Hi there - I have some code in which I attach a movie from my library.
this.attachMovie(level1Mc, l1_mc, 10);
Now depending on button presses, there are other movies attached and replacing
previous
ones... so what I am wondering, is there a way to clear a level? So for example
when i
click a
Is there a way to import certain classes for use throughout the entire flash
file? Or do I need to import for each
timeline?
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Hi there - I am following the tutorial located at :
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/footer_component_02.html
Now this is targeted towards flash mx 2004 and in the tutorial, there is a
reference to:
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In the StandardComponents library, navigate to the folder Flash UI
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Hi there - I am following the tutorial located at :
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash
Hi there - I was wondering if there was a way to export the contents of the
stage to
some kind of vector format? I am not talking in the IDE, but from a movie
running in the
flash 8 player.
IE - I am running a movie in a browser or flash player and want to have a
button that
will save the
Hi all, hope someone can help me with this...
I wanted to create a listbox which can show dynamically imported images
(thumbnails) as well as text. I may also go on to add buttons although thats
looking unlikely given the problems I have had so far...
I partially followed the guide here:
I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet because it appears that it should've
been a problem from v5 or v6 and beyond.
The decoding code for DateTimes in web service PendingCalls has a bug and does
not correctly parse valid datetimes.
The simplest way to recreate this bug is to access a web
Don't know why I haven't come across this before, but can anyone confirm this
for me (and maybe give an explanation)?
code
var d1:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 );
var d2:Date = new Date( 1970, 0 );
trace( d1 == d2 ); // false
trace( d1 = d2 ); // true
trace( d1 = d2 ); // TRUE?!
/code
Umm… If
Hi all,
I am trying to do a setTransform on my whole movieclip to invert the colours to
give a high-resolution scheme for people with seeing difficulties. The problem
is, there are a few graphics (photos) in the app which I do not want to be
inverted. i tried changing their indiviudal
Thanks for the reply, that looks like exactly what I need but I'm
having trouble
with it. I'm passing in _root.application because its a forms based
app, but it
seems to be going in to an infinite loop. I'm trying to work out why but it's
difficult to debug because it needs to be run from a
rather than mailing lists as it seems much easier
to keep track of threads and spot unanswered queries. I do expect flames for
that last comment :P. Nevermind.
Kev
Quoting ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been a member of a group , more strict than any other groups.
It's a place for C/C
Tom,
When I don't want to rely on the location of the HTML for my XML path, I use
something like the function below to figure out the directory of the SWF.
That way, I can keep the SWF and XML together and not rely on an absolute
path. Beware: test this aggressively because this is off the top of
I cobbled together a poor hack for plotting equidistant points on an
ellipse. I'm going to post the code here, with comments, so future archive
searches will yield something. This might be ugly in email, but it is
complete. It requires a library mc with linkage circle.
/*
background:
ellipse:
Is there a reason (preference or list policy) that I missed that calls for
every email to be quoted in every response?
I've never seen this before, so I wanted to ask. I've noticed that some
posts have many, many repeated posts in quote form, including headers and
footers, over and over again. Is
Okay, thanks Dave. By the way, the irony of my asking a list policy question
and forgetting to change my subject line, did not escape me. Sorry about
that.
Rich
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I don't want to use list bandwidth to talk extensively about this, but I
have a fair number of freelance gigs available.
I have an IMMEDIATE need for a dozen or more capable HTML/CSS/JavaScript
scripters, an IMMEDIATE need for one or two ActionScripters capable of
adding to a legacy project in
Hi all,
I have a problem and I cannot imagine nobody else has had it before, yet I can
find no mention of it anywhere. I have searched the archives, adobe forums and
google.
When you apply certain timeline effects (for me, a transform) you get a dialogue
with various options in it. One of these
hi
I have a flash 8 movie that upload jpegs to a server side script. When hosted
on an NT server, with a php script that recieves the upload, the FileReference
onComplete event gets called correctly when the an image has completely
uploaded using FileReference.upload. This when movie is viewed
You can save BitmapData using ByteArray in AS3. Tinic Uro has written JPEG
and PNG encoders, as have some others. Check out www.kaourantin.net for more
info.
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Hi Eric.
There are three ways that I know of to detect the end of an FLV. WARNING. I
haven't tested this code, or looked it over for best practices, etc.
1) The simplest way is to use the FLVPlayback component and use the complete
event. (The following assumes an FLVPlayback component is on
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, so I'll take a shot at
this. I think there might be a confusion between blend mode and alpha.
