actionscript-3

AS3 Simple Event Questions....

Hi guys.... I am trying to get the percentage x coordinate of a MC. For example, My MC is 500px wide and 20px height. When I clicked the part of my MC, I want to get the percentage of my MC' x coordinate... (20% will be 100px of my MC...)..Anyone knows how to do it?? Thanks.. my code progressBa.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bar...

How to draw a string on BitmapData

Hello, how can I draw strings onto BitmapData, is there something like Java´s Graphics.drawString()? ...

Actionscript 3 Youtube Player Cue point Questions...

Hi guys.. I am trying to build a youtube player in Actionscript 3 and I got a questions regarding video cue. I have my loaded progress bar and playheard in my player. Everything works fine if user just watch the video from beginning till end. However, if the user clicks on my progress bar to jump to the specific part of the video, ...

Characters not showing up correctly when using textInput in flash

I have a textInput field form that's not displaying the characters it should when typed into. E.g. when the letter "æ" on my keybard is pressed "¾" shows up. This only happens once the flash movie is being displayed in a browser (that is embedded in html), preview through flash does not have this problem. The font is properly embedded as...

Is there a way, in As3, to modify a class variable within a function, if you have a it passed as a parameter?

Here is a simple example of what I mean: private var ex:String="day"; ...... closeWindows(ex); trace(ex);//I would like it to trace "night" ...... //this can be in another class, we assume that the "ex" variable can't be accessed directly private function closeWindows(context:String):void { context = "night" } Somehow I would ne...

When to extends EventDispatcher

Hi guys.. Simple question..I was wondering when you guys extends EventDispatcher in your class. It seems to me that as long as we have import event package, we can dispatchEvent without problems....I saw sometime people extends EventDispatcher in their class...not sure why...anyone care to explain? Thanks a million... ...

Defined size doesn't corespond to real size on the screen

Hello, I've encountered curious problem, and I'm wondering what is wrong. When I define for example Sprite and I draw inside rectangle 20 x 20 px, then when measured on screen it have something like 33 x 33 px, while swf window which was defined as 400 x 300 corresponds to definition well. Where is the problem? ...

Drawing shapes on BitmapData, or geting its graphics context

Hello, what would be your recommendation for drawing shapes (rects, circles...) onto BitmapData, and how to effectively switch between colors. Is there any way to get graphics context from BitmapData so I could easily paint shapes using graphics.draw...()? ...

Actionscript 3 - Youtube API questions......

Hi guys... I am trying to build a as3 only search api project.. I am checking this guys's code here... http://blog.martinlegris.com/2010/05/28/sample-code-using-the-youtube-as3-api-with-the-youtube-player-api/ He has following code... protected function doSearchResults(evt:VideoFeedEvent):void { if(_requestId == evt.requestId) ...

last occurrence of a string in a string in flex

Is there any inbuild function to find out the last occurrence of a string pattern in a string in action script . ...

AS3 youtube library event question...

Hi guys.. I am trying to build my youtube video search project in AS3.. and I found the following link... http://blog.martinlegris.com/2008/02/20/youtube-data-api-as3-youtubeclient-functions-associated-events/ His library has YouTubeClient.getStandardFeed(…) Event: StandardVideoFeedEvent.STANDARD_VIDEO_DATA_RECEIVED .feed: VideoF...

Encode raw data from microphone SampleData event with actionscript3

I get a raw data from Microphone's SampleDataEvent, and I want to encode this data before streaming to my server. So I'd like to know if there any standard audio encoder provided in actionscript3? Or do I have to implement it myself? I know that the Microphone class provide 2 codec (Nellymoser and Speex) that can be used when sending a ...

Does FMLE support motion detecting or can flashplayer/FMLE share a camera?

In actionscript I can use code below to register a callback when there is motion captured: cam.setMotionLevel (35,3000); cam.addEventListener (ActivityEvent.ACTIVITY, checkCamAction); Is that available in FMLE? UPDATE Or is it possible to access the same camera from both flash player and FMLE at the same time? ...

embedded button.swf does not fire CLICK event

i'm trying to embed a swf to my as3 flex project like this: [Embed(source = "../assets/next_button.swf")] [Bindable] protected var nextButtonClass:Class; protected var next_btn:MovieClip = next_btn = new nextButtonClass() as MovieClip; // ... next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAdChange); next_button.swf is as2 and created w...

AS3 Pass Custom Event Data Question...

Hi guys.. I am trying to pass custom event data from 1 class to another class...here is my codes.. a.as private function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void{ dispatchEvent(new YouTubeSearchEvent(YouTubeSearchEvent.CHANGE_VIDEO_READY, videoId)); } b.as private var newVideoID:String; public function get selectedVideoID():String{...

actionscript 3 ULscrollBar Issue!!!!

Hi Guys.. I am trying to create a scrollBar for my MC which contains several mc horizontally. I wanted to apply ULscrollBar for my MC container so I can scroll for move small MC but I couldn't get it to work...I would appreciate if someone can help me about it. (there is no scroll head for me to drag...) Thanks... cont=new videoC...

How to embed images of type 'bmp' in to the flash?

I have an image of type '.bmp' (NOT jpeg or png). I am trying to embed it using the following code. [Embed(source="images/door0091.bmp")] private var door0091_class:Class; private var door91:Bitmap = new door0091_class(); On compiling, the code throws following error. 'door0091.bmp' does not have a recognized extension, and a mimeT...

Wowza + Flex not reproducing whole audio

Hi there, I'm writing a flex app, which must record an audio and then playback. It records just fine, I can hear the flv on the server, but when it comes to the playback it cuts the end a little bit, and each time I ask to reproduce again it cuts a little bit more. What can it be? I guess it's something related to buffer management, but...

Are there any good tutorials / examples for developing a download manager in Adobe AIR using Flash CS4?`

I want to develop an AIR application that will let users of my website download multiple files in a single process. My database stores details of all the files uploaded by a user so I want them to be able to simply choose a location on local disk then download all files they have uploaded to this location. Are there any good tutorials ...

What's faster: new Vector.<T> OR Vector.<T>.splice(0, Vector.<T>.length)?

What gives the best performance? (edited to include another option) var myVec:Vector.<Number> = new Vector.<Number>(); for (...) // Do stuff - example: myVec.push(Math.random()); // Need to empty and repopulate vector myVec.splice(0, myVec.length); // OR myVec = new Vector.<Number>(); // OR myVec.length = 0; ...