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PHP Flash Charts API w/ Missing Dates?

I have some data of balances ($), dates, and memos. I want to plot this as a line graph. I was happily plotting away with http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/ until I realized that my x-axis was off: there aren't balances for every day, and sometimes there are multiple balances on a single day. How can I compensate for this (space out the dat...

Flash stop "actionscript error" dialog box from appearing

I need to disable flash from showing these error messages when an error occurs. I am completely aware of the error I'm receiving, and it does not cause my application from working correctly. I simply need to disable these messages. Is there a setting in flash or a flex compiler command or something? Thanks, David. ...

Subclassing the Flash OCX to change the mouse cursor

I'm trying to do this with no luck so far. I'm listening for the WM_SETCURSOR messages and setting the cursor there, it works most times, but not always. I've seen two other cases that I need to catch: WM_PAINT: At least after a WM_LBUTTONDOWN the cursor is painted somehow without calling WM_SETCURSOR... WM_CAPTURECHANGED: Happening s...

modifyContentString returns [object Window] instead of "real" content

Hello everybody, I try to manipulate the sifr output. I want to add some kind of bullet in front of it (»). I found the method "modifyContentString" at the sifr 3 wiki. But I cannot get the contents. All I receive is an [object Window]. What went wrong? sIFR.replace(myFont, { selector: '#sidebar li', modifyContentString: functi...

loading extermal html into a dynamic text field actionscript3

I have a dynamic text field and want to load twitter updates into this in flash using actionscript 3 The dynamic text field is called: myUpdates Here is the code i have been using but am getting compiler errors saying that String is a static type and instances cannot have members dynamically added to it. I can see what is wrong tho? ...

How many Flash objects/movies can you add to a page before memory consumption becomes an issue?

In an Ajax desktop scenario (iGoogle, Netvibes etc); how many separate Flash "widgets" can you load before memory usage becomes a problem? Does each Flash instantiate a separate Flash player? Or is there just one Flash player / browser, so memory usage is only dependant on the memory requirements of the swf? Or is this something that...

JQuery IE8 Variable Undefined Error

I am trying to read the value of the FlashVars parameter off of a Flash .swf file that's being embedded onto a page using swfobject. I can't change anything about how the Flash is being put on the page so I'm trying to manipulate it with JQuery. In Firefox the following selector works: $flashvars1 = $(".homepagecolumn1 embed").attr("fla...

Flash on the Beach Conference

I've never been to a developer Conference before, I don't know what to expect. Is it worth investing in events like this and travel 1000km. Courses and speakers seem interesting enough (O'Reilly, Wiley, Adobe...), but will all this make me better developer? ...

How can you save out a String into a file in AS3?

I have a string the user has typed and I want to save it into a file on the users harddrive. Can you do that? And if so, how? ...

Can Flash/Flex be used to create a Windows Explorer type file tree browser?

I'm interested in using Flash or Flex to create a File Explorer/Tree which the user can point to a directory on their hard drive, and keep open while they do other things. Similar to TextMate's project drawer, or the file trees on many code editors. Is it possible to create a local file browser using these technologies, and are you awa...

.sifr-active, visibility: hidden; not working in Safari 4.0.2?

Hi, I trying to hide the element before replacement by using the .sIFR-active class, set on the HTML element, to apply CSS rules to elements when sIFR is active. I set the visibility: hidden; and it is working fine in IE and Firefox. Not Safari. Any idea? ...

How to show streaming videos in flash in iPhone application

Hello All: I want to show live video streaming which is in the form of flash. Can any body tell me how to do this in an iPhone application. Thanks Ashwani ...

How do you change the timeout on a flash.net.netconnection?

Timeout appears to be about 10 seconds. Can this be modified? ...

what is the use of Flash Lite, is this same as Flash Action Script

I want to know is Flash Lite is same as Flash Action Script programing. When/where we use Flash Lite? ...

Can i play a swf file /flv file in FlowPlayer ?

Can i play a swf file /flv file in FlowPlayer ? ...

Open Flash Chart 2 IE doesn't load new data for chart

I have OFC2 chart in my page and when user selectes choice, then it will make another request to server with parameters and OFC2 should load new data from server, but IE won't load new data, but it shos old data instead. It works well in other browsers, but not in IE. What could be the problem here, and how can I solve it? ...

Document -> Flash viewer, not hosted

I've got a content management solution where we present scanned images (TIFF), PDFs, word docs for viewing. While we can simply embed a PDF, sometimes depending on user preferences it's a bit fiddly and sometimes not user-intuitive. I'd like a solution like scribd, embedit, etc, but not hosted. I want to run the application on our own s...

Logging or writing textfile from flash,as3

Hi, I am doing flash project(adobe flash cs4 proffesional) which run in browser with flsh player 10.. i need to implement error logging in text file. in my project i have try catch statement while catching the error i need to pass that error and write in text file... how to do it from browser. ,pls provide any example or link relate...

Why is my swf causing the Flash Player to crash.

I've got a flex-based swf, which is loading an AS 2-based swf and then, negotiating further activity via a LocalConnection. From time to time, the AS 2-swf can request that the flex-based swf load a movie. I've arranged this via on(release){} functions. The AS 2-swf, I'm making in Swish Max. In Swish, when i set the on (release) on a ...

Easiest way to generate PDF from vector graphics and text serverside or in flash

ok, here's the problem: the format of the vector graphics could be either SWF or SVG, which is up to me to choose the text can have about any font both text and graphics can be rotated and moved, and graphics can be scaled too i considered doing this on clientside, which is flash player 9, using alivePDF, but 1. it does not support m...