I agree with SarahBon.. Can we see Examples of Flash Catalyst?..  Thanks!

I'm one of those "people" referred to as "doing risky things" and have invested much sweat and frustration in creating a website using Illustrator CS4, PS CS4 and Flash Catalyst.

I'll post the link when it's done.

Technically I'm an idiot.  I've been repeatedly creating the same website for months now, creating a bit, saving the file, recovering from the inevitable crash (desperately hoping there's a beta 3 - I check every day).  It's a bit insane when you think about it.

The fact is that I need a killer website and I can't do it in Flash.

I don't know if it's me and a handful of other people who just can't seem to crack the Flash barrier, but I've spent countless hours studying, practicing, taking FLA files apart, bit-by-bit and I stil don't get it.  And I've been a programmer for 25 years.  I'm an artist though and that's probably the problem and also why FC is so appealing.  It does the work behind the scenes (in-between crashes).

BUT - there's something positive in this.  The longer I work with FC, the more I understand how Flash works.  I didn't expect that to happen.  I wouldn't be surprised if some day I create my website entirely in Flash simply because I know FC so well.

-jh

I think pioneers are really just people too stupid to know when to quit... ;o)

It would actually be cool to start building a library as well on the Flash Catalyst exchange -

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc= 28

Schwiet thats looking great man.. when you made the gallery....did you basically create a new "state" for every image?

oh.. I wasn't aware of that maximum... I have a gallery with well over 20 photos. I wonder how I could work around that then....

here is one i'm working on:

[edit] link removed at poster's request

anyone know how to make a preloader?

This is a project I'm working on: http://www.leonaralvarez.com. It's my personal portfolio and it's still in progress.

Hello!

I've created a website with Fc, it's a website created as a presentation for a design of a lamp.

Enjoy

www.bklightstyle.nl

Hello again,

It works for me. The website is about 25 mb so it can take a while to load

Can you try it again now? I think i messed the main.html / index.html up

A bit strange, when i go to www.bklightstyle.nl in chrome it displays it perfectly. Initially the page is blank and you can't see a thing, but after a few moments (depending on your connectionspeed, it's a flashfile of 25 mb)

Please check it again, if it's still not working, please tell me what you see (or don't for that matter)

Cheers

Hi Sarah,

The U.S. Navy SEALs have just re-vamped their site using Catalyst. As the designer I can say it helped me score a home run with the command. Give it a try.

http://sealswcc.com

All the best with your creation,

Jim

dragotron!

to make your gallery happen you should create a custom component! those haver ther own "pages/states". I just made an horizontal image scroll bar with 30 thumbnails and when you clic on them the "big" image appears. Fc is really cool.

I thought on this topic I would see all sorts of examples of peoples work??  Ideas and examples of stretching the boundries.

I have want to build a user interface for my small business, a place where all my business administrative needs are prioritized and all action I need to take are prioritized and listed so I can perform better. I also want to build into the design different screens so that my client and suppliers can also work collaboratively with me for maximum productivity.

My business is property related, and property repairs and improvements to be specific.

My user interface so far can be seen here.

But I am struggling with splitting the design into components and with navigation and datalist components... Any help gratefully received if you are interested in the design.

http://www.milessimpler.com/FlashCatalyst/Main.html

Hi Brad.

It is great to hear from you, thanks for your feedback. I am really enjoying

Catalyst and cant wait to buy it so I can phone adobe when I get stuck.

Could you help at all about navigating from component to component? You can

see I have designed the first page to be a 'dashboard' with quick links to

important stuff and the idea is for the button to go direct to a different

section of the app. Problem is I have realized that in Catalyst the only

navigation you get is from inside one component to states of that

component?? You can't change level? If you see what I mean.

It looks like its well mapped out, and I think im getting the hang of it but

now have reached the stage where I need some help to understand how to

separate components and where to use states so I can keep building; I would

really love some help! Are you available or do you know the right person I

could speak to??

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you,

Kind regards

Stuart Miles

Hello, can anyone please tell me how you can remove the top bar like the window, when you make an AIR Application and run it. And, how to make the background transparent. Can this be made in Flash Catalyst ? Or in Flash Builder (i`m new to this). Thank you very much !

My e-mail: rtalinga@yahoo.com    .Thank you in advance and sorry for my english !

Nicely done.  Everything works as I would expect when I visit a Flash website.

Did you notice that when you go to the gallery and click on a an image's thumbnail - and then leave the gallery by clicking a link to a different page on the site - and then go back to the gallery - the image is still the same one you last clicked on, rather than resetting to the first image?

I think sometimes that's desirable, but when I was learning FC, I wanted my gallery image to reset to the the first image if the user left the page and then came back.

It was a number of months ago (like 6 or 10 or something) and I posted asking how to do that and there is a solution, but I don't remember what it was.  It came from Adobe support and it's in the forum somewhere.  If I can find my email I'll post it, in case others would want to be able to have that option.

Or maybe y'all know that.  I haven't visited the forum for a while - I JUST WANT CS5 DESIGN PREMIUM!!!!!  I CAN'T STAND WAITING!!!!

Why is a month sometimes like - forever?

-jh

This could be exactly what you said and if it is I apologize - I'm not normally coherent until noon or so......

I was switching between 2 galleries of images (artwork and photography) and the way I was trying to fix it wasn't working.  The fades between views was an added complication.

This was the response from Adobe on the reset (I don't know if this will even makes sense to anyone without some context):

Hi Jeff,

I can see the problem you're hitting.  We'll investigate this on our end, but in the meantime here's a workaround:

1. Change the Artwork state setting back to default

2. I assume you have two main states, one where the Artwork component is visible and one where Photography is visible instead.  Select the transition that goes from Photography back to Artwork.

3. Select the Artwork component (in other words, the component that is +becoming+ visible during the transition)

4. In Timelines, click Add Effect > Set Component State

5. In the Properties panel, select "image001" as the state to set.

6. Make sure the little tickmark for this item in the Timeline is at the beginning of (or before) the Artwork fade-in so that the state changes before Artwork starts becoming visible.

Hope that helps!

- Peter

-jh

Here is mine! They have a few bugs and the secnd link takes to long to load so I didnt finish that site but they look nice

http://dylanwhite.net/test/

http://dylanwhite.net/new/Main.html

Here is a fun little sight I am working on.

The links are not fully functional it's still a work in progress.

http://moonlightdigital.me/deploy-to-web/Main.html

http://moonlightdigital.me/about/about.html