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Something else I'm looking for: I want to create some of those "faded" backgrounds from images to use as backgrounds. Old Saint George is a beautiful place, and we have lots of good photos already scanned, and so we plan to use quite a bit of these for backgrounds, buttons, and lots of other enhancing graphics from these images. First up, though, is the "opacity fade" effect I 'm looking for. I've used Fireworks for basically every graphic effect I'v ever done, so if there any Fioreworks graphics people out there reading this, point me in the right direction.
8:34:53 AM 
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Flash and LoadMovie or gotoAndStop: I am trying to find out how to load a Movie into an empty clip I have already set up (and working....I can load separate swf files that represent the 7 main navigation buttons, but I want to be able to "reload" or "redisplay" the default content in that Movie Clip container when I have either rolled off the buttons that display that content when I have rolled over them, so that the animation does not play each time it "reloads". I guess what I'm after is what I think is a way to gotoAndStop on the final frame of the defaultContent movie, so that when I roll off of any of the rollover buttons (the rollover shows the main page for each of the 7 navigation buttons), the default content that shows when the Home Page first loads does not "RE-Load" and redo all the 1 second movement that happens when it first plays, but simply displays the final frame (40) of that clip (defaulHome.swf). I want to make the rest of the page (all of the area arond the buttons and the content area--- IOW, the banner at the top, and the area below the buttons , a rollover to re-display that final frame, so that the default content doesn't keep "re-animating".
8:21:14 AM
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The OSG Board meeting got moved back on the calendar a couple of weeks, so I feel a bit of breathing room on the tight development schedule, especially since I have been working through some Flash-learning exercises over on Lynda.com. I don't plan on "sitting back" with this extra room, though, but to be thankful for the opportunity to look diligently for the solutions I seek.
I'll take the opportunity to get my arms around some specific techniques that I'm after by exploring some further "how-tos" on Lynda.com online training, and perhaps do a quick Bookstore run later today or tomorrow to find something on Actionscripting (that might lead me to the code I need to achieve the gotoAndStop effect I mention in my next post)
I learned yesterday that our non-profit "Volume license" for Studio MX 2004 is in, and so I 'll be able to update my Trial to full versions when I get up there this weekend/next week. Flash is an incredibly versatile set of tools. I'm just beginning to see the power of Actionscripting. In combination with Dreamweaver and Fireworks, this trio (I"ve been using FW and DW for about2 and a hlf years now, and learned ASP via the Dreamweaver interface) is a heavyweight in Web development. As MX incorporated the .Net features/support , this also gave me a nudge in the direction of learning what's up in the DotNet world. And, as I wrote about not too long ago, ColdFusion was introduced to me as a powerful Web app platform in my Contract job that I had for a little while.
I have a few questions I'm gonna explore about Flash tohelp me with where I am developing right now.
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8:11:23 AM
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As I began to say before I was so rudely interrupted (see previous post), I have been doing hardly any mention or reflection on any Sports lately , having been busy trying to do "Work related" stuff (like trying to find a source of income to supplement what OSG has been scraping together for me as I work on our Web makeover and Flash/Weblog/Forum development).
But, I have to mention how pleased I am that once again, the Braves are out of the postseason, and the Cubs are making a run at getting back to the Series, and that it might (hopefully) even be the Redsox as their opponent. That would be amazingly touching for me if that were to happen. It would be a big boost for baseball. All the baseball hopes and dreams of all those fans who seem to be fated to be the "patient and devoted" fans.
8:00:54 AM
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Quite a few posts getting lost by SOME apparently frequent slip of the finger on my keyboard. I'll be typing away, and all of a sudden, POOF, my edit window closes and I have to start over. I don't know if it's a windows thing or a Radio Userland thing, but it's extremely annoying.
7:53:53 AM
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