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Editing Flash Templates
Posted by admin in Flash, Tutorials
A lot of flash beginners wanted to know how to modify free flash templates from flashmo.com website. Here are a few basic steps for editing button labels in action script panel and contents for all pages.
- Button Labels are located on the first frame of actions layer in most of the free templates.
- You can edit them from menu_label array values by opening “Actions” panel (press F9).
- Edit “contents” or “flashmo contents” movie clip in the library for all different pages which are linked respectively to button labels.*
* Note for old flash templates
After you changed button labels, you also need to change frame labels inside “contents” or “flashmo contents” and also “photos” (if there is) movie clip which must be exactly the same as button labels. Otherwise, you will see the loop because flash cannot find the frame label when you click on a button.
In order to make the contact form in contact page to send to your email, please read this post. You may write a comment to this post if you have any question.
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what software is needed to edit flash tamplates?
Thanks
Thanks a lot! You’ve just rescued my website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi joda,
You need Adobe Flash version 8 or higher is required to edit flash templates.
I have one more question…How to edit subpages?
Hi Mania, Which one do you mean specifically?
hi .. I saved the flash template but when I tried to open it I couldn’t open as a library, it opened as a swf file so I couldn’t edit it, what should I do?
Hi Laura, Please download the FLA file and edit it in Adobe Flash program (version 8 or higher).
Hi.
First of, great templates!
But.. I have a problem.. I’m from Denmark, and we have 3 letters here, that are unique to the Scandinavian alphabets. The problem is that, when I write something in Danish, in the news.xml-file (I’m thinking about the Dream-template), and I save Dream to .swf and previews it, it doesn’t show the Danish/Scandinavian letters.
- Do you know how to solve my problem?
- Scott.
Scott,
1. You will need to select the text field and set it as your own font which supports unique Scandinavian alphabets.
2. Click on ‘Embed…’ button and select necessary characters.
That should solve your problem.
Dear admin, thanks for replay, but the problem that I couldn’t download the fla file, the template saved as swf file only!
and Adobe flash CS3 give the msg: unexpected file format
Laura, there is a link “download source file” which is a zip file that contains FLA file. Please edit the FLA file and publish SWF.
Hi again.
I tried to find the Danish/Scandinavian character se, but couldn’t find it. Then I tried to include these caracters: æ, ø, Ã¥ (that you probably can’t see). But, when I did this, it wouldn’t show the news section. Like it wasn’t linked to the xml-file any longer.
- Scott.
Hi and thanks for your templates.
I need to know how to change the color on the button tabs, specifically for the wood 79 template. Thank You!
Malcolm, Those are PNG graphics and you can easily convert them into movie clips. After that, you try to play the color >> advanced >> settings in properties tab at the bottom.
Hi ther ur templates are awsome!!!!!!!!
the problem i am having is that how to put the flash files on to a remote server….like what files do i upload to the remote server.
OK, I am a very very beginner person here. The question was already answered, ie. software required to edit flash templates … Adobe Flash version 8 or higher. So, I go to Adobe website to look for this product called Adobe Flash, and cannot find it. Please bear with me, and spell it right out for me … what Adobe software package can I use, and please tell me the cheapest. I only want to make flash intro (s) for my website. Nothing more ………….. Help
Your templates our great. I’m using intro #44 and I can’t get it to stop looping. What am I doing wrong?
How do change out photos in flash for a slide show. So when you click on the thumbnail it enlarges in the flash player thxs.
Dear admin,
I have a question what is the maximum image size (in pixels) for the photogallery 034? Because I get strange cut-offs on the right and bottom of my photos. Where can I find and hopefully change this setting?
Dear admin,
I have jet one other question: How do I make sure that every time I reload the flash file it reads the XML file and not use old data. Example: for the 034 gallery I made a search engine with asp which dynamically generates an XML file. The first search goes well, but all next searches do greate a new XML file, but the flash file still displayes the first search results. Please help?
Jeroen, it seems like the browser cache problem. You can solve it by putting a random number at the end. example: in action scripts:
xml_filename = “generate_xml.asp?r=” + random(1000);
I have to say first off these are great great templates thanks so much for allowing use of them. I do have one problem tho … As soon as i change any of the button titles in your wooden template …. then preview …. I click a sub page to view it and it just keeps looping through all the sub pages. over and over i cant stop it. Only way to actually stop it from doing that is by taking out the title i changed. I am changing it in the actions palette. Should i be changing it somewhere else?
Hi Louis, Please read the italic paragraph under * Note for old flash templates.
Actually i am very sorry i missed the part about changing it in the frame section as well. But just for anyone else reading having this problem you also have to change the photos frame title as well. Or the photos scroll then change back to homepage photo. This is on the wooden template.
So you have to change button title on “actions” in the action palette …. on “contents” in the properties palette and also on the “photos” in the properties palette.
