I've had no trouble retrieving metaData from flv's that were created
using the encoder. What are you trying to do?
- Marc
At 09:46 AM 7/20/2006, you wrote:
Hey, anyone knkow how to get the metaData into the flv through the encoder,
seems to be blank ?
on-the-fly (with server
side file manipulation), I could let Flash slow down any MP3's
without having to generate and store separate versions of the sound
file on the server.
Anybody know of tools to modify MP3 header info on the fly? Sort of
like creating thumbnails of images using PHP?
Marc
Are you using html text? If so, are you embedding the font for each
face (regular, bold, and italic)? A simple way to do that is to
create a dummy text field for each font face required, embed the
necessary characters, and check the text field for bold or italic as
needed. If that's not the
Jeff,
Why does it need to be exact? If you're trying to synchronize
different sounds or have them loop seamlessly, a frame-based approach
will never work.
I suspect your problem is related to the buffering that Flash does of
all sound. You could play with the soundBuffTime (that may not be
Test on other computers. I had the same problem and it was caused by
a ZoneAlarm setting on the client computer.
Marc Hoffman
At 02:41 AM 7/4/2006, you wrote:
is there any solution to this problem even when server sends
Transfer-Encoding: Chunked? Is it any bug with flash player upto ver 8.0
and would like to understand it. Does anyone here know
what exactly was going wrong?
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I might be wrong, but I don't think you can
download progressive jpgs, therefore you won't
have anything to display until the jpg is
completely loaded. If the jpgs are huge, you
might consider downloading a lower-res image
first, perhaps a .gif with fewer colors and/or a
grayscale image.
).
- Marc Hoffman
At 09:23 PM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
I'd like to recommend Text2Curve component for this:
http://gousable.com/flash/text2curve.html
It has a lot of advantages over TextOnCircle Weyert mentioned:
- can place text along ellipse or sine, not only circle
- more methods to manipulate
Same problem for me was caused by ZoneAlarm. The MP3 would get
downloaded into cache. It would also play directly in the browser
using Windows Media Player. But it wouldn't play in Flash until I
disabled ZoneAlarm and eventually tweaked the ZoneAlarm settings
(sorry, I don't recall what I
You can definitely have a single textfield with clickable links.
You'll need to use htmlText and use a href tags to create the
links. The links should call asfunctions that are defined elsewhere
in the Flash. See asfunction in the Help files. I'd also recommend
using CSS for applying
Hi Karina,
This has some nice features but some problems viewing the demo. In
FireFox it doesn't show at all. In I.E. 6 it doesn't show and I get a
Flash required message. I was able to view it only by looking at
the source and opening the swf directly.
It would be nice if the tooltip width
Wow, I am sorry -- since reloading my entire computer a month ago, I
never updated the Flash player for I.E. I've taken to using FF so
neglected that point. I'm sure that was the problem.
Marc
At 11:44 AM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
Are you sure your IE is
updated for Flash?
Karina
Dimitrios,
NSIS creates an installation file, so even if the user downloads the
NSIS file on the web, what matters is how the application displays
the Flash. If your application uses a browser to show Flash, then
you can do the detection and redirection (to get the Flash player)
the same
Flash correctly reads sound files at 44.1 kHz, 22050 Hz, 11025 Hz,
and 5512.5 Hz (commonly referred to as 5kHz). Note these are all
divisions by 2 of the higher rate. Any other rates will be read as
one of these rates. That's why 8kHz is being read as 11025 Hz, which
of course is a lot
I know you don't have Flash 8, but if this is a limited-time project
you might use the 30-day trial version. You might be able to find or
develop an extension to batch save to Flash MX 2004. When you do it
manually from Flash 8, there's a dialog that alerts you to any
functionality that will
.
Bernard
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Very cool solution, Bernard
I'm using php with a Flash email form. Flash collects sender,
recipient, subject, and message from the user and passes it to a php
mail script.
