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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. 

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)

Basics

  1. Flash. How to embed fonts in Adobe Flash CS5
  2. Flash. How to access elements using the library
  3. Opening an FLA file
  4. Using browser’s forward & backward buttons in a flash site
  5. What is an SWF file
  6. Publishing Your Flash Movie
  7. Saving and version control
  8. How to edit some text and images

Colors

  1. XML Flash How to modify colors

Content

  1. How to center the flash site which is not centered by default
  2. XML Flash. How to place a simple static image instead of Google Map
  3. Flash. How to create mailto link
  4. XML Flash. General Editing (Remove text, images, links, add text areas)
  5. How to make a flash site load faster
  6. How to duplicate and swap objects in flash

Forms

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

Gallery

  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

Images

  1. Flash. How to edit banners
  2. XML Flash. Image Links
  3. Flash. How to replace text logo with image
  4. How do I resize the images loaded in a flash movie
  5. How to swap the logo for rollover button
  6. Flash. Exporting images from fla file
  7. How to make images display randomly
  8. Changing images in Flash
  9. How to manage images in Flash

Installation

  1. XML Flash. How to upload a template to a server

Links

  1. Flash. How to assign an external link to a menu button
  2. XML Flash. How to create button and link to URL (AS3)
  3. How to assign link to text
  4. How to assign link to image
  5. How to link a flash intro to the main site
  6. How to assign links
  7. How to redirect the flash intro to the website
  8. How do I link a button to an Adobe PDF document
  9. Assigning links in Flash
  10. How to create a button and assign a link to it

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. SWF Metadata in Macromedia Flash 8
  7. How to add and modify metadata in a Flash template

Pages

  1. Xml Flash. Remove page and menu item
  2. XML Flash. Change pages order (AS3)
  3. How to change the order of pages in a flash site
  4. How to add more pages
  5. How to find pages in any .FLA file

Pop-up

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

Scroll

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

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. Flash. How to work with sound icons
  5. How to add new music samples in the Flash playlist

Text

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

Troubleshooter

  1. Element appears in .FLA movie but not in published .SWF
  2. Flash site getting stuck on loading
  3. Flash. “Unexpected file format” error
  4. Flash Troubleshooter. How to center flash content

Video

  1. Flash. How to change the color of the embedded FLV movie
  2. XML Flash. How to embed YouTube video into the template
  3. How to embed YouTube video
  4. How to embed video in Flash template (AS 2.0)
  5. How to import video by means of rendered images
  6. Running a video clip in flash templates