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X (close) shape in SVG

I'm trying to make this SVG shape (ignore the color background, just the X shape) Close SVG Path but don't have Illustrator and wouldn't know how to use it. Can someone help out with the general idea, or point me to alternatives. I'm using it in flex. ...

syntax for binding multiple variables within text

When binding multiple variables value1 value2 value3 in the same text field, do I do this: text="{some text value1 other text value2 and other text value3}" or text="some text {value1} other text {value2} and other text {value3}" I noticed both work, but which is the right way to do it and will work all the time. ...

Adobe AIR system tray drop target

Hi there, I would like to make a system tray icon from Adobe AIR app a drop target. Is this even possible ? Digging hard, but without success so far. Thanks ...

Preload SWF and Images.

I have a flashbuilder project with a big image. The problem is that the default preloader does not load the images/swf's inside the project. Is there a way to preload them? ...

How to create a dynamic hierarchical charts using flex

i am developing a tool to create dynamic hierarchical charts.. am able to create object i.e circles and link it dynamically. i want to set properties for those objects.. can someone tell how to do it. ...

Flex preload states

Is it possible to preload the states? So that while a user is browsing say state1, state2 and state3 are loading. ...

What are Adobe FLEX, Flash, ActionScript and their relationship to eachother, if any?

This is obviously a rookie question about Adobe technologies, but I am seeking a canonical answer to help me understand the adobe development stack. Thanks, -bn ...

Can Flash Builder 4 Premium compile Flex Builder 3 Pro project?

That's about it. Oh, and I don't want to convert the Flex Builder Project making it incompatible with Flex Builder 3 Pro. ...

Adobe Flash or After Effects: How to make a piece of virtual paper blow away?

About a month ago I saw a portfolio website in Flash that featured a stack of cards, and each time you clicked on it, they sort of blew all over the place, thus exposing the backs as videos and pictures. Although I could easily take a bunch of 3D planes and tween them to turn and flip, these cards actually seemed to 'bend'. How is this...

change the sound volume of a live stream

I have something like this: private var myVideo:Video; public var videoDisplay:UIComponent; ... videoDisplay.addChild(myVideo); ... nsPlay = new NetStream(nc); nsPlay.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, nsPlayOnStatus); nsPlay.bufferTime = 0; nsPlay.play(pro); myVideo.attachNetStream(nsPlay); anybody knows how can I change the...

Adobe Acrobat SDK, How to/Licensing? .Net

We are having problems removing the toolbar/sidebar from the Adobe Viewer control for .NET.. Of course it is possible with if you watch for Windows Procs. and what not, but we aren't extremely interested in this, so we started looking into 3rd party and the Adobe SDK. The Adobe Acrobat SDK seems extremely complicated to me to understand...

Buying CS5 in the States, living in the EU

Does anyone have some expieriences buying CS5 (or prev. version) in the States and registering/using it in Germany (or somewhere else in the EU where it costs nearly twice as much). Are there difficulties registering or purchasing updates? thx. ...

Run AIR Debug Launcher (ADL) without a GUI for continuous build

Is it possible to run the ADL without a GUI so that I can run FlexUnit tests during a nightly build? Right now, when I execute our test runner on our server (Ubuntu 9.04) it fails with the output: "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:". Many thanks for any suggestions! ...

Why does Flash Builder 4 use Flash Player instead of a browser to run apps?

I've got an old flex builder 3 project that I imported into Flash Builder 4, and I want this project to run its web applications in my web browser. However, the apps persistently run in the Flash Player instead. This is causing no end of problems because of the flash player bug documented at https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-209. Ho...

Make a POST request with parameters and an attached file.

Can anyone give me an example of how to do that? ...

How to display only one letter in Flex Text Layout Framework ContainerController?

I'm trying to implement dropped initials feature into my Flex application. Since Text Layout Framework does not support floating, the only known solution is to create additional containers that will be linked together, displaying the same textflow. Width and positioning of these containers has to be set in such a way that it will pretend...

as3 control the volume of the microphone with a slider ?

anybody knows how to control the volume of the microphone with a slider ? ...

How do you hidden/show particular context menu item in flex?

var contextMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(); contextMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); var contactList : ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("Add to Existing List"); contactList.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT, doStaticListCommand); var newContactList : ContextMenuItem = new ContextMe...

How do I slow down a flash game?

Basically the objective is to click on certain targets, which upon doing so would destroy the target and garner you points. I've written a macro to help me until the point where its impossible to even see the target more than a mere flicker, (maybe even less than that, i cant see it with my eyes). But its possible because i believe other...

server side Adobe AIR apps

This might sound like a really stupid question, but is there anyway to run an Adobe AIR application in a headless server side mode on a non-UI server (i.e. Linux)? I'm trying to build server side bots to interact with an API (grapevinetalk.com) and I want to use existing code to do that without having to re-write all the data munging et...