flash

Scraping data from Flash (Games)

I saw this video, and I am really curious how it was performed. Does anyone have any ideas? My intuition is that he scraped pixels from the screen (one per 'box'), and then fed that into some program to determine the next move. Is scraping pixel-by-pixel the way to do this, or is there a better way? I am looking to do something similar ...

openlayers, SVG and flash app

I would like to display a SVG layer (polygons) over the openlayers tiles in an html page, or alternatively, load my SVG in flash and have the OL tiles rendered into flash as well. Is any/either of these ideas possible at all? Thanks in advance ...

How to make Flash 'play well with others'?

What up fam. So this isn't a question asking about memory management schemes; for those of you who may not know, the Flash Virtual Machine relies on garbage collection by using reference counting and mark and sweep (for good coverage of these topics, check out Grant Skinner's article and presentation). And yes, Flash also provides the ...

Does HTML5 only replace the video aspects of Flash/Silverlight?

I see a lot of talk how HTML5 video tag will kill Flash. But while video is the most widely used part of Flash/SL, it's only a small part of their technical abilities. For instance you can write a game using full 3D graphics and socket connections in Flex, and serious business applications, etc. Is the thinking that Javascript will kill...

Videoconference using Flash and SIP

The front-end will be Flash, to run in a browser and have access to the camera. I must use SIP to control the sessions. How could I do this? Will a Red5 server and a MjSip sever do the trick? As in i'd use MjSip to setup the session and warn users about calls, and Red5 to stream the video and audio? Any suggestions? Note: only 1-on-1 ...

How to convert uploaded video and get a screenshot from this file?

Hi, I'm building a cms and I want users to be able to upload videos but I'm not familiar with video upload & conversion. Is there an example or has anybody coded a solution like this? I heard about ffmpeg but I don't know how to integrate it with asp.net. As simple solution I can make my clients upload flv files but then I would still n...

Extracting thumbnail from .flv

Hi, i was wondering, how can i extract thumbnail from a flash-video file, then display it in a listbox. the listbox is suppose to have many videos which i need to extract thumbnails from programatically with actionscript. the flash-player is going to be on the web, and the extraction must happen when the swf file is loading, therefore...

What is responsible for caching the HTTP requests sent via AIR desktop application?

When dealing with a flash application that will run in a browser, it's obvious that the browser will cache some of the HTTP requests. But when dealing with a desktop AIR application, what's caching them? Is it the OS, or the AIR container? Reason I'm asking is that I've recently dealt with a really ugly and time consuming memory leak th...

Best way to list online users with PHP but without MySQL?

Hi, I want to make a script that will list online users when they enter a page. Simple way is record newly entered users into MySQL and list them for example every second. But I don't think it's a good idea with tons of users like in a facebook app come in and out of the page. There would be a way with Flash and PHP sockets but I really ...

How to set an alternate image if the client does not have the correct flash player?

Hi, I am having a flash object integrated in my html page. It requires a version of 10 to run it. If the client is not having the flash player of 10 or above, the flash will not come and it will look a bit odd. In that case, I want to show an alternate image. What is the best way to do it? In fact I have the javascript code for it. But...

Good P2P Flash video conferencing package

Looking for a flash p2p (RTMFP) packaged solution, that includes the following features Time limited sessions: at confrence start, there is a set time limit, when this expires the session ends. Session extension: Sessions can be extended, but require authorization from the server via some sort of REST or Ajaxy response. Generally cus...

Flash: How to preload upcoming SWF while current one plays

I have a Flash slideshow that plays SWFs listed in an XML file. I would like to have the upcoming SWF load while the current one displays. I've tried all sorts of combinations of LoadMovie and LoadMovieNum, including creating an empty movie clip, but there's something I'm just not getting. Right now, after making the first round throu...

Why would some $_POST variables go missing for a form with PHP?

Sometimes, multiple times a day in fact, users of my web application are submitting a certain form which has about a dozen form fields, half of which are hidden fields, and half of the $_POST data is simply not present in the processing script. Note that the fields that are not present are at the very bottom of the form. I know this beca...

Open flash chart not working

I want to implement Open Flash Chart in my website but it doesn't work. The chart just start loading for a second and the loader animation disappear and nothing happening (Only a blank swf area). i've downloaded the latest version which is 2 and here is my folders scheme: // ROOT // ● JS ● open-flash-chart ● php-ofc-library - open-flash...

Link to frame labels

I have a mainMovie clip that consist of different movie clips. Inside of my mainMovi I have another movie clip that is called "Menus" this where all my navigation is but the frame labels are inside the mainMovie. Here is my code: on (release) { _level1.gotoAndPlay("nordic"); } i also have tried: on (release) { _root.gotoAndP...

Flash animations with Javascript?

Hi all, How does something like this work without Flash? http://www.dirtyphonebook.com/dashboard/425-205-1921 I right-clicked on it but there's no Flash menu. I love Flash because its stable and works. But is using some sort of Javascript hack for this kind of complex behavior actually a good idea? ...

How to access the stage from an AS3 class in Adobe Flash

The problem I've encountered is that I am using a keyboardEventListener to make a movieclip run around. As I'm a college student, I'm creating this for an assignment but we are forced to use as3 classes. When I run the code in the maintimeline, there is no problem. But when I try to access it from another class (with an 'Export for Acti...

Flash "visible" issue

I'm writing a tool in Flex that lets me design composite sprites using layered bitmaps and then "bake" them into a low overhead single bitmapData. I've discovered a strange behavior I can't explain: toggling the "visible" property of my layers works twice for each layer (i.e., I can turn it off, then on again) and then never again for th...

What chart used in google analytics?

hi, I really like the dashboard line chart which is used in google analytics, Which charting solution they use, is it made by google, i can't find it in google charts. Thanks ...

SNMP from the browser

There"s this idea of having a web app search for devices in the network (with elevated user permissions, of course). Checking the silverlight and flash APIs, there does not seem to be a way to do SNMP ( the UDP APIs are limited to multicasting media ). Anyone know a clever workaround? In windows, a small XBAP utility can do the SNMP ...