SWF "Catalogue" Question
Hi there - I've created a beautiful SWF catalogue that I want to share with several people.
The people who I want to view it are essentially luddites: unfortunately the SWF file is too large to attach in an email. I have considered sending it via something like DropBox, Yousendit, etc., but I doubt that they would understand how to access the file. On the other hand, I think they would be able to click a link - but I need is a site where I can post the SWF. Does such a site exist, and if so, what is it? Thanks!
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i made a fla a while back with a little animated navigational
aid, which because my scripting skills are so poor, was quite
tedious to program. now i need to edit it but i've lost the fla.
can flash convert the swf back into a fla?
any suggestions?
thanks,
macronthanks for running it through your program. it's interesting,
the layer names don't look the same as i remember, and it seems as
if it put each invisible button on its own layer, whereas i had
them on one. and the text shows up as question marks. it did
retrieve the animation script though, which i was dreading having
to rebuild from scratch. that's terrific. i'll take a look at
so-think. thanks for the advice.
much obliged,
macron -
I have only just recently started using LR4. Part of my year project is to go through my photos contained on my hard drive and, likely, delete a good number of them. For this reason, and as I am still really learning LR4, I have not imported my photos into LR4.
For purposes of learning and experimenting, I have imported one photo, now and again, worked on it – edited in PSE so forth and so on just to get an idea of how everything works.
When I am done with that particular “sample” photo, I delete it from LR. My catalogue says I have zero photos – which is what it should say.
Coming to my question(s):
I notice under “My Pictures” and the “Lightroom” folder this is a “LR4 Catalogue Previews.irdata” folder and, in there, are various folders labelled “0” to “9” and some folders labelled with letters. In each of those folders are various folders with labels like “657E” and, in those folders are – for example – the following:
80ED7578-CB85-4044-A33A-F13B26ECA700-cefb86382204211fa906a878e3a30a8a
So, that’s a long way of getting to my two questions:
Is my method of importing one photo for learning and then removing it alright for now or am I doing something that will cause catalogue issues? (I will, of course, be importing all my photos shortly); and
Is the folder scheme I have described above typical and should I just, when ready, go ahead and import my photos (or do I need to start a new calatalog or anything)?
Thank you for any help and please be specific since I am very new to LR4.Is my method of importing one photo for learning and then removing it alright for now or am I doing something that will cause catalogue issues? (I will, of course, be importing all my photos shortly); and
I think it's probably fine if you are just learning, but just to point out the obvious, its not the way Lightroom was designed to operate. Specifically, the way you should be working with your photos is to import them in Lightroom and then leave them in Lightroom (understanding that the photos aren't actually stored in LR, but rather LR just maintains a pointer to your photos). even for just learning, I would leave the photo in Lightroom.
Is the folder scheme I have described above typical and should I just, when ready, go ahead and import my photos (or do I need to start a new calatalog or anything)?
The folder scheme is created by LR and you shouldn't spend another second thinking about it (there's nothing you can do about it anyway). Just import your photos when you are ready, you don't need a new catalog. -
SWF File question...PLEASE HELP
I've been asked to edit a Flash web site. The page they want
me to edit has a form on it, but they only have the .swf file. I've
opened it in Flash and am able to make the required changes, but
they thing I wanted to know is will the form be affected if I then
re export it as a .swf file or will it still work as it did before?
Thanks for your help,
LucyLucy4,
> The HTML file is for a seperate form on the site.
Okay. Sometimes people provide two versions ... a "jazzy"
Flash version
and a "plain vanilla" HTML version. If that form is a
different one
altogether, then the variables required by form-mail.pl might
have nothing
to do with the variables required by the script to which your
SWF must
submit. Until we know how form-mail.pl works, we simply don't
know what to
send to it.
It *might* be the case that form-mail.pl was written to
receive *any*
variables. You won't know until you try. Send whatever
variables you like
and see what comes out at the other end (whoever it is that
receives the
email sent by the Perl script).
Then again, it might be the case that form-mail.pl requires
a certain
set of variables. If those variables are different from the
ones you showed
me in that HTML form, you'll have to find out what those
variables are.
That only makes sense, right?
> So does that mean then that I don't need to add any
> additional code to the HTML page that the Flash
> form will be on?
An HTML page *could* have both an HTML form and a Flash
form, by why
would a developer do that? It would confuse people ... you
can already hear
them asking, "Which form should I fill out?" When a developer
produces two
versions, they're both completely separate. Some developers
like to provide
site visitors with a Flash version of the site and a
non-Flash version of
the site -- but they're never provided side-by-side on the
same HTML page.
