Working from flash to dreamweaver

Question 1: Is it possible to work with in Dreamweaver
buttons that were made in Flash.
Question 2: Is it possible to import dreamweaver into
flash?

> Question 1: Is it possible to work with in Dreamweaver
buttons that were
> made in Flash.
If you mean like adding a link - you need to do that in the
flash file
itself.
> Question 2: Is it possible to import dreamweaver into
flash?
Not sure exactly what you mean sorry.... what are you trying
to do exctly
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Is there a way to convert from Flash to Dreamweaver???

Hi,
this is my first forum question on here, so I hope I am explaining this okay.
I have a Flash website ready to go and what I would like to do (after the recent news about flash I was advised to change it) is export the file to dreamweaver and load to my website that way.
Is there a way to either
     1. open flash files through dreamweaver and make active
     2. just open working .psd files through dreamweaver and make active there.
     3. just continues useing flash(??)
     4. Just change the .file name in my folder???(is that possible, I doubt it)
If there isnt any way to convert this file, can someone suggest a good dreamweaver tutorial or something thats helpful
Thanks!

Hi, Welcome to the Dreamweaver forum.
Try this:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
It's limited in what it can do. But it might be enough for you to squeak by.
Good luck and let us know how you make out with it.
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Need help with a drop down menu from flash to Dreamweaver.

I had this working once. I am ping one you smart ones can help me out wuth this. WHat am I doing wrong?

Can you please give us a little more informationm about how it isn't working?

Need help placing my drop down menu from flash into Dreamweaver

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I have not used any CSS to code my website, have purely used tables in a html template.
Sorry to say, but you can't make drop-down menus without CSS code. Which begs the broader question, why are you afraid of learning CSS? It's much more efficient than tables and you can do so much more creative stuff with it.
Pure CSS Drop-Menus (with CSS gradients and transitions)
http://jsfiddle.net/NancyO/zN7fU/
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Flash to DreamWeaver problem

Hey guys I'm new here..
I got a problem going from flash to dreamweaver. Here it is:
I have a site in progress: http://www.competitivevideogames.com/ns/ns.html
and I want to replace the top navigation bar with this:http://www.competitivevideogames.com/ns/nav_bar.swf(still a work in progress)
The problem is, the dimensions of this .swf are 1000x98 (the tightest it can be without cutting out the dropdown menu) and I want the bar to look like it does in the picture(1st link) which is nice and tight. Also, How can I get the drop down menu to overlap my html and flash below it? Because right now the only way i can see the drop down is if I give it enough black space in flash.
Any Help?
I can re-explain anything if it was a little confusing
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Also, How can I get the drop down menu to overlap my html and flash below it? Because right now the only way i can see the drop down is if I give it enough black space in flash.
That is correct. Flash content cannot draw outside its container/ canvas. The rest is merely in the way you stack content via DIVs with Z-indexes and the respective rules for transparent drawing of Flash content, which is done using the proper Flash param upon embedding.
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Has anyone anywhere managed to get "AIR Native Extensions" to work with Flash CS 5.5?

I'm trying to integrate Adobe's "Gyroscope" example of ANE to work from Flash Professional CS 5.5.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air/extensions/gyroscope.html
Apparently, one has to use the somewhat crude "ADT" command-line tool to build an app that uses Native Extensions.
Unfortunately, I cannot get past the numerous errors ADT is throwing at me. The latest is:
unexpected failure: inputs not set
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          at com.adobe.air.ApplicationPackager.createPackage(ApplicationPackager.java:62)
          at com.adobe.air.ADT.parseArgsAndGo(ADT.java:556)
          at com.adobe.air.ADT.run(ADT.java:413)
          at com.adobe.air.ADT.main(ADT.java:463)
Unfortunately, I'm not an advanced developer, so I really don't know what any of that means. (But I'm sure if I can just get this one example to compile and run, I'll be better able to perform the necessary tasks in the future.)
Can someone PLEASE help me?
Thanks.
Mike

If you are looking for input from others, you are more likely to find people with either similar problems or complaints in the Flash General Forum (http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash/flash_general?view=discussions) rather than here in the Actionscript 3 forum. If you scan thru it for the past few weeks/months you might even find someone with the same problem.

Executing javascript actions from flash...

I have a flash header with my site navigation in it. I want
to use this great javascript utility (loaded in the head section of
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Here is the text link that works great:
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getURL("javascript:ajaxpage('home1.html', 'contentarea');");
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to get this javascript to work properly?

