To responde to your post in reverse...
For someone like me - someone who's not a Flash developer - the Flash IDE
is
somewhat overwhelming, and has a bunch of things in it that don't even
make
sense from a forms-based application development perspective.
That's half of what I was
When i use System.showSettings(1) I need to detect if/when the
close-button in the settings dialog box is clicked.
What can be used to detect this event?
regards,
Jan Oosterhuis
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences
University of Twente, PO BOX 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel: ++
Sajid,
how about this:
Keep adding text in parts into the textfield, and everytime check its scroll
property. The moment value of scroll property changes, stop and put the rest
into the next textfield.
what say ?
~Arul Prasad.
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Hi,
Was
Hi guys,
I know it's not really a coding issue but it's the only place I could
think off to post this problem I'm having...
I'm having a serious issue with cuepoints in VP6 FLV's.
I've placed them in the FLV using Squeeze and placed them on the
exact frame I want to trigger actions to.
But
%25 is the URL code for the % sign. So Flash is correct; when you pass %25
in a URL-encoded string, you are in fact passing simply %.
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Actually if i try to pass to pass ' as %27 it pass it as it is and i have to
unescape it to get ' value. But if i pass %25 it shows me % that's what is a
bit confusing. Infect for rest all values i.e. all special characters i have
to use unescape function to get url.encoded values back to normal
OK, I misunderstood your first post - sorry about that.
I've never had to use an unescape function in Flash. Whenever I've passed a
URL-encoded string, it just worked. Sorry I can't help.
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actually i also never had to use it because i never encoded the querystring.
But this time i got a real scenario in which user was trying to pass ab
where is the seperator for name-value pair in querystring so i had to
shift to url encode method.
Which in turn led me to ' problem. :(
Anyway
Users cause a lot of trouble, don't they? :-)
Is it necessary to allow users to use the character? If possible, you
could modify the UI so that it doesn't accept characters that cause problems
in the code.
Another possible solution is to modify the UI so that it replaces problem
characters
Yes, of course!,
Create a simple FLA file for every test, and put in the first frame of
each one:
Main.init(this);
In the first test, a textfield is created that has some FX and it is
masked. Then, the mask size is changed.
BUG: The text doesn´t unmask. If you remove the FX, the movie
What is the way, if there is one, for going from MTASC compiled SWF app and
an .EXE ?
Thanks,
João Carlos
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There are some programs that create .exe files from SWF such as :
Zinc (www.multidmedia.com)
Screenweaver (http://www.osflash.org/screenweaver)
...
and many others that you can find by googleing around ;)
jcarlos a écrit :
What is the way, if there is one, for going from MTASC compiled SWF
Folks:
I still need help on this. I know there are some really, really smart
folks on this list (smarter than me). Can you please help me?
I am beginning to work with screens and slides. I understand how to
load external swfs into my slides or screens.
Here's the question: How do I write
Yea you are very right :). Although i have sort out that problem for time
being saying that no one is going to sue % in his name. It was actually a
full name or company name so sometimes user can say ABC XYZ or sometime
they can write ABC's company etc.
I was wondering if this is a problem in
var isFinishedPlaying:Boolean =
targetSlide.targetExternalSwf._currentframe==
targetSlide.targetExternalSwf._totalframes;
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HI Loren,
You can do it the cheap and nasty way, which I like to employ as often as
possible :)
Simpy put a stop(); frame on the frame on the main timeline where the swf is
loaded, and at the end of your loaded swf put the action _parent.play();
This means that the main timeline is stopped,
Wow, that IS cheap and nasty! ;) Just wanted to point out that if you
intend to use the external swfs in any other project, this is a bad way to
go, since the _parent.play() will cause the parent movie to play regardless
of what the parent movie is.
A more future-proof approach would be to call
Does anyone know how to reference the SeekBarHandle? My problem is that
I'm trying to toggle its visibility on and off and I have no way of
knowing what its instance name is.
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Jason,
that would be great! I would love to see an example of e-learning built in
Flex!
Bill Lane...you mentioned that you are working on an e-learning app in Flex.
Is there anything that you can show us? Perhaps if you don't want to show
the whole list you could email me off list?
I have
Hello.