What security issues (if any) does this raise? Can the Flash form be
exploited by spammers?
Thanks,
Marc
function:
getURL(javascript:...);
Done.
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On 25/05/06, Marc Hoffman wrote:
Anyone have tips on making Flash read
Anyone have tips on making Flash read the image map on the host html
page and parse it into a multi-dimensonal array (as would happen if
we were importing xml)?
In a web-based project, we provide non-flash browsers with a jpg and
image map. We want to grab the image map data directly from the
[My apologies if you receive this twice -- didn't seem to go through
the first time.]
Anyone have tips on making Flash read the image map on the host html
page and parse it into a multi-dimensonal array (as would happen if
we were importing xml)?
In a web-based project, we provide
How do you know the sound is no longer loading?
At 07:32 PM 5/13/2006, you wrote:
Yes thats exactly what i found, loading another
sound is the only way to stop a sound from loading once its started.
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on connection speed),
you'll see that longSound.mp3 DOES show in the browser cache.
Marc Hoffman
At 09:28 PM 5/13/2006, you wrote:
You can watch a sound loading with an interval
tracing the Sound.getBytesLoaded method.
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calculating cursor position
relative to string locations. You can also use CSS to format how the
asfunction links appear on Up, Over, and Down.
Marc Hoffman
At 03:49 PM 4/27/2006, you wrote:
My client wants a list style menu with a transparent background - this
doesn't seem possible
I N D O N E S I A
http://design.ibshastautama.com
Marc Hoffman wrote:
Anyone else have this problem? I have a Windows projector on a CD.
A button onRelease calls getURL(index.html), where index.html is
also on the CD (same location as the projector). If I.E. is the
default browser, index.html
I'm interested in using ffmpeg. Having never used any server-side
engines/scripting other than a little ASP, I haven't a clue how
ffmpeg gets implented, and their website seems to presume advanced
user knowledge. Can anyone steer me to something that explains how to
implent ffmpeg? For
done that. Nothing specific enough.
At 10:24 AM 4/11/2006, you wrote:
I've tried it, but the usual answer to this question is to look up
FFMPEG.
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regular -- whatever versions you intend to use. You can create
dummy textfields offstage that are identical to the real textfield,
except don't give them an instance name and, for each one, select
bold or italic in that
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- Marc
At 11:39 AM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
I have to convert a ton of flv into swf
[This is a re-post. No replies last time. Can anyone help with
this -- even to confirm whether you get sound on this using I.E.? If
the answer is no, I'd like to get back to you to try to find
similarities between your setup and my two setups that don't
work. Thanks! -Marc]
This is a
to load).
On 3/19/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[This is a re-post. No replies last time. Can anyone help with
this -- even to confirm whether you get sound on this using I.E.? If
the answer is no, I'd like to get back to you to try to find
similarities between your setup and my two
I believe it's iis, but checking on that now.
At 11:20 AM 3/19/2006, you wrote:
are you using apache or iis as your webserver? (or in the case of something
else what is that?)
On 3/19/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johannes,
This looked promising, but it doesn't fix the problem
apache or iis as your webserver? (or in the case of something
else what is that?)
On 3/19/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johannes,
This looked promising, but it doesn't fix the problem when playing
from the web server for some reason -- it now breaks in I.E. and also
in Firefox (didn't
Canfield and
Johannes, who got me looking at possible third-party software (AV,
download accelerators) that might be causing the problem.
Marc Hoffman
At 03:15 PM 3/19/2006, you wrote:
Maybe it's missing it's MIME type? This would bite a lot of the
Flashcomerz, maybe related?
http
Try adding the listener to ld before loading the clip.
At 07:07 PM 3/17/2006, you wrote:
To add to the weirdness: this problem only presents itself if I
create the project in Flash 8, so I wonder whether I'm hitting my
head against the new security model. Again, any help would be much
This is a follow-up on a previous post. I'm still having the problem,
but now have more details. Really need help with this, so please read
the following and let me know if you have ideas or solutions.
