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Flash Video automatically starts downloading (don't want them to)

This question might be specific to SoThink Video Encoder v2.5, but it might not. I've transcoded some videos [from AVI] to SWF/FLV for embedding in a web page. I used SoThink Video Encoder. The problem is I have 9 videos on a page, and as soon as the page loads, they ALL start downloading. I would like them each to start downlo...

Pasting a Screen shot into a text area on a web page

Is it possible to take a screen shot (using the Print Screen) and paste it from the System Clipboard directly into a web pages text area field (which I would create)? Do I need a browser plug-in? Can Flash do this? **The solution only has to work in Internet Explorer. ...

Flash application in Jquery and Ajax

hello everyone, my first time posting here. My question is as follow: I need to build a horizontal scroller like the one in Itunes or like the one that the macs uses in the finder window. http://www.flashcomponents.net/upload/samples/4250/index.html?full=true The client, however wants this to be fed from an xml file and to display html...

How to make dynamic Magnifying Glass effect in Flash

I wanted to make a magnifying glass effect in one of my project. I want this magnifying effect on full flash, i.e. even on dynamic object. So this is why i can't use large static images. Please suggest me best way to proceed on this problem. ...

Serverside solution for converting an SWF file to a VIDEO file

Right now i develop an RIA application, for online movie creating. Main data format it`s a server side generated swf files. I need an server side solution for automated swf to video converting. After some researching and experiments, i found two solutions: Rewrite a bit an open source flash player gnash Grab adobe flash player directl...

Determine when Flash component not visible

I'm playing around with streaming live video to the Flash Player. The problem is, it seems (from my logs) that many users will open a live video feed and then just leave it open all day, whether or not they are actually watching it. As you can imagine, this is a horrendous waste of bandwidth. So I would like a way to determine if the us...

Synchronizing banner execution

I'm looking for a best practice to synchronize 3 separate flash banners displayed on the same page. Basically all of them need to preload (politely), notify they're all prepared after what a command would somehow launch the animation of the 3 of them synchronously making them act like one and single add. The solution needs to be x-br...

Recommendations for visualising a directed graph in a Web UI

I need to visualise a directed graph that represents the flow of data in a web application. Can anyone recommend any JavaScript or Flash solutions for this please. It must support hooking a node click event because I need to fire off an AJAX call when this happens. Can be free or commercial. The server-side technology is Java if this mak...

TweenMax change in-progress bezier

Is it possible to change smoothly transition between one bezier based animation and another using TweenMax ? Before the first is complete I would like to create a new curve for the object to follow. t = new TweenMax(movieClip, speed, {bezierThrough:[{x:84, y:207}, {x:300, y:345}], orientToBezier:false, ease:Sine.easeOut, onComplete:w...

bitwise operations without bitwise operators

Here's an example I ran across: private function bitwiseAnd(a:int, b:int):int { var result:int = 0; var n:int = 1; while ((a > 0) && (b > 0)) { if (((a % 2) == 1) && ((b % 2) == 1)) { result += n; } a = a / 2; b = b / 2; n = n * 2; } return result; } So basica...

Play mp3 files in a webpage without gaps?

I have a web page that I would like to play several mp3's one after the other without gaps when the page is loaded. I have tried a couple of js mp3 player type things (niftyplayer, jsPlayer, flash-mp3-player-js) but all f them have have gaps between tracks. Is there any way to do this, with flash or otherwise? ...

Upload > Convert > Show With Flash

Hi, I want to convert and show video that user uploaded. I have dedicated server and i use php for programming. Where should i start ? Thank You ...

What is the default value of the "quality" param in Flash embeds?

When embedding flash movies, you can specify a parameter indicating the "quality" of the movie's playback. This generally affects whether the Flash runtime will antialias your shapes and your video content. More info here. Does anyone know the default value of this parameter? Adobe neglected to document the default value. Empirically, i...

Audio of a specific video swf doesn't stop when i load another URLRequest

I am trying to stop the audio of the video swf and i can't get it to stop. Here is my code for loading the file var myLoader:Loader= new Loader(); myLoader.x=420; myLoader.y=200; // boolean variable set for use below in our function var screenCheck:Boolean = false; //These three linces keep stafe elements the same size, so they don't d...

Leading Zero on Single Digits (Flash)

I am using Flash CS3 - AS 3.0 i have the following code that i am using to make the image count external, I am not sure if you all are familiar with Slideshow pro, i dont think that you need to in order to help me. function albumStuff(event:SSPDataEvent) { if (event.type=="albumData") { total1.text = event.data.totalImages; } } ...

How to get small-caps using sIFR?

Hello, I'm new to sIFR and so far it's working very nicely. But now I need to replace something in small-caps. I tried just adding font-variant: small-caps; to my css inside the sIFR.replace() call, but it didn't work. I've read through all the sIFR documentation at http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr3 and realize there are certain...

Dynamic Audio Generation Actionscript 3

I'm looking into making a music theory lab application, where you can see the graphical relation between music theory concepts. I would like this to be available online, so Flash and Silverlight come to mind. But I would like to dynamically generate tones and chords etc from user input. This is something I know is a very underdeveloped...

Silverlight and Flash and Javascript cross domain policies

A slightly nebulous question: This question stems from attempts to consume non-asf streams in Silverlight using MediaStreamSource as a MediaElement source. Cross domain issues here are proving very frustrating. Generally communication between domains is not allowed on the web. If I understand correctly, say malicious site/embedded obj...

Flash AS3 EventDispatcher - any way of getting a list of registered listeners?

Is there any way of getting a list of registered listeners for an EventDispatcher? I know that EventDispatcher has the hasEventListener method to tell you if any listeners are registered, but is there an easy way of interrogating the EventDispatcher to find out what the listeners are? One way I figured to do this was to subclass Event...

How to remove all event listeners from a display object?

Is there a way to determine which event listeners are registered with a display object? I want to remove all event listeners from a display object so that I can assign new ones based on context changes in the application. ...