I have a big problem with shared fonts. I am doing an editor that has a
list of fonts to choose. This fonts are dynamically loaded from a swf
with his embed font. When I try to load 10 fonts in a movieclip, with
his preload for each one, the application runs well, but if I load this
I want to make a barcode generator component
I found one in
http://flashcomponents.net/
but only works in version 6.
I do not know how function a barcode,
some one have some links where i could find
documentation?
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Hello all,
After a failed attempt to use JS to talk between SWFs I am using
LocalConnection. It works great, the only problem is when I have two
browsers open with the same file and same issue with two different tabs in
FF (I haven't tested the file in different tabs in IE but I would suggest
I usually pass in a unique identifier to the swfs and add that to the name of
the connection.
-caleb
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Hello David,
How many fonts in the shared library swf? Maybe the player version, pc specs
and browser would also be good for us to try to help you.
- Marcelo.
On 5/24/06, David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I have a big problem with shared fonts. I am doing an editor that has a
I've experienced the same problem countless times. I loathe the way Flash
[mis]handles fonts. The only way I've found to sort of get around it is by
opening the font in Fontographer (or something like it), renaming the font
so that instead of Futura with a style of Light, I name the font Futura
I have over a thousand audio (WAV) files that I need to convert each to
SWF.
Does anyone have an idea to streamline the conversion???
-- Chuck
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Real vague post mang, maybe you want to be a bit more descriptive next time
=]
Look for the instance name using the flash debugger. You can also use a
recursive function to trace out all instance names of movieclips. Something
like this:
function traceClip(mc:MovieClip){
trace(mc._name+':
Why not batch convert the WAVs into mp3 using any tool you can get your
hands on (Nero, MS Encoder etc), then use a bit of actionsctipt in a
single SWF to determine which MP3 to load.
Lewis, Chuck wrote:
I have over a thousand audio (WAV) files that I need to convert each to
SWF.
Does
Lewis, Chuck wrote:
I have over a thousand audio (WAV) files that I need to convert each to
SWF.
Try SWFTools' WAV2SWF converter.
It's free as in GPL and runs on Windows, OS X, and most Unix systems.
http://www.swftools.org/
Jim
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Thanks Elibol for the traceClip function. I ran your function on my
seekbar that is named 'seeker';
It traced back:
'seeker: _level0.seeker
progress_mc: _level0.seeker.progress_mc'
So it is telling me that the seekbarhandle is named progress_mc (I
guess).
But when I write a piece of code like
I believe that you can change the *.mp3 extension to just about anything else,
and Flash will still wink at you and load it into a Sound object anyway. This
lets you sneak around companies that block *.mp3 files. Right?
-mark hawley
From: Lewis, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/05/24
I just sent it to your gmail account
Scott Brantley
Multi-media Designer/Programmer
Hammond Communications Group
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Subject: Re:
Has anyone noticed a bug when adding creating ActionsPanel xml files with
MXI Creator- It seems to always add either an extra slash after the file
name or not provide the $flash prefix- I can fix it by hand but was curious
if anyone else had shared this experience and if there was a known fix or
yeah I always have go in after making the mxi file with the creator and then
edit that path. After that, it works fine - even if you reopen it in MXI
creator.
hth,
JG
On 5/24/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone noticed a bug when adding creating ActionsPanel xml
okay cool- until I learned what was in that file that was
good-n-frustrating
On 5/24/06, John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah I always have go in after making the mxi file with the creator and
then
edit that path. After that, it works fine - even if you reopen it in MXI
creator.
hth,
JG
I'm looking for information on the most widely supported audio file
types on mobile devices the have FlashLite 2 installed.
Does anyone have experience with streaming audio to mobile devices?
What file types are best to use? How small do files have to be to work
well? How large can they be
Can you run me through the steps to reproduce this?
When I add an xml file and set its destination to 'Flash CustomActions' I get
the following in the mxi file:
files
file name=product.xml destination=$flash/ActionsPanel/CustomActions/ /
/files
Are you getting something different?
for Flasc, here's what I had to do to get the FileSystem.dll to go into the
External Libraries directory:
files
file name=FLASC.swf destination=$flash/WindowSWF/ /
file name=FLASC\getClassFiles.jsfl
destination=$flash/Commands/FLASC /
file name=FLASC\getFlashLocation.jsfl
Hi M,
The ExternalInterface.available reports true.
