Publish-problems

[Ruben]

Hi to all,

I'm dealing with a VERY anoying problem: I've got this flash-movie that always published without any problems, but now all of a sudden when I press shift+F12 the file is displayed in the folder, and then after 1 second it vanishes, I'm not joking, I can't find it back in the windows-rubish-bin-thingie, and it's not in another folder either...

Even stranger: when I go to the publish-settings (in which nothing has changed by the way) and hit the publish-button then suddenly another window is focused, when I try to go back to FMX04 again then it won't let me

Can anyone please help me with this, I'm getting kinda aggravated over this...

:confused: - Ruben

PS. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling FMX04, and the problem didn't go away :(

EDIT #1: Other files don't have any problems with publishing for some odd reason...
EDIT #2: When I tried publishing the fla and testing it in FMX04PRO itself I came to the conclusion that the exportation is simply aborted halfway...

[Ruben]

Anyone????

:( - Ruben

[krock]

I am having the same issue, have you found a fix? This is really aggrevating!!

[Ruben]

I am having the same issue, have you found a fix? This is really aggrevating!!

No, sorry, haven't found a way to work around it...I'm getting pretty desperate as well...At the moment my only 'option' is manually putting the graphics and scripts into a new fla...but that's gonna be a shitload of work so I'm still waiting for some kinda miracle...

Anyways, here's what identifies the problem* (feel free to post experiences):
1. Although the file begins the publish/process, it does not finish it;
2. When you press F12 (test movie in flash itself) the progressbar doesn't come any further then 1/3;
3. When you press shift F12 (publish without previewing) and quickly go to the folder the swf is published to (while publishing) then you sometimes can see the swf-file being created and then vanishing;
4. When you press control shift F12 (go to publish-settings) and press the publish-button then the publish-process isn't started and FMX04 crashes;
5. The Flash7.2-update (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848) doesn't fix the problem, it didn't for me that is (please note that I am using FlashMX2004PRO so wether you are running FMX04 or FMX04PRO, both ways I suggest you try it out by following the link in MortimerJazz his thread (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848))...

Please post if you have got anything usefull to say...

- Ruben


* Publish-settings with only flash-publishing checked

[krock]

I'm running FMX04 and tried the update, but it didn't fix it. I have found a way around the problem though. I was using about 30 videos from After Effects and they were in there own movie clip symbols so that I could crossfade them with some code. The way I was doing the crossfade was to have all of the movies on the first frame and when one faded the next was revealed. Simple, but the movie stopped saving and publishing, I had the vanishing issue as well. So, I had to make individual swf files out of exh video and load them each in to the main movie separately. Anyway, hope that helps you, but I doubt it.

Thanks for the feedback though.

[Ruben]

Hmmm, I'm not using any AE-stuff in my fla...

So before you directly imported the video-files into the fla (I take it exh is some kinda AE-extension?) and now you exported the AE-file to swf and imported the swf into the main-fla?

Or are you loading the video-swfs into the main-swf, then maybe the size of the main-fla is the problem...

Could you try to be more detailed in your description?

Thanks anyways for the reply

:) - Ruben

[Ruben]

Update on the problem: I haven't found a way to get around this all (yet, I hope ;)) but I was having some thoughts of identifiers of this problem...

so here's an updated list of what identifies the problem* (feel free to post experiences):
1. Although the file begins the publish/process, it does not finish it;
2. When you press F12 (test movie in flash itself) the progressbar doesn't come any further then 1/3;
3. When you press shift F12 (publish without previewing) and quickly go to the folder the swf is published to (while publishing) then you sometimes can see the swf-file being created and then vanishing;
4. When you press control shift F12 (go to publish-settings) and press the publish-button then the publish-process isn't started and FMX04 crashes;
5. The Flash7.2-update (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848) doesn't fix the problem, it didn't for me that is (please note that I am using FlashMX2004PRO so wether you are running FMX04 or FMX04PRO, both ways I suggest you try it out by following the link in MortimerJazz his thread (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=51848));
6. Reinstalling Flash or OS didn't seem to be helping at all :(...

I'm thinking about looking in the movies library to see if there are any objects with the same names (that's possible if they're in different folders), maybe that's causing the problem...If that doesn't help I think I'll try saving to FMX (with all FMX04-only script commented out), publishing in FMX, if it publishes in FMX reopen in FMX04 and try to publish again...

Yeah, I know, longshots...


:( - Ruben


* Publish-settings with only flash-publishing checked

[Ruben]

Alright, I tried looking for objects with the same names in the library, but couldn't find any...

After that I tried saving the FMX04-file to FMX-format, apparently I had used so much FMX04-technologies that the filesize dropped from 1,46MB to 1,5KB :eek: FMX wouldn't open the file as well...so much for the last two things I could think of :mad:

...the movie stopped saving and publishing...

