Re: [Flashcoders] Testing display object if its MovieClip or BitMap?
Hopefully the line breaks here wont be too bad, pasting the code:
CODE
package {
import flash.utils.describeType;
import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
/**
* @author karim @ kurst.co.uk
*/
public class ClassUtils {
public static function getSuperClass( obj : Object ):String {
var superClass : String=
describeType(obj)@base;
var isBase : Boolean = ( superClass
== '' )
if ( isBase )
return getClassName( obj );
else
return replaceChar(superClass, '::', '.')
return '';
}
public static function getFullClassPath( obj : * ) : String {
var className : String = getQualifiedClassName( obj );
if ( className != null ){
if ( className.indexOf( '::' ) == -1 ){
return className;
} else {
return replaceChar(className, '::', '.')
}
} else {
return '';
}
}
public static function getClassName( obj : * ) : String {
var className : String = getQualifiedClassName( obj );
if ( className != null ){
if ( className.indexOf( '::' ) == -1 ){
return className;
} else {
return className.substr(
className.indexOf( '::' ) + 2 , className.length )
}
} else {
return '';
}
}
public static function replaceChar( str : String, charToRemove
: String , charToReplace : String) : String {
var temparray:Array = str.split(charToRemove);
return temparray.join(charToReplace);
}
}
}
/CODE
On 2 Dec 2010, at 03:21, Micky Hulse wrote:
Hi Karim! Many thanks for the reply and code sample! I really
appreciate the help. :)
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Karim Beyrouti ka...@kurst.co.uk wrote:
attached a class that does that, hope it helps...
Doh! Looks like the Flash Coders List does not allow attachments! :(
Do you have a server you could upload the AS file to? Maybe you could
post it on GitHub, or create a Gist? I would love see your class. :)
https://gist.github.com/
Thanks Karim!
Cheers,
Micky
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[Flashcoders] Deep diving into playerglobals.swc
I am sure that most people here know what playerglobals.swc is, but I might as well explain it anyway. The playerglobals.swc file is used by the compiler to know how the flash player api looks like. It lists all the classes, packages and so on. What may not be immediately obvious is that it includes everything, not just the documented features. But it also exposes some code that is real normal actionscript code. By unpacking the swc (just a renamed zip) and decompiling the contained swf you can see all of this. Some of the highlights are the ExternalInterface class and the URLLoader class. They are nearly completely made out of normal actionscript code. But there is also several plain undocumented features. Let me list what I know of: * adobe.utils.ProductManager - AIR application manager thing, also related to the flash player self updating. * flash.trace.Trace - No idea what this is, but the source code to the class is in the tamarin repository. * Object._propertyIsEnumrable, Object._setPropertyIsEnumrable - Prototype inheritance stuff. * flash.automation.* - My guess is that this is related to the colaboration with google regarding automated spidering of swf files. * flash.display.AVM1Movie - It has some unusable features to actually talk to the movie. * flash.display.MovieClip - I hope that you all know of the addFrameScript method by now. * flash.system.Security - The disableAVM1Loading and sandboxType properties. Rather self explanatory properties. * flash.system.System - The nativeConstructionOnly method. No idea what this one is for. But it seems to want something constructible. * flash.system.Capatibilites - The _internal property. * flash.ui.MouseCursorData - A new one for 10.2 I believe. It allows you to provide your own real os level mouse cursor. Also see the new Mouse.registerCursor method. It is rather self explanatory how to use it. * flash.utils.SetIntervalTimer - Not sure what the point is for this one. I wonder if there is anything else that I may have missed. In any case, it would be fun to have some clarity in the less understood parts. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] (From a PDF?) Getting bitmap data successfully
I need to pull in a PDF and be able to show thumbnails of the larger graphics to the user. They check off a couple and those are then saved as PNG or JPG files. I am ok on saving graphics as PNG/JPG (given a bitmap) and doing the UI piece, but can’t seem to find anything on how to manipulate the PDF to pull the bitmaps. Is there anything available short of Acrobat-SDK, and that is AS3-based? There are a few utilities to do this*, but nothing code-based to glean from. *Existing tools: a-pdf.com verypdf.com sobolsoft.com somepdf.com dawningsoft.com I have contacted them; but they only offer command-line, no-source, alternatives. Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] (From a PDF?) Getting bitmap data successfully
