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Flex builder 3 or Flash builder 4?

Mainly my project was to create some UI interaction. Degrafa supported Flex 3 and FXG supported Flex 4. Which would you choose in term of performance in UI and AIR 2.0? ...

Javascript take screenshot of flash object

Hi all, basically what i want to do is this: I have a flash game on a page (pacman for example) I want to be able to take a print screen of that game using javascript Is it possible? I know i can include the game swf in a nother swf and capture the screenshot using flash but i need it to be done in javascript. is this possible? ...

Problem with Flash and non-latin text input

As most of you may know there is a problem when not using wmode='window' in google chrome. The problem that I have is that I'm integrating a system with facebook and if you do that you need to use transparent. This is because if you don't do that it's impossible to see the facebook messages like the share or some notifications. I leave...

Relative performance of native C++ to Flash for pixel-pushing

I was trying to get a ballpark idea of how much slower Flash is at pure pixel-pushing 2D graphics than doing the same thing in SDL or other native library. For instance if I have a Flash/Flex app on a modern PC which each frame does a 2D loop and directly reads/sets every pixel, what equivalent PC would give the same performance for a na...

I want to play any Flash game on Android (as .swf file). How can I pass key events to a SWF app?

Hi stackoverflow. Can you help me play Robot Unicorn Attack on my Android phone? I downloaded the .swf file, put it on my phone and there is this app called SWF Player that can open SWF files from the SDCard. But, since I don't have a hardware keyboard, I can't play the game because I have no chance pressing X or Z (I heard even with a...

full text search on flash website

hey guys i have a site entirely built on flash. its basically an e-magazine with lots of textual data. i need to implement a full text search where the user enters search terms in a text field and i need to highlight the occurrence of this search term within the textual contents inside this e-magazine in a way its similar to what you do...

Adobe Flash and TWAIN / DirectShow

Usually Adobe Flash applications can access any usb-webcam. I have a USB camera for microscopes which understands TWAIN and DirectShow. Is there a possibility to access the video data from this camera with flash? ...

MovieClip is not visible at stage, however it exits.

My Flash file contains a movie-clip(Box1) that is exported for Action-script but it is not exported to Frame 1 in Linkage Dialog Box. Box1 has been put on frame-40 and the object is accessible in document Class but is not added to stage. However when it reaches to Frame 40, the object at Frame 40 get visible. My question is where is boxO...

flash cs5: when i change frames in a movieclip, event listeners pointed to one object in the previous frame are removed

Hello. I have a movieclip that contains two frames, each frame contains a different set of buttons. it seems that i cannot add the event listeners to buttons that are not in my current viewed frame. so.. problem one: is there a way to add event listeners to all the elements in the movieclip even if the elements are in a different frame...

How to set video to play on all major browsers on windows and mac and andoid and iOS devices?

We have a requirement to create video demo of certain products. What is the best way to make sure that video plays on maximum possible browsers on all popular platforms? Current implementation we just have flash videos that load in a flash player. ...

WebBrowser Control behaving different in two application

Hi, I have two applications. In one application the web browser control shows a flash movie that is embedded and in the other it does not, only shows place holder. I have identical code in both constructors to load a web control dynamically and then navigate to the requested web page. I run both application in debug mode from within V...

How to see a video through flash ?

I can see this video through VLC: http://webtv.camera.it/cartelloaula.asx But I want to see it through Flash... is it possible ? If yes, How ? ...

How can I get the flash drawing api to not "inverse" fill during a filled object drawing operation?

On behalf of zefrank @ pumpkins.zefrank.com: I reported a bug to ze that if you continue to draw on the pumpkin, it will redraw the parts you already cut out. He said that if you draw any filled object in flash it will happen. Is there another way to structure the drawing code so this doesn't happen? Here's an example of what is happ...

Can Flash be printed?

I've got several flash graphs being displayed on the page (Flash version 8), and when I print the page in IE8 the flash graphs print as displayed on the page - but when I print the page in Firefox and Chrome, the flash doesnt appear and leaves a large gap. Is there a way to allow users of all browsers to print flash reliably? ...

embeding and itegrate Flash movie in WPF application

Hi every body, I know that my question has been asked before but I didn't found any answer suitable for my case or even works. My problem is: I need to embed a Flash movie inside WPF application, then I need to use Externalinterface - or whatever the way is - to integrate through this flash movie - I'm working on Visual Studio 2008! I fo...

Two problems with scrollbar in List component

I want to hide/remove the up and down arrows from the scrollbar - how can i do that? the scrollbar is to fat - the skin i am using is not that fat. How can i make the scrollbar thiner. thanks ...

Variables from URL are loaded in random order

I'm have an issue loading URL variables into Flash where the variables are loading in random order each time the SWF is loaded. The way the variables are: var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3 but because it's loaded in a random order, the first variable will sometimes get omitted because of the way the & are placed. Here's the AS I'm...

Using ICC Profiles in as3/flex

I am creating a flash site where someone can customize a canvas. Then they can preview this canvas on the product. Because of the way monitors display colors, we wanted to try to embed an icc color profile in the previewed image so the user can get a better idea of what the end product will look like. For instance, if they upload somethi...

ActionScript 3 SharedObjects don't persist across different swfs?

I am serving two different swfs that read and write to the same SharedObject variable. The SharedObject variable is a number, and each swf checks that number to make sure it isn't using the same number twice. It then stores the last number it selects. In this way both swfs should never use the same number twice, no matter which order ...

Source Control System for Binary File

We use subversion, which works great for software projects. We also have a lot of flash projects, which we don't use any kind of source control. Each flash project contain quite a few images. The time frame of each project is a couple weeks, but few can go upto a couple months. The number of files we create contribute to quite a bit of ...