Modifying Existing Flash Action Scipt Flash Site

I have an existing flash site denominated with the name StudioDesign and its a basic animated site with masks and animated texts and sounds and texts treated as buttons that animate changing colors and moving left and right. It has the usual basic 5 buttons to go to get URls: Home, About Us, Products, Services and Contacts buttons. I would like to add more text buttons but to no avail.. Tried copying duplicating, making new, backwards engineering and could not make it work. Please Help short time left to finish. Original Site: http://www.shoplaspampas.com/flashsite/index.swf
original flash file http://www.shoplaspampas.com/flashsite/index.fla new revised swf: http://www.shoplaspampas.com/flashsite/pampas_01.swf and the new revised flash file http://www.shoplaspampas.com/flashsite/pampas_01.fla.
This is what I want the site to look like and go to respective url pages: http://www.shoplaspampas.com/flashsite/pampas_01.png.

Thanks Ned, I actually already tried that and don't see anything out of the norm.
Interestlingly enough, I found the original, untouched template FLA & SWF and it does the exact same thing.
Very strange.
On an added note. The loading issue is occurring at the end of the "intro" scene, and does not continue into the "main" scene.
Thank you!

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Need help getting Flash site running after pointed to new nameservers

Can't get Gaia site working on a new server
« on: Today at 03:10:35 PM »
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Hi. I recently switched from 1&1 shared hosting to a new webhost, Holistic.
My Flash site (based on the Gaia framework) doesn't work now.
Using the Flashplayer Debugger, I got the following error:
from Main: view.scaleX = 0.9041666666666667 and view.scaleY = 1.0129032258064516
from Main: view.x = 0 and view.y = 0
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*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
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Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://127.0.0.1:5800 by requestor from http://www.yourgods.com/bin/main.swf has failed because the server cannot be reached.
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*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
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Flash site play all frames without stopping

Hi all,
I'm just getting back into flash and have forgotten most of
what I knew. I've been handed a file and need to figure out how to
proceed to address this issue:
The file is a full website. It's a fairly simple design with
a graphic and some buttons. When you click one of the buttons, the
main graphic changes to content for that 'page'.
The problem is when the file is published it just plays every
layer/frame in it and loops as well. It should display the key
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for a button to be clicked before running the code for that button.
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Thanks for the reply, r_c,
I really appreciate your response. In an indirect way, it may
have at least helped me figured out the 'what happened' part.
I went back into the file and, just for the heck of it, was
going to add stop actions to every frame on the actions bar. During
that process I saw (for about the forth time) some comment code in
the actions window that I had sort of assumed was just there by
default (what was I thinking?). The comment said something like
'actions would NOT be exported in files in the unregistered
version'. In retrospect (and after a few slices of pizza), that
explains why there are lots of frames with the action symbol but
when I open the frame's action window no actions are there (just
the comment). I think whoever tried to modify this file tried to do
it with the trial download and then saved the file and the process
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The three main hurdles to porting existing Flash projects to iOS with AIR

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https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3511656
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Has anyone who has encountered this problem determined the number of files or classes where it starts to fail. I've spent some time trying to reverse engineer what the packager is doing when it runs out of memory, so think I can determine how many classes it's working with, but obviously the size of the classes will be variable and so this number will probably be more of a range where we start to get into the failure state.
Please let me know if you can reproduce this issue with your project with many SWF assets and upvote the bug if you are already aware of this one.
2. Bug - SWF reloading when doing a "real" (AOT) compile
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3636385
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The expectation here is that all versions of the Flash runtime should handle SWF reloading with ABC in the same way, so that a single codebase can be used to target web and iOS (or any other platform). This is the only issue of the 3 that has a legitimate work around, in my opinion, because the assets can be cached within the app within a loading manager layer. All the application code that makes loading calls can stay the same, and a compiler flag can be used to enable this caching for iOS builds, with subsequent requests returning a new instance of the cached asset. This can potentially lead to a very bloated memory footprint for the running app after a period of time, though, which could make some apps perform poorly, so a bugfix is ultimately needed.
3. Unimplemented feature (?) - The constraint that a single ApplicationDomain is used when running AIR for iOS
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office file (I have .doc, .xls, and .ppt on there) IE gives this
error:
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Thanks

