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What is the best HTML/JavaScript Framework for a Flex Application?

We're currently building a Flex application using the PureMVC framework with a shell.swf which loads/unloads modules dynamically. We're experiencing issues with memory and we're looking to replace the shell.swf with a JavaScript-based loader. Two questions: What would be a good framework to dynamically load the Flex components and all...

Error on debug if naming a textarea with _txt ending in flash cs 4 AS3

I was doing a tutorial, and i notice that if i put the name of a text area with a _txt ending i end up with this error TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert fl.controls::TextArea@1ef0221 to fl.controls.TextInput. anybody knows why ? ...

Adding Loading Animation to third party Flash SWF

I am using flash component (open flash chart 2) to show charts on my webpage. The swf file i am using ( open-flash-chart.swf ) is 270 kb. It don't have 'loading...' animation in it. so on slow connections, its not showing loading progress. Is there any way to add 'loading...' animation to an existing swf file ? Eventhough open flash ch...

Custom ScrollBar in Flash

Okay so I've probably watched and read every tutorial available on this subject, and none of them have worked for me, so I'm going to the pros(thats you guys :D) I'm trying to make a custom scroll button/ textfield setup. I have the dynamic textbox, the buttons, here's the code : Down.on(click) = function() { scrolltext.scroll--;};Up.on...

Flash connecting to a WCF service

Hi, I would like ask for guidance on the proper endpoint configuration for my WCF service to enable a Flash app to consume it. Thanks, Keith Rull ...

actionscript 2 to actionscript 3

so I have a lot of classes in actionscript 2. But I need to modify my application to use the soundchannel object for audio monitoring. as far as i know this is only in actionscript 3. so it it possible to write one class in AS3 and leave the rest in AS2? if not is there a conversion tool which can make the process easier? ...

Flash video seek (like youtube)

Hello I have one problem - I have AS2 player and want to make it seek to any point in video (like youtube) no matter - does that buffered or not. Now I can only seek only on already buffered video piece Can anyone help me? best Vladimir ...

Silverlight Spy, FireBug type tool for Flex

Is there a debugging tool for Flex that functions like Silverlight spy or FireBug? ...

Harmless hacking: Trick an application into thinking that a local file has actually come from a server

I've got a flash application (not written by me) which is accessing a configuration file which present on a http server. There are a lot of settings in the config file which seem to affect its behaviour. I'm not interested in decompiling the swf file or getting too deep into this. Basically I would like to try to alter the behaviour o...

How to get duration of video flash file?

On Linux, YouTube places temporary flash files in /tmp. Nautilus can display the duration (Minutes:Seconds) of them, but I haven't found a way to extract the duration using python.' The fewer dependencies your method requires the better. Thanks in advance. ...

Using skins without embeding in css doc and swf in flex

The issue I am having is creating an application with nearly every component skinned using CSS. The majority of the components are skinned using: Embed(source="file.png"); method. The problem I am running into, is flex trying to compile all of the embedded assets into the final swf. As it stands now, my compiled swf stands around 16mb!@@...

How they build the identical game on Mac, PC, and Flash? For example: Plants VS Zombies

Such as the famous game Plants VS Zombies, or Machinarium. They have Mac and PC version, and even online flash demo. It must be a flash engine or something, does anyone know this, what's that? ...

Looking for Wii compatible Javascript Flash mp3 player

I am looking for a flash mp3 player that will work within the Opera-based browser on the Wii. The player needs to be javascript enabled (support methods like play, stop etc.) The mp3 tracklist will be built dynamically using ajax on the same page as the player so it must trigger an event when a track finishes playing (or at least provid...

How to extend a Textfield that is allready on the stage in Flash (AS3) ?

I'm looking for a way to extend a TextField that's allready on the stage in Flash (AS3) something like this: public class ChildTextField extends TextField { //code for childTextField comes here } I've placed a TextField with instance name 'thetextfield' on the stage. Now I would like to tell flash this textfield is of type Child...

Flash security and proper development methods

In near future i'm going to develop a flash media server application when i'm asp.net developer. Currently i'm in research how i do things i need to. Basically i have two questions. 1.What is the secure method to write your application? In external .as files which cannot be accessed by IIS but the source code will be seen or just to com...

Difficulty for user to precisely double-click a data point in Adobe Flex's charts

Hi, We have some actions associated with double-click events on a data point inside Flex charts. When user hovers mouse pointer, the mouse datatip is shown properly. However, user needs to double click 'precisely' onto the point, to fire the event correctly. Can we increase 'radius' or 'range' or 'region' or 'target area' of this click ...

swfobject - flash not showing

I am experiencing some difficulty in having the flash content show on this page. I have checked the code and the paths and everything appears to be correct. I have another page in the same directory as the swf file and it works fine so I know that swfobject and the swf file are working properly. Any ideas why the swf file is not showing...

File Paths in swfObject

I have been using swfobject for some time now and I always seem to have one recurring issue that I could use some insight on. If I create a page with a swfobject and the swf file is in the same directory, I can always get it to load properly. However, if I have the swf file and in some cases the .xml file and related images in another d...

How feasible would it be to create a bash shell in a browser?

Primarily, I'm a C/C++ programmer on Unix machines... But I'd kill for browser based shell access to a linux box... So, the question is: How hard would it be, and what approaches would be the best for building real shell level access into a web page? Flash? Javascript? I know this is really all opinion, but I'm curious if people think ...

fire wall fms rtmpt problem

Hi, I have flash video player that is using fms server. when firewall is blocking port 1935(the default port) it takes about 30 second to the video to be played. i try to force port 80 by rtmp protocol and try to connect to rtmpt protocol and both failed. i checked the configuration file in fms and enabled port 80 and 1935 . The ii...