A few years ago client Java was unsuitable for web development because a remarkable part of web users did not have Java installed. ( I don't remember exact numbers, more than 10%). Now I see the Google Analytics stats for a big site and it tells that >98% of users have Java installed. Is these stats very biased by Javascript usage? As...
The most common way of changing a cursor in Flash apps seems to be based on simply hiding the native OS cursor and displaying a graphic (drawn by the Flash Player) inside the Flash rectangle where the (hidden) cursor would be. This is what mx.managers.CursorManager does, for example. The reason why I find this approach unacceptable is th...
I have a movie which is made up of a series of SWF files that read XML. Is there any way to burn it to a CD/DVD or at least convert it to a 'burnable' format such as AVI, MPEG, or ISO? Currently in order to burn it I have to so some funky screen capture stuff and recorded it to a DVD that way. ...
I'm looking for a web based upload manager, with good support for images. It should be as easy as possible for novice users to "add images to a website". I could use such a thing for two use cases: A CMS for external use, needs proper image support (1-file upload doesn't quite cut it). A Wiki for internal use, to get popular it will ne...
How can you get and set the hash or anchor part of an URL in pure Actionscript? When googling for a solution I've found explainations for doing it using JavaScript, but is it possible to get it without using JavaScript? (I'm using Actionscript 2, I may consider updating the code to AS 3, but it doesn't seem to be a quite straight forward...
I have a Flash movie embedded in some DIV. The trouble is that when I change any property of the enclosing DIV dynamically, Firefox (not other browsers) restarts/reinitializes Flash movie effectively resetting the whole progress (eg: file selection for upload, etc.). Is there some sort of a workaround for this? ...
Hi, I have a flash file that loads an xml file at runtime. When the .swf file is run locally or on an Apache server it works fine but when hosted on an IIS6 based server the file won't load. can anyone help with this? Thanks ...
Is it possible to get a list of all instances with a name in a flash movie using actionscript 2. Like an array containing all named text areas, or all movieClip instances etc. I would like to get this so the designer can add or remove text areas etc. and the actionscript can dynamically find these and get the texts from a separate dataso...
I have created a small flash CS4 project that has a few custom components ( AS 3), communicating with each other. Is it possible to make a FLA file that points to these components in source format (as .AS files), without compiling these components separately 1st and copying to /flash/components folder? I want an easy way to alter com...
I'm playing with this ActionScript which generates a random 'squiggle'. Each time a 'squiggle' is placed, it appears within a sprite with a white background. If I change the background colour of the flash file to pink for example, it would still show up as white. Does anybody know how I might make the sprite background transparent? Th...
I have a Flex App that allows you to dynamically build an animation. It has a UI and a display of the resulting animation, which is a custom Class extending UIComponent. Is there some way to allow users to save/export the dynamically generated Component to a SWF, for reuse in other Flash/Flex Apps? ...
We're trying to send an image of a large SWF file to a server to have it mailed out and we're having a bit of trouble with transmission time. The SWF is about 900px x 600px and restricted to AS2 so we've been using this Bitmap Exporter class. We've tried using several different ways to transmit the data; base10, base36 and base128 but ...
Hello, I am trying to call a Actionscript function from javascript but I am having problems in Internet Explorer. I am using Swiff.remote in mootools 1.2.1 to call the actionscript function ie: Swiff.remote(playSwf.toElement(), 'sendResult', result, plays, name); This all works fine in FireFox, Safari and Opera but I'm getting an "un...
Hi, I want to embed a swf over a html page, like a floating video watching panel. I already have a swf file which will automatically adjust its size according to the browser size, and the swf file is partially transparent. I thought I can just add a div tag, make the position absolute and change z-index bigger, but that doesn't work be...
...I have read a few threads on here that have discussed various methods and was just looking for some feedback on a proposed solution we came up with. In one of the threads a comment was posted recommending a public/private key which sounded great, this is what we were thinking... Client Side - 1. Key is stored inside of Flash swf whi...
Is it possible to use CPython to develop Adobe Flash based applications? ...
The subject pretty much explains it all. I start on frame one of a MovieClip with just a Bitmap covering the whole stage. Then when a user clicks a button, it goes to frame two and a vector shape is on the stage covering part of the image. At the same time, through code, I place an input Textfield on the stage. Problem is, the dynamica...
With code like the following, sometimes the child controls correctly finish their animation and sometimes they stop at random places in the middle. Why don't they work correctly? var t:Tween; t = new Tween(child1,"x",Elastic.easeOut,0,100,2,true); t = new Tween(child1,"y", Elastic.easeOut,0,100,2,true); t = new Tween(child2,"x",Strong....
In actionscript 3 is it possible to allow a user to upload an image into a flash movie at runtime without POSTing to a PHP script? I dont want to export the image or save it anywhere I just want to be able to display the image in the flash movie fingers crossed ...
So I've got my shiny new screencast created with Jing (which I love) and have put my swf file on my web server and embedded in a test html page. It works just fine. However, there are no playback controls on the video when I play it. How can I added simple playback controls (pause, play, progress indicator minimally) to the video? He...