Place fixed flash animation in Dreamweaver

Hi All,
I am a complete beginner with Dreamweaver, and having great
problems fixing the size of a flash animation I'm playing as an
intro. I have managed to get the animation in and it centred, but
when I tested it on another computer I noticed it had stretched and
for some reason it was possible to minimise the animation by using
the + and - signs whilst in the browser window. How can I prevent
this from happening, so no matter what machine you view from it
keeps the size and position the same.
Any advice will be much appreciated.

Hi
You will have to place your code for the flash file inside the code for the picture frame. If you have used the picture frame as a background image then position your flash file using a combination of css rules as required.
Another way (if you have flash pro), is to use the picture frame as a skin for your flash file.
PZ

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Centre flash animation into dreamweaver

Hi All,
I am a complete beginner with Dreamweaver, and having great
problems fixing the size of a flash animation I'm playing as an
intro. I have managed to get the animation in and it centred, but
when I tested it on another computer I noticed it had stretched and
for some reason it was possible to minimise the animation by using
the + and - signs whilst in the browser window. How can I prevent
this from happening, so no matter what machine you view from it
keeps the size and position the same.
Any advice will be much appreciated.

You'll probably need to spend time learning how to create things in Flash--maybe try lynda.com. Flash can be used for the animation and mouse interaction revealing text. Once you are able to create the animation in Flash, you can have Flash publish both the swf file, which is what goes into the web page, and an html file. You can copy the code from the Flash html file into the Dreamweaver file wherever you intend the Flash file to be inserted.

Correct way to place a Flash anim on a page

Hello, looking into well made sites I have seen code like
this to place a Flash object/animation:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/common/flash/c.swf?path=/common/flash/nav-about.swf"
width="593" height="180">
<param name="movie"
value="/common/flash/c.swf?path=/common/flash/nav-about.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="LT" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<object>
On the site Im building there is going to be a Flash
animation and my code looks like this:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"
width="326" height="407">
<param name="movie" value="images/gk_flash_intro.swf"
/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="images/gk_flash_intro.swf" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="326"
height="407"></embed>
</object>
Dreamweaver gives me a message about the new Explorer, and
the code required for it, but Firefox doesnt show the page. Please
point me towards some docu that will instruct me as to the proper
placement of the Flash.
The Page

Try this:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
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"Cipr?s" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello, looking into well made sites I have seen code
like this to place a
> Flash
> object/animation:
>
> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
>
data="/common/flash/c.swf?path=/common/flash/nav-about.swf"
width="593"
> height="180">
> <param name="movie"
>
value="/common/flash/c.swf?path=/common/flash/nav-about.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
> <param name="salign" value="LT" />
>
> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
> <object>
>
> On the site Im building there is going to be a Flash
animation and my code
> looks like this:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=7,0,19,0" width="326" height="407">
> <param name="movie" value="images/gk_flash_intro.swf"
/>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="images/gk_flash_intro.swf" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="326"
height="407"></embed>
> </object>
>
> Dreamweaver gives me a message about the new Explorer,
and the code
> required
> for it, but Firefox doesnt show the page. Please point
me towards some
> docu
> that will instruct me as to the proper placement of the
Flash.
>
>
http://gk-developers.com
>

How to link flash animations in dreamweaver 8

Hey everyone i have been trying to learn dreamweaver 8, flash
8, and others in a short time. My question is,
I am trying to create a website in dreamweaver 8 but i am
having trouble making a link to another page of the site out of the
flash animation once it's done. I can't find a option for that
anywhere, I was able to link the table in which the animation sits
but it does nothing. For now i just have the word ENTER below the
animation so the rest of the site can be viewed.
here's the link to the site where the animation first page is
www.fatcatzcreative.com
I have spent days trying to figure this out and being the
typical man i have finally broken down and am askin for help.
Thanks in advance to all.

