Is the only advantage that you can now create the XML files using a database, or a script,Or is there something else? Because reading the XML files (through AS) isn't easy at all !
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What is the advantage of using mx:Text over mx:Label in Flex?
View 1 RepliesI'm compiling with the SDK 4.5.1 (latest I think) in FlashDevelop, and I have the settings of the project to export for Flash Player 11. I also have set the wmode param to "direct", and my browser flash player is version 11 also.
Is there anything else I should do in order to use the Flash player 11 hardware acceleration features. To be honest... I can not see any difference in my game between flash player 10 or flash player 11...
I'm pretty familiar with using Adobe Flex & AS3, and compared with writing apps in JS/HTML I think it's very cool. However, since AIR is essentially a non-browser version of Flex with benefits like local storage, it seems to be competing as a cross-platform desktop application platform... and in that space it's much less mature than more established desktop technologies.
So what's the advantage of creating a desktop application using AIR compared to something like Java (or C++ using a cross-platform GUI library like wxWidgets)? Java's equally capable of communicating with the server for instance, I'm not quite sure what AIR adds when competing head-to-head in the desktop development world?
This might be a very stupid question, but I have to ask it anyway. I am graduating in about a month and while studying, I have always been taught to use properties instead of public variables. So I started wondering what the advantage was and I must say that in some cases, I have no clue at all. Of course it is handy when some other logic needs to be executed when setting properties or getting properties, but is there any advantage to using properties when you are only getting/setting a variable? An example of what I mean is shown below (As3).
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Is there an advantage/disadvantage to designing multimedia (for example a simple animation with music) using fully as3, or is it the same as using the the editor (timeline)? will it boost performance/speed to code the tweens, clips and textfields?
View 2 RepliesIs there an advantage to store loaded images into a sprite?
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();addChild(container);var pictLdr:Loader = new Loader();var pictURL:String = "banana.jpg"var pictURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(pictURL);pictLdr.load(pictURLReq);pictLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imgLoaded);function imgLoaded(event:Event):void{ container.addChild(pictLdr.content);}
I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 over the past month or so and recently ran into an issue where an object kept doing things after I thought it had been removed. I figured out that the problem was caused by an event listener using the default of useWeakReference = false and I'm wondering why that's the default. what is the advantage to not using a weak reference? and why is that the default? it seems to me that in general you'd want to use weak references, so I must be missing something.
View 4 RepliesBecause of the inability to create Vectors dynamically, I'm forced to create one with a very primitive type, i.e. Object: var list:Vector.<Object> = new Vector.<Object>(); I'm assuming that Vector gains its power from being typed as closely as possible, rather than the above, but I may be wrong and there are in-fact still gains when using the above in place of a normal Array or Object:
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I do understand the differance between ssas and as3. Not all, but all most everything I see written in SSAS can be writen into a external AS3 file. This leads me to quite a few questions I'm hoping you kind people can shed some light on for me.
1) What is the advantage of writing a SSAS file over an external AS3 file?
2) Can I write an .asc file in AS3 or do I have to use AS1? Please understand I'm using tuts from fmsguru.com and the books "Learning Flash Media Server" (pdf) and "Programming Flash Communication Server". I'm not a javascript programmer so nothing I do in AS1 seems to make any sence while everything I do in AS3 does. It may not seem like it to you people that are programmers, but to those of us that aren't, AS1 and AS3 are miles apart.
3) kind of off topic, but a security question. I'm not a "hacker" and don't like the jerks that are. My question is on external AS / SSAS files and swf files. When my fla is compiled into a swf does my external AS files remain external? I assume they do, but then what is the threat of the swf being decompiled? In most projects I would do I could care less if somebody had access to my fla as long as they don't have my actionscript files.
I don't know. Maybe on questions one and two I'm getting confused becasue I'm using out dated material. Again I assume that even though fms was built off of the javascript engine it should be able to read and execute my AS3 file. Other wise what was the point of the evolution of actionscript into a fully functional programming language?