"cmutters" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:emh0t0$ef3$[email protected]..
>I installed firefox and all the links worked. so its
something in IE 6.
> Anyone have any ideas? I have looked on microsoft.com
and googled it and
> can't
> find a thing that might help! the website is listed in
my trusted sites.
ie has added security for activex controls... so you will
need to look at
the security settings for your browser and relax them...
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Can someone give me any guidance on how to modify an existing
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associated with the buttons. Also, we need to be able to add new
buttons to the document and link images to them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Don

undivided02 wrote:
> Can someone give me any guidance on how to modify an
existing flash document?
> We need to be able to change the images that are
associated with the buttons.
> Also, we need to be able to add new buttons to the
document and link images to
> them.
You need the source file FLA to do all the changes.
Best Regards
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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I have already tried clearing the cache but to no avail. However it
seem to appear fine on both IE and Safari and I didn't use to have
this issue until recently.
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This is probably pointless, but when you go to Tools >
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Targeting specific timelines in a flash movie can be daunting
in the beginning. But if you start from the main timeline (_root)
and build brom there, it becomes easier to understand.
For eg:
If you have 2 movieclips on your main timeline (_root).
Navigation and Pages.
Inside Navigation you have the buttons, and each button is a
separate movieclip.
Inside Pages you have each page, each a separate movieclip.
to target a specific page number, from a button, there are 2
ways you can go about it. The method that Ned suggested is called
RELATIVE.
-meaning that you target FROM WHERE YOU ARE.
the second method is ABSOLUTE.
-meaning you target FROM MAIN TIMELINE.
Relative is good, but can be confusing when using dot syntax.
Absolute is straight forward and easy to understand, and can
be used from anywhere in the whole movie. The downside, is that it
generally requires a bit more typing.
In the example I stated above, it does not require more
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_root.page.gotoAndStop(number);
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You can also have ALL navigation code on the main timeline on
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like so:
navigation.home_btn.onPress = function(){
doSomething;
this tells Flash that the button named "home_btn" located
inside the movieclip called "navigation" will have to doSomething
when Pressed.
I hope this helps you understand targeting a bit more.
Good Luck.

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I posted this on another part of this form but thought it may
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again in advance for your help!
I want to say hello to all and thanks for letting me a part
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(www.alliancedirect.net) and I am using Adobe Flash CS4 now with my
site with ActionScript 1.0.
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whatever I do....I can't make it work! I use GoDaddy and their
gdform.psp is what they provide but they don't give the code in
flash. I downloaded some different flash mail scripts and programs
but I don't know how to incorporate it within my own site and I
don't know what to do! I just want the information to be submitted
to me via email and the other forms I will make away from the flash
portion if it is too complicated.
Please let me know what specific information you may need
from me and how you can hopefully help me as soon as possible as I
need this website completely up and running. Again, I appreciatre
the help and look forward to being a part of your community!
-sasss

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http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/82/3/Send-Email-via-Flash-and-PHP/Page3.htm l
THE CODE
stop ();
function lineAdapt () {
message_send = message;
while (msg_count<length(message)) {
msg_count = msg_count+1;
if ((substring(message_send, msg_count, 2)) eq "
message_send = (substring(message_send, 1, msg_count-2))
+"
"+(substring(message_send, msg_count+2,
(length(message_send))-msg_count+2));
message = message_send;
delete msg_count;
delete message_send;
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Line 1 - Stops the play head.
Line 2 - Defines a custom function lineAdapt which will
convert the flash carriage return marker ( " ") to the PHP
equivalent (" "). This ensures that if the user types a comment
with paragraph breaks, these breaks will be reflected in the email,
rather than it being one very long line of text :o)
Line 3 - Sets variable message_send to the value of message.
This is a storage variable: we will adapt message_send rather than
message because message is being displayed in a text box on screen
and adapting it may cause strange visual output.
Line 4 - Begins a loop which will continue until the newly
created variable msg_count is greater than or equal to the length
of the string contained in message.
Line 5 - Increments msg_count by 1.
Line 6 - Conditional statement which checks if the 2
characters within the string message_send starting at letter number
msg_count are equal to the string " ". If you type data into a text
box in Flash and enter carriage returns, you wills see that the
variable which stores that text fields value is adapted with a " "
inserted where each carriage return should be, so we are looking
for these markers using Line 6.
Line 7 - If Line 6 returns True, replace the " " we just
found with " " (which is the PHP equivalent of " "). This code
looks complicated but it isn't really. Al it does it 'copies' the
characters before and after the " ", the pastes those before,
enters " " and pastes those after. The result is the equivalent
string with " " instead of " ".
Line 8 - Sets the variable message to the finalized version
of message_send, which contains no " " markers. We do this because
when we post our variables PHP will look for variables with the
same name. Remember in the PHP code we refer to the variable
messagenot message_send so we must make sure the correct variable
holds the correct value.
Line 9 - Deletes the counter variable for our loop from
memory
Line 10 - Deletes the temporary message_sendvariable we used
for altering the new line markers.
SEND BUTTON CODE
on (release) {
if (subject eq "" or message eq "" or from eq "") {
stop ();
} else {
lineAdapt();
loadVariablesNum ("mail.php3", 0, "POST");
gotoAndStop (2);
WHAT THE ABOVE MEANS
Line 1 - Says "Perform these actions when this button is
clicked then released"
Line 2 - Checks to see if any variable has no value. We don't
want people sending us mail with no reply address for instance.
Line 3 - Line 2 returns True, stop.
Line 4 - Line 2 returns False, go on.
Line 5 - Perform the predefined function lineAdapt () on our
currently entered variables.
Line 6 - Send variables, using the POST method, to our PHP
script which will send the email off. (Note that you could also use
LoadVars objects in place of LoadVariables if you wish to make this
more synchornous. See the LoadVariables and LoadVars tutorial.)
Line 7 - Go to the confirmation message and stop once the
email is sent.

