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Can i create a custom HTTP protocol in Delphi ?

I build a project using Flash and Delphi. In Flash i need communication with delphi. Current i use ExternalInterface and FSCommand. Now i need Flash communication with Delphi via HTTP but it need open a custom port on Delphi and it can prevent by user's firewall. I see a product called F-IN-BOX it can implement HTTP link like http://FLV/...

flash loading "my maps" rss from google maps

Hello there, I creating a flash app that loads a RSS of a plublic map with a custom route path and draws lines from the coordinates on a Away3D Sphere. It works preety well when I'm testing locally, but when I publish online, the app can't load the RSS. I think Google Maps disable access from other domains. Does anyone knows another w...

Communicating with Serial Port using Adobe Flash

Hi There, Just wondering if there is any way to access the serial port directly in adobe flash ? Many thanks, Stuart ...

Will O3D take flash's place on the web?

O3D is a new google tech that enable 3D rendering within a browser (also 2D rendering), and if it is remotely like real 3D applications it is supposed to be capable of playing videos in the future! O3D on Google labs And flash every web-user and web-developer knows! so what is going be the future of web? the new version of flash and i...

Flash Timeline Sound Not Stopping On Navigate Away

I have a Flash piece that has one main timeline that loads different movie clips and different sections of that main timeline. On those embedded movie clips within the main timeline are sounds attached to the embedded movieclips timelines set to "stream". They have to be on the timeline so they sync up correctly (I can't load the sound...

Papervision problem with UV mapping on DAE/COLLADA model

Hi, In PaperVision3D I am loading a COLLADA model which I have UV mapped. Everything seems to work okay except I am getting some bad texture distortion. Can anyone advise me on what I am seeing and what a possible solution is? I have attached an image of the distortion, I have tinted the obvious distortions on the right in red. T...

html positioned over flash: how to get cursor to respect CSS rules in OS X browsers

I have a webpage with a flash movie (via SWFObject) and I am using a modal jQuery UI dialog to pop up a google map on top of the webpage in response to user input. When viewing the site in Safari or FireFox on OS X, if I have the mouse over the part of the dialog content that is overlapping the flash movie underneath, the cursor change...

How to pass xml data from php to flash

How can I pass xml data from php to flash, without using xml file? Sincerely, John ...

How to make something similar to Time-Machine in a web page

Hi, I want to implement something similar to MAC OS X Time Machine in terms of having time-line on the page side and then clicking on a specific day will pull a page from the server. I have good experience with Ruby on Rails. I'm less experienced with GUI design and was wondering what in your opinion is the optimum way to do something ...

is there a video codec that can be loaded by Flash and Silverlight seamlessly?

Hi is there any possibility for loading flv or f4v on silverlight platform? Thanks! ...

fusion charts features

hi i've got a few issues with my charts that i didnt find documentation about I have a 3d pie chart that can be transformed in animation to 2d, when picking "view 2d" option from the pop-up menu. can I trigger this action through JS code? the onlinr documentation only refers "MSCombi3D.swf" chart type. I tryed applying the code in the...

AS2: Does xml.sendAndLoad use POST or GET?

All, I'm trying to find out, unambiguously, what method (GET or POST) Flash/AS2 uses with XML.sendAndLoad. Here's what the help/docs (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs%5FParts&file=00002340.html) say about the function Encodes the specified XML object into an XML d...

ActionScript 3 Distributing TextFields

Actionscript 3 I have been wrecking my head most today on the best way of going about this, but i end up over complicating what i would believe to be a simple task. I have some TextFields lined up next to each other all fixed width, i.e ( [ width ]) tf1 tf2 tf3 tf4 tf5 [ 80 ][ 50 ][ 50 ...

Why doesn't Silverlight or Flash implement UDP sockets?

I've read that several browser plugin's support UDP sockets (eg Java, Unity), however the most popular plugin, Flash, doesn't support UDP sockets!? And neither does my favorite, Silverlight. Now, I know that Silverlight 4.0 Beta has Multicast UDP sockets, but these are useless on the public internet, which is where I want to use the...

What policy is enforced by an "empty" crossdomain.xml ?

What policy would be enforced by the following crossdomain.xml that contains no allow statements. <cross-domain-policy> <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="all"/> </cross-domain-policy> Does this implicitly deny or accept everything? ...

Flash : Trace not working

Hi, Apparently trace stoped working in a perticular file its working fine on everything else. but my main file. Any ideas on that? ...

Pass xml data to a swf object

The Context of the Problem I'm working on a rotator banner in flash. I use an external xml file to pass the banners info (like info-text, link, image-path, priority, etc). Everything is going well so far. I'm loading the xml something like this: var bannersXML:XML = new XML(); bannersXML.ignoreWhite = true; bannersXML.load("myBanners.x...

Flash / AS3... how would a designer modify an control that was added programmatically?

If I were to add a form (two inputs and a button) to a Flash project via an external class, could another team member change the visual characteristics of that form (skin, size, placement... etc.) in the .fla project file? As it stands, I'm assuming that my AS3 user controls are added at compile time and thus are not accessible from the...

IIS6: Disallow a particular file extension from being downloaded

[I posted a similar question on serverfault.com, but had very little feedback so trying here] I can do this just fine under Apache with htaccess. But at work its all M$ all the time... I need to lock off access to any .fla files that might come up on a virtual host. We keep them next to the few .swf we use on some of our sites, I j...

flash forum eingine (script) needed

Do any of you happen to know any flash forum scripts? I've so far found only the one called "FlashForum engine" www.chargedweb.com/ff/ Are there any other competitive engines on the web? I couldn't manage to find any others :( ...