I'm planning a webapp. I have all the wireframes defined, the interfaces designed in photoshop, data structures etc. It will be built on php and mysql however I've been unable to decide on which technology to use as a GUI. All your insights are welcome. The problem with going the html way is that the GUI makes use of a special font that...
I have a custom class that embeds a movie clip. When I try to use parent class's such as gotoAndStop(). It ignores the method. I would like to know what I am doing wrong. below is my code. I call the method in my constructor Thanks! game object class package com.objects { import com.eapi.IGameObject; import flash.display.Movi...
I am developing a facebook application which sits in an application tab. The app is developed in flash and as such must use fb:swf to embed the swf. Therefore it sets allowScriptAccess = never on the swf. There are 3 things that I will need to do, and I am not sure if it will be possible. 1) Load external SWF files into the parent swf...
Hi, Probably for someones this question is trivial but i can't remember which is the correct name for this flash slider with products from here The original name is not slider but something else... The second question: do you know any flex or javascript "slider" like this which is free? Thanks in advance. ...
I'm trying to make a text effect where on every frame the textfield increases in size and decreases in opacity. I'm using the scaleX and scaleY properties of my dynamic textfield to enlarge, but it's doing so keeping the left registration point fixed. I want to make it scale up radially outward, or with the center point fixed. Can any...
For fun I'd like to recreate http://chatroulette.com/. Basically i need to be able to stream webcam video from one computer to another using flash. I'm new to flash. Are there libraries out there for this? ...
Hey guys, I have a bit of code here that pulls, at random, 50 images from a file and pushes them into an array. I now need to pull, at random, 350 times from the array. I'm using a timer in place of the for loop to grab the images from the array. My code works fine as long as I do not use an array and I loop the images straight from t...
Does anyone know if its possible to access children elements in a SWC? I have created some MC's and inside of some of these MC's I have some dynamic textFields. I export the content to a SWC and load it into my Flex project. No problem loading it or accessing the parent elements, they display fine. But I want to access the textfields...
I have heard different things in forums but unable to find a concrete answer on the difference between obj[name] and obj.name. Does the compiler treat them differently? ...
I'm working on a flash gaming site, BeardedGames.com. I just recently implemented a "Panic" button that makes the entire site display: none and display: block's a iframe with a allowed in school website of the user's choice. It works well so far, but the user's flash game still runs in the background while hidden. Is there a way to paus...
I have a movieClip within another MovieClip. I gave the child movieClip the instance name "hSprite" and I added it to the parent movieClip stage. Now I get an error like the following. [Fault] exception, information=ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property hSprite on com.objects.Hero. If I remove the instance name from the ...
Just curious, can flash take each frame and export it out as a image ? In my case, I want to create sprite images for a flashdevelop project using blitting. Of course I know there is a solution for this. like copy and paste each shape into a image editor such as photoshop and turn them into png's. But I am just seeing if there is a simpl...
I think this is fairly straight forward but my skills lie in JavaScript and Ruby rather than flash so I want to run this past a few other minds :) I have a flash file that will take pictures of the user via their web cam. I want to take that newly created image, base64 encode it then pass it to a JavaScript function. That JavaScript fun...
Hi, I am new to ActionScripot and Flash and I am stuck with the following problem: On the stage I have a movieclip (Container, originally 200px width) and inside it with a progressbar movieclip (originally 700px width), scaled with Free Transform Tool to fit the parent container. The width of the container changes run-time while resizin...
Flash banner block up authorization div. Currently it looks like: I want it to be: ...
I'm calling a JS function with ExternalInterface.call and trying to get a return value inside Flash. When I trace out the op variable I get 0 instead of 500. Is there something wrong with my embed code? Embed code: <embed src="/sites/default/files/flash/flashgame/Preload.swf" width="975" height="572" align="middle" FlashVars="entry=log...
hi, I have to build one MXP package for Flash (not Flex). But i have multiple components, somthing like HelpSymbolMovieClips(have its on class), one image holder. etc. I need to combine there swc file into a single MXP file. Is it possible? or How can i make a all these multi movieClip functionality in a single SWC file. Am bit confu...
I thought I had references in AS3 figured out, but the following behavior puzzles me: // declarations for named individual reference later on var myAmbientSound:Sound; var myAmbientSoundLocation:String = "http://ambient_sound_location"; var myPeriodicSound:Sound; var myPeriodicSoundLocation:String = "http://periodic_sound_location"; v...
The counter displays sprites in place of number values. More experienced programmers have given me a clue. Why am I getting error # 1010. Secondly, what am I not seeing that's so obvious? I wish I went in to this with a better foundation in actionscript 3, but I'm reading and doing my best. WHAT I SEE -dollar sign indicates a variabl...
Hi I am using ColorBox over a Flash file which works just fine in all browsers on all platforms except for an annoying behaviour in Firefox on Vista. On calling ColorBox it pops up and displays the loading graphic fine, but once the content has loaded the ColorBox window resizes and then stalls for up to 10 seconds before showing the co...