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Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1
There is plenty of reasons why you would like to create a grid in Flash, if you are creating a sudoku a crossword activity or a chess game you will surely need to create a grid with cells that need to be interactive and able to display some kind of data (graphics or text). If you try to draw a grid using the Flash drawing tools you will quickly notice that it is a tedious process that requires a lot of patience, no need to say that it is not the best and more efficient way of doing it. As long as you just need a couple of cells it is fine to do it manually but when you need to create a 50x50 grid it can quickly become a real nightmare.
How to convert FLV to 3GP for free? Last post by: desertfish Date: 12.10.2009 07:41:08
And you need flash player 9 or other versions to open it?
1>create 3 key frames
then make the boxes thin for hard parts and thick for easy parts
Before we go any further, I would like to point out that some of the screen shots are from the Western Australian Museum's "Western Australia: Land and People" exhibition. Demonstrated in that project are the principles we are discussing here. Their great content and our stylish Flash MX work produced an inspiring virtual exhibition.
All the Flash features are available from there. So, whenever you're looking for something?this is the place to start!
Instead outputing an SWF as we would if we were putting Flash on a webpage, we would output an executable file known as a Projector File.
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Choose File > Open. Open a Flash movie you have created.
Many of these features are available through the settings in the form:
We use tellTarget to control the movie playhead to move to our new created movie and go the certain frame by its Frame Label. Drag the new movie on the stage between the val1 and val2 input boxes. Give it an instance name (Ctrl + I) TellTarget wont work without the instance name.
File: It allows creating, opening and saving archives? Import has exceptional power; it inserts to the current movie nearly all types of archives (sounds, videos, images and even Flash movies) or the Publication Settings option from which you can modify the characteristics of the publications. It also enables to configure the printing pages, print them, etc?
Font: From here, as well as in the more common text editors, we can select the preferable type of letter or "font".
The guides in Adobe Flash CS3 can be edited to have a different appearance than the default. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to edit guides in Flash CS3.
I do not see a tutorial on getting started with FLASH cs3
2. In the first frame of the circle layer draw a green circle about 50x50. Double-click it to select both stroke and fill and choose Modify>>Convert to Symbol (F8). Set circleMC for the name, MovieClip as type and center to registration point as in the picture below:
1. Open up a new movie, and go to file > import. Pick a movie from your selection, and embed it. Leave most of the settings as they are, (you can increase quality if you want to help drawing, but big files take a long time to open,) and click open. Don?t worry about the size, we?ll be throwing away all the video at the end. Once it?s finished importing, (make a coffee if its over 40Mb,) lock the layer the movie?s in.
What we're going to do is have your file load an XML file from your site to both track a thief and thwart them. First, you need to create the XML file. In your favorite text editor make a new file (you can create an empty action script file in flash) and insert the following:
The fourth argument 'allowFalse' is a boolean value(true/false) which is used to specify whether the three different types of protection, protect from over-write, protect from deletion and hide from for..in loop constructs can be set to false. If this value is ommited(not passed) then the default value 'false' is used, meaning you cannot un-protect from over-write, you cannot un-protect from deletion and you cannot un-hide from the for..in loop construct. ASSetPropFlags was exposed in Flash 5, however the fourth argument 'allowFalse' was not required as it always defaulted to the value 'true'. When Flash MX was released, people tested to see if this function still existed, obviously it did exist and so the clever people amongst the beta testers, used this function to get a list of all the undocumented objects,methods,properties and functions that existed in Flash MX:
Welcome! So you want to learn Flash huh? Excellent choice. Flash is fast becoming a powerhouse tool for web designers all over the world. It's ability to create rich animated media for the web while still keeping file sizes manageable makes it perfect for today's multimedia audiences.
Click in the first frame of layer 2 to select it. Switch to the Text tool (T). Type "Simple Calculator", "First Number", "Second Number", and "Total" on the Stage.
The code below lies on the buttons which activate the sliding effect. Use different numbers to move the MC to the different locations designated above.
Now all you have to do is draw a line and place your "slider button" on it. Bingo, a sliding volume control.
In the first part of this two-part tutorial we created a Flash movie in which the lights in a house immediately turn on when the user "rings" the doorbell. In part two, we'll add the sound of footsteps as our homeowner walks to answer the door and turn the lights on after the footsteps stop.
Note: This tutorial assumes you're familiar with creating Flash documents, using the drawing tools, inserting layers, importing audio files and converting images to symbols.
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash. You may get Flash Designer here.
You've probably seen this in a lot of shooting games. A crosshair follows the mouse around the screen. This tutorial demonstrates how to make horizontal and vertical lines follow the cursor.
To delete a SharedObject from the local computer, you must firstly delete all of the properties contained inside the data object of the SharedObject instance and then you must flush the SharedObject instance, here are the methods that will do that for you. Inherited Method:
My Flash file is called: myMovie so all the names are automatically a variation on that theme. File 1: myMovie.html This appears to be a blank web page. In actual fact it has a Flash movie on this page. It is not visible as it is just a white square. Although this movie is not visible, it is busy detecting which version of the Flash Player the Browser has installed.
