actionscript-3

Flex AS3: Assign a button's upSkin property with a remote file dynamically?

I am building a Flex application with ActionScript 3. Unfortunately I've hit a wall with this one... I would like to be able to apply an upSkin to my dynamically generated button like this: //this theSkin variable is dynamic in my app, but for this example it's a simple string var theSkin:String = "http://www.mypicturedomain.com/images...

AS3: Setting size of loaded swf

I'm using Loader to load an external swf into my swf and adding that loaded swf to the stage using event.target.content. If i set the width and height of the loaded swf I actually resize the movieclip inside my loaded swf. What I wanna do is change the stage size of the loaded swf. Any way of doing that? ...

Flash CS4/AS3 Dynamic Text Box

Hi, I have created a XML image gallery, which displays text in between each slide. Now I have created a movie clip with a dynamic text field (with Render HTML selected) to display the text from the XML which is pushed into an array. Now, this all works great BUT... /n or /r is not creating a new line break (as they need to be custom). Y...

EOF error encountered while converting bytearray to bitmapdata

I am using var bitmapdata:BitmapData=new BitmapData(); var pixels:Bytearray=new Bytearray(); pixels = rleDecodePixles(); bitmapdata.setPixels(bitmapdata.rect, pixels); In the 4th line in the code above i am getting "Error: Error #2030: End of file was encountered." I checked the length of the pixels object which is 4 times the width...

How to do binding inside htmltext CDATA

I couldn't find a way to bind a variable inside the htmlText property of a Text component i want to be able to do something like this : <mx:Text id="bodyText" styleName="bodyText"> <mx:htmlText > <![CDATA[<img src='assets.OrangeRect' align='left' hspace='0' vspace='4'/> Bonjour {UserData.name} ]]> </mx:htmlText> </mx:Text...

accessing GUI-created elements in a class definition file in AS3 (Flash CS4)

I've used the GUI to create a rectangle that I turned into a button symbol (SimpleButton). I then edited the button so that it had 4 different button states and a text layer on top. I then created a class definition file for this object so that I could dynamically change the label text (the text layer) when adding instances of this butto...

Flash AS3: (VideoEvent.COMPLETE, completePlay) - listener is triggered before video is completed

Hello, I have a flash video using the standard FLV Playback component that comes with Flash. I'm using ActionScript 3 to modify the appearance and set up an event listener. I've set it up to go to a new URL using "externalInterface" when the video completes play. The URL is set in a variable using SWFObject. On only a few instances (3 ...

Actionscript project that loads a Flex SWF, "Could not find resource bundle" Error when using LayoutManager

Hi guys. I'm using an actionsciprt only project (under FlashDevelop) to load an .swf flex file built by another department of the company I work for. Using the follwing code: var mLoader:Loader = new Loader(); var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest('flexSWF.swf'); mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHa...

skipping nines in counter object, AS3

It's not that noticeable at first, but my counter skips over to zero and ignores the nines. How can I get my counter to not skipping the nines? Display Object It's a column descending from 0-9. 'The object and the values appear correct except the skip' my FLA import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.Event; import flash.util...

Loading of external SWF results in a "Could not find resource bundle messaging" error

I'm using flash.display.Loader to load this example SWF as a use-case for loading SWFs that uses flex charting components in an application I'm working on. This is the code I'm using to load the swf: Main.mxml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" creationComplete="onCreation...

Collision Detection for Actionscript 3

Well, I was searching for a simple collision detection function for as3, I found Collision Detection Kit, but it is too complicated, I just want a damn function that I give 2 objects as paramenters and that's it. I would like to know where can I find a pixel-perfect collision detection function (The faster, the better) ...

Custom "context menu" in flex

I would like to add a custom context menu with line separators, but can't really figure out how. What I need: <mx:List id="treeContextFile" visible="false" width="233" verticalScrollPolicy="off" includeInLayout="false"> <mx:dataProvider> <mx:Array > <mx:String>Open</mx:String> <horizo...

Can't use "continue <label>"

I am trying this code: entLoop:for(var i:*in entities) { for(var i2:*in ignoreEntities) { if(entities[i].type==ignoreEntities[i2]) { continue entLoop; } } } Why is it not working? The error is: Target of continue statement was not found. ...

Flex - Custom Component - Percentage Width/Height

I am trying to create a Custom Flex Component using the Flex Component framework: http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/html/help.html?content=ascomponents_advanced_3.html. All good components allow you to define their dimensions using percentage values using: MXML: TextInput width="100%" or Actionscript at runtime: textinp.percen...

Flash/ActionScript3 crashes on getPixel/32

Question: The below code crashes flash... Why? The crash causing lines seem to be //var uiColor:uint = bmpd.getPixel(i,j); var uiColor:uint = bmpd.getPixel32(i,j); trace("Color: "+ uiColor); I am trying to take a snapshot of a movieclip and iterate through all pixels in the image and get the pix...

Flash Double-click an externally loaded SWF

OK. I've got a class (which extends MovieClip) that loads in an external SWF (made in pdf2swf). That is added to another class which has declared doubleClickEnabled = true and I'm listening for DOUBLE_CLICK events. Problem is when the SWF is loaded my code picks up no DOUBLE_CLICK events, only CLICK events. I've tried it without adding ...

AS3 for an animated button

I need help with AS3 for an animated button. The button (movie clip) I've created starts playing on a mouse-over but stops immediately when a mouse-out event occurs. But I want the button to finish the loop cycle before stopping the animation and play the animation on the next mouse-over from frame 1. This is the code I have so far: ...

flex - SWFLoader - authentication

I have an issue where I am trying to load an external SWF using a SWFLoader, but the HTTP server requires authentication. <mx:SWFLoader source="assets/externalswf.swf"></mx:SWFLoader> Is there any way to pass the credentials to the SWFLoader? ...

How to prevent external translation of a movieclip object on stage in AS3?

I have a MovieClip object, which is exported for actionscript (AS3) in an .swc file. When I place an instance of the clip on the stage without any modifications, it appears in the upper left corner, about half off stage (i.e. only the lower right quadrant of the object is visible). I understand that this is because the clip has a regist...

Actionscript: Why is drawRoundRectComplex() not documented?

in studying actionscript 3's graphics class, i've come across the undocumented drawRoundRectComplex() method. it's a variant of drawRoundRect() but with 8 parameters, the final four being the diameter of each corner (x, y, width, height, top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right). //example var sp:Sprite = new Sprite(); sp.graphic...