[Flashcoders] Transparent background when exporting to QuickTime?

Hi I am trying to export a simple scrolling text animation from Flash 8 (in Flash 5 format as that's all QuickTime can handle) to QuickTime so I can use it as titles in Avid Liquid 7. On the Export options in Flash I set Alpha to Alpha-transparent but in Liquid it just has a white background and

RE: [Flashcoders] Best SWF Wrapper

Well there is good old Director, works a treat (plays full screen) and you have access to hundreds of plug-ins too :-) Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Muller Sent: 11 May 2006

RE: [Flashcoders] RGB circles animation needed

Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] RGB circles animation needed In Flash 8 you could use the "Add" blending mode. Of course, the background would have to be black to get the desired blending. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Boyd (

[Flashcoders] RGB circles animation needed

Need to produce an animation of the 3 RGB colour circles merging to produce yellow, cyan and magenta then white in the middle. Any idea how to do this or know of any examples showing this. Thx Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk

[Flashcoders] Flash detection

Client wants to detect if flash installed and then jump to a HTML based site if not. What is the current state of play with this approach regards IE and Firefox? Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk ___ Flash

[Flashcoders] Cantering a mc when you click on it

I'm trying to figure out the math of how to move a movie clip into the centre of the stage depending on where you click on it. I'm sure it's real simple but I just can figure it out. file at www.mmcr.co.uk/orgchart.zip Any help hugely appreciated :-) Kevin _

[Flashcoders] How best to zoom in on a mc?

I have a movieClip 2,000 square and I want to be able to zoom into a part of it and then zoom out and over to another part in a arc formation. What would be best way to achieve this? Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk ___ Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with building a spider diagram

Boyd (MMCR) wrote: > I need to produce a spider diagram (a 360 deg personnel chart) > dynamically from an XML file in Flash 8. I have built most of it but > hitting problems, mainly with the layout and how to figure out if > nodes are going to bump into other nodes. Has anyone produced

[Flashcoders] Help with building a spider diagram

I need to produce a spider diagram (a 360 deg personnel chart) dynamically from an XML file in Flash 8. I have built most of it but hitting problems, mainly with the layout and how to figure out if nodes are going to bump into other nodes. Has anyone produced this kind of thing before and be up for

[Flashcoders] How to force IE to let Flash receive the TAB key?

I have a flash 6 movie running in IE6 and have disabled Flash's own Tabbing based highlighting on fields using this.focusEnabled=false this.tabEnabled=false this._focusrect = false So that I can control the Tabbing myself. Works fine in the player but in the browser IE seems to take the Tabbing

[Flashcoders] how to stop mouse clicks leaking through the gaps in textFields?

I am creating dynamic text sprites in a movieClip using createTextField() for a bread crumb navigation feature to be used in a Director movie. Problem is I just want plain text, no background on the text sprites but when you try and click on the text and click between letters flash does not pick up

RE: [Flashcoders] How to use the same MC instance in atweenedanimation?

e the same MC instance in atweenedanimation? Instead of setting dynamic text values, set variables and assign the variables to the textfields. Textfield.variable = "thevariablename"; > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevi

[Flashcoders] How to use the same MC instance in a tweened animation?

Need help on a simple animation problem. I have a flash 7 file which contains two channels each containing MC's that I am setting the dynamic text values from Director and once set with the correct values I wish for them to animate onto the flash stage. Thing is, if I create a new key frame to do

[Flashcoders] How do you build a breadcrumb nav bar?

Need to produce a "breadcrumb bar" for Flash 7 that when clicked sends a request back to Director 10, I suppose using getURL("event:") syntax, not sure how to build this, any thoughts? TIA Kevin Boyd Multimedia Creations Ltd. www.mmcr.co.uk ___ Fl

RE: [Flashcoders] Techniques for figuring out where your handler is?

handler is? Kevin Boyd (MMCR) wrote: >The thing I waste most time on in coding in Flash is figuring out where >I am in my object hierarchy when needing to refer up or down the chain >to other movieClips. I usually stick a trace(this) in the handler, run >it and see where it is, which can b

[Flashcoders] Techniques for figuring out where your handler is?

The thing I waste most time on in coding in Flash is figuring out where I am in my object hierarchy when needing to refer up or down the chain to other movieClips. I usually stick a trace(this) in the handler, run it and see where it is, which can be quite time consuming when working with a big FLA

RE: [Flashcoders] AttachMovie - where is x=0,y=0?

manipulate it's positioning. Alain eric dolecki wrote: >initial attach is at 0,0 of the stage. perhaps you need to check your >info panel to see that the triangle you created doesn't actually have >its registration point on the bottom left point of the triangle. > >e.

[Flashcoders] AttachMovie - where is x=0,y=0?

Having some issues attaching a movie clip in 7. if I draw a right-angled triangle with it left most bottom point at 0,0 in the movieclip and then I use attachMovie and position that at 0,0 on the stage; it plots the triangle's middle at 0,0 and not the tip as drawn in the mc! What are the basic