I myself was looking into a solution more in using an iframe and
checking against the history or a custom js array.
But today we had a Flex 2 launch seminar, and I asked about the back
button in Flash Player 9. I was told there would be no
Hi, does anybody know where i could find a script to detect a user's cpu ?
I'm currently working on an application with lots of animation which uses a
lot of cpu power. I would like to hide those animations for the low cpu
users because the application jams...
Thanks
The Xfactor XPath classes can even be compiled with mtasc (not in
strict setting), it was a newer release, so it could be you are using
an older release.
I did not encounter any problems with XPath when compiling with the Flash IDE.
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On 5/23/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For your information:
Adobe is currently busy with their own version of creating desktop
applications with swf and pdf.. codename Apollo..
I haven't searched for or came across any useful information yet, but
this keeps me (at the moment) of investing in (other) applications
that can create
Could try SUPER too
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Jim Cheng wrote:
Lewis, Chuck wrote:
I have over a thousand audio (WAV) files that I need to convert each to
SWF.
Try SWFTools' WAV2SWF converter.
It's free as in GPL and runs on Windows, OS X, and most Unix systems.
Muzak wrote:
How about dispatching an event to which the parent (or whoever needs to
be notified) registers as a listener.
Calling a method that might or might not exists is IMO bad practice.
regards,
Muzak
Please send me the code and code placement for this and I will try it.
Thanks for your
True. You don't even need to include an extension at all
On 5/24/06, John Mark Hawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that you can change the *.mp3 extension to just about anything else,
and Flash will still wink at you and load it into a Sound object anyway. This
lets you sneak around
I have a Flash menu file in a frameset in HTML, and I want to tell the
page frame to change to another HTML page - how to do it? The
following doesn't seem to work:
In simplified form:
page2_btn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(page2.html, page);
}
page is the name of the HTML frame I
well there are no phones with FL2.0 installed at the moment, so thats
pretty straight forward :)
if you are using loadSound (device sound) then FL consumes the size of
the sound file in memory to load the file and then the same again to
playback the audio. So if a device has 2mb of memory
You can use a frame rate detection code. There are many ways to do this
though.
Here is one reliable technique:
var lastValue:Number = new Date().valueOf();
var frameCounter:Number = 0;
var frameRate:Number = 0; //not average, just the amount of frames entered
in the last second
function
True, I should specify FlexBuilder 2.. are you compiling just via
command line or are you using a 3rd party IDE?
On May 23, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
We have had Mac builds of the SDKs (compiler, frameworks, etc...)
since beta 2.
http://www.adobe.com/go/labs_flex2_downloads
What I usually do is play an animation of moderate complexity for a hundred
frames or so, and test how long it takes that clip to complete. Based on
the scores from a few test machines, you can figure out how long it takes
for an average machine to play the clip. If the end user's machine takes
I'm relatively comfortable with Actionscript but have been skirting learning
the Flash 8 features because work has had me buried elsewhere- What are the
best tutorials online or in books that you guys(gender neutral-guys of
course) have found for learning the BitMap Data API etc?
Mani
There's a good one at:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
David
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I'm relatively comfortable with Actionscript but have been skirting learning
the Flash 8 features because work has had me buried
Never mind - I got it. Dumb mistake as usual.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Technology Solutions
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Yes, it would be more processor and memory intensive to use empty movieclips
for sync. The reason for this is that a movieclip is a special kind of
object that has a ton of its own built-in methods and properties, none of
which you need for timing purposes.
Managing the interval id's shouldn't
well if they are full length mp3s then its no go, unless you transcode
to 3gp and then do rtsp direct to flash lite
but really rtsp isn't that valid an option unless you are working with
an operator, if you arent working with an operator in some form then
users will have connection issues
I've found anecdotally the onEnterFrames are less CPU intensive than a
setInterval running at a similar rate.
The cons of setInterval are worth noting, but if you're using a good OOP
code design, and you're strict about tracking your interval IDs, then you
don't have to be too afraid of
Heya John,
Yeah, being able to define your own destinations is something I had considered.
Can't remember now why at the time I decided not to implement that.
$Flash\External libraries indeed is missing.
Think that has something to do with the fact that I wanted to match each
destination in the
OK. I am creating this in a Flash Slide Presentation, NOT the normal
Flash document.
