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    Monday, August 16th, 2004
    2:10 pm
    [xitsmylifex]
    What is the average you would charger per hour to do flash of any nature, whether it be a simple banner or a big intro?

    my reason for asking )

    Current Mood: frustrated
    8:00 pm
    [tanoshii_ru]
    ?
    Hi all!

    I'm dummy in flash design, but I want to create flash site...
    Today I found here http://www.koalatemplate.com/ some flash web site templates. What do you think about it?
    Friday, August 13th, 2004
    2:14 pm
    [apmeh]
    База ActionScript 5,MX,MX2004
    http://www.as.vonces.ru
    функции, прототипы...
    Thursday, August 12th, 2004
    3:46 pm
    [wiebke]
    Flash and search engines
    I've been asked by a client to do search engine marketing work, which would not be any problem EXCEPT this client's web site is 100% flash, with text elements at all. The whole site is contained in one page, in one movie with a lot of different scenes.

    While the site is very nice, I told the client I could *try* to do my normal work (keyword research, applicable tweaks, submit the site, track it) but that I didn't think it'd work well because search engines just don't dig Flash sites. This is a link I sent the client giving an overview of the situation.)

    Now tell me, am I understanding things right? Is there something I can do? Or something that could help?

    Current Mood: curious
    4:34 pm
    [evil_queen_nola]
    Random b/g music
    Is there any actionscripting for Flash MX of having random backround sounds where it would change after a certain amount of time or is that only can be done with like a player on the interface where u have to change the song manually cuz i want random tracks to be played swapping after a certain amount of time for the flash interface that my group is gonna created. I'm assigned with action scripting part of flash so yeah if you understand what I mean I would really REALLY apppreciate any assistance or any tutorials you may know of..

    Help *pouts*

    Huggies, Kissies and Lots of Love
    ::Evil Queen Nola::
    Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
    12:00 pm
    [nerddorkdweeb]
    streaming flash video
    Hi, im looking to have a streaming movie load in Flash on a page a made in Dreamweaver. From what ive read I need to use the Flash video exporter to turn my .mov into a .flv. All of the tutorials im finding tell me to use the [Media Playback Component] and then drag the .flv into that. However I don’t want the user to be able to control the video id like it to just load and start streaming, any idea’s? Also if anyone has any input on how to add the flash content I will make into my Dreamweaver page that’s would be great. Thanks so much for the help!
    12:04 pm
    [sergeyk]
    How to kill focus?
    Please, advice me the way how I can remove focus from all the objects. Not to set it on another object via focusManager.setFocus(), but remove it completely.
    Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
    1:13 pm
    [masychev]
    Searching in Flash/Director Presentation
    Hi!
    I am a new member of the community and I am afraid I won't be the first who is asking this old good question :-)

    Is it possible to make a full-text search (and keyword-based search as well) in the Flash/Director presentation? The presentation is located on CD.

    Thank you,
    Alex.
    Friday, July 30th, 2004
    11:24 am
    [zuvysurfer]
    The Pricing Wormhole...
    As the market of available designers continues to inflate, many desperate professionals begin to work for pennies on the dollar. They're shorting themselves, and they're eroding the industry.

    Article Continues...> )
    Sunday, July 25th, 2004
    4:57 pm
    [mage67]
    Autism Software in Flash
    I put up a very rough demo for some software I'm developing ofr Autistic kids to learn how to read.

    Tell me what you think?
    Friday, July 23rd, 2004
    2:57 pm
    [matthias382]
    Want to play Spot the Bottleneck?

    I've got a Flash movie with a fairly large bottleneck in it (somewhere in the neighborhood of a 20-second delay). It happens when an onPress event is responded it and the movie just seems to sit there "spinning its wheels" as it were. The end result of the event is to redirect to a different Scene in the movie. That scene has events that occur when it finishes loaded that appear to happen fairly quickly. It's just the transition between the scenes that seems fairly slow, which leads me to believe that it lies somewhere in my event handling. Is there a better way to do what I'm doing, or am I way off-course on what my problem might be?

    Here's the code... )


    The problem ended up being (I think) that there were too many other objects (and thus too many other listeners) in the movie. I'm going to try exporting the objects to individual movies and dynamically import whichever one is requested. Hopefully, that will speed things up.

