I'm currently working on a Flash website project that uses Yahoo messenger.Can we put a Yahoo Messenger on a Flash Website?If just like a HTML website i know it can, but i don't know if we can use the YM like chat with me in a flash website..
View 1 RepliesI'd like to write my own messenger with the use of Flash, but as I've up to now only created either simple games or static website elements, my knowledge in the topic is rather poor.So, to the point - I understand that I need 3 key elements to have all of this working - a client software that I intend to write in Flash CS3, some database to hold the necessary information, and something acting as a server to mediate between the two.I have up to now browsed through the internet and looked for possible solutions to the concept, I've also asked on other forums, but with no major luck up to now.All my hope is in kirupa now (which I visit from time to time since Flash MX appeared on the surface of our planet ).The problem is that I have no idea what would be best for the middle tier in this messenger concept. I've come across tons of possible applications that I perhaps could use, but am not sure as all of this is totally new for me, yet I would like to start off with getting quickly stuck because what I wanted to do first was just impossible.
For communication between Flash written apps and some server side apps I see that there are XMLSockets (yet this seems to be a very old approach and I'm guessing there is something better these days) and that there is Flash Remoting ( also around for a couple of years, but I see that there is AMFPHP which perhaps is what I need - again, perhaps, as I won't be sure till somebody confirms that or I check myself ).Then there's a bunch of things Adobe offers - Coldfusion 8 (free Developer Edition), Flash Media Server 3 (free and with a limit of up to 10 connections, but that's ok in my case).Then there's Flex SDK and Adobe AIR, which I'm not even sure if can in anyway help me out, as I've just read a bit on what those are actually and I also found Red5.Well, to sum up, all this has made me more confused than actually helped. I'm not quite sure now where to start with - tho it seems logical to first set up a server and then start to write the client and test some simple communication routines ... and the problem with browsing new technologies is that in this case I really need to know their limitations, so to not end up being stuck after say 3 months, but we all know limitations are only known to the experienced.If anybody can clear up the world of flash related technologies that I've just mentioned, or even suggest what would be the best course of action here - I'd be really very grateful. All of this is purely educational of course, hence why I'm looking for free technologies.
I have Flash CS4, which works perfect. Then I installed the newest version of Messenger, and then I couldn't start Flash because It freezes before I can do anything. Only way was to open it through a .fla-file. Then I uninstalled Messenger and now everything works again.
View 2 Repliesim trying to make icons for wlm (windows live messenger) in flash with 2 frames and the quality come out crummy when im saving the animated gif this is the original icon which is good quality:[URL]..
and this is what came out to me when i tried to make the animated gif while i did it strict saved it first as bmp so it will not lose quality[URL].. and finally saved it as animated gif and picked 256 colors which is max for gif how is that come? i asked someone and he told me that in flash the animation comes out very ugly and i should use software called "GIF Construction Set Pro" or something like this is that right? there is no other way to increase the quality or something in flash?
I need some brilliant Flash experts to weight in on an article we wrote at the advertising agency I work for. We put an article together about the ability for Flash to be indexed by Google and Yahoo. It's a two sided debate between Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guys and Flash guys. SEO is killing Flash right now in the debate.[URL]
View 1 RepliesIn the past week it appears that Yahoo has changed their crossdomain file to only accept Yahoo domains [URL]This is causing my applications that use Yahoo Maps to stop working (i.e. security exception). I cannot proxy the calls to Yahoo because the URL is embedded in the MXP file that Yahoo distributes.
View 1 Replieshttp:[url]....Is a 404 page. Does anyone know the location of the file?
View 1 RepliesI've been trying to build some GUI for a level editor using Yahoo's ASTRA Flash Components using the FlashDevelop IDE. After finally including all the "Global Classpaths", I managed to almost get it to compile apart from one Warning that causes the build to fail.
Code:
C:UsersJoshDesktopFruitBoxsrccomyahooastraflcontrolsMenu.as(720): col: 31 Warning: return value for function 'anonymous' has no type declaration.
This is apparently where the warning is triggered:
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// Activate the menu
//this.setFocus();
setFocus();
//set a timeout to fix an issue with accessibility events
var func:Function = function(){ dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE))};
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how to call a feed from yahoo pipes into flash? here is the rss feed that yahoo says to reference to obtain the xml: [URL] whenever i try to call that, as if calling any other xml file, flash says the file cannot be opened.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to make a flash widget using yahoo weather API. Since it uses RSS I thought it was simples but I am stuck. I just don't know how to extract info inside this xml line:
<yweather:units temperature="C" distance="km" pressure="mb" speed="kph"/>
My complete code is:
var location_id:String='POXX0022';
var grades:String='c';
var url:String="[URL]"+location_id+"&u="+grades;
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var xmlData:XML = new XML();
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As you all know you can directly connect to Skype's API from flash to check if a user is Online/Away/Offline etc.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to use the Astra library from Yahoo but I'm getting an error saying the base class BaseScrollPane is not found. It appears to be imported from fl.containers.BaseScrollPane, which leads me to believe it should be a part of the base flash 10 library and therefore should be available, but it appears to be missing. Is this part of a separate package from somewhere?
