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HTML is displaying oddly when Flash is present

The site I'm making uses a tabbed navigation and MooTools to fade the pages in and out. One of the pages has a Flash player embedded on it, and all of the others consist of pure HTML. The problem occurs on the HTML pages -- somehow the Flash player is causing the HTML pages to display oddly. Vertical borders and text will be jagged in th...

How to make Flash sites Search Engine Friendly?

Hi guys. I've made a Flash site and I want it to be optimized for search engine. What I need is, for every query on Google for this organization name I want respective Flash page to be displayed. Thanks in Advance. ...

Getting Icons for File Extensions in Adobe Air

I'm working on an Adobe Air Desktop App ATM. My question is how to get the icon for a given file extension, but without actually loading up a file of such type. I had the idea to just create a blank file for the extension and then delete it once i have the bitmap for its icon, but that seemed like too much trouble and kinda inefficient...

How to generate certificates and provisioning files for iPhone development in Windows

I would like to do some iPhone development from my Windows box using the Adobe iPhone packager. I get how to do pretty much everything except creating / obtaining the certificates and provisioning files needed to complete the packaging process. What is the easiest and quickest way to get up and running? ...

How to create a combo box in swish max?

Please help me create a combo box in swish max. I searched for ready-made components, but it's not there in swish. How can I do this? ...

Flash Play/Pause sound toggle button

I've googled and googled but got no where or outdated tutorials. Anyone know how to make it so I can toggle audio with buttons using ActionScript 3 on Flash? ...

IE9 will support VP8 Encoded Videos ?

IE9 will support VP8 Encoded Videos if a User has VP8 Codec installed on Computer. Where will user get VP8 Codec ? Flash-Player ? I cant get this ...

Object placeholder in CKEditor

I'm trying to write a little ckEditor plugin to implement the flv-player. After the code is implemented in the content area the CKEDitor just place a placeholder if there is a embed tag in the object tag, but I don't want to use embed tag. I made a dirty hack (wich does not update the params width and height on resize) in ckEdiotr.js but...

How to load swf file with event handlers in AS3?

stop(); var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc); var listener:Object = new Object(); listener.onMetaData = function(md:Object):void{}; listener.onPlayStatus = function(info : Object) : void { trace("onPlayStatus:" +info.code + " " + info.duration); if (info.code ==...

Experience using Strobe Media Playback (OSMF)?

Does anyone have an experience of using Strobe Media Playback (OSMF) in a real project? How is it compared to JW Player and Flowplayer? Any answers are kindly accepted. Thank you! ...

AS3: Obscuring Loaded Resources

Hey guys, This is sort of a two part question. I'm building a flash image viewer to be a portable age-restricted module (violent video games). Basically, it will load any number of images from a CDN and require the user to enter their birthday before viewing it. Simple stuff. The problem is that, per company policy, we can't allow t...

hitTestObject on dynamically placed MovieClip instances

Trying to do hitTestObject on instances that are dynamically placed on the stage. Receiving an error: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter hitTestObject must be non-null. at flash.display::DisplayObject/_hitTest() at flash.display::DisplayObject/hitTestObject() at eatCircle() ActionScript: var circ; var circle_ary...

Setting mask for sprite

So i have this sprite that is say arbitrarily 100 x 100 which is added to the stage. Now when content is added to this sprite the sprite expands automatically as it should. I dont want this to happen, what i want is to set a defined boundary i.e. 100 x 100, if too much content is added i can be able to scroll it. My problem is i cannot a...

Adding Audio To FLV in ActionScript

I have an FLV without sound, and a sound file without video. Can I combine them using Actionscript? Where should I start? ...

High performance chart for lots of data in javascript

I need a high performance charting component. The underlying technology used is not specific; could be javascript, flash or java for what it's worth. I need to solve these issues: 1. I need to decide on the right kind of chart for this kind of data: 001. testA 002,003 002. testB 003,004 003. testC 004 004. testD Currently, I'm thi...

How to detect a held key in a flash game?

What is the correct way to detect held keys in a flash game? For example, I want to know that the right arrow is held to move the player. Naive code: function handleKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent) { held[event.keyCode] = true; } function handleKeyUp(event:KeyboardEvent) { held[event.keyCode] = false; } stage.addEventListener(Key...

how to make a button go to a specific frame on the main timeline

how to make a button go to a specific frame on the main timeline my button called a play_btn and i want it to go to a specific frame on the main timeline ??? ...

Access to webcam in browser?

For an internal project we would like to play with building a video conferencing system. We are able to decide the browser that the user has to use and can install plugins. The only requirement is that the browser and plugins must be free and work over Linux and Mac. (Don't care about Windows) What is the best way to do access the web...

AS3: How do I take a snapshot of a movieclip with a transparent background?

Hi, I am coding in AS3 and I am using BitmapData to take a snapshot of a movieclip. Is there a way to have the end result BitmapData to support transparency? How do I take a snapshot of a movieclip without any background? Thanks. ...

Understanding Flash Packages

I'm trying to understand how packages and dependencies work with Adobe Flash Builder 4. I've copied an example here and put it in a .as file called DependencyGraph. However I get the error message: A file found in a source-path must have the same package structure '', as the definition's package, 'DependencyGraph'. I understand tha...