I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin of
the variable, like this:
function myFunc($arg1,$arg2){
trace($arg1+ : +$arg2);
}
I don't know where I picked that up, but for me it makes the code easier to
read since you know immediately they are arguments. I've
wierd :). There is no special meaning - I
don't think it should even be valid.
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I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin of
the variable, like this:
function myFunc($arg1,$arg2){
trace($arg1+ : +$arg2);
}
I
) and
ActionScript.
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I've used it to indicate arguments in a function to clarify the origin
Have you considered loading the SWF as binary data through the Loader class?
Supposedly, you can use Loader.loadBytes to load a SWF as a byteArray and
then add it to the display list. If you keep a copy of the byteArray, you
should theoretically be able to add it to the display list as many times
Paul,
I believe the policy file being referred to is the crossdomain.xml file.
Here's a technote for you on the subject, in case you're not familiar:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213.
After you get up to speed on cross-domain policy files, you'll want to check
out
If you are a licensed user of Flash 8, you can download the Flash 9 AS3
Preview at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash9as3preview/.
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and 9 have this security feature
as I don't see what extra security it provides apart from annoying
developers.
Paul.
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Paul,
I believe the policy file being referred to is the crossdomain.xml file.
Here's a technote for you on the subject, in case
I'm curious how you originally intended to use 9-slice scaling - the uses I
would have for 9-slice would be interface component backgrounds and so
forth, for which it would be far from useless. If you tell us what you're
trying to do, perhaps we can suggest an alternate approach?
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What version of the Flash Player are you targeting?
The basic idea would be to put a button at each vertex, use startDrag and
stopDrag to enable drag-drop on those buttons, and redraw the shape on
mouseMove during drag actions, getting the new coordinates from the button
locations. The specifics
the guides to my needs. But it doesn´t work.
I found an ugly workaround for this.
Textfields and movieClips inside would be good too.
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I'm curious how you originally intended to use 9-slice scaling - the uses
I
would have for 9-slice would be interface
I've had good luck with SSL and HTTP Basic across all platforms. As you
say, it is handled by the browser. I have run into problems using Flash's
WebService components over secure connections when testing within the IDE.
If you're testing on a web server, you should be fine.
-tom
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I share the opinion that it's best to test web service connectivity outside
the IDE. HTTPS problems are also one of the reasons why I don't use the Web
Service components that ship with Flash. The safest bet is to do your
testing from a development server in the same network environment as your
Richard,
You may find this devnet article on AfterEffects and Flash integration
helpful:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/3d_in_flash.html
-tom
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Hi everyone,
Does anyone know of any techniques that can be used to write ActionScript
targeting more than one version of the Flash player? This would be for the
purpose of creating an application that is backward-compatible, but uses
functionality specific to a newer SWF specification when a
:41 AM, Tom Lee wrote:
the solution to all of this is to just use one of the many js
solutions that don't have issues like this.
If you're referring to the issue I'm reporting, I'm afraid your
solution is
not immune either. Two out of 3 of my PCs will show the click to
activate
message
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Eolas fix and backspace key flash bug
Tom Lee wrote:
If you're referring to the issue I'm reporting, I'm afraid your
Quicktime can embed some versions of Flash within it, but I believe that
only works up to Flash 5. Really cool technique though!
-tom
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, if it
isn't too OT.
Thanks,
Kevin N.
Tom Lee wrote:
Kevin,
I just tried out your patentmagic demo, and found that it suffers from the
same problem I have faced in my own attempts. If you empty your cache and
then reload the page, the Active X control does require activation. (I
have
Sorry for the long subject line, guys. I've never had to do much with
_levels, and so I don't understand how they work very well. The Help docs
seem sparse on the topic as well. Anyway, I'm doing some experimentation,
and I'm trying to get a swf in _level1 to load a movie into _level0, wait
for
Found the answer in the Help docs, and its NO. Loading a movie into
_level0 wipes out everything in the other levels too.
-tom
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To put this in context, my original post where I initially asked the
question appears not to have arrived.
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way, but it more about
JScript ActiveX and IE than it is about Flash at this point. I'll let
you guys decide if this should continue on the list...
Kevin N.
