I made a circular mask in 3dsMax, imported into flash as an swf, used it to mask a movieclip. The thing is that when i drag the movieclip to the stage, the mask animates without hitting enter key consuming a lot of ide resources, anyone has an idea of why is this happening? Using Flash CS4 ...
Hi Friends, Is it possible to detect usb device using actionscript 3 from flash cs4? Pls. let me know. Thanks & Regards, Sagar ...
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). ...
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? ...
I am building a flash app that will asks the client to access their web camera. Users on Windows (Firefox, Safari, Chrome browsers) are able to click the allow button. However, users on Linux/Mac (Firefox, Safari, Chrome) either need to click several times until they can click allow, or they can't click at all. According to this forum,...
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 ...
When retrieving external variables from the server URLVariables my Flash get stuck on first compilation values. Whenever I update server values flash compiles the first old values. Only after i restart CS4 IDE values are updated. Is there an internal cache? There is nothing wrong with my code, because it works fine on my mac, but not on...
Hi I am trying to tween a text from enlarged to compressed (squeezing) using free transform tool. It works fine when installed fonts are used. But when I use an embedded font, it just reduces in size (like scaling), and does not squeeze as intended. Thanks ...
I want to know how to design a Flash CS4(AS3) based kiosk application where the screen changes according to the user events(to change the screens like this). Preferably use xml to describe the application. ...
All I get is an error box saying: "Unexpected file format." Everything was going fine until I did some simple action (removing a few frames I believe), then Flash crashed and I haven't been able to reopen the file since. It opens other .flas just fine. I rebooted, but to no avail. Any ideas? This is an important project and very frus...
I am trying to make a calculator where a user can select from a list of items. If a user clicks say "ITEM1", it should add the item to a "CONTAINER_MC". The problem i have is all my data is set inside an array containing names and prices like the code below. var menuNames:Array = [ "Item1", "Item2", "Item3", "Item4", "item5", "i...
Hi all, I'm having something of an issue with trying to load externally defined classes in actionscript 3.0. I believe this to be an issue with my understanding of the ApplicationDomain / LoaderContext classes, but even after going over the documentation and a couple of web searches I'm still stuck. Essentially what I want to do is load...
I recently updated my mac osx(security update I think) and since then flash cs4 started to crash. I looked on the web and some people suggested deactivating Franklin Gothic font. I did that. Even uninstall and reinstalled the Flash cs4 itself and still it keeps on crashing. One wired thing that I found is that it doesn't crash when I ope...
I want to design a Flash CS4(AS3) based kiosk application where the screen changes according to the multi-user events. Due to the fact that Troywork's supports HFSM, it might be useful to my needs, but its hardly documented. I checked the dir structure, but cannot understand the usage. Is there any documentation to get started using the...
Hi I am struggling to embed a swf in a flash movie so that it appears beneath a mc menubar. The menu is in a mc on the main time line at the top layer. The swf is embeded into a mc using the following : swapChildren(fullmc, swfbox1); var myLoader1 :Loader = new Loader(); swfbox1.addChild(myLoader1); var url1 :URLRequest = new URLR...
Hello, Flash files are binaries (.fla), and almost impossible to merge. Is it possible to get action logs, like "added xxx symbol", "modified xxx symbol" or rather the action stack of "undo", which could help me merge symbols of two fla files? OTOH how do you resolve merging issues in Flash? ...
My Flash Code var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader; var xmlData = new XML(); myLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, LoadXML); myLoader.load(new URLRequest("mydata.xml")); function LoadXML(e:Event):void { xmlData = new XML(e.target.data); trace(xmlData); } My XML Data (mydata.xml) <xml> <items> <item Name="Test" ID...
Hi Am struggling to find the right as3 code to resize an image once it is dynamically called into the stage and placed in a MC. I am loading using: var myLoader :Loader = new Loader(); mc.addChild(myLoader); var url :URLRequest = new URLRequest("myimage.jpg"); myLoader .load(url ); The stage will eventually open up into fullscreen ...
A very simple case: There's a Flash EXE projector There's a XML file in the folder relative to the projector, data/menu.xml Application is launched on a Windows XP box On one of the XP machines XML fails to load over some awkward reason. In most environments it works fine. The same app runs well on all Macs tested. Any ideas? ...
Scrolling textfield is no more working with player 10.1.82 My code is: SCROLLV = SCROLLV +2 text is scrolling down nicely with older players, but now with newest player it never scrolls. scrolling WORKS OK with player: 10,0,12,36 scrolling FAILS with player: 10,1,82,76 ...