swf

What happens when an youtube swf file is buffered

Hi, Whenever a youtube or any other flash content is buffered on the browser, isn't it true that is downloaded to the client computer ? So my assumption is that, any completely buffered youtube file should be found on my client right ? For example, when i view this video on youtube, i see that it is actually referring to this swf l...

tomcat: loading swf into page

Hi. what's the recommended method to load an SWF file in my page ? just to use HttpServletResponse.getWriter and to print with it the SWF object, or is there a more efficient method ? ...

Accessible Flash Content for the blind

Hi All, I am working on a browser project for the blind in my university. For swf files, I am trying to access the contents of an SWF and parse so that screen readers can use it to read it aloud. I was successfully able to extract static text using swfutils.jar from inside the Flex SDK. But I was wondering if the following i spossibl...

Inspect HTTPS traffic from SWF files

Is there a way to inspect HTTPS traffic from Flex applications compiled to SWF files? I'm trying to use Fiddler for this, have added DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot to my Trusted Root Certification Authorities so my IE now can access other HTML sites that would normally complain about untrusted certificate. However, the HTTPS traffic from the ...

Providing a JavaScript link to embed content

Hey everyone, I'm writing on behalf of YSTV; we're looking at providing embed options for our videos, and I've got a quick question. We can obviously provide embed code to users such as <embed height="360" width="480" flashvars="backcolor=0xffffff&amp;autostart=false&amp;file=http://ystv.york.ac.uk/static/videos.php?file=1040&amp;amp;...

swfloader: can I catch all the exceptions from the loaded swf?

I am loading a swf into another swf using swfloader, I want to catch all the exceptions thrown by the inner swf, is it doable? ...

Basic usage of swffit. How to make it work

How swffit (http://swffit.millermedeiros.com/) can be used? I mean in my project I have dynamically expanding flash application, so once the expanding part riches the bottom I see standard flash scroll bar. Not browser scrollbar... Here is how I defined my application: public function addPanel(evt:Event):void ...

Can you manually set resolution (pixel height/width) for Firefox 3 on Linux?

Trying to get my 800px width swf to take up the full width of the browser, but Firefox always shrinks it to about 2/3 size. Wondering if I can manually set the width FF opens up to, so that my swf will display at full resolution. Running Fedora 10. Any advice is much appreciated. ...

actionscript events - is the event buffered and ordered?

I found an interesting questions regarding the events in action script: is the event buffered and ordered? Ie) In a swfloader example, I setup a timer(1 sec) to run a function, in the function I setup a listener to event INIT of the loaded swf. It depends on the network condition that whether the timer handler or the INIT event will be ...

How to make a small flash swf with ComboBox in Actionscript 3?

I have a pure Actionscript 3 project, using flash.* libraries, compiles down to about 6k (using mxmlc). Program handles about 1k shapes, a few sprites, a sockets connection, works great (tastes less filling). Now, how would I add a ComboBox control without incurring excessive bloat? More specificially, I would like to keep the size und...

Achieving Colour Consistency Across Different Monitors

I have an SWF file with only vector illustrations in it (no bitmaps). Is there a way to improve colour consistency across different monitors? Colour management is a very complex topic and the more I read about it the more confused I become. There's this thing called ICC profiles which are supposed to convert colours into device indepen...

Local Swf security problems

Hi all, I want to have a swf locally that loads another swf from the internet. Flash quite wisely displays a warning requiring to whitelist the place from were the external swf is being loaded. Now is there any way for this warning not to display? Changing those options trough the browser is quite an hassle and Im pretty sure people...

Why would same SOAP request work in one Flex project and not another?

This is a pretty odd situation I have here. I have used a piece of code to interact with a backend SOAP service for several months - it works fine. I tried it out in a different project (first as an swc library and then just by cutting and pasting) and it just doesnt work. If I try the exact same code in the original flex project, conne...

ffmpeg: convert audio-only flv to swf

My Flex application records audio-only FLV files using red5--I'd like to convert these to SWF files so I can embed them in other SWF files. (I could also convert to MP3 and then embed them into SWFs myself, but I'd prefer a one step solution.) Anyone have experience doing this? What I've tried: The following naive ffmpeg command fail...

Embed .swf in webpage and make it fullscreen

Is there a way to embed a .swf file in a webpage and provide a way to make it fullscreen? I'm creating these files with Adobe Captivate, which doesn't seem to provide a way to publish in other usable formats (.avi files are too big, and no .flv is available, to which there seem to have some players around that allow fullscreen). If ther...

How to make a file update?

I have an SWF on a USB pen that I would like to check a web server each time that I open it to see if there is a more recent version of the SWF. If there is I want the SWF to download it. How does one goes about doing so? What can I use? Im absolutely clueless on this. ...

How to put multiple SWFObjects on a web page?

IS there a clean and concise way to put multiple swfobjects into one page in HTMl, bearing in mind they will all need different flashvars? Below is just one: <script type="text/javascript"> var flashvars = {}; var params = {}; var attributes = {}; swfobject.embedSWF("/swf/AllBookings.swf"...

Flash AS4 - How to create online presentation which a presenter can control and a client can view.

Hi, I have a brief to create a web based flash application that enables a presenter and a customer to share a presentation, the key factor being only the presenter can change the slide of the presentation. Is it possible to do swf to swf communication so that the presentation is updated on the client side? Or would I have to store the ...

Flex Link not working

Hi, There this link in Flex that was working and now isnt... Flex is giving me a headache with this one because it is not throwing any errors either. In the script part of the XML I have this: private function onLinkClick( event:TextEvent ):void { var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest( event.text ); navi...

Clicking on swf fires onBlur-Event in Chrome?

Hello everyone! I am facing a rather strange problem right now. I have a site using popup-windows and need to know about their current focus. This works rather fine and as expected, except for one situation: Using Google Chrome it looks like an open window will fire an onBlur-Event (lose its focus) when you click on an swf that is conta...