I have been working on an Adobe Flex application for some months now, and the application is meant to run 24/7 for days (weeks!) continuously. However, I'm now seeing that after a few days of running nonstop the computer it runs on tells me that the system is low on virtual memory and gives me an error about Page File usage. Once I clo...
Hi! I want to create a board class from canvas, which will allow to track click position on it in coordinates like A2, where A...D is Y coordinate in some scale and 1...3 is X coordinate For example see image http://img.skitch.com/20091001-k6ybfehid6y8irad36tbsiif15.jpg What I want to create is a kind of convertor from canvas localX ...
Hi I'm looking into the issues to expect if the Flash Player (version 10) is run over a long period of time, say 24+ hours. I know that the player has issues with not performing garbage collection properly, and that the weak listener system is buggy. I plan on having the flash app started/monitored using a watchdog/sentinal app written...
If I load a bitmap using a loader in Flex, I can use the loaderInfo.bytesTotal to get the size, total bytes used, of a bitmap. If I create a bitmap in run time, how can I find out the size, the total bytes used, by that bitmap. Please advice. Thanks ...
I have a form with a TextInput that has a custom Validator. I call the Validator logic and handle the result programmatically. This all works fine, except for one problem. The TextInput gets highlighted when it is invalid, but the toolTip that contains the errorMsg does not display until I roll the mouse cursor over the TextInput. Is the...
Is there a test to see if an Object is an associative array? Thanks. ...
I'm using the actionscript-mode-connors.el for indenting Actionscript 3 code in emacs. I have most things figured out, but one thing bothering me is when I use an inline closure as a function argument, the indentation of the interior of the function is screwed up. For example: var foo:int = some_function( bar, baz, function():vo...
Is there any way to halt execution in ActionScript, such as a sleep() method? I know that there is a setTimeout() method, but setTimeout() just sets up an event for deferred execution. ...
Iam creating a Flash AS3 based Poker game for my company. Some like zynga poker, what are the best design patterns that I can use in my game. All suggestions are welcome, I am looking to create a good designed game which can support huge number of players. ...
Hi everyone I'm working on a flash video player, using Open Video Player. I need to know if the OVPNetStream (which subclasses NetStream) is playing, but i can't find a property or a status eventfor that.. And I don't want to go through the hassle of having the 'play' 'pause' 'stop' buttons to update a boolean var (because other that th...
In one of my flash projects i meet an strange bug. Flash Player in Google Chrome blocking some system keyboard shortcuts. For example such as Alt+Shift & Ctrl+Shift it`s an standart language layout switch bindings. For my project it`s a very big problem, because I need multilingual user input. Someone can help me with this problem? ...
Hi I am trying to create a component which can receive an additional value from mxml code: public class Board extends Canvas { public var boardSize:Number; private var cellWidth:Number; public function Board() { super(); } } How can I pass boardSize value from the mxml code. e.g. <MyComp:Board x="22" y="25" width="600" heigh...
I am trying to use the new Vector class introduced in Flash 10. Tried compiling the code using mxmlc but am getting this error message: Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Vector. public var selectedRoutes:Vector.<Route>; ^ What could be the problem? What is the general consensus abou...
How can I create a dynamic object from a string? Here is my current code with incorrect results: var s1:String = '{x:200, y:400}'; var o1:Object = Object(s1); trace(o1); // result = {x:200, y:400} trace(o1.x) // result = ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property x not found on String and there is no default value. trace(o1.y) // result = ...
when I send an object through an HTTPService to an XML api run by a Rest ruby on rails server.. how does it get converted to XML? I mean, it just works fine for strings and numbers, but for example Date type conversion causes an "unprocessable entity" error on rails log.. Any Idea? ...
Which of these 3 is the fastest (least CPU cycles) on the AVM2 in ActionScript 3? Object(instance).constructor (instance as Object).constructor instance["constructor"] I would do some tests, but I have no idea how to accurately profile that kind of thing. ...
I have an if/else if/else if/else if/else statment in AS3. It's a calendar that reads in dates from an xml file. The if/else if/else statements controls the look of a date according to whether it has an event, and whether it's past/present or future. The MouseEvent is a tooltip which shows the Event information. The last section is e...
Hello, I have a var to get thumbnails width, and it's set at the beggining of my class code. var thumbW:Number; Then I update that var inside a function that updades with stage resize. function x(){ var thumbW:thumbnails.width; //tracing thumbW here returns the updated value. Perfect! } Then I try to get the thumbW valu...
This is something that has been bugging me since I took up AS3 a year ago. Example. I make a class that extends a Movie Clip and call it "LoaderBar" all it is is some text that says "Loading" and below it another movie clip that is a plain rectangle that I call "lBar" When I call a function to load my image I add the Loader to the st...
Ok, so my first question here was so well answered I figure I'd try my luck at this little query. Is there a better way to set up a flash project with lots of navigation than having to do this?: bottomNav.contact_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); bottomNav.portfolio_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeCont...