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randomized placement of xml nodes with Actionscript

I have a flash ecard that I am working on and had one of those "wouldn't it be cool if..." moments! I would like find out if it is possible to: 1) load in an xml file that contains several names 2) Load each one of those names into a predefined movie clip which would display the name 3) randomize the placement of each name in a given s...

div on the flash movie

elgg.in/works/momslingolougne/ this is the working link. My problem is here when we enter the login section . that time show a popup window. but ther is girl vector image . that is fglash file. the flash file is overlapping the popup div. i have tried wmode="transparent" and position:absolute; z-index:0 but not working. ...

Multiple text areas with different rotation values causes borders to be very very wrong

If you have two textareas, one has a rotation value besides 0 and the other has no rotation value or a value of 0 and you 'tab' focus from the one w/rotation to the one w/out. The border around the textArea w/out rotation will be rotated. If you set the rotation value of the non-rotated text field to a non-zero number, even 0.01, it fi...

Gradient affects of a function - Flash CS4

I want to apply a blur filter to an image in Flash CS4. I understand how to apply the filer but is there a way to apply it in differing amounts to different parts of the image? I.E. I want to have the edges very blurry while I want the center to stay relatively sharp (apply the blur filter as if it were a gradient coming from the cent...

How to specify the location of a remote machine's file in the URLRequest parameter? - Edited

Hi now I have found how to give a relative path in URLRequest paramate and download that file. I found it from this particular stack overflow post . Thanks to Christian Nunciato and heri0n. so now if If give my machine's relative path, C:/sample/DefectList.xls it works. Now I have to access an xls file kept in the server machine or any ...

External linking of flex 3 app, where did it come from?

I'm feeling the topic isn't the best one, but here goes. I've made a flex 3 app that is sitting on my web server. People will be able to link to this flex app on my web server on their own sites/blogs/forums and so on. Is there any way I can log where a user that clicks on it comes from? Example: the URL to the flex app is http://www...

Php-Flash communication over sockets

Good time of the day, dear developers! I am not any kind of network programming pro, but it happened that I have faced necessity to develop socket-server on php (no way for using Java) for flash multiplayer browser-game (standard features like locations, team battles, etc). The main problem is that TCP is point-to-point protocol and ...

Alternative for SIFR

I wish to know if there is an efficient alternative for SIFR. We are facing performance challenges with SIFR and we wish to replace it. One option is that we just use system fonts. Can someone please provide any direction in which we can research and solve the performance issue that we are having with SIFR. Even a replacement suggestion ...

3D, AS3, Flex - Convert degrees of rotation to visible height

I need to know what the visible height of a display object will be after I change it's rotationX value. I have an application that allows users to lay out a floor in 3D space. I want the size of the floor to automatically stretch after a 3D rotation so that it always covers a certain area. Anyone know a formula for working this out? E...

Algorithm for positioning rectangular and randomly sized objects inside a non-rectangular canvas.

. . Hi there, everybody. . . I have a canvas defined by many points (x,y)--it's not rectangular, but at least it will follow some almost-hexagonal shape (like a distorted hexagon, with angles that are always < 180 degrees). I also have a big collection of different rectangles (more or less 140 of them, with different widths and heights)...

Do multiple flash movies on a web page download and run in parallel or in sequence

We have a flash website built using flex and CS3. Majority of the site has been done using flex. We have multiple flash movies on a page and we obviously have the page loading very slow. Now that we are looking into options for making the page fast, we are trying to understand whether we can run these flash movies in parallel ? Is there ...

Flash/Java whiteboard web applet

Hello. I want to put a whiteboard on my website so users can draw something and then save the image to the server containing the drawing. Are you aware of any open source/free already made whiteboard application out there ? I also need the save image function. Thank you ! LE: I am also able to pay a small amount of money on it so name s...

visible property of DisplayObject

For example I have a hierarchy of movie clips. mc1 is a child of mc, and mc2 is a child of mc1. Turns out that when I set mc1.visible = false; mc2.visible stays true. Is that supposed to happen? Is there a shortcut for testing visibility of mc2? Code to play with: var mc = new Sprite(); mc.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000); mc.gr...

AS3 Dispatch Event from Class

Hi, I have a class which makes a url request and stores data from that request. When the data is retrieved, parsed, and stored into an array, I'm sending a dispatch event which I listen for in my document class. In the event handler function in the document class, I'm accessing the array that was compiled from the class. The array insid...

Why can't Flash CS3 find the MovieClip base class even after classpath is set (AS3)?

Tearing my hair out. I created an as3 class - blah.Foo, which extends MovieClip. it is not in a package, cos Flash CS3 complained about nested packages, so it's a 'bare' class. And yes it's nested in myproj/as/blah/Foo.as And yes, it imports flash.display.MovieClip at the top of the file. I also have myproj/fla/main.fla. main.fla is se...

How to get the flash cache file in safari webpage?

Now I am making a safari plug-in for get flash url. and then show it in my webview . But if I downloaded these flash before showing them, it took long time and maybe some time delay. how to find the method to get the flash local cache showing in safari? Thank you very much! ...

AS3 & Swfmill: How to access assets in swfmill-generated library swf

Hi! I'm creating library swfs in as3 this way, works like a charm (except for the slow mxmlc compiler): package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class Library extends Sprite { [Embed(source="assets/test.png")] public var TestBitmap:Class; } } I would like to create the same kind of libary using swfmill. I've tried ...

Embedding Gnash into PyGame?

Is there a way to display flash applications using Gnash renderer (I'm not averse to Adobe's renderer but would prefer not to use it) in a PyGame application? ...

AS3 Basic Parsing JSON question

Hey, I'm having a problem parsing a JSON file in AS3. Im trying to parse multiple JSON arrays, but don't really know how to get to the next after accessing the first one. My JSON file looks like: { "term": [ { "id": 4211, "place": "NEW YORK CITY" }, { ...

How should I stress test my web application?

I've got a somewhat complex web application, containing Flash and javascript on the client side and PHP functionality server side. The PHP functionality contains system calls (exec()) to merge/edit/create files with gnu software (*nix environment) as well as api calls to REST services for uploading these files (this will be done with cro...