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Hi all :-)
I am brand new to Flash, and needing to learn it to embed some flash into a new website for a client. The thing is that they want something like the flash shown here: http://www.watersidebelize.com/ which looks to me to be more of a slide-show than flash. Can anyone point me in the right direction on where to find info to do this type of flash? Any help would be very much appreciated!
Hi Coleen,
Flash is very good for slide shows as well as more animated animations. :)
The transistion between frames of a slide show is simply done by changing the transparency of one image from fully opaque to totally transparent. A second image has it's total transparency changed fully opaque.
Watch the Creating Flash Animations movie from the Help Menu > Movies to become familiar with how to setup animations.
The "Movie" will not play - I am directed to the web-site or to my DVD to try to view that tutorial...great - but I can't find it! Can you please tell me what file the tutorial is in on the DVD or what year the tutorial is located in? I have been looking through them and can't find it! Thanks for your help :)
Coleen
there is a flash tutorial here:
http://www.xara.com/us/products/xtreme/tutorials-demos/
under the heading ' The Internet'
Xtreme4 or Xtreme4 Pro you should find the installed movie in this folder:
C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme Pro 4\HelpAndSupport\ENG\flash_cd.avi
Or online here
Look under The Internet >> Flash Animations
Member Xhris also has a a short Flash tutorial available on YouTube
Ah Steve beat me to it as I was searching for Xhris's youtube flash ;)
Thanks very much. Unfortunately when I go here: http://www.xara.com/us/products/xtre...emos/?tab=xara and click on the Flash Animation - it just sits there and trys to load the page - and the page never loads! And when I go to the DVD this is the menu that comes up:
WORKBOOKS THE OUTSIDER XARA XTREME MANUAL
2008 TUTORIALS - 2007 TUTORIALS - 2006 TUTORIALS - 2005 TUTORIALS 2004 TUTORIALS - 2003 TUTORIALS - 2002 TUTORIALS - 2001 TUTORIALS 2000 TUTORIALS - 1999 TUTORIALS - 1998 TUTORIALS - 1997 TUTORIALS
So which year is it in? When I go to find it under files on my computer - this is the list of available files:
F: XaraXone
_Notes
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
(Etc - through 2008)
So which year is the tutorial in? There is no file for HelpAndSupport on this disk is it on the installation disk instead of the tutorial disk?
I was able to find the tutorial I was looking for here though: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/109195...n_xara_xtreme/
but, it would be very nice to know where to go to find it and other tutorials on the dvd that came with my progam.
Thanks very much for everyone's help.
Coleen
do you have javascript blocking - if so you need to allow both xara.com and xaraonline.com for the flash to load
to get the CD movies open the program and follow the menu path Bill gave
help > movies
on the top bar
they should have installed from the CD with the program.... ?
The online flash video doesn't loads for me either, the other I tried play fine though.
Colleen is talking about the 2nd CD that comes with the Program CD.
If you run the CD and open the :\Workbook\index\workbook.html you will find a complete list of contents, many flash tutorials are listed (some shown below)
the flash plays ok for me
the other CD - yes I knew that :o
Bless you Sledger - I must have spent over an hour going through each one of those files looking for that tutorial!
Thank you all for the quick and helpful responses - I was able to watch the demo and get a quick picture viewer flash done with just a little bit of effort.
This is so cool! And here I was spending hours trying to find out how to do this using ASPNetFlash - this is so much better! Thanks again for the help!
Coleen
Glad to help :)
Hi Coleen, you might also look at www.xara.com at the moment. They have a slideshow that's quite effective. There's a link from it to the site that creates it monoslideshow.
Thanks Egg!
I love the way those flash shows "look" like they are movies, and it is an effect I plan to use on a different web-site. However...
Right now I am having a little trouble - and maybe someone here can help me out a little (since I have already posted to the ASP.Net site - and help there is often few and far between...) I have pasted the code for my flash in my ASP.Net page, and yet I am getting errors. Being so new to the flash scene, I really have no idea why I am getting the errors. Does anyone here work with Xara Flash and .Net? And if so - could you possibly point me in the right direction for a good tutorial on how to insert my flash in my ASP.Net file?
Thanks so much for the wonderful help I have received and any help that can be offered on my current problem would be greatly appreciated! :)
Hi Coleen,
I work with ASP.NET primarily for accessing SQL server.
If you could zip your ASP.NET code and attach it to a post, or you could email it to me bjt49 at hotmail.com
I will see where the best place is to insert the object reference and the reference to the swf file for you.
Coleen have you tried the code on the page at this link?:
http://www.dotnetheaven.com/UploadFi...PlayFlash.aspx
Probably a stupid question but why did Xara use Monoslideshow? Couldn't they have done the same or similar using Xtreme?Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Well I have been going through Google articles off & on all day and finally found something that (so far) seems to work! http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread67798.html very cool!
Soquili - sorry I didn't send you the code/attachment - I was going to, but the .swf file was too large and even though I tried to zip it, for some reason WinZip would not compress the file! So - I just kept looking, and finally found something. I will look at the link you sent me...tomorrow! I am very tired tonight - but also very grateful for all the help given here - thank you all! :)
Coleen
Yes, I agree Anas.Quote:
Probably a stupid question but why did Xara use Monoslideshow? Couldn't they have done the same or similar using Xtreme?
Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
My quess is that everyone at Xara Group was busy working on the 4.0 release. The new site needed to be ready the same time as the release of Xtreme and Xtreme Pro 4.0. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Okay - I need just a little more help (please?)
I need to edit my .swf file, and Xara doesn't recognize it! How do I edit a flash file? Or, do I have to start completely over? <banging head here!>
Thanks for any/all help.
Coleen
Can't you edit the saved .xar and re export it to .swf?
:o errr...I hate to admit this - but my system crashed while I was in the middle of working on the flash. I have the flash file because I had saved it and was trying to insert it into my .net code. In the middle of trying to figure that out - I had left Xara up in another window and my entire computer locked up (good ol' Microsoft!) and I had not saved all the flash as a .xar file yet! <bangs head!> oh well <sigh> at least now I know how to do it! :rolleyes:
As always - thank you so much for your quick response!
Ooops :(
Well - now I should be ab le to re-create it pretty quickly...chalk this up to a learning experience - and I will be certain not to trust Microsoft with multiple applications open at the same time again, without saving everything first!
Thanks again Sledger :)