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Drawing in as3

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:40 GMT

Hi,

I'm making an advertisement as part of a uni project however I am stuck.

I want the user to be able to colour in lips once the swf file is published and also have the colour change on the click of a button.

Someone please help as I've tried a few and none of them seem to work

How do you create a smaller window for an swf file then have it load on your site in those specific dimensions?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:31:17 GMT

How do I code?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:33:11 GMT

I am trying to make an app, and I can't find ant place that shows me how to code.

When I attempt to add a new key frame into the timeline it adds several frames to my animation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:23:37 GMT

I am trying to edit an FLV file with flash professiona. Right now every frame is on long frame sequence, meaning that right now there is only one key fram in the entire 40 second animation. I am trying to add put key frames at various points in my animation but when I attempt to add a new key frame into the timeline it copies ever frame up to the selected and adds it to the front of my timeline. Any Idea how to fix this? I want to break my video up so I can add some shape tweens in between some of the frames

if i download a flash professional in Trial version in Chinese version how can i change it in to English version? If i delete this Trial version can i download a new Trial version again ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:21:01 GMT

if i download a flash professional in Trial version in Chinese version how can i change it in to English version? If i delete this Trial version can i download a new Trial version again ?

if i download a flash professional in Trial version in Chinese version how can i change it in to English version?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:17:11 GMT

if i download a flash professional in Trial version in Chinese version how can i change it in to English version?

Problems publishing to iOS8.1 devices

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:23:53 GMT

I was able publish my app on to a iOS7 device successfully. When I sync the same app with iOS8.1 device all that I see when I open the application is a blank black screen. Please help.

hello as2 image scroll buttons. I can't get the scroll to work

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:15:03 GMT

Thank you in advance for your help. I am building an vertical image scroll buttons in AS2. but I cant get the scroll to work. Can you please look at my script and see if I am missing something. Thank you again.

topEdge=mask_mc._y;

maskHeight=mask_mc._height;

sliderHeight=slider_mc._height;

ratio=maskHeight/(sliderHeight-maskHeight)

//trace(ratio)

targY=slider_mc._y;

slider_mc.onEnterFrame=function(){

this._y+=(targY-this._y)/5;

}

slider_mc.onMouseMove=function(){

if(mask_mc.hitTest(_ymouse,_xmouse,false)){

targY=topEdge-(mask_mc._ymouse/ratio)

updateAfterEvent();

}

Does Flash Pro support exporting projects to Android Daydream?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:35:03 GMT

I've built an app for the Android platform, but I'd like to create a daydream app (Android screensaver).

Does the Publish settings support this? Any tutorials on this anywhere?

Thanks,

Greg

Hello, I am using flash CS6 on a mac. I cannot find the Motion Editor window anywhere on the flash interface. Can you help? Ben

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:39:31 GMT

Hello, I am using flash CS6 on a mac. I cannot find the Motion Editor window anywhere on the flash interface. Can you help? Ben

Is there a way to use soft brushes in Flash?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:12:42 GMT

I have the latest version of flash and I was wondering if there is a way to use a soft brush to sketch out my animations. A friend of mine suggested to draw them on photoshop or illustrator and just import them to flash. Is there a way to just skip this and directly sketch out my drawing on flash using a soft brush instead of the hard one?

Flash CS3 will not launch

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:27:50 GMT

After years of using Flash CS3 on our Windows 7 computer, it would not launch. So we did a system recovery -(everted to factory image), re-installed Windows and updates, installed Flash CS3, then successfully did the license verification. But Flash CS3 will not launch.

We copied the Flash Icon from the Start Menu to the TaskBar. This is the icon we clicked on to do license verification, but now we can't use it to launch Flash CS3.

Thanks for any ideas.

