I can't remember the exact details now, but it turned out for me that those two files were in the 64 bit portion of win10 but not the 32 bit part (or it could have been the other way around). They need to be in both 64 and 32. I had to go find the two dlls. I went to https://www.dll-files.com/ It had the instructions to download the files and where to put them. You have to go into windows system and put them in the right place. Repairing and reinstalling the microsoft visual C++ did not do a thing because that is not the problem. You have to go get those two dlls and put them where they need to be. ... View more

Thanks for the link. I investigated html5 Canvas in depth 5 or 6 years ago when trying to find some alternative to Flash since the writing has been on the wall for some time.  I stopped creating swf animations for the web about that time. I found animating for Canvas clumsy and complicated. I would have had to install a local server, then install a console to write the code, then create the graphics in something else, and making sprites - ten times more difficult than just making an animated object in Flash! Maybe it is easier through Animate. I feel let down by Adobe at this point so I don't know if investing more time, money and effort in something that may become obsolete in a short time is worth it. But, on the other hand I get emails every day from all over the world (one from Slovakia yesterday) thanking me for the animations which have helped them understand these sometimes complex topics. I don't know what to do. ... View more

You would have to rent CS6 as well I assume. I own CS5 which can make AS2 fla. Outside of the text input fields, are the fla's too complex to convert to html5 Canvas? The fla's have movie clips. I don't know if you can use movie clips when creating for html5 Canvas. If you can't then I may have to turn the whole thing into text and static images and hope that in the future there won't be a prejudice against pngs or jpgs (after all they are used in ads) With all of the new technology it is depressing that we have to go backward in terms of content. When I first started using computers it was the early days of DOS which came with a game called Gorilla. Two people could use the keyboard and make highly pixelated gorillas throw bananas at each other. Seems like you can't do much better than that now except that they would be higher in resolution. ... View more

If I can just open them I can tweak or rewrite. Can I open a fla that was written in something earlier than AS2 in an AS3 environment? I was going to try to do as much coding as I can in CS5 before I start renting Animate. ... View more

Hire someone? To redo animations that are free for people to view. This website of mine www.goatbiology.com has this collection of animations. I can handle converting them if they will even convert. The little bit of experience I had with html5 animation is that you can only produce very rudimentary animations. Flash was the most incredible software ever invented. All you hear is how terrible Flash is yet no one has come up with anything better.. ... View more

It would be helpful to you if you can find some tutorials or get a good book even if it is CS6 or something similar. Animate (Flash) can be complex, it is not one of those programs you can learn just from poking around. That said, I have never put a movie clip into a button frame. Instead I make a movie clip with an animation in one frame, other animations in other frames giving all the frames a name. I put a transparent hit-only state button over the movie clip then put actions in the button to go to the appropriate frame in the movie clip then the animation plays. That is complex, I know but sometimes it can be much more useful than trying to put movie clips in the button frame. In fact, I learned to do it that way because if I remember from way back there were issues when trying to put a movie clip in a button frame but I can't remember what they were. ... View more

Here are instructions for making a button: How to create buttons with Adobe Animate ... View more

Just put your first image in the up frame of your button and the second image in the over frame of the button. You should also put an image in the down frame - the first image would work. When you test your button it will look like the Contact Us button pops up. If you want to button to slowly raise up then you would have to make that tween in a movie clip and put that movie clip in the over state. This is just basic button making. ... View more

It is just the opposite. You have much more control over movie clips and the animations inside them than graphic symbols. The animation in movie clips is controlled through actions in keyframes of the parent movie clip. Or you put actions in the keyframes of the movieclip to play again, stop or not play at all or go to certain positions and play from there.  If you try nesting animated graphic symbols inside animated graphic symbols inside animated graphic symbols you quickly get a complex can of worms because you need to pay attention to the number of frames in each and will probably find that they will not play as you hoped in your final product. Trust me, if you master the concept of movie clips you will find it much easier to create more complex animations that work as you expect. ... View more

