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  1. eljacobs

    Flash Video - detecting flash player 9

    Hi I have used flash cs3 to add video to a website, which requires that the visitor has flash 9 installed. For those that don't have flash 9 a small icon appears in place of the video but there is no message/link to tell them to install the latest version of flash. What is the best way to...
  2. eljacobs

    music start/stop problem

    Hi I've got a problem controlling the music in my website. The site is made up of a main swf that loads each page (a different swf for each) using LoadMovieNum. Within the main swf there is a movieclip that contains a music loop and an on/off button. The music plays automatically when loaded...
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    re-ordering records in browser

    Hi I have designed a basic online catalogue that displays records from an access database. I would like to give the administrator of the site the option to re-order the records into any order that they like within the admin section of the site. What is the best way to approach this? Thanks...
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    playback is slow and stutters

    Hi I have made a very simple flash movie of lots of bubbles rising from the bottom of the screen to the top, which is only 15k in size. However, when viewing the published swf file it does not play smoothly. Instead it stutters slowly. The movie is only 30 frames long and the frame rate is 32...
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    switch off auto log out

    Hi Is there a way to stop windows xp pro from automatically logging out and reverting to the 'select user' screen? Thanks elliot
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    form tag adds line break

    Hi I have noticed that when i add a form to my page a line break is added to the page. There is no <br> or <p> tag but the line break appears in my page when displayed in a browser and it affects my page layout if there is another table/image etc directly below the form. One thing that seems...
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    flash movie doesn't display

    Hi Guys I've created a very simple flash movie which i've exported with flash player version 5. the site is live and works when viewed on the various PCs and macs i have tested on. However, a number of new PCs using flash 7 and windows xp etc won't display the movie. I've looked on a number of...
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    displaying month as two digits

    Hi Does anyone kwow of a way to display the month as two digits in ASP vb? i.e. i need september to display as '09' not '9','SEP','September' etc. Thanks Elliot
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    login problems for some users

    Hi I've created a site with a basic login page that checks entered details against username/password fields in an access database. I've recieved a few emails from users who cannot log in. I've tried their login details on my PC and the details are correct. Is there a reason (other than the...
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    re-ordering a recordset by clicking column title

    Hi I'd like to allow my site visitors to re-order the results of a recordset by clicking various options such as 'region', 'price' etc. How would I go about doing this? Would I write something into the sql and add a url parameter? Thanks in advance Elliot
  11. eljacobs

    double-click to load new movie

    I'm building an application where the user needs to double-click to load a new movie. The code works for one button (buttonA) but i'm not sure how to loop it so that button B, button C, button D etc all do the same thing (but pass a different specified variable). I've tried repeating the code...
  12. eljacobs

    new movie won't load variables from txt file

    Hi Got an annoying problem which is probably easily solved but i'm new to this stuff so maybe you can help. I have a movie (lets call it movie a) that loads variables from a txt file called answers.txt into dynamic text boxes. So far so good. I have a swf file (movie b) that also displays...
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    date format problem when database is uploaded

    Hi i have an access database that stores news articles and displays them in date order. The date is stored in a column with the datatype date/time and the format is short date. when i enter a date through a web form, while the database/site are stored on my pc. it saves it in the correct uk...
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    line breaks missing when displaying database record

    Hi Guys I have entered a record into an access datbase that has several paragraphs. However, when i display the record in a page the text is displayed as one long paragraph with no line breaks. The formatting has saved in the database so the problem occurs when the record is displayed. Any...
  15. eljacobs

    aspsmartupload: uploading to two different files at once

    Hi Guys I'm sure this is simple but i need a little help none the less. I am using the aspSmartUpload componant to upload two files at once. One file is a thumbnail and the other is a larger version of the same image. You guessed it, i'd like the thumbnail to upload to a folder called...
  16. eljacobs

    deleting selected files using asp

    Hi I have a site that displays images along with details of the images from a database. I'd like to be able to select a number of these images and delete the details of the image from the database as well as the actual images from the server. So far i've managed to delete the records from...
  17. eljacobs

    Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

    Hi there i've got a problem that just won't go away!! I've created a simple site linked to an access database. It works fine on my machine (when i can get iis to work properly but that's a different matter!) but when i upload it to the host's server i get this message: Microsoft OLE DB...
  18. eljacobs

    IIS problems - can't find server.

    Hi Guys and Gals I recently had winXP pro reinstalled on my pc to fix some viruses. Since i reinstalled IIS i've had problems. When i originally installed it i was recieving strange errors which i was told were being caused by the permissions not being correct on my machine. I changed several...
  19. eljacobs

    building an online image library with content management

    Hi i have been building fairly straight forward dynamic applications in asp vbscript and access for a while (mainly using dreamweaver mx but i'm fairly comfortable with scripting). I'd now like to build an online photo gallery that stores low res images in a database and allows the...
  20. eljacobs

    dynamic disjoint rollovers

    Hi does anyone know if it is possible to populate the layers of a disjoint rollover with dynamic data? i.e. i'd like to creat a page (using asp/vbscript) that displays thumbnail images from a database (access). When you rollover/click the thumbnails i'd like the full size image to display above...

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