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Multiple Font/Language support in Flash

Greetings, I'm in the middle of writing a Flash application which has multilingual support. My initial choice of font for this was Tahoma, for its Unicode support. The client prefers a non-standard font such as Lucida Handwriting. Lucida Handwriting doesn't have the same, say, Cyrillic support as Tahoma, which poses a problem that th...

Sites which support crossdomain.xml to allow Flash and Silverlight access

Please list one site which allows Flash/Silverlight access via crossdomain.xml file. Vote for your favorite sites. The goal is to build an up to date list of sites which can be directly accessed via Flash/Silverlight without a server-side proxy. ...

Problem with LocalConnection connecting to actionscript 1 swf

I'm building a shell application that will load other swf's inside of it based on which chapter and which section the user is in. The shell is written in actionscript 3 and it's loading various AS3, AS2 and AS1 swfs inside of it. I'm using LocalConnection after the AS2 and AS1 swf's have been loaded to set the correct variable for flash ...

What are the differences between Shockwave, Flash & Flex?

Are they the same thing? If not, what are the differences? ...

Required Flash Player for Flash Catalyst

I know that Flash Catalyst is still in Beta, but I'm trying to look ahead. A lot of our users are on intranets whose IT staff require a lot of lead time to upgrade the Flash Player on user's computers. Right now most users are on Flash Player 9. So my question is, will SWF files created with Flash Catalyst require Flash Player 10? ...

Flex - 2032: Stream Error in IE only

I get a 2032 stream error from Flash in response to POST requests that return "201 Created" in IE (Firefox works fine). Since Flash doesn't provide access to the HTTP status I can't tell that it has actually succeeded. The request is being made with HTTPService. Any suggestions? Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Alex ...

Looping problem with flash audio

At my client's request I have placed a song on her website, set to run on loop using flash. The swf is tucked inside of a table in her sidebar navigation. For some reason the swf doubles, then triples, etc. at the end of each play. I'm using Dreamweaver and Flash and have tried different combinations of parameters: Inside Flash: loop ...

Creating Flash application using WebOrb Ruby/Rails

Ok, this may seem like a stupid question (for Flash Developers) but I really can't figure this out. So, I want to create somekind of an API for Flash/Flex applications so a user can use my lib in order to connect to my WebOrb Rails server. I don't have any problem with the rails part but things get a little bit difficult with the flash ...

Is it possible to embed an AS3 swf in a DIV layered above an embedded AS2 swf?

I think the question is pretty self explanatory. Anyone done this before? UPDATE: Clarification on why I need to do this. We have a single swf behemoth of an AS1 - AS2 site with a large video gallery section. The client wants to update the video section as the AS2 code cannot handle their more recent, much larger, video files. The clien...

loading another movie in a css tag from a swf in the same page

how do i make abutton in a flash movie load amother flash movie in a css tag below in the same html page? ...

Menu indentation after full screen

Using the JW player, streaming flv via rtmp. I am also using the snell.swf skin. When I click on full screen, then return to normal I am seeing the menu for the currently playing item indent. Any ideas what is causing this? Also sometimes seeing menu items highlighted which are not the currently playing ones. Any ideas here as well? ...

Flash / Actionscript CPU profiler

Have you found such a tool and used it successfully? ...

Why Flash Media Server does not call application.onDisconnect handler?

Hello! I've run into strange problem in my Flex/Flashcom application. If client application unexpectedly disconnects from server latter does not call application.onDisconnect handler function. In witch direction should I look? Thank you. Update I'm not using server components, but I do host this thing on Linux. ...

How can I add a big flash banner to the top of my Wordpress blog?

I don't know if it is possible to add a Flash banner into a Wordpress theme... Ideally, this banner would be in the header of the site always. Any ideas on how I might accomplish this? ...

Flash webcam video quality settings

I'm working on a video streaming application in Flash and I've been told I need to add quality selection tools. The requirements are "low", "medium" and "high" quality. I'm trying to figure out what kinds of quality settings to actually apply for this (framerate and video quality settings). I feel like there has to be some kind of sta...

FLASH Auto Looping Disable

Hi Guys, I have an animation and I want it to play it just only once. From where can I set so when I export to SWF the default will be AUTO LOOPING disabled. Thanks ...

Flash Video stopping or sticking after 2 or 3 seconds

Flash Video stopping or sticking after 2 or 3 seconds in. Does anyone have this experience of why this may be happening? ...

Will web applications replace desktop applications?

Will everything go to the cloud? If so, in which direction? Google-Gears? Flash,AIR,JavaFX? See also: Does desktop development matter? ...

Is there a standardised way to embed metadata (e.g. version, license) in SWC components?

Scenario: there is an Adobe Flex 3 project which uses several third-party libraries and components in the form of SWC files. How can we know "what is inside" those SWC files? Specifically, how can I make sure that the project uses the latest versions of all those components? According to official Adobe Flex 3 help, "you can define" (si...

Online PDF reader for my own site other than Scribd?

Hi, I am using Scribd API (www.scribd.com) to display the PDF files in my website. I just want to know is there any other PDF API which i can use to embed the PDF in my website. FASTER and MORE customizable than Scribd, Mainly i want to put my company logo in that API, whereas in scribd they are displaying there logo. So just want to k...