Supernova XML Website

To replace “Supernova” text for the home page.. open home.fla > edit movieclip symbol “logo_mc” replace current text with your own text.

To replace “XML Website” text for the home page.. open home.fla > edit graphic symbol “intro_animation” > on layer “Mask” (second layer from the bottom) add your own text on key frame 30.

Note the whole animation for the home is contained in graphic symbol “intro_animation” so you can tweak the timeline animation here.

You need to embed these special characters in the text fields first. To do this, open the FLA and select the text field. In the properties panel, press the “Embed” button and you will then see a field labelled “Include these characters” – paste the special characters that you need here.

NB: When you save the XML remember to always save the XML for UTF -8 encoding. You can set the encoding type by choosing ‘save as’ and selecting UTF -8.

Note: Some fonts don’t have special characters such as pixel fonts or non-system fonts. So make sure the font you want to use has these special characters. You can check by opening the font in a character map which will display all the possible characters.

Open index.fla > go to Library > edit movieclip “menu_mc” > on layer “categoryName” on frame 10 is an instance of “txt_mc” which has a tint colour applied in the properties panel, change the tint colour there.

This might be because your server does not support PHP scripts or it has not been enabled or configured correctly. To check if your server supports PHP scripts, upload “phpInfo.php” which is in the contact folder in the supplied files to your server. If PHP is enabled and working correctly you should see your server’s PHP information when you access “phpInfo.php” on your server. If you get an error you’ll need to contact your hosting provider to enable PHP before your flash PHP contact form will work.

Most likely there is an error in your XML file. To debug errors, an easy way is to open the XML in a FireFox browser window. If there is an error it will tell you. Fix the error in the XML , save and reopen the XML in the browser window again to see if there are any more errors. Once all the errors have been fixed you should see the XML tree in the browser window. When you save the XML always choose ‘save as’ and set the encoding type to UTF -8 before saving the XML .

The StyleSheet is built into the ActionScript > open content.fla > edit movieclip “content_mc” > in the Actions layer, see code under header CASCADING STYLE SHEET . Here you will see hex colour values for the hyperlink and roll-over colour, you can change the colour here.

Create a new FLA , make it’s dimensions 1024×768 (or size you prefer). On layer 1, make a vector square that is 1024×768 and make it 0% alpha. On layer 2 place your movieclip with the animation that you want played in the background. On layer 3, make another square that is 1024×768 and make it a mask layer, so that it masks the movieclip animation on layer 2. Now export the SWF to your background folder for the Supernova Template. Edit content.xml in the backgrounds folder and add the path to the SWF background. Now open index.fla > go to Library > edit moveiclip “backgrounds_mc” > in Actions layer, in imageLoaded function, remove the line below:

duplicateImage(holder, holder);