I'm having a problem adding numbers that are loaded to dynamic text boxes. I'm using AS 2 (Flash 8). The numbers are loaded to the textboxes from a text file using a loadVars command. The text boxes have instance names of TELEMATICS and BOOK - I have a third textbox called (instance name) RESULT - the text file is called TEST1.txt. My problem is that after trying (and trying) several solutions in tutorials I am unable to add the values in TELEMATICs and BOOK to get a (sum) total in RESULT. My code to load the numbers is as follows:
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I use .txt files a lot with flash to load external news and updates. Although you can use the loadVariablesNum() command to load the .txt files is there anyway to edit and save the external files in flash? e.g. say I have a text box and a submit button in flash is there some way where I can add the text boxes content to a .txt file?
View 1 RepliesI am using a dynamic text field to show html formatted text from .txt files. I have set the html property both in the properties panel and in AS, and it mostly works. All html formatting show up just fine, except for when "&" is used. Flash CS3 documentation indicates that & is supported, so.? All text after the & does not appear: the only text loaded is that that comes before it. I am using CS3, AS2, publishing in Flash Player 9. Sorry if this problem has been addressed elsewhere, but I've had no luck with my searches.
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I'm building a site and I would like to add a scrollbar to a text area that swaps out xml text files. Currently, I have up and down arrows to scroll the text, but I would like to have an actual scrollbar instead since there is a lot of text in some of the sections. Here is a link to the current version of the site with the up and down arrows: [URL]
I can make the scrollbar work just fine if I put the text in the first frame, but whenever I set it up to call on text files, then the scroll bar won't work. Obviously, I'm pretty new at Flash. I've attached an FLA with the text box.
I've managed to piece together a flash website with my limited as3 knowledge. The text is loaded from external text files and styled with an external css file.
It's working perfectly in Firefox and Explorer but it only works SOME of the time in Safari (on my mac).It's hit and miss. Sometimes it styles the text sometimes it doesn't.
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As the title states, I need to know how to save multiple text files, from multiple text boxes on the screen. Each textbox has the instance name of t1, t2, t3... and so on. Here is the code I have now:
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View 1 RepliesI have 7 wav/mp3 files that will speak the text the user will see on the screen. I have 7 stops on my timeline and need a different .wav/mp3 to play at each stop on the timeline. Is there an eazy way to have the sound start and stop when entering and exiting the desired frame without a massive amount of code?
View 1 RepliesWriting text to .txt files using actionscript. how? i couldn't find anything about that in the internet.for flash player.
View 3 RepliesIs there a way that I can create a flash application that could write to a text file? It would make my life a lot easier if I could.
View 2 RepliesI am writing a small Flash script to display incoming SMS text messages. I have a text file that is constantly updated with the new messages, it's in the format:
mobile_number|message.......................|date| location
mobile_number|message.......................|date| location
mobile_number|message.......................|date| location
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loading text files (.txt). Here is what the text files says:
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myVar=Succesful
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The external TxT file is loaded into _root!In the text file I have these variables:
-&ro1=122
-&ro2=112
They work fine but when I want to divide ro1 by ro2 it returns NaN!It was workin' a minute ago! I've been messin' if it for days now!
I am wanting to know how to preload my .txt and .xml files at the begining of my movie..So intergrate it with my main preloader.
View 3 Repliesive looked at the tutorials about loading in text from files but have yet to get anything to work (i.e. gives me undefined messages or just random code appear in the text boxes)loading text from files to dynamic text boxes.
View 3 RepliesI'm currently about to hand off a simple XML site to my client for them to begin updating.To add images on the site, they'll need to update simple lines in an XML document.I'm on a Mac and I just use Text Edit to update XML files. Is there some easy text editing program on a PC that I can recommend they use?
View 1 RepliesI need to make it so that my client can edit some text files that are displayed in a frilly little font with shades and all that "mainflashpage.swf" accesses to display it. I heard you can do a lot of things like this with php. I know NOTHING about php. So is there any way that I can use flash to edit a text file? I remember about using void at the end of declaring a function if your not returning data.
View 4 RepliesI'm working on a number of pages that load external text files with buttons.That part works fine and I had the text marked up with basic html but would rather use css....I'm trying to figure out how to apply the css to the text:here is the css
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@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
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[URL]... I am working on finishing up the above site, but I am having issues when I look at it in different browser. Safari shows issues with apostrophes and parentheses. When I look at the text in Google Chrome there are text errors. Is there a way to fix this? Using CS4, Action script 3
View 1 RepliesI am trying to find a way to compare two text files through Flex and show that diff in the UI. Is there a util or a way to do that?
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