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Goodnight everyone.
I am making a site entirely in Flash Catalyst, but it should be manageable.
The gallery photos, text, RSS news - in short, everything manageable.
Sorry for my bad English, I'm Brazilian!
I wonder if they can produce sites with content in Flash Catalyst manageable. What is the easiest way? As a CMS site. Do you understand?
Thank you! This forum has helped me a lot.
@eldermarx.

Hi Elder,
Flash Catalyst isn't a pre-packaged content management system, it's a design tool that could be the used as the first step in creating a data-driven project.
Flash Catalyst is an interaction design tool to create your projects without writing code. Projects can also be imported into Flash Builder (where you do write code) to extend your project with more complicated features like connecting to a database.
Adobe TV has a good intro here that explores the workflow and how content is integrated inside Flash Catalyst:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-catalyst-cs5-feature-tour/creating-interactive-web-experie nces/
Hope this helps.
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FAQ: How can I make my Flash Catalyst application scale/use a liquid layout?

Flash Catalyst CS5 currently only supports applications with fixed dimensions. Custom components you create in Catalyst have absolute sizing.
If you want to experiment with creating resizable applications (liquid layouts) and components in a preview of the next version of Flash Catalyst, codenamed "Panini", you can find more information here:
Introducing Adobe Flash Catalyst "Panini"
Download Adobe Flash Catalyst "Panini"
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Keep in mind that Flash Catalyst "Panini" preview is meant for exploration and testing, not real production. If you are doing real production work, here are some options that work with Flash Catalyst CS5 and Flash Builder:
Liquid Layouts
If you are building an application that requires relative constraints, you can take the FXP file from Flash Catalyst into Flash Builder, and apply constraints there so that your components resize according to your application dimensions.
For more info, see this Help topic:
Using constraint-based layouts in Flash Builder
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If you want your swf to scale, without relative constraints, there's a simple way to make that work in Builder as well. Simply save out your FXP file from Flash Catalyst and import it into Flash Builder. Open up the "Main.mxml" file. Remove the width and height attributes on the Application tag, and add the attribute:
preinitialize="systemManager.stage.scaleMode='showAll'
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<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                  xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                  xmlns:d="http://ns.adobe.com/fxg/2008/dt"
                  xmlns:fc="http://ns.adobe.com/flashcatalyst/2009"
                  xmlns:ATE="http://ns.adobe.com/ate/2009"
                  xmlns:ai="http://ns.adobe.com/ai/2009"
                  xmlns:flm="http://ns.adobe.com/flame/2008"
                  xmlns:lib="assets.graphics.*"
                  xmlns:components="components.*"
                  backgroundColor="#FFFFFF"
                  preloaderChromeColor="#FFFFFF"
                  preinitialize="systemManager.stage.scaleMode='showAll'"
                  >
There are a couple other scale modes you may want to try, such as "exactFit", which are outlined at the below link:
Flash Stage Scale Modes
Finally, you will have to adjust the object embed code in your html page to set the size of your swf.
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I'm making a stite with flash cs6. I need to know where to host my site.
I have pages with the usual "contact us"forms that will need a php forms and later I hope to expand to include a MMO game with social networking and all the other fun online game functions.
Is business catalyst the correct choice for hosting? Can it work with flash? What is flash catalyst? I have my domain registered as Godaddy.

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For a newbie like us,when we complete a project in flash catalyst we are very much eager to find it out how it looks when hosted up.Then we start looking for a site that will just host our project for free.You hunt around and you come across a lot of free hosting site but they look unreliable.
This happened to me until i came across a free hosting site.This one is good.I just wanted to share this coz i had previously put up a post for info on a free hosting site,but i was not able to get any info.
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Hi,
Once you are done with your sitet, Click on Publish in Muse, select New Site from the drop down, It will ask you a name for your site, which will be used for site url, you will get a url like mysite.businesscatalyst.com, then go to the browser and login to the admin panel, mysite.businesscatalyst.com/admin and on Dashboard, click Launch site. This will push your site live, and you can then add your custom domain.
Also make sure that you have completed all these actions mentioned here
User manual
Do let me know if you have any question.