We used xpdf to generate jpgs / text of all our pdf files - that's opensource. Unfortunately this is command line too, so might not be any good to you, but it might be easier to generate thumbs for your PDF statically if you are re-using the same PDF's each time? http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html HTH Glen On 02/12/2010 16:59, lists...@fo.com wrote: I need to pull in a PDF and be able to show thumbnails of the larger graphics to the user. They check off a couple and those are then saved as PNG or JPG files. I am ok on saving graphics as PNG/JPG (given a bitmap) and doing the UI piece, but can’t seem to find anything on how to manipulate the PDF to pull the bitmaps. Is there anything available short of Acrobat-SDK, and that is AS3-based? There are a few utilities to do this*, but nothing code-based to glean from. *Existing tools: a-pdf.com verypdf.com sobolsoft.com somepdf.com dawningsoft.com I have contacted them; but they only offer command-line, no-source, alternatives. Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] (From a PDF?) Getting bitmap data successfully
best way to do it is to convert the PDF to a SWF and then work with it as a SWF. Something like this will do it http://www.swftools.org/ You can load the swf and each page of the pdf will be a frame of the swf On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:59 AM, lists...@fo.com wrote: I need to pull in a PDF and be able to show thumbnails of the larger graphics to the user. They check off a couple and those are then saved as PNG or JPG files. I am ok on saving graphics as PNG/JPG (given a bitmap) and doing the UI piece, but can’t seem to find anything on how to manipulate the PDF to pull the bitmaps. Is there anything available short of Acrobat-SDK, and that is AS3-based? There are a few utilities to do this*, but nothing code-based to glean from. *Existing tools: a-pdf.com verypdf.com sobolsoft.com somepdf.com dawningsoft.com I have contacted them; but they only offer command-line, no-source, alternatives. Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Deep diving into playerglobals.swc
Henrik, flash.automation.* This sounds interesting. I wonder if the spiders might eventually pick up on frame labels. I guess it's too much to hope for given that we also like to encrypt SWFs. John On 02/12/2010 11:30, Henrik Andersson wrote: I am sure that most people here know what playerglobals.swc is, but I might as well explain it anyway. The playerglobals.swc file is used by the compiler to know how the flash player api looks like. It lists all the classes, packages and so on. What may not be immediately obvious is that it includes everything, not just the documented features. But it also exposes some code that is real normal actionscript code. By unpacking the swc (just a renamed zip) and decompiling the contained swf you can see all of this. Some of the highlights are the ExternalInterface class and the URLLoader class. They are nearly completely made out of normal actionscript code. But there is also several plain undocumented features. Let me list what I know of: * adobe.utils.ProductManager - AIR application manager thing, also related to the flash player self updating. * flash.trace.Trace - No idea what this is, but the source code to the class is in the tamarin repository. * Object._propertyIsEnumrable, Object._setPropertyIsEnumrable - Prototype inheritance stuff. * flash.automation.* - My guess is that this is related to the colaboration with google regarding automated spidering of swf files. * flash.display.AVM1Movie - It has some unusable features to actually talk to the movie. * flash.display.MovieClip - I hope that you all know of the addFrameScript method by now. * flash.system.Security - The disableAVM1Loading and sandboxType properties. Rather self explanatory properties. * flash.system.System - The nativeConstructionOnly method. No idea what this one is for. But it seems to want something constructible. * flash.system.Capatibilites - The _internal property. * flash.ui.MouseCursorData - A new one for 10.2 I believe. It allows you to provide your own real os level mouse cursor. Also see the new Mouse.registerCursor method. It is rather self explanatory how to use it. * flash.utils.SetIntervalTimer - Not sure what the point is for this one. I wonder if there is anything else that I may have missed. In any case, it would be fun to have some clarity in the less understood parts. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] (From a PDF?) Getting bitmap data successfully
You should be able to use ImageMagick to get the image. See: http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/867585-convert-pdf-image-imagemagick-ghostscript ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
