You'd get a preview without uploading, by accessing the file directly from
the user's harddrive.
However, this is not supported for security reasons. Basically, the answer
is NO, with standard flash, you cannot read files from the user's harddrive
without uploading them to the server first and
There seems to be a lack of good component sets these days.
Ghostwire: Maybe the best, but done in old-style AS1
mCom: Pretty good, but a couple showstopper bugs, little to no support from
developer. poor documentation.
XP: see previous message
MM v2: bloated, bugs
Flex 2: requires flash 9
What
What problem are you having with connections over SSL?
I've used it many times, (for loadvars, for loadmovie, etc), and never had
to do anything extra, it just works.
You might have some trouble, if you load some files from http:// and some
files from https://, there are a bunch of security
Heh, I like this text from their demo page:
Experience AFR Access - The serious investor's toolkit with this short
video, which takes you through its many features and uses. *Please amend
copy as necessary*.
-David R
On 6/22/06, Arul Prasad M L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks Chris.
~Arul
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From: David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:21:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference and actionscript 2.0
On 6/23/06, human ghaderyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list
I
I use PrimalScript on windows, and the code completion (aka
Intellisense) is very nice. It works on all the built in classes, as
well as all my own classes. It's not perfect (occasionally it only
finds function names, but not paramaters), but it speeds up my coding
a lot -- i don't have to look
Using ONLY AS2? No, I'm pretty sure it cannot be done.
However, it can be done using some free server-side tools. Things like
swfmill, swfc, jpg2swf, etc etc.
-David R
On 6/26/06, jcanistrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi All,
I´d like to discuss some ideas about if is possible to produce an
I believe the official word is Sometime in the first half of 2007
-David R
On 6/27/06, Ville Walveranta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone here know the [tentative] release schedule of Flash 9 Pro (i.e
.
the IDE/Studio, not just the plugin) that would take advantage of AS3?
Flash Team has
Unofficially they say a beta is coming 'real soon', and 'before the end of
the year'
gnash isn't even to flash 7 yet. so the official player is still ahead. i
predict flash 9 for linux will be out before gnash 8 is solid. it's a nice
idea, and perhaps can be something installed on distros by
Very nice. I can't wait to see some of the cool demos people will make now
that AS3 is officially out
here's my performance stats:
CPU: AMD Sempron 1.81GHz
Firefox: 30fps 55% CPU usage
IE: 49fps 100% CPU usage
-David R
On 6/29/06, neo binedell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
U can have a looky
FYI, the (free) Flex SDK works fine for me on linux (since it's java based).
Also the standalone player runs under Wine (even if a bit slow), so I can
test simple apps.
-David R
On 6/29/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any official word on whether a Mac and/or Linux version of Flex
How about 'escaping' the text before you send to amfphp, and
'unescaping' the text after you recieve it back?
escaping = turning all non-standard characters into things like %12%34%56
unescaping = reverse of above process
-David R
On 7/4/06, Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks Serge
yes,
On 7/5/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a very simple need, and I'm trying to find the simplest way to
satisfy it. I have essentially a single remote shared object on a comm
server that is getting entirely too much traffic and I want to offload it to
some other kind of server (that
You could always tell your user to press F11 -- (shortcut key on
firefox and IE for fullscreen...even gets rid of the titlebar and
start bar)
-David R
On 7/7/06, John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops.. for the full effect to work on any resolution leave the field Width
and Height blank
-
Worst case scenario, just use one of the many flash logging/tracing apps (or
write your own simple one real quick), and simply do a global search
replace of trace( to DebugLogger.out( (or whatever the name of their
trace command is)
-David
On 7/12/06, Andy Makely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My
must have just been indexed by google then, a quick search points me to
livedocs, and then a search on livedocs finds this page:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=1590.html
allowNetworking
String
Restricts browser
When flash calculates _width and _height, it also includes things
inside the movieclip which may be invisible, or masked out. Try this
simple example:
On the stage, create an empty movie clip A which contains two square
movieclips B and C, which are placed next to each other
This code will
On 7/24/06, kariminal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All!..
Just wondering if anyone has a script to do a mosaic blur on an image?...
