flash

Why is my Flash animation overlaying my div position?

I am using FancyBox to generate a popup image. FancyBox (In case you are curious.) It pops up a div with z-index: 92;. I have a Flash animation running which is far below that z-index. My problem is that in two different Firefox browsers (same versions) I have different results. In one, everything appears OK. In the other, the F...

Any recommendations on a pure actionscript layout manager library? That isn't flex that is...

I know, Flex should be the answer to this but I not using flex for this project and you probably won't convince me to...it's just not needed here. Having said that - anybody have a specific actionscript layout manager that they use? I'm looking at the following 2 but I'm not sure but I'm not sure if I'm missing any others out there. I...

Should I use Java applets or Flash to make webpage-embeddable physics simulations?

I want to start working on some simple physics simulations that I can embed onto my website. I have a lot of experience with web programming with languages like PHP and javascript, a fair amount of experience with python and some experience with C++. Should I use Java applets, Flash or something else? Also, could you please recommend a...

Embed Flash Object by bypassing rules?

Hi there i want to embed a youtube video to a profile page, but the social system does not allow embedding flash objects now i wonder if theres a possibility to bypass this rule, the first thing i was thinking of was embedding an iframe to a page that links the object. sadly the social network also disallows iframes. do you have any i...

Creating revolving video wall in Flash

Hello, Any thoughts on how to create a revolving videos wall similar to Microsoft's "I'm a PC" in flash? The one on Microsoft site is done in Silverlight. I'm a newbie to flash and AS3, so any guidance and advices are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Jacques ...

Get the status of a live stream for a VideoDisplay control

I'm looking for a way to find the status of a live stream through a VideoDisplay (or any other method really). I am interested to know if the stream is currently being published to or if the publisher has stopped. This is for a Flex/Flash ActionScript 3 project. Is there a way to do this or is this ANOTHER oversight by adobe? flex flas...

Flash Player trust file not working with Embedded browser on linux

Hi, I have an application which embeds a xulrunner based browser. I have to load some flash content in this browser. At certain points of time the flash changes my URL and Page Title to reflect the location in the flash file where I am at. This works fine in a firefox browser when I place my trust file at /etc/FlashPlayerTrust folde...

RSL (Runtime Shared Library) in Flash IDE

I manage the cache of the client by adding a version parameter to each request of an swf. Now I want to be able to use RSL in the Flash IDE, there I need to specify the path to the swf file where the MovieClip (graphic asset) will be at runtime. It will be impossible for me to get into the Flash IDE and add the version parameter to the ...

how to extract flash frames programmatically

Hello i need to extract frame (can be every number ) from flash swf and convert it to jpg/png/.. programmatically what is the best way to do that ? never mind the programming lang ...

passing multiple values to flash through php

here is the code <php? $id1 =1; $id2 = "module 1 loaded"; echo "$var1=$id1","$var2=$id2"; ?> i know this is not correct way how can i pass these two varables to flash ...

Which touchscreens do you prefer for flash kiosk work?

Our company does a lot of flash work and occasionally offline / kiosk applications. I'd like to recommend a touchscreen to our client but don't know enough about the market. Anyone have any good experiences with any particular model of touchscreen? Thanks! ...

ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 project

I have a new project I'm working on that will require a Flash application to load both AS2 SWF files and AS3 Flash files as well as FLV movies. The new Flash application will control the loaded SWF files by moving to different frames within the main timeline. I should be able to get the source for all the files that are loaded into the...

Any place where i can find free flash tutorials

As the question above, does anyone know where i can get free flash tutorials and plug-ins ...

What's a way to create flash animations with Python?

I'm having a set of Python scripts that process the photos. What I would like is to be able to create some kind of flash-presentation out of those images. Is there any package or 'framework' that would help to do this? ...

Multiple Flash objects on a single web page?

Is there any significant performance/load time impact if single web page will load, say, 10 identical flash objects? 20? 30?.. any evidential data on sustainability of such kind of setup? This would be the same flash app, each instance serving its own stream. ...

rtmp and adobe media player

We have acquired hosting of a Flash Media Server for prototyping, and we are trying to stream videos using Adobe Media Player. While we know that this is possible, we are curious as to what steps are needed to do this: Do we need to create a server side app in order to stream, or can we just host the videos? We already have pre-existin...

Possible Successors to Flash-style Runtimes?

I tend to believe that Flash and other proprietary, browser-based runtimes are not a good idea. But, people seem to love them because they are pretty and offer developers a lot of power as long as they get on board with buying the tools, etc. Does anyone see a future where such a business model doesn't exist? I think there is a great o...

How do I draw text in an ActionScript 3 sprite?

I have some sprites that the users can manipulate, drag around and resize. Now I'd like to be able to display text in those sprites. I've tried lots of, probably stupid, ways. Like inheriting from Label and adding a Label child to the sprite, but no text shows up. One disturbing thing: Inheriting from Label I get the text to show up if...

Flash Fullscreen not working in Flash player versions 9.0.47.0 and 9.0.28.0

The fullscreen functionality for my Flash video player does not work in Flash player versions 9.0.47.0 and 9.0.28.0. It works on all other versions 9.0.115.0 and above. On clicking the fullscreen button, the function gets triggered but the video does not go fullscreen, it stretches inside the video player. Is there any additional handli...

ActionScript 3 clock example in flash

I am currently reading the book called "Programming ActionScript 3.0" available from Adobe. After the chapter about "Working with dates and times" the book provides some examples. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Part6_ProgAS_1.html However, their archive contains only the sources for the Flex version. Here is my...