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How to access the selection of xmlui targetlist from JSFL in Flash?

I have a simply xml ui: <dialog title="Select Symbol" buttons="accept, cancel"> <vbox> <targetlist id="target_symbol" height="300" width="400" required="true" class="movie clip" /> </vbox> </dialog> How can I get the result of once the user pressed accept ? I have somthing basic like: var doc = fl.getDocumentDOM(); var ...

Flash movie with Flash 10.0.2 Apple: only one style embedded

Hi, I tried to embedd four styles of a font in a flash movie (regular, italic, bold and bold italic). The flash movie is exported correctly. The generated size report shows all styles. But flash player displays only the style of the first letter. What is wrong? ...

Workaround for AS3 language bug?

Does anyone know how to fix the bugs in Actionscript / Flash regarding keyboard input of European characters? Entering, for example portuguese characters, works fine on PC, but not MAC, this bug is on both Flash 9 and 10. These does not work: Á, Â, Ã, À, Ç, É, Ê, Í, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ú. Works sometimes (but typically only the first time): ç ...

Solutions for compiling C# to SWF/Actionscript

Are there any good solutions out there for compiling C# code to an SWF or to actionscript? ...

Parsing XML in JSFL?

It seems that there is no xml parsing tool in available JSFL (Adobe Flash-extension Javascript script file) : http://osflash.org/pipermail/flashextensibility%5Fosflash.org/2006-July/000014.html So, is there an easy and cross-platform way to add a javascript xml parser? ...

Firing javascript on embedded video end of playback.

Im writing a page that will display a video, and on playback completion, will display a code that can be turned in as proof of watching the video. I was thinking I could do this in javascript, but after a few quick google searches, I haven't come up with anything. Is there any way for javascript to listen for the end of playback of embed...

AMF message structure?

Adobe's documentation for the AMF format does not seem to actually specify the structure of an entire AMF message. It only specifies the format of individual data types. I've read the damn thing five times and either I'm just totally missing what an actual AMF message should contain, or it's not there. Does anyone know of any document...

Is there a standard copy-paste way to safely put a SWF in a web-page?

While embedding a SWF in HTML is not too hard, there are a few subtleties for different browsers, detecting if Flash is installed, etc. For enabling AJAX, there are standard chunks of code you can use to save the hassle of coping with all cases... is their a similar 'reference implementation' to embed a SWF which covers all the bases? ...

How to pass a reference of a movieClip made in one class to another?

Hello friendly Flashers... I have a movieClip with a button that I created inside of my display class Thumbnail.as and I have a button function that interacts with it inside of my ui class ThumbnailController.as. The current problem I'm having is that; in my ui class I can't target the movieClip playGlow which was created inside of m...

Is there a way to use a fingerprint scanner with Flex?

I was curious if it's posible to integrate a fingerprint scanner to a Flash/Flex/AIR application, I can't seem to find anything on the web. ...

help needed in editing a flash file

I have never worked on flash but am trying to make some additions to the following flash: http://kcmbuild.com/ basically just want to add some more text. same as "cost consulting" for example "hello world" There is no .fla file..only .sfw so I used a de-compiler to make a .fla file. I thought it would be as easy as just adding "hello ...

Data Streaming in Adobe Flash

I am trying to write a flash program that allows multiple users to collaboratively work on the same document. I would require the changes and updates from each user to be sent to a server, processed, and propagated to everyone else working on the document. What kind of server technology should I be using? It needs to be a low-latency so...

Adobe AIR - Weird Framerate / Memory Issue (Maybe startAtLogin issue? )

Hi All, I am creating a slideshow application where it loads all the slide data from xml and external images / text files and dynamically creates the slides. The problem that I am having is that when I test the app on my machine it works perfectly fine, every time, however when I place them in the clients machines (the presentation is ...

Using flash to trigger a file upload dialog

Does anyone know of a simple transparent flash file that I can place ontop of a hyperlink, whereby clicking this region brings up a file selection dialog? From what I can tell, gmail uses a transparent flash on top of the file upload link which in turn triggers a JS function to perform the upload. Something like this would be handy and...

3d product view with dynamic picturemap in Flash

Hi all, A potential client of mine has asked whether it is possible to have a complete 3d rotating view of a product shown in flash that has an uploaded picture dynamically wrapped around it. Let's take a winebottle as an example. The winebottle would be 'static' but the label could be uploaded. This should then be shown wrapped around...

Running the Flash Player over long time period

Hi I'm looking into the issues to expect if the Flash Player (version 10) is run over a long period of time, say 24+ hours. I know that the player has issues with not performing garbage collection properly, and that the weak listener system is buggy. I plan on having the flash app started/monitored using a watchdog/sentinal app written...

Flash .Net tie-in

I'd like to have placeholders in an .swf file that I can populate with information from .Net Membership information. Is this possible? ...

Find the total bytes used by a bitmap in Flex.

If I load a bitmap using a loader in Flex, I can use the loaderInfo.bytesTotal to get the size, total bytes used, of a bitmap. If I create a bitmap in run time, how can I find out the size, the total bytes used, by that bitmap. Please advice. Thanks ...

C# : How to stop streaminig media on flash content ?

Hello, I'm coding an application in C# that enters a site which contains flash embedded content. But every time a site is entered, the streaming movie starts to play automatically. Is there anyway to stop automatic start of embedded content ? I can't disable Flash since the entire site is coded in flash; all I want is to stop the embedd...

Is there a test to see if an Object is an associative Array?

Is there a test to see if an Object is an associative array? Thanks. ...