So, very sorry that i didnt read properly but i have fixed my problem myself.
ha ha very funny that you were posting that as i was typing out my last one.
no worries tho i got it =D many many thanks i love the layouts
That is correct, frame labels in “photos” movie clip is also needed to change.
Thanks Louis for pointing that out.
my pleasure
Please tell me how to edit button lables in 072blue.
I can’t do any thing with that.(I’m not very fammilier with flash though)
One more thing. How to edit sub pages in
072 blue.
Thanks a whole lot…know I will buying all my premium website plates from you…excellent! customer service and info.
Hi, thanks a lot for templates, i have a questions,
in the pasge contact us , theres an AS2 ti send the formulary, i would like to know, what should i add to send it to my mail
Thank very much for your work, its just great
Gona be perfect when can send contact info
just about the exact same way shown above in the pictures.
Click on “actions” in the layers palette at the top of the screen …. choose frame 4 ….. and on your actions palette (press F9 if you dont see the actions palette) you will see :
var button_label:Array = new Array(“Home”, “Products”, “Services”, “Testimonials”, “About Us”, “Contact Us”);
Thats where you change it.
Hey there admin, I run an html web site but I want to change it to flash… so I downloaded a template but it appears the message that says unexpected fil… so, i was reading the comments here and you said you needed the Flash 8 version?? because I have the MX2004, is that the reason it isn’t working??
Thanx
Hi! I am using the Movies Flash template and would like the movie thumbnails to be able to be clicked on and opened in a new window. In the xml file I have changed the url to reflect an outside link, though it is not opening a new window. What do I need to change to make it open the link when the movie thumbnail is clicked on? I noticed that the template isn’t opening in a new window, as well. (template flashmo_080_movie) Thanks for any help!
Hi, I’m interest in this template
http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_026_photo_xml
But I have a few questions:
When I download the template will I have also the source files in order to make the changes by myself?
I don’t know about action script is it easy for me to customize the template? I need to change the pictures of the birds for another type of images and the pictures title. How can I get the instructions of how to do it?
Thank you
Hi, i have this template, http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_045_elastic
Could give me specific directions on how to edit all of the subpages, because in the FLA file, it only shows one of the buttons and i cant find a way to edit the others.
Amber, you may take a look at 086 speaker template which you can set URL targets in the XML file.
John, you get all source files when you download the zip file.
Cj, please read the instructions in this page carefully.
you are creating a great website thanks flashmoo administrator
Got another question. I am using the 082 Dream template now and was trying to get a song to play for me. I added a on/off button and a .wav to the library and when i add the on/off button to my page it works just fine … until you click a subpage … then it plays a duplicate song along with the first one. If i click a third page … u guessed it! another song starts playing as well. All the same song …. all looping perfectly. Just playing simultaneously and is rather annoying for anyone listening to it. Any suggestions? I think it may be cause i am working with a on/off button i had previously used on a different layout which loaded seperate subpages rather than this one which loads different frames as the subpages. So everytime a page loads it reloads the song. Hope i didnt lose ya with all that.
Louis, Have you seen the sound on/off in Speaker template? You may take it as a sample.
No i sure have not. But i will most definitely be downloading right now to test it out. Thanks a bunch. You guys got tha best templates and are very helpful. Thats very rare here on the net.
i’m using one of your intro…thanks so much! and I added an “enter here” option but found that i want it to stop after 15 or so seconds to automatically load a page. can you help me? http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_063_effect_1
Dear Admin,
I’m not able to have the flash templates work or load in mozilla firefox. i’m not sure where the error lies, i’ve updated flash players, updated firefox, and changed the embed tags many, many times. what would be the next step? i’ve used flashmo template 26 and 34 and have had no luck so far. Any ideas where the trouble could be?
Hi,
I can edit the first page but cannot access any of the sub pages that exist below the buttons.
I am using Flash CS3
Any ideas how I can access the sub pages?
Hi, I have downloaded 067 thumbnail xml but I am very new to Flash. I have been able to use my images in the gallery but could you tell me how to link the thumbnail to open a larger image.
Many thanks, Cefyn
Hi, I’m absolutely loving flashmo
Can anyone tell me how to change the music in the speaker template please? i can see in the actionscript that it’s called flashmo_music but where do you find it and how do you change it?
jonny I may be wrong but you have to look in the library panel inside Flash and find the music file. It is called EricJordyn_Syntax_October20 … It has a little speaker by it …. I just right clicked on it and chose properties then clicked import and located the proper wav i wanted to swap.
okay so i take my question back after a little searching i found out myspace disables external links from flash9 so the getURL script does not work.
hello, lovely templates, im using a flash photo gallery from your website, just wondering how to embed it into the timeline in my already existing FLA file that contains the rest of my website? The photo gallery i use is one that gets the pictures from its contained folder outside of flash. your help would be greatly appreciated!