Thanks for the clarification on all of those points, Colin. I plan to use CS5 to make at least one addition to my desktop application since buyers keep asking for more. Since it is complex and already coded in AS2 it would be a major nightmare to recode it. It is too complex and requires more interactivity than a touch screen to try to reissue it for a mobile device anyway. As long as AS2 is okay to use on desktop computers I will continue to use it for that, except that I will have to expect Mac users to run it in a browser. I am completely aware that AS2 cannot be used for mobile device applications. I just hope that once I get AS3 under my belt they won't come along in the near future and say that it is obsolete and now we have to use AS4 🙂 I appreciate this enlightening discussion. ... View more

I am prepared to learn AS3. I enrolled in a Java/AS3 online course (it appears that java isn't too different than AS3) and as well as a companion course in creating Android Apps using Android Studio. I will learn how to use Android Studio (after spending 4 days getting it installed and set up) but will probably end up using Animate in the end because I think it will have more capability with graphics and I am so much more familiar with the timeline based interface. This has been a long decision making process. I have 3 or 4 books sitting here that I bought a few years ago that help transition between AS2 and AS3. I have just been dragging my feet because it will be difficult - more work than fun. But, once into it I might change my mind about that. On exporting for iOS... I heard a rumor a year or so ago that Apple wouldn't approve any application made for iOS if it was created in Flash. Is this true? ... View more

One thing that made animating easier for me was to learn to use movie clips. If you animate a graphic symbol then when you put that graphic symbol on another timeline, like your main timeline, you have to make sure that you have enough frames to equal the frames in the graphic symbol. The best practice is to make a movie clip first, then inside the movie clip animate a graphic symbol using the length of frames you need. Then you can put that movie clip anywhere you want and it will play. Even if you have a movie clip with 30 frames, and you put it in on your main timeline that has only one frame (I found it to be a better practice to have at least two frames on a main time line and stop the animation on the second frame), it will still play. I never put a graphic symbol on the main stage unless it is going to be static. If you animate a graphic symbol you will have problems somewhere down the road. ... View more

See the fact that Apple changes things so drastically especially if the application does not come from Apple is the reason why I am, in the future, only going to offer my Flash based application for Macs to run through a browser.  In the 15 years that I have this application out all I have done is try to keep one step behind in keeping it working for Macs. The most recent problem with the Sierra upgrade causing the bizarre black screen is one example. The pathways are correct since the swfs still load okay in a browser.  Every time I get it working they throw in a new monkey wrench, so I just give up. My plan is to make a watered down version for Android (probably using Animate)which will make up for the lost Mac sales. With the technology changing so fast I have to think ahead if I am going to spend 9 months developing something which will be obsolete by the time I am finished. ... View more

No problem. I mostly wanted to know if I could install it and get it to work. Adobe software is not always that easy to install. I know Flash well enough not to need to try out Animate. It is successfully installed now, so I just need to decide whether or not to buy it. ... View more

Actually, it really doesn't matter. I decided a month or so ago to just release my applications in the future for Linux and Mac to run in a browser. The Windows projector always works. There are too many issues on Macs trying to get the app to work consistently. I was simply searching through the support questions before deciding to buy Animate which I usually do before buying any software - when I came across this thread saying that the projector for a Mac was showing a corrupt file. It caught my eye since I had so much trouble with this issue. When I used the Mac projector from CS5 all of my Mac customers complained that they were getting the corrupt file error. Out of desperation, and at not a small expense, I replaced it with the much older projector which was working - until the Sierra upgrade. I still do not understand Colin why you got a corrupt file error with the projector I published out of Animate. I was wondering if zipping the file is causing the corruption.  I appreciate that you made a projector for me but since it was made with AS3 will it load files exported in AS2? If I buy Animate it will only be to create an Android application. I will not be using it to develop computer apps. ... View more