I have two buttons (play and pause) on the Master Slide (Presentation).
These buttons need to control the external content (external SWF) that
is loaded into each slide of the presentation.
For example, when
Can someone point me at a good tutorial or writeup on making MXI files?
I want to be able to package a component so that when one includes it in
their project, they also get access to a folder of the resources they may
wish to edit.
It seems like these MXI files are the way to do it, but my
Here's the mxi file format specs:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/exchange/mxi_file_format.pdf
And here's a tool that helps with creating mxi files (pc only).
http://www.muzakdeezign.com/mxi_creator/
regards,
Muzak
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Hey Muz, are you going OS with that tool? I saw your page on the OSFlash
site, but I know it's not listed officially ;)
Just wondered if that was going to happen or not,
JG
On 5/24/06, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the mxi file format specs:
I'm building a fairly demanding site that has a fair bit of animation and
rather than aiming for an average performance level of animation for my
users, I'd like to turn off/on some features of the site depending on
rendering capabilities of the users computer.
Does anyone have any
Nick,
Thanks for the info. I'm getting the same from what I'm finding on the
web. This has helped a lot, and I can a least right up a report for my
boss on the hurdles we would have to jump to build the application.
Massive data bills sounds terrible, but I'm curious just how massive.
Hello,
I am attempting to build a scrollpane with multiple sets of Text Inputs,
Buttons, and Date Choosers. In each set the button makes the DateChooser
visible and when a date is choosen it populated the Text Input and makes
itself invisible again.
The issue I am running into is in the 2nd loop
Funny, I never put it there ;-)
Someone else must have listed it on osflash.org.
Anyways, main reason it's not officially there is because I no longer have the
original source files, due to a server harddisk crash
about 2 years ago. Lost a whole buch of things, including backups, SVN, etc..
I
surely opening a web browser is a lot faster than posting to a mailing list
and waiting for a reply
there is a lot of information available ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=barcode+specifications
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Thanks for the suggestion Caleb, my only problem with this solution is that
the files will have to be re-loaded every time the visitor comes to the
site, is that correct?
...helmut
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does it compile if you just have a simple hello world example, with
an empty constructor?
mike chambers
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On May 24, 2006, at 6:37 PM, David Peek wrote:
Hey list,
I'm trying to compile AS3 on my mac, have tried every which method
and keep on running into the same issue.
Hey Mick,
Maybe it is better to give the user the option to select the processor
speed rather than detecting it automatically. (that would be similar to
picking your connection speed for a QuickTime movie). Some users may
want to see all the effects even though they have a slow computer.
If you
Yup, compiles if I just have:
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class test extends Sprite {
public function test() {
}
}
}
which I guess means it's finding flash.display.Sprite ok?
David Peek
does it compile if you
Some good points Robin. I'd like to try automate the process as much as I
can but will keep that in mind - it may be a better solution.
Your timer would work for CPU speed, but I think I'd have to combine it with
some rendering of some kind to test the capabilities of the graphics card
also. eg.
Loren,
Have you tried using the output panel? EG. Get your external content loaded and
running in your preso
then debug using List Object/Variables to the output panel. CTRL F to find the
.swf you loaded into the preso...
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setInterval's use up next to nothing on processor, even if you have 20 of
them going. I find that the best judgement of which to use is the task at
hand.
Because framerate is for animation, I find it best to use onEnterFrame when
doing coded animation. Flash will cause an automatic screen redraw
AFAIK the system.capabilities object is not capable of determining the highest
FPS of the current viewer. Mostly it is for fairly vanilla info such as what
FPlayer is running, OS, has Audio, has Video, etceteras. Which is not saying
there is not a way to do so. If there is, peeps on this list
I notice in the language reference for beta 3 that TextField is now in
flash.text :
import flash.text.TextField;
Bill Lane
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Yup, compiles if I just have:
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class test extends Sprite {
Gah, silly me. Always the last thing you expect... A million thanks :)
I notice in the language reference for beta 3 that TextField is now in
flash.text :
import flash.text.TextField;
Bill Lane
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Yup, compiles if I just have:
package {
import
Hi
I need to know if there is a way to export jpg for a particular movieclip in
swf at runtime. I have the swf embedded in visual basic 6.
Rishi
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