Your Flash form has nothing to do with existing HTML on the
page --
other than the <object> and <embed> tags
necessary to embed the SWF in the
document. There shouldn't be a form on the SWF's HTML page at
all.
> Also I've added the following code to the submit button
> on the Flash file, but am not sure if it will work okay:
>
> on (release) {
> if (!realname.length) {
> EmailStatus = "Please Enter your name before Sending";
> }
This code might work and it might not. Without know what
it's supposed
to do, I can't answer the question.
First, you're checking of an
object, realname, has a length property greater than zero.
The way this is
written, you're coincidentally checking of the realname
object has a length
property at all. My question to you is, what sort of object
is realname?
Is it a String? Is it an Array?
My guess is that it's a String (after all the String class
does define a
String.length property), but if so, where is this string
coming from? Does
realname represent an input text field somewhere in your SWF?
If so, you
should probably be referencing that text field's
TextField.text property.
In other words, you presumably have an input text field in
your movie, and
that text field's instance name is realname. Since realname
is an instance
of the TextField class, you'll use the TextField.text
property to retrieve
the text inside that text field. And since TextField.text
returns a string,
you can use the expression realname.text in place of your
string in the
expression myString.length. Combined, that would be ...
if (realname.text.length == 0)
... or ...
if (!realname.text.length)
Does that make sense to you? If it doesn't, that's fine, but
it means
you need to familiarize yourself with what it means to use
objects in
ActionScript.
The next part ...
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your name before Sending";
... might mean something, too. But I have no idea what
EmailStatus is. Is
that a variable you'll be using later? There is no
EmailStatus entry in the
ActionScript Language Reference, so this must be something
you've defined or
written somewhere. Without that description from you, I have
no way of
telling you what EmailStatus is for -- or, for example, if it
can be set to
a String, as you've done here.
> loadVariablesNum ("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "Post");
> EmailStatus = "Sending...";
Now, this part may be fine. I don't know what
snowMail.PHP.php is.
Presumably, it's a form handler. If so, it's either a form
handler that can
handle exactly the variables you'll be sending or any
variables at all.
Your second parameter, "0", is incorrect. That needs to be a
Number, not a
String (see the loadVariablesNum entry of the ActionScript
Language
Reference for details).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design." -
Flash cc .swf file question
Hello
i am at a stuck point on a project I am working on which includes editing a pre built flash player banner in the .swf file format. My problem is I need to change where the links are directing to in the flash banner but have no xpieriance in it. I installed flash cc and noticed it won't let me open a .swf file so I could try and give editing the link a go.
I Did download so-think swf editor and decompressor with no luck as I don't understand it's mechanics, but really want to be able to find a permanent solution for future projects to come within the adobe cloud applications I am already working with.
my question is what are my options for being able to edit swf files do I have to turn them into .fla files and if so how would I do that as I already attempted to simply rename the files .fla instead of .swf but flash cc found problems with that.
I am very much stuck and am encouraging any guidence I could possibly get to find a resolution to my problem, please help!
thanks
ErikYou cannot edit swf files... they are the result of publishing the fla files that create them. You need to acquire the fla files and edit and publish them in order to have the swf with the changes. If you are not able to acquire the fla files then you probably do not have the legal right to use the file.
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If i make a swf of a dot at center stage and publish it, then
add it to a layer in DW, it shows up as a grayed out box blocking
whats underneath making it difficult to work on whats underneath,
also much larger than the actual movie needs to be.
1. Can I Do anything about the grey to view whats underneath?
2. Can I crop the movie so that the layer is smaller only
showing the area of interest?
Thankshard to understand - this may just be a DW question.
What "gray box"? is it a rectangular graphic in your flash
doc or the stage color? Or are you
looking at it in the DW authoring tool?
You can't "crop" flash movies - but rather you can edit the
width and height in the html (or DW)
after it has been embedded into the page.
If you must "crop" - go back to source FLA and edit the width
and height of your movie - but flash
only "crops" from right and bottom edges of the stage - so if
your circle needs to be center - then
you will need to use the align panel to center it again.
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Alfred Hitch wrote:
> If i make a swf of a dot at center stage and publish it,
then add it to a layer
> in DW, it shows up as a grayed out box blocking whats
underneath making it
> difficult to work on whats underneath, also much larger
than the actual movie
> needs to be.
> 1. Can I Do anything about the grey to view whats
underneath?
> 2. Can I crop the movie so that the layer is smaller
only showing the area of
> interest?
