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Policy file error while loading images form facebook

Hi, I making a game leaderboard on facebook. I'm not using connect but working inside the canvas. When I try to load the images from facebook it gives me the following error. SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: http://test cannot access http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v22941/254/15/q652310588_2173.jpg A ...

Properties undefined at their definition (1120 error)

I've got a truly bizarre undefined error going here in my ActionScript (code simplified here): package { public class Main extends Sprite { private function Test() { var testVar:Number = 10; } } } This returns an error: 1120: Access of undefined property testVar on line 4. If I'm reading that corr...

I have a wxwidgets that I want to add some cool effects. Using GDI would be impossibly hard. Could I use flash or something else?

I have an application that I want add some cool animations to show state changes. However, wxwidgets would be difficult because I'd have to program these animations in straight gdi. What's the best way to add these effect windows? Should I open a flash window and run a flash sequence or is maybe some other technology? Does .net have some...

how to use Open flash chart (or any library) in flex 3 project?

Hello, I want to use Open Flash Chart in Flex3/AS3 project? I mean, How Can I use Open-flash-chart in Flex application client side.. ??? (I use FlashDevelop) Can i do that by just adding .swf file?? If yes? then where to add? I am not using FlexBuilder, I am using FlashDevelop OR Command line for compiling.. Or I have to add .swc ...

Can I make a Flash/Flex Drop Down Extend outside the flash object boundaries?

We are developing our app in flash/flex builder for the front end hitting .NET backend webservices. There is one section of the old app that will not be initially converted, so we need have it appear in an iFrame. So far all that works fine. We shrink the size of the SWF in the host page to just be the menu/nav area. And underneat th...

JSFL error handling

When i started working on mogobe.com I wrote a small script that publishes all *.fla in all folder and sub folder. Now I want to add error handling for that script. I want to know is there is another way to get the data from those objects: fl.outputPanel fl.compilerErrors instead of writing them as file to the file system...

Using external movieclips in Flash CS4 (Actionscript 3)

I'm building a Flash CS4 application (AS3) and I can't keep all my movie clips in the library because there will be hundreds of them, and new ones will be added all the time. Two parts to the question: How can I externally load in a movieclip to use during run time? After loading I still need to be able to manipulate it as if I creat...

Embedding .pdf inside .swf

Hi All, I need a solution to embed a pdf inside a flash screen i.e. want to open a pdf file inside a flash screen without redirecting the pdf to a new browser. Regards, ASV ...

Preferred Socket Policy File Server Implementation?

I'm trying to get my Flash application to connect via socket to my server, so I need to set up a socket policy file server. It seems like there are various roll-your-own implementations floating around out there, but is there any kind of standard or best practice with what to use? Some google searches turned up nothing, so I'd be curio...

Flash or Silverlight for RIA Apps?

What would be the best for developing rich internet applications? FLASH or Microsoft Silverlight? ...

Does flash always post a "Filename" parameter when doing a file upload?

I have tried two flash upload components, swfupload and uploadify, and both seem to generate POSTs with a "Filename" parameter. My problem is that the service I'm posting to has a strictly specified set of allowed parameters and Filename is not one of them. So, is it at all possible to remove this parameter from the post? ...

SWFUpload prematurely closing the connection on upload (nginx 499)

I'm using swfupload to upload files to nginx. It works fine for me & 99% of our users. For a couple of users, however, it fails somehow during upload. It opens a connection, but seems to close it before it's complete - nginx reports a 499 status in its access log, which is NGX_HTTP_CLIENT_CLOSED_REQUEST. I managed to get hold of one o...

html flash embed

I use the below code within for my JQuery lightbox without include js file AC_RunActiveContent.js or swfobject-1.5.js in the html file. It works fine for IE and Firefox. Just wanna know if there is any problem for not include AC_RunActiveContent.js or swfobject-1.5.js. Is it a must to have AC_RunActiveContent.js or swfobject-1.5.js for ...

Calling a movieclip present on a different scene in flash

Hi, I have two scenes : 1: Menu 2: MainScene Now, the menu scene has a movieClip called adds : Menu->adds Adds has a label fadeIn : Menu->adds->fadiIn. If I am on scene MainScene and want to call Menu->adds->fadeIn in as2.0 how will I go about doing that? ...

Flash 10 3D making text blur

I got a Sprite that I'm rotating with rotationX & rotationY. This converts the clip to 3d object. Which makes texts in it blurred. When I'm rotating this clip back to rotationX=0 and rotationY=0, I'm setting: this.transformation.matrix3D = null; Which makes the texts crisp. BUT, when I'm adding another clip to this sprite, that has z=4...

Access specific file in Flash with fileReference

I need to make a flash applet that automatically grabs a specific file on a user's system (iTunes XML file) and auto uploads it to my server. So far I have only been able to accomplish this with a user selecting the file, but I was wondering if anybody knew how to upload a specific file without the user having to go and find it. ...

Flash Preloader with dynamic/random text from file

I would like to have a preloader, which displays text from a text file in random order. So let's say I have 15 lines of text in the file, and the preloader displays one randomly each 3 sec (till the App is loaded). I only found a solutions where you always need to recompile the preloader when the text file changes...that's what I want t...

Add a Link Around an Embedded Flash File

I want to make it so that when I click anywhere on the embedded Flash element, it takes me to a destination URL. Here is my current code, which does not produce the desired effect: <div class="contentdiv" style="margin:-72px 0 10px 0px; cursor:pointer;" onclick="location.href='http://example.com/';"&gt; <object height="410" width="720...

Web visualisations for data?

I would like to display a bunch of data in a meaningful way through visualizations on a site. I have been experimenting with RaphaelJS library, but performance on IE8 is terrible, and HTML5 canvas is still not widely supported. So I'm left with Flash and any existing libraries. On the flash side there seem to be many, but because of ...

Do you know any Javascript or Flash open source library to generate financial OHLC charts?

I've looking for a library that could generate this kind of graphics, but the only one that seems able to do it is JFreeChart (for Java), maybe someone else faced the same problem but in Javascript or Flash. By the way, this is an example of the chart that I'm looking for: http://www.brighthub.com/money/investing/articles/33137.aspx?ima...