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This thread got me started, and it works beautifully:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=269931

However, I would like to make the height and width of the mc expand and...

Is it possible to resize an external swf once it is loaded into the main movie? And if so, how.

Example:

external swf is 300 x 400

main mc is 200 x 200

external swf loaded into main mc...

Look what I found at Macromedia:

Issue
Text in an editable text field does not display if it is covered by a mask layer.

Reason
The Mask feature in Flash is only capable of masking objects...

I have a text field in a movie clip in a masked layer that is not showing up.

Oddly enough, the movie clip also has a button in it, and it shows up, but the text field does not!

Obvious things...

I found Flash 5.0 would crash on me every time I went to preview my movie. I don't recall the error exactly, but that doesn't matter. I upgraded to version 5.0a, and the problem went away.

It had...

I had alot of trouble with type 12 errors, apparently due to complex mc's and what not. Finally got fed up, and discovered there was an upgrade from Flash 5.0 to Flash 5.0a from Macromedia. It was...

Typography deals with shape, balance and color. You can treat individual characters as abstract shapes and use them to design beautiful forms, maybe a logo or an illustrative shape. A block of text...

Good design is good design, regardless of how it is created. You could hand sketch everything for all I care, and glue macaroni bits on it. If it was designed with the basic principles of design in...

I create software graphics at work, and icons are a large amount of my time.

I use Photoshop, and the pencil tool, mostly. Photoshop is kind of overkill, but it is just good to have for...

You could try a thicker line, it may not take alot (like +.25 or +.5) or you could try the lines at a different angle (it looks like the perspective on your cube is a bit wonky anyway.)

I do have Fontographer, although I haven't had a chance to really use it. At one time I wanted to design a typeface of my printing to use with illustrations. Never got to it...

Anyway, typography...

I studied typography at Algonquin College. The first year was great the second was kinda wonky. Ultimately I left wanting to know more about typography, it's history, typography masters etc.
...

I'm in Ottawa.

I don't have any Keith's, but I have some gin and a martini shaker that looks like a penguin.

Not quite Keith's, or even beer for that matter, but it's the best I could do.

:)

Bring it on! A typography forum, that is.
Tips, tricks, fonts, history... yeah!

I'm excited, really.

I can load an external swf into my main movie, no trouble there. But is it possible to load a specific mc from that swf?

For example: ExternalSwf.swf contains mc1 and mc2.

MainMovie.swf...

I'm trying to build a windows-like hierchical tree in flash. It's a prototype for the new look and feel of our web apps. I need to show a multiple selection of tree items, achieved by holding down...

It would be nice to test it. Anyone got an old machine and like 10 minutes? Take two .flas, pump one up to 30, leave the other at 12 and see what happens. Post the results.

Ultimately, I suspect...

Has anyone experienced this:

In Flash 5, when I preview the movie I'm working on the preview appears, but is frozen. The "minimize" "maximize" and "close" buttons in the title bar of the window do...

Yes, it is all resolved! Thanks PsychoFlasher, you were extremely helpful.

Everything you posted makes sense in my head, but I can't get it to work! Can you help?

Is it possible to set a variable in a .txt doc, and have that variable changed into a variable that loadMovie would recognize as a movie and open it?

example:

<--in the text doc
...

I would like to have a list of links in a txt file that would load into the main swf. These links would point to external swf files, and those files would load into the main swf. Is it possible to...

thanks everyone!

Thanks flea. Your explaination of the problem and form the actionscript should follow makes sense. However, it seems that the action script I'm using may not be the most efficient way to solve this...

This site (link farther down message) has these tabbed panes that slide out, and I like the idea, but wanted to expand on it.

I know how to get the panes to open on the button release. But, how...