HTML cannot link Flash.
If you want links in Flash, you will have to edit the Flash
file's
actionscript and add the links there.
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> Hey everyone i have been trying to learn dreamweaver 8,
flash 8, and
> others in
> a short time. My question is,
>
> I am trying to create a website in dreamweaver 8 but i
am having trouble
> making a link to another page of the site out of the
flash animation once
> it's
> done. I can't find a option for that anywhere, I was
able to link the
> table in
> which the animation sits but it does nothing. For now i
just have the word
> ENTER below the animation so the rest of the site can be
viewed.
>
> here's the link to the site where the animation first
page is
> www.fatcatzcreative.com
>
> I have spent days trying to figure this out and being
the typical man i
> have
> finally broken down and am askin for help.
>
> Thanks in advance to all.
>

Get border when resizing flash anim in dreamweaver

Hello, I'm needing some help , I'm not sure weather its something i'm doing in dreamweaver or weather I need to export the flash anim with the document properties just a little bit smaller than the flash anim when exporting when in theory shouldn't have to do?
the problem I'm having is I export a flash anim out of flash I make sure the document properties and the flash anim line up so theres no visible boarder when exiting.
when I'm at the button stage and drag onto the stage to be able to export, ( sometimes I find that the flash border - say if my anim is 220 by 185 . when i click on it (dragged button with movie inside from libarary to stage)
the stage - as I am told I can't export a flash anim with an alpha white off the flash stage I have to make the stage the same size as the button -
So i make the stage size 220 by 185 when I'm dragging the button to line up to the stage I find sometimes its off?
Is there a better way to export a flash anim as it is without having to change stage properties then dragging the button to fit the stage then get url options ect.
anyways. I am finding that I am having to make the stage size (in flash ) a few extra pixels smaller than the box button 220 by 185 so what i'm doing is making the stage say 218 by 183 to then draggin the button inbetween the lines on the doccument border in flash. then exporting.
I find if i Don't do this sometimes in dreamweaver, when I open dreamweaver instert app div then import swf into the app dif then resize the swf I get a boarder.
But even then I find sometimes if i do an app div then insert media swf and resize the swf i get a border, say if i make the boarder properties in flash red.
sometimes I get a red boarder.
but on other pages say i have a about page I resized it its fine then on another page import app dive then impor the exact same swf file resize it it suddenly gets a boarder (i'm testing using red backround in flash when exporting as a movie.
why do sometimes I get a boarder around swf in an app div when importing into dreamweaver.
thanks kindly

I read this twice and still don't quite know what you're asking. Flash questions are best posted in the Flash forum.
Animations used in Web pages should be sized appropriately before you bring them into Dreamweaver. Same goes for static images. If you need a 200px wide banner, design it at 200px wide.
As for APDivs, honestly don't know why you would need one. A regular CSS division (no positioning) is all that's required for 98% of layouts. http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
For answers to layout questions, we need a link to your test page.
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Adding Flash animation to dreamweaver

Hi,
I've created a Flash animation as the first thing to show on
my webpage in the index page. And it takes the whole screen. And it
contains links in the flash animation. How can I link the links in
Flash to the pages in dw?
Thanks a lot!
Esther

How can someone that doesn't have Flash installed use your
site?
You would have to use Flash to put those links on the page.
HTML cannot add
links to a Flash element.
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> Hi,
>
> I've created a Flash animation as the first thing to
show on my webpage in
> the
> index page. And it takes the whole screen. And it
contains links in the
> flash
> animation. How can I link the links in Flash to the
pages in dw?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Esther
>

Flash animation into dreamweaver

hey everyone, i'm new at both flash and dreamweaver and currently have a project combining the two together and i really cant work it out (i'm even using html instead of css haha) :/
Anyway, what i want to do is have a zipper (as in a zipper on ones clothes) on my main page and when someone puts their mouse over the zip, it zips down and reveals the text for that page.
I have gone into photoshop and started editing a zipper at different stages of being pulled down, but am stuck as to how i'd
a) link it together on flash/what type of file to save it as?
b) put the actual code into dreamweaver
c) have it actually working functionally to reveal my text underneath.
thanks in advance for any help, i'd be very appreciative of anyone who could give me some advice

You'll probably need to spend time learning how to create things in Flash--maybe try lynda.com. Flash can be used for the animation and mouse interaction revealing text. Once you are able to create the animation in Flash, you can have Flash publish both the swf file, which is what goes into the web page, and an html file. You can copy the code from the Flash html file into the Dreamweaver file wherever you intend the Flash file to be inserted.

