Can anyone recommend a tool that makes generating Flash programs easy to use? I've played with a handful of tools but I've never found anything particularly easy to use. I'm looking for something that has the ease of MS PowerPoint. Thanks. ...
In our application (a game), in some cases it can't run fast enough. Obviously we'd like to speed it up, but in the mean-time when this happens it causes many problems (or if it's not causing them, the two are related). The one which is least related to our own functionality is that the built in Alert.show() method stops working. Typical...
Does anybody have any pointers to what SWD files are in Flash 9, why Flash Player wants to download them sometimes, how to make ones, how to make use of them? Didn't manage to dig anything useful myself yet. Update I know roughly what are swd files used in Flash8, and there is even a way to make them, but Flash 9 doesn't seem to need i...
I have an actionscript 2 application that I'd like to write automated UI testing for. For example I'd like to simulate a mouse click on a button and validate that a movie-clip is displayed at the right position and in the right color... Basically, UI testing. What are the best tools available or what is the desired approach? In JavaScrip...
So, I have Flex project that loads a Module using the ModuleManager - not the module loader. The problem that I'm having is that to load an external asset (like a video or image) the path to load that asset has to be relative to the Module swf...not relative to the swf that loaded the module. The question is - How can I load an asset i...
Is there a way to view a SVG from either a file or webpage dynamically using Silver light or flash? Edit: I am currently converting them on the server using inkscape. The only trouble with this is the time it takes to make all 60+ pages of the catalog is a little slow. It take 5 min to make it, and some customers(boss included) would...
For an interview in a few, I'm not at all familiar with Flash development. What would you ask? ...
This article on microsoft's tech net site supplies an exe that will calculate your windows machine's minimum time resolution - this should be the smallest "tick" available to any application on that machine: [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897568.aspx][1] The result of running this app on my current box is 15.625 ms....
I'm having a weird cross-browser flash problem. Please see the screenshot below. I have seen this behaviour before, but I cannot recall what the cause was. Can someone please tell me why this happens, and possible actions I can take to fix it? ...
After using AS2 for several years, I'm getting started with writing applications in AS3 (Flash9/Flash10). I've come to the point where I need some full sets of GUI components, and I need to decide which set I'm going to use. Back in the AS2 days, the built in components included with flash were pretty crappy - bloated filesize, slow, bug...
I came across this topic today while investigating something very strange. Doing certain things in our Flex app can cause the number of frames rendered to rocket, from 12fps to ~30fps: loaded animations start playing at high speed and the GUI starts to lock up. Since everything I've read on Flex/Flash hammers home the point "the frame r...
I really like the mp3 player on 8tracks.com and was wondering how they manage to keep the mp3 playing even when I change pages? For example, listen to the track here http://8tracks.com/mixes?q=Aztec+Camera and click on one of the links to another page. The music cuts out for 1/4 of a second and then comes back in at exactly the right po...
I am a AS3 novice learning PureMVC and want to write code following best practices so that any other AS3 developer can pick up my code and easily understand what I did, I am tempted to do stuff as I would in JavaScript or Asp.Net/C#, but I have a feeling that might not be the best approach. Thoughts? Links? ...
I want to see the stack trace in any function of my code, so i made somthing like this to call it and print the stack trace: public function PrintStackTrace() { try { throw new Error('StackTrace'); } catch (e:Error) { trace(e.getStackTrace()); } } I like to know if there are other way to do this. In some pl...
I'm making a small quiz-application in Flash (and ActionScript 3). Decided to use the RadioButton-component for radiobuttons, but I'm having some problems getting the word-wrapping to work. The code for creating the button can be found below. _button = new RadioButton(); _button.setStyle("textFormat", _format); _button.label = _config....
I ran across the following code in Ely Greenfield's SuperImage from his Book component - I understand loader.load() but what does the rest of do? loader.load((newSource is URLRequest)? newSource:new URLRequest(newSource)); It looks like some kind of crazy inline if statement but still, I'm a little preplexed. And if it is an if state...
I just got started using Adobe Flex SDK. I was very excited because it's the first time I've found a good, free way to create Flash applications. But then I noticed something: Flex doesn't seem to be much about making animations or designs. It seems more like an application to build forms and menus and the like... which I can already ...
As far as tools go, I am aware of haXe, MTASC, and swfmill. Can you offer any success or horror stories related to any of them? Are there any others that I should be investigating? With respect to learning, the Adobe Developer Connection seems to contain decent reference materials, but the tutorials all assume that the reader is using...
I'm having an issue with a Flash/Flex erroring in Firefox but not IE. I need to see the error that the Flash/Flex app is getting from the ASP.NET app. Is there any way to debug the response that Flash/Flex is getting? ...
I want to talk to a flash server which uses RTMP, but I don't want to use Flash, but rather c# or java. I was looking at Red5 but their client API seems to be a bit wobbly. Does anyone have any other ideas? ...