Tom Lee wrote:
Really I wasn't considering the delay as a real solution. It was just
something I was using to probe for clues
/MicrosoftsEolasActiveXPatchForIESometimesBreak
sJavaScriptWorkaround.aspx
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Some good thoughts, Kevin
Jason,
I think what you are looking for is something like
www.screentime.com/mprojector. Check out
www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/flas.html#flashShapedWindows - pretty
cool! It allows for non-square and semi-transparent windows.
-tom
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Alec, I'm glad you brought this up: now I'll know I'm not going crazy when I
see the same behavior. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you. Just
wanted to say that I think your question was a good one.
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This is a problematic area for sure. It's technically impossible to
completely protect the data in a swf from being cached and decompiled. If
you do use the _url property, it is entirely possible for someone to
decompile and rewrite the viewer swf to send back whatever they want
instead of the
This should be a trivial problem, but for some reason I'm not seeing an
obvious and clean solution (one of those Mondays). What I want to do is
prevent a TextField from scrolling when the user selects the text.
Essentially, have the text be selectable but locked in place, regardless of
the height
: [Flashcoders] Prevent Multiline Selectable TextField
fromscrolling?
Only thing I can think of right now is always showing all of the
text, and masking the portion you want to hide...
On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Tom Lee wrote:
This should be a trivial problem, but for some reason I'm
Selectable
TextFieldfromscrolling?
onScroll event method, and revert the scroll value back to some saved
value...
MW
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,
or other means of scrolling, the scrollPosition will not be taken into
account.
Again, if I had the time this could probably be made to compensate for the
caveats.
Hope it helps.
Derek Vadneau
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Hi everyone,
In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of
the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data
inline in your object tag. The original page has since been removed, and
the only evidence I can now find of this is at
I'm a little confused as to what your exact question is... Are you having
trouble getting the bold and italic styles to display properly, or is it an
issue of trying to achieve a preferred methodology?
-tom
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Glad to hear you got it working!
-tom
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Jason
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This is an old
Danny,
I hope that I don't insult your intelligence by referring you to a TechNote.
But, by following the steps as shown at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14786 I was able
to use a shared font successfully in Flash 8. It sounds as if you may be
taking some unnecessary
If you want to do run-time embed rather than author-time embed, you follow
the exact same procedure, except that the linkage for your font library
would be Export for runtime sharing instead of Export for ActionScript.
I tried it with a really complex font called JokerMan and my resulting
never managed to do this would like to know if its possible. I have
no trouble using shared assets movie clips, fonts, sounds etc its just this
one last thing that would make me very happy.
Jim
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Tom Lee wrote:
In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one
Danny,
Out of curiosity, why do you need a function that returns an object of a
type passed as a string? It's a neat idea, but I'm scratching my head as to
where one might apply it.
-tom
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Kodicek
Makes total sense! Valuable info for the rare occasion I do a
Director/Flash hybrid. Thanks for indulging me. :)
-tom
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Can we please kill this thread?
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Khodam,are you the same guy who posted that msg
] by
Tom, how could we do that? (Kill the thread)? Yeah, I think it´s a nice
idea.
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Can we please kill this thread?
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Converting shockwave files into video is a tricky process. If you use any
kind of scripting to control the animation, you're likely to have problems.
The only good way I know of is to hook a DV deck to a video output on your
computer, if it has one. Then, play your shockwave full-screen while
I think what Mike was getting at was that a SWF hosted on Server A could
talk to a SWF hosted on Server B via LocalConnection, provided they were
running simultaneously on the same client machine. SWF A could talk to
Server A, SWF A could talk to SWF B, and then SWF B could talk to Server B -
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
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
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
My preferred method to date is to use LoadVars and access the .Net web
services over a standard HTTP request. The reason for this is that I can
easily write my own WebServices class that extends LoadVars, and it ends up
being lighter and faster than the one Adobe provides.
I haven't tried the
.
Jim
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My preferred method to date is to use LoadVars and access the .Net web
years ago - it
would have saved me some work.
In any case, it's always good to learn new things. Thanks again.
Jim
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7 correct?
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Jim,
If you use the LoadVars.onData handler rather than
Hard to say... The WSDL loads in my browser too, so it looks like it should
work. Just as a test, you could try an LoadVars.load on that URL and trace
out the results in the onData handler. If that is successful, then we need
to figure out why the WebService class isn't working for you. If
?
