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Loaded HTML Text In Flash not displaying with BlendMode.LAYER

Have a textField in which I'm loading HTML formated text into it. This textField sits inside a parent container which has its blendMode property set to BlendMode.LAYER. When I run the movie, the html text doesn't display. Any clues why? ...

Flash button/symbol...

Hiya. I'm new to Flash so my terminology might not be accurate so please bare with me. I've created a button (symbol), and added a OVER state, which covers a bigger boundary than the UP state. However when I add the symbol/button to my stage, the roll over activates on any area covered by the over state, where I only really need it cov...

Flash AS3 Tweelite and XML Issue

I have a two frame Flash CS3 animation. On the first frame, I am (successfully) loading four images onto the frame, and rotating through them (successfully) using TweenLite. When the user clicks on a button, a variable (resumeVideoOn) is set to indicate the current image that the user was looking at, and they are taken to frame2 which p...

Flash movie rendering on top of dhtml menu

How should one go about placing a flash movie beneath a dhtml menu? On the following page: http://bit.ly/aZai8 , the flash movie appears on top of the dhtml drop down menus in Internet Explorer. This does not seem to be an issue in more civilized browsers. ...

Writing Local SharedObject in AS3 swf and reading it in loaded AS2 swf

I am trying to share data between an as3 swf and a as2 swf that it loaded. The problem is, I can't seem to get my as2 swf to read the localshared object written by the as3 swf. It simply returns undefined when I try to get a reference to the shared object // AS3 _SharedObj.objectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0; _SharedObj.data.blah = 's...

Switching Views in Actionscript 3.0 using MVC

Hello, I am working on a Flash/AS3.0 app that I want to use MVC on. The question I have is who is responisble for adding/removing views from the stage? Most examples I find have the doc class add the view, but I haven't seen an example for who notifies the doc class to remove the view. The structure of the app is one screen that sho...

Flash and Flex workflow using a SWC

Ill try to explain the best i can :) I want to use the strengths of both Flex and Flash in an upcoming project. Doing the graphical related stuff in Flash and all the coding in Flex. What i want to do is create a layout in flash making classes as you would normally by creating symbols and exporting them for actionscript etc. Then i wan...

Detect Mouse leave stage while dragging in Actionscript 3

Event.MOUSE_LEAVE is great in Actionscript 3, but it doesn't seem to fire if the user is holding their left (or right for that matter) mouse button down. Is there a way to detect if the mouse leaves the Flash movie while the mouse is held down? Or if it is released outside the flash movie? ...

Problem lInking to PDF files in a Flash projector on the Mac

I'm a designer, not a developer, so please forgive any obvious oversights on my part! I am building a CD with a Flash interface that launches on loading. Inside it is linking to several PDFs. It linked correctly on my local machine, a mac, and in a test environment. However, once burning the projector files to the CD it does not link co...

Flex audio input peak meter ?

Hello, I'm looking for a simple way to do a peak meter for a Flex application I have that needs microphone input. Is there some component designed for this ? I have googled a lot, and haven't found a thing. ...

Why do components in Flash CS3 fail so hard when loaded with a Loader.

The ComboBox shows up fine when I run a SWF by itself. The rowCount property set in the property inspector works just fine; the dataProvider property populates the box just fine; everything works fine. HOWEVER, when I load that SWF into a parent SWF with the Loader class, everything goes to hell. The ComboBox shows up empty. All the ...

Destroy SWF DOM in swfupload

I am using swfupload for uploading files and I have this problem: In Internet Explorer, I have to use destroy(). Otherwise it crashes http://demo.swfupload.org/Documentation/#destroy In Firefox, if I use destroy(), it crashes. So the solution is to detect browser type and only destroy in Internet Explorer. Is it how it works? Or did ...

Custom (simple) AS3 Class code not executing entirely

Hi there, This problem is probably very simple to solve but it is not clear to me. It may simply be that I am doing something incorrectly. I have studied OOP and AS3 for quite a few hours so I am familiar with the concepts but not the flow. This is a project that I put together in order to reinforce what I have been studying. The goal ...

Replace flash with javascript

Hello all, I have next mission: i have to replace flash alement with javascript in this page: http://www.fplus.si/ (changing the images with buttons for every image) Afcourse it has to look and work excactly the same. I found some jquery modules that do almost like this, but there are not the same. did somebody stumbled upon such modul...

How to share session between flash AS3 and PHP?

Login page in flash, user will send username and password to a php file(login.php). IF login success, it will return echo "success" and create session there. Then in flash, when i click shopping button, it will go to www.domain.com/shopping/index.php, that index.php will do a session check whether the visitor has login. But it seems like...

Best Software to convert a swf file to mpg...

I am working on a software project that uses video. I am in the process of refactoring this software, the process of which requires me to convert some video files from swf to mpg (the swf files were created using Adobe Premiere). Can someone point me in the direction of a software package (open source, if possible) that will do a lossl...

SWF file not loaded from cache when accessed from different pages in the website?

I have a flash gallery that uses a dynamic swf file to load data from xml and load images. This same swf files is used over several times for different clients in the portfolio section. But now it apears that the swf is loaded everytime a different client is clicked even though they all access the same swf file, any ideas? ...

as3 flash getChildAt(0).someMethod access

I can do this getChildAt(0).alpha = 0; But this throws an error getChildAt(0).gotoAndStop(2); How do I access a movieclip's methods using the display list array? ...

Flash/SWF Object Affecting Element Padding

I've been racking my brain trying to figure this one out as it's been a problem on the past few sites I've worked on (though they haven't gone live yet) and rather than trying to rig up a solution I'd like to try and discover the root of the problem. Here's the site in question: (url removed) Basically I coded this homepage out as plai...

Flash StageQuality.LOW causes strange jiggling, anyone know why?

We have a cpu-intesive Flash app that needs to run at StageQuality.HIGH if possible due to how much better it looks. On slower machines we kick it down to StageQuality.LOW, but it causes the entire app to look horrible - the images and even sprites "jiggle". Here's a link to a 20s movie showing the problem. It has to be seen to understa...