Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / January 2005

Hi all http://www.take40.com/index.php click ont he singles chart, one click on
the scroll bar gets you one row per time down or up. Is this a scrollable
datagrid, I want to learn how to do one like this.  Any advice, tips,
components would be great.

Is it posible to open a brouser windows inside a flash.exe?

Hopefully someone can help me with this problem.  I am using flash video on
websites by exporting as FLV out of final cut pro.   My problem is I design web
sites using a PC, so that is where my macromedia Studio is installed.  So, I
need to have the FLV exporter on my mac to ...

I'm really drinkin' a beer on this one.  What do you do when you've lost your .fla file and your customer wants their changes fast.
Ron

I want to download a flash movie that i found to my desktop, but how do I do that? Pleas Help!

I am having an issue with the UI components and wondered if anyone know what
could be wrong.   The following components show up as white boxes:      
comboboxes (have no dropdown arrow or data inside),      textareas (won't
display text),      listboxes (won't display list),      ...

another thing that would really work great for us is batch publishing.. is
this possible?
if i have a project set up on a fileserver that consists of MANY directories
and subdirectories of fla files and other resources buried in many

I'm using a mask within a mc on the rollover of a button which works fine, but
the mask is being picked up as part of the hit area - even though the mc
containing the mask isn't in the hit area. Any ideas?

I am not exctly sure what the registration mark does. I know that it sets that 0,0 point for the object but what does it really do?
Thanks a lot for your answer.
Take care.

Wondering about the best way to get a pre loader to work. I have a
flash menu (gfx intensive) that comes up (that needs a pre loader) and
each item on the menu has a long MC that will individually need pre
loading bar (unless already loaded).

I am trying to import some Illustrator artwork into Flash.  I need to maintain
the transparency and also keep them as vector objects.
It was suggested on this forum  that I save my artwork as .eps and then open
in Freehand.   I have tried this but the artwork looks incredibly bad ...

Any of you had the same problem ? All the prelaoders I use in a 2MB movie start
from 350KB then they work fine up to 2000 KB.
It waits like nothing happents untill it loads 350KB then the line starts
moving up to the 2000 kb (total file size).

to get the navigation url to work right.  The page loads automatically when I
click my movie.  I just want the buttons to go to certain url of my choice.  I
chose something in the library, went to the ...

I have sent several people files done in Flash  MX 2004 and they have had problems opening them. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks, Shell

I need to publish a movie with a bg pattern, width=100% height=100%,
margintop=0, marginleft=0
You can see an example of what I want at
http://www.trevorleighton.com/home.htm