>
> Thanks
>
> -
I have a feeling that I know the answer to this. I am not
terribly savvy on Actionscript (basic sklls, not expert)..and not
in 3.0 at all!!!!!!!! I have a website that is done nearly all in
Flash with AS2.0. I recently added a video player from a video
aggregator, but their player is AS3.0.
All I could do was to build an html page and embed the AS 3
player into that. I prefer the seamlessness that Flash provides. Is
there ANY possible way to embed an AS3 swf file into an AS2
website.
I just cannot completely rebuild the entire website right now
in 3.0!!!!
Is there ANY simple solution? I cannot believe that I am the
only person who is having issues like this...Ugh!!!!
thanks for any help you can offer.you can't use an as2 file to load an as3 file and have the
as3 file work.
you can use getURL() to load your as3's embedding html file.
if you want it to look seemless, you can load into the same window
so the user will see your as2 content replaced by the as3 swf.
in the as3 swf you can put code to load your as2's embedding
html file (using navigateToURL()). so, you can go back and forth
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Hello,
I'm trying to get a working .fla file of the .swf at the bottom of this page...
http://www.fsip.biz/About.html
I tried the free version of SoThink's decompiler, but all I got was a black box with lots of layers. I'm using Flash CS3.
Any advice?Contact SoThink and see what their customer support has to offer.
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One thing I haven't learned on flash yet...and I'm sure it's
quite simple...is how do you run a swf file without it having to
have the support files that go along with it?
i.e., i want to send someone a completed swf file without
having to also send the fla file etc..
I'm assuming it has something to do with embedding.
Any help will be appreciated.
=)You should be able to send the swf file by itself. If the
other person has the player to support it installed, then it should
play for them. -
New user with swf conversion question
Hi guys,
i am new to this forum & to Flash.
I make basic promo videos for some of my clients & a couple need the file in swf format.
Currently I am using iMovie (for basic image to image cross disolves). I am learning Premier Pro
& plan on using that in the next month or so.
iMovie exports in .mov format. What is the best way of converting to swf? Would it be media encoder
to FLV, then Flash to SWF?
I am using Mac OS 10.5.6 & I have CS4
any insight would be appreciated
thanksHelp?....
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Async loading of test swf is never caught by listener
Hi all,
I'm really struggling getting a testing structure in place. I need to test a sub-swf which gets loaded into a range of main applications and its methods are then invoked. Therefore, I want to setup a test initially to load in that sub-swf (before calling its functions).
However, despite Firebug revealing that the swf in question was called ok (200 return) the timeout function always eventually is invoked.
Please can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong as I've been struggling with this for over a week.
Code roughly copy-and-pasted (no errors when I run the original)...
public class loadSWFTester
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
import flash.events.*;
import org.flexunit.asserts.*;
import org.flexunit.async.Async;
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private var _request:URLRequest;
[Before(async)]
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_loader = new Loader();
_request = new URLRequest("http://example.com/my.swf");
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trace("[verifySwfLoad");
private function handleTimeout(event:Event):void
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...so the previous URLs I've been specifying must've been verified by the Flash player before failing in some respect somewhere else.
No event listeners seem to pick up on anything. I've tried adding a few extra (not in the example link I supplied previously yet) but the timeout function is the one which is always hit.
_loader.addEventListener(Event.INIT, Async.asyncHandler(this, initHandler, 10000, null, handleTimeout));
_loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, Async.asyncHandler(this, onIoError, 10000, null, handleTimeout));
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Content of some swfs not showing up
Hi there,
I am stumped.
I have a flash application that works fine on a local server
via
http://localhost/MyWebsite.
But when I access the website externally via
http://MyDomain/MyWebsite the
content of some swfs doesn't display.
I've added some debug statements on the MovieClipLoader
events onLoadStart, onLoadComplete, onLoadError, and onLoadInit to
see what is going on but no error occurs, everything executes and
completes...
I am at a loss...
On IE it doesn't load the content the swfs in question at
all. On FireFox it doesn't load it on the first try (3+ seconds
load time according to the debug statements) but is fine on a
second try (3-5 ms).
Does anybody have any idea what could cause this and where I
should be looking for any issues or how I could debug this better?
I really need your help.
Thanks,
DanTry changing your paths to relative ones. So instead of
http://MyDomain/MyWebsite/flashMovie1.swf
try just
flashMovie1.swf
Some public servers have an issue with Flash's security
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DWMX2004 -- I can't get it to recognize a SWF
I'm trying out Flash CS3 with my trusty ol' Dreamweaver
MX2004, on Mac OS 10.4.9. I've had another DW site active for four
years; this is the first time I've tried Flash.