Computer specs:
HP - Pavilion Elite Desktop

AMD Phenom™ II Processor

8GB Memory

1TB Hard Drive

Model: HPE-210y

Window 7 with Service Pack 1; all updates applied as of 10/26/2014

(I realize Flash CS3 is not meant to work on Win 7, but it has for years on this computer and on a Toshiba laptop, also with AMD processor)

Flash CC, the pencil tool isn't working, it closes the program every time I try to use it, plus the stage in not responding.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:04:45 GMT

Hello, I'm having problems with Flash CC, first the stage wasn't place in the place, the tool bar was cutting off some of the icons and it got worse. Now, every I try to I try to use the pencil tool, it closes the entire Flash CC program, I really need to use flash every day for school, please I need help! How can I fix it?

Why can't I open images in Adobe Flash CS6?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:42:39 GMT

Whenever I make a photo in another application, I cannot find it anywhere when attempting to open it in flash. Is there a certain format I should be saving these photos in? (I'd like to save it so their layers remain the same if possible)

Error: 1 when attempting to open Flash Pro CS4? What's up?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:40:03 GMT

I haven't used my flash pro in a while and today, I gave it a run but an error: 1 displays and says to go to adobe/support to get help.

HELP.

How do I make Flash not look like it's not responding?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:31:20 GMT

When I run a JSFL script that is pretty intensive and in depth, Flash opens up but doesn't draw itself, and lists "not responding" in the window title bar.

My question is how can I make Flash look like it's alive (either have output show up in the output window, or have the stage update to the current frame that is navigated to from JSFL script, or put up some dialog box like the export movie progress bar)? The script sometimes takes about 20-40 seconds to run and the user may think that it's actually crashed.

I print out times of all my processes and functions, and eventually I get an output that seems reasonable. I thought printing output might help, but there doesn't seem to be a flush command for it that will force it to be written out.

Thanks.

Flash is not responding constantly only when I open a more complex project

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 06:35:20 GMT

Hi all,

Originally, I downloaded the free trial of Flash Professional CC 2014 to work on a major project. As my project has become more complex, flash suddenly kept not responding. The issue is not evident when I work on the less complex projects.

I have tried giving the file more space by deleting other flash projects from my computer, as well as clearing drive space, but this has made no difference. The project file is 9.5mb in size.

I then downloaded the full paid version of Flash and the problem is still there.

I have narrowed the issue down to a complex symbol I created, it has multiple layers with around 150 seperate keyframes. The issue started around when I created this symbol, and now when i try to place the symbol into the scene, I am able to grab and drag the symbol, and when I try the program stops responding. Overall without touching the symbol the program is very slow and often stops responding because of simple actions. I hope not to recreate this symbol as that will take up more valuable time.

I hope someone can help as I have a lot more to add to the project.

Specs:

Windows 7 64-bit

Nvidia GeForce GT 525m

4gb ram

Intel Core i7

Flash CC Canvas not playing in Chrome on Mac system. Plays is Safari and Firefox. Help please.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:44:10 GMT

Hi, I'm a beginner. I've used createJs on flashCC for creating some content for web. It's a simple game of one question, you select the correct answer which is ''Fatuo''. The problem I have is that it doesn't play on Chrome of a Mac. In my Pc it works fine.

Please help.

Here's a link to the file in flash CC: http://www.mediafire.com/download/5r9r04mv1lk6imr/Ejercicio+1-S-1.rar

Flash Professional CC Magic Wand Tool not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:33:23 GMT

Simple problem. The magic wand tool wont select anything. There is a little "STOP/NO" on the icon though (The circle with a cross through it). Don't know what's wrong.

Flash Pro, How can preview sound with the vidio on embedded video on the timeline

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:56:12 GMT

I am using a windows 7 based machine Flash Pro CC. I embedded the video on the timeline, basically a person talking. Want to put pictures in and out during certain times of the discussion but when I press play on the preview these is no sound. When I test publish the project I get sound. How do I get the sound on the embedded video to play on the preview?

When using the line tool, The line doesn't show up in the box

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:29:12 GMT

When I click the line tool and use it in the white box it does not show up at all but it will show up outside the box. Please help.

Resize swf file

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:04:33 GMT

Hello!

