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Serious Flex databinding issue

Ok so this is kind of urgent at this point. I have a large-scale AIR application that is pigging out left and right, and by massive amounts of trace statements and generating my own stack traces (useful for debugging), I have found that each combo-box is getting it's lookup from the LookupManager class multiple times, equating to about 3...

Help! Flash cannot load XML data from a third-party domain

I am getting news from Yahoo using an RSS feed, using: XML.load("http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/topstories") Yea this is legal and all, and although it works perfectly when my SWF is offline -- it shows a security error, but I allow my D drive "domain" in the Adobe Security Panel. But as soon as I upload it to my server, and test it on...

Can you embed Flash (SWF) in Eclipse-RCP apps

I have no background in Eclipse-RCP. My understanding is that a eclipse-rcp app is a rich client technology similar to Adobe Air. Is it possible to embed a swf flash movie in a panel inside a eclipse-rcp app? Can the flash talk via ExternalInterface to the application? Thanks. ...

Flash transparent background not working on Mac

Hi I just can't seem to get the background to be transparent on a Mac, see here: http://www.digiflipconcepts.com/smokinhot/templates/smokinhot/ I'm using wmode=transparent. I've been searching google for ages and see that wmode is not very stable and that it will work if I use the 'embed' tag but it would not be valid code anymore. Can...

Need to open a jquery modal from a flash movie

I have a flash carousel with products. The products are being loaded from a xml file. When you click on a product in the carousel a dialog modal needs to popup. im using in the flash geturl function. But what should i put in here? got to be something like javascript:openFunction() but this doesnt work, anyone have some ideas? and wha...

Load images from folder into slideshow

I have this AS3 slideshow code, that loads an XML with a list of images. What I'm looking for, is a way to skip the XML part, and just load all images in the folder "images"? How can I add an constant boolean that decides if it should play the images random or not? const RANDOM:boolean = true; ... // import tweener import caurina.trans...

How to make a flash object render NOT in top z-level?

I have a webpage with DHTML navigation menu. On the page also have an embedded flash object. Currently when I activated a DHTML menu, the opened menu items list appear below the flash. How could I make the DHTML menu items to appear on top of the flash object. I reckon that there will be an attribute that we could use while writing or ...

flash 10 orthographic projection

I've been playing a bit with the new flash 10 3d possibilities, and found out that rotating a sprite in 3d is fairly easy: var card:Sprite = new MyCard() card.x = 100 card.y = 100 card.z = 200 card.rotationX = -60 addChild(card) Simple and effective, this shows the card rotated with perspective. Now I want to use an orthographic proj...

Is it possible to remain in fullscreen mode with another window having focus?

I have a flash panorama that has hotspot links to pop-up windows that contain more information about the object. Right now if you are in fullscreen mode and click a hotspot you are automatically kicked out of fullscreen mode and the pop-up then opens. Is it possible to have the pop-up open and have focus while in the background the pan...

Can the flash player play .wav files from a url?

Let's say I have a wav file at a url: http://hostname.com/mysound.wav I'm trying to load the wav file with the sound class like: var url:String = "http://hostname.com/test.wav"; var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); var sound:Sound = new Sound(); sound.load(urlRequest); sound.play(); However, this doesn't seem to work. C...

How can I start a flash video from javascript?

Is it possible to start playing a file inside a flash player by making use of javascript code? If so, how would I do it? ...

How to embed a flash (.swf) file into asp.net ?

How to display a flash (.swf) file into asp.net ? ...

how to access a text field/movie clip inside a dynamic clip created inside a for loop?

Hi All! I am creating a flash app that reads an XML file from a specific source. The XML file contains maximum 5 nodes, each containing a name,description and an image URL. To represent data in each node i created a movie clip that contains another movie clip (to load image from url), a short dynamic textbox (for name) and a long dynam...

How to get the final length on a Sound object that is still loading?

I'm creating a basic MP3 player in ActionScript 3. I have a basic progress bar that indicates how much of the song has played. The progress is calculated as a decimal percentage normalized between 0 and 1 as such: var progress:Number = channel.position / sound.length; The problem is, if the audio is still loading/buffering the sound...

could flash media player play wmv/asf format media?

Hello everyone, I have tried to play wmv/asf file in html page, but always Windows Media Player is embedded in browser, but Flash Media Player is not embedded. Here is my code to embed Flash Media Player. I suspect it is because Flash Media player does not support wmv/asf format, so even if I explicitly assign "application/x-shockwave-f...

Best way to execute a function after exactly one frame?

With ActionScript3 for Flash Player 9+, what is the nicest way to call a "once-off" function after exactly one frame? I am aware of the Timer class and it's uses, and the callLater method on Flex UIComponents (which, glancing through the source, doesn't look very efficient in this scenario). I'm also aware of setTimeout (in flash.utils)...

FLV file and SWF file

Hello everyone, Just want to confirm whether my current understanding is correct, we can use Flash Player browser plug-in to play both FLV and SWF file; FLV file contains only video/audio, but SWF file could contain not only video/audio but also other information (picture/animaton/etc.). thanks in advance, George ...

I want to let java application invoke a function in action script?

Dears, how can I let an SWF file to retrieve values immediately from Java application that does live calculations (Speed is a necessity). question in other form : how can I give my website browser immediate data - that are bean calculated now - as fast as i can ? ...

Adobe Media Player

Hello everyone, I am confused about the different functions compared between Adobe Media Player (http://get.adobe.com/amp/) and Adobe Flash Player. My understanding is, Media Player could play any supported video/audio type (for example, flv file), but Flash Player could only play swf file, can not play video/audio directly. My underst...

AS3 DAE Augmented Reality PaperVision 3D

I have been playing with Augmented Reality recently (and having lots of fun with it too!!) I have been able to create PaperVision primitives (cube, cylinder, cone, etc.. and work with them) But adding a DAE model is proving to be illusive! var cubeMaterialList:MaterialsList = new MaterialsList( { all: new FlatShadeMaterial(light, 0x0099...