    Current Mood: aggravated
    Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
    12:40 pm
    [daymine]
    Uhum... How to start. First of all, I truly hope I found community with tolerance and patience. I'm very new to whole lj-community, just joined yesterday. I'm also very new to all graphic design and computers generally... so, I came here to learn.
    I wish you could give me loads of time before I actually come up with any ready design. I do have some basic computer knowledge, although not with Macs. I have vector and pixel programs as well as Flash, but like I mentioned, I 'm new with this all.. I have played arounf Flash a little bit, make silly animations, but never made buttons or use any AS for Flash... Or even upload my animations anywhere.
    I use books like "learn AS" and "Flash MX Tutorial", but I would like to join your community as well -for further support.
    I also ask you to tell me immediately if you don't want newbies like me to join this community. I don't know it if you don't tell me. If this is the case, I would highly appreciate if someone know better community for Real Beginners like me.
    Well, a side of that all, I'm 27 years old female, living In Belgium. I love all visual art, architecture, photographing, painting, drawing, puppet animations..
    I wish I could get along with this new (digital web media) area as well further on.
    Wednesday, July 14th, 2004
    4:07 pm
    [johano]
    Hello people. i am brand new to this community, and unfortunately i am also new to flash, well not brand "new", but based on my collective knowledge of flash i would say i am super shinny straight out of the box "new"

    I just got my hands on FLASH MX and i would like to know where i can find tutorials that would help me learn from scratch. I am the type of person that learns visually so if any of you out there knows any tutorials that use VIDEO, please let me know.

    I am desperate to learn this softwear. Also i live in manhattan NYC so if there's any type of workshops for flash beginners out there let me know, or if there are any of you who are willing to volunteer your time to help little old me, come forth and teach me.
    hehe

    But yeah workshops would be of great help.
    Or any good books that you'll can recommend to me.
    SOMETHING

    ::sobs::

    laters

    Current Music: Atari Teenage Riot - Revolution action
    Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
    11:12 am
    [matthias382]
    Symbol Find and Replace?
    I've got two symbols in my Library, which I'll call A and B for convenience. Both are being used quite a bit (~1000 instances per symbol) and I want a quick and easy way to replace all instances of A with B, such that B is the only symbol in the Library. Any suggestions?

    Current Mood: blah
    Current Music: Revis - Seven
    Monday, July 12th, 2004
    3:49 pm
    [pleroma]
    Popup Images
    Does anyone have any advice on what I should use to set up some images I have thumbnails of so that if the user scrolls over the image, it pops up and if they click the popped up image which should be now bigger and in detail in a new window using Flash or something else so that when I'm finished and have clicked on the bigger image, it should disappear rather than closing said newly opened window.

    My friend has said he's seen ads like what I'm describing on Yahoo News, but I can't find a proper example.

    Thanks in advance!

    Current Mood: tired
    8:53 pm
    [pavel__m]
    Товарищи дизайнеры дайти плиз какойнибудь ненужный непринятый проект для личного чтобы из него можно зделать личное портфолио посвещенное веб програмированию
    буду признателен за любые работы, желательно побольше креатива!(наличие ваших коперайтов на сайте горантирую)слать можно на pavel@intrso.ru или оставьте ссылки тут!
    10:43 am
    [matthias382]
    Dynamically assign listeners to buttons?
    I've got a set of buttons in a scene that I want to dynamically assign listeners to. The purpose of the buttons is to direct the user to a frame (different per button) in a different scene (same for all buttons). Here's the code I'm using:

    listener = new Object();
    listener.click = function (event) {
    gotoAndStop("Scene2", 1);
    }
    this["button1"].addEventListener("click", listener);

    I'm having to do this for each button, replacing the frame number and the number in the button name each time. I figure there should be a way to do this dynamically, where I maybe use a "for..." loop to assign a listener to each button. I keep running into a problem with variable scope, though, whether or not I stick the current number in a _root variable.

    Any ideas?

    Current Mood: curious
    Current Music: Finch - What It Is To Burn
    Friday, July 9th, 2004
    2:04 pm
    [vampy]
    Flash nav problem
    I've just kinda figured out how to make a Flash navigation. So I've knocked one together that I want to use. It works and functions how I want it too but there is one problem. The navigation will not let me link the buttons so when you press down on them, they go to the page I want them to go too. I'm really stuck and tried everything I could possibly think of. If anyone could possibly take a look at it for me [it's not a big file to send via email] and fix it or tell me how..I'd appreciate it so much.
    Friday, July 2nd, 2004
    1:57 pm
    [hearttothecore]
    okay, i'm currently learning flash, and while I'm learning I made something really quick for my website, for temporary so I have more time for the real deal. this is what I made clickthe scrollbar doesn't work and I don't know why I followed the instructions in the tutorial thing that comes with flashmx. Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks.
    Saturday, June 26th, 2004
    9:03 pm
    [maximuza]
    Drop-Down Menu in Flash MX?
    Hello everyone,

    How would I make a simple, customizable drop-down menu/navigation in Flash MX? Perhaps something similar to one at http://www.mediatemple.com.

    Thank you very much for any help!

    Maxim

    --
    P.S. I'm not much of a technical person, but do venture some animations:

    "Dangerous World" (an ad advertising a product that would never sell)
    Link: http://maximuza.com/dangerousworld.html

    "Cupid Reject" (weird and interactive)
    Link: http://maximuza.com/cupidreject.html

    "MTV Cribs: Osama's Cave" (my first Flash animation)
    Link: http://maximuza.com/osama.html

    "Animation + Interactivity Class Intro" (raster file animation experiment in
    Flash)
    Link: http://maximuza.com/aiintro.html

    Current Mood: confused
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