Problem in brief:
Where Flash uses a sound object to load and stream an MP3 file, no
sound
Offhand I'm not sure of the problem -- anyone else have an idea?
It could be as simple as the use of False rather than false in
that last line. But I also wonder about two things:
First, I would expect a trace of the mySounds array to return a list
of paths to the sounds, not [Object
What makes you think they're not being created? Have you traced the
array? More likely, the paths to the mp3's are wrong, in which case
testing from the Flash API you'd get output errors indicating the
file could not be found/loaded.
FYI, sound objects are just code objects created in
In all my experience, when the swf's host page closes, the sound
stops within a second or less. In which browser configuration(s) are
you having this problem? If you're using Flash to call a new page,
call stopAllSounds() at the same time.
- Marc
At 09:20 AM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
I wonder
If you have 10 seconds, please test this so if this problem is only
on my laptop.
This movie streams short MP3's when the user clicks a button. Works
fine in I.E. on 3 of my machines, but on my laptop the MP3 never
plays, although it does get loaded into I.E.'s cache.
I'd appreciate knowing
Thanks for checking, Helmut. Do you mean the arrows aren't visible
or they don't do anything? Very strange since there's nothing odd
about them that I can think of -- just movie clips with _Up _Over
and _Down labels and callback functions assigned to them for onRelease.
I've had more stuff
See movieClipLoader in the help files for actual examples.
-Marc
At 10:22 AM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
Remember, im a semi-noob (or real noob, if you wich... :)), i
dont have a clue where to put this codes...
Rodrigo.
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I don't know how to properly fix it, but as a hack how about
appending a couple of line returns to the text?
-Marc
At 03:30 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
I am using a small font and a small height in my combobox but the bottom of
the text is getting cut off. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or
I haven't done this before, but seems to me that you could locate the
coordinates of a specific string in a text field, create an invisible
movie clip that overlays the text, and assign a rollOver function to
the clip. Anybody have experience with this? Last time I had to do
it, we just made
I've seen some discussion of this in the archives, but nothing conclusive.
My Flash 8 movie creates a sound object and uses loadSound
(dynamicFilename,true) to play any of a number of mp3 files off the
server. Works fine locally and in Netscape but breaks in I.E. when
played via the web.
. It should only take a sec. Test
it out and see if it helps. if not, try creating a seperate fla for
testing just this one issue. see what that does. if it still a bug
in IE i would like to see that test fla.
Aaron
Marc Hoffman wrote:
Hi Aaron,
The sounds are 5 seconds or less
hi Steve,
Man, I feel your pain!
No purely Flash solution I know of, but you can use Flash to:
1) createEmptyMovieClip
2) using drawing methods, draw a 1-inch square rectangle
3) repeat to draw a second square
4) using the print methods, print the two squares
Then comes the manual portion:
and modifying security (allow domain) settings in the swf's,
but no luck so far (possibly my syntax was wrong, though). I'm hoping
that learning the differences between these two subversions will
provide a solution.
Mike Chambers (or other MM reps) are you out there?
thanks,
Marc Hoffman
Thank you, John! Your suggestions look promising for sorting this out. -Marc
At 11:27 AM 1/30/2006, you wrote:
Marc Hoffman wrote:
I need to know what changes were made to the Flash Player
between versions 7.0.19.0 and 7.0.61.0.
Mike Chambers (or other MM reps) are you out there?
Hi Marc
I'd have to agree with elibol. And, just as a reminder, here are some
famously wrong expert predictions about what would or wouldn't happen
in our industry:Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
I think
You can also use:
combo=0;
if(a){combo+=1000;}
if(b){combo+=100;}
if(c){combo+=10;}
if(d){combo+=1;}
Then convert combo to a string and check the character at each
position ( charAt(0), charAt(1), etc.) for a one or zero, which will
tell you if the associated variable is true or false.
to put them?
