I have never, ever used it, and I'm having more trouble that I thought I would. All I'm trying to do is essentially create a picture slideshow that fades from one picture to another. Anybody know how to do this? I expect it to be easy, but the software seems to be pretty non-intuitive. Thanks.
I use a program called swish. You can get it from www.swishzone.com It creates flash but its much easier to use than regualr macromedia flash.
Try: File - > New From Template - > Photo SlideShow or Presentation I figure that by now you've gone through the lessons within Macromedia's Flash program and you've played around with all the stuff in there...? Please don't try to slam a basketball when you've just learned how to dribble the ball... jk. But the truth of it is, I sort of need to know WHERE EXACTLY you're getting stuck or what doesn't work.
if it's just a picture slideshow you're doing, you probably want to use a java script or an applet instead. granted it's a bit archaic, but it gets the job done in a simplistic way. www.wsabstract.com for more stuff on the scripts and applets
Actually I was oversimplifying a bit. I've already got a Javascript doing a slideshow, but I want to embellish it. But for starters, I wanted to get the basic slideshow figured out. (I'm a programmer, and I do some web development as a hobby, but I've never dealt with Flash before...)
With Flash there are two main concepts behind making a slideshow: 1.) Import a photo to library/stage and manually change every frame. 2.) Use ActionScript Since you're a programmer the ActionScript route would probably be better. ActionScript 2.0 (requires MX 2004) is a pretty nice oo langauge, I would simply have a XML file with photo locations (and pic descriptions, if wanted) and create AS controls to for the presentation..... Or you can just use: http://www.slideshowpro.net/
I have MX 2004, so I'll look into some documentation on ActionScript 2.0. Any good tutorials you happen to know about?
I'm not sure of any tutorials other than on Macromedia ( http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/actionscript.html ), I typically learn from source, and the syntax is similar to C#. But if you want to buy a book Colin Moock wrote "Essential ActionScript 2.0", its pretty good, but goes a lot into beginning OO programming, so may not be necessary for all. In the book he has an ongoing example of an ImageViewer class that you can download from his site ( http://moock.org/eas2/examples/ ). Basically the class (ImageViewerDeluxe) creates an object that is passed a reference to the base movieclip, then a new movieclip is added ontop of the base, it loads the jpg image with loadMovie(img.jpg) method and has mask layers to allow psuedo-cropping, and also has a loader, etc.. The source in the example should give you everything you need to know. The AS language reference is also really helpful : http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flas...whimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=Part_ASLR.html
