Coding something in pure AS3 (no timeline, etc...) and am hitting a snag with masking a bitmap. Am I missing something here?
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End result is nothing shows up whenever I set the mask property. Without setting the mask I see my noisy rectangle just fine. Can anyone see why the mask doesn't seem to be working?
This work:
var a:BitmapData = new BitmapData(640,480);
var b:Bitmap = new Bitmap(a);
a.draw(movieClip);
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How can I draw in my Bitmap just the visible part of a MovieClip that uses mask?
I have a Flash app that loads a PNG as a bitmap and adds it to a MovieClip instance called test_mc on the stage. test_mc contains a placeholder clip that we hide after adding the bitmap. E.g
test_mc.addChild(bmp);
test_mc.placeholder.visible=0;
This works fine. I then move the MovieClip around the stage in the timeline with a lot of keyframes. This works fine.
I then add a layer, called layer_mask, above the layer with the movieclip on. I create a shape on layer_mask and set layer_mask to mask the movieclip's layer. This still works fine. Now I add a keyframe in layer_mask. This stops working. The bmp is no longer loaded into the movieclip, and the placeholder is no longer hidden. The bitmap is actually loaded in and displayed correctly until the keyframe in the mask is hit, at which point it reverts to displaying the placeholder without the loaded bitmap.
I'm trying to export to PNG from the JSFL document.exportPNG function with 'bCurrentPNGSettings' but it fails. Flash keeps complaining that "The bitmap is too large.The largest bitmap that can be created is 8000x800 pixels."The width x height of the document is set to 1920x1080 and I've tried modifying the publish profile appropriately.Still no-dice. If I set 'bCurrentPNGSettings' to false so that the export dialog appears it pops up with the correct width and height; clicking OK exports properly.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to create a AS3 image loader with the possibility of a PNG (transparent) mask...
Tried and searched for hourse, but I won't get it right...
I am trying to create irregular Mask from Bitmap (Who has Alpha) and then apply it to Sprite. Then register mouse hover on sprite. My mask should be made considering bitmap Alpha, I need irregular shape Mask. I read somewhere that I should set cacheAsBitmap = true for Mask, then it will consider Alpha, but I can`t get it to work.
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what i am doing is to make something along the lines of the "scriptable mask" tutorial Inigo was kind enough to put up.My idea is to have a large mask behind the whole of my flash site, this masks a colour image with a black & white one (nothing tricky). The image I am using is actually 5 separate images combined, and each is a pic of certain parts of the site.I also have a very basic set of buttons along the bottom... each corresponding to each section.
All I want is to set it up so that when I mouse over the buttons, the _x of the mask moves to correspond with the correct image... really very basic... or so I thought .If anything it should be easier to do than what is in Inigo's tut (where he uses the _x of the mouse to move the mask)... i just cant seem to get it to work with a nice easing effect (its easy to get the mask to simply snap to each coordinate, but I need it to smoothly move).
I have created an API in AS3 that uses Flex bindings. The API is being used by two other developers. I am delivering the API in an SWC that includes all code, including the required Flex libraries. The two other developers are building the API into AS3-only projects. One developer is compiling using the Flex SDK through FDT. He includes the SWC in his project and he is able to bind any bindable property. When he uses ChangeWatcher.canWatch on a bindable property, it returns true.
The second developer is compiling using the Flash CS5 IDE. He includes the SWC in his project using the Actionscript settings window (merged into code). But none of the bindings, including ones internal to the API, are working. When he uses ChangeWatcher.canWatch on a bindable property, it returns false. What could the Flash IDE be stripping out that causes ChangeWatcher to stop functioning? What is ChangeWatcher.canWatch actually checking? Is it the metadata, and if so, how can the metadata be preserved in the Flash IDE?
$("#listView object.modal").click(function(){
// Get the ID of the clicked link:
var link = $(this).closest("h2").attr("title");
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This fires a modal (jQuery UI). It it working in FF, Chrome/Safari but not in IE 7/8. Is there something I'm missing here?
