shockwave

Any online resources for learning Lingo/Shockwave Director?

I've been doing bits and pieces of work in Lingo while helping a friend with some projects he's working on, but I haven't found any good resources for actually learning the language. I'm sure I could pick up an old book somewhere that explains it, but I really just want a quick lesson and I think a website with some sample code and func...

How do you capture mouse events in FF, over Shockwave Object

How do you capture the mouse events, move and click over top of a Shockwave Director Object (not flash) in Firefox, via JavaScript. The code works in IE but not in FF. The script works on the document body of both IE and Moz, but mouse events do not fire when mouse is over a shockwave director object embed. Update: function displa...

wav <> mp3 for flash(as3)

Dear All, I'm wondering about MP3 decoding/encoding, and I was hoping to pull this off in Flash using AS3 I'm sure it'll be a right pain... I have no idea where to start, can anyone offer any pointers? reference material? ----much later--- Thank you all very much for your input... It seems I have a long road ahead of me yet! ...

What are the differences between Shockwave, Flash & Flex?

Are they the same thing? If not, what are the differences? ...

Shockwave State Data

How can I save Shockwave state data? Can it become part of the shockwave file? Can it be saved to the Shockwave ActiveX container? Does it have to be completely external? ...

C++ ATL Member Variable access help

I am not familiar with this, and can use a kick start. I am using ATL (unmanaged C++) user control and would like to use the ShockWave ActiveX object. I need to know how to declare it so that I can set a property or call a method. For instance, if I could assign a variable to it, then I would like to call 'variable->LoadMovie()' I kno...

Flash ActiveX: How to Load Movie from memory or resource or stream?

I'm embedding a Flash ActiveX control in my C++ app (Flash.ocx, Flash10a.ocx, etc depending on your Flash version). I can load an SWF file by calling LoadMovie(0, filename), but the file needs to physically reside in the disk. How to load the SWF from memory (or resource, or stream)? I'm sure there must be a way, because commercial sol...

Addressing properties of a Shockwave Flash object (MultiPowUpload) in JavaScript

Please pardon the dumb newbie question; I've only been programming Javascript for about 24 hours... :) I have managed (with some outside help) to embed a shockwave flash object into my page - specifically MultiPowUpload 2.1. It's appearing nicely on the page and seems to be functioning correctly; we can take that part as read. Now I'm...

Shockwave How Would I Start?

Hi all, I was just wondering, how would I go about creating a browser based 3D racing game to be a shockwave game? Any links and tutorials would be very helpful Thanks ...

flash/shockwave audio&video player which lets a user record start and end points

We have a bunch of audio and video assets on our site. Currently we play audio with a little shockwave mp3 player and video (flvs) with flvplayer. I have a requirement to record a 'usage' of a particular resource whereby the user selects a video or sound clip, then sets a start point and an end point in it, to select a ten second snipp...

which platform should I use for developing animation/simulation of computer networks?

I'm supposed to develop animations/simulations to illustrate Computer Network concepts (Algorithms etc..).Some thing like this: http://www3.rad.com/networks/2004/sliding_window/detect.html . After done with this, I'm also supposed to develop similar animations for Operating System Concepts too. Its part of an educational program. I'm un...

Shockwave games in Facebook?

Hi guys, simple question: is it possible to run games made with Adobe Director (shockwave player) in Facebook? Thx.- ...

How can pass parameters to a flash Movie in Delphi 2010?

I have imported the ShockWave flash Activex Control in my Delphi project. I can manipulate All the properties of a Flash movie file. But I need to define my own Parameters in the my own Flash file and Manipulate those parameters in the Delphi project. I know that passing parameters to a flash file is possible in the HTML script. But my p...

How to extract images from flash viewers?

This deals with the (diverse) flash viewers that let you zoom in on images on websites. I’m trying to extract the large, zoomed-in image rendered by the viewer. In many cases the images seem to be dynamically called by the viewer, or are created only for the part of the image you are zooming on at that point. Ideally, the approach here...

Does Shockwave's preLoadMember actually cache?

Hi - I am trying to use Shockwave Director with a large 3D .w3d file. I load it like so: on enterFrame me if member(g3dMemberName).mediaReady = 1 then preLoadMember(member(g3dMemberName)) else go to the frame end if end which seems to work fine. However, the w3d never seems to come from the user's local cache. The documentat...

Augmented Reality via (common) Web Cam / iPhone / Android - Grid Detection? - Harry Potter 3D Example

I'm trying to figure out how to implement a basic augmented reality application that uses a piece of (real) paper to navigate (simple rotate, zoom) a virtual 3d or pseudo-3d space. The example implementation that comes to mind is the Harry Potter 3D Augmented Reality ad, where you can take a piece of paper, point it at your webcam (at ...

Is it possible to handle shockwave objects in flash?

Hi everyone, I want to know, Is there any way to handle or control the shockwave objects in flash by using 'as3'? I know this is possible in 'Director' by using 'Lingo'. But I am not able to find any way or any articles from where i can get some idea about this. In the director, I've seen there is way to set some properties like camera ...

Can I export or publish an Adobe Director movie to a format that can be played in Adobe AIR?

Is it possible to export or publish an Adobe Director movie to a format that can be played in Adobe AIR? ...

How to limit CPU resources / Shockwave Flash

Can I set a maximum percentage of CPU resources a specific program or process can use? I want to use the executable name instead of its pid, because I would like certain executables to always run with constrained resources. The reason I ask for that is that I am bored of the way Shockwave Flash behaves. It is not possible that to draw a...