I am loading JPEGs into a Flash presentation using load with a flash.display.Loader and it's working great. The JPEGs are sizing to their native resolution (which is perfect). However, if I maximize the Flash presentation (in the Flash Player), the JPGs do NOT take advantage of the bigger screen. For example, the presentation is 1024x76...
In Flex3, I could compile pure as3 code and use "embed" tags to load in images. This was done by Flex making a BitmapAsset class. I can still do this in Flex4. However, there was a trick to fakeout flex3 and use my own mx.core.BitmapAsset class to remove some of the extraneous stuff Flex's BitmapAsset brings in with it. This is descr...
If I have a pure as3 project that I have been compiling with flex3 from mxmlc, is there any reason to switch to using the mxmlc with flex4? I can use all of the flash 10 language features like Vector, 3D, etc., so that is not a reason to switch (or is there something I can't do?). But maybe there is a performance boost? Or is it the e...
I'm currently developing flash chat for social networking websites like facebook. Actually i want to develope flash chat in this game. Chat would have a lot of instant active users. So that, i need to know which flash servers i should use, is there any free ones that are pretty good for such high performance needs? I've found ElectroSer...
Hi All, Ideal situation/setup: A page containing 1 Flash movie and a separate div containing a few hyperlinks. These hyperlinks each have a unique class name like so: Copy code <ul> <li><a href="" class="randomname1"></a></li> <li><a href="" class="randomname2"></a></li> <li><a href="" class="randomname3"></a></li> <li><a hre...
I am creating a swing application, I like to add Flash in that application. Can we add flash in Swing components? Thanks... ...
Hi, I need to comunicate with a webservice (WCF) from actionscript 3 (not Flex). I've been searching the Internet a lot and found http://flashauthoring.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-flex-webservice-component-in.html, but it works only in Flash Professional and I'm using Flash Builder 4 to compile the project. code.google.com/p/as3webservic...
Event.DISPLAYING Why this event wont work when i try to compile the flashe (CTRL+ENTER) Flash gives me error 1119: Access of possibly undefined property DISPLAYING through a reference with static type Class. ...
Is there an open source AS lib can be used for mind-map-like application? ...
I'm struggling with this. I've used the jquery sIFR plugin as opposed to sIFR it prevented conflicts with other jquery I am using on my pages. It works fine in its prime function: replacing html text with Flash. However, the .sIFR-alternate class is given an inline style of 'opacity: 0' which persists when flashblock is on. So alternat...
Hi, I've created a short text (a word) in photoshop with the blending options I prefer and now it's all done I would like to paste it into my flash project. The problem is I can't get the text to be transparent in the flash, I always see the white background which is not very nice since the background on which the text will show is actua...
Hi, I'm having some problems figuring out how to organise data pulled off XML in cells within a container. I'm sure this should be a basic thing in AS3, but my head's fried.. can anyone help? Basically an array if fed to callThumbs() which iterates through it and compares the entries with preloaded XML _my_images. If match is found, it...
What's the best way to organize functionality modules in a flex project? I saw some people put all modules in one view stack ,and so the application interface is only load once, but when the application get larger, the whole compiled swf would be very big. If we put swfs in different pages, we pass request parameters through HTTP request...
I've been trying to learn Action Script 3 the past few weeks, making tiny interactive games to learn the basics. I stumble upon a problem every now and then but most of the times google helps me out. But this problem has got me stuck so please help: The main stage contains two objects(movieclips), the player and a wall. The player has ...
Adobe flash: How to determine users CPU characteristics? (its mhz, its current ocupation) I need to know how fast is users computer now, and I have only 150 ms for it. How to do such thing in actionscript? ...
Hi! Using Pixel-Bender, it's possible to manipulate audio with effects, mixing channels etc. (http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/10/audio-mixing-with-pixel-bender.html). Could this technique somehow be applied to a video sound track? Jonas ...
Hi, for the past two weeks I've been working on coming up with a collision detection system for my game in flash CS4. No matter what I try for some reason I just can't seem to do it, and I don't know how to fix it. This has never been an issue for me, I would even settle for basic rectangle to rectangle collision if I could, but no mat...
Does anyone know how to set the values for a pie chart in the Open Flash Chart 2?? i have like a percentage for a visitors sources, and i don't know how to display them , because they changed a lot of stuff in the v2 http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/tutorial-4.php what i have now in the data generating is this (from the ex...
note: all as3 is written in CS4 and compiled for flash 10. I have a parent movie that loads a separate standalone SWF movie. This standalone movie happens to use the ScrollPane component (fl.containers.ScrollPane), and it runs correctly when launched on it's own. When I attempt to have a Parent movie load the standalone SWF, i receive ...
Hi All, I am working on a application where i am pulling the data from the database using the web services. but my Application is hand till all the data get downloaded. Is there any way in the flash where i can download some of the part and the flash player should be in working mode and i should download the other information in backg...