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In-browser flash video editing

We are planning to create a website which involves uploading video. The issue is this video must be edited (cropped, resized and shortened) by the uploaded. Does anyone know of a script/set of apis, where this can be accomplished? I had a look at the YouTube apis but there are no editing or uploading methods that I could find. ...

Sending Email from Flash / Actionscript 2.0

Complete Flash / AS Noob here. Friend wanted a change in Email address and I'm assisting. I notice at the bottom it posts to a formmail.php file but I was wondering if there was an easier way or perhaps someone could help me understand what exactly it POSTS and how AS handles POST methods so I can rewrite a script. As formmail.php is som...

sifr not replacing font

Hello, I am trying to use sIFR to replace the headlines (e.g. The Tour of A Lifetime) on this page: http://tanciltown.com/ten-chimneys/ The font I want to swap in is Verlag by hoefler & frere jones. I had this working the other day but it suddenly stopped working: the font does not replace. All the js/css/flash files are linked corre...

Event not bubbling in some Browsers when clicked on Flash

Environment: Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Flash ActiveX 10.1.53.64, wmode=transparent Just wrote a small test page that you can load in IE and Firefox or any other Browser. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/...

Issues with using # for deep linking into dynamic apps?

I have a Flex app I built. It uses the BrowserManager class to listen for changes in the # part of the URL. When a change is made to the hash my application updates accordingly so you can link directly to a state of the application. Also inside my programming when a user clicks something, all I do is use the BrowserManager to update the ...

How to save XY coordinates in AS3

I have a widget that looks like an equalizer, the scrubbing on the slider is working. When I relaunch the swf file everything resets. What can I do to save the setting. ...

Grab an event in an intermediary handler, hold it in a property, then dispatch it later and still get the .target?

Is it possible to grab an event, hold it in a class property, do some action, then, when that action is complete, dispatch an event and then retrieve the original event.target in the listener? I am trying to avoid using a custom event for now, as it is giving me massive amounts of heartburn when dispatching it from a loaded SWF. Here i...

How to publish real time video stream of IP camera to flash media server with flash?

Does flash provide an api to deal with remote stream like IP camera does? ...

Flash AS3 custom event should bubble up in "brother"MC

down vote Hi, this blogposts seem to be really old, but my question is fitting best in here. I am doing custom event dispatching on a MC construct like this main_MC/room_MC/button_MC main_MC/room2_MC I am dispatching a custom event from room_MC when receiving a button_MC.MOUSE.CLICK. It bubbles up to main_MC where I can do something ...

WCF with Flash tutorial

Hello, I'm a beginner in WCF, which I have chosen instead of Web Services because all articles and blogs I've read seem to point out that ASMX is old news. I have read a bit about the differences between old Web Services and WCF, and I got the general idea. I also took the MSDN WCF tutorial which seemed simple enough. My problem is th...

Flash UI component not being 'repainted' when user uses browser zoom (only on Mac/Safari)

Hi, I have flash component in a website, which shows a preview. There are some UI components overlaid on the preview to allow navigation. Unfortunately it seems that in Safari on Macs, there is a problem: When the user zooms in or out (using the browser based page zoom), my overlaid UI items disappear for some reason. This does not ...

Passing focus to Silverlight/Flash object in Chrome and Safari

There is a known issue with Safari and Chrome, when you can't pass a focus to plugin (Flash or Silverlight). There is also a question here at SO that asks how to solve it (marked as answered, though technically it's not the answer). I'm really concerned with this situation, since it totally breaks user experience . Do you know somebody ...

Creating a swf from a set of images

I have a set of images, and I want to show them as a SWF slideshow. Something similar to Slideshare.net It would be easiest if there is way I can pass a xml or json with list of images, and get the swf. I there a library or (linux friendly) tool, which I can use to do this? I am using Python with Django, but am open to using other langu...

Is there a simpler way to manage multiple sizes (dimensions) of Bitmaps?

I have a custom Image class that I am using to store individual image information for a gallery application: package mtm.test { public class Image extends Object { public var id:int; public var filename:String; public var title:String; public var description:String; public var thumbExists:int; public var mediumExists:int;...

get the last value of, as3

Hi, Is there a method for getting the last value of? I want the last number value of an amount that's incremented. I know I've seen this method. Thanks, ...

Library/API/program for converting Flash code into html5 code

hello guys, What library/API or even a program for converting flash code into html 5 code automatically do you recommend me? thank you very much ...

FlowPlayer onError - updating clip URL

I am looking to change the URL of a clip when the stream is not found. I am properly configuring the onError event, as I can debug the specific line or add an alert, but what I am having trouble with is the following: onError : function(errorCode, errorMessage) { this.getClip(0).update( { url : 'http://full-url.com/images/stream-not...

Updating Flash CS5 Built-in Player?

how can i update the built in player of Flash CS5? is it possible? I've downloaded the latest 10.1.53.64 version and replaced the "Players" folder from this link. However, when i trace which version Flash CS5 uses when launching from the built-in player, it displays "MAC 10,1,52,14". UPDATE: this website perfectly explains the prob...

Embedding flash files

I have the strangest problem I can't seem to figure out. I have created a simple flash image gallery. Like every other gallery it gets photo information from an XML file. It works fine, I have had no issues working on the flash file locally. However once I uploaded the .swf and .xml (and all the images) I ran into some trouble. The .s...

Hiding flash parameters in a php script

I would like to call a swf file which takes some parameters, but I do not want those parameters to visible on the client (let's say a secret authentication token or something like that). I thought I would write a simple PHP proxy script like this: header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash'); readfile('http://path/to/swf/file....