Posts by HI2Japan

I am unsure atm whether having the field be set as a number would cause the problem. Why not set the SSN to be a text field with an SSN input mask?

What determines whether the SSN is valid or not? Does the table currently have a bunch of SSNs and they are typed in random ways, or what is causing you to need to generate something like this?

Understanding this would help to determine what your condition needs to be.

The iif function has 3 parts (condition, true, and false). Your condition is SSN=50. If your condition is true, it will display 99, if the condition is false it will put in the SSN. This is based off how you wrote it anyway. What are you trying to get the expression to do anyway?

You would start by having the movie clip symbol that contains the movie you want to play on the mouse over. Movie clip symbols have an independent timeline of the main movie so it can start and stop whenever without affecting your main flash object. You will then also make a button symbol and in the up state you put a graphic of whatever the button looks like. In the over state you will drag the movie clip symbol from the library to the stage. Depending on what you want to happen on the down ( have the movie continue to play or change to another graphic) you will do various things.
The action script for the button symbol will be on release go to whatever webpage.

I hope it works for you. Good luck.

Maybe I'm completely missing what you have done, but why not make a button object with a movie clip in the up state. You have your on mouse over play the movie and at the same time it is already a button that can be clickable.

As Peter_Budo said, use a PNG format for the image, and if necessary, also like he said do a trace bitmap within flash and just delete the outside shape that is created keeping whatever part of the image you want.

PNG 24 with transparency should handle what you need.

If the PNG is not working, what exactly is your image. Is it a circular shape you want to place within Flash? A more indepth explanation or posting it so we can come up with ideas might be good.

You cannot link to files on your computer from a server and expect others to be able to access them. You need to place those files on the server too and link to those. That should work for you.

I'm not sure what kind of a technical name you are looking for, but you could set that up with different scenes in Flash.

How exactly do you want to separate the data. When it is in Excel, do you want to have a blank line separating the grouped values or do you just want the amounts sorted in an ascending order?

Don't really know this stuff too much but would z-index layers help here?

For the resizing, did you put in pixel sizes or percentages for the elements?

I dont do much in the way of drop downs or anything, but the code you have is for an unordered list with the list points. I have no idea why it would have done that.

Charts don't filter data. Charts graphically display data. You need to filter the data before making the chart. So essentially you need to use possible either Advanced filter or auto filter within Excel to get the data to look a specific way before creating your chart.

I dont know much in the way of a tutorial on it, but that should be nothing more than having the graphic of the world, then doing a motion tween and increasing the size of the graphic to be only on Bali. Instant zoom in.

If you can put up the code that is having this problem and also screen shots or the weblink if it is already online it might help in figuring out the problem.

Within your CS3 do you have Fireworks? If so (and Image Ready does this too) you can slice up an image and put in drop down menus and it will create all the code (dropdown menus via java script and table cells) with everything perfectly aligned. It might be a lot easier then manually trying to do it.

What exactly do you want to filter? The data in Excel or Access?

As far as accessibility goes, most people should have flash player now (since it is a free download), but people with slow internet connections or who are not computer savvy might be hesitant about downloading and installing something online they are not too sure about.

What about using a gif instead?

At the bare minimum Flash 8 would be my recommendation. Making a banner is not very difficult so any version of Flash from 8 on would work fine. It all really depends on what kind of content you want to include.

Are you trying to preview it or is it already up on the net?

Did you make the flash file and if so what version of flash player did you set it to play with?

If you had the line art of the rose in which is was essentially just a path, it would work.

Your best bet would be to do it in Photoshop then from Fireworks do File --> Import and import the PSD file. It might increase file size a bit, so i would export from Photoshop in a PNG format then import that into Fireworks.

Are you designing the whole site in Fireworks or are you just trying to make the background?

So you only want the outer edge of the rosebud embossed or all of the detail making up the rose embossed too? Embossing needs edges so if the inner portion of your rose is one solid image, you will only be able to emboss the outer edge.

If you are choosing the raised emboss setting and unchecking show object, you are doing it correctly.

Have you tried embossing text? That is the easiest way to tell if it is working.

Just a thought, but if you can get it to work in Photoshop, why not do it in there then import it into Fireworks?

I guess I am confused because whenever I have made forms with subforms, the form fields in the subform are always visible regardless of whether data is present or not. Is it possible for you put put up your database (or a part of it) so I can get a better understanding of what is happening?

For the sub forms, Do you want the fields to change based off the PlaceID? or will all the fields be the same? Do you have your subform showing in form view or datasheet view?

Just ask, not sure if I can help, but I'll try.

Long integer which is the default for number data type, while it will show 2 decimal places if you set it , it cannot actually read them.