How to loop a flash animation in Dreamweaver?

I have a simple animation I have converted to .flv. Load on a page in CS5, checked Auto Play and Auto Rewind, but I want the animation to loop.
It plays when the page opens, but won't loop.
http://www.minster.com/machinery/e2h/options/asm.html
Any suggestions?
Thank you.

Hi
This feature must also be enabled in the swf file using actionscript, simply setting the parameters in dreamweaver does not work.
PZ

Flash animations are out of the flash window limit ...

When I place a flash animation in power point using breeze
presenter, and I publish the presentation it is possible to see the
animations that are out of the flash window limit …
What can I do to make the breeze respect the flash limits and
hide the animations outside those limits?
Thanks!

Just out of curiosity....is it possible that you've got
elements in flash that begin OFF the flash stage and then animate
ONTO it?
There was a *funky* artifact of creating flash animations
that played very strangely when imported into Breeze; there was a
tech note about this, but I haven't found it recently. If your
flash animation *must* be 200 x 200, then what I'd try is this:
In flash, create a mask layer and be sure to have all other
layers become masked by it. I realize that without seeing your
animation, that it's probably "easier said than done"... However,
the thing to note here is that by masking the stage in flash (and
thus all the elements animated within it), you'll effectively kill
the visibility of all visual elements that are off the stage.
For what it's worth, I'd be happy to assist if you need
further help. Just drop me a note using the private message
function, or email me at [email protected]
HTH,
Rob

Integrating Flash HTML5 animation into Dreamweaver?

I've done a little work with Edge Animate and found it simple to implement an animation into Dreamweaver. However, my latest animation had to be done in Flash (plus I know that software a little better) and I notice CC now has an HTML5 canvas.
So if I create an animation in Flash CC on an html5 canvas, how would I go about using that on a dreamweaver page?
Or would I be better off asking in the flash forums?
Thank you in advance!

Edge Animate has auto insertion features in DW. Unfortunately, there is no such provision for Flash HTML5 animations yet. So you must do it manually in code view. Take the Flash compiled code and insert the relevant parts into your existing HTML5 document. Ensure that paths to JavaScripts and CSS files are correctly pointing to your site folder and not files:/// on your hard drive.
Flash/SWF is not supported on mobile devices/tablets. That's why Flash/SWF is a dead web technology.
Nancy O.

Flash Animations and Movies are lagging after having played a flash game which was graphics intense heavy and frequently refreshed which caused lags, how can I fix this lagging problem for Flash?

On June 30th, I was playing a game called Lil Einstein's Manhattan project over at Newgrounds.com and the game although fine at first, later on in the advanced levels of the game, started to cause my browser to lag intensely and heavily. Now, when I try and watch other flash movies and animations, the flash doesn't run as smoothly, there are skips in the flash animations and movies, and it slows down.
I tried scan disks, I tried defragmenting my computer, I tried uninstalling and re-installing Firefox.. Nothing worked to restore the Flash.
But when I view Flash movies and animations on Internet Explorer, they run fine... but not anymore on Firefox.
Other Firefox users who have played this game also reported problems as well..
How can I fix my Firefox Browser and return the Flash running to normal?
== This happened ==
Not sure how often
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If you have already scanned PC with an updated Anti-Virus and still the issue exists then I would suggest some troubleshooting techniques to resolve this problem:
Update browser
Remove unwanted Add-ons
Remove unwanted Tool-bars
Repair Registry
Repair ActiveX objects and shared DLLs
In case of facebook and Zynga I would suggest to Check for Problems with your Internet Connection.Try to Update Java and Reduce the Number of Running Internet Applications.
Sometimes Multimedia content lag due to Hardware Acceleration, so disabling Hardware Acceleration should fix your problem.
Open Flash Video in browser
Right click on Video Player | Settings
Open Display Panel
Uncheck Enable Hardware Acceleration
If issue still exists then you can find some more techniques described in detail here:
http://www.shockwaveflashcrash.com/Easiest-fix-for-shockwave-flash-plug-in-Crash.html