- karim
There are 2 ways I can think of:
1. Easy way: draw the image onto a bitmapdata, scale it smaller
WITHOUT using smoothing, then scale it back up to the
On 8/5/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex
The Flex compiler is free.
Scott
Can flex compiler run inside the Flash 9 plugin? I didn't think so...
On 02/08/06, Keith Salisbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why on earth would you
It's possible, there are many examples, try searching. The only
downside, is anything over maybe 300x300 is going to take a lot of
processing time, and generate data which is several hundred KBs in
order to upload. (even with compression)
-David R
On 8/4/06, keitai guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm always suspicious when a person's first post to a mailing list is
in promoting a commercial product. Maybe I'm just too paranoid, who
knows.
On 8/5/06, SWF Coder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can protect your AS code from decompilers by
using
an obfuscator.
Anyone know of any for use on
There's FlashPaper, but I'm not sure how well that will integrate with your
current workflow (you didn't say if you have occasional PDFs to convert, or
if it needs to be an automated, fairly often process)
-David R
On 8/7/06, Marcus Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been having trouble
On 8/8/06, Elie Zananiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have an XML parsing question that I've been trying to solve for a little
while now and I can't get it to work. I have a PHP script that loads text
from an SQL db, formats it in an XML string and sends this string back to
Flash
There are several apps out there that claim to protect swfs, I haven't
tried any of them extensivly, but many appear to work. Try searching
for them. Off the top of my head, I can think of swfencrypt,
secureswf, MT's Obfu (mtasc.org/obfu).
-David R
On 8/8/06, Santhakumar K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps when your compent loads, have it call a remote method like
ping or test or something, and if that method is not successful,
show an error saying can't connect to gateway
-David R
On 8/8/06, Wade Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for actually detecting it in the program. I
Wow that's neat, I'm a big fan of the Mandelbrot set. (offtopic, I
just created an explorer for the nintendo DS: http://blog.davr.org/ ).
I definately look forward to seeing the source when you finish it up.
-David R
On 8/16/06, Hauwert, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mike,
I won't be
I can see this being pretty useful. It would definately simplify one
of my apps, where I currently use swfmill to combine a directory of a
bunch of JPEGs into a single swf for faster loading. Instead, I can
just use a standard zip file!
-David R
On 8/11/06, Claus Wahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI, Yahoo Maps also provides maps in flash, and they have a developer
site, and free API and everything. I didn't look at flashmaps much,
but they may work for you.
-David R
On 8/16/06, Anggie Bratadinata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my prospective clients want to have flash app with US
On 8/21/06, Martin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the compiled code get recompiled during runtime to machine code
(like a JIT compiler) or does it get interpreted?
Some Adobe presentation on the subjet was saying that all the code get
JIT'ed, except the $iinit and $cinit functions which
I kinda like XMLShortcuts:
http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/?search=XMLShortcuts
On 8/21/06, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xpath
On 8/21/06, Flash Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
There has to be a better way to parse XML. Using for loops seems
antiquated. Could
I've used JSON (http://json.org/) before, not for config files, but
for exchanging data between flash, java, and php. It's quite easy to
use for someone with actionscript/javascript experience, and there are
parsing libraries for most other languages as well.
On 8/21/06, R.A. Williamson [EMAIL
I hope you're not giving up because you think you have to use haXe for
all of your apps:
On top of 'standard' haXe-to-haXe communications, Screenweaver HX
features a Flash library that allows communications between a haXe
written back-end and a Flash IDE developed front-end. Both AS2 and AS3
No, pretty much the way hsb -- rgb works, you need to have the numbers
separate. You could probably create some awkward transform that tries really
hard not to break them up, but it would end up being a lot more complicated,
and not worth it.
Besides, going from 0xRRGGBB to 0xRR, 0xGG, 0xBB is
I use MovieClipLoader all the time, and I just did a quick test (mtasc 1.12,
standalone flash player 9, windows xp sp2):
file Test.as
---
class Test {
static function main(root:MovieClip) {
var txt:TextField = root.createTextField('txt', 0, 0, 0, 200, 200);
var
I've had the same problem with the empty uploads, using PHP on the server.