Are you sure your movie stopped saving as well?? I tried it with my movie; I put some commented dummy-script on the first frame, saved the file and the script was still there after I reopened the file...:confused:

Could you reply as soon as possible so that we could clear this one out and make sure you were having the same problem as I had?

:( - Ruben

[krock]

Here are the steps I made for the project:

1. I exported the AE files to quicktime.
2. Imported the Quicktime movies to flash.
3. Made around 30 Quicktime movies into separate movie clips so that I could apply a fading action to them. This all worked fine when I would play it, until I got to the 18th movie then it would just stop.
4. I continued tio refine my code and make my movies smaller and eventually it wouldn't even save or publish.
5. I made a whole new movie and did the same, when I got to around the 5th movie it wouldn't save anymore. At this point I thought it wa a memory issue of some sort, so I made a main movie that was a container, which pulled each movie in separately as swf files. Now it works fine.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks,
Kris

[Ruben]

Here are the steps I made for the project:

1. I exported the AE files to quicktime.
2. Imported the Quicktime movies to flash.
3. Made around 30 Quicktime movies into separate movie clips so that I could apply a fading action to them. This all worked fine when I would play it, until I got to the 18th movie then it would just stop.
4. I continued tio refine my code and make my movies smaller and eventually it wouldn't even save or publish.
5. I made a whole new movie and did the same, when I got to around the 5th movie it wouldn't save anymore. At this point I thought it wa a memory issue of some sort, so I made a main movie that was a container, which pulled each movie in separately as swf files. Now it works fine.

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks,
Kris

Well, it helped me identifying the problem, every post helps I guess, so thanks for starters.

So in the end you had one main-swf which would load all the AE-movies in itself in the shape of seperate swfs?

Maybe it was a size-matter in your case, but my movie is only around 1,5 mb, that couldn't be the problem...I'm not sure if you had the same problem I had, since you're movie didn't publish or save, mine only won't publish, I haven't had any trouble while saving it....

I think I'll simply recompile my movie...don't think I'll find any other solution within a thousand years, but thanks anyways krock for being the onlyone posting ;)

:( - Ruben

[Ruben]

Whoo-FCUKIN-hoo!!!

I solved the problem!!!

Here's what I did:

1. I created a new (empty) fla;
2. I copied every layer from the old fla (the one that wouldn't let me publish to swf anymore) to the new fla one by one, after every single layer I hit shift F12 to make sure the fla wasn't corrupted (yet);
3. When I got to a certain layer the new fla wouldn't publish anymore just like the old one;
4. So I deleted the layer and hit shift F12 again to make sure it was the layer causing the problem and not something else. After deleting the layer the fla did publish as it should, so I was sure the stuff on that layer was causing the problem;
5. I went into the movieclip placed on that certain layer and figured out what layer inside of the movieclip was causing the problem (I did this by deleting/publishing as well);
6. After a while I came to the conclusion that the problem-layer was a layer with only script on it, so I deleted and published and deleted and published again...
7. After doing this my eyeball fell on one line of script which looked something like this:with(){...after filling in a path within the with-function and everything worked as it should.

So apparantly FMX04 doesn't recognize a with-function not being filled in properly as a syntax-error, I'll post this bug somewhere one the forum so all of you will be warned

:D - happy Ruben

[Ruben]

Whoo-FCUKIN-hoo!!!

I solved the problem!!!

Here's what I did:

1. I created a new (empty) fla;
2. I copied every layer from the old fla (the one that wouldn't let me publish to swf anymore) to the new fla one by one, after every single layer I hit shift F12 to make sure the fla wasn't corrupted (yet);
3. When I got to a certain layer the new fla wouldn't publish anymore just like the old one;
4. So I deleted the layer and hit shift F12 again to make sure it was the layer causing the problem and not something else. After deleting the layer the fla did publish as it should, so I was sure the stuff on that layer was causing the problem;
5. I went into the movieclip placed on that certain layer and figured out what layer inside of the movieclip was causing the problem (I did this by deleting/publishing as well);
6. After a while I came to the conclusion that the problem-layer was a layer with only script on it, so I deleted and published and deleted and published again...
7. After doing this my eyeball fell on one line of script which looked something like this:with(){...after filling in a path within the with-function and everything worked as it should.

So apparantly FMX04 doesn't recognize a with-function not being filled in properly as a syntax-error, I'll post this bug somewhere one the forum so all of you will be warned

:D - happy Ruben

EDIT: I posted the bug (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=260777&posted=1#post260777) on the BugsInFmx2004-thread (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=41850) on the ActionScript2.0-forums (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/forumdisplay.php3?f=35)