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Flash VS Flex application

What are the main features that distinguish Flash from Flex? When you have to create a web application, what do you look for select between Flash, Flex or using all two? ...

Sending currency symbol from php to flash

Hi , I am having many websites . In that I have to send some parameters from php to flash. All the parameters are getting correctly displayed in flash except the currency symbol. These currency symbols are extracted from db to php in form of html entities like(& pound;). I can't change the db as it will require many changes in all websit...

Flash «a script in this movie» - caused by loadVars or setInterval?

Hi Forum This is someting weird... I have a Flash-file that loads external SWFs. There I use LoadVars to get external data from a server. When the data has arrived, I'm using setInterval to call a function that fades-in the content. So far so good. But when I switch menus (a.k.a. unload one movie to load another) before all the data...

is there a standalone flash/silverlight player that can resize

Hi, I was wondering if anyone would be aware of a standalone silverlight or/and flash player that can be resized . I need this because sometimes the video size is too small and fullscreen is not adapted ( a small video on a 24inches screen is not nice !!) Thx ...

ActionScript 3 not working (Flash CS5)

I was recently trying to help a friend get started with Flash, and ran into a very weird bug. It looks like AS3 isn't being evaluated. Something as simple as a trace statement on the first frame of the movie doesn't produce any output. When I switch over to AS2, the trace statement works. What's going on here? Is it a problem with his Fl...

Adobe Facebook API Facebook.login VS Facebook.ui popups

I'm currently building an application using the Adobe Facebook API and I've run into an issue where for the login method the Facebook login popup displays but when doing a Facebook share/post the popup is blocked. This code works fine and displays me a Facebook login popup without question (Firefox): var permissions:Array = ['publish_s...

swfobject and IE 6 7 8

Hi, I''m using swfobject in joomla and generate dynamic xml's (writing a file) to load slideshow to my listings. The problem is only in IE where slideshow do not change from last one when change my listings. It looks like a cache problem tried to add: slideshow.swf?t=" + new Date().getTime(), with no luck :( Code for xml $xml .=" ...

Flash: How to share embedded fonts with text fields in multiple movie clips

Hello All, After a lot of experiments and reading many articles, Q&As, I still didn't find the answers to my problem, then I decided to ask my question at great stackoverflow forum:-) The setup of my project is as follows: - Create an AS3 project in Flash Builder 4 (Main.as3proj), and write source code in it; - Create graphical assets ...

flash based spreadsheet

Is there any open source flash based spreadsheet application like google spreadsheets? ...

How to turn off anti-aliasing on an embedded font.

I have a pixel font from www.fontsforflash.com. I have embedded it using flex then loaded the swf in flash CS4 to make it available. But its very blurry and I can find a way to turn off anti-aliasing in as3. Its the right size and placed with whole numbers. The reason I have embedded this method is because I don't want to load an entire...

Flash AS3 - Wait for MovieClip to complete

I'm writing some code that (I think) requires sequentially playing MovieClip objects. I would like to be able to leave this at a single frame and using only external source files. The way I wish to use this is to switch between sections of my program. remove current child construct movieclip add new child wait for completion of new...

Flash - image used in movie footage

I saw this site, http://en.tackfilm2.se/, whereby a user is asked to upload an image, which is then used throughout the movie footage. Can anyone provide some direction / guidance in how this is implemented? Thanks in advance for any responses. ...

Creating a custom progress bar in flash? (not a preloader)

I need a progress bar that's kind of in an odd shape, I've attached an image. It's not a preloader; it's for periodic progress while the user is performing other action on the website. I've played and played with tweens from a symbol of a fill of the bar to no avail. I'm not great at flash, so apparently even this simple thing is a stumb...

Size problem while loading flex inside flash CS5 application

Hello, I'm loading a flex form into a pure Flash CS5 website. I'm able to load and display it correctly but for some reason the flex swf size seems to be off : the content and background of the form are displayed correctly but there is a transparent layer covering a large part of the stage (from myFlex.x to stage.width and from myFlex.y...

Rendering fonts from flash to image

Hello All, I am trying to render an image with text and images that are on a .swf file. What i am doing is saving all the objects and their properties in an XML and then using imagemagick to render all that. the problem i am facing is that imagemagick treats fonts very different than Flash, so i don't get a perfect copy of what i see in...

Are there good reasons not to target Flash 10 for a browser-based game?

There's clearly a bunch of new stuff in Flash 10, I'm seeing a bunch in the Graphics class so far. Struggling a bit to reconcile it with what I know already but it looks useful - render lists and 3D transforms, etc - however I wondered if there are good arguments for targeting Flash 9 since I can definitely manage without all the new stu...

make a animated gif transparent in flash cs5????

Hello, How can you make in Adobe flash cs5 a animated gif with a transparent background. I have make a animation in flash cs5. And i want to export it to a animated gif. But i want this animation with a transparent background. How can i do this? ...

Best Method To Create A Very Minimally Interactive Slideshow of Images On iPad

A client of mine wants to show her "listing presentations" (she's a Realtor) to clients on her iPad. A Listing Presentation is normally a slideshow that shows how a Realtor can help the client. She simply wants a slideshow that she can gesture from slide to slide, and perhaps a small button that allows her to email the slide or some inf...

Flex: Does spark supercede or complement mx?

I worked on quite a large Flex3, Flash9 project but then dropped out of Flex/AS3 for a couple of years. Now I'm finding it a little confusing getting to grips with how things work in Flex 4, especially this whole Spark thing. My main use of Flex is for real-time applications like games (main project before was www.mydinos.com) where we u...

Controlling Flash Professional Library Components in a .as file

Hello, I'm trying to control the behavior of components in my Flash Library using a .as file class, but it doesn't seem to be working. For example, if I have a Button in my library called exampleBtn and attempt to do this in the .as file: exampleBtn.visible = false; ... nothing happens. The button is still visible in my application...