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Flash Components falling apart despite grouping. (AS2)

I am a newbie flash developer who is trying to create a "message box" symbol in my flash application. This message box should appear on an event, so I have as2 code like this which is trying to achieve that: (mcError1 is the instance of my symbol). _root.mcError1.visible = true; _root.mcError1._x = 100; _root.mcError1._y = 8...

simpleConnect.swf for my installed smartfox server doesnt work?

i need some help regarding how to use smart fox server for developing my games which are now single player to multiplayer mode. Thanks in advance ...

Text highlight with audio sync in Jquery

I need to sync text and audio on many web pages. While the audio is played the text should be highlighted phrase by phrase (not word by word or by character so sync is necessary only for the start of the phrase). I'd like not to use a flash only solution and I'd prefer to use something more HTML friendly. I thought to use a combinati...

Leopard and Snow Leopard not rendering Flash blend mode properly

Using Flash 8, does anyone know why Mac Leopard operating system can’t render the ‘screen’ blend mode on movieclips containing bitmaps? See the screenshots for how it looks on all other operating systems compared to Leopard (splashes remain black and white). The browser used is irrelevant to this issue. Has anyone else experienced this...

flash[:notice] is shown on browser back again

Hej, i have a problem: I'm using flash[:notice] in my rails app. A User comes to the page and creates a new object. The flash-message says "Created." Now he clicks on a link on the page. If he is coming back by using the "back" button of his browser the flash massage is presented again. flash.now[:notice] doesnt work either (i think a...

Problem with colorbox playing swf files from amazon S3

Hi, Just put our new site live, and having trouble with one of the swf files playing. Using the colorbox jquery plugin throughout the site and this works fine. However a movie on http://www.learningassistant.com/qcf (qcf engine movie) gives out a repeated javascript 'Access is denied' error everytime you close the colorbox?? Perhaps...

Intercepting SWF (Adobe Flash Player) data

A third party web site displays streaming alphanumeric data in a Flash application (.swf). I would like to capture that data to be used in my own desktop application. Is this possible? If yes, then what are my options e.g. using VB.NET? ...

Accessing Movieclips in movieclips

I am starting with AS3 programming icm with Flash Builder 4. I have created a "Main" class which is the initial stage. On this stage there is a movieclip called mcMain. In this mcMain is 4 other movieclips: mcStats1 mcStats2 mcStats3 mcStats4 How can I access these mcStats1-4 from the code to make them go to another frame? I tried: ...

interactive cd-rom software

hi Could someone please recommend any software that can be used to create interactive CDROMs? we have a possible job whereby an interactive CD ROM with basic animation is required. Company information is to be placed in various "Pages", and if possible some kind of "catalogue system" for a lot of PDFs would be available. Any suggestio...

Any advantage to using 'static' on private consts?

Just wondering if there is any advantage to using private static const instead of private const for private constants? Does this change if you have only one instance of the class or multiple? I suspect that there might be some small memory/performance advantage in using static if you have multiple instances of the class. ...

What's the difference between send() and sendAndLoad() in flash?

Quoted from this page: send(url: String, target: String, [method: String]) Sends the variables in the my_lv object to the specified URL. sendAndLoad(url: String, target: Object, [method: String]) Posts variables in the my_lv object to the specified URL. I don't see any difference there... ...

Red5 - Keeping transient shared objects alive on server

I create a transient (non-persistent) remote shared object using ApplicationAdapter.createSharedObject(). Then a client connects to the application. The client then connects to the shared object. But when the client leaves the application and connects again, the shared object is no more there. The properties set by the client in their pr...

What are the differences between the Flash Professional and the Flash Builder?

I couldn't find a comparation on the web, so, what's the difference between the Flash Professional and the Flash Builder? --update I saw in a video that I can edit some code in the Flash Professional. And I just saw coding in Flash Builder. So, my understand is that Flash Professional does what Flash Builder does, but not the oposite. ...

My computer got stupid. 0 + 20 = 19.921875!!! Help me!

You know it's bugger-all when your computer can't get a sum right! I have not the slightest idea why this is happening: _root.attachMovie("clippy","aClip",_root.getNextHighestDepth()); trace("alpha 1 = "+aClip._alpha); aClip._alpha = 0; trace("alpha 2 = "+aClip._alpha); aClip._alpha += 20; trace("alpha 3 = "+aClip._alpha); aClip._alph...

Is it possible to download multiple files from a remote location to a users hard drive with AS3 FileReference?

Can I develop a Flash AS3 download swf that will let a user select a location on their hard drive to download files to and then start the download of multiple files (in the same way I can do with upload)? Or should I zip all the multiple files first and download zipped files to local disk. My users will want to download potentially hun...

How do I get the top-most x and y value of a shape in a sprite?

I am completely in the woods here - i have a sprite with a shape drawn in there (there are two different sprites in the example.) At any given point, I need to get the x and y value of the topmost point of the shape. The sprite does rotate so it's going to change at any point as well. I don't even know where to begin here - help? ...

Save files with ActionScript in Flash Builder is possible?

I've read that it is not possible to save files using Flash CS5. Later I've read that it is possible using Adobe Flex. Now, what about using Flash Builder? --update I'm talking about save data files at runtime, such as user usage data.. ...

How can I automate clicking a button on a Flash menu?

I would like to be able to click a button on a flash menu, programmatically. This means, unfortunately, that tabbing over to it or hard-coding the X and Y coordinates of the button will not work (due to using multiple threads, neither of these approaches works while running in the background). I tried doing this with Javascript, but au...

FLEX - Image Upload

Hello. I would like to know if there's a way to see an image on the Web browser on a FLEX application but not uploading it first to the web server but just doing something like a buffer or something on FLEX, ActionScript, or Flash. Sounds weird but there has to be a way... Thanks ...

Flash Channel.Security.Error Unable to access remote resource

I tried to deploy my otherwise working flex app on a web server (tomcat 6). It threw a Channel.Security.Error. After some research, I became aware that flash movie loaded from flash_movie_domain will not be able to load resource from any other domain. Some suggested adding a crossdomain.xml. However, the crossdomain.xml route doesn't...