flash-cs5

Creating a custom progress bar in flash? (not a preloader)

I need a progress bar that's kind of in an odd shape, I've attached an image. It's not a preloader; it's for periodic progress while the user is performing other action on the website. I've played and played with tweens from a symbol of a fill of the bar to no avail. I'm not great at flash, so apparently even this simple thing is a stumb...

How to use navigateToUrl to access html files relative to the site root?

Hi! I try to make an intro animation inside a website, and when the animation is done or when you push the Skip button, it navigates to the index.html file from the site root. So I have in my site root the folder Flash, where the intro.swf is, and within the intro.swf I called the navigateToURL(new URLRequest("..\index.html"), "_self")...

What is loaded in first frame?

Hi! I'm building a flash game wish contains sounds/images/videos and such. Now I want to build a preloader for this game. The problem is that currently it is around 2 mb of data in the first frame. How can I see wish objects that are being loaded in the first frame? Thanks, ...

Event registrer on children rather than parent

Hi all, Hopefully a quick question here. I have setup a "LayoutPage" custom class (based on MovieClip) and I am attemptimg to create a "selected" behaviour. When I assign my "addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,toggleSelection)" from within my custom class, everything works as expected, clicking any object of that class does display the ...

Is there difference in performance between movieclip and graphic symbol?

Hi, So yeah I was wondering if there is any difference in performance/memory use between movieclip symbol and graphic symbol? ...

Monotouch vs Flash CS5 for iPhone App Development

Hi, With the recent loosening of the Apple Developer licence on third-party development platforms, I have had a brief look into app development with Monotouch and Flash CS5 but am unsure of which to develop with. I am competent in both C# and ActionScript so the language isn't so much the issue (but i dislike objective-c so please don't...

Knowing which instance of a symbol the event listener came from?

I need some help! I have no doubt this is a dumb problem that I've just over-thought to the point I got dumb about it. I've got one "main" instance of a MovieClip symbol (let's call it Mountain) with an accompanying class. In the flow of the program, I automatically generate 8 other instances of the same symbol, let's say, each has a di...

Adobe Flash CS5 for iPhone game development?

Since Apple loosened their terms again, is it posible to develop a game in FLash CS5 and publish it on the Apple App Store? Are there actually any real apps / games on the App Store that were build on Flash? ...

Actionscript 3.0 gesture tracking

I am creating an interactive animation of a cat you can stroke, rub, poke etc. I have implemented some basic functions in an attempt to recognize the different gestures, I am using the mouse down and mouse up events to track the duration and distance of the click. My problem with this is that the 'distance' is measured from the start p...

Convert serialized string from PHP to array in AS3.0

Hi there I'm busy communicating with my Flash file with a PHP script which in turns communicates with my db, I need to pass an array from PHP back to Flash, which happens correctly I assume, but I'm unable to unserialize the string correctly when it returns, my string looks like this: memberNum=2&success=1&teamMemberID%5B0%5D=1&teamMem...

ActionScript / Flash – Add ASDoc Documentation to Adobe Help?

is it possible to add ASDoc documentation to Adobe Help application? i've configured Adobe Help to show documentation off-line only, so there is a store of the official AS3 docs on my computer somewhere, but all i can find is a helpmap.txt (800+ kb). it would be very convenient to have access to all documentation via right-click > view...

dinamic text flash cs5

hi. i have 3 dinamic text (h1,h2,h3) but i can´ t do this var n:Array=["n1","n2","n3"]; for(var i = 0;i < 3; i++){ n[i].text="hello"; } say this error Cannot create property text on String. help me sorry for my ingles ...