Applying a blend mode to a MC is a single-step process, which says give this
MC a blend mode of darken. This is akin to a PS layer mode, so Darken will
For real. Wow, four hours.
On 4/30/07 10:56 AM, eric e. dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quit bumping your posts by copy pasting your old one. Wait a bit and see
if someone answers, okay?
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As far as I know, the only book avoilable at present is for the MX 2004
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On 5/1/07 3:27 AM, Prince Zain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wanted to know, which is the best study book for flash certification.
Also is there any online resources available
Nik, if it can save you any energy, be sure you show a proof of concept to
your client/colleague before you get too hip-deep into this. We've tried to
do similar things in the past with little success. The issue is not
technical, it's more of a usability issue.
If you provide a VISIBLE area in
Sebastian,
You didn't include the timeline code, but I made some assumptions. I think
the most relevant issue is that your NetConnection and NetStream variables
are local and expire after the function is called. This works:
//in class PostView.as, in com/blabla/
class com.blabla.PostView extends
The short answer is, you can invoke the function directly by writing:
this.onPress = function () {
_parent[this._name]();
}
or, if this looks clearer, you can use the call() method
this.onPress = function () {
_parent[this._name].call();
}
However, there are a few issues with this
That¹s good to know. Thanks, Steven.
IIRC, instanceof is faster than typeof.
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What do you mean by 'returns only valid hex values'? Do you need a string of
the number for display, or do you just need the value? For example, if you
don't need the w/alpha format, you can use:
Math.random()*0xFF
Or you can use bitwise shifts and do like:
Math.random()*25516 |
The referrer is not the page displaying your SWF. The referrer is the page
you linked FROM to get to the page displayign your SWF. If I come from a
link in my blog to your site, my blog is the referrer.
You can't get the referrer from Flash, so you must use ExternalInterface and
use JavaScript to
Hey Bruce, how are you (beyond this irritation, of course)?
I don't have an existing cell renderer, but I might be able to help if I can
see the code. One thing off the top of my head is that changing the font may
be changing the behavior of the text field/label component so that it is now
Do you mean you want to switch from DVD to net-based delivery? You can't
stream from a DVD. If you had a kiosk situation, I guess you could setup a
local server and point to the DVD as your asset repository, but you can't do
that if you're distributing the DVD.
There are a few other things you
Nik, I think this is on topic. I have not personally had this happen to me,
and I have created many, many such apps because of the client-specified need
to show the FBI warning at the immediate start of the app. Without looking
at your app code, to see if there¹s anything obvious (and I doubt
John,
(FYI, there's something wrong with your reply to that caused this to bounce
last night with a 501 Bad address syntax error. It looks like your own
address and FlashCoders have been combined into one. I'm not sure if that
error is from you, the list, or one of the gateways along the way, but
This should be fine. This is a workflow that was intentionally designed into
the system. The paste process can optionally invoke the last settings
applied during import, where possible.
The only downside is that you have more intimate control over
layers/keyframes, text to editable/vector/bitmap,
On 17/05/2007 22:07, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote:
because the thisBackground function isn't picking up the correct
values (but keeping the older ones), it is overwriting the first
panel with the second one
does this help ?
thisTween.onMotionFinished = function()
{
Hello,
I try to know the memory used by bitmapdatas.
I found information here : http://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/142694_2.htm
But for me, there is an error in the computation.
They wrote 100x100 ARGB image = 400 ko
An ARVB image 100 x 100 = 10,000 pixels
1 channel = 256 decimal is in
And yes I did search the archive =-).
At any rate I was wondering if there is a way to get started with
AS3 without having to delve into flex. Nothing against flex, but I just
wanted to focus on the language, and not the tool (at this point). And
well also since i am on a mac - there
Tom Lee wrote:
If you are a licensed user of Flash 8, you can download the Flash 9 AS3
Preview at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash9as3preview/.
Thanks MUCH!
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Hi there - I have a flash movie with different frames that make remoting
calls. Now when I view them from the server (and loaded into another
movie) - not all the data will populate in various text fields. When i
just test it out of the IDE and local on my computer - it works fine!
Now the
Has anyone had this issue, or a way around it? I had searched google,
and found references to using the mx2004 files to replace the F8 ones,
but i do not have access to those...
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Mike Boutin wrote:
Ive had this problem using the f8 remoting files. It seems to fix
itself for me by restarting flash...
