flash

Is it possible to nest folders in the Flash Builder bin-debug

I'm trying to setup my bin-debug folder so that the structure looks like this: bin-debug assets img swf main.swf css style.css js swfobject.js index.html I've tried setting the project's output folder to: bin-debug/assets/swf which does get my main.swf where I want it, but then my other source folders get dumped into that s...

Flash CS5- Problem with "navigateToURL" in web-browswer hosted on MySpace

I made a quick flash document for my friend who posted it his MySpace. The document has 3 buttons, each with a URL attached to them. When I play the SWF file locally, the links work fine, however once it's published to MySpace, the links refuse to work. The hand icon comes up so it understands them at least as buttons, but it seems to...

Get coordinates in parent, but not in stage.

I know about Flash's localToGlobal and globalToLocal methods to transform coordinates from the local system to the global system, but is there a way to achieve the intermediate? To transform coordinates from an arbitrary system to any other arbitrary system? I have a clickable object inside a Sprite, and the Sprite is a child of the sta...

How to play music on site preventing easy direct file download

I'm starting a blog with a hosted wordpress instance and i would like to be able to stream music using a flash player on some posts. The problem is that every player i find uses a simple param to get the file url which makes it very easy for someone to find that url and just download the file. I know that it's probably impossible to pr...

flash button inside a button

I have a button containing 2 child buttons. I want to be able to keep the mouse over state active, when I rollover a child button. At present it fires mouse out when i rollover a child button, I suspect this is correct, but not what I want to happen. Any ideas how to get around this? ...

Is it useful to use After Effects when creating a Flash game?

Well, the title said everything, I saw some very nice effects using After Effects, but I want to apply those to a Flash game.. will it be useful?, or After Effects only works on cut scenes, animations, etc? If you have some example, give me a link plz. Thx.- ...

How does bing video search extract video from so many different websites?

Are they decompiling the flash or something like this? I can't imagine how they have done it. ...

Whats wrong with this video embed code?

Following embed code is from http://hd.se/landskrona/2010/04/09/kunglig-glans-pa-idrottsgalan/ but it doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8. Firefox no problems. Any recommendations for improvements? Thanks for your time! <object width="480px" height="294px" id="_36313041" data="http://hd.se/static/media/html/flash/video-3/flowplayer.swf...

php mailer information and how to get it

how can i get php mailers for my email distributions. am a web site analysis and i post to diffrent people every day and the money i make depend on my posting. can you be geting me phpmailers to help me out and how can i pay for it. ...

Get path to a file via flash

I'm not a flash dev, but I'm turning to it to try and meet a requirement. I'm to allow a user to select a file on their computer, then pass it to my web application. I know it's not possible to do this using Javascript, hence wanting to use flash. First, is this possible? Second, can I get a pointer on how its done? To clarify: I'm j...

Changing Graphic Instance using ActionScript

Hi, I was wondering if it is at all possible to change the "Graphic" used in a frame dynamically using actionscript. I was hoping to either change the image the Graphic is an instance of or change the Graphic I am using in the current frame. Cheers Addition: Could I have a layer for each Graphic and then using action script choose wh...

dragging object from html page using (using javascript) into a flash container?

I am doing some pre-production on a project that requires drawing on a 3d canvas, which I think flash is the best way to go. But there is a chance down the line that this client might want the site to show up on the ipad, iphone or other mobile devices that don't support flash. So I was playing with the idea of doing everything in html...

Array, change color, as3

Hi Thanks for the help Yesterday, but I have on more question. How can I change color of text on certain words? My animation plays the text animation of THIS SALE IS RED HOT!!! I want RED HOT it to be red. It seems the array can be indexed in such a way to switch the color from Blue to Red. MY BANNER ADD var myArray:Array = ["THIS","S...

Flash VS jQuery for RIAs development : Which one is better to use and for what reasons?

Can anyone please explain for developing rich internet applications which one of these two technologies (Flash VS jQuery) is better to use based on criteria such as "Pros and Cons, time, cost, situations and etc..." and why? Please explain in details, it is very confusing. Thank you. ...

Jquery/Ajax file uploader

Hey Guys Im looking for a jquery or ajax file uploader, Im currently using the FancyUploader which worked great until Flash brought out their update making all flash progress bars absolete, now whenever I try to upload large files... it will fill the progress bar to 100% in a matter of seconds even though the actual upload finished minu...

Is there a web tool framework for building a video editing/manipulation widget other than custom Flash?

I am looking to build a widget for a site which allows users to tag images from individual frames of a video file but would prefer not to have to build a custom Flash tool. Is there an existing free library or framework which simplifies things like this in a webapplication setting? Features would also involve basic video playback funct...

Why shouldn't I use Flash?

I've heard many times that I should avoid flash for my website. Yet no one has told me a good reason for this. I've searched for reasons and I see many that are not true (such as text in flash are not indexable by search engines) or may not necessarily be true or significant enough (eating more bandwidth. Would a JS equivalent be bigger ...

Load external swf from a button in external swf and unload self?

Hello, I am an uber n00b to flash AS3. And it is not my intention to sound like a complete moron, but honestly, I have had a hard enough time figuring out just how to load an external .swf into my main file! And now my friend is asking me if I could please add a button within the external .swf which will unload itself and load a new on ...

Lightbox-style dialog shows below YouTube movie on Mac OS 10.6

This is a "but it works on my machine" one and could be tricky: I have a lightbox-style HTML dialog that shows a menu on top of a web page. It can be injected into any web page via a JavaScript bookmarklet. One of my users is trying to use it on YouTube.com with the result that the flash movie is rendered on top of the dialog (a div w...

Embedding wav files in AS3 Flash/Flex project?

The Flash IDE is capable of embedding many types of uncompressed sound files, including wav, and offers optional compression when publishing. However, the [Embed] tag, only seems to allow embedding of mp3 files. Is it truly impossible to embed an uncompressed wav file, or am I missing some magic, undocumented mimeType? I was hoping for...