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Flash fullscreen on startup in controlled environment?

I know it's not possible to get flash fullscreen for a regular user without user's interaction. However, I'm working on a kiosk, which is a closed Firefox environment. Is there a trick out there which does let you go fullscreen from code only? Maybe modified flash plugin, or a firefox plugin, anything? ...

How can I force the web browser to reload a newly deployed Flash file without clearing the cache?

When I deploy a new .swf file in an HTML file as shown below, I have to clear the browser cache before the new .swf file loads in the browser. Is there anyway to force the browser to load the .swf file when I replace it with a new one on the server. <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www....

How is Flash For iphone Package gonna effect.

Hi, I'm an Objective C developer. The new announcement of the Flash for iphone got me kinda worried. can some 1 explain how good is that package and if the need of objective C developers/companies is gonna decrease ?? can you do really nice applications and games in a much easyer way ? please advise me in that matter Sincerely ...

Flash and javascript ExternalInterface safety.

Is it safe to share data between flash and javascript using ExternalInterface? I'm building a game where I want to pass scores to js, not sure if this is safe enough. Thanks ...

Videos In Safari Render Page Incorrectly

I have a really strange issue. If I insert a flash video from YouTube, BlipTV, JW Player etc. the text on the page is jagged and the links from the "Pages" drop down menu that overlays the video are all bunched up. This problem only occurs in Safari, you can see it for yourself here: http://ghostpool.com/wordpress/reviewit/pages I canno...

RTSP streaming Flash lite 2 application error

I'm developing a RTSP streaming Flash lite 2 application. I'm streaming to drawing server by VLC (port 554) vlc -vvv /video.flv --sout "#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=360,fps=25,scale=0,acod ec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:rtp{ds t=127.0.0.1,port=5004,sdp=file:///C:/Darwin Streaming Server/Movies/myStream.sdp}" When I tried the a...

Flash CS4 image fader problems

Hi StackOverflow, I'm trying to build a flash component for my upcoming website where I have to read data from a XML file and show these with a fading 5 second interval - I guess you could call it an image-fader/content-fader or some such :-) Before I post my code I would like to let you know that my experience with AS3 is quite limite...

How do I let users send an e-mail from a form in my Flash website?

Hi to all. I’ve just started working as a Flash web designer. Right now I’m making one Flash website. I’m making this website in Flash, and to upload the web content I’m using an HTML file. I’ve also created a “Contact Us” page on this site. On that page I’ve made one small form with five tags. At the end I’ve put two buttons — the fir...

ActionScript Interfaces with custom namespaces

Hello! Is there any way to get interface to play along with custom namespace? Example follows. IHeaderRenderer.as: public interface IHeaderRenderer{ function set header(value:IHeader):void; function get header():IHeader; } HeaderRenderer.as import fi.test.internalNamespace; public class HeaderRenderer implements IHeaderRenderer{ ...

[AS3] curveTo finding the curve point dynamically

Hi Everybody, My math knowledge has never been very broad, so this maybe a simple question but I'm not really sure. Basically I'm using the curveTo function to draw some lines for flight paths, what I'm not sure how to do is dynamically finding the curve points, so for example if you look at the ryan air site: http://www.ryanair.com/en/...

Problem with Html and CSS in Flash AS3

Hi I am having problems with Flash and AS3 and I hope someone can help me out here. Here is my test code : var htmlTextData:String = "<body><h1>Lorem</h1> ipsum dolor <em>sit</em> amet,\nconsetetur <h2>sadipscing</h2> elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</body>" v...

AS3 Anti Aliasing of a rotated bitmap

When rotating a bitmap with actionscript, the edges are jagged and not properly anti-aliased. How do you force anti-aliasing of the bitmap ? this.stage.quality = StageQuality.BEST; // Tried this, but seems useless var imgFromLib = new imgFromLib (); imgFromLib.rotation = 30; ...

TCP Socket Connection Server Side Type

Hi, I'm working on a small flash project for a web site. I've coded my tcp-server on a windows service. Is it possible to put the tcp-server on a web service ? Or should I accept the tcp-connections while the web page is loaded? Any suggestions? Really I do not know the way to put the server. [With windows service it works, but I have...

Looking for a Flash component to display a pdf/word/png file in a web page

Hello, I'm looking for a Flash component to display a pdf/word/png in a web page. Something like Flashpaper : http://www.adobe.com/fr/products/flashpaper/ but Free. Can someone help ? Thanks in advance ...

How to use automatic layout while retaining some control?

I have two panels and a button nested within an hbox. I want the panels to appear side-by-side and the button to appear under both panels equi-distant from the sides of the hbox (i.e. in the center). Getting the panels side-by-side was easy, but how do I get the button below both panels and in the center. Currently, the button show up ...

How do I call C functions from Flash?

Currently I have a UNIX executable that I am compiling from xcode. It runs in terminal. (osx) I'm wondering if there is a way to call functions / interact with a flash or flex project. I found some information about a flex c++ bridge, but apparently it is only for windows. Can this be done with air? Any suggestion? ...

WCF, ASP.NET sharing session when WCF is called from flash

I've followed the advice in various places, including other questions posted on stackoverflow about sharing the session state between a WCF service and an ASP.NET website, but cannot get my specific scenario to work: The website and WCF service are both virtual directories of the same application in IIS 7 and both share an app pool. Th...

Best way for a Flash client to talk to a Java server through a full-duplex connection (chat or game)

My client is in Flash/Flex (game with chat) and it will be talking to a Java server. What is the best way (protocol / interface) for my Flash client to talk to my server? I heard about Flash Remoting MX, but it is a request / response mechanism. I could always request something and wait for asynchronous notifications from server. Then re...

IE not recognizing post data using LoadVars from flash inside a frameset

This code is being run from a frameset in IE8. When the new window is opened, the form data is not being recognized. It appears that the http header, "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", is not being passed into IE and this is causing the post data not to be processed. The data is there, IE is just doing nothing with it. T...

How to put an image (transparent) in an iframe (transparent) over Flash (not transparent)?

I have a flash game on a web site. I want to put a html element in front of it that uses some transparent gifs for one irregular border. The flash object has to be included using wmode 'window' because of performance issues with the game in the other wmodes like 'opaque'. So I can't put a html element over the flash object directly usin...