FLASH: Frequently Answered Answers

[Gregg Caines]

Okay...I accidentally let my flash mailing list emails pile up for a week

and a half, so I just finished reading 1700 emails.  I just have a few

things to say...



pop-up windows from Flash can be done with:

On (Release)

      Get URL

("javascript:window.open('http://www.yourdomain.com/directory/file.htm','pop

upname','width=500,height=250,left=75,top=100',location.href='#')")

End On

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you can't drag a mask.  The effect must be faked with actionscript or

javascript.

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No.  No one can recommend a book for learning Flash (That includes

actionscript).

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All those cool text effects were done in Swish.

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alpha and multiple movieclips slow a movie down.

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To unsubscribe from the list, read the bottom of ANY MESSAGE POSTED ON THE

LIST.

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To make a movie go to the edge of the browser window, put your flash page in

a single frame frameset.

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To make the movie full screen, and make people angry, use the aforementioned

pop-up window JavaScript, and set the dimensions to be the screen width and

height.

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The hit frame of a button is worth learning about.

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Swift 3d is better

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Java and JavaScript are not the same.

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Flash can go in QuickTime.  QuickTime can't go in Flash.

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You must convert MP3s to wave files before importing them THEN you can

publish them with MP3 compression.

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To make a preloader-

SECOND FRAME: If Frame Is Loaded (<<number of last frame here>>)

                 Go to and Play (4)

              End Frame Loaded

THIRD FRAME: Go to and Play (1)

You can put some nice animations in the first and second frame or just a

blinking loading message to make my eyes bleed.  The fourth frame should be

the start of the Bitmap onslaught with the 5MB MP3 soundtrack.

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There are roughly 539 different, imperfect ways to detect if a visitor to

your site has the flash plugin.

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AND All of this information is false for Internet Explorer on the Macintosh.



I have a question of my own now: What salary should I make as a Flash

designer?


Time for bed.


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

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