I have a 1000x1000 px swf file. can i simply resize it to 500x500 without i change the code in html?
I mean i need a code to swf ( maybe a as or smthing )

Greetings;

flash player on our ipad and iphone

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:49:32 GMT

flash player on our ipad and iphone

how do we save publish settings?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:59:31 GMT

hi every body !

In order to have the same publish settings each time i open a new document, how do i save them ?

i dont want the Jpg quality set to 80 by default. but 100

Thanks !

Adobe delete lots of things!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:42:31 GMT

What the meow? Adobe deleted a lot of useful things in Flash from CC

Such as Decoration Tool, Bone Tool, AS1, 2... However these things

are still in CS6. Can anyone tell me why??????

Flash Professional hanging while startup

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:22:30 GMT

I installed Flash Professional CC 2014 and it was working fine. But now it will simply not launch and keeps hanging at 'Loading Document Templates' during start up. I tried cleaning up the Flash CC 2014 folder under AppData\Local\Adobe and re-starting the system. But it doesn't seem to help. I am using Flash Professional CC 2014 and Windows 7.

Thanks.

Help: Have Flash CC, but need CS5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:43:57 GMT

Hey everyone! I hope you all can help me out with this one. I need to learn Flash CS5 for a test I'm taking, but only have Flash CC. As you know, a number of features from CS5 are not active in CC (bones, motion editor, etc), making it very difficult to learn. Is there anyway within CC I can work in a legacy format and gain access to CS5?

Thanks in advance!

jim

Can't stop .swf movie from looping

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 13:38:04 GMT

I just started using glad pro, and I'm trying to make a flash movie for my website silhouetteofscience.com. Now the movie loops continuously, which is really distracting. I want to stop it from looping. I searched the problem on Google and tried editing the last block, as well as changing the action script, but I can only get it to stop looping when I use an HTML wrapper. This is a problem, as I want the video to display directly on my main website page. Any suggestions?

Pencil/Brush Tool Bug with Wacom Cintiq 13HD

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:07:14 GMT

Hello everybody,

Today I got a CC abo to use Flash Professional, sadly a bug is occurring.

I downloaded the software today using the Adobe creative cloud software, so it should be up-to-date.

When trying to draw (using a Wacom Cintiq 13hd) a line using the brush or the pencil tool, the line appears at a different spot. When putting the Cintiq pen away from the tablet, the displaced line bends in a straight line towards the spot where my actual pen was placed.

I already tried reinstalling Flash and my (up-to-date) Cintiq driver as well as an older driver version, nothing helped.

When I used the tial version of Flash some months ago this bug did not occur.

It also does not occur when using the mouse to draw or using other software (e.g. Photoshop).

I am using Microsoft Windows 8.1 64 bit.

4 GB RAM.

Intel Core i5-3210M CPU 2.50 GHz

If you need more information, please tell me.

English isn't my mother tongue so I have some problems describing the problem properly, but I hope you get what I mean

I appreciate your help,

Kind regards

Can't Export Flash as MOV.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 02:23:10 GMT

Okay I have spend days working on a flash video, and I go to export it and it won't let me.

When I say that I mean it "exports" like 75% and then a screen pops up saying, can't complete export not enough memory or some BS like that. I'm using CS6 by the way.

I try fiddling with some setting and now this is what pop ups.

I go to try and find my "Library" but I can't and I don't know what to do. I have literally been crying over this for 5 hours. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, 2 questionss here>is it possible or is there a way to convert all object s outlines in all frames to fills at once and not frame by frame? and why sometimes erases the outline instead of converting it to fill?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 03:06:42 GMT

Hello, 2 questionss here>is it possible or is there a way to convert all object s outlines in all frames to fills at once and not frame by frame? and why sometimes erases the outline instead of converting it to fill?

Raster?/single layer image import, Flash CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:33:49 GMT

Hi all!

Working on an engaging educational project which will become an app if all goes well.

My idea, my design & only myself working on it. (Which of course IS the problem lol, I don't actually know any other adobe users).

