i have a class and trace its type with flash.utils.describeType(this)
class Data extends EventDispatcher
{
public function Data()
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Is it possible to override this information e.g type.@isDynamic, as well as extendsClass.@type, at runtime? without bytecode?
Is there a way to runtime-type a class with tokens, like the Vector class, or it is exclusive to FlashPlayer and Adobe Team?
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These are my errors: in Adobe Flash CS5.5
I don't understand why this script doesn't work. I am new to Action Script 3.0 and I watched this incomplete video on youtube. -- [URL] and I got the fails below.
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So for instance, I've got three .as files called 'Helicopter.as, Game.as, Blue.as'
and I also have a .fla file called Helicopter.fla (These files are all suppose to link together, to make the helicopter game) . In the Game.as file, I have the following;
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Flash doesn't recognise the original Helicopter symbol (in the Helicopter.fla file, because I deleted it). But I want the system to detect the 'circle' drawn using API (In the Helicopter.as file). And I have no idea how to how to name the API drawn circle 'Helicopter', thus I'm getting an error. So how do I name the API circle to 'Helicopter', so the Game.as file recognises it.
I have a problem and I'm not really sure where to start. What I have is an animation of a character in the library. The Character is made up of a few movieclips for the body that move about and one for the face that holds a stock photo.I have a camera section that grabs an image of the users face and now what I need to do is swap the stock face photo for the one taken in the last scene.
View 1 RepliesTypically you create a Vector (strongly typed array) specifying a data type like:
new Vector<PictureBox>();
However I need to create a utility method that should be able to create a vector of any given datatype. Is it possible to specify a type using a variable instead of hard-coding it?
var type:Class = PictureBox;
new Vector<type>();
Being a code purist, I always set Flash to demand that I declare all variables/functions with a type. Like this:var myVar1:int = 14; //Okvar myVar2 = 18; //Compiler ERRORMy problem is that I just reinstalled my computer (including Flash) but I've forgotten where I do this setting. Anyone here with a better memory than me?
View 4 RepliesI got Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, and all the projects in company are made in 5.0. And i can't simply save by ctrl+s because Flash (thats concrete program i am asking about) want to save in 5.5. So every time i have to push file-> save as-> change from 5.5 to 5.0. I was trying to find somewhere, where to change it, but i didnt manage to.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to use my Flash app to update an XML file when a new user registers. I thought I had found a method to do this using the FileReference.save function. From various searches I understand the function is not as simple as it seems but I cannot get my head around what I need to do to get it working.Here is the code:
ActionScript Code:
var newUserToAdd:String = "<user>
<name>Steve</name>[code]............
This is the error I am getting at runtime: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method save through a reference with static type flash.net:FileReference. Are ther any prerequisits I am missing in order to use the function?
If any control (e.g. a DataGrid) is cast to UIComponent, how can you get its type at runtime?Is this possible in Actionscript?
View 1 RepliesI constantly get:Implicit coercion of a value of type Class to an unrelated type lash.display.BitmapData.var ba:ByteArray = jpg.encode(BitmapData);This is my code from where it tells me it's wrong"
ActionScript Code:
var jpg:JPEGEncoder = new JPEGEncoder();
var ba:ByteArray = jpg.encode(BitmapData);
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Basically plots a dot wherever you click. Getting the error 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type Class to an unrelated type Function.
package { import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class particle extends MovieClip { //private var _xmouse:Number; //private var _ymouse:Number; private var mc1:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); private var mc2:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); private var mc3:MovieClip = new[code].....
Using Flex 3.2, I have a object which extends a TitleWindow. In this TitleWindow I have an AdvancedDataGrid.
On creation of this object, I pass it 2 lists, one full of data to display, and the other I pass an array of column definitions. This allows me to, at runtime, create the correct columns and define the correct display attributes for each column (e.g. booleans will show up as checkboxes, and dates are formatted in a specific format (coming in from an XML feed in a variety of STRING formats where nulls are a possibility)
The problem is that the default sort, being based on string, doesn't work 100% of the time and even when the format is one that would be sorted nicely, it fails when nulls are involved.
The above problem would be easily solved using a sortCompareFunction, but the fact is when you set the sortCompareFunction of the column, it seems to require you to hardcode in the column name into the function.
for reference here's the function I'm using to create the columns:
private function setupGrid():void
{
var localcols:Array = new Array();
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I am trying to make a bowling alley type of game. I want the ball to change angle when it reaches the gutter, but the problem I am facing is, how can I check when the ball has reached the gutter as the bounding box for a line/box in perspective is bigger and I want to check any point on the line when the ball is passing/crossing that point and moving so that I can change its angle and direction. And also does anybody have a collision method algorithm or physics to create the falling of PINS when the ball hits the PINS.
View 1 RepliesHow to get CSS class name of any UI Component at runtime?
View 1 RepliesI know how to set individual style names to a UI component but what is the way to set set the CSS class itself?
View 1 RepliesSummary: I don't quite understand how the import/export URLs for symbols in a runtime library work. I can't figure out how I can set them so that the runtime library will be properly loaded and accessible for other swfs to import from, if I want it to work both in a local environment (on my harddrive), and from a remote environment (on a web page).
Relative URLs seem to work great for the hard-drive case, but fail for the web page. Is there a magic way to set the relative URL to work from the web too? And/or, is there some way of manually loading up the RSL at runtime and making the importing swfs import from that loaded copy, rather than having Flash doing it behind the scenes based on the import URL set in the symbol? Following is a longish description of what I'm trying to do, and why... I'm trying to figure out if we can use RSLs to contain common UI controls for our next project. I'm running into an organizational issue that I can't quite figure out - how to get the RSLs to work in both a local development/debugging environment, and on a production web environment, with the same exporting/importing URLs.
