Cannot add link to menu in Flash 8

[gibsongk55]

Hi Medyman,

Thanks for the help. That seemed to fix it. Terrible 8 hours to figure out how to put a link in. Online tutorials suck for sure.

I figured out the problem now with this. When i added or dragged the button (or hit area same thing) to the stage area, then right clicked for action, the button reverted to the menu text under it and displayed the same little cross site symbol which made me believe it was the button still. Since it was now the menu text area the action command was greyed out.

Hope that helps others in the future searching for an answer.

I have the template online now. Is there any simple way to make my guitar spin clockwise a few times and then stop in the position it is now?

Thanks,

Gibs

[Medyman]

Is there any simple way to make my guitar spin clockwise a few times and then stop in the position it is now?

Motion tweens. It's not the way I would do it but it's the easiest way w/o having to code.

[gibsongk55]

Hi,

Thanks for the link. It helped me 0%. Didn't even work. But i don't want the image to move across the screen. I want it to spin clockwise. Guess there is no easy way.

Gibs

[hyk]

Motion tweens. It's not the way I would do it but it's the easiest way w/o having to code.

I think medyman is teaching you step-by step. 1st you need to learn how to move across the stage. 2nd, after that creating the spinning effect

I found something on the web which is near to what you are looking for here perhaps you might want to take a look. Its a logo of BMW spinning

my guitar spin clockwise a few times and then stop in the position it is now?

Its related to the timeline i suppose. (medyman pls correct me if i`m wrong)


hope that helps

[Medyman]

gibsongk55,

The process is the same from what i linked to. Everyone things there are going to be tutorials tailored to their exact case. That won't happen. What I linked to are the steps to do it.

Instead of moving the guitar from point A to point B, just rotate it with the free transform tool. That's the only difference in what you're trying to do and what I linked to.

For a start,no offence Medyman. I think the answer to it is that you guys who are seasoned professionals assume* us newbies to understand since some of the codes look simple to you guys but it is a whole new thing for people who do not know the language or has just starting learning.But a newbie view (my view), if given a template i would copy & paste the whole thing in & assume it will be free from errors. I would not bother to check what this & that code means at the beginning. I would only find out what it means when i run into errors oh shyt, i said out my bad habits.

That's exactly my point. How can template makers expect people not familiar with Flash to edit these things. They're entirely too complicated (and horrendously coded). The thing is that Flash usually falls under the domain of frontend designers -- not the most capable programmers as a whole (there are some exceptions). If I were making a template for sale, I'd include something easy to edit -- step-by-step instructions, easy-to-edit XML, something! Instead, gibsongk55 has to hack his way around the .fla. In fact the one Flash template that I do sell, is made just this way. It even comes with a CMS, if you have a server with PHP available.

[hyk]

That's exactly my point. How can template makers expect people not familiar with Flash to edit these things. They're entirely too complicated (and horrendously coded). The thing is that Flash usually falls under the domain of frontend designers -- not the most capable programmers as a whole (there are some exceptions)

i get it medyman. , cool down. don`t get overexcited. Hey since we are in this topic, would you mind showing me what is a simple as like. For example, a piece of maybe your work & a piece of what others do. If that is legal of course.

If I were making a template for sale, I'd include something easy to edit -- step-by-step instructions, easy-to-edit XML, something!

lol,medyman not everyone is like you. some people well you know. Its a hello & bye theory. , not sure if you get what i meant

[Medyman]

I'm not overexcited. You're just reading my post with too much emphasis Well, you can google around for other templates (templatemonster.com is a site). You can see some examples of the one templates that we do provide, here and here. It's the same exact .fla in play here. All customization is done through an easy form tied to a backend. The user just has upload the files to his/her server, open up the install file that comes with it in the browser and they're given step-by-step options -- colors, content, images, videos, etc...