Jason
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Hard to say... The WSDL loads in my browser too, so it looks like
That sounds about right to me!
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Thanks Dave! Thanks Tom! I'm learning a
, but there should be no
need to load the response into an XML object (step 3).
Make sense?
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how you would do it otherwise?
Jason
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Actually, on re-reading your message
I can't find docs for xfactor XPath, but a quick look at the XPath class
seems to show that you need to pass an XML Node. Doesn't look like it
accepts a string.
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it as well. Thanks for all your help.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning and Organizational Effectiveness
Technology Solutions
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I haven't done this for a couple of years, but I used to use CDEverywhere
(www.cdeverywhere.com). It has a really complete feature set for creating
hybrid discs, including autorun.
For more info, Google Mac PC hybrid cd. That should give you scads of
programs and discussions on the subject.
I've noticed that some TextField properties do not update themselves until
the function that updated them finishes executing. In other words, don't
do:
function(){
TextField.text = foo;
trace(TextField._height);
}
I have sometimes used SetInterval to wait a tick before testing a
You might try the Flash Player SDK:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_sdk/
Good luck.
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The license permits you to activate the software on two computers, the idea
being that a lot of folks have both a workstation and a laptop. Each OS on
your dual boot machine would most likely qualify as an individual computer.
Check out http://www.adobe.com/products/eula/tools, section 2b.
My suggestions for you would be
1) Always give the user an option to manually select low-band or hi-band.
2) If you test connection speed, do so with every visit: network conditions
will vary.
3) To force the test file to download from the server every time, add a
random number (or current
Or license the source code of the Flash Player and stick it in your C++ app.
;) Your call.
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This is a pretty general question... The right direction depends a lot on
what you're going to do with the data, and what you mean by save.
For example, you can save small amounts of xml in a SharedObject on the
user's computer. Only that user's computer would have access to the data.
If you
Chris,
I think what you're getting at is How do I create a C++ application that
embeds the Flash Player, and how can the embedded Flash Player communicate
with the C++ application?.
Mike Chambers wrote a terrific article on the subject (his was written in
C#), but the DevNet Resource Kit it was
You should probably start by verifying that there is nothing wrong with your
server. Do other Flash movies on your website work? Do they fail in a
particular browser, or all browsers? Check your object/embed HTML. Are you
using the HTML created by Flash when you publish your movie? Also, try
Hi Johnny,
So we've ruled out the server (other Flash movies work fine), and we've
ruled out the embed/object tags. We've ruled out the browser too, since it
fails on both IE and Firefox.
Just out of curiosity, if you right-click the area of the swf as the browser
tries to load it, does it
Using Flash 8's FileReference class (flash.net.FileReference), you can get a
reference to a local file and upload it to a server. However, Flash cannot
access the bytes of the file due to security restrictions.
If you have a Flash movie in the remote sandbox (the SWF file is hosted on
the
Usually, when someone asks how do I delete a class? I assume they mean
how do I remove an instance of a class from memory?, rather than How do I
delete a class so new instances of it can not be made.
I'm pretty sure you can delete the constructor of a class just by saying
delete
You may want to wait for AS3. At
www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/png-encoder-in-as3.html, you will find a PNG
encoder that one of the Flash Player programmers wrote. He's also got a JPG
encoder. Both are written in AS3, because the performance would be too slow
in AS2.
At
I see some public getter/setters for bufferingBar, backButton,
forwardButton, muteButton, pauseButton, seekBar, etc. All these extend
MovieClip, so they have _x and _y. Is that what you're after?
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set its width and have the buttons lay themselves out
again.
On 5/3/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see some public getter/setters for bufferingBar, backButton,
forwardButton, muteButton, pauseButton, seekBar, etc. All these extend
MovieClip, so they have _x and _y. Is that what you're
What kind of object are you trying to introspect? A movieclip? Which
language are you working with? In ActionScript 3, for...in will only
enumerate dynamic properties of an object. You will need to use
describeType for static properties and methods.
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Can you post some actual code? It sounds like either you are executing
toString on the LoadVars function itself rather than an instantiated
LoadVars object, or you have forgotten the parentheses:
'LoadVars.toString()' instead of 'LoadVars.toString'.
