swf

Is a .swf file a source file?

I received a .swf (Flash) file and they asked me to modify some things. I don't know (yet) Flash. Is a .swf itself a source file or it is a compiled form of something other. What is the suggested IDE to work with Flash, where to starts? ...

How to stop Flash file (.swf) from loading (ActionScript 3)

Suppose I have a large .swf file. Say, it's 10MB. I don't want the browser to load the entire file until user clicks a button in frame 1. I don't want to use external files. I just want Flash Player to download first 10KB, display frame 1 and then stop until user click the button. Is it even possible? ...

What is different between below method on flex in action script3 ?

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit(); - this method is used for exit the application of flex/air . application.close(); - this method also used for exit the application of flex/air - So what is different? ...

Using swf as a library for another swf in a maven project using flex-mojos

Hi! I have a maven project with flex-mojos 3.1.0. Can I have a module with swf packaging and configure a dependency on it in another module? When I do, I get a compilation error. project | - module1:swf | - module2:swf module2/pom.xml: <parent> <groupId>com.mygroup</groupId> <artifactId>project</artifactId> <versio...

How to export image from swf with ActionScript3/PHP?

Hi there, i have another piece for more advanced guys than me ;) I am developing a simple flash application to create your own coat of arms. When finished creating, it would be nice to save it as an image to a client's computer or to a database, i am not sure yet. The problem is making the image from swf content - i mean not the whole c...

How do you recompile a Flash project?

Firstly, thanks for your help. Here's my situation: I'm trying to edit the code for a flash mp3 player, specifically the xspf music player located here http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/ (I'm using the slim version). I downloaded the latest release and got a compressed file containing a .as file, a .fla file, and a .swf file. I've got ...

How to reduce swf filesize flex

how can i reduce the file size of my flex application. its around 900kb . ...

Starting Flash Development

I want to make a flash based site. I like something like this: http://bfish.free.fr/ Is this hard? I have done a little Flash work, but I can learn. How can I accomplish my goal? ...

Do you know any example about system tray application using air or flex?

I made one small application using flex . it is working correctly but i want that application icon show on system tray .how wiill i do for that ? i used if (NativeApplication.supportsSystemTrayIcon) { NativeApplication.nativeApplication.autoExit = false; icon.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, ...

How to get the background colour of a loaded swf?

When you load in an external swf at runtime is there any way to get the background colour of the swf? - That is the stage background colour. The loaded swf is uploaded by users, who may or may not know the correct colour. I know that normally this is specified in the html code to embed a swf, but if you run a swf in the standalone player...

Display a .swf file as ASP .Net Page header

I have an ASP. Net 2.0 website with C# 2005 as the programming language. I am using CSS for the layout. Currently I am using a plain/static .Gif image as my header. I would like to enhance the look by using some animation in the header. I used some flash utilities to design my required animated banner. But since I was unable to use the ....

Do you know about NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon,bitmaps in flex ( action script3 ) ?

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.bitmaps = bitmapData(); I wrote coding in my project for sysTrayIcon display but got error like NativeApplication.nativeApplicationSeverity and Description Path Resource Implicit coercion of a value of type flash.display:BitmapData to an unrelated type Array. toy/src toy.mxml .icon.bitmap...

Get flv file with PHP for embedded swf control

So would like to do: get an flv file from a protected directory and feed it to a swf embedded player as a parameter using PHP. Is this possible? Sending the contents of the file to the embedded player does not seem to work. ...

how to store bitmaps into arrary in flex (action script3) ?

In my project i used image array with 16+16 32+32 48+48 128+128 different size of image for system tray icon but i put on bitmes then shows Error #2005: Parameter 0 is of the incorrect type. Should be type BitmapDat. public var imageURLs:Array = ['icon/toy.png','toy32.png','TOY48.png','joy128.png']; NativeApplication.nativeApplicatio...

Using Flash Runtime as Platform (similar to JVM / CLR)

Does anyone know whether any compilers exist to produce programs that will run on the Flash runtime from source code other than Flex? i.e. similar to how Groovy, Scala, etc compilers generate bytecode for the JVM. ...

What tools are recommended for creating Flash animations on Linux?

I want to make a fairly simple Flash application that will play a slideshow of still images while audio plays in synch with the images. The application will need to change slides according to the timing of the audio. It also would be nice if I could give the user a control to pause and resume. The catch is that I do my development on ...

Extract Text from SWF

We currently use print2flash (http://print2flash.com) to convert user submitted documents (Word documents, RTF, PowerPoint, etc) into Flash-based documents that can be viewed online (a la docstoc and scribd). We would like to index the text inside these files for full-text indexing. Are there any tools or libraries we can use to accomp...

How do I generate SWX data files serverside?

By storing data in SWX files on the server, it can be interpreted automatically like loading one SWF into another. Now I'd like this data to be modified by server side code, how can I do this? Are there any SWX libraries for PHP that I can use? ...

Could u tell me any popular air animation site ?

i want learn more thinks about air animation . not an application so any one know popular air animation site ? ...

How to get sqlite data based flare visualization (swf) to work in Adobe AIR desktop app?

I've been unsuccessful in trying to find an example how to get a sqlite data based flare visualization (swf) to run in Adobe AIR desktop application. Here is what I have: ProjectA: a flare visualization sample done in FlexBuilder based on a tutorial; ProjectB: a desktop AIR app that is able to retrieve data from sqlite based on a tuto...