I'm sick of waiting hours for Flash to publish. .NET / VisualStudio projects are WAAAAY faster - is that only compiling the classes that have changed? Update: Does the Flash IDE re-encode all your sounds and images every time you publish? Can't it cache them somewhere? ...
Hi, I have a list of images that i’ve loaded with the Loader class, but I’m having a tough time assigning them unique names. I need unique names because I want to remove certain images after a while. Is there a way to assign loaders a name or some unique tag so i can remove them later? thanks. Here's part of my code for (var i = start...
I have an Air application with a main window. I would like to have a new window fly out from the side of the main window when the user clicks on a button in the main window. The window that appears needs to display information based on value passed from the main form. How can I achieve this with Flex Builder 3? Target platform: any vers...
I have a string var s:String = "This is a line \n This is another line."; this.txtHolder.text = s; //.text has \n, not a new line and i want to put it into a text area, but the new line character is ignored. How can i ensure that the text breaks where i want it to when its assigned? ...
In our Flex AIR app, we have the problem that our main app window is fairly narrow. This means Alert dialog boxes are chopped on both side, while the right click menu is cropped. How can we get these windows to not get cropped by our main window? ...
Title says it all, I have a list control in Flex that has been data bound to an e4x xml object from an HTTPService. I would now like to have a button that clears the list, how can I do this? I have tried: list.dataProvider = null; which does not seem to work, I have also tried: list.dataProvider = {}; which clears the item...
Is there a way to allow a flex application to have a dynamic height while embedded in an HTML wrapper? I want the Flex application to grow in height in a way that it will not cause vertical scroll bars. ...
As far as I understand, binding to a var in ActionScript is carried out via events which are automatically fired when a var is changed. I have a few questions about this: What happens if the class doesn't explicitly extend EventDispatcher? Is there is some sort of magic that goes on in the compiler which essentially makes the class an ...
I'm working on a site (http://easy2speak.com) with about 10 flash SWFs on each page. Each of the SWFs are playing back a sound when clicked. Loading the sound, and playing it without any latency works fine, but in Flash player version 9 on all major browsers except IE, the sound suddenly drops out. It usually works for the first 10-20 cl...
I find that in my daily Flex/Flash work, I do this number a lot: //Calling a function... MyCustomObject(container.getChildAt(i)).mySpecialFunction(); The question is - is this the best way to do this? Should I do this: //Calling a function var tempItem:MyCustomObject = container.getChildAt(i) as MyCustomObject; tempItem.mySpecialFun...
In an ActionScript 2 project I can create a new MovieClip, right-click on it on the library and select "Component Definition" to add parameters that can be referenced inside the MovieClip. This parameters can be easily changed in the MovieClips's properties. Now, I'm working on an ActionScript 3 project but haven't been able to figure o...
Hello. I'm using Parsley IoC in my current Flex project. So I'd like to embed the container configuration XML onto the result SWF. How could I load embedded XML file into action script XML object? ...
In Flex I'm using the following code to allow sorting in a DataGrid (the data is paged and sorted serverside). private function headerReleaseHandler(event:DataGridEvent):void { var column:DataGridColumn = DataGridColumn(event.currentTarget.columns[event.columnIndex]); if(this.count>0) ...
In Flash when you set text in a TextField object with the htmlText property, changing the alpha value no longer works. Is there a way around that? ...
I am using the as3 DataGrid component in a flash project and I want to change the color from black on white to white on black but can't find how to change the colors of the DataGrid control. Can anyone help? This is the flash component, I'm not using flex. ...
One thing I really like about AS3 over AS2 is how much more compile-time type-checking it adds. However, it seems to be somewhat lacking in that there is no type-checked enumeration structure available. What's a good (best / accepted) way to do custom enumerated types in AS3? ...
Hello, I have an actionscript class called Dimension, which allows a client to specify a dimension using a value and a unit such as "CM" or "Inches". I want to use an instance of this class as a property in MXML, so a user can write <DimensionView value="2cm"/> How do I make "2cm" an accepted string value for Dimension? I assume I ne...
Is there any way to have a look at signatures of anonymous functions in ActionScript 3 during runtime? I would like to validate Function objects passed in as arguments to other functions and make sure that they accept the correct number of arguments (with the correct types) and return a value of the correct type. flash.utils.describeTy...
Hi, I have a mx:Canvas element that contains several mx:Panel elements. I want to be able to draw a line connecting two such mx:Panel's in such a way that the line continues to connect the two mx:Panels when one or both get dragged around. It seems like something that should be trivial to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I...
Hello all, I'm developing a game coded in Flash AS3 and need to read/write info to an SQL server. Currently, for testing purposes, I use ASQL which is very simple and robust, but it needs a direct connection from the client machine to the SQL server (port 3306 open and allowing wildcard username to connect from anywhere using a passwor...