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rachelhomer
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April 20, 2006
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Communication Component Troubles

  • April 20, 2006
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Hello,

I'm fairly new to Flash and I've searched online to try to find someone else with this issue but no luck so far.

I'm trying to follow along some basic "chat room" tutorial. However, when I publish, the premade chat component shows up with no button and no where to enter text. All I see is the scroll bar "shadow" - there isn't even a line around the chat window. Some of the components seem to be fine though, like the connection light and simple connect.

I'm using Flash 8 Professional.
I'm on Windows XP
I have a trial version of FCS on my machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rachel
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    Newsgroup_User
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    April 21, 2006
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    Follow the example in the pdf documentation.

    I believe they are part of the zip file here:
    http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/components.html

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    "rachelhomer" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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    Hello,

    I'm fairly new to Flash and I've searched online to try to find someone
    else
    with this issue but no luck so far.

    I'm trying to follow along some basic "chat room" tutorial. However, when
    I
    publish, the premade chat component shows up with no button and no where to
    enter text. All I see is the scroll bar "shadow" - there isn't even a line
    around the chat window. Some of the components seem to be fine though,
    like
    the connection light and simple connect.

    I'm using Flash 8 Professional.
    I'm on Windows XP
    I have a trial version of FCS on my machine.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Rachel


    rachelhomerAuthor
    Participant
    April 21, 2006
    Thanks for the info. I actually figured this out late last night and forgot to post the answer.

    Like you said, if a user is not connected to the FCS server thru SimpleConnect or otherwise, the text field and button just do NOT show up on the chat component. So weird to me because you can see them on the stage and then you publish and they're gone! I was just trying to build the interface without worrying about hooking it up and I get nothing but trouble!!

    I originally thought it was an issue with software. Apparently the components were all built for MX and I'm on Flash 8. It turns out I also had to export using ActionScript 1 and Flash 6 just to get some of the components to not throw errors. So I wrongly assumed the disappearing had to do with component compatibility instead of a connectivity issue.

    Anyway, I hope this post eventually helps someone else. I had trouble finding info about this online!

    Thanks again for response.

    Rachel
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