actionscript-3

FLV gets scaled down to 320 x 240 without me asking it to.

i'm simply playing a video file the normal way: var nc = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); ns = new NetStream(nc); var vid = new Video(); this.addChild(vid); vid.attachNetStream(ns); ns.play(videofile); My flv file is actually 600x678, but shows up scaled down on the stage, and tracing the width and height I get 320x240. I'm not...

Flash AS3 - Second video created on stage is the same size as the first

Even though I specify different widths and heights for each. vid = new Video(600, 800); this.addChild(vid); trace(vid.width); //600 trace(vid.height); //800 vid2 = new Video(1000, 1200); this.addChild(vid2); trace(vid2.width); //600 trace(vid2.height); //800 What is going on here? Is this a flash bug? ...

Reading C# Response.Write with Actionscript 3.0

Hi, I am trying to read in a string from a C# Response.Write("string example") into ActionScript for a swf file My actionscript code looks like this var requestVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); requestVars.ornTest = "test"; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(); request.url = "http://localhost/apps/game/tree/Desi...

How to Debug A SWF file the communicates with localhost

Hi, I am trying to debug ActionScript within CS4. The script, as you can see below, is making a GET request to a URL that I am hosting from my machine. When I try to debug the movie I get an message box that says: Adobe Flash Player has Stopped a potentially unsafe operation. The local application that you are running on your computer:...

Detecting a redirect in Flash/Actionscript?

I have a flash video player which requests a flv file from a central server. That server might redirect the request to a server from the user's country if possible, a lot like a CDN. This video player also reports usage stats. One thing I'd like to report is the true server/location from which the player is streaming the video from. So ...

Flash AS3 DataGrid

Hi, I am new to Flash and AS3. I have a DataGrid like this Item Percentage A 20% B 7.5% The percentage column is editable. It is working atm, but I am just looking to enhance user interaction, so my questions is: How do you restrict user input to only 0-9, . and %. And when they finished editing a cell, add "%" i...

Adobe Flex - How to embed component inside an image's "window"?

I have a an image, lets call it "StageSkin.png". This is an image which is really just a border, and the middle of the image is "windowed", meaning that it is meant to show other information inside of it. The information inside of it is in the form of a component (based on a canvas component, lets call it 'Gauge'). I want to create a ...

How to make an associative array in actionscript indexed by Point?

I'd like my associative array indexed by Point (or, in general, an Object) that has a semantic equality. Unfortunately var p:Point = new Point(1, 1); var q:Point = new Point(1, 1); var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary(); dict[p] = 5; trace(dict[p]); // => 5 trace(dict[q]); // => undefined because trace(p===q); // => false Is there...

where to get updates on latest release of flash vm?

I can download the latest flash vm here: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ But where can I get updates about new releases of the flash vm? The RSS feeds here are no help. Edit: and where are the changelogs? ...

Flash SDK to CS4 conversion tips

I had been using the open source Flash SDK, and was recently gifted CS4. I was wondering if there are better ways to do things in CS4 for some of the following things: One of my project is a game with different phases - for phase transition is it better to implement as different frames of the stage? Any tips in particular? ...

How to scale a loaded SWF ?

I want to load a swf into a Flex application and scale it down into a thumbnail-size. I've looked at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245420/dimensions-of-loaded-swfs-stage, but it does not really address my need: I want to size it and keep all the pieces inside a container. Thanks ...

In Flex3, what type is an object property?

I have many Flex objects like this one: public class MyData { public var time: Date; public var label: String; } I am populating this object from a DB record retrieved via AMF that looks something like this: { label: "Label", incident: "2009-08-15 11:12:14.12233" } I want to write a generic value mapper for these ob...

as3 2D hitTestObject make something stop how to!

I want To make a square that has keyboard movement(up, down, left, right) and will stop when it hits another object such as a wall. please help me achieve this goal! it will help a lot! thanks :) EDIT: I already have a square and a keyboard layout but if that needs to be something specific then please tell me! ...

Parsing large text files with Adobe AIR

Hello, I am trying to do the following in AIR: browse to a text file read the text file and store it in a string (ultimately in an array) split the string by the delimiter \n and put the resulting strings in an array manipulate that data before sending it to a website (mysql database) The text files I am dealing with will be anywher...

IEventDispatcher

This piece of code is from Adobe docs: package { import flash.display.Loader; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.*; import flash.net.URLRequest; public class LoaderExample extends Sprite { private var url:String = "Image.gif"; public function LoaderExample() { var loader:Lo...

How to handle Error #2035: URL Not Found

urlRequest = new URLRequest(AccordionEffectPanel.EFFECT_DIR + fileName); //initialize loader loader = new Loader(); //wire image loading complete loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadEffectCompleted); loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler); //load image loader.load(urlRequest); This i...

Flex: referencing all data in TileList

I have 2 TileList component in my Flex application. 1 tilelist is filled with data much like following xml sample: <person name="Test"> <likes>Flex</likes> <likes>PHP</likes> </person> <person name="test2"> <likes>HTML</likes> <likes>CSS</likes> </person> the data shown in that tilelist is the name. my second tilelist: <items> <pr...

Q; Flash Mac ONLY FIleReference Stage update BUG

This bug ONLY affects the Mac (both Safari and Firefox) and ONLY on the following conditions- -ONLY after an image upload using FileReference(up to server then down into flash) -only on first browser focus. ie clicking anywhere off the browser and then giving the browser focus seems to 're-initize the flash runtime so the stage updates ...

Flex tab's x and y position

In a tab navigator, I need to find out the x and y coordinates of each the tabs. Is there a way to do that? I am using HBox as Tab in the TabNavigator. ...

AS3 XML FILTERING

Hi, Here is an XML: <nodes> <node id="0" a="hello" b="this"/> <node id="1" c="is" d="a" e="test"/> </nodes> Is there a way, using E4X Filtering to find the node(s) who has an attribute with "this" as value ? ...