Bbt Lists wrote:
Has anyone had this issue, or a way around it? I had searched google,
and found references to using the mx2004 files to replace the F8
ones, but i do
Anthony Lee wrote:
At any rate - when i create my thumbnails, all works fine the first
time, but after they have been wiped out, and I recall my method to
re-draw the thumbnails, for some reason my buttons are not working.
Now I did a bunch of tracing tests to see if:
Hi dnk,
This may not
Hi there
Can you write dynamic methods in a class?
for example
for (var i:Number = 0; i 11; i++)
{
function onBtnPress + i()
{
trace(Button number: + i + was pressed);
}
}
So then that would essentially create 10 methods (onBtnPress0 to
onBtnPress9) to be used by
Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote:
I don't think you can create dynamic functions.. even if you could, I
don't see the need to.
use your arguments to make your functions all-purpose.
Ex.
function onBtnPress(n:Number):Void
{
trace(n + was pressed.);
}
button0.onRelease = Delegate.create(this,
Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote:
Sorry, I'm using a custom delegate class.. I completely forgot. Let
me dig up that post that has what you need...
I was just reading a reference to a proxy class that does similar to
delegate, but allows args to the functions. So I was not entirely insane
(as in
On 8/14/06, Rutul Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi people,
anybody know how to draw button using AS.
if anybody can tell me,
thanks
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You could define your button in a movieclip - place it in your library,
and attach it to your movie with AS.
Or skin the button
Can things like whitespace produce this kind of result? How about spaces
instead of tabs (code formating)?
Just having a hard time tracking this issue down.
Just to recap, and possibly add more info:
I had a remoting project that just stopped working. I put traces in on
the method that calls
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
I have an issue with coders who put block comments in the middle of
their code, such as:
/***
** SOME COMMENTS
**/
function foo() {
trace(hello world);
}
Or even worse:
/***
** SOME COMMENTS
Céline Nguyen wrote:
Hi,
I am beeing asked a question too technical for me, and maybe some of
you might be interessted and could help me to see the things more
clearly.
I'm building a desktop application with Flash Studio, f8, oop, shared
obj.
One of the clients of my client wants the
Matthias Dittgen wrote:
Thank you, Jordan!
I am coding an AS2 pageflip class right now, which works as needed for
our current project and I am follwing the O'Reilly article from Sham
Bhangal, which is really excellent. I am making big steps forward a
reusable solution in pure code.
Will it be
Gustavo Teider - Adobe Flash Developer wrote:
use setScrollTarget
scrollbar.setScrollTarget(your_textfield);
is this ?
But how do you tell if the data is actually done loading? I mean for
example, i have a field that loads a jpg in, and since the jpg takes a
little longer, the scroll
Gustavo Teider - Adobe Flash Developer wrote:
Gustavo Teider - Adobe Flash Developer wrote:
your image its loading in html textfield with img src ??
Do you have an example about this ?
Put your files in your server , so , will be easy
[]´s
This is correct. It is an html field with
Duncan Reid wrote:
One thing you can try is to give your image an id so it's seen as a
MovieClip within the textfield, then you can run a checker to see when
it's loaded then redraw the scrollbar...
img id='mcID' src='stuff.jpg' hspace='10' vspace='5' align='left'
so to access it you would
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex
I click download and it hangs for about 15 seconds before it reloads the
page. No download occurs in either IE or Firefox. I downloaded this
just fine from home last night. Anyone else not able to download
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
Can you link me to your forum post?
BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209
Looking for it, however as Jason mentioned the adobe site is having
issues - I still can't even get the page to load to get the link.
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Dave Wood wrote:
Hi
Have downloaded Flex Builder for mac, installed it and launched the app.
It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How
Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6
text links that lead nowhere.
Anyone else have this problem?
John Dowdell wrote:
It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading
How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed
by 6 text links that lead nowhere.
Works for me! They link to internal help docs with a URL like:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=listtype=online_eventloc=en_us
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Hi ,
Do you know
Has anyone created and shared code for creating lip sync with AS3?
I've earlier used flashamp, but I guess that's obsolete?
Thanks
Elia
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This code has worked fine for some years now, but all of a sudden broken.
// track CTRL+5
if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL) Key.getCode() == 53) {trace(yes);}
I guess it has to do with a change in the player plugin?
BTW this is AS2
Elia
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It works fine in Firefox, but this is related to IE 7,and it's fairly new.
This is on Windows XP, I have not been able to test any other configs.
