Greetings! I have a few basic Flash questions, which should be easy enough to answer for someone who routinely works in Flash.
The situation: I need to edit a small Flash video on my company's internal website. The box is just blue with text that zooms in and at the bottom are three words: Vision Mission Values. Clicking one of the words zooms in more text, better explaining each of the words.
The problem: The only files we have are .SWF. I tried opening it in Flash Professional (CS3), hoping I could just edit the text, but it didn't recognize it as an editable document.
1. Am I trying to open it wrongs, and indeed there's a way to simply open it and edit it as though it was an regular file?
2. Because it's an uneditable file, I can't figure out how to find what size it is pixel-wise. I tried looking at the webpage's source code but couldn't find it there either - any thoughts?
3. I worked on recreating it last night using scenes so depending on which word I clicked, a new scene would occur thus enabling me the ability to show new information. Is that how you would do it?
4. I ran into an issue when I turned the text into a button. I double clicked on the button to edit the "Up" "Down" etc options. When I clicked and dragged in the area with the small black dot in a square (where the scenes usually are at the top) to keep things uniform and simple, it made the text invisible. How do I fix that?
5. (Finally - sorry for the questions): When I went to edit the button's Actions, I got a synthax error. An example code I used for the button labeled Mission was:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop ("Mission", 1);
}
I did "AndStop" instead of "AndPlay" because I didn't care for there to be any additional animation.
I did "Mission" instead of "Scene 2" because I renamed Scene 2 to Mission. But when I clicked on the button "Mission" it would either show the Mission scene for a split second and go back to Scene 1 (Home) OR it would just change the Scene to "Home" automatically. Then, on the scene I titled "Beliefs", when I hit "Beliefs" just to test it, it went to "Mission" even though it was coded for "Beliefs".
Anyone have the answers to my questions or at least one answer? I spent 8 hours last night trying to figure out what should be a 30 minute job. And I know it's something easy and its starring me in the face but for the life of me I'm rather lost.
Thanks for your help and time!! Sorry if I wrote this in a confusing way.. Let me know if you need a better description...
The situation: I need to edit a small Flash video on my company's internal website. The box is just blue with text that zooms in and at the bottom are three words: Vision Mission Values. Clicking one of the words zooms in more text, better explaining each of the words.
The problem: The only files we have are .SWF. I tried opening it in Flash Professional (CS3), hoping I could just edit the text, but it didn't recognize it as an editable document.
1. Am I trying to open it wrongs, and indeed there's a way to simply open it and edit it as though it was an regular file?
2. Because it's an uneditable file, I can't figure out how to find what size it is pixel-wise. I tried looking at the webpage's source code but couldn't find it there either - any thoughts?
3. I worked on recreating it last night using scenes so depending on which word I clicked, a new scene would occur thus enabling me the ability to show new information. Is that how you would do it?
4. I ran into an issue when I turned the text into a button. I double clicked on the button to edit the "Up" "Down" etc options. When I clicked and dragged in the area with the small black dot in a square (where the scenes usually are at the top) to keep things uniform and simple, it made the text invisible. How do I fix that?
5. (Finally - sorry for the questions): When I went to edit the button's Actions, I got a synthax error. An example code I used for the button labeled Mission was:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop ("Mission", 1);
}
I did "AndStop" instead of "AndPlay" because I didn't care for there to be any additional animation.
I did "Mission" instead of "Scene 2" because I renamed Scene 2 to Mission. But when I clicked on the button "Mission" it would either show the Mission scene for a split second and go back to Scene 1 (Home) OR it would just change the Scene to "Home" automatically. Then, on the scene I titled "Beliefs", when I hit "Beliefs" just to test it, it went to "Mission" even though it was coded for "Beliefs".
Anyone have the answers to my questions or at least one answer? I spent 8 hours last night trying to figure out what should be a 30 minute job. And I know it's something easy and its starring me in the face but for the life of me I'm rather lost.
Thanks for your help and time!! Sorry if I wrote this in a confusing way.. Let me know if you need a better description...