For every file I upload, flash makes 2 requests, the first request with 0
data, and the second one with the actual file. I think it's been replicated
by many people. The solution is to just ignore invalid uploads on the
hide the secret in many different places throughout the swf, and then
combine them together to produce the actual code (using some odd formula).
name them things that make it seem related to something else. part of the
shared secret should also come from the server, so that it is different
every
The only way I know to do it is from javascript, and then call to flash
using ExternalInterface, which is synchronous, thus the browser cannot exit
until the flash function call finishes (so it wont 'zap' the flash object in
the middle of your cleanup)
-David R
On 9/21/06, Michel Gaudette
I believe most vector drawing tools will let you export/save as SVG. For
example, http://www.inkscape.org/ is a free vector editing tool. Another
popular tool is Adobe's Illustrator.
If you really want to use flash to make SVG, another option is to save as
something besides SWF.
For example,
On 9/27/06, Ettwein, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a need to consume PDFs with the flash player - no problem in the
past - just use PDF2SWF to convert to multiframe SWF and loadMovie. The
problem I'm having now is that the specs I've been given require that no
PDF files be stored on the
By the way, using flashpaper in an automated server environment
violates the license agreement. Though if you are a small operation,
adobe may not bother to go after you.
-David R
On 9/28/06, Ray Chuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
you might want to look at FlashPaper:
I haven't gotten any messages from the flashcomm list since 8/25
On 9/20/06, Wade Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Problem seems to be that there is some weird encryption on the file. Try
these fixed versions:
http://davr.org/flash/posters.rar
Note: I had to change the page size, but it still looks ok to me. The fixed
versions even open in xpdf, so it should be ok.
-David R
On 10/17/06, Jason Jiang [EMAIL
Hi,
I researched this extensivly in the past, there is just no good way which
works well in all cases, such that it will even work on 3rd party code. If
you control all of the code, you can make it foolproof by adding a line of
code to each click handler, but this can be time consuming, and not
I am pretty sure Zinc has nothing to do with SSL, it is all done by the
flash plugin. So it may just work (why not try it to find out?).
-David R
On 10/19/06, Jim Kremens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting thanks for the reply! I'll look into it.
Still, this thing is largely built
Finally...that was a huge annoyance before, every time I would upload a file
it made me mad. I will have to try with the new version when I get a chance.
I don't know how they could have missed this the first time around. (Though
it is a common windows problem, many dialog boxes are not
Other options are using Java, which has more flexibility, or perhaps using
XML or LoadVars, and sending a specific amount of POST data. simply divide
amount sent by time taken, to get the speed.
On 11/27/06, Timothee Groleau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know upload has nothing to do with files.
A more efficient way might be to write a standalone socket server, in some
easy scripting language (php, python, etc), which sits on your server and
monitors the flat file. Since there is no network delay, it can check very
often, once a second or even faster. It will accept conenctions from
Yes, you can write AS3-only apps that don't use any part of flex at all. You
can even do it for free with the Flex 2 SDK.
I've heard that you can use AS2 apps in apollo, but that it is a pain
because you do not have direct access to the apollo API.
On 3/19/07, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems like you are doing a lot of work, because of a poorly-designed
server script.
I would really try and see if you can get permission to modify the script.
If not, perhaps you can have a 'bridge' script, that recieves the data from
flash, formats it correctly for the other script, then
Perhaps read the data bytes into a separate ByteArray first and keep a copy,
then if the readObject fails, you can wait for the next packet from the
socket, and combine it with the original bytes in the ByteArray?
On 3/22/07, Michael Mudge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using ActionScript3 in
your disk)
- Kipp
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Of David Rorex
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Sending binary data to server - NO HEADERS
It seems like
Personally I think you should keep it as compatible as possible. Otherwise,
someone might develop a SWF, only checking against gnash, and not realize
that it doesn't work correctly in the official player (which the majority of
users will be using). This means that gnash would not be as useful for
Just have the server send the clear message at the same time to all clients.
Assuming it sends all the messages in the same order to everyone, then there
will be no problem. Don't even put any kind of timer on the client side,
have the server time it.
eg:
A = client A
B = client B
S = server
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