How Do I Insert 2 Email Forms in a Flash Site

Let's say I wanted to have 2 email forms in a flash site. One to go to one inbox and another to go to another inbox. That's easy enough to do by editing the PHP, but not the AS3. The following code works for the first email form, but not the 2nd because of duplicate actions. So my question is, "What do I need to edit in the following AS3 code to get it to submit a second form?" Thanks.
[as]
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    contact_message.text = message_status.text = "";
function validate_email(s:String):Boolean
    var p:RegExp = /(\w|[_.\-])+@((\w|-)+\.)+\w{2,4}+/;
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        return false;
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function receive_response(e:Event):void
    var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(e.target);
    var email_status = new URLVariables(loader.data).success;
    if( email_status == "yes" )
        message_status.text = "Success! Your message was sent.";
        timer = new Timer(500);
        timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, on_timer);
        timer.start();
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        message_status.text = "Failed! Your message was not sent.";
function on_timer(te:TimerEvent):void
    if( timer.currentCount >= 10 )
        contact_name.text = contact_email.text = contact_subject.text =
        contact_message.text = message_status.text = "";
        timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, on_timer);
[/as]

Wouldn't you just change instance names completely?

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So, I've been given a Flash site to redesign. However, I have no peior experience with Flash or ActionScript or anything of the like. I have the entire site copied to my local hard drive and it works perfectly...all the files are present, complete with the .FLA file as well as all the associated .AS files. I am using Flash CS5 to perform the re-design. Here's my dilemma...I need to be able to rename various elements throughout the code. From within the Actions window, there are many different types of elements that need to be changed. In the example below, the values I've placed within the square brackets are what I need to be able to change...
var [name1]:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
var [name2]:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem( "This is sample text." );
var [name3]:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem( "This is more sample text." );
[name2].addEventListener( ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, [name4] );
[name3].addEventListener( ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, [name4] );
[name3].separatorBefore = false;
[name1].hideBuiltInItems();
[name1].customItems.push([name2], [name3]);
this.contextMenu = [name3];
function [name4](e:Event)
var [name5]:URLRequest = new URLRequest ( "http://www.domain.com" );
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Now, I can change them manually, but when I save the changes, then publish the new SWF, I see a whole lot of errors in the Compiler Errors window like this...
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 1 1120: Access of undefined property [name1].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 2 1120: Access of undefined property [name2].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 3 1120: Access of undefined property [name3].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 5 1120: Access of undefined property [name2].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 5 1120: Access of undefined property [name4].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 6 1120: Access of undefined property [name3].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 6 1120: Access of undefined property [name4].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 7 1120: Access of undefined property [name3].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 9 1120: Access of undefined property [name1].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 10 1120: Access of undefined property [name1].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 10 1120: Access of undefined property [name2].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 10 1120: Access of undefined property [name3].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 11 1120: Access of undefined property [name3].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 13 1120: Access of undefined property [name4].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 15 1120: Access of undefined property [name5].
Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 16 1120: Access of undefined property [name5].
In addition, Within the Actions window, in the lower-left frame, there are headers (for lack of a better term)...
- Current Selection
actions : Frame 31,(box out)
- [name6] preloader
actions : Frame 1
- [name7]
actions : Frame 1,(menu)
actions : Frame 8,(in)
actions : Frame 12,(out)
actions : Frame 17,(box in)
actions : Frame 24,(page)
actions : Frame 30
actions : Frame 31,(box out)
And within the Library dock, to the right, there are items within the "Linkage" section...
NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINKAGE
1. Layout
all pages
back button
back button arrow
back button graphic
back button label
box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [name8]
content area
So, you see, throughout the rest of the code, I can change anything I want (except for the headers in the Actions window, but it always errors out on publish, then the HTML does not work properly after that. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanx.

If you actually have those brackets in the code, those errors would be the least of what I'd expect. Is that the actual code you have and errors you are getting? THe errors you show don't seem to align with the code you show. Since some of them involve declaring new objects, and you are getting undefined property errors, that's just wrong.

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