Re: FLASH: newbie here!

[Kartik Sheth]

mucho gracias!!

	i had looked everywhere for dynamic resizing and coudnt find that anywhere

and as for the second question, my knowledge of javascript is limited and i

was more keeen on learning flash first!


thanks a ton!! the url seems to be able to help me out!

kartik



At 02:06 AM 7/4/99 , you wrote:

>At 11:52 PM 7/3/99 +0530, you wrote:

>>hi there. 

>>	just joined the mailing list so i'm not really sure how it works.. just

>>mail ur ideas and queries to the address and it auto fwds it to all??

>

>That's right -- the listserve takes care of that. Just send new messages to

>

flashershocker [dot] com. For replies, just use your mail program's reply

>feature, which will preserve the subject header.  We encourage postings to

>be of direct relevance to Flash, however an occasional off-topic posting is

>fine (for example, a question about server configurations, or hardware

>conflicts) -- just preface the subject with <OT> (off-topic) so those of us

>who use filters can decide to filter <OT>'s if we wish to.

>

>Welcome to the list, by the way. Any and all level questions are usually

>welcome, however it's nice if you do what homework you can before calling

>on the list for help. You'll notice lots of references to online help and

>tutorial sites. By all means check them out and bookmark them, they have

>information not documented elsewhere. I have no official capacity on this

>list, but my advice is to not feel bad about asking for help when you're

>truly stuck, and just ignore the occasional RTFM remarks as long as you've

>tried to figure it out and have done the basic tutorials that Macromedia

>provides with the program.

>

>

>>1. it is  possible to dynamically resize a movie?   for example have a full

>>screen intro to the site from where it reduces to a frame from where i can

>>lauch htm pages.

>

>Not that I know of. You could fake it by matching the movie background

>color to the background of the HTML page, but the movie would still occupy

>the original movie size even though you might make it take up less of the

>Flash stage. An alternative is to use Get Url at the end of the intro movie

>to call a new page into the same frame or window, and put your smaller

>navigational movie on that new page. This of course is not a seamless as

>using just one Flash movie.

>>

>>2. how do i get a movie in a frame to control another movie in another

frame? 

>

>Through FS Command and JavaScript (hence, limited to JS-supporting

>browsers). See http://www.flashcentral.com/Tech/HawaiiMap/ for a demo with

>downloadable sample files and a decent explanation of what's going on.

>

>

>>

>>besides all this i'm purely a techie at heart and i take to making this

>>kinda stuff easily enough.. but im' horrid when it comes to colour schemes

>>and imaginative animations.. any place or resources for the 'creatively

>>challenged'!!??

>

>Some surfing should locate design-oriented sites for you. I don't have URLs

>offhand. But another approach is to look critically at the sites you like,

>and do what any student of painting would do -- copy the masters. Not

>ripping them off, mind you, but experimenting with their palettes or their

>general layout.  I'd also advise you to start with a very limited palette

>of colors and see what you can do with it. And of course the web-safe

>palette will provide plenty of limitations but so many permutations you

>still need to reduce the selection. You can also ask here for feedback on

>your sites -- be specific about what factors you want us to critique.

>

>Best wishes!

>

>Good luck.

>

>

>Marc Hoffman

>

>

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

>Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

>in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.

>

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