Update: For what it's worth, I found the actual class files in the Configuration/Component Source folder on my hard drive, but adding that to the class path (as well as the Components directory) did no good. I ended up fixing the issue by dragging a scroll pane component to the stage from the Components window and then deleting it, but I'm not sure what exactly that action changed that made it work, and would like to know for future reference.
in windows live messenges the status setting component tht is an icon, label and a dropdown arrow. on rollover it gives u border around the component, how to implement the same in air application using flex. i got this link. [URL] but how to implement it in flex?
View 1 RepliesSo yahoo astra has grate compohent for saving inputed data. They show examples of how to use it. But I had not found one capable to solve my current problem. For example user inputed his name. It is saved, but when he comes again he always needs to input at least first latter of his name. so I wonder - how to make Yahoo astra autocompletemanager component to pop up last inputed into it value on application creation complete?
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im having a little trouble with the maps api, im trying to make is so that the map reads addresses from an xml file and updates it on the map
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Is there an API to implement Yahoo chat in Flex? Or at least some calls?
View 3 RepliesI'm able to format and display the text within my swf, however once its uploaded to the internet - the text either won't show up, or the flash player shows a security error "flash player is trying to communicate withI've tried to feed the data through to my own domain, but I'm not sure how to program for it. I've found php examples online, but I'm not sure how to implement them either. I need the stock quote price to display and update either once a day, or only when the swf loads. Currently I'm using the following code to retrieve the data (within flash):
fl_TextLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var fl_TextURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=SNA.V&f=l1sd1");
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I am changing over one of my projects from google maps to yahoo maps and was wondering who out there has experience with the yahoo maps api. Below you will see the code i was using with the google maps api to create custom markers using a library item as that marker. The library asset has some variables that need to be defined as you will see in the first part of my for loop. and this function needs to clear all the previously created overlays, before the for loop is run.
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My problem occurrs when I change the yahoo written example:
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import com.yahoo.maps.tools.PanTool;
import com.yahoo.maps.markers.CustomPOIMarker;
myMap.addEventListener("initialize", onInitMap);
function onInitMap(event:Object):Void {
var panToolanTool = new PanTool();
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Ive taken out the EventListener as it never picked up onInitMap() and displayed the map without it, maybe this is where the problem is? It even recognises the text if you put lots of text into the description, as in it make the bubble alot wider but just doesn't show the actual text.
I have made an web site and I put it on the ftp address on the web. The site is full flash. My question is how can I make it visible on google search, or yahoo? Is there a piece of code that I have to insert on the html file that wraps the flash swf?
View 3 RepliesI programming a calculator, I get data on Yahoo Finance ( URL... ), but sometimes I get this error "NaN".URL...[code]
View 1 RepliesI programming a calculator, I get data on Yahoo Finance ([URL]..but sometimes I get this error "NaN"
I need some orientation, You can download the file
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Iam using Yahoo astra Tree Component . How to remove Tree Background colour .
View 1 Repliesimport email addresses, like it does on facebook where you can import your address book from yahoo / hotmail / gmail address books then you just select the appropriate email and the email is sent to them. I can figure out how to do the send to multiple emails via php but how would I import the address book?
View 1 RepliesI installed the yahoo webplayer to play mp3's on the html page. Works fine on the net. Playing local files, it is continuously buffereing and doesn't play. In DW live view, the css box in the right hand corner flashes as the flash screen operates. The flash screen moves at half speed. It appears that the webplayer is somehow interfering with the flash and vice versa. <p><a href="samples/song1-1.mp3">song1-1</a></p></td><td align="center" width="52">
View 2 RepliesI'm working through Dreamweaver fairly well, and I'm now wanted to import Flash buttons I've created myself into Dreamweaver for a website I'm currently building, and it's here that I'm finding the problem. I have been to the 'get URL Function', but it says something about needing to link to a web page? But my problem is how can I link Flash Buttons to a web page, when my site is still being developed and not published? Do I have to publish first?
View 3 Replies:confused:Does anybody know is Flash mx 2004 compatible with flash CS3 and flash 8?? I can not open flash cs3 on my laptop with flash mx2004 also can actionscript 3.0 be used with flash mx2004 and flash 8 because when I save my flash cs3 document as a flash 8 document it does not work? I am awful confused with all this. If you created a flash website in flash 8 or Flash mx2004 you can not open in in flash cs3 it dosent make sence?
View 3 RepliesAre there any programs or features in flash that can simplify flash vector art?
I just realized that one of the reasons why my program might be running so slow is that I made the images out of lots and lots of circles. When things didn't look right I often just put larger circles over smaller ones. I didn't think that flash might still be drawing the invisible circles underneath-
When I call a .php file from flash and then echo a value back to flash from said .php file flash does not read it. My code is like this:
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Note that there is a successful connection to a database using xampp as a server.
We've got a green screened video playing in a flash movie over top of our html content.when the movie ends, flash uses external interface .api to call a javascript function which swaps the flash movie out with a 5 x 5 pixel flash movie (rewrites the <div>).this works and you can interact with the html content after the flash movie in all browsers except firefox.anyone know of any work-arounds or is there a better way of handling flash over html in this fashion?
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