It has to be something updated in IE7 or the plugin.
// track CTRL+5
if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL) Key.getCode() == 53) {trace(yes);}
Elia
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The original ASCrypt website seems to be down. Does anyone have the files?
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Elia
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good luck,
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:20 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] osX - ActionScript Editor
Hi All, I know this is an old topic. I am
Great! Does anyone happen to have an ASP version that will convert R4 by any
chance?
Or any of the other encryptions with keys offered in the ASCrypt package.
I was trying this ASP script for R4, but it doesn't produce the same
results!
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/010100-1.shtml
[JOB] AS3 freelance
For folks
a) in or near Exton, PA; and,
b) with strong AS3 experience
who are interested in freelance projects -- with no need to travel,
please send me a note.
Principals only please.
AS3 required, not necessarily with Flex/FB.
Thank you
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
Thank you everyone, for the thoughts on how to pull images from PDFs.
I did find some other tools (just to mention them) but they are .swc-only; no
source, and the customer needs to at least have the source available.
They are:
fxpdf
http://code.google.com/p/fxpdf/downloads/list
.swc-only
You’re right Peter, thank you.
I will try these out!
Bill
From: Peter Ginneberge p.ginnebe...@telenet.be
Not sure what you mean with swc only. All sources can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/purepdf/source/browse/
http://code.google.com/p/fxpdf/source/browse/
[Job] Activescript 3 development:
Looking for an additional off-site freelancer to the west (Downingtown, Exton,
Malvern, West Chester) of Philadelphia.
Straight AS3, non-timeline, part-time AIR/FLASH development.
If interested, please email me off-list with resume | cv | portfolio and
Perhaps more than obviously, this was meant to be Actionscript.
[Job] Actionscript 3 development:
Looking for an additional off-site freelancer to the west (Downingtown,
Exton, Malvern, West Chester) of Philadelphia.
Straight AS3, non-timeline, part-time AIR/FLASH development.
If
that extends or provides something similar to Kevin’s.
I’m looking to (quickly) beef up Kevin’s components, to do things like add Data
Providers and add physics for gestures for lists, etc.
If you have something that you can help me with (for $) in this area, please
send me a note.
Thanks
I am starting to see this error more and more when testing apps:
Line 15005: Unknown error optimizing byte code.
This is in a fully updated Flash CS5 Professional, and occurs when working with
either AIR or Flash apps. No other compile errors; and the app does not load.
Moving past my
Thanks Cedric – good suggestions.
I did see that there were Flex (and Java) command line options to free memory;
but I’m locked into FLASH for this one. I fear a hard upper limit coming to
hit me. I’m surprised that others don’t get this more; as my app isn’t all
that big.
Thanks again.
What is the approach to expand a DataGrid vertical scrollbar's
width (from the standard 15 pixels, to 44 or so, for touchscreens)
in pure AS3 / Flash CS 5?
It looks easy in Flex now
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/flex-fun-advanced-datagrid-topics
But in Flash/AS3,
directly editing
Glen:
thank you!
That works perfectly.
~Bill
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Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:18:34 +0100
From: Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk
Hi,
I remember having to hack this in Flash for a list component, you
should
Hi all!
I have a (hopefully not too ignorant) question relating to movieclips
created on the fly.
Basically, I have a preloader class that is generic and reusable.
It's called from whatever object that does dynamic loading of content
and then in turn invokes a movieclip from a passed
On 6 okt 2006, at 19.15, slangeberg wrote:
My problem is finding a way for the preloader class instance to
tell when
the
movieclip reaches a certain frame or frame label
Actually, I prefer to set things up in an event-based model. I
don't have
the code in front of me, but if you look at
Hi all!
I've stumbled upon something quite weird, and have searched for an
explanation without any success.
Consider the following Movieclip hiearchy:
Contentclip (with a few images and text fields dynamically attached) -
buttonclip
I have created a class which when instanced will:
-
Thanks for the replies!
My apologies for not checking how the mouseup event is handled.
Coming from many, many years of Director/Lingo work, I simply assumed
mouseup to work in a similar manner :)
Cheers,
Dan
On 20 okt 2006, at 17.02, Dave Mennenoh wrote:
You don't need to use
Sorry for the late reply!
Many thanks for the suggestions - I think a load manager class is the
way to go and I'll send Jamie a mail and take up the kind offer.
Cheers,
Dan
On 22 nov 2006, at 16.36, Jamie S wrote:
I the only way I was able to put the problem to bed for sure was to
build
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