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toString is a method, not a property. Try list_lv.toString(); instead.
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Are you using the WebServiceConnector component, the WebService classes, or
something else?
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in classes provided by Adobe/MM but I guess if it will work...
Any thoughts???
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You could also look at not snipping the text at all, but instead using the
scroll property of the TextField. Make your TextField one line high, but
set multiline to true. Your more arrow would simply increment the scroll
property.
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Do you still need help with the issue, or did you figure it out?
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Never
year old project and I have to patch code and add
functionalities to a crowded interface and clogged AS...
Tom Lee a écrit :
Do you still need help with the issue, or did you figure it out?
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Looks to me like the FLVPlayback component extends the VideoPlayer
component. The VideoPlayer component loads the video into a Video object
(private var _video). The Video object has native _x and _y properties, but
I'm not sure if you'll be able to access them since the reference is
private.
the whole component needs a resize...
but thats not a great solution.
On 5/2/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks to me like the FLVPlayback component extends the VideoPlayer
component. The VideoPlayer component loads the video into a Video object
(private var _video). The Video object has
, etc. are all
available - pretty cool - thanks :)
- e.dolecki
On 5/2/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I was incorrect. FLVPlayback extends MovieClip, and wraps
VideoPlayer... Or rather, multiple VideoPlayers. There's a public method
getVideoPlayer which returns the VideoPlayer
Just a quick note: it is a common mistake to capitalize the second letter of
AsBroadcaster. If you spell it ASBroadcaster, it will fail silently
(according to Flash help docs).
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/ ASBroadcasters /
EventDispatchersconfusion
Oh yeah- Good catch Tom- I think I was reverting to the old school way.
Mani
On 4/28/06, Tom Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a quick note: it is a common mistake to capitalize the second letter
of
AsBroadcaster. If you spell it ASBroadcaster, it will fail
I think you would have to have an external program that interfaces with the
scanner, and then talk to it from Flash using ExternalInterface. One
theoretical possibility would be to use a Shockwave movie (which you make
using Macromedia/Adobe Director) as a stub that talks to the scanner for
you.
What I usually do is look in the Help docs for the particular method or
property I am thinking of using, and it tells you what the availability
is... I suppose you could search the docs by the string Availability:
ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6 and that might do it for you.
-tom
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I can't say for sure whether LocalConnection writes to a file or not, but I
did want to point out that it can be pretty slow, depending on the number of
swfs talking to the gateway swf at once. It certainly SEEMED like it was
doing some file IO. In my experience, 10 or 12 swfs talking to the
Hi guys,
Looks to me like SIFR is unaffected by this whole debacle. Can anyone else
verify? If this is true, there may be something in the SIFR method that we
can identify as a workable solution.
-tom
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SIFR does what all the other solutions do (UFO, FlashObject, etc.): use
JavaScript to dynamically embed the ActiveX control.
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Thanks, Kevin! This cleared it up for me. As you say, the important thing
is that the script is in an EXTERNAL file... Even if you dynamically insert
the ActiveX control via innerHTML or the DOM, the script cannot be in the
head of the document.
-tom
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Sorry, I meant ColorMatrix. Doh!
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ofabitmap
I had a project recently where I was parsing huge XML datasets... To get the
speed and memory efficiency I needed, I ended up avoiding the XML object
altogether. I loaded the XML as a String instead (using LoadVars), and
split it into page sized chunks that I could parse on-demand later.
I would suggest looking into setInterval as an architecturally cleaner way
of doing this... Has the advantage that the interval is not dependant on the
movie's framerate, and has less overhead than instantiating a movieclip.
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Interesting idea... I don't have a method written, but the first thing I
would do is try blurring the image until it is one uniform color (perhaps
with a Transform Matrix), and then get the RGB of that color.
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I've been thinking of working on something similar myself... I
Same here. I recently did a pretty thorough search for a swf profiler...
The best solution I could come up with was good ol' fashioned unit testing.
If you know the common memory wasters in Flash and you've developed
following object oriented design principles you should be able to narrow
down
Hi everyone,
I'm trying Flex for the first time in the form of the Flex 2 alpha preview.
So awesome. The file sizes are on the large side though. Over 200KB for a
hello world app with a VDividedBox. I read that the output file sizes are
larger than the final release will create. How does
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