I need to convert Java regular expressions into Actionscript regular expressions. There apparently aren't any premade converters, so I'm trying to write one myself. Is there any resource that'd list all the differences? I'm aware of regular-expressions.info, but there doesn't seem to be a comprehensive listing of differences there.
View 2 RepliesI'm coding in AS2 using CS4 if it matters.Can I use regular expressions in this environment?
View 3 RepliesI need 3 different regular expressions one that finds at the beginning of the string a 'D' and a space then a name, so 'D patrickgates hello there' would return 'D patrickgates', or if all possible would return just 'patrickgates' one that will find the @ sign and a name together anywhere in the string so '@patrickgates hello, world' would work and return '@patrickgates' or if at all possible would return just 'patrickgates' one that will find 'RT' and a space and then '@' and the username at the beginning of the string so 'RT @patrickgates' would work if returning just the username and also being true isn't possible with one regex, then I could use one to match to, and one that will delete the 'D' or the '@' or the 'RT'.
View 2 RepliesWhat is the best (highest-performance/lowest memory-usage, etc.) way to compile a regular expression in AS3? [code]...
View 2 RepliesI'm not very good at regular expressions, but I would like my script to replace
Code:
<a href="somepage.html">
by
Code:
<a href="event:somepage">
i am experimenting with parsing textfiles into different formats, and found the regular expressions in AS3 which should do the job. The problem is, i dont understand how it works.The examples below are just to show the sort of function i am looking for (to start with).[code]
View 10 RepliesI have two strings.One looks like this.
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[12] => Array ( [type] => 2 [name] => Width [value] => 3 )
The other looks like this.
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[13] => Array ( [type] => 7 [name] => Blocks [value] => Array (
[0] => 4
[1] => 4[code].....
In those two strings, I need the Width value and the Block id value. Since the Width only has one value, I am going to put it in an int while the Block values are going into a Vector. Now...how in the world do I get the necessarily information out of this mess.
I'm trying to use regular expressions with the String.replace() method to manipulate a string to replace all instances of a forward slash "/" with a period "."
So for instance, if I start with this String:
"things/stuff/cheese/yum"
I want to convert it to:
"things.stuff.cheese.yum"
Easy enough if I want to replace a letter... let's say I wanted to replace all instances of the letter "e", I would do this:
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var str:String = "things/stuff/cheese/yum";
var myPattern:RegExp = /e/g;
trace(str.replace(myPattern, "."));
// returns: "things/stuff/ch..s./yum"
... but how do I replace all instances of "/"??
I am trying to find if a substring (pattern) is included in a string (path). I use the search method of String class, but if my pattern string includes regular expressions special characters (i.e. ()$), the search function returns (-1). How can I escape these characters?
Code:
// with path="hello$world" and pattern="hello$" this returns -1
function checkPath (pattern:String):int
{
var reg:RegExp = new RegExp(pattern);
return path.search(reg);
}
I have to parse out color information from HTML data. The colors can either be RGB colors or file names to a swatch image. I used [URL] to develop and test the patterns. I copied the AS regular expression code verbatim from the tool into Flex Builder. But, when I exec the pattern against the string I get a null. Here are the patterns and an example of the string (I took the correct HTML tags out so the strings would show correctly):
[Code]....
I'm using regular expression to search word in a string, for example
var patrn:RegExp = new RegExp("\bit's\b");
var str:String = "Heres my problem in it and it's so help me guys.";
trace(patrn.exec(str)); //result is null
My problem is I can't search the data in a string which has special character like ('/,/.). What regular expression string is capable solving my problem?
I'm writing a HTML parser in Flex (AS3) and I need to remove some HTML tags that are not needed.
For example, I want to remove the divs from this code:
<div>
<div>
[code].......
I want to alter the text color inside a string that has some HTML tags using regular expressions.My question is how can I alter the letters only of the text between html tags and not inside the html tagsI am using something like this:
ActionScript Code:
var exp:RegExp = new RegExp(textfield.text,"i")
str = str.replace(exp, "<font color='#FF0000'>$&</font>");
[code].......
I am working on an application that is near the end of its development cycle and has mostly passed user testing. We recently realized that having flex convert dates to the client's local timezone is not desired, as all of our dates are in EST and contain no time data. Since BlazeDS sends dates in UTC, this results in the dates being converted to the day before in timezones west of EST.
The best solution is to go in and refactor all dates to adjust for the timezone offset, but that is just not doable at this stage. Since all dates in our application don't care about time, I would really like to be able to intercept all Date objects that come across BlazeDS and adjust for the timezone offset.
I need to load somehow the html code of a webpage A into a javascript string of another webpage B, on a different host. I know this is impossible to do with javascript alone because of the same origin policy, and I know I could do it loading the page via php on my server and then send results back to the user's client but I wouldn't be able to handle so many requests, so I need it to be done directly by the user's browser. I can use nearly whatever browser scripting language/applet framework common enough to be installed on the majority of my users' computers, like flash and java.On example, what if I use flash or java to load the external html code and then call a javascript callback function providing the source? Could this work?
View 2 RepliesExample: "My site is [URL] and yours is [URL]. Is Fred's [URL]? Or is it[URL]? (I thought his site was [URL], but clearly it's not."
This should extract
[URL]
Notes: it should assume that any punctuation following the url is NOT part of the url, e.g. the comma after [URL], is not part of the url. This includes trailing question marks, which I realize in actuality COULD be part of the url. Of course, if a question mark is followed by querystring data, it SHOULD be considered part of the url. Note that urls might be followed by multiple punctuation marks, as in the the case of (Is your url[URL])?