Big Picture: We're using a swf to render custom type and there is a link in the rendered (flash) content. We're hoping to catch the link action in the jQuery listener so we don't have to extend our swf have an optional param to return false on link click.
I have an instance of URLLoader that works perfectly on my machine and a number of other machines, but in a few rare cases, regardless of the browser or the flash player version, URLLoader never comes back with any of my callbacks and so the load() method is fired off into the stratosphere and nothing happens beyond that.Curious if anyone else has encountered this and if so how they got around it.[EDIT]Ok... never mind on the "no callbacks are fired". In fact it is firing the SecurityError.SECURITY_ERROR. However, I'm at a total loss as to why it would only fire this on some machines and not on others. Does it have something to do with the user's admin privileges or the browser's security settings? The error is 2170, phaseTwo (whatever that means)
View 3 RepliesUse the flash CS4 tool's on a bitmap image after tracing the bitmap image and applying my settings?
View 10 RepliesI'm trying to load a RSL library into a flash animation developed with Flash CS5 IDE, that extends a custom class and implements an interface. I have reduced the problem to the simplest setup and find that I can have my main class extend another class or implement an interface, but not do both at the same time if I want to load an RSL.I have a very simple class to extend:
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class MySprite extends Sprite
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but if I want both I get the VerifyError: Error #1014 with MySprite not found and ReferenceError: Error #1065.
We have implemented a Flash photo slideshow on our site and it works just fine for most of our users. Whenever the xml.load(success) returns false I have the Flash email me a debug report. For the life of me I can not find a common thread between all of these people having problems with the Flash. I don't think it's a cross-domain issue because it works for most people, and I have the crossdomain.xml files where they should be.
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I am trying to use if and else statements and failing. I am either completely missing their purpose, or just not writing the correct code. Scenario: I have designed a gallery that consists of animation in movie clips that are placed on the time line. With the if/else statements I need Flash to know what movie clip the user is on, so that the users next action loads the correct movie clip.
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I have a startDrag function set up on a loader and mask that when the mouse is down on the loader it drags, when not it doesn't. There is also 2 buttons that control whether mask1 or mask2 is used. What i would like however is when the mouse is down - the area of the loader outside of the mask is visible but only by about 10/20% alpha, that way the user can see where all the image is while dragging. Is this possible? Full code can be seen below and i have attached the zip with the .fla file:
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I've been manually creating a slideshow with flash (I like my final product better than the auto-approaches), and have reached a sort of odd situation.When trying to insert a new keyfram at fram 1675 of my animation, instead of a new keyframe, I'm getting my last keyframe's run (from 1650) extended to here.Is there a per-layer keyframe limit?And is there an FAQ that would cover this (fairly obvious seeming) question, rather than posting?
View 7 RepliesI made an XML file and then replicated that in a PHP file. I then just executed my PHP file and then viewed the source of it and then copied that into an XML file and had my AS read that file it works fine. However, when I have it set up to read my PHP file and I test it in Flash it gives me the following error:[code]
View 2 Repliesmaybe point me towards a better way to mask. png file is way too big. I have been using the mask layer option to create my own mask around a jpg image by drawing around it on the mask layer. There has to be a fetter and faster way to do this. Is it possible to maybe have a specific color range have an alpha value of 0. Similar to green screening whereas If I put the item I want to clip on a green background flash will auto take out the green for me. and by auto I mean action script maybe. I think this can be done but im not finding it.
how are these guys clipping these images [URL] they have the movie clips set up where the black background on the 3 layers of shoes is getting masked out. When I go into the shoe movie clips I see there is a black background but it just disappears when I go back to main timeline.
ive gotten one movie clip to mask another in the actions frame but i cant seem to be able to mask the flames which are a shape with a movieclip in this as file. im not getting any errors but the mask isnt covering anything look near the bottom at s.mask=mask_mc; there are about 20 "s" shapes spawning per second if that has anything to do with it
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//this package turns an mc into a flaming button that calls a javascript function
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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am trying to make a mp3 player by using actionscript3.In this , am trying a upload a mp3 file and play that particular file. Am also using the computespectrum() to display the graphics.