Do I need to set permissions in the Flash movies? If so, in just the
root movie or in all loaded movies? What is the necessary code?
Anything else?
thanks,
Marc Hoffman
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not sure why, but try putting Stage properties in a new variable that
doesn't get reset when repositioning the object:
theWidth=Stage.width/2;
theHeight=Stage.height-70;
siteLogo._x = theWidth;
siteLogo._y = theHeight;
- Marc
At 10:34 AM 1/16/2006, you wrote:
I am working on a fullscreen
on the server? If so, what and where?
Do I need to set permissions in the Flash movies? If so, in just the
root movie or in all loaded movies?
Anything else?
thanks,
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Johan,
The list does not accept attachments, so your gifs didn't come
through. It isn't clear to me what kind of rotation you're looking
for -- the same applied to every clip, or something else. Please post
the gifs to a URL, or send a more thorough description of what you
need to happen.
Make sure the characters are embedded.
At 09:44 AM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
The tween is a simple motion. (move from one position to another (x1,y1) --
(x2, y1) of course with the help of flash ide).
And I do the alignment after the assignment since I need the
myTextField.textHeight.
But still,
I have some text read in from xml that includes an inline image. I
can pad the image and a few words after it with an a href =
'asfunction,arg'.../a. The function is successfully called when I
click on the text. When I click on the image I get nothing, although
the hand cursor shows for the
not sure why, but when I tried it again it started working for me
just to pad the image with a href = 'asfunction:arg'.../a.
At 01:31 PM 12/15/2005, you wrote:
I have some text read in from xml that includes an inline image. I
can pad the image and a few words after it with an a href =
Jay,
If you got this to work, could you send me the code? I can't make it
work even when doing the obvious clean-up to the line breaks and
changing naming conventions to AS2 (e.g. Boolean rather than boolean).
Thanks,
Marc
At 04:39 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote:
Ok, this may be a first. I'm
Wouter,
Have you tried the suggestions I made less than 1 hour ago when you
posted to FlashNewbie? It's considered poor netiquette to cross-post,
as you take up the time of people who may not realize you've already
gotten a reply elsewhere. -Marc
At 09:11 AM 11/30/2005, you wrote:
Hey
The way i set it up, the scrollPane content path is pointed to the
linkage identifier of a movie clip in the library. That movie clip
has code in the first frame to create empty movie clips that load the
content I want (in this case, an array of jpegs from the web server).
As you create the
I never found a good solution, either, without using code in the HTML
page. I even tried setting a clip to look for the mouse and execute a
function if the mouse wasn't found, but that failed (for reasons you explain).
If you can keep your buttons away from the edges of the movie, you
can use
A 1-pixel wide area is not likely to capture a rollOver.
Here's a .swf to test how wide a button needs to be to capture a rollOver:
http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/buttonTest
- Marc
At 10:42 AM 11/23/2005, you wrote:
I'd suggest to use 1-pixel frame (maybe invisible) movieclip. Even
better - 2
I need to convert a currently-working webmail form from html to
Flash. I've created Flash webmail forms sending to ASP, but I'm not
able to figure it out in this case. Maybe in part because it was
built in FrontPage :)
The current html page uses this, which works:
form method=POST
possible :-).
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On 11/12/05, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need help getting a text field to do single line-spacing under an
odd circumstance.
I'm
I need help getting a text field to do single line-spacing under an
odd circumstance.
I'm using LoadVars to read a txt file that my non-programmer client
will maintain on his site. To make it more readable for him, I have
it formatted like this:
---
('\r\n').join('\n');
It's an ok solution if you don't have too much text.
Helen
Marc Hoffman wrote:
This gets displayed in a text field. Problem is, Flash is
double-spacing every carriage return.
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Also try commenting out all the code and calling
the goto action from a button, so you can see if
it's a timing issue. And make sure the frame
label exists and isn't duplicated by another
instance or label name in the movie. - Marc
At 11:17 AM 10/26/2005, you wrote:
Try commenting out all
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