Using layers and flash clips

Hello...
I am having terrible trouble getting flash movies and
graphics to align themselves 'fixed' and correctly when I bring
them up in the browser window.
When I place them where I want them in Dreamweaver, it looks
fine... Then, when I hit F12 to test it, they are sometimes out of
place. Also, when I manage to work it so that they ARE in place, if
I have a margin open in the browser window (such as 'favourites')
the flash area moves.
What do I do in order to make sure the flash layer remains
totally and permanently fixed where I want it, and doesn't move
around when browser margins are used?
Thanks.

If you can wait, AIR can be also powerful for you. Just betas
for Windows
and Mac are ready for download.
I don't know what security features are integrated (for
illegal copies,
etc.) but it
seams to be the future ...
"> Thanks for the reply, I'm looking at it now and it's
looking pretty
> powerful.
>
> The only thing at the moment I can see a problem with is
receiving activeX
> events into flash which it doesn't seem to support.
Hopefully in the
> future.....
>
>
> "Otto (No Spam )" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:fc62j8$86q$01$[email protected]..
>> Hello Dave,
>> I (re)created my lastest cbt authorware project to
an exe with zinc. It
>> works
>> great and much quicker. For CBT applications with
normal web connections
>> (http, ftp, ect.) it is more than an authorware
replacment for me.
>> Use is on Windows -Mac - Linux or PocketPC. Use
OS-System Functions,
>> ActiveX like PDFreader and print out your pdf files
and so much more...!
>> But it Zinc is not a replacement if you need it for
wbt and scorm.
>> Fortunately
>> wbt and scorm are no longer in my projects.
>>
>> ciao
>>
>> <snip>
>>> Has anyone been using zinc and flash as a
replacement to authorware? Is
>>> it a good replacement or a second place
solution. Reading the
>>> documentation seems to highlight some exciting
opportunities, especially
>>> the activeX implementation which I use quite
often with authorware to
>>> talk to audience response systems to create
quizzes in conferences.
>> <snip>
>>
>
>
>

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changes effectively. i finished the one at
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails3.htm
and managed to change sizes etc but i wanted to change it to a
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I learn best by using tutes and figuring out how to make
changes effectively. i finished the one at
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails3.htm
and managed to change sizes etc but i wanted to change it to a
symbol to insert it in another flash file. i got that part done
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figure it has to do with the hit left and hit right and that the
"path" not sure if i used the term in the right way changes when it
turns from a scene all by itself to being inserted into a frame in
a layer. i am not sure if i am explaining this right but i would
really appreciate any help and I am sorry if this is a duplicate
post, i have been searching for a long time and cannot find it or
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Thomas Unger wrote:
> W. Kirk Lutz;
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> Unger
>
>

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"darkpwca" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> I'm reading a lot about how we should not use layers and
tables when
> creating a
> website in Dreamweaver because of something called
"absolute placement"
> (or
> something), which is the reason the text in my website
is constantly
> misaligned
> or overlapping when opened up in Firefox. Although, I've
never had this
> problem
> before for the past three years I've been using
Dreamweaver to create my
> sites,
> which is what's most frustrating I think.
>
> So, I guess I'm wondering how, then, do I create a
webpage in Dreamweaver
> WITHOUT using layers and tables? The only thing I've
been able to do w/o
> layers/tables is to literally hit "enter" and "tab"
continuously until the
> cursor is somewhere close to where I want it to be on
the page. But that
> seems
> a little old-school (for lack of a better term) to
really be the way to do
> it.
>
> Also, if I've used a lot of layers/tables already in my
website, is the
> general recommendation for be to rebuild my site
completely w/o
> layers/tables,
> or is it feasible for me to have someone who knows HTML
just come in and
> fix
> the actual HTML code for me to make it all work?
>
> Ideally, I just want something to help me fix this
problem w/o having to
> hire
> someone else to come in, cause I've been working this
site for about a
> year now
> and am just now finally getting it up online only to
find that the way it
> looks
> online is not the way it looks in Dreamweaver. I'd
really really
> appreciate any
> suggestions/advice.
>
> Thank you so much!
>

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<quote>
I'm having the EXACT same problem reported by you as well as here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2580402#2580402
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Hi, all -
CS3 -> CS4 transition newb here who's getting increasingly frustrated with the new motion tweens; however, for this project, I'm working in a 3D space and require using them, so I'm dealing with this bit by painful bit. I found the tip about Split Motion, but first question: how do you apply Split Motion across several layers at the same time? I have six different tweens, and in CS3, I used to be able to shift-click or click-drag across frames and apply a command to all of them (for example, hit F5 to add frames), but Split Motion is requiring me to right-click on each and every layer. This is really laborious, and I worry about future animations that might be more complex.
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Jen.

How to edit bitmap which is imported in flash using xml and save the edited bitmap back to xml in flash.

hi all
It would be appreciated if any one let me know how to edit
bitmap which is imported in flash using xml and save the edited
bitmap back to xml in flash.
Is it posible to save the bitmap data in flash?
thanks in advance

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don't know how already and maybe adapt some existing examples to
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google:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000645.php
If you're using as3, google search for "jpeg encoder as3" and
look through that info. There are also historical answers in the
forums here related to this type of thing that might help as
well.

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