Trying to import a single layer image into flash from an multi-layered illustrator artboard comprised of quite complex drawn components.

The quality I need is .swf, but try as hard as I may, I cant seem to get the import method down pat.

My theory goes: same size artboard/canvas, so I can draw the basics, import into flash library, roughly animate, then improve the graphics and animation/s as I go.

Sometimes I can import a single .swf, (exported from Illustrator as .swf single layer,

all options set to produce a single image supposedly) and it consists of only one .swf component which is what I want.

Other times the same import process will result in multiple symbols and its just a huge mess in library, but of course...

not a problem if imported to stage then converted to a symbol. (I just group all together on stage, and create a named library folder with all the component

symbols in it, then create symbol and have the movie clip/graphic in the root folder).

Tried exporting as .png etc importing as flattened bitmap rah rah and quite simply I am lost as to the most efficient way to do this despite reading my head off.

What method would a pro use please?

Motion Tween without losing animation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:17:31 GMT

I have made a character following a tutorial and I made a walk cycle out if it. The next step was to motion tween it but it told me "multiple objects are selected, you must convert to a symbol in order to tween them. Do you wan to convert and tween them? I click ok and although I was able to motion tween him, i lost my animation. So my question is how do I not lose the animation and keep the motion tween so I can animate him moving forward?

Flash 5of6 - YouTube

Flash CS6 Crashes every time I create or open a project. How to fix?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:22:21 GMT

I have updated flash, windows and java, have re-installed flash CS6, restarted my computer and reset my preferences but still flash crashes.

This is what it looks like:

As soon as I click anywhere in the program it changes to the not responding screen.

Please Help

My flash is not working I try to open but it doesn't work

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:47:48 GMT

PLz I need help my flash is not opening I need to do my project I need help.

If you have a solution then plz help me

Flash Professional CS6 Tutorial

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:41:42 GMT

Could someone please recommend a good and comprehensive Flash Professional CS6 Tutorial other than the ones that Adobe feature in its site (I'm a beginner)?

Cant download extension. Please help me troubleshoot.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:53:53 GMT

I am currently new to Flash Pro, and at the suggestion of the tutorial course I am YouTubeing, I am attempting to download the extension "KeyFrameCaddy." This issue occurs when I attempt to install the extension in that the manager prompts with "This extension cannot be installed, it requires Flash version 12 or greater." I downloaded the latest version of flash and when that did not resolve the problem I rebooted my computer. I've also checked and the extension claims to be compatible with my version of Flash Pro (CS5.5). Since that is the end of my knowledge as a computer expert (or fledgling) and the problem still persists, I need the actual expertise of the internet. Please help me.

First time Flash use

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:55:15 GMT

I'm using Flash CS4. Believe it or not after having the CS4 suite for years I've never played with Flash itself.

So, I exported a 6-page document from InDesign to a XFL file and opened it in Flash, saving the file as a FLA file. My Joomla website can accept FLV files. How do I get from FLA to FLV? I believe I will need some way to have a next and previous button on the pages of the Flash file. In other words, no autoplaying of the movie.

Thank you in advance.

Adobe Flash CS6 fatal exception error.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:20:21 GMT

I have now had this problem for months and am now getting frustrated by it. Everytime I run flash cs6 it crashes and gives me a crash log file on my desktop. I have tried everything, I have re-installed flash over and over again, tried to see if files were missing in the c drive, I have pressed ctrl+shift+alt before it starts and delete the settings. But it still does not work.

If you think you know the answer please help

Since swf files cannot be attached to published flash documents for iPad, what format can be attached?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:20:59 GMT

I have a multi-page animated book for iPad developed in Flash 6. Because of its length and to run more smoothly on an iPad, I’ve divided the pages into fifty separate documents –the last frame of each each page would load the next page, a back button would load the previous page. My question is: since an swf file or anything containing actionscript 3 coding cannot be imported or attached to a published flash document, does Adobe have a solution to this problem?

