I am just wondering how companies make money by offering free RIA application development platforms.They invested lot of money & human resources to create & improve those platforms. Of course no commercial company does that for free, there will be some sort of strategy. But How Microsoft makes money out of silverlight? How Adobe makes mo...
Hi - I am trying to get the number of incoming links to a page through the Google Search API. It is not working (just returning Null) Here is the code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="init();" width="320" height="480" backgroundGrad...
I have an old AS2 project that needs to run in an AS3 container. When the AS2 swf is loaded, it communicates with the AS3 container using gskinner's SWFBridge. Once a connection is established, the AS2 file loads in all necessary xml data. When this is complete it calls a function that begins the process of loading external images. The f...
I am wondering the capabilities of the SWF Format. I have some text in a Flash Video, which is an email address ([email protected]) which I would like to write a C# application to edit. I have the SWF File Format Spec and was wondering if the following is possible: If I read in the Tag (I am assuming this text is stored as a Static Te...
I've been having a problem that's plagued me many times in the course of developing a Flash project. It looks something like this: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at fl.containers::BaseScrollPane/fl.containers:BaseScrollPane::drawBackground() at fl.controls::TileList/fl.controls:Til...
My HTTPService resultHandler is firing twice. Is that normal? The messageId and token# are the same. StatusCode=200 both times. I've examined the traffic in Fiddler and only one request is being submitted. Here's a code snippet; I've put a breakpoint on the service send() method and it is happening only once. var token: AsyncToke...
I work on a big Flash project as the web backend guy that delivers all the files and assets to the main application SWF. Our last, really big packet of data are all the assets and sounds contained in swf files that are imported during the preloader. Are there any ways to optimize this process in any way? I'm really looking for ideas i...
I've created a custom class to handle method calls from the server and I get this error Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetConnection was unable to invoke callback close. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property close not found on MyClient and there is no default value. code from function that d...
I saw a method in Action script that has a return type of * public function f(s:String):* what does this [*] means ? ...
usually i do Camera.getCamera but when this method is called the user is prompted with a dialog box where he can choose to allow or to deny the application access to the camera, or he could not have a camera how can the application now whether the camera is broadcasting ? ...
I want to get the list of all user cameras so that he could choose from a dropdown from which camera to broadcast ...
Hi, One of our application is implemented in flex and adobe air. We want to have the user press combination of keys, say 'ABC', and have the keyboard return a different character, 'FOG', to whatever app is in focus. This should work even if app has no focus. Will it possible in Adobe Air/Flex? If yes, provide me some examples? Thanks i...
hello I just stumbled upon Adobe source libraries, ASL. It is set of templates and functions similar to boost, under MIT license. Some of the utilities in the library I found quite useful and now I consider using it. the library seems pretty straightforward, however. Have you used ASL yourself? if so, what were your impressions? do y...
for(var l:int=0; l<anXML.length(); l++){ aButton=new btn_secondTier(); aLocation.addChild(aButton); //var aButtonDefaults:ButtonDefaults=new ButtonDefaults(aButton); aButton.y=l*24; aButton.name=anXML[l].attribute("id"); aButton.title_txt.text=anXML[l...
I am doing a Full Motion Recording of my Browser window. The recording lasts about 45 seconds, and I do a couple of different things during that recording. When I go to view the recording I just did in a slide, the screen capture is about 45 seconds, but all the actions that I've done during the recording seem sped up. This is causing m...
Hi everyone, I am using Adobe AIR's html control in my desktop application to let users see web pages. I am using the html.historyBack() and html.historyNext() methods to allow moving back and forth. But I want to clear the history once a specific option is selected, say a click on a button, without restarting the applica...
I have created a PDF with Adobes LifeCycle and added some forms and a button to send the formdata to a php-script. On the serverside i grab the postdata and store them into a database. No problem so far, but the Adobe Reader now complains about an error something to do with the content of the text/html type. Here is the error message in...
Hi, I've got as far as adding multiple buttons to the stage with AS3 and giving them unique instance names, but now I have a problem. There is no limit on the amount of buttons that could be present, there could be one or one hundred so I can't hard code. How would I go about creating event listeners for each button? I tried pushing ea...
How can I use a .NET service object in an Adobe Flex application? Is it even possible? Do I have to use some third-party tool? ...
let's say I have this function function Do(x:String){} How can I make so that each time this function is called, it will add a form into a hbox, and that form will have 2 buttons yes and no and put x into the text of a label. And when the user is going to click on Yes I need to trace(x) and remove the Form from the hbox ...