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Post by lc »

Right I figure we must have one or two people's in here experienced with flash.

I'm working with some very extremely simple flash menus... But right now I have 7 menus on my site only cause I want to work with different background images, and I want to keep the filesize down.

Thus my question... does anyone know if it's possible to have the flash menu load an external image into itself? Or in a way that I can tell it in a php script which image to get even?

Figuring this out would be great!
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Post by enygma »

I don't think it's possible to dynamically import images into a Flash movie (yet), so a PHP script wouldn't do you any good.

you'd probably be better off asking this over on http://www.Flashkit.com or something....

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Post by jason »

Actually, I would check out FreeMovie as it seems to be a wonderful implementation of Flash and PHP, allowing PHP to create Flash Movies on the fly, iirc.
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Post by lc »

Thanks guys.

I been asking around and it looks like you're right. Can't be done yet.

Freemovie looks interesting but I'm rather too busy with regular php to go and learn a whole new thing right now. I might try it later.

For now though.. I'll just stick to multiple flash files. :( ah well ;)
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Post by jason »

How is FreeMovie not regular PHP?
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Post by lc »

Oh geez... Well... I read the page... try to understand it, but it looks like it's php combined with flash code and I am not that advanced in flash.

It's the way things normally go... get into something new and it'll take you months to really get out of it what you want.

All I was looking for was an existing function in flash which doesn't exist. I do not want to learn a whole new way of creating animations. I got plenty stuff to do as is. If there's no easy/quick fix for this particular very small issue then there just isn't which isn't that big of a deal.

I have no idea what regular php is... I do know how I regularly use it.. which may not be all that regular ;) hehe
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I now this post is about a month old but i have something to add. Flash MX has the ability to dynamicly import jpegs and mp3's. You can have them on the site and pull them in. I am in the process of messing around with the new features of Flash MX i am looking forward to taking advantage of this new feature.
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Post by lc »

No matter it's old. It's great news! I'll look into it.
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Post by sam »

Well using flash MX there is some actionScript code (loadMovie) that can dynamicly load Jpeg images files. I would look into using it. Check out actionscripting.org for halp with flash, they are great over there.

Cheers Sam
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