Flash Animation not lined up with screen

Hi,
I am a complete newbie to dreamweaver and will try to
explain. I have a flash animation that i can not get to be even on
the screen during runtime. I am guessing with all my screwing
around that i messed up the layout format or something. I read
somewhere that in dreamweaver, i can go to window >workspace
layout and then default. I do not have this default though.
So I think what I am after is a way to reset the layout?
Please help
Thanks in advance.

It's IE-only behaviour as a result of changes Microsoft made
several
years ago to their browser, regarding how Active Content
(Flash, Quicktime
etc)
is handled, after losing a high profile court case.
http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-changes-and-the-flash-plugin/
Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
See also
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/
If you're running Dreamweaver 8.0.2/CS3, the fix is already
built into DW's
interface.
If not, try
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
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activate and use
> this
> control". I need to edit that so that it covers my whole
flash. I am
> also
> curious if there a way to have it default so the user
doesnt have to click
> it?
>
> Thanks
>

I can not export Flash animations successfully as a Quick Time Video. Please Help...

Hello there,
I have been trying to both publish and export a Flash
animation from a native Flash file as a Quicktime .mov file. I am
using Flash 8 and have Quicktime 7.1.3 installed on my Mac running
OSX 10.4.8 - I get an error message every time I try to publish the
animation as Quicktime saying "An error occurred because a required
Quick Time component could not be found." My Quick Time program
works perfectly in all other programs. I tried it on another
computer and got the same error. I tried several different settings
and worked through the Flash Help Guide with no luck.
I also tried to do File / Export / Export Movie / Quick Time
Video. When I use this option it does successfully complete an
export but Quicktime file ".mov" has missing graphics and no sound
from the original Flash animation. Can you help me please. I need
to import this animation in a Keynote presentation ultimately.
Thank you.

Thanks Nickels55 - beat me to that ink :)
Also - try setting publish settings to flash player 5 - you
may lose some flash 8 features if you
are using any.
Personally - I find the best solution is SWF2Video
(www.flashants.com) but I am afraid there's no
Mac version (i think).
Usually Macs are better than PCs when it comes to export to
quicktime because you have the option of
choosing quicktime video - but make sure, if you are
exporting to a true video (fixed frame rate)
format you do not use movie clips or actionscript at all
(convert all movie clips to graphic or
place on main timeline).
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Brandoski wrote:
> Hello there,
> I have been trying to both publish and export a Flash
animation from a native
> Flash file as a Quicktime .mov file. I am using Flash 8
and have Quicktime
> 7.1.3 installed on my Mac running OSX 10.4.8 - I get an
error message every
> time I try to publish the animation as Quicktime saying
"An error occurred
> because a required Quick Time component could not be
found." My Quick Time
> program works perfectly in all other programs. I tried
it on another computer
> and got the same error. I tried several different
settings and worked through
> the Flash Help Guide with no luck.
>
> I also tried to do File / Export / Export Movie / Quick
Time Video. When I
> use this option it does successfully complete an export
but Quicktime file
> ".mov" has missing graphics and no sound from the
original Flash animation.
> Can you help me please. I need to import this animation
in a Keynote
> presentation ultimately. Thank you.
>

Previewing Flash Button in Dreamweaver

When I insert the Flash Button/Movie into the Dreamweaver doc
and preview in browser, I only see a placeholder.
I created a simple Flash "movie" with some dynamic text
functioning as a button layered over the animation.
It previews fine in flash, and when I play the animation in
the Dreamweaver document it looks fine but when I try to preview it
in the browser from the Dreamweaver document all I see is a Flash
placeholder. Is this something that will change when the page is
published or is there something else I should try?

