Is there a way to ask Flash Player if it plays any SWF files, and if so, which are they ? I guess it's easy to check for running SWFs in the browser. I was wondering if any other application has flash content running... can I detect that and access the swf ? ...
I have a special canvas class covering my entire stage, and a bunch of Sprite hotspots on the layer below. If I put the hotspots on the same layer as my canvas, the canvas does not register MOUSE_DOWN events if my mouse is inside one of the hotspots, since the hotspots are targeted instead. However, if I keep the hotspots on the lower la...
Hello all Is it possible to upload a MovieClip as an image to a image hoster such as imageshack or flickr? If it is possible. Please give direction. Thank you all Update Even if this is possible, would the hoster require the image to exist physically in a file location? Update 2 I sort of know its possible now. But can someone ple...
I'm having two major issues on my site: 1) A series of links is cutting off the left edges of the menu items and also seemingly transposing characters from other items in the list 2) I'm having a massive font-size jump: anything between 2em and 3.95em are identical in size, but the moment it steps above that the size jumps hugely. I r...
I just got Flex Builder Professional for the profiling support, and although I can make the profiler work, I am having trouble isolating samples to just a section of my code. Trying to click "clear profiling data" and "stop collecting" in the UI just isn't cutting it. I'd like to be able to, in my code, do something like: startProfilin...
I have a "label" in a Flash Movie. I need to send a data from the server side and this data must be displayed on the Flash movie. How can I implement this? ...
I'm building a Flash project that creates a menu system with dynamically loaded movie clips for the menu items themselves. I want a scroll bar to appear once the menu has enough items that it's larger than the menu area. I was thinking that I could just put a mask over the menu area and have the movie clip where the controls where load...
Hi, I am working in AS3, and I was wondering if anyone knew how to create a matrix effect (the moving green text lines in the movie) in action script. I have found a few examples online, but none of them seem to work. Thanks. ...
I have a Flash project that I need to have save files to the users local machine. I had thought that Flash included tools for working with files, but apparently this won't be implemented until the Flash Player 10 is around. I'm working with CS3 using ActionScript 3, and I thought that maybe the Jugglor tool JSave might be able to accom...
I'm writing a flash app using the open source tools. I would like to load a data file in to the app and capture a screenshot of the stage on the server. The only part that seems mysterious is running the app on the server. In fact, I don't even care if it's the same app running on the server and in the browser--if I can use the flash sta...
I am finding this task challenging in AS3. Excuse me if I am missing something basic/simple or some builtin method which can do this. I am not well versed with RegExp. I have a DYNAMIC string representing full file path which looks exactly like "d:\temp\abc.doc". I want to extract the filename part from complete string e.g. abc.doc. ...
I have run into strange behavior drawing a sprite into a BitmapData. This sprite looks fine when drawn directly to the screen. But when this sprite is drawn into a BitmapData, the sprite is being masked... but there is no such mask applied to that sprite! This "bad mask" can be toggled off and on... by applying / not-applying a differ...
How can I enumerate display objects under a pixel relative to the stage? Clarification: I want to write a function which get (x,y) as input and returns an array of objects as output. update: I want to avoid looping over all the display objects, to tell which one is under the specified pixel. ...
Does anybody know why and/or how to work around this without scraping SWFObject? Many thanks, T EDIT : Sorry, my fault the alowFullScreen param was set to "true" instead of "always" ...
In Action Script 3, you can write a class that defines a dynamic object (MovieClip and Object are two examples), this objects can be modified in run-time. What I want to know if is there some way (in run-time, of course) to know if certain object is dynamic or not. PS: Without making something like this: function isDynamic(object) { ...
The stage in the Flash CS4 Authoring Enviroment is a running SWF. That what makes thing like the 3D and Bone Tools to work in the IDE. Is it possible to access that swf ? I suspect the immediate answer would be no because that would raise some security issues maybe and cause lots of developers to crash the IDE every 5 minutes :). That...
If I add a listener to KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, I can find out the keyCode and the charCode. The keyCode maps to a different character depending on the keyboard. The charCode is just as useless, according to the help: The character code values are English keyboard values. For example, if you press Shift+3, charCode is # on a Japanes...
I'm working on a Flash project right now and I am having to force a designer into using our Source Control repository (SVN) to help manage and track the project. It's been a bit of an uphill battle to fully get him to embrace the benefits of source control, but it's coming along. I haven't had to use source control for a Flash project ...
I'm in the process of building a test plan for validating the security of our Flex/J2EE application. I believe we have some issues with trusting the Flex application too much, but I need to be able to quantify those issues. The ideal way would be a way to show me making data service calls outside of the application. Are there tools or i...
Or are there? From a desktop software developer point of view (as opposed, perhaps, to that of a web developer), rich web application platforms, such as Flash or Silverlight, look like better tools for doing WYSIWYG text editors for the web. They are capable of more sophisticated input/output, data representation etc., and they are cons...