So you have now placed a swf file into your html page and you want to be able to see through it. Lucky for you, this is a very easy thing to do! The following code does the trick: <object type=‘application/x-shockwave-flash’ data=‘flash/home_side_left.swf’ width=’40px’ height=’550px’> <param name=‘movie’ value=‘flash/home_side_left.swf’ /> <param name=‘bgcolor’ value=‘#ffffff’>
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I just hate it how everything always wants to update… and then restart all the damn time! First things first: This pops up telling me it’s doing a 309.6MB Adobe Reader Update! Which to me is just crazy… Surely the constant updates shouldn’t be a million times larger than the actual initial install file for
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Error: “1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: InteractiveScene3DEvent.” I got this this morning when I opened up a project I have been working on. I was using the Flash IDE to compile and FlashDevelop to code in as I am not the biggest fan of the Flash IDE for coding
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Today I tried to save arabic text inside a javascript file and on saving encountered a dialog box asking me to first convert the document to UTF8. Why it didnt just do it for me I’ll never know, so I had to do it myself. If you encounter this then do the following to convert
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Today I discovered that Flash truly has a limit! 16,000 frames: Exceeding this limit causes the movie playback to stop. While this limit is rarely reached by most developers, it is possible. If your movie must have more than this number of frames,try creating multiple movies with fewer than 16,000 frames each and then linking
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Ever wondered how to get variables from an html page to a flash element? Well, it’s quite easy using the following actionscript 2 example: I use javascript to embed my flash elements: <embed src=”somefilename.swf?varname=varvalue&vartwo=var2value” width=”550″ height=”400″></embed> Now in Flash I can just call: _root.varname and it will give us `varvalue` _root.vartwo will give us `var2value`
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tween is an actionscript class and can be used after importing the core files. import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; //Tween( obj:Object, prop:String, func:Function, begin:Number, finish:Number, duration:Number, useSeconds:Boolean); e.g. var myRot:Tween = new Tween(myText, "_rotation", Elastic.easeOut, 0, 360, 3, true);
// Created by Andrew Odendaal // // :: DESCRIPTION :: // Animate a ball moving to the top // of the screen/stage and back again // // :: HOW TO USE :: // create a circle shape, convert to a movieclip(mc) and // place the registration point at the bottom center. // give the circle
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So adobe updater keeps doing updates eventhough you’ve said ‘NEVER DO IT AGAIN!!!’. The fix is to physically remove the dir with the info in. On a windows system go to ‘c:\program files\common files\adobe\’, there is a nasty little folder called UPDATER5 in there that you can DELETE! PROBLEM SOLVED