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edit... Also, I do not wish to use a data list, because I don't want even rows and columns for each set of photos.
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Here is a tutorial that I wrote on extending Flash Catalyst to use keyboard navigation:
http://chrisgriffith.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/adding-keyboard-navigation-to-a-flash-cataly st-project/
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.swf imported in Flash Catalyst shows only the Flash Shockwave icon

I have scoured the FC forums and watched all of the Adobe TV episodes
on importing .swf files into Flash Catalyst but I am still faced with the following problem.
I have a basic animated .swf file that I created in Flash CS5. I am trying to import that .swf file into a Flash Catalyst project but when I do I only see the blue border around the asset when I click it in the layers panel. In the top left corner is a small round Flash Icon ( I believe it is the Flash Shockwave version - Blueish Gray). Nothing shows when I "Run" the project nor when I added the .swf file in the local folder from where Flash Catalyst runs the project.
I tried re-publishing the original Flash file in different version of Flash player, but to no avail. Not sure if I am doing something wrong, or if I have imported incorrectly or what.
Even though I cannot see the .swf file imported into Flash Catalyst, I still tried to add an interaction to play on Application Start, but nothing there either.
At a loss and looking for some direction.
Thanks in advance for your response.
Cheers!

Erik -
It's a pleasure to help someone! I just got through this as you can see. Only problem is I just hacked it with no precision, so for example I moved a lot of files to the server to make them accessable and then it played. But near as I can tell, I'll tell you the story.
There are two things going on. When you play it locally it's different from when you play it on the web. You are correct, you should see the first frame of the swf in your animation. To get it to play (assuming it is set to play)you then have to control+enter to preview (on windows). The assests are laid out locally in the file structure displayed in the url bar. no?
Part of it is that there may be several things going on here... All I can do is tell you all the numerous problems I had, made worse because I had 3 different work-stations...
I had problems when I had several swfs floating around in the library and I think similar names: Eventually I just did a clean export of the swf (the first one was from Flash... 3? 4? and Catalyst is cs5... ) and such to just do the work-flow in one motion. I had too many work-stations going on. So that part I finally did cleanly, and when that was settled, I could handle the file issues.
The swf: It does have to be in the same folder, and not in a sub-folder. Also, all the contents from DEPLOY TO WEB - just drag it into your site folder defined by dreamweaver or whatever and put it on the server at the same level, NO russian dolls (no file folders within folders). With Dreamweaver, when you upload a swf, you select the MAIN file and supposedly DW pulls files - it does, but not all of them, such as supporting swfs.
I would have thought that DW would do it correctly automatically : It seems to want to: but there are still kinks.
If you're like me, you recognize that catalyst is a powerful creative stage, but this stuff is just annoying and really easier just man-handled with precision once and forgotten about lol.
I heard also some grumbling on swfs that are just too huge or have aspects that don't import well, but it doesnt' sound like a problem in this case.
Do update me - I'm around this weekend, would love to see you succeed on this.
Cache,
Thanks for your replies. I have put the .swf file in the same "local" directory as the main.html for the FC Project I am working on and no luck locally. However, does the .swf file have to be in the local directory of the FC project prior to it being imported into FC for it to work locally?
Also, when I was watching a video tutorial about inserting .swf files into FC, the graphics/content of the .swf that was inserted could be seen in the design view of FC. My imported .swf only shows a small, round flash icon in the corner and nothing else. This doesn't seem right to me. Shouldn't one be able to see the graphics/content of the imported .swf so that it can be properly placed in the design? That is how it was in the video tutorial. If this is also due to the location of the imported .swf then Adobe has not made that clear in anything I have read or seen.

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Is there a way to turn the entire project into a button without losing the animation action? i.e. so that no matter what state the banner is in, if someone clicks on it, they go to the URL?

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your advice. It's for our own sites, so we can accept the overhead.
The animation is simply fade in image, fade out image, fade in text message, fade out text message, fade in next image, etc.
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Hello,
I've create a website and when i preview on my browser ( 1280x664 website size) it look very good ,but when i try to see it from a different desktop will smaller or bigger size my website is croped ,some important functions are croped.
I've been all the day looking in internet trying to fund a solution how to fix this but nothing.
I saw an article that explaind how to fix that in flash catalyst cs5 and i tried to but didnt work
so please help me to tell me how to make this work, i want just my website to get scaled
''to work in any monitor size''
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Could you add a link to your site here at all ? That would help with some workarounds maybe.
I have noticed that many of the professional websites designed by web-agencies use a common design. They design the content to fit the majority of users who can view and do seem to view at around 800 x 450 - take a look at this as a good reference point.
They then place the main content in a container - and centre it - so that it moves with fluidity - as the users resize the browser window, the content stays central on the page. Often a background image is used behind the main content - and the background image can be scaled to fit the window.
There are some good examples like Carl Cox's Intec Label Website and some more at a great London Design Agency called bobbentleydesign.com
You will note that many of these sites use the same method. Since such reputable designers use the same methods I would assume there's a damn good reason to do it that way, it must be the best way available . . . if there was a reliable way to scale everything then I would bet these pro's would be doing so - but they dont.
Sorry I do not have the kind of solution that you are looking for. I am not a pro and very new to CS5 myself but I hope it may help you out. I think you are looking for something that can not be done effectively or consistently but I may be wrong. Perhaps someone knows but in the meantime . . . work around it.