Try using the built-in ExternalInterface class.
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Player working when checked in dreamweaver but not online from host.

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So frustrated. Have had great help here before and hope to very soon this time. The faster the better. THNX guys for the help

Most likely a missing file or wrong pathing to Flash assets.
If ANY of the Flash assets are in a different folder than the html web page, a common mistake is to not correctly path them in the .swf.
For test purposes, what is the direct download url for the .flv.... not the .swf but the actual .flv file?
A review of pathing issues:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location. So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
In fact if you are placing the .swf on a web page in a different folder than the .swf is stored in, and that .swf calls external assets, then direct clicking and opening of the .swf in it’s folder should NOT work! That’s because the paths to the external assets should be relative to the Web page and not the physical location of the .swf.
So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Works in Flash player but not from Browser

I know this has shown up in the forum before but I must be using the wrong search terms because I can't find it.
I've created a Flash file that reads from several different xml files and displays them when requested. When I run the Flash player, (by pressing Command-Space within Flash), it all works flawlessly. But when I open it within a browser, only one of the xml files loads, the other two just spin away on the preloader.
I have another Flash file that is doing the same thing. A click on a scrolling new list should take you to another web page. In Flash Player it works fine, but from a Browser nothing happens.
Anyone know why this is?
thanks

As odd as it may seem, the tip-off to the problem may be:
" When I run the Flash player, (by pressing Command-Space within Flash), it all works flawlessly"
If any of your Flash assets are in a different folder than the HTML Web page... then testing the .swf directly like that should NOT work!
It's most likely a pathing issue:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location. So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
In fact if you are placing the .swf on a web page in a different folder than the .swf is stored in, and that .swf calls external assets, then direct clicking and opening of the .swf in it’s folder should NOT work! That’s because the paths to the external assets should be relative to the Web page and not the physical location of the .swf.
So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Flash menu bar's hyperlink doesn't work after imported into dreamweaver

I have major problems when I tried to import a flash menu bar with hyperlink (created in flash) into dreamweaver. I have 5 buttons in the same flash banner file and each button is supposed to have its unique hyperlink. None of these 5 hyperlinks is working, but it works fine if run by the .swf file alone. What could I have done wrong in flash or dreamweaver?
Version Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4
Please help....thank you in advance.
Kind regards,

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Dreamweaver I import swf from flash,it previews,but when I try to export to browswer nothing happens

In Dreamweaver I import a .swf from flash, it previews fine but when I try to export it to a browser I get nothing....Any ideas on what I could be missing?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','1200','height','440','src','file:///Macintosh HD/Users/jessiejellicorse/Documents/Professional/Paris Tattoos/public_html/Flash/newparis','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','file:///Macintosh HD/Users/jessiejellicorse/Documents/Professional/Paris Tattoos/public_html/Flash/newparis' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="1200" height="440">
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<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="file:///Macintosh HD/Users/jessiejellicorse/Documents/Professional/Paris Tattoos/public_html/Flash/newparis.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1200" height="440"></embed>
</object></noscript>
</body>
</html>
/www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

How can I make hyperlinks work from a Flash/SWF presentation?

How do you make hyperlinks/buttons work in Flash/SWF Captivate 5.5 presentations? This did not seem to be an issue with Version 4. I cannot publish to video (i.e. mp4) or as an executable file for posting on our internal system. If it cannot be done in Flash/SWF, how else can I get buttons/hyperlinks to work? Thank you.

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Flash in Dreamweaver???

I have uploaded and displayed flash in dreamweaver before but
for some reason i cannot get it to work now. Does this have
anything to do with CSS? The file is succesfully on the server as
you can see at www.zcarpentry.com/dropmenZCI.swf but when going to
www.zcarpentry.com the blank space on the left is where the menu
should be. PLEASE HELP!!! I am self taught and think i may be
overlooking something here is my source code:
<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"
width="182" height="460" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="../../Z
Carpentry/htdocs/dropmenZCI.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="../../Z Carpentry/htdocs/dropmenZCI.swf"
width="182" height="460" align="middle" quality="high"
pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>

