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How can i create my own video chat using Flash ?

Hello. I would like to create a video chat. no text, just 1-1 video, which is very simple. Is it possible with Flash 10? Does it cost any money to use Stratus ? Do you know if there something similar already out there ? Thank you. ...

Security Policy not working, as3

How to I get my security policy working? My parent swf parses an XML doc and loads 2 children. It throws a 2148 security error, and only works in the Flash IDE. PARENT SWF 'I put it at the top of my code. That seemed like the proper event flow' flash.system.Security.loadPolicyFile("crossdomain.xml"); I've referenced my security file ...

Using Sandy 3D AS3, fill the viewport (exact fit) with multiple 3D objects.

I'm stitching together an image using multiple instances of the sandy.primitive.Box. Each box is 96x91 while the viewport is 960x273 which should make for an exact fit if I layout the boxes in a perfect grid of 10x3. However, I can't seem to get the exact camera fieldOfView. I've tried a couple formulas (one for adjusting the "focal leng...

Flash + RTMFP + Stratus: Video Quality on Linux

I'm developing a video chat-like application using Flash RTMFP and Stratus. So far, I'm having good success. I can build from source, tweak settings, and get video and audio in both directions. There's one glaring problem I haven't been able to solve, however -- when using a client on a Linux machine, the video received by the other e...

IE8 positions DIV overlay wrong way and keeps playing video when it's hidden.

Hi! Please take a look at: http://www.binarymark.com/Products/PasswordGenerator/default.aspx (the Overview tab, on the diagram). The issue is wjen you click on any of the diagram elements say "Character Groups" all browsers, except IE8 behave well - that is they display the overlay, start playing a video, and when the overlay is closed, ...

Am I doing AS3 reference cleanup correctly?

In one frame of my fla file (let's call it frame 2), I load a few xml files, then send that data into a class that is initialized in that frame, this class creates a few timers and listeners. Then when this class is done doing it's work. I call a dispatchEvent and move to frame 3. This frame does some things as well, it's initialized a...

Video chat application : Which technology to choose ?

I have to undertake a project which is to make a video chat application. The video has to be streamed from one location and can be viewed by multiple people spread out over the globe. Performance is really an issue and a delay of more than 2-3 seconds is unacceptable. From what i gather, this can be done in Flex and also in JAVA. Any p...

How to determine if application is ran on 64 bit OS? (Adobe AIR )

How to determine if an application (e.g. Adobe AIR) is running on a 64-bit OS? What function could one use to check this? (Code sample, please.) I found one simple solution... Are there any others? ...

Actionscript 3.0 Play and pause add effect.

layer 1 --> an embeded video layer 2 --> an invisible button **Here is my code in layer 3** stop(); var vid:Boolean = true; function vid_event(event:MouseEvent) { if (vid) { stop(); event.target.gotoAndStop('pause'); vid = false; } else { play(); event.target.gotoAndStop('play'); ...

1136: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected 0.‎ AS3 Flash Cs4 (Round 2)

(I have asked this before but I dont think I was direct enough with my question and therefore it did not get resolved so here goes again!) I am working through a book called Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation, making things move. I am now on Chapter 9 - Collision Detection. On two lines of my code I get the 1135 error, letting me kn...

Is it possible to know wich files are available in a specific web folder with AS2 or AS3?

Hi there. I would like to build an image gallery in Flash with AS2 or AS3 that detects automatically the number of images available in a specific folder (say a level below the swf file). The goal is to don't have to config any xml files with the images to show. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. ...

Flash and Google Maps - Only Last Icon showing

I have a simple Map and geocoding sample in Flash using CS4 The problem is simple - I can retrieve a short list from the google search api, but when I try to generate the icons on the map using a loop, only the last icon is displayed. (ignore the house icon, it is generated earlier) I feel I am missing something or made a stupid AS3 mi...

How to create Flash widget for sony dash?

I like to create a sony dash apps how to create new apps? How to connect flash action script with web service? any one help me. ...

What is the purpose of FMS server and how does it figure into my requirements ?

Hello, I had a project requirement which was to stream video to people across the globe (max 100 simultaneous connections) and i was under the impression that a single HTTP server is sufficient. However, a friend of mine said i will have to use an FMS server. How does this basically work ? If i record video from my webcam and store it...

Facebook Javascript SDK's FB.ui Bug in IE8

hi everyone i have found a bug in IE8 using the new Facebook Javascript SDK. i call a Post dialog using: FB.ui( { method: 'stream.publish', display: 'dialog', message: 'test', attachment: { name: 'test', caption: 'test', media: [ {type: 'image', src: site_url+'test.jpg', href: site_url} ], description: ( ...

Is it possible to access a remote SWF without needing to download it?

We have a very large SWF hosted in a website which is just a repository of hundreds of movies/symbols. We load this SWF at the beginning with the Loader class but then the client will access a very few of them at that moment. Is it possible to tell the loader to download symbols only when they're needed? (as with applicationDomain.getDe...

Web developer moving to Winforms

I have been doing ASP.NET / C# development for several years now. I have recently been offered a project that will need to be a winforms application (I am assuming .net 2.0). Specs: Winforms applicaton Application will have "testing for understanding questions" Must support flash and camtasia files (these are "lessons") I have ...

Find right- and leftmost 2d point of a horizontal circle in 3d Vector environment

I'm drawing a 3D pie chart that is calculated with in 3D vectors, projected to 2D vectors and then drawn on a Graphics object. I want to calculate the most left and right point of the circle after projected in 2d. (So not 0 and 1 Pi!) The method to create a vector, draw and project to a 2d vector are below. Anyone knows the answer? publ...

Loading external pngs into an AS2 swf that is loaded into an AS3 swf wrapper

I have a Wrapper SWF that loads a series of AS2 movies. Each AS2 movie loads a series of .png files. AS3_wrapper.swf |-> AS2_1.swf |-> image_1.png |-> image_2.png |-> AS2_2.swf |-> image_1.png |-> image_2.png Inside of the AS2 I listen for the load of the pngs using onLoadInit and update my UI. This works fi...

Flex 4 XML Declaration available in Modules

I'm building a Flex/Flash Builder 4 application that loads data using E4X/XML, like this: I originally build an application that was a single MXML file which loaded this XML file and built a form from the data. I've now build a main menu screen with a button to load the form screen as a seperate module. How do I g...