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
Especially
consider those people who are browsing from a corporate
internet where Flash
is not allowed by the IT staff.
2. Search engines may not parse Flash links - your site will
not be
spidered unless you have redundant HTML links
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what
will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you
move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?
You will have
to remake those buttons.
It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons - and for
these reasons,
Adobe has removed Flash buttons and Flash text from CS4.
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select add behavior
> and
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upload the website
> works
> fine in IE but in firefox the buttons doesnt works, how
can i fix it?.
>
> Thanks.
>

Synchronizing a Flash animation with Captivate

Hey,
Does anyone know how to connect, or synchronize, an animation to a Captivate CS5 timeline such that each frame of the animation is tied to a respective frame on the Cp slide? In other words, I want frame 1 of my animation to start on frame 1 of my Cp slide (which it currently doesn't, regardless of where I put it on the Cp timeline), and I would lilke the animation to pause and play according to what the Cp slide is doing.
Here's what I did:
I made a slideshow animation in Flash CS5 that I put in a Cp slide on top of audio. The animation lasts 35.5 seconds, same as the Cp slide.
I put the animation at the beginning of the timeline, told it to play for the 'rest of slide', and checked 'Sychronize with Project' (which does nothing as far as I can tell).
I put a stop (); command at the end of the animation so it doesn't repeat (and that's literally the only code I have in there at this point).
The animation and the Cp project are both at 30 frames per second.
Here's what happens when previewing (F4ing) the project:
When the project gets to that slide, the framework of the slide (audio/click boxes/buttons/etc) runs fine, but when the slide starts, it starts in the middle of the animation. I.e., when the slide starts, frame 1 of the Cp slide plays while frame (say...) 75 of the animation plays.
The animation starts at a different place every time.
Also, when I pause the slide, the animation keeps playing, which makes the problem worse. I would like the animation to pause when the Cp slide is paused.
I know that animations generally act a certain way, but I would like to know if there is a way to change its behavior so that everything works together. Best-case scenario, there is an option somewhere that I'm overlooking, and worst-case, I would imagine that there is some way to write some actionscript into the Flash animation that tells frame 1 to always be attached to Cp's frame 1, and frame 2 to always to attached to Cp's frame 2, etc, with every frame. I'm new with Actionscript, so I don't know how to do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Brian,
After looking at your .fla file for the animation and doing some research, I've found the issue. As Rod Ward correctly points out in this post:
Captivate 5 was a total rewrite from the Captivate 4 software architecture and it introduced a subtle but fundamental change in the way that Flash animations were handled in Captivate published content.
Basically the change means that if your animation was built down a level or two inside a symbol rather than on the main timeline at the top level, then you will find that Captivate 5 or 5.5 loads and executes the animation on the first slide of the movie. This means that by the time you get to the actual slide where you WANTED the animation to perform it's magic, it's already run and finished.
In Captivate 4 this did not happen. The animation was not really loaded until later in the movie timeline so as to be ready for the slide where it was required. It didn't matter if the animation was buried inside a symbol or not.
You have two choices:
Revamp your animation so that it all happens on the main timeline in the Flash FLA file that generates it.
Get your Flash programmer to add some ActionScript code to the animation so that it does NOT play completely when first loaded at the beginning of the project at runtime.
Looking at your .fla file, I noticed you had a MovieClip/Symbol called "Animations" that contained the time line but the main .fla movie's time line was pretty much empty. Following the logic of option 1, I moved all the layers from the "Animations" time line to the .fla movie root time line and that fixed it. In Captivate, I also checked "Synchronize with Project" for the animation's properties and the animation did in fact pause and play when I paused and played the Cp movie.
So bottom line is to make sure that you're using the main time line for any animation you're developing in Flash Professional.
Hope that helps,
Jim Leichliter

Place fixed flash animation in Dreamweaver

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