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Flash PNG Quality on Tween

In Flash I have some PNG images, and I wish these images to become 50% larger on hover. However the tween I have used to make them larger distorts the quality of the images considerably. For the tween I am not using any external libraries and I am using a standard scaleX tween. Is there a way around this loss of quality? ...

Execute bumpbox from flash?

I have searched alot on google with no luck. I want a flv film to play in a bumpbox window when a button is pushed in a flash banner. Does anybody know how? I tried looking for some support on artvipers own site but no luck either. Artviper - bumpbox (This is my first post, so please be gentle :)) ...

flash iphone joomla/php

Hi i am using a flash slideshow everything is working fine but that slideshow is not working on Iphone/Ipad environment . please help ...

Listening for Multiple Events on Multiple Objects AS3

I currently have an over, out and click event for 8 different objects. The over and out events are identical for each (tween expands object and then shrinks it back for the out state). I have previously asked for an easy way to declare those events, and now I was looking for an easier way to handle them. Here's my code: //-----------G...

Flash Builder 4 not detecting code changes.

I'm new to flash builder and am using FB4 now. I was doing some simple flex coding with the webcam...and then i made an error and the debugger displayed the error TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. at Camera1/init()[H:\Flash\Flash Builder Workspace\Camera1\src\Camera1.as:35] at Camera1()[H:\Fla...

How can I make a button change it's shape with every click (music button)

I want to design a music button for a game like geochallenge ...

Flash CS5: combining bold and regular text in a textfield?

I am trying to combine bold and regular text in a textfield but how do I embed an font family and not just a single style of a font? See example of how I embedded a font, you can only choose one style: "regular", "bold", "italic" or "bold italic" at once: However, when you try to embed the text (via the IDE settings or actionscript) ...

flash.net.URLLoader get body from 500 internal server error.

I'm trying to streamline my error reporting for internal testing. When I use URLLoader/URLRequest to load a page that responds with the 500 HTTP status code, I catch it with the IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, but can't find a way to get the response body. Unlike with Event.Complete, loader.data (My URLLoader) is an empty string. Yes, I can us...

HTML5 Web sockets (TCP Connection), with flash fallback

Hi, I read about a project that enables the developer to program a HTML5 web sockets application that is compatible with older browsers by automatically falling back to using a flash method. Can anyone source this, as I can't find details now I'm interested in starting development? Thanks! ...

Is there a problem with importing a SWF movie made in AS3 into a SWF movie made in AS2?

I haven't tried yet but am curious if I should even bother. I have a legacy AS2 swf that I don't want to rewrite in AS3 but I need to improve upon it to play video, and I'd prefer to use the AS3 video playing mechanisms. Ideally I can build an AS3 movie that just takes a string param of the movie location and plays it. I'd load this ...

How to add flash video in WPF?

Possible Duplicate: How can one host Flash content in a WPF application and use transparency? How to add flash video in WPF? ...

How to create videos with transparency/alpha-channel

What is the best way to create a video with an alpha channel, suitable for flex/flash? Does it need to be FLV, or can it be MP4/MOV as well? ...

Convention for a client-side (Flash) deep link path separator?

I see examples in the SWFAddress documentation, but it's not clear what the convention should be for a multi-level path. Do their examples intend to suggest that the path separator should be a hyphen? Why not like this? http://example.com/#/deep/link/path ...

What programs were used to make this flash game?

the url is probably NSFW the game: http://www.tsbmag.com/booty-call-episode-1/ Could this game be created 100% in flash? If not, what programs could be used to provide this style of graphics and animation ...

How to get a random filename from a directory in AS3?

I need to get a random filename from a directory in AS3, and open it. (This will be online, so no AIR) I'm thinking of just using a text/xml file with all the filenames listed, and just traverse through it getting the filename. But is there a more "direct" way to just look at the directory so I don't have to edit the text/xml file all t...

Using an external class with multiple frames on the timeline and multiple stage placed buttons

I have a problem when making flash applications with more than one frame that has symbols placed on it in that I can't declare all of the event listeners for the objects at the same time and I have found that even if I put them all on the first frame, add the event listeners, then click through to the next frame then the buttons won't wo...

Flash / FLV - How do I extract MetaData from an FLV?

What software is available for extracting metadata from an FLV? I'm testing an flv streaming module for apache (mod_flvx) and need to extract keyframe info from an flv for debugging purposes. I was only able to find FLV MetaData Viewer, but its dated, from 2006, and doesn't install properly on Win7. http://www.buraks.com/flvmdv/ Edit: ...

What is the best practice for loading a link/linking action into a Flash file?

I think there are probably three options: Load the link in as a flashvar and allow the Flash to open the URI Load the link into the Flash file using AJAX/AJAH and allow the Flash open the URI Just have the Flash file call a Javascript function that opens the URI Is one of these methods better than the other(s)? i.e., I'm working in ...

Make Flash CS5 publish for Flash Player 10.1

I'm compiling a swf using Flex 4.1 SDK that loads another swf that is created by a designer using Flash CS5. The 4.1 swf throws an error, "VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of removeChildBridge in mx.managers.SystemManagerProxy." A few people around the web have said that they had this same error when their 4.1 swfs were loadi...

How do you make an error in flash somehow display once it's a .swf?

The error I have is Error opening URL "http://www.website.com/something.php?query=someinvalidquery" The query isn't actually supposed to go through, but I'd like some sort of error message saying so. ...