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Is using flash on a website homepage considered bad practice?

Hi, We are revising our company website and I wondered if it considered bad practise to use flash on the home page. This would cause issues for those users who dont have flash installed (and maybe dont want flash) Thanks ...

AS3 create component using Flash CS4

I would like to create a basic component consisting of a textbox and a label next to it (in other words an InputText and a StaticText). I only need to set and get the text in the Input textbox, the static text will stay as is. Any help would be highly appreciated! Jasco ...

Flash CS4 learning book

Hi , does anybody know about a good book for learning "flash cs4" Thanks ...

Adobe Flash: want a book to teach vector based drawing from beginner to advanced?

I'm looking for a book to teach vector drawing for Flash/Photoshop/Illustrator. Would prefer if the book is up-to-date with the latest versions CS4. I found this useful tutorial here: Graphics Soft, Vector drawing, but I'm looking for a full book, or a learning DVD. ...

use flash action script to develop online games

For short: can you tell me some great resource to study if I want to develop online games using flash technology? Including 3D games. ...

remove a listener that has an anonymous function in Actionscript 3

up.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function clickFunc(event:MouseEvent):void { revealSpinner(event,51.42,1,spinner); event.currentTarget.removeEventListener(event.type, arguments.callee); autoTimer.stop(); }, false, 0, true); down.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function clickFunc(even...

Scrollpane - allow scrollDrag when clicking anywhere inside the pane?

I am using a ScrollPane that I want users to be able to scroll by clicking andywhere inside it. I have set up the pane like this: scrollDrag = true; verticalScrollPolicy = ScrollPolicy.OFF; source = someMovieClip; addEventListener(ScrollEvent.SCROLL, sidePaneVerticalScrollHandler); I go on to show a few different SWFs on the s...

Flex e4x - select by multiple attributes

<EFM> <projects> <project name="EFM Columbus Supply Chain Project"> <characteristics> <characteristic name="Types of Data"> <textDescription></textDescription> <options> <option name="Commodity Flow" value="True"/> ...

Infinite tweening hue loop in AS3 with Tweener.

Hi, I'm trying to infinitely loop a bitmap all the way through the colour spectrum using AS3, Tweener and its ColorShortcuts class. This doesn't loop back to the function "tween1": function tween1():void { Tweener.addTween(image, { _hue: 180, time:5, onComplete:tween2 } ); } function tween2():void { Tweener.addTween(image, { ...

FLV Player to allow scrubbing forward?

Hey everyone. Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on playing FLV video on a website. I'm currently using JW player and it works great. The only problem is people can't scrub forward past what is cached. For instance... i want to click on the video and immediately click half way through it to start playing in the middle of the...

swfobject - flash not showing with swfobject 2.2 and flash 9

I recently switched from swfobject 1.5 (or was it 1.6) to swfobject 2.2 That means my call to display the Flash file went essentially from: var so = new SWFObject("flashfile.swf", "flashfile", "300", "140", "8", "#FFFFFF"); ... so.write("div1"); to: swfobject.embedSWF("flashfile.swf", "div1", "300", "140", "8.0.0", false, flashvars,...

[Flash] How to change the color of a movieClip?

Happy New Year 2010 everyone :) Just getting back into the Flash groove, and having a simple question. I have a movie(video player) where the color of the buttons changes. I've already drawn out the buttons and created a 1 color box(movieClip) that will be the background of all the buttons. I've used ColorTransform to change the color ...

setting up frame by frame menu navigation vs. All Code

I am All Programmer when it comes to anything including flash. I got into making games not to long ago and some people use frames to navigate from the main menu to the game screen and so on (which I have no idea how to do). and some people encapsulate the game inside of a class and call it from the document class and add and remove it wh...

Dynamic Object Initiation As3

I notice in older version of flash you can create an instance of a dynamic class. I am creating a game that will have many different classes that can be displayed on the stage but can very from time to time. How would I go about calling them dynamically. for example var newObject = new ["DynamicObject"](); ?? Is this possible in As3...

Flex ImageCapture/BitmapData limitations on small screens?

I have developed an application that in the end will save a captured image of a canvas that's scaled up to 4000 pixels then upload the result to the server using ZendAMF. This all works fine on all of my development machines. However, my client is running a small netbook and when he submits it to the server, the image on the server doesn...

FLVPlayback.load results in all sound, no video

I'm trying to change the source of the FLVPlayback component on my stage with the load() method. When the new video loads I hear the audio playing but I see no video. Any idea what could be going on here? The videos are rtmp streams from a Flash Media Server. The load command looks somethink like this... flv1.load("rtmp://192.168.1.111...

How to create flash banner which loads content from external XML?

Hi I want to create banner and do exchange with others. Banner will be flash because it will load just entry titles with URL's from XML, which is on my site. Is this possible at all? Could someone point me to some tutorial or give me some tips? Thanks in advance ...

Stage shifts when using addChild?

I'm having a very odd bug with ActionScript 3 in Flash CS4. I am adding movie clips to a stage in a for loop and then moving them out of view so that I can pull them in and remove them when I need them. I've narrowed down the issue to a point that I know that every time one of the movie clips are added to the stage using addChild(), th...

How to check the mouse is over something clickable?

I'm building a specialized viewer application which loads external SWFs. var content:Sprite = ... content.addChild(loader); I listen to my top level content Sprite MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT events. The over handler hides default cursor and displays a custom (zoom) cursor. Out handler changes cursor back to default. What I want to achi...

1178: Attempted access of inaccessible property left through a reference with static type

I am trying to override a parent class method. I successfully done so. But when I try to access a property. i get the following error 1178: Attempted access of inaccessible property left through a reference with static type This property is public and it is defined. below is my code package com.objects { import flash.display.MovieCl...