Urls (and their trailing punctuation, if any) will always be followed by a space, a newline/return character -- or they'll be the end of the string being tested.The will be preceded by a whitespace character or, possibly, an open bracket or parenthesis, as in "Please visit my site [URL]." Or they'll come at the beginning of the string.This regexp should work for http, https and ftp.This is for an Actionscript project. I believe that Actionscript uses the same regular-expression engine as Javascript.
I'm looking to port some DateTime functionality from ActionScript 3.0 over to Java/Android. I am currently looking at Joda. Before going with this option I wonder if there are actually any implementations of the DateTime object with ECMA-262 3rd Edition compliance? Or is there a better option (smaller/lightweight) solution to achieve this?
View 1 RepliesNewcomer to Objective C and trying to translate concepts and sytax I know from ecmascript based languages to Objective C.Is it proper to think of the .h header file in ObjectiveC as an Interface in Actionscript?Lets take the following code example in Objective C which calls a method containing 2 arguments
[myTextObject setString: @"Hello World" color: kWhiteColor];
In Actionscript(or javascript) would this be the same as calling 2 accessor methods on 'myTextObject'?
ie
myTextObject.setString("Hello World")
myTextObject.color(kWhiteColor);
I've been trying to understand how flash animations or a Java Applet work within a browser. I can think of a couple of ways - The Flash Player/Java Applet are machine code that's dynamically linked it, and given some parameters about the area of the screen that belongs to them; after that, they run within the same process space. The browser exposes an API that the player/applet use to talk to it and they live in a separate process. (Presumably they talk via sockets?) The API could correspond to openGL/X11/some custom calls.
These possibilities still don't explain things like how a button click can make the player full-screen, how it can play music, how it can inspect the DOM, etc. For that matter, is the video displayed by decoding to a sequence of images, and rendering them one at a time, or is there a more efficient way, e.g., of pushing the deltas in the image? The Wikipedia page on Java Applets
(1) talks about how the applet is run in a sandbox (presumably a separate process), but it doesn't say how the browser and the applet communicate. Perhaps the answer depends on the underlying platform?
PHP Code:
var ten:uint=10;var twenty:uint=20;var thirty:uint=30;trace(thirty>twenty>ten);//falsetrace(thirty<twenty<ten);//true
is there any documentation on the FlexBuilder "expressions" tab, and what expressions it can accept?As far as I can tell, it can show the value of variables, but that's it: comparisons, function and method calls all fail: [code]this is specific to FB3 Flex Builder. Apparently FB4 Flash Builder is slightly less incompetent.
View 2 RepliesI need to change photo of a person in different face expressions of that person(smile, sad, ...).
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to save more complex expressions in variables and use it later/in an other object?
For example:If i want to store the expression (not the value) of in a variable, for exampe type something in an input textfield and then use it during runtime.
Say i type "mc._x +100" (without "-marks) into the textfield myText on stage (while the movie is running)
[Code]...
I'm developing a simple Flash animation using Flash Professional CS5 and I'm writing some ActionScript code. I noticed there's a choice between using different versions of ActionScript.Wondering what the key differences are between 2.0 and 3.0...?
View 4 RepliesFrom a developer's point of view, are there other differences between Flash and AIR to take into account, apart from the certificate and AIR not supporting ActionScript 2.0?
View 2 RepliesI recently learned beginner grade skills for AS2 via Macromedia Flash. it had only AS2 so i thought i'd be good to programin that.well i completed my project (a minigame for a bigger game was the first time i programmed ever actually. Was really fun and you can find my "work" in the attachment) changing to adobe flash on the way its what the workstations in my u have. well i there saw actionscript 3 too. also, sometimes when i asked for help on here they told my i "should switch to as3" soon. now im about to work myself into as3 but first I'd like to know.what are the main differences and could someone show me a code in AS2 and the same code in AS3 or link me to a tutorial that makes good use of AS3 (possibily by using AS2 references to clarify the structures?)?why is As3 "better" than AS2?
View 9 Repliesi'm a student and have to code a flash game in AS2.0. I found a really good tutorial, which helped me to understand, how to code. The Problem is,the tutorial is written in AS1.0 and i don't know the differences between AS1.0 and AS2.0.
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fscommand("allowscale", false);
fscommand("allowscale", false);[code]......
I have several custom functions that I import as .as files, but I frequently have to modify them to suit projects, which makes standardization and version tracking harder.Is there a way to pass arbitrary expressions to a function when it's called? For example, if I write the function,
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function foo(){
for(i=1; i<=1; i++){
trace(i);
}
}
would there be some way to attach an additional expression after the trace function during the function call? As in,
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foo(do_stuff_here);
where the function would act as if it had said,
Code:
function foo(){
for(i=1; i<=1; i++){
trace(i);
[code]....
but without modifying the original function?I realize I could add an expression to the original function within a conditional, and toggle it via an argument within the call, but since I don't know what I'll add next, or whether I'll need it next time, this would become impractical quickly.
I used Jamie Durrant's tutorial for making a chat bot in flash. Everything works fine, but one thing which makes the bot remember people works only if the fla file is published in Flash Player 6 version. There are 4 symbols: a button, user, reply and custid: user is the textbox where the user inbuts the text, reply is the textbox that displays the bot's reply and custid displays the id of each person. If the version is newer than flash player 6 it says "undefined". It's a local shared object, I think. Could this code be edited to work in later versions or I have to stick with flash player 6 (the graphics are worse even at lossless compression)[code]
View 1 RepliesWe have lots of log information (syslogs, database logs...etc) which is in CSV format. I need to present this information to key management about the activiites from the logs in Visual format but still has dynamic links. For the management sake, I need this application to be cross platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux).What tool do I need to use Flash, Flex or (something else like Java)?
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