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Is it possible to choose different version of flash player when I publish my website using flash catalyst? Currently it is askinf for flash player 10.2 in order to play. I want to lower down the version of flash player required in order to let more users view my project.
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Hi Kirill.
You can't see the video because your'e running the .swf generated for Deploy-to-web folder. You have to upload the Deploy-to-web folder content to your web server and it will run fine. (same happened to me once)
You can only see the intro video in your machine by clicking in the .swf in the Run Local folder.
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I have almost finished designing my website on Photoshop. My design looks similar to www.psyop.tv, with main menu on the left. Now I am confused between Flash Catalyst and Dreamweaver, which one should I pick to move ahead with the development.
I have two requirements:
1 - Menu...I think I can easily create that kind of open and close menu interactivity in Flash Catalyst rather than Dreamweaver or do you think it is possible in Dreamweaver?
2 - Audio player...I need an audio player to showcase my work done for every artist. Just like on Psyop.tv if you click on any thing in the main menu, a separate page comes with the artwork and links for video player. It could be one audio player with playlist or more than one player for different files. If I go for Flash Catalyst I get very limited controls over the player.
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- Kashif

Dreamweaver is web authoring software (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc..).
Flash Catalyst is for making flash animations (action script).
Use Photoshop for images only.
Use DW to build your web site.
Use Flash Catalyst for optional flash animations.
Taking a Fireworks (or photoshop) comp to a CSS Layout in DW
Part 1 - Initial Design
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt1.html
Part 2 - Markup preparation
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt2.html
Part 3 - Layout and CSS
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_fw_css_pt3.html
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I am recreating a photo album in Flash Catalyst CS5 so that you can click and enlarge pictures on each page. I have buttons on each page to navigate from page to page. I used flash catalyst becasue it seemd simple enough to do this. I am a photogapher and not really up to CODE on actionscript. This will not be on a website, it is intended to run on a local machine in a flash viewer. The problem is that Flash catalyst does not appear to have the ability to create a button that loads a new swf file. Each page I create in Catalyst is its own swif file. So I have a button on each page that the user will click to go to the next page of the album (a new swf file). I have the pages created and working awesome EXCEPT for the button to navigate to another page or load a new swf filis not working. I opened up the project in Flash Builder CS5 to try and ad some code that I found online at various flash help sites but nothing is working. I am in need of some help with this. The album consists of about 50 pages (50 swf files) Any ideas are much appreciated !
Thanks !
Tom

Tom-
My first piece of advice would be to actually do this using HTML/CSS/JS (jQuery). There are some incredible plugins for jQuery that will give you some great results. With that said....
Have you looked at http://chrisgriffith.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/creating-lightbox-galleries-with-flash-catal yst/ ? It might be easier that what you are trying to do. However, with 50 images you are going to run into the 20 state limit. Meaning you are going to have to nest assets. Without seeing the design, it is hard to advice how you should cluster your images.
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Exactly, my dear juviesi.
To create a little more complex sites we have to learn to program in Flash Builder - even if only a few lines. The Flash Catalyst' idea is great, no doubt, but I hope that Adobe will facilitate futher the life of graphic designers in future version of this software.
Thanks.
@eldermarx

Flash Catalyst "Panini" Preview available at Adobe Labs

I'm not sure how many of you have had time to keep up with what is going on at Adobe Max this year, but some of the keynote videos have demonstrated Flash Catalyst "Panini". There is a preview download of the future version of Flash Catalyst available at the Adobe Labs site here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst_panini/
It's beta software, so all the usual caveats apply (you can learn more from the link above). Apart from the advances made in Flash Catalyst "Panini", the most immediate pieces are that this preview version can co-exist with a Flash Catalyst CS5 install (so no need to uninstall Fc CS5 to try it) and that this particular preview build doesn't open Fc CS5 projects.
Hopefully you find it to be an improvement and we welcome your feedback.
--Nate
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These downloads provide 30-day trial versions of Flash Catalyst "Panini" for Mac OS and Windows. You can extend the preview release by entering a valid Flash Catalyst CS5 serial number. If you own a copy of the Creative Suite 5 editions of Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium or Master Collection, you can also extend the use of Flash Catalyst "Panini" by requesting an extension serial number.
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