swf

When a SWF is loaded into another. Can the main SWF read the loaded one to retrieve its contents and modify them?

Give this scenario: I have a cool graphic in Illustrator or Flash. The graphic represents a figure, with various elements inside, shapes, lines, gradients, etc. I export it to a swf file and I can view my nice graphic if I open it. I have a (pure) as3 application, which loads swfs. Then... Can I manipulate the contents of the loade...

Link a Blog into scrolling text of SWF file

I'm working on an entirely flash-based site for a client who has already been using Blogspot for his News/Homepage updates. He wants to continue updating through Blogspot, but wants the blog to automatically fill in the text box on the flash site Homepage. I'm not sure if this is possible, or how I would go about doing it. Here is the b...

XML/SWF help needed

I'ld like to make a little swf application to use it on my XP desktop place. And I'ld like to run movies directly from this swf. So, I need to know parameters like movie name and subtitle name to parse it to the button link. And I thought that if I create an XML file to contain all data (1db for .avi,.mpeg etc and other from .srt,.sub ...

Does FlashPlayer support ScreenVideo codec?

I have swf file with embedded movie encoded with ScreenVideo codec, swf spec says FP supports it, but I can't see any frame. ...

Checking if Browser is using Cached SWC/SWF?

How do you know if the browser is actually using the cached swf RSL/library for Flex projects? I would like to be able to do different things from the preloader based on whether or not the user has never downloaded the library vs. they have it already cached by their browser. Is this possible? ...

Load a flash swf in debug mode

Hello I'm trying to debug a problem in a client side flash application (the swf) which communicates with a server side .asc. How do I get the client side flash to load in debug mode? I can get it into debug mode after it has loaded but I need to debug the loading of the flash. The application is a video conference app and it has a pro...

why are there dedicated ActiveScript editors, like FlashDevelop, if you cannot make SWF with them?

suppose I want to make a small SWF app, basically a couple of buttons, textboxes and event handlers. Something like this in C# or Java would be a single easily readable source code file that can be compiled with a freely available compiler and run. Now, I may be a clueless newbie here, but so far, from what I can see, the only way to mak...

ASP.NET MVC - SWF files not loading

In my asp.net mvc site, I'm loading flash files using swfobject. These files work fine, locally, using Visual Studio 2008 server (F5). But, when deployed to the Test server, they don't load at all. My routing table looks like this: routes.MapRoute( "Default", "{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}/{title}", new {controller = "Ho...

SWF reading/rendering (outside of Flash Player)?

I would like to use SWF files as source video data within a tool chain I am developing. The problem is, I can't seem to find a consistent way to convert them, and I'm concerned about the loss of quality that the conversion will introduce. I actually even have Flash CS3, but the export process to anything other than swf is flaky at best....

Detecting lost window focus in Google Chrome

I need to know via javascript whether a page has focus or not. When the user switches to another tab, minimizes the browser, or clicks outside the browser, the page shouldn't have focus. When the user returns to the window, by opening it, returning to the tab, clicking on the page, the page needs to have focus. The problem is the meth...

How can I play a .swf file on my WPF application?

I want to display a simple .SWF file on my WPF Form. It's a simple animation on loop. Is there a control "box" type element I can place on my form and just load the .swf file to it so it can play? Thank you for the help. :D ...

Flash and SEO: what am I missing?

We're trying to get our company website to be better indexed by Google and other search engines, and at this point I'm not quite sure what's missing. All of our text content is loaded in by our flash application via XML files. In summer, we wrote a PHP script that reads out all the XML files, and generates google friendly index.html fil...

How to use flashpaper in asp.net

hi friends, i want to display swf document via Adobe Flash Paper software in our asp.net web page. can any one describe how i embed flash paper API in .net? ...

detect the size of swf. flex/as3

I'm creating a map that has points of interest. (POI) When a user mouses over the POI an info bubble pops onto the screen and it loads an swf. I currently have 3 problems. My 4th problem is that this is due Monday 21st! so any help would be greatly appreciated! I can't detect the size of the swf so that my infobubble will size itself t...

Extract embedded PDF fonts to an external ttf file using some utility or script

Is it possible to extract fonts that are embedded in a PDF file to an external ttf file using some utility or script? If the fonts that are embedded (or not embedded) to a PDF file are present in system. Using pdf2swf and swfextract tools from swftools I am able to determine names of the fonts used in a PDF file. Then I can compile res...

Why are my HTML templates disappearing in flex builder when I target fp10?

When I target flash player 10 in flex builder 3, the index.html template along with some other files (history.js, etc) are removed and no wrapper html page is built. Anyone else experiencing this? I have an ant build script as well, but I was trying to run the built in fb builder. Thanks, Dave ...

how to add "Click" event to SWF file

hello i have SWF file. i want to send the user to another page when he clicks the SWF file 1- i tried to wrap the SWF file with tag but it did not works 2- i tried to add javascript events like "onclick" but it didnot works too so i think the best solution is to make another SWF file that takes two parameters "hyperlink" and "SWF URL" ...

How to set focus on fb:swf tags in Facebook app?

My code is as follows: <input id="input" type="text" onfocus="Focus('Input')" /> <input id="text" type="text" /> <fb:swf id="game" onfocus="Focus('Game')" swfsrc="http://ventoline.com/frozenbubble/preloaderbustamove.swf" width="640" height="480" /> <script type="text/javascript"> function Focus(msg){ new Dialog...

flash swf inside a swf creates a problem?

i've made a personal portfolio, link text ,the frames overlap when viewed? i've used transition states, when i'm in other page, other frames just flickers, what is major problem here? actually i've used swf inside swf as finally when i export from flex builder, is this the problem? how to overcome this problem? ...

Flash - custom language instead of ActionScript

Hi, I recently heard of a language that gives the same functionality as ActionScript (creating flash SWF files) with a certain speed increase. The language was called something along the lines of 'hex'. Does anyone have any idea what this language is? Thanks ...