Self taught developers usually don't get some of the finer
usability points.
If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -
1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site will
not be spidered
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?
It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...
In your case, the most profound problem is #2 - since you
have an all-Flash
page, you will not find much love from the search engines.
And even though
Google is saying it now scans Flash links, I am skeptical.
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>I have uploaded and displayed flash in dreamweaver before
but for some
>reason i
> cannot get it to work now. Does this have anything to do
with CSS? The
> file is
> succesfully on the server as you can see at
> www.zcarpentry.com/dropmenZCI.swf
> but when going to www.zcarpentry.com the blank space on
the left is where
> the
> menu should be. PLEASE HELP!!! I am self taught and
think i may be
> overlooking
> something here is my source code:
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" width="182" height="460"
align="middle">
> <param name="movie" value="../../Z
Carpentry/htdocs/dropmenZCI.swf"
> />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="../../Z Carpentry/htdocs/dropmenZCI.swf"
width="182"
> height="460" align="middle" quality="high"
> pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Versio
> n=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
> </object>
>
>

Flash or Dreamweaver? (Either?)

Here is today's softball/dumb question. In an effort to create my own website I have been spending a considerable amount of time learning the essentials of many Adobe programs through Lynda.com and with Adobe's CS5 Master Suite of software. Most recently I have been going through Flash tutorials. When it comes to creating a website through Adobe software I thought Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, etc were the foundation, (i.e., framework), of ALL website creation and that all other programs, Ps, Ai, Fc, etc....AND Flash where used in SUPPORT of that goal. That is they created the graphics and other animation files used within the Dreamweaver website foundational framework...but Dreamweaver was essential (using Adobe software).
The more I learn about Flash and applications such as After Effects the more confused I am becoming because, though I am unsure, it seems that Flash can be used as a foundation for a website all by itself and Dreamweaver cut out of the process all together. So my basic/fundamental/dumb question is is that correct? Though an answer to that question requires only a simple yes or no answer, and a simple yes or no answer is welcome and appreciated, any elaboration on the basic structural use of these various Adobe programs in pursuit of the goal of creating a website would be appreciated as well.

Sounds like you are well on your way this your project and I wish you the best!
Just to clarify one point.. There is no such thing as a Flash Website .. only HTML, PHP, ASP etc. sites which may have some Flash content.
So I don't think it's a question on using Flash or Dreamweaver to build your site... most likely you will need both, Flash for the content, DW (or some other editor) for the page structure as well as any PHP for server side scripting you may need.
As for building your own shopping cart, I suggest you start at your bank and work back from there to your Web site, NOT the other way around. Banks are very strict about which "Gateways" they use and the Gateway company is very strict about which shopping cart they will allow to connect to there services.
If you are expecting to collect payments via credit cards, you'll most like need a Merchant Account at your bank. Check and see what it takes to get yours set up. That's the account that your Gateway service will connect to... for background info..here are a couple used by local banks here:
http://www.authorize.net/
and
http://www.firstdata.com/en_us/home
But get with your banker before going too far. Make sure that you don't have to undo some of the efforts and development because they did not meet bank or gateway specs.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Browser "Back" arrows do not work with Flash buttons.

Just can't seem to get around this problem...
I've made several flash buttons for use in my navigation bars. They work great but the "back" arrows on the browser are always grayed out. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of browser I use.
The site was made in Dreamweaver and the Flash buttons are imbedded within the pages. I posted the same question on the Dreamweaver forum and got some vague answers.
Is there some code I can put into my Flash buttons?
If you have an answer please be specific as I'm not an expert.
The site is fireonmcginnis.com
or just type "Fire on McGinnis" into a search engine.
-Toastieo

Spry or regular hyperlinks in a list or nav configuration. Either is better than Flash buttons.
Thing is, a search bot will read the HTML in those kinds of links (spry or HTML) and index them. That way if you have an event calendar for upcoming shows, or a discography page, it can find them and will be able to make a reference to them in later search engine databases (usually about 72 hours after the indexing). With the Flash buttons there is no code for the bot to find and your upcoming events, or a downloads page if there is one, will never be seen in a search even if people look directly for "fireonmcginnis: schedule", or "music by fireonmcginnis" because to Google, Yahoo, Lycos and the others the pages simply don't exist.
Spry is great if you have submenus, and since it can be customized using CSS, you can make it match your site layout. You can also do that with regualr hyperlinks and CSS, but spry has a more appealing look to a lot of web users and the submenus are a little harder with basic HTML.
For the record the script should read: getURL ("http://www.site.com/page.html" "_self"); for the buttons. There'a s drop down to select _self, _blank, _parent etc. when you add the getURL script to the button.
But... you need to stay away from Flash buttons for navigation or you're really defeating the purpose of putting a band on a website in the first place. It's about exposure and Flash buttons will severely limit that exposure, even if they work properly.

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