actionscript-3

Air: Possible? Writing into installed application package

This is probably a bad idea or whatever you wan't to call it. Nevertheless, curious to know if Air can write inside it's own installed package. I'm referring to the OSX '.app' files found in great numbers in the applications folder. Since every one of these can be opened as a regular folder, i'm guessing that's what they are. What other...

How do I force or lock focus in actionscript 3?

I want to create a dialog or alert box, where a DisplayObject would take and force the focus, until an okay button or something releases the lock. thanks. ...

Loader content always null

I load successfully an external image using a Loader class but every time i trace the loader.content property is found null. Why? ps: Actually, i'm trying to get the bitmapdata from a loader object. ...

How do I embed static text in actionscript 3?

I want to embed static text, basically for a help file. Something like const help:String = "This is a help line."; except for it would get it from a file? const help:String = //retrieve text from a static file ...

Problem using "dataProvider.removeItem" in actionscript

I want to remove an item from my dataprovider where the label in dataprovide is "zee4" I tried: var removeThis:Object = mylist.dataProvider[selIndex].alias; mylist.dataProvider.removeItem(removeThis); But this does not work. I cannot use removeItemAt because I don't know the index number. I need to remove as per the alias itself. The...

AIR App that Loads and Runs Existing AIR swf

I have an existing AIR app whose main content is App.swf. I would like to have another AIR app that hosts and runs App.swf. When I say run it, I mean displays it's WindowedApplication. Here's the code for the 2 AIR projects (imports are omitted for brevity): // App AIR Project -> App.mxml -> App.swf (it's just a window) <?xml version...

How to get all XML-Nodes attribute value?

Here is the xml file <glossary> <alphabet id="A"> <term heading= "Anchor" definition="A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving"/> <term heading= "Atlas" definition="A collection of maps in book form"/> </alphabet> <alphabet id="D"> <term heading= "Delay" definition="Time during which some action...

How to write a custom component to wrap and resize text automatically (in Flex)?

I'm aware of textAlign property of the Text component. But it doesn't do what I'm trying to achieve: I have a Text component which is 500x100 (the size does not change). The default font size is 80 px. The text, however, keeps changing. What I want is to resize the text to "fit" inside the textfield. Let's say the text is changed to: ...

air: Problem. No text showing up in compiled air app

i've been testing a small Air app on different systems and found out that on one of these systems text does not show up, at all. Other (older) applications are fine, but this one does not display any text. I've been frantically trying to solve this with text embedding. To no avail. Could the system be missing a font? system: air 1.5.2...

Flash CS3 Compoenent "import" method and stucture ?

hi I had seen one code of the yahoo map component for the flash cs3 like import com.yahoo.maps.api.YahooMap; var map:YahooMap = new YahooMap(); // include app-id, width and height map.init("YD-vbXGXH4_JXs3ihv485hjXA--", 550, 400); addChild(map); What i want is to make the import structure is like above "com.yahoo.maps.api.Yahoo...

Flash As3 Streaming player - onBWDone

I got this error when tring to implement Stream connection with meta info Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetConnection was unable to invoke callback onBWDone. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onBWDone not found on flash.net.NetConnection and there is no default value. at SS4uOpenplaye...

Can an Event Handler return a value?

I'm trying to write a class that its constructor takes as argument a String ( which is an image in my directory ie: jpg ) and load the corresponding image via a loader object in memory. I also provide function getBitmapFromLoader() to get the bitmap of the loader in order to use it from another class. public class LoadImage extends Load...

AMFPHP Bad Version error when having multiple simultaneous calls to gateway.php

I'm currently using AMFPHP 1.9 to make a simple flash game which uses a game server. Sometimes, I get this error (BadVersion) when there are simultaneous calls to the server. I've searched the web for some of the answers to this problem, and it seems they were answered back in 2004. Is there an updated version of how to solve this pro...

Catch enter key press in input text field in AS3

Hello, I want to catch the enter key press when the user is filling an input text field in AS3. I think I have to do something like this: inputText.addEventListener(Event. ? , func); function func(e:Event):void{ if(e. ? == "Enter"){ doSomething(); } } But I can't find the best way to do this. By t...

Can I do conditional GET requests from Flash / Flex / AS?

I have a Flex client that loads data from a server to display a chart. This data may change, so the client regularly repeats the request. Since the result may require some work to retrieve, I'm going to have the server detect if the result has changed, and issue a 304 status if it hasn't. I haven't seen any headers in the Flash Player's...

determine how much space is left on a drawing application

I have a drawing application like http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Mouse-Drawing-in-AS3-96618.html where the user can select a brush size to draw. I need a way to determine that all the surface has been drawn. Any code or ideas on how to accomplish that? ...

When using a container powered by itemrenderers, is there a way to make the rendering not stall?

I'm developing on Flex 4. I have a datagrid container and custom itemrenderer with a text field, a button and a few boxes. Every time some data is displayed, the app stalls for a second or two before rendering completely. Is there any way to make it render more fluidly or render one after another...? ...

Drupal/Flash: How to mediate their communication with Views, etc

My intention is to build a full-screen well-optimized flash site, possibly a hybrid (but i want persistent flash.. for example, to play music), with drupal in the back. However, I want to be able to do this as dynamically as possible. If flash is detected, then I will be showing a flash site with a flash area and an ajax non-flash area...

Does Actionscript expose the XML in a web service faultEvent? How can it be accessed?

Hi folks, I have a Flex 3 client interfacing to an RoR webservice for a POST request. When the webservice returns code 201 Created, Flex fires a resultEvent and everything is cool as I'm able to parse the XML response as you would expect. However, when there is a problem with the data sent in a POST request, the webservice returns 422 ...

Disable all dates before the currentDate in DateField

How to create a DateField in flex, that would disable all the dates before today's current date. <mx:DateField id="dateField2" yearNavigationEnabled="true" disabledRanges="{[ {rangeEnd: new Date(dateBeforeCurrentDate} ]}" color="0x000000"/> I understand I will have to do sometime like the code above. But I don't know...