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viewstacks vs states in flex ?

I have an app that I am currently using a viewstack to display each page and I am wondering is this the right way to go, or should I use different states (or something else). The site is powered by a menu bar with the top level items of Home, Tools, Support. Underneath the Tools menu is a submenu with Tool1, Tool2, Tool3. Currently when...

Flash Fullscreen onLoad?

Hi. Does someone know how I can get a Flash Movie fullscreen onLoad? Thanks! Best. ...

group rollover effects with actionscript3

I've got the following issue with a actionscript3 project. I have a group of buttons setup via a class sitting in a holder sprite. When I rollover one of these buttons I loop through all the buttons in the holder and run tweenlite to tween the alpha to .4 except when the name matches the currently active button. When I rollout I reset...

What's more efficient: a Timer, an EnterFrame event or a basic tween with extra code?

Greetings. I'm building a video player in ActionScript 3, that's supposed to be targeted on performance. It has to play large h264 videos via RTMP, with the least possible processor load. There's not much control on the actual video playback part, but my approach is to try and not kill the processor with the chrome and other additional ...

Change Flash source by Python

I have flash with big image library inside, is there way to manipulate this content by python? ...

How do you make a SWF resize inside a HTML page?

Hey, again. The stageHeight and stageWidth are read-write properties of the Stage class. Is there any way to embed the swf so that when you set them to a different value, this is reflected in the HTML page? Possibly without calling a JS function via ExternalInterface to modify the embed's parameters? The main idea is that I don't know...

Auto-updating USB Key Marketing Materials

Marketing development isn't my strong suit by any stretch of the imagination, so when I was asked about designing a marketing USB key that could update itself I ended up doing quite a bit of searching around on Google. Building some HTML that hosts some (say, not married to the idea) Flash and presents the information on the USB key is e...

Flash CS4 Textfield weirdness!

I've been working on a flash project where a designer has included a typewriter effect. The effect was working for the best part of a day, and now with some minor changes to other parts of the fla, it's not working!! Does anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work.... import flash.text.TextField; var phrase_string:String="SALE IS E...

Wanted - better Flash Professional tools...

Can anyone recommend a plugin/extension for Flash Professional that can improve debugging features for Flash Professional. Currently, I'm using FlashDevelop to assist with coding tasks, but breakpoints etc. don't yet work well with FLA based projects. Thanks! ...

Audio clip recorder for website.

Hello, On the client side of my website i want to be able to allow the user to record a short audio clip, around 20 seconds duration and store this recorded audio on the server. Is there any way to do this using any client side technologies like javascript or flash ? Thank You. ...

How to get the MouseEvent.localX and localY of a target but not its child objects?

I'm creating a simple drawing application that adds new Shape objects to a MovieClip "canvas" every time the user clicks and drags. The problem is, I'm noticing that even though the MouseEvent listeners are set to the MovieClip, the child Shape objects are being returned as targets as well. This disrupts the localX and localY as well, ...

flash overlay snagging on underlying divs

Hiya! Has anyone come across this before and know a solution? I'm using Shadowbox to overlay a flash file on my page, but the movement within the flash file causes it to break or "shear" where the movie comes across the divs in the HTML hidden below. The screenshot shows it far better than I could explain ;) If you move the mouse, or...

Email client support for embedding flash links in HTML email?

I have a Flash-based chart I would like to include in an email report. Will most popular email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, Hotmail - render the chart or will they block it for security purposes? ...

Flash AS3 - Can I prevent my shared object from saving on the .swf close?

I have a program with a save feature - the user clicks a button, and everything is saved to a local Shared Object with the flush(); command. My problem is that Flash .swf files automatically save to the local Shared Object when the movie is closed, overwriting their previous, manual save. Is there anyway to prevent flash from saving to...

Conflicting startDrags

Flash CS4, AS2 I'm making a tour with a map. I'm using this startDrag code to move the map around: menu.onPress = function() { this.startDrag(); }; menu.onRelease = function() { stopDrag(); }; This works perfectly. However, inside the "menu" movieclip I am using a hover tag startDrag code: EllisIsland._visible=false;{} Ell...

How do I tell mxmlc to treat warnings as errors?

I'm using the mxmlc command line tool to compile a pure AS3 project. Is there a command line option to make mxmlc treat warnings as errors? I've read through all the compiler flags and flex-config.xml but wasn't able to find this option. ...

General Password Security && Implementation in Actionscript 3

My project for this summer is to make a multiplayer online flash game. I could use some advice as I've never implemented a secure login system before, let alone done so in Actionscript. My setup right now is a .swf sending/receiving game data to/from a Java server which communicates with a MySQL database about account info. 1) How ...

Does uploading with Silverlight suffer the cookie bug like flash?

When using flash to upload a file to a web server, it sends cookies from IE only. This breaks things like session and FormsAuthentication in ASP.NET. Does silverlight have this problem? ...

Software like graphjam

Hi, Is there any pre-build software that can build graphs and export as an image like graphjam.com does? (they have a flash application) ...

Event Handling For Toolbar Using Haxe Targeting Flash

I am creating a simple UI toolbar component in Haxe for use in a Flash game. The toolbar is your general UI style toolbar, it has a background and several buttons. When the buttons are clicked some game action happens. I have a question about the best way to implement events for the toolbars buttons. A parent class will create a toolbar...