Here's what my setup would look like. Say I have a main application main.swf, an RSL lib.swf, and a UI module dialog.swf. Main.swf loads or embeds dialog.swf. lib.swf exports some symbols that dialog.swf imports. On a local development environment, these swfs are found in folders like so:
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I have a FLA in which I've added three movie clips, each with a unique name. I've set the MC name through the properties panel as well as giving the MC a name when converting it from a image to a MovieClip (by clicking F8).
When I run the swf and output the names of the children in the swf, I find that the name of one of the MovieClips changes, for example from myFirst_MC to instance8.
To output the MovieClip names I loop through all the children of the swf and output the name like this:
for(var i:uint=0;i<numChildren;i++){
var display:DisplayObject = getChildAt(i);
trace( display.name );
}
Why does the instance name of a MC change? And how can I stop this from happening?
I'm trying to figure out if we can use RSLs to contain common UI controls for our next project. I'm running into an organizational issue that I can't quite figure out - how to get the RSLs to work in both a local development/debugging environment, and on a production web environment, with the same exporting/importing URLs.
Here's what my setup would look like. Say I have a main application main.swf, an RSL lib.swf, and a UI module dialog.swf.
Main.swf loads or embeds dialog.swf. lib.swf exports some symbols that dialog.swf imports.
On a local development environment, these swfs are found in folders like so:
[URL]
Here is the problem. If I set the export/import url for symbols in lib.swf to "assets/lib/lib.swf" (relative to the location of main.swf), the runtime library gets loaded fine in the local environment. But in the web environment, it does not load - the player just shows the "..." graphic indicating it is trying to load.
Alternatively, I can use "http:/myapp.com/assets/lib/lib.swf" as the export/import url. Now, it will work in the web environment. However, in the local environment, dialog.swf will load symbols from the lib.swf that is out on the web, not the one that is local. But I need it to load from the local version, so that designers can muck about with the assets and see the results locally before publishing to the web.
Is there some alternative way to set up the swf's, or way to set the URLs, or some other hoop I can jump through that will make the RSL load properly in either environment without having to manually change URLs all the time?
(Details: I am using Flash Builder 4, CS 5, Action Script 3, Flash Player 10... No Flex! My example omits some details from my actual setup, such as the fact that we are using a preloader to load the main application, and a php script on the web page to start the preloader.)
I'm using the tutorials on [URL] to show me how to work through things. However, when I am trying to type text using the TFL setting, I get nothing but a blue box. I open a blank file, select the Text tool. It comes up with the cross-hair the a small capital T to the bottom right. I click on the stage to make the text box from the dotted lines/marching ants, then as soon as I let go, it snaps to the top left corner as a blue box. And every time I repeat this,each subsequent box snaps to the top left corner. When I click the selection tool, and make a box around the corner, all the different blue boxes I made fro my text tool is shown, but I still can't type even a single letter!
View 1 RepliesCan someone point me in the right direction on how to instantiate any class at runtime with any given number of arguments?
As an example and to be more precise, I included an example below. How could I write this example in one line of code - ok, maybe two : )
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I am trying to create a shared library with runtime sharing so that I can update the interface for an online assessment program globally. I can import items from the shared library OK but once I give something an instance name I get the following error (questionInterface being the movieclip in question here):1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: questionInterface.
View 1 RepliesI just went to the site www.aroots.com, according to its interface, the frame rate (fps) is changing.
is it possible to change the frame rate at runtime?
I have a css that defines de skin-class for a custom component, like this :
view|PlaceHolderView {
skin-class:ClassReference('view.skin.PlaceHolderSkin');
}
Is there a way to change that value at runtime, so that all instances of the component switch skin?
In the follow Canvas, how do I change the property top at runtime?
<canvas top="10"/> I tried:
<canvas top="{ topVariable }"/>
But the binding doesn't seem to take effect. How can this be achieved?
I want to make a button disabled if a datagrid is empty and it should be enabled when there is atleast 1 entry. The entries in the grid are made at runtime. I tried this this is the button:
<mx:Button id="update" label="Update Contact" enabled="{isButtonEnabled()}"/>
And the function is defined as where dg_contact is the datagrid:
public function isButtonEnabled():Boolean {
if(dg_contact.selectedIndex==-1) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}}
Can we change the stage size during runtime?
I need to change the size of the stage dynamically during the runtime when the swf receives a flashvar from the html page. Can this be done?
change the font of a Textfield at runtime. I know how to embed fonts into an SWF and I know a little bit about the TextFormat() Class, but I can't seem to be able to change fonts when there is text already in a dynamic or input TextField
View 3 RepliesI've been playing with writing a simple script that would entirely depend on a few variables declared right on top of it. Is there a way of changing them (in my case values of p, q, a & b) with a button if the button is part of the script? Here's the script (just copy and paste entire thing into the first frame);
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I have a number of functions and I want to execute 1 based on the entries in a .xml file
part my xml file reads as follows
<funcType>thisFunc</funcType>
In my .fla I have defined thisFunc along with a number of similar functions
I want to execute the function as follows
chosenFunc=Node.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;//points to thisFunc in the .xml file
chosenFunc(); // This should execute as thisFunc ()
Problem is this doesn't seem to be working. Am I trying the impossible?