In the table you should be looking at either currency or number. The field size should be either decimal, single or double.

What data type and field size do you have set in the table? Keep in Mind that some of the field sizes don't allow decimals.

Does the data in your table have 2 decimal places, or did you just set the query and report to display at 2 decimals?

The easiest way (and I hope this isn't against Daniweb policy) is to go to rentacoder.com and pay someone to do it. They will make it to your specifications and it is usually pretty cheap.

The easiest way to get it to work, is use FrontPage. Since I can't program (nor do I want to), If I need to make an email form, I'd make it in frontpage. Just make sure your server has frontpage extensions installed.

Do you want your picture in a different table cell? Do you want it to be right, center, left, top, middle, and/or bottom aligned? What exactly do you mean by you want to put it some other place? More info would help.

Does it have to look like a newspaper article? If not why not scan it using OCR and just put the text info onto the page rather then an image of the article.

Click the symbol for contact then with the Actions pane open, Global Functions --> Timeline Control --> goto.

Select the scene in the drop down that says <current scene> and specify the Frame label or frame number you want it to start in within the scene.

No offense, but I don't really like the page. There is too much going on and things change too rapidly. With all of the moving stuff, I don't even see the links. Nothing points the user to the links because of the constantly changing images. There are some nice ideas there, but I wouldn't incorporate them all into 1 page.

I'll tell you where not to host, DO NOT USE Frontpage Web hosting. I had used them cause they were chea p and it provided all of what I needed. Recently they decided to upgrade their servers and they had a crash. They never backed up thier customers data prior to doing the upgrade so all data was lost. They didn't even tell their customers their pages were down. They have horrible service and they have since raised their prices. Avoid them at all costs. Support is bad too.

Website tutorials are free. That is a plus. For books, it is hard to tell what book is good. Since everyone learns differently I recommend you do this:

Take one part about the application you understand well and read that portion of the book. If what they say makes sense to you and you think it sounds logical, that book is for you.

I personally like the Adobe Classroom in a Book series, but just because I think it is good doesn't mean you will find it useful.

Please clarify. So your page design is a flash object with buttons. When you click a button, you want a movie to come in to only do a transition and nothing more. Or do you want the new movie to stay for the duration until they click another link to take them to another movie?

If the idea is to have a transition when they click a button, why not just incorporate all of that into different scenes within the original flash movie and set your buttons to jump to the different scenes. The first frame of the scene will look that same as the page with the buttons and set a motion tween to moridy it however you want.

I think a parameter of 1 with the LoadMovie actionscript will load it above the current movie without wiping out the timeline of the original movie.

Do you want the loaded movie to take the place of the current movie when the button is clicked? I can't think of what the command is off the top of my head (I want to say LoadMovie but cant remember and I'm at work so cant check it out) in which you specify what layer you want to load the movie into and if you set the parameter to 0 it will replace the current movie.

haha, ya, it's hard. I'm proficient enough to get slapped by girls and beat up by guys ;)

To follow up on your nick -- there are only 2 words in Japanese that end in a consonant, one of which is san; almost all other words are composed of consonant-vowel pairs.

Uhh hate to break it to you dude, but

Yen
Ramen
Sumimasen (excuse me)
San

There are actually quite a few.

It is illegal for individuals to pump their own gas in Oregon and New Jersey.

You do that in either a query or a report.

I am not quite sure about how to make that per se, but certain parts of the image resemble that of a Fractal. It is not the whole answer, but experimentation with fractals and other things might be able to produce something to that extent.

You might want to consider 365.25. Keep in mind that every four years there is an extra day :)

Those pics appear that way whether I have the screen maximized or not. I am using 1280x1024.

Good luck.

I have a list box set to simple multi select option. I want to be able to pass those options to a text box. If I have multi select set to no, the value appears in the textbox fine. Whether I set it to Simple or Extended, it doesnt seem to pass anything. Is there anything special that needs to be done to allow this to work?

Thanks

Just so you can see how it shows up on my screen. Some of the layout might be incorrect, but I guess you are the only one who would know that.

Make a new layer with the symbol you want to follow the guide, click on the motion guide that you want to duplicate (double clicking would probably be best), create a new motion guide layer and do an edit--> paste in place. Set the symbol to motion tween and it will follow the same path as the previous layer. I know of no other way to do this.

With the exception of this comment <!--[if IE lt 6]> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE lt 6]> <![endif]--> being shown on the page I do not see what you are talking about. I am using IE7 and it does not appear to be broken apart. Maybe put a screen shot up of what you are seeing so it is easier to compare.

Quotation marks are not necessary. Should you use them to ensure you have written good code, yes. But if you dont put "" around the front, you dont need to put it at the end. The main thing is consistency.