I have to disagree. I and the original poster cannot produce a functioning Mac projector from the windows version. If it is launched on a mac you get a corrupt file error. This Mac projector was created with the windows version of Animate, yesterday, on my last day of trial. Colin got a corrupt file when he tried to launch it. http://www.imagecyte.com/testprojector.zpp.zip This is the fla from Animate  http://www.imagecyte.com/testprojector.zip ... View more

Having you make my Mac projectors (for life?) is not a solution. The conclusion from all of this is that you cannot make a functioning Mac projector from the Windows version of at least CS5 and Animate and probably every version in between. This is something that needs to be fixed by Adobe which I requested 5 years ago. If it cannot be fixed the option should be removed from the Windows version. ... View more

Yeah, I get depressed sometimes, missing the good old days. Flash was so fun back then. Creating in Flash was like playing music.  I have counted on a popular Flash application that I made years ago to earn income. But, as people abandon computers for phones I have to adjust and produce at least a very watered down version to keep the income coming in. I get so tired of being asked "does it work on a phone?". I am enrolled in a few online courses to learn Java and AS3 and have stacks of books helping to convert my AS2 thinking to AS3. But, quite honestly telling a target to go to a frame and play makes so much more sense than: target_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,targetF); function targetF(e:MouseEvent):void{ e.currentTarget.play(); } That code is just not intuitive - actually makes no sense at all. At least they brought then word Target back. ... View more

Colin. I remembered that I didn't need any code to publish a projector. Can you tell me if this Mac projector published from the Windows version of Animate works on a Mac? http://www.imagecyte.com/testprojector.app.zip ... View more

Except that the original poster had the problem exporting in Animate. He got a corrupt projector. I would like to try a test on Animate in Windows but I do not have enough time left in the trial to figure out the code. Did you get a corrupt error in trying launch the projector I exported from CS5? ... View more

Nope. I could not get past the missing dll error the first day. I never started it up. I uninstalled it the first day. I finally got time to reinstall and once I figured out the missing dll problem 4 days later and when I reninstalled I only had two days left. I have not even had time to try it and it will expire tomorrow. ... View more

This is the Mac projector exported from CS5 which had been resulting in a corrupt file. http://imagecyte.com/Mactest3_20.app.zip (I hope that works - naming the files was tricky This is the fla -  http://imagecyte.com/mactest3_20.zip​ The button has the code ... View more

Yes, it is a different issue and yes it must have to do with the path. It is strange that the path worked until the Sierra upgrade. I do not know how to fix that without knowing what changes were made to the paths in Sierra. The one that ends up in a black screen was exported in an older version of Flash. I finally just got CS5 working so I hope to upload the mac app which so far ends up as corrupt. ... View more

Except in my case it took 6 days to get it to install due to missing dlls. Now, I only have one day left. ... View more

First, this is the current issue. You can download the projector and one file at http://www.imagecyte.com/mac_test.zip This is the current player that goes out for Macs. It used to work until the of last year when people started upgrading to the Sierra OS. As far as I know the projector launches but when the enter button is clicked the main.swf should and used to open. Now they get a black screen which usually means that the player is not in the folder with the main.swf. I am currently trying to reinstall Flash CS5 on my main computer. I will have to open the files to see what the code is on the button. I will also find the correct fla. That might take an hour or two since - as expected - I am running into errors. But, at least for now you can see the issue. ... View more

I have to agree with you. I started with Flash 3 and loved it and still do. It seemed that when code was introduced with 4 that the coders kept wanting more coding ability so it went in that direction rather than toward the average artist/designer who wanted to make animations. I did start to learn AS2 mostly by "borrowing" code and then dissecting and redoing it to fit my needs. I now have to learn AS3 which does seem like overkill. You need 4 lines to do what one or two words used to do. I was looking at getting Animate but I think I will just stick with CS5. At least I can still use AS2 and it will still do what I need to do. ... View more