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How can I use Drupal Services from Flash via AMFPHP (AS3)?

What libraries or sample code will show me how to invoke Drupal services over AMFPHP from ActionScript? Ideally, they should be compatible with Flash, not just Flex. ...

What is the simplest way for one Flash movie to reload/rewind/refresh another?

I have a page with two Flash movies. When one (a content application) reaches a particular state (i.e. the user is now logged in), I'd like to completely refresh the other (a menu) to reflect the new overall state of the user's session (i.e. the user is logged in, so now include a "logout" item). The state is actually kept server-side,...

Non-working alpha in Flash Player 6 [Given Up On]

I've got a flash project that due to requirements has to be backward compatible with flash 6. Everything works, except the first 6 (of 17) jpeg images that are loaded by <MovieClip>.loadMovie don't respond to changes to their alpha setting. If I rearrange the order of the images in the XML file that is used to provide the image urls to ...

Flash local file browser with thumbnails

Is there a way to have an file browser for Flash that allows the user to browse their local machine, view thumbnails of jpgs and other images and upload selected files? This would be like the ActiveX/Java applet that Facebook uses. Any ideas or examples? Thanks! ...

Flv file download and browser progress bar

I have just coded up a web based flv file download utility. When I try to download an flv file, the browser does not show a progress bar as in I do not see the time left for download. Somewhere I read that this happens if the flv file you are trying to download does not have a meta tag associated with it. So I ran my flv file through the...

Getting flash.geom.Matrix3D rawData without requiring a Vector.<Number> allocation

Getting the "rawData" property from an instance of flash.geom.Matrix3D (a new class in Flash 10 for high-level 3D matrix math) causes a Vector. (also specific to Flash 10) object allocation to occur. Is there any way to access the raw data without incurring this object allocation overhead? Since I must access this data multiple times pe...

URLLoader annoying problem

i am trying to load a variable through php from a sql database but i get nothing here is the code var Idfield; var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); // data will come as URL encoded variables loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES; loader.load(new URLRequest("pull.php")); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,dataload); ...

What thread does JavaScript code called from Flash execute on?

Hi, As far as I understand, all JavaScript code is event-driven and executes on a single browser thread. However, I have some JavaScript functions that are called from within a SWF object sitting on the same page. Is this code run in the same manner as regular JS code, or is it on some separate Flash thread? If it is on a separate thr...

Getting the status of a stream from FMS in ActionScript

I'm looking for a way to get the status of a stream from Flash Media Server to action script. I need to know if a stream has any publishers/listeners from flex/ActionScript. ...

How should client Flash(SWF) communicate with server-side .NET?

So I have ASP.NET running on the server in IIS7. I think I'm going to use MVC for some static pages and basic dynamic forms - but the majority of the client side is written in Flash/ActionScript. What's the simplest, most succint, most DRY way of building/generating proxies between client and server? Which format should I use? JSON ...

Recommendations for an Open Source flash ad network to serve to myspace?

I have a client looking to deploy advertising to the websites of their subsidiaries. Some research and a demo install later showed OpenX http://www.openx.org/ to be the clear leader for open source solutions using javascript. Then they threw in the wrench that some of their subsidiaries use Myspace for their primary web presence, so t...

Keeping same session with different user-agents

Is there a way to use the same session on different user-agents. I have a flash app that is generating a new session id on posting data to myHandler.ashx ( same happens on aspx ). Am i missing a trick here? ...

Bookmark a page

How can we bookmark a page on clicking a button or a link button in flex using actionscript ...

Local javascripts turned off in a xulrunner based browser

Hi, I have an application which a xulrunner based browser embedded in it. I have to load some files which load flash content and are present on the local machine. These flash content change the page title and url at certain points. This entire setup works fine when I have the flash content in a remote browser but when I have it on my ma...

flash to php sending and recieving variables

I Have a unique id generated for each record that i store into the database i want to pass that id to php and run a select statement against that and get a value back from the database and pass it back to flash, what is the best possible way to do it? ps am using AS3 ...

Need Flash / Lightwindow Help Fast

I'm trying to finish up a Flash website for my company, and am having some major frustrations with Lightwindow links in Flash. I have a "Videos" page that has a few links, that when you click on one, it opens a Lightbox with a .SWF that plays the video. The problem is that the top of the Lightwindow and the Flash menu bar get in the way ...

Where does the Flex compiler put the .aso files?

I want to be able to hand delete the intermediate .aso files generated by the Flex mxmlc compiler. Where are they stored? (I know the Flash IDE has a "delete asos" button, but I'm using the FlashDevelop IDE, which doesn't. The reason I want this is so I can play around with the compiler's warning settings on a fairly large project, an...

FLV: How to stop a VideoPlayer from scaling along with its containing MovieClip?

I'm creating a VideoPlayer object in a swf and that works well. I'm sizing it using autoSize and that's working fine too. I'm trying to make it so that when the containing swf gets larger the video stays at the same size. The swf is actually loaded from another flash movie which is where the resizing happens. Is there a setting in the Vi...

Easy way to pdf a web report

We are trying to create a web reporting system, with the standard flash chart's, one of the major requirements is that this report must be emailed to customers on a regular schedule as a PDF file. Does anyone know of either An easy tool to point at the webpage and pdf it, including flash charts Another way of doing this? We have tri...

What are some good books for Object Oriented Progamming in Actionscript 2

What are some good books for developing a better understanding of Object oriented programming in Actionscript 2 and Flash ? ...