I think that learning about tweening is a great idea, you should do it! heh heh!

When used properly tweening can make your animations look a lot more natural, realistic and life-like.

There...

If you want to take the free software route, you could try Scribus.
Scribus ( available from http://www.scribus.net) is a cross platform and free, open-source desktop publishing app which is ideal...

Well there's more than one way to do this, so how you're creating objects and placing them on the stage at the moment will determine the best way of going about things!

It would really help if we...

There's a free tool called PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org/) which allows you to print your word documents to .pdf.
(In fact you can print from pretty much any app to .pdf!)

After installing...

Hmm, I'm not sure offhand!
I've had a brief tinker with capturing microphone input from flash using AS3, but I've not done anything much with it yet so I'm not entirely sure of the full range of...

Hey there!

If I am following you correctly, one thing you could do I suppose is put two instances of your object onto the stage and use the bottom one as a placeholder (so it's not drag enabled.)....

heh heh, aside from that and actually staying on topic..heh heh!

I've never used after effects, so I couldn't comment on its functionality, but it's certainly possible to do an intro like that in...

Hmm, I used to work with flash components from time to time at my previous job, (both creating and customising components) but those were all AS1 and AS2 components. And although I work pretty much...

Morning all!
Apologies for the lack of activity recently, I've been out of action for a week or so thanks to a rather severe case of sinusitis...I initially made the mistake of ignoring it, hoping...

Hey Iamthwee,
re: the font issues...

Do you want me to take a look?
I should be able to work out how to change the font. If the .fla file is in CS3 format, I should have no probs doing it...

Raja's suggestion is a good one.

There is another alternative if you're using a professional edition of the flash IDE. Pro versions of Flash ship with the 'Flash Video Encoder', this can be used...

OK, well the only thing I can think of is perhaps you aren't using one of the debug flash players...Only the content debugger versions of flashplayer will allow you to see trace actions.
The...

Yup you got it Raja, that's how you set up the path to the SDK and the path to the external flash player!

I've got my Flashdevelop set up to use the flashplayer10 debug executable!
Note: in the...

Sorry I'm late to the conversation...Not been about today!

I'm on my linux box again, so I haven't got a copy of Flashdevelop open in front of me...But if memory serves, there is trace...

OK.
At the moment, Flashdevelop is only available for windows. (I believe there are mac and *nix ports in the pipeline...Not sure how well it runs on wine.). So Windows XP or Vista is the main...

Sorry, had a manic weekend and a long week at work this week!

Still not had a chance to get onto the ol' desktop at home to fire up CS3 yet.

But from what I can see of Raja's solution, it looks...

No probs.
I've downloaded the files, but my Wife's currently working on the windows machine. So I'm on my Linux box at the moment (no flash!), but I'll take a look at the files at some point this...

Ah, yes, sorry if I confused you there...Perhaps I misunderstood something!

You said something about when the panorama had loaded, you wanted a button to appear so you could click on the button...

Assuming that the .swf for your panorama is an external .swf that you are trying to load into your main.swf...

Perhaps try something like this inside your on(release) function...

on(release)
{...

Hey Raja, I don't know if you've already solved this but I'd pretty much agree with Iamthwee!

Upping the frame rate of your final movie should minimise jerkiness a little. And it is true, the...

Oh yeah, cheers Raja!
I completely forgot about wmode!
I've used it once or twice in the past, but obviously not often enough to remember it, it would seem. Nicely spotted!

Jas.

Hey there,
Attached is a quick example to show you what I mean.
I've attached example.zip which contains a simple 200x50 .swf with an example of that text effect from the tutorial you posted....

You can't hide the background.
When you published your .swf it sounds like you published it with a white background.
Unfortunately .swfs don't support having a transparent background, so you have...

Check out ContextClouds post in the thread below, I think it has the answer you're looking for!
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread190049.html

Cheers for now,
Jas.

Hey Paz.
Because of the way the site is separated into smaller .swfs, playing any of the other .swfs individually will almost certainly result in a blank black screen. But don't panic, it doesn't...

Just found this little AS3 snippet:

[Embed(source='assets/ttf/gothic.ttf', fontName='CenturyGothic', mimeType='application/x-font', unicodeRange="English")]

at the following URL.......

I remember having similar problems using flash 8 several years ago.. Certain extended ascii characters wouldn't show up in dynamically loaded text.

The solution was to select the dynamic textbox...

Ah Paz, from what I can see of the site, I think you may have misunderstood the architecture and layout of this flash site.

I don't know, but I'm assuming that you correctly spotted that...

The file that the preloader loads is the one with the problem.
As Paz is offline, one way to find out the path to the file is to decompile the preloader.
That done, it should be pretty easy to...

Hmm, I think that base00.swf is actually a preloader which loads the main .swf.
I tried going to the web-page and did a quick view source and made a note of the http:// path to the swf. I then made...

hmmm, I'll take a look tomorrow when I can get onto a Windows PC with Flash 8....I'm out and about, so I'm on my Linux PC at the mo. So no flash! :(

Cheers for now,
Jas.

Also see some of my recommendations in this old post:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread191401.html

Jas.

No, in Paz's original .fla the 'intro' keyframe was at frame 103, and the stop was at frame 117. The button code was gotoAndPlay("intro").

But it turns out that the button is not even supposed to...

Hey Raja.
Doing that would've stopped the .swf from stopping (and fix the issue), but there was a little more to it than just that to get it to look like the original version on the website. There...

Ah, I see Paz...Sorry, slight misunderstanding on my part there too!
When I looked at the versions of base00_1.swf that you uploaded, it only shows the image of jesus and nothing else, so as there...

.ttf files are basically just fonts.

In order to be able to use them, what you need to do is install the font on your system and then you should be able to use the font in any application that...

hmmm.....Sounds interesting....This sounds like it will be quite a complex effect.....

Usually I'd imagine that blood dripping into water would gradually dissolve, so i guess you want the blood...

OK, I'd not noticed that.

Well first off, the movie isn't playing from frame 80. It is actually playing from frame 1.
Looking at your original .fla, the layer containing jesus' face at the start...

What the hell happened to my code tags in that last post? Doh!
Apologies for that!!

A water scene with drips that drip into each other and splash eh?

Can you describe the scene in any more detail? it's a little vague at the moment!
Where are the drips coming from? Are they just...