Re: FLASH: Problems with tutorials

[C. Michael Neely]

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com (flasher-digest)

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To: flasher-digestchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: flasher-digest V1 #1894

>Date: Thu, Nov 11, 1999, 3:19 PM

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> Subject: Re: FLASH: Problems with tutorials

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> Hi Rory - thanks for the response. I have tried every way that you can open a

> file, believe me. I have been using Mac for years - and I know every trick in

> the book  This is really strange.  I have never really had to use PC zipped

> files before - but there's not much to know - just unzip with Stuffit....

> This is exactly what is happening. goto  <Flashzone.com/tutorials> , first

> tutorial is "mousetrails" click on zip version to D/load, downloads as

> mousetrails.zip - great. Now, launch Stuffit, translate>unzip, it unzips and

> a folder with two items in it appears - great, except those 2 items are a) a

> simpletext????? file called mousetrails.fla, and a Quicktime Flash icon that

> is called mousetrails.swf ??????  What a minute----maybe it is the quicktime

> translators, are you using Qtime 4????  Thanx, Bill


It may be that you need to add the pc ".fla" extension to your File Exchange

Control Panel. I was having the same problem coming from NT machines and

adding the new extension allows the files to be understood as though they

had a resource fork. The system automatically recognizes the file extension

coming from the PC formated disk if the extension has been added to the

Control Panel. Hope this helps.


Sincerely,

Michael Neely

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Graduate Student - 3D Animation / Interactive Development

Savannah College of Art & Design

Savannah, GA

mncaveartmedia [dot] com

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