The swf plays as expected (I've posted it for reference at
www.somethinghappeninghere.com/happeningintro.swf), but I cannot
get DW to recognize it within my index.html
(www.somethinghappeninghere.com). I've tried inserting my .swf
according to instructions in ch. 17 in Todd Perkins' H.O.T. CS3
book, and by using Dreamweaver's Insert > Flash menu command. I
found another tutorial that talked about "skins" (huh?) in DW CS3,
but I don't find them used in my MX2004.
I do also have the corresponding "happeningintro.html" file
from when I published the swf -- but I can't find anything that
refers to how to USE it.
Please send any suggestions and clarification to
[email protected] I'm fully prepared to give myself a dope-slap
when Iearn whatever details I've overlooked. Thank you.> www.somethinghappeninghere.com
the path is wrong.
This is the code:
<param name="movie" value="/swf/happeningintro.swf">
The flash file is here:
http://www.somethinghappeninghere.com/happeningintro.swf
A question?
"/swf/happeningintro.swf" is a site root relative path. If
you made this a
document relative path, would it then become
"happeningintro.swf" which is
where the file is at....
This index.html page is inside of the swf folder? It's not in
the root level
of the "local site folder"??
If that's the case- you've defined the "local site folder"
one folder level
too high. It should be the folder that contains the homepage
index file, not
two folders up.
If you need to adjust the remote server folder because the
site files need
to be in a subfolder such as www or htdocs or public_html or
similar, use
the "host directory" line of the remote server info to adjust
the path to
the public site folder
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ -
We load Captivate 3 SWFs at runtime into our own course player, with movieclip.loadmovie. Our player is built with AS2 and published to Flash 8. We publish our Captivate movies to the same specs. Our latest challenge requires scaling and masking the Captivate SWF.
A click outside the masked Captivate still triggers a click as far as Captivate is concerned, and it throws up a “that’s incorrect” message. Specifically, it only happens when you click in a spot that has masked Captivate “behind” it. In other words, if there would be Captivate there if the mask was turned off, Captivate will respond even when the mask is turned on.
Is there a way to make Captivate ignore mouse clicks outside of the mask? I think it must be responding to Mouse.onMouseDown() since normally a masked object won’t respond to clicks outside the mask.
I’ve put together a small test file to demonstrate exactly what’s happening, and I’ve posted it here: http://www.tbgprod.com/_experiments/captivatemasktest/captivatemasktest.swf
I’ve also uploaded the .fla file. It’s ony 50kb and it’s available here: http://www.tbgprod.com/_experiments/captivatemasktest/MaskTest01.fla
You’ll also need the Captivate .swf file if you want to test locally. Here’s the direct link. Right-click and save target as: http://www.tbgprod.com/_experiments/captivatemasktest/DisplayProperties.swf
My question is "how do I make Captivate ignore clicks outside the mask?"
Many thanks,
Todd SEven if anyone just has any knowledge of how Captivate 3 movies actually monitor the mouse, I'd be happy to hear it. In other words, can anyone confirm my hunch? If we knew the internal structure of the Captivate SWF would it be possible to clear and restore some function as the mouse moves inside or outside of the target area? Something like this:
on mousemove {
if mouse has crossed boundary to the outside {
functionBuffer = container.whatever.whatever.function;
container.whatever.whatever.function = null;
else if mouse has cross boundary to the inside {
container.whatever.whatever.function = functionBuffer;
This would kill Captivate's mouse functions and then bring them back to life, as the mouse exits and re-enters the masked Captivate area. Two questions:
1. If we knew the necessary whatever.whatever.function information, would this work?
2. Does anybody know the necessary whatever.whatever.function information? -
Here is my file structure, pretty simple, but am told that I need to upload expressinstall.swf and (I believe) swfobjectmodified,
"to the server" for the swf object to work correctly. The domain as it is, is www.desertpalmyoga.com
So frustrating as it works properly but I don't know how/why at cachetrade.comnot sure how I fixed it, but now it works.
I think one thing is to not just use dreamweaver to ftp the main + supporting files (expressinstall, for example, was uploaded by DW but not accessed by the file) - my trick was to ftp the entire 'deploy to web' folder and then additionally make a copy of all those files raw (not in a folder) to the root.
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See the swf in question when you roll over the yogi on the LEFT:
www.desertpalmyoga.com
I just hand't understood, either, that you needed to put the whole deploy to web folder too...
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