actionscript-3

Is it possible to automate font embedding in Actionscript 3? Or being able to take fonts from a directory and use them at runtime?

I've searched high and low for an answer and it might be a foolish endeavour but i'd like to be able to read fonts from a directory at runtime for use in an actionscript/flex app Ive seen the answers on the web and all rely on putting fonts in external swfs and certainly rely on embed meta tags or styles when i'd like a local fonts dire...

Why is not permited to access a member function from my local event handler in ActionScript (Flex4)?

Hello My code looks like : private function createExportButton() : void { var exportButton : Button = new Button(); exportButton.label = "Export"; exportButton.x = 600; exportButton.y = 10; exportButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function clickH...

Flash Remoting: are NetConnection calls allowed inside Responder callbacks?

Hi all, we are working on a project involving lots of flash remoting stuff. Particularly, we build on Flex Builder 3 using Flex SDK 3.2. An interesting question here: when a connection to the remote server (FluorineFX-based) is established, and we issue a call via NetConnection.call(), is it allowed to place another NetConnection call...

Problem with parsing XML to DataGrid in Flex

Here I i'm trying to parsing a XML in like below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <spearkerslist> <speakers langid="afb" countryid="SA">200000</speakers> <speakers langid="acw" countryid="SA">6000000</speakers> <speakers langid="ars" countryid="SA">8000000</speakers> <speakers langid="arb" countryid="SA">20600000...

Pie chart with empty data

Is there any way to force Flex to draw empty PieChart when all data in the PieSeries equals 0. The result I'm getting now is just a blank space in the place where my chart is supposed to be. ...

font in swf loaded in a swf loaded in swf !!! the text disappear

Hi, I've been looking on the net for a response to my problem without success . I've made a swf containing a font in the library the class name of my font is "MVerdana". this swf is loaded in another swf wich display a textfield. the swf is loaded by a Loader. in the commplete event, i'm getting the font class using var loaderInfo:Lo...

Adobe flash : Playing Speex Audio from a file

Hi, I have tried really hard to find an example showing how to play speex encoded audio in flash. I tried the following code - var connect_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); connect_nc.connect(null); var stream_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(connect_nc); stream_ns.play("RE-Sample.m4a"); avaible at - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fl...

Refactoring AS3 automatic game loop into controlled one

Hello, I need to take control of how my base game class updates: package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.KeyboardEvent; public class Test extends Sprite { private var sprite:Sprite; public function Test() { sprite = new Sprite(); sprite.graphics.beginFil...

Add movieclip to stage from child class in Flash

Can you add a movieclip to the stage from a child class? My setup is as follows: DocumentClass ->SubFolder --->ChildClass1 --->ChildClass2 DocumentClass calls ChildClass1 and creates an instance of it. ChildClass1 has in it's constructor a call for ChildClass2 and creates an instance of it. What is the cleanest way to have ChildClas...

Get all shared objects for current domain

Using SharedObject.getLocal I can get access to what appears to be an infinite number of files simply by using unique identifiers in the method call; What I want to know is how can I retrieve a list of all active files or shared objects that have been saved for my current domain. I'm trying to write a save game mechanism that allows you...

Actionscript 3 debug logging

Is there a way to log debug messages with Actionscript 3 like log4j? i want to log user interactions in a Flash app(all the events and the user inputs). ...

Actionscript 3 authoring tools

I like the Eclipse SDK for other languages like python/java etc for writing code. But the Flash CS4 environment is not as intuitive (specially the editor). Is there any alternative for writing actionscript? ...

Flash scaling quality

I have a flash application in which I need to scale a MovieClip. This MovieClip contains an image (in a Loader) with a resolution of 1024x768 (which is the size of the MovieClip as well). When I want to scale this MovieClip to 80% I do: myMovieClip.scaleX = 0.8; myMovieClip.scaleY = 0.8; The problem is the resulting scaled image has...

AS3: Rotate a DisplayObject with the Mouse

I am basically trying to create a display object transformation manager which will allow me to scale/rotate objects. I am currently trying to figure out how to rotate an object so its corner follows the current x and y of the mouse. I always get confused on the math of things like this. I know how to listen for the events and everyt...

Adobe Flex - MouseDown Event On Label Values

Hello everyone, I just would like to know how can I dynamically change a label's values while on mousedown. I basically have a mousedown event and I also have two labels in my application. What I would like to happen is to get the current x and y position of my mouse pointer as I move my mouse through the screen and changing the values ...

Sprite scaling children even though stage.scaleMode = "noScale" and stage.align = "TL"

I am creating an AIR nativeWindow. I am adding two children, an HTMLLoader and a Sprite. The child Sprite has two children, a TextField and a Sprite that will be used to draw. I have set stage.scaleMode = "noScale" and stage.align = "TL", which the HTMLLoader seems to respect. However, the child Sprite scales its children whenever I set ...

Using Bulkloader to load several HTTPServices in FLex 4

Bulkloader (code.google.com/p/bulk-loader) typically loads different types of URL, Images, XML, etc. Is there a way to include Flex 4 HTTPService calls as loadItems. Or any other way of bulk loading with overall progress for multiple HttpService calls? Any help, suggestion or recommendation would be welcome. ...

Embed about 90 images in the flash.

I have about 90 images which I need to embed into action script (version 3). The only way I could figure out is typing the following code 90 times for each image. [Embed(source="images/door0091.bmp")] private var Door1:Class; var door1:Bitmap = new Door1(); It's really painful to write it so many times. I would like to know if...

Flex 4 data management - how do I approach this?

Hi guys, quite an explanation here, hope someone has the patience to read it through I'm building an application in Flex 4 that handles an ordering system. I have a small mySql database and I've written a few services in php to handle the database. Basically the logic goes like this: I have tables for customers, products, productGroup...

adsense in flash/as3?

Hi guys, I'm trying to load some adsense ads in my flash file. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adrian ...