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What's wrong with my flashvars code?

I'm trying to read flashvars into my flash file by modifying the standard HTML published out of Flash CS5. The following isn't working: HTML: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> ...

Flash Before Unload Event

I am looking for a consistent way to determine when Flash is going to be unloaded. I need to handle this event in order to call a tracking API once rather than each analytical event. Any suggestions on how to consistently (across all browsers) handle this would be really helpful and much appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...

Understanding Flash CS5 embed code

When I publish out of Flash CS5 it produces html <object> tags but no <embed> tags. I thought tags were required for certain non-IE browsers? Example: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> ...

How to locally cache audio when streaming with Sound.load() in Adobe AIR?

I'm building a mobile MP3 player with AIR, which streams audio using the Sound class's .load() function. I'd like to cache this audio as it's downloaded, to the the user's SD card. Is this possible without having to download the file twice?? ...

Create US heat map with mouseover popup features and NO FLASH

HI, Currently am using an interactive flash map on my website, which displays different colors for different states of US based on some data. I also have a mouseover feature to display additional data when user hovers over a state. Are there any tools to achieve the above functionality without using flash (mobile compatible). I'm ready...

Flash AS3 - How to replace/swap an image inside a movieclip?

I have a bitmap rpeviously loaded and added as child to a movielip mc then i want to load another image later and remove thatchild and replace with the new one.. for some reason my code doesnt work..i dont know what im doing wrong i add a listener to a thumbnail called openBigImage so basically the new file path and filename should repl...

Weird AS3 variable behaviour

OK, so here's what I'm trying to do: I have a landing page with 3 buttons on it, and I have 3 corresponding external swf files, one for each button... so the user clicks a button and the corresponding swf file is loaded into an empty MC on the stage. Now each of these external swf files also contains several buttons and each of these bu...

Form with xml or excel data dropdowns?

Hi, I want to create a form (flash or java/ajax) that allows selection data to be pulled from an xml file. Example: A ring builder application - the user selects the ring setting in one dropdown and then they select a diamond in another drop down. But the prices of the diamonds changes every day based upon the market, so we would need...

Can a Flash object in the browser interact with a scanner

I know Flash can work with my webcam. Is it possible for a Flash object in the browser to get a document scanned by a hardware scanner? Will it be different if this will be an Adobe Air application? ...

how to pass input data from swf to Lingo?

Hi We have an Arabic educational application in Director 11.5, published originally as projector for desktop use. Since Director don't support “right to left” languages, the application uses an ActivX component to call external encoded html and load it into a textarea container, in this way the Arabic language can be written and redden...

Does Flex allow full control over UI components?

Hi, I'm wondering what the best tool is for developing a mobile UI is. My requirements are that I retain full control over the look and movement of every UI component. I think Flex might be the best way to do this but I can't tell if I'll have that level of control using their UI components. Any links would be appreciated. Thanks! Edi...

appending data to external text file by PHP and Actionscript3

Hi all ,That's my code . import fl.controls.*; var MyText:TextArea = info_txt; var score:XML = new XML(<score/>); score.PlayerName = "Maged"; trace(score); Here I create a new XML date , I want to write these data to an external text file to use it by PHP but I don't have much information about it . Note i want to append to the tex...

SlideShare Does not Load on Internet Explorer 8

Hello, I have made a simple embed of slideshare on my site. However, on Internet Explorer, it keeps saying "Loading" and nothing appears. However, in Firefox its almost instant. Please try here using internet explorer. Or is it just me? It makes use of Flash and Javascript. What can the problem be? Thanks all for any hellp ...

How to tell which version of flash was used to make a swf file

I am trying to work with a flash application in windows CE. the folder containing the files has several .swf files in it. We'll call two of them abc1.swf and abc2.swf. I have created two html pages which when viewed on my PC open up either file and view it just fine. <html> <body> <object width="550" height="400"> <param name="movie...

How to create a DataProvider using specific elements from an XML object in Flash AS3

I have this XML (Flash/AS3): <channel> <title>...</title> <description>...</description> <item><summary>...</summary><detail>...</detail></item> <item><summary>...</summary><detail>...</detail></item> ... </channel> I want to create a DataProvider containing the elements (for use in a datagrid). I thought this would work: va...

SWFAddress and Data Persistence

I'm creating a Flash site with a dynamic inventory search feature where a bunch of checkboxes toggle different types of clothing items to appear in a gallery. For example, users may check "Shirts" "Jeans" and "Bags" from the list and a dynamic array of images will be loaded in the gallery corresponding to their selections. My problem...

How do i keep myself DRY and prevent code explosion in this scenario.

My application lets a user browse a world map. When the user clicks on a country, a mindmap appears. The user then traverses the nodes of this mindmap. So for example, when user clicks Singapore, a mind map appears. Next, the user clicks on a job function, e.g. Human Resources. This final node redirects the user to another page, in which...

How to Fetch the images from a given URL in Flash builder

How to Fetch the images from given URL in Flash builder ...

Make swf file a link using Jquery

I've been sent a swf file for a banner that needs to be linked to a url. I am adding this to my client's website and my client has been sent the swf and javascript to add to the page. The problem is that the javascript code is overly complex, and I'm wanting to use Jquery and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (I've not yet updated to swfobject o...

Binding a textfield to some XML

I'm currently looking at ways to externalise all text in my flash applications into external xml files (for translation purposes). Basically, all copy in these applications has to be in two languages (English and Welsh). At the moment, I'm just looking at a structure whereby the name of each TextField instance is the same as a field in...