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Flash over flash - problem

I have flash like a background on my page and all content on page is in the html tags witch is over that flash, and that works very nice. A cover div for that flash have a fixed position (position:fixed;) in style, that is important for scrolling feature. My problem is in following when I try to include additional page, in iframe on th...

AS3: setting registration point of a DisplayObject with actionscript?

How would you set the registration point on a Sprite or Shape via actionscript (I know this is trivial using Flash, but I need to do it purely in actionscript) ...

Any Free tools for producing flash apps?

I have an existing javascript/flash -interaction kludge that sucks terribly. Now I've decided it'd be better to write a flash app that does the specific thing without the need to interact with javascript. Therefore I'd need to produce flash apps in linux, and I don't have money to throw at adobe right now (perhaps never if their softwar...

How do you embed a SWF object in an XHTML 1.0 Strict webpage?

Hi there, simple question: I'm looking for a standards compliant way to embed a flash file. I've been using Dreamweaver for this project (not because I like it, but because my co-worker isn't an HTML guru) and it apparantly uses non-standard code to embed flash files. It's probably standard in HTML, but not so much in XHTML which I prefe...

Recording Audio via the Web for an Intranet Solution

What is the best (cheapest, most open) way to record audio via a web page. Then keep that recording as MP3 format and make it available via a unique ID / URL. I guess Flash-based plug-in would be best. I'm thinking of something that works like Odeo, but this would be for Intranet-only usage. I can't rely and public URLs or Services. I'...

Stop Scrolling Outside DataGrid

How can i stop the grid from scrolling while i am dragging outside the DataGrid component. ...

Is a SWF whose src uses HTTPS secure?

Here is a scenario: I am embedding form.swf in http://somesite.com/page.html. The SWF is loaded from https://mysite.com/form.swf and submits to https://mysite.com/secureform.php. So, is the transmission to the server secure? ...

How to let my visitors to listen to different online radios using flash player?

Hi, After I've found out that WMP is not best idea for Firefox users as they need to install additional plugin, I wanted to try out JW player and I googled all I could about audio streaming and flash players. I got something like www.onlineradio.com/32.asx -> it's not on my server, it's different server, but I can't seem to find a solu...

What's the best client architecture for Flash Remoting communicating with ASP.Net?

We have found the combination of ASP.Net as a server backend and Adobe Flash for the User Interface to be an excellent marriage. Up until now we have used Javascript as the communication conduit between the two technologies. This has worked well, however we want to be able to pass objects back and forth rather than just string variables...

Putting FLV video on website - How to add a static image before it plays

Hi, I am trying to put an FLV video on a website. I tried using Dreamweaver CS3 (Insert - Media - Flash Video), it works great except for 2 problems: The video starts black (How do you show an image prior to playing the video?) The browser starts downloading the whole movie even before the play button is clicked (I want the video to ...

AS3, hooking your events

Does anyone have experience in hooking onto events. so we can modify there behavior without changing it's initial. So lets say we want to modify the behavior of every click of a certain set of menu buttons that if you click them you would wait 30 seconds before the original callback is called. I'm working on a project that will create ...

How to detect if flash installed from C# for Firefox?

Is there a way to check if flash is installed in Firefox from C# code on the server? For instance when the client browser is IE, you can check Request.Headers["accept"].Contains ("application/x-shockwave-flash") but a Firefox request doesnt contain the same header. ...

Flash/XML breaklines & hidden characters

I got this problem, when edit my xml everything on a next line renders two breaklines <![CDATA[Line one Line two Line three ]]> Renders in flash as Line One Line Two Line Three Now I researched this before and it had something to do with hidden breakline characters, Im using Flexbuilder and or Aptana to edit the xml, but how do ...

dynamic text won't disappear

My preloader won't disappear, i have any other graphic inside the progMC it will disappear but text stays there "Loading:100%" function loadProgress(event:ProgressEvent):void { var percentLoaded:Number = event.bytesLoaded/event.bytesTotal; percentLoaded = Math.round(percentLoaded * 100); progMC.prog.text = "Loading:"+String(percent...

killing old objects in flash?

Hi there first timer here. I'm building a flash animation using the tweenlite library. It's extremely simple which is why this is so aggravating. It's basically a slideshow with 5 frames that crossfade. When a button that calls up the next frame fades out, I'd like to disable any actions it has on it. Currently it fades out, but when yo...

Internationalization for flash applications

I'm working with a flash application (non-flex), and I'd like to support internationalization. In flex there's a nice abstraction ResourceManager in which you provide resource bundles for each locale. Is there any equivalent for actionscript? ...

Python lib to Read a Flash swf Format File

I'm interested in using Python to hack on the data in Flash swf files. There is good documentation available on the format of swf files, and I am considering writing my own Python lib to parse that data out using the standard Python struct lib. Does anybody know of a Python project that already does this? I would also be interested in...

Problem with the Flash Contact Form

Hi, In Flash (AS3) Iam creating a contact form in that i have taken one " Submit Button" , one " Reset Button", four input text fields " Name, Email, Subject, Message" with instance names " contact_name, contact_email, contact_subject, contact_message" Iam very much confused about setFocus and killFocus. In AS3, i have given contact_n...

How do I record sound and send it to a server from a web application?

I'm developing a web application. It will allow people to link written phrases with spoken phrases. In order for this application to be useful, random users must be able to record their own voices and send the sounds to the server. If I just have an "upload wav" form, no one will use it. If I have a "record" button that streams or pa...

Detecting if fullscreen is allowed in ActionScript 3.0?

I would like to remove a fullscreen button if the allowfullscreen param is false.       param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" Does anyone know if its possible to detect that value? It doesn't come with other flashvars on loaderInfo.parameters. ...