flash

Platform for web-based multi-player game?

I'm developing a web-based fantasy football game. Most of the game is a straight-forward web application built on top of Linux/Apache/Php/MySQL. I'm trying to figure out how to implement the draft application. The draft date and time will be scheduled in advance by each league's owner. Up to 32 users may be logged on for a given le...

How to position label on Flex BarChart independently of any bars?

I'm trying to add a label at the bottom, or just below, a (horizontal) Flex 3 BarChart, as follows: a |==== : b |= : c |== : label (The equals are the bars of the bar chart; the colons represent a target line for which I want to add a label.) There seems to be no straight-forward way to position this label at the botto...

text replace using charcode in AS3

How do you replace text based on a charcode? ...

How to detect Flash events from swfobject

Hi. I've been reading about using ExternalInterface to have Flash communicate with JavaScript. I need to detect and call some code in JavaScript when the user starts playing the video and when the video ends. The swfobject is nifty for embedding a player on the page, but I can't figure out how to add these event handlers to it. Here's my...

Environment organization / workspace structure guidelines for (interactive?) developer

Planing to change my computer soon, thinking about how to organize my folders and files. If you are develop something for Flash/iOS/Android/??? platform, please share your thoughts. I am personally a Flash platform developer and a Mac user, so I think it should be a single directory ~/Development/ (/Users/username/Development/ in my cas...

Can flash read client side hardware information?

Can flash read client side hardware information such as RAM, CPU, Computer unique id hard drive size? I know it can read the camera and maybe the monitor size but the above is still remain unknown to me. ...

Dynamically changing the referenced XML file in Flash AS3?

Basically I have media being parsed and played by reference of an XML document using AS3. These media files are gonna be seperated into seperate XML files then what I was planning was to just dynamically change which XML file is being referenced. Problem is, the code only fires once on frame 2 and I can't seem to figure out how to swit...

Flash (Adobe Air) Charting Libraries

We are considering developing an application in Adobe AIR. However, one of the criteria is that we are able to support charting in the user interface. Some of the charts are real time (updated periodically in a manner that isn't "jerky" to the user. The application is also stand alone and will not have the use of an http server. Ca...

Dynamic Flash FLV Player

I am attempting to create a custom FLV player in flash that will allow me to link to an external FLV file in the html object code. This is in order to easily change a video that will appear on a client's index page dynamically. Currently I am using an external player that does exactly what I wish to do (http://www.walkernews.net/mediapla...

best way to embed swf that loads other swf files

Hi, In main.swf I loaded file.swf as: var loader:Loader = new Loader(); var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“file.swf”); When main swf loaded in HTML with an absolute link like: "http://domain.com/main.swf" It reports 404 error loading failed of file.swf Because it looks for file.swf at current web host. What's the best way ...

jQuery slider/carousel with interval countdown animation

Hi, I'm working on a jquery slider/carousel to rotate between a couple of promotions. What I'm looking for is a way to show the remaining time until the next promotion slides in. Exactly as the flash promo at: http://www.nordicbet.com Any ideas? ...

rendering html/css in Flash

Are there any libraries for rendering HTML/CSS in Flash? Basically, I would like to be able to load in an external html file (nothing fancy, just some text, images and hyperlinks) and then render them to a Sprite. ...

Audio/video recording using flash

I want my users to record audio/video and post that to other users. Is it possible to record video through Flash's and receive encoded video on server side without any further processing (i.e. just saving the stream to a file)? I did some Google search and found that it's possible with new microphone API (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/a...

oEmbed with Mobile devices

I've just found out about oEmbed and was wondering if there is a way to get a mobile link/embedd code by sending the user-agent (or prefered format, like 3gp)? I've might have missed something, but I can't find those options on the oEmbed website. For example (Youtube), I would like to get the 3gp rtsp link for devices that supports t...

Video Strucking issue

I created the custom flash video player using AS3.when i check the player with youtube downloaded flv files .the player is working fine and streaming well.When I use my encoded video( mov to flv using adobe media encoder cs5) the player is struck while playing and when full streaming completed the player is playing well. i tried with bu...

Why is the Flash Video Player not showing in Firefox?

I am trying to implement a Flash YouTube video player on this page. I am using swfobject. Here is the code: <!-- begin youTube player --> <div id="flashArea" class="flashArea" style="height:376;"> <p>This content requires the Adobe Flash Player.<br /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplay...

Object rotation while moving on a path in Flash

Hi, I have a movieclip moving on a path by means of a tween. At the starting point a (virtual) line on the movieclip is tangent to the path. Is there an easy way to automagically rotate the movieclip such that this line remains tangent to the path throughout the tween? TIA Steven ...

How to take input from an xml file during a Flash Program

Hi I was wondering I could make my flash program take input from an xml file to create various shapes dynamically? ...

Creating World Clocks in Actionscript 3.0

I've been having problems modifying this code in order to make it show 5 different world clocks. Right now, the simpleClock code shows just one simple clock. What I need help with is making it show 5 clocks next to one another and each clock having the time of a specific city in the world. I know that I only need to change the hours f...

Passing file paths from Flash to JavaScript for upload?

Hello everybody, first of all my question: Is it possible to pass file names from a running Flash application, which only purpose is to enable multiple-file-selection, to a JavaScript application which handles upload of all files to the server? I have examined various Flash upload solutions (like SWFUpload, Uploadify, etc.) and none of...