So ive created a movieclip method that will display a fraction correctly for you. This function creates one container movieclip, which inside contains two textfields and one movieclip, the first textfield contains the numerator, the second textfield contains the denominator and the movieclip contains a line between the numerator and the denominator drawn using the drawing api.
Flash 8 counts with the most handy and intuitive environment or working interface. Moreover it has an advantage because it is similar to other Macromedia programs (Dreamweaver, Freehand, Director), it makes easier to assuming Flash, and faster its management and control. We will see this after opening Flash 8 for the first time:
1. Decide what you want your intro to be like before starting. You can add onto or take off of this as much as you want because flash will show you what it can do after you've started. Lets start with what mine was going to look like. The difficulty of this is that you can't show the timeline very well with just one picture so try making a few.
1. First of all, open flash. Make a new doc using the default dimensions, this won't matter since we wont be making anything entirely too complicated. The main thing we will be focusing on is actionscript. I used the dimensions : 300 X 200 You may use these if you prefer to do this exactly the way I did. Or if you want to use a different size, you will have to edit the script, which is explained at the bottom of this page.
Illustrator is also a great place for you to work with text, and with recent changes, you can now copy-and-paste text right into the Flash interface and the text remains editable.
The secret of animation in Flash, as in the movies, is that nothing ever really moves. A Flash movie creates the illusion of movement by quickly displaying a sequence of still images. Each still image is slightly different. Your brain fills in the gaps to give you the impression of movement.
We will make something more fun today. We will make a flash movie clip where a ball follow our mouse movement. Our final flash movie example will look something like this:
One of the most frequently asked questions down in the forum is how to make a media player. This is done pretty easily in Flash. In this tutorial, we'll start with a simple player, and then make it more and more advanced. So, let's begin! In this tutorial I assume you use Flash MX
Note: This full screen mode will only work when you are running the Flash Movie from your local computer (like from a CD) and will not work if the Movie is viewed on the Internet.
To find out the root directory where all relative file paths that the MMSave function recieves, will resolve to, use this function:
In Timeline select the first keyframe of the "imgsnow" layer and, in main stage, move the "initial.jpg" at next position: X=148.3, Y= -17.8.
After extracting the information, we have to display it in the text field somehow. In Flash MX, text fields are treated as objects and can now have instance names (whereas in Flash 5 you had to use a variable name). To insert text into the text field, we will use the "text" property of the text field ("itemLabel" was the instance name). And since the text field is inside of the movie clip, we use the path "item.itemLabel.text".
5. This line saves your highScore into the cookie on the user's computer so it can be retrieved later. You will need to change "highScore" to the name of your high score variable.
The above action sets the property of flashtext, which is the instance name of our movie clip, to increase its X and Y scales 200%
Hi and welcome to this tutorial. This tutorial covers SharedObject. SharedObject is a kind of cookie for Flash. Though, SharedObject is much more powerful. SharedObject isn't just a way of saving mere strings on the client's hard disk, you can store texts, strings, numbers and even objects. For instance, if you want to save a date object in JavaScript you would have to go though a whole encoding process, with SharedObject you just save it, and be ready.
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash. You may get Flash Designer here.
Flash CS3 comes with a whole library of premade buttons for you to use in your Flash projects. (To be honest, most of them look pretty cheesy but there are a few gems.) Choose Buttons from the Window>Common Libraries menu. This opens a Library panel containing folders of button symbols. Double-click on the Classic Buttons folder and then the Arcade Buttons folder. With the first keyframe in the button layer selected, click-and-drag the Arcade Button - Red onto the stage. With it still selected, give it an Instance Name of button in the Property inspector.
System.showSettings() is an actionscript method which pops open the Settings menu as and when you call it. It accepts an optional argument which is used to specify which one of the four settings tabs you want to display:
10. Bring the ball back to its original position on 50 th frame and change the alpha value to 100% .
LoadMovie has some problems attached to it. If you're just loading a piece of text in a swf, not much can go wrong. But when loading whole parts of like a site, things can get messy. The first problem you can encounter is that if you use _root.gotoAndPlay() in the loaded movie, the main movie will change frame. This is because when you load a swf in a MovieClip, _root doesn't refer to the _root of the swf that is loaded, but it referres to the _root of the swf that has loaded the file. There are a few ways of taking care of this problem. The first is just not to use _root. You can use this and _parent instead. The second, is to use _lockroot. This property sets what _root referres to. So if you set _lockroot in a Movieclip to true, _root in all it's child MovieClips will refer to that MovieClip. So if you set _lockroot to true in _root, then that MovieClip (dont forget: _root is also a MovieClip) will allways be _root, no matter what happens. This will only work in Flash Player 7 or higer.
Cross Ref: For a practical tutorial on how to compress Flash movies with embedded sound files see: Optimizing a Flash Movie
In process of your web design template customization maybe you'll need to insert to insert your company logo or images in flash animated header. Here you'll find quick guide of how to do that.
Even so, create animations with texts, can end in many hours of work and great patience. The results are incredible, but in these cases it could be reasonable to use some programs designed for this objective. Among others the Swish, the FlaX or the MiX-Fx make stand out, you will be able to create astonishing text effects in few minutes, although you will not be able neither to enjoy the Flash 8 environment nor to use the rest of tools disposed by it.