actionscript-3

Flex Builder: I want to go from titleWindow to a panel.

I'm building a user login page and I want to go from titleWindow to Panel. I'm using the following function but it always takes me back to parentApplication. My question is how can I go to my panel and not to Application page? I know that I'm using parentApplication but what should I use instead? Here is a part of my code: private fu...

this.loaderInfo is null in Flex

I have a problem with Flex module. I want to access url variables by this.loaderInfo.url, i call a function in createionComplete handler of module and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. (Can't access... null). Any suggestions? This function is called in creationComplete handler of module. And although it throws error window, t...

adobe air stream end on line (EOF)

Hi to all, I need to read a file, which has an "n" number of lines, I need to know when reading the end of each line, so I can store the line in an array, ok so far I have while(stream.position < stream.bytesAvailable) { char = stream.readUTFBytes(1); if(char == "\n") { array.push(line); ...

actionscript array remove element

I have an array Items which has 10 elements. I need to remove the 5th element (index=4) the new array should have 9 elements and all elements after the 5th element will be shifted forward what command(s) should i use? ...

Set registration point of a MovieClip to its center in AS3

Can I set the registration point of a MovieClip (or other Display Object) to its center upon creation in AS3? the following var myClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); sets the registration point of myClip to its top left corner by default. Using Flash CS4 to set it to its center is just a couple of clicks, so I am wondering how I can...

How to automatically include a number of images in the SWF file?

Hi, i'm trying to include a number of images in my SWF file not by loading them but by embedding them in the SWF itself. I found the following instruction to do that: [Embed(source="../graphics/images/ss0.png")] private var SS0:Class; Basically, i want to embed a different number of images each time. Is there a way to do that...

AS3 How do I stop sound and video when clicking a menu button to go to another frame?

Hello, I have a problem with my slideshow script. I have embedding a flash video file into my website with this slideshow called monoslideshow, and everything seems to work perfectly. Trouble is, when I am clicking on another menu button that should jump to another frame, it still keeps playing the video and sound while displaying the n...

How to create beautiful Screencasts for your web apps?

Hello all, I am trying to create a screen cast for my new web app. I have just come across a great example of a screencast and I am wondering what is used to do this: Click on the video to play on this page. I am impressed with the animation when the mouse is clicked and zooming into images from different angles. Is this done with Act...

AS3: Point for display object x, y?

Right now I have a point that I have to update with the x and y of a display object to use with the hitTestPoint object; is there any way I can get a point from a display object without having to make a new point var and continually update its x and y? ...

Determine if getPixel() value is greater than or less than 50% gray

I am trying to loop through a bitmap and determine if each pixel is lighter or darker than gray using getPixel(). Problem is, I am not sure how to tell whether the value returned by getPixel() is darker or lighter than gray. Neutral gray is about 0x808080 or R:127, G:127, B:127. How would I need to modify the code below to accurately de...

[ActionScript 3] Array subclasses cannot be deserialized, Error #1034

I've just found a strange error when deserializing from a ByteArray, where Vectors cannot contain types that extend Array: there is a TypeError when they are deserialized. TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert []@4b8c42e1 to com.myapp.ArraySubclass. at flash.utils::ByteArray/readObject() at com.myapp::MyAp...

How do I display children in succession, as3

How do I display children in succession? By succession I mean 1,2,3,4, etc. Perhapse incrementing with a loop or using a timer is what I'm after. Add, remove, appear, or disappear children, could all work. I want a simple way to display 1 child every second until I reach 10. METHODS TRYED addChild, removeChild, AddChildAt, getChild...

Flex actionscript extending DateChooser, events in calendar

ExtendedDateChooser class is great solution for simple event calendar used in my flex project. You can find it if google for "Adding-Calendar-Event-Entries-to-the-Flex-DateChooser-Component" with a link of updated solution in comments of the post. I posted files below. Problem in that calendar is text events are missing when month is ch...

AS3 - Searching An Array for the items that contains a particular word when each item is a paragraph long.

Hi, bit new to AS3 so forgive me if this is a bit of a straight forward question. Ive created an array, and each item in the array is a description of something, about 20 words long, I want to search the array, and return each item that contains a particular word. All the other tutorials Ive found are based on looping through to searc...

Drawing Color Spectrum with Waveform

i've come across this ActionScript sample, which demonstrates drawing of the color spectrum, one line at a time via a loop, using waveforms. however, the waveform location of each RGB channel create a color spectrum that is missing colors (pure yellow, cyan and magenta) and therefore the spectrum is incomplete. how can i remedy this pr...

Google Analytics Library for As3

I am trying to push in the Google Analytics library into my As3 widget. I plan to use the EventTracking feature in addition to the regular HTML-like pageview tracking that it provides. I plan to use the library in As3 mode (not the Bridge mode) since the widget is embedded on a lot of external domains. Using the SWC to add the component...

Rendering videos online using flash as3 and AIR, how does it work?

I came accross this link that talks about the technology used with Animoto.com And it seems like they use AIR to export their flash animations to bitmaps that ffmpeg compil as a movie. http://labs.animoto.com/2009/06/07/presenting-filmstrip/ "It also takes time to render, so what you’re seeing isn’t realtime. It’s a series of Flash-gen...

I've only programmed in AS3; What's the easiest practice in Flash CS4 to create simple animations?

So I've been using Flash for awhile, but rarely ever use the authoring tool. I want to create a quick little slideshow in which a user clicks buttons, and assets on the screen fade in an out as you move from slide to slide. I don't want to do this programatically...what's the quickest route to go about doing this, with using some AS3 bu...

Handling inverted pixels in bitmapData and bitmap class in as3

I am using bitmapData and bitmap classes to render a mouse cursor on the display screen. The bitmapData consists of an area whose colors should be inverted according to the background color. This is a very basic thing which could be observed with text cursor(the vertical line with two small horizontals on top and bottom), when moved over...

Flex 3 Tree iconFunction not working properly

Hi all, I don't know the exact problem. I am using flex mx:tree component in flex 4 and I'm customizing the icons using iconFunction. here is my code private function iconFunctionHandler(item:Object):Class { var st:SWFLoader = GlobalVariable.getInstance().imageInstance; var iconClass:Class = Object(st.content).getInstance(item.@...