Working with Flash Category RSS

This section deals with editing the Flash part of the templates and exporting the “.fla” to ” .swf” files. Many useful editing tips are included. Please use the navigation buttons below or main navigation menu to browse the topics. 

Editing animation

  1. Skipping flash header animation on certain pages
  2. How to change the speed in flash
  3. How to skip flash header animation
  4. How to skip a flash movie (alternative)
  5. How to skip a flash movie
  6. How to make a spinning logo
  7. Skipping the animation_header(SharedObject)

Editing Colors

  1. How to change color gradation

Editing Colors

  1. How to modify colors
  2. How to edit a background color

Editor basics

  1. Flash. How to access elements using the library
  2. How to go back to the main scene in flash
  3. How to go back to a specific place in a movie
  4. How to duplicate and swap objects
  5. Element appears in .FLA movie but not in published .SWF
  6. Opening an FLA file
  7. What is an SWF file
  8. Switching on warning on missing fonts option
  9. Publishing Your Flash Movie
  10. Saving and version control
  11. Running a video clip in flash templates
  12. How to make a flash site load faster
  13. How to duplicate and swap objects in flash
  14. How to edit some text and images

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Using templates for presentations on CD
  2. Using browser’s forward & backward buttons in a flash site

Working with Forms

  1. How to create a combobox
  2. How to make a contact form work (up to template #13000)
  3. How to add a new contact form field
  4. How to make a contact form work
  5. How to enable and edit a contact form (from template #17000)

Editing Galleries

  1. How to create an Image Gallery in Flash (AS2)
  2. How to create a gallery and link it to the main scene
  3. How to make a new gallery and link images
  4. How to activate empty thumbs in a gallery
  5. How to add more images to a gallery

Editing Images

  1. Flash. How to replace text logo with image
  2. How to change images
  3. How do I resize the images loaded in a flash movie
  4. How to make images display randomly
  5. How to swap the logo for rollover button
  6. Exporting images from flash
  7. How to make images display randomly
  8. Changing images in Flash
  9. How to extract images and edit them with Photoshop
  10. How to manage images in Flash

Working with Links

  1. How to assign link to text
  2. How to assign link to image
  3. How to link a flash intro to the main site
  4. How to assign links
  5. How to redirect the flash intro to the website
  6. How do I link a button to an Adobe PDF document
  7. Assigning links in Flash
  8. How to create a button and assign a link to it
  9. How to adjust rollover effect
  10. How to assign an external link to a menu button

Other

  1. How to set up current time and date
  2. Current time and date in Flash
  3. IE6 SP2 security settings
  4. How can I add a flash page to Favorites
  5. How to disable ActiveX warning in IE6/7
  6. Flash site getting stuck on loading
  7. SWF Metadata in Macromedia Flash 8
  8. “Unexpected file format” error
  9. How to center flash content
  10. How to add and modify metadata in a Flash template

Working with Pages

  1. How to change the order of pages in a flash site
  2. How to add more pages
  3. How to find pages in any .FLA file

Working with Pop-up

  1. How to change a pop up position
  2. How to manage popups
  3. How to resize popups
  4. Using Java script to open new windows with a fixed size
  5. How to relocate a pop-up window
  6. How to create a new pop-up window
  7. How to resize pop-up windows

Working with Scrolls

  1. Flash/XML Flash. How to create a scroll using AS3
  2. How to create a scroll
  3. How to change scroll speed in flash
  4. How to create a scrolling bar
  5. How to edit a scroll
  6. Using the ScrollPane
  7. How to replicate a text area with a scroll bar based

Working with Sound

  1. How to change music duration
  2. Flash. AS3. How to set sound OFF by default Flash.
  3. Flash. How to export sound from the FLA file
  4. How to work with sound icons
  5. How to swap loop sound (alternative)
  6. How to add new music samples in the Flash playlist
  7. How to change a loop sound (first method)

Editing Text

  1. How to break text apart in flash
  2. How to edit text in flash
  3. How to create a masked text
  4. How to create a dynamic text field
  5. Changing text in Flash
  6. How to manage fonts in Flash
  7. How to find and edit any text in any flash file
  8. How to edit the company name

Woking with Video

  1. How to embed YouTube video
  2. How to embed video in Flash template (AS 2.0)
  3. How to change the color of the embedded FLV movie
  4. How to import video by means of rendered images