actionscript-3

Soft Paint Bucket Fill: Colour Equality

I'm making a small app where children can fill preset illustrations with colours. I've succesfully implemented an MS-paint style paint bucket using the flood fill argorithm. However, near the edges of image elements pixels are left unfilled, because the lines are anti-aliased. This is because the current condition on whether to fill is c...

Choosing random action, Flash AS3

I have 2 actions in a Flash file that I would like to test for conversion. One is opening a link in a tab/window, the other loading the content in a Colorbox iframe over the page. How do I randomly choose one of the following actions? I currently listen for a click on a button: clickJoin.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,toJoin); My...

I am getting problem to accessing webservice.

hi friends, I have created one application in flex that is accessing the Java webservice using Actionscript3.0. In which I am getting the error during the accessing the one of the webservice method.That method is returning the list of child object I am taking this List of object in ArrayCollection class object.My code is:- ...

disable GC in AS3

Hi, I met a strange problem in AS3 and thought the problem may be caused by the GC, can I disable GC explicitly in AS3? Thanks. Bin ...

Adobe Air, packaged install fails with my trace routine... how come?

I cobbled together some code from here and there for a trace I like... it generates an error to get a stack trace and picks out the traced routine name, I like that detail in the trace log. Problem: it fails in an installed AIR file. I wonder why? I don't expect it to do anything as is... just, I'd prefer it not cause the program to f...

Library for playing Matroska (.MKV) in Flash?

So.. Is there any lib for playing MKV (matroska) in flash (AS3, MXML) OpenSource or KindOf opensource? (In my MKV I have Theora video H264 video... If library supports only 1 type of video codec Ill live with that=)) ...

Why wouldn't a flex remoteobject be able to work within a custom component?

Please enlighten this flex noob. I have a remoteobject within my main.mxml. I can call a function on the service from an init() function on my main.mxml, and my java debugger triggers a breakpoint. When I move the remoteobject declaration and function call into a custom component (that is declared within main.mxml), the remote functio...

preview swtach not updating color picker

Hi, I wonder if someone can tell how to solve some problem I have with the color picker control, the weird problem is that when I'm rolling over the swatch it suppose to update the big swatch preview at the top of the control with the color I'm currently over, but for reason it do it just for some colors, but with other never update the ...

Remove HSlider horizontal control line

Does anyone know how can the horizontal control line be removed or made invisible. What am trying to say is, I just want to show the drag-thumb and not the horizontal line. Is there a way to do so, with out using skins? Regards Zeeshan ...

Creating Bitmaps from ARGB strings (in actionscript-3)???

Hi, in actionscript 3, what's the fastest way to dump your data (not from a file) into a bitmap for display? I have it working with setPixels and colored rects but that's way too slow/inefficient. Is there a way to load in the raw bytes or hijack the loader class to put in custom loader data? What would be the best/fastest--should I s...

How Can I Detect A Data Type in AS3

I'd like to make a call to a function and send either a string or an integer... function getImage(val:*):void{ if(val == String){ switch(val){ case'next': loadNext(); break; case'prev': loadPrev(); break } }else{ loadImg(val); }...

trouble with custom 'Text Bubble' component (examples included)

I'm trying to use a custom Text component to show a series of comments. I got the original idea from: http://www.eonflex.com/?p=40 I've got the base case working but I am stuck with 2 problems I cant seem to figure out: Since I am drawing around the text, the actual height of each bubble is greater than that of the Text field, as a r...

Trying to draw a Rectangle to a Custom Container in Flex4/AS3

So below is the code I have so far. For now I simply want to make it draw a square and have it show up. Right now when I click the area defined in MXML as <components:PaintArea width="100%" height="100%" id="paint-a"></PaintArea> it shows nothing; however, the actionlistener is getting triggered and an element is being added to the group...

Is there a library to make draggable/resizable/rotatable objects in Flex?

I would like to have in my Flex application the ability to post objects (for instance images or text items) where user can drag/drop for absolute positioning on the screen, resize it and rotate it (although not high priority). I'm wondering if there is a library that would do so out of the box or do you recommend implementing my own? ...

custom flex component, visual controls in design view

Do you know how if you drag an <mx:Label> or <s:Label> component into your Flex project, when you go to design mode you get this panel on the right to set its properties like text etc. I have a custom component that I can call with actionscript, or with mxml like this: <comps:TheComp field1="OK" field2="Yes" /> The component takes t...

Debug AS3 in Flash CS4, how to watch a variable?

I am debugging AS3 in Flash CS4, a variable becomes NULL but I don't know who changes it at when. Is it possible to watch this variable and when the value changes to null, it stops? Thanks. Bin ...

Action Script 3.0 : How to extract two value from string.?

HI I have a URL var str:String = "conn=rtmp://server.com/service/&fileId=myfile.flv" or var str:String = "fileId=myfile.flv&conn=rtmp://server.com/service/" The str might be like this, But i need to get the value of "conn" and "fileId" from the string. how can i write a function for that. ...

communication across different classes

Hi guys, I have learned as3 for a half years, these days I found I always have the trouble that make different classes communicate with each other. I kinda figure out there are some ways to solve (if I am wrong, please tell me...): 1. using get set methods 2. eventdispatch to dispatch custom event. Today, I am working on this confused ...

AS3 and hashing

Is it possible to hash flv videos so it is unplayable by itself and the format is unrecognizable by softwares, but i could actually de-hash them and play in my as3 script? This is going to be realized on a CD so I can't use server scripts. ...

Flex AS3: ComboBox set visible to false doesn't hide

I have a combobox in a view that receives information about application state changes, and then is supposed to show or hide it's children based on the whole application state. It receives state change messages, it traces the correct values, it does what it's supposed to do, however, it just doesn't seem to work. Essentially, all it nee...