Deactivating videos when skipping from page to page

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:48:38 GMT

I have recently purchased a 1 month version of Flash CC ( 6 ) and installed it on a windows operating system. I am developing a preschool software with videos on each frame and 2-3 two frame animations around it. Now here is my problem - After rendering the movie and opening the SWF file, i notice that when i skip from one page to the next, the videos that were activated in the previous page still play when i leave that frame, and when i sit on the next frame. What do i do to stop the video in one page from playing till the end, when i jump to another page. Is there a code snippet for this ?

How can I find flash media playback setup page? Flash media playback OSMF site - missing, hijacked, bad DNS?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:39:00 GMT

How can I find flash media playback setup page? Flash media playback OSMF site - missing, hijacked, bad DNS?

moving a Chacter in flash

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 24 May 2014 08:44:53 GMT

I am finding it hard to make my charcter move in flash. I want its arms and legs to move at different times and not sure how to do this. Please can you help me?

Flash Action Script 3 is giving me 1120 error help please!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 21 May 2014 19:11:24 GMT

I am having trouble coding this tutorial. I have changed it a little to fit my photos. I am getting this error 1120 below:

Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 1 1120: Access of undefined property btn1.

Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 2 1120: Access of undefined property btn2.

Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 3 1120: Access of undefined property btn3.

Scene 1, Layer 'actions', Frame 1, Line 4 1120: Access of undefined property btn4.

I don't really understand the coding and need help fixing this problem. I believe their code is wrong because my gallery will not work from the tutorial.

The code I have is below:

stop(); btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play1); function play1(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("rosie") }

btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play2); function play2(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("mel") }

btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play3); function play3(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("liz") }

btn4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play4); function play4(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop("kayla") } ;

The code that was given to me is below: (Source:How to create a simple image gallery in flash cs5) :

stop(); btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play1); function play1(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("young") } btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play2); function play2(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("thoughtful") } btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play3); function play3(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("dancing") } btn4.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,play4); function play4(event:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndStop ("old") }

Can anyone help me with this tutorial or coding! That would be great. Thanks!!

flash button link help

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 May 2014 07:04:54 GMT

i have a flash website template where i have done all the editing for my website but now on profile page i create a button and i want when i click on that button that button will take me on another page which is already in that template, but i can't create that. Please assit me asap.

I have create that button on "symbol 25 copy 2" and i want that button take me on "symbol 25 copy 4"

How do I stop the background opening a different frame, instead of buttons?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 05 May 2014 19:44:17 GMT

I've made an interactive story, using 2 or 3 buttons on each page. The buttons work, but the problem is the background, if i accidently click on the background it sends me to another frame. what can i do to stop this? the backgrounds are a movieclip if that changes anything.

unknown error

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:44:29 GMT

i am getting 'unknown error' when attempting to edit text on a pdf saved doc...plz help

Istance movieclip

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:46:00 GMT

i have 3 moviclip on stage:

corn1

corn2

corn3

and this call function:

border1.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, addcorn(1) );

public function addcorn(ncorn) {

return function(event:MouseEvent):void {

var corn = "corn"+ncorn;

corn.x=10;

corn.y=21;

};

}

AND THIS ERROR!!!:

Property instanceName not found on String and there is no default value!

WHY?????

Some symbols won't tween, others will

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:43:00 GMT

In my Flash HTML5 file I have 4 symbols on separate layers. I want them to turn from color to gray at a certain point in the timeline. At first it worked fine, now only two of them will do it. Any ideas?

FAQ: Flash Professional CC - Cannot find Toolkit for CreateJS.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:49:43 GMT

With it's latest update, Flash Professional CC introduces the HTML5 document type, which uses CreateJS libraries when publishing HTML5 content. Hence, Toolkit for CreateJS will not be available as an extension in Flash CC. To publish HTML5 content, you can use the new HTML5 Canvas document type. For more information, see Creating and publishing HTML5 Canvas content. You can also convert existing ActionScript content to HTML5, for more information, see Converting and reusing ActionScript assets in HTML5 Canvas | Adobe Flash Professional CC.