flash

Allow Silverlight (and Flash) Apps To Remain Full Screen

I'm writing a Silverlight application that can go "full screen" (think YouTube full screen). This is simple enough. However, I want to offer the user the ability to KEEP the app full screen even if they click away. My users have multiple monitors and so it doesn't always make sense to shrink the app back into the browser. At present, if...

Resize Flex/Flash object from the left side?

I'm working on Flex component which can be resized using handles on the right and left (that is, if you click and drag the left side, the component will grow to the left, if you click and drag on the right, it will grow to the right). Right now I am using: var oldX:Number = this.x; this.x = event.stageX + (initial.x - initial.stageX); ...

Recommend a Linux or browser-based Venn diagram drawing tool

I'm looking for a tool to draw good-looking Venn diagrams, for use on a Linux-based PHP site, which already employs Flash for graph drawing (Open Flash Chart 2). Free (as in beer or speech) would be nice, but isn't essential. So it should be one of the following (in my rough order of preference): Browser based (Flash) PHP library Lin...

Is there any way to extract text from a Flash-based website?

I'd like to code a scrobbling utility for Grooveshark using Last.FM's API but I don't know if it's possible to get the song information from the Grooveshark's Flash frontend. Is there any way to get strings from a .swf? I'd post some more information but I'm not able to post links yet since I'm a new user. ...

Error parsing .dae,Error#1009 in flash player,Augmented Reality flash

Hi, whenever i am trying to use an animate.dae file(i am creating small project using flartoolkit+papervision3d+ascollada) .The flash player is reporting me the errors pasted below.If i am pressing continue then i can see my .dae file but without animation :( And Please note that i am not using any heavy animation. ERROR TypeError: Err...

Testing for Flash capability on the server-side

I'm developing an ASP.NET website that will need to support non-flash users. In case the user's browser doesn't support Flash, or they have Flash disabled, I'd like to download a large splash image to the browser. However I don't want to waste bandwidth downloading it if the Flash does render properly. So is it possible to test, from ...

Action Script Prototypes and dynamic function creation

Does anyone know how AS3/Flash runtime handles trying to modify the prototype when working between sandboxes. In particular I create object O in sandbox A, then pass it to SandBox B. What is the effect if code in sandbox B tries to modify the prototype ? (do the objects in A of the same class see this ?). Can Sandbox B overwrite publ...

Flash Whiteboard: Actionscript 3

I'm looking for a flash Actionscript 3 tutorial on how to create a whiteboard application with flash media server 3.5. Please anybody have any ideas where I can start looking for this information? ...

ExternalInterface.call causing error in IE

Hi, I have a menu screen that for various reasons consists of a number of buttons as separate flash movies. When a button inside these movies is clicked, it is supposed to call a javascript function to move to the appropriate page. It works fine in firefox, but is currently failing in IE7. I don't have an IE6 handy to test on. This is th...

How do I create a "sound on/ sound off" button?

I've seen many web pages with a simple sound on /sound off button which plays music or some mp3 file when you press sound on and turns it off when you press off. How do I do that? Hi, I wasn't planning on using Flash -- if there is a standard plugin I could use and then make modification to the script, that'd be cool. I'm open to what...

Reading Textfile and split the string and push in to array

HI, I am reading the text file 1=apple 2=jack 3=lemon 4=banana var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(event.target); var mystring :String = loader.data; tempArray = mystring.split("\n"); and getting the value like 1=apple 2=jack 3=lemon 4=banana i need to split the value and push in to array like..removing the "=" and ...

how to remove right click menu in swf (flash cs4 using action script 3 ,flash 9) ?

i made swf using flash 9 player if i right click swf it will shows menu like zoom in , zoom out, etc option . but i saw this site url ( http://www.3dfreeair.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=6 ) animation swf like elephant.swf, bird.swf... not show anything .only shows reddraw option How can i do li...

Question about a loadMovie(..) in a flash application

Hi folks, I have the following code in a flash application loadMovie("original_files/default_image.jpg", "default_img"); It's a background image, AFAI can tell. Now, notice how the path is for a local file. How does this impact when i have the flash application compiled to a swf file and embedded into an web page? That swf will look...

Carousel component a-la searchme.com

I'm looking for an open source flash carousel component similar to what searchme.com has. ...

Is it possible to use UDP in Flash/ActionScript?

Quick question: is there possibility to do UDP datagram sockets in Flash/ActionScript? ...

Drawing an Interactive Diagram.

My boss wants to draw the local network and then, if you click on one of the computers or roll the mouse over one, he wants to see stuff like RAM, CPU, OS, etc. This has to be done in a browser, more specifically, the intranet's wiki. One of my coworkers suggested using flash (I am a complete noob but I assume ActionScript is what would...

Capture righclick event on Flash plugin using JS when using WMODE="window"

I'm using a custom right click context menu for a flash app (overriding the default adobe menu). For this Uza's right click solution ( http://www.uza.lt/blog/2007/08/solved-right-click-in-as3 ) works well. However, flash player plugin (for Firefox/Chrome etc) has a bug which breaks usage of international characters when its using WMode ...

Can you use a Card Layout on Game Panels?

I set up a Card Layout at main Game Panel, in order to bring up some additional menus at certain times during the game. When I run the build, the panels just flash back and forth between each other continually. Is this because both of them are continually refreshing? and is the card layout feasible in the main Game Panel, Is there a ...

AS2 to AS3 convertion

// This is AS2 Coding this.createEmptyMovieClip("some_mc", 1); some_mc.loadVariables("external.txt"); some_mc.onEnterFrame = function() { if (this.done == "yes") { // the variables have finished loading trace("**\nfinished loading\n**\nthe variables are:"); trace(this.fName); // outputs nuno trace(this.lName); // outputs mira ...

What is the best way to handle refreshing a localConnection between AS3 and AS2 swfs using SWFBridge? (load, unload, load again)

I have an AS2 swf that is hosted by an AS3 swf and they connect using SWFBridge. During the course of things i need to unload the AS2 swf and reload it. Therefore I assume I need to re-establish the SWFBridge connection. But when I try to reopen the connection it doesnt appear to work. Heres what I have - AS3 Code: var myBridge:SWFBri...