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This page is mostly HTML/CSS with a Flash swf at the top that simply rotates through some images: http://www.luminastudio.org

If you visit the page in Firefox for either major OS and use the...

If the security warning you mention is the one asking if you want to make adjustments to your Flash Player settings, it may only be happening because you are testing the movie on your local drive.
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If you set Dimensions to Percent (100%) in the "HTML" tab of publish settings, the movie scales uniformly with the browser window, just like dropping a raw swf into the window. It's very easy, but...

Thanks for the reply.

Do you mean turn off percentage scaling in the Publish Settings and perform the stage scaling in code when there is a resizing event, or leave scaling at percentage in...

Is there an easy way to prevent particular elements in a percentage-scaled SWF from scaling?

I want to make a liquid Flash interface in which only the content scales with the browser window, and...

Wonderful! (For some reason, I was expecting it to be more complicated.) Thanks!

I have an swf with several movie clips set up to work as navigation buttons (using _up, _over and _down frame labels). The same navigation swf is used by several different HTML pages and navigates...

Works like a charm! Never would have thought of it.

Thanks, moagruis!

I have a script to display a particular custom cursor when the mouse is over a particular button. It works OK, in that the cursor is displayed on MOUSE_OVER and hidden on MOUSE_OUT.

The problem is...

Thanks. Unfortunately, that's not practical in that loading all of the images would force the user to wait too long before the animation started.

It would work, though to have one clip load in...

AS2

I'm making a very simple cross-fading slide show of JPEGs loaded from a folder. I'm loading them into movie clips with:


holder1_mc.loadMovie("images/home_flash/image1.jpg");...

Could the path from the parent movie to the text file be different from the path from the individual section to the text file?

Once a child movie is loaded into a parent movie, paths to external...

Try adding a layer inside your button.

On the Down frame in the extra layer, put the same sound as is in the Over frame, but set the sync to "Stop".

Using AS2, you could attach the following action to your button (where "button_btn" is the instance name assigned to the button):
button_btn.onPress = function() {
stopAllSounds();
}

Sorry for the delay in replying, it took a while to go through your file. Everyone does things differently.

Yes, the layout of your buttons makes what I'm suggesting difficult, as does the fact...

Can you post your FLA so I can see the arrangement?

If I understand your situation correctly, one solution is to not have a rollOut state for the main button.

In the frame of the movie clip in which it stops with the sub-menu visible construct an...

If you're looking to use a book to teach you from the ground up, look at Foundation Flash for Designers.

If you want reference to quickly look up how to do individual tasks, use the Visual...

I'm trying to create a set of thumbnails that moves across the stage to a certain point when the individual clips in the set are clicked on.

This is an attempt to reproduce part of the...

Wow. Thanks, gparis! I've been trying to get this for hours.

For the benefit of others here is the contents of my test text file with the successful URL encoding for ®:

description=Some...

I'm pulling content for a dynamic HTML formatted text box from a series of client-editable text files using LoadVars.

Flash 8 allows for the use of HTML entites in HTML text, and my client's text...

I'm not certain this is the only thing wrong, but in many of your button actions you have left out the semicolons necessary to end statements. i.e.
on(press){
nextItem=1
play()
} should be ...

Thanks. I understand your point, but a subtle preloader is essentially what I have now, and I would like the preloader to be obvious to the modem user and completely out of the way for the high speed...

Thanks for the thought, but it's not a solution.

I'm dealing with many loads of swf's that are about 30-60k, hardly enough to be worth a preloader on high-bandwidth, even slow DSL, but just enough...

Does anyone have a reference for a movie-clip preloader (for loading external swf's into clip, with loading bar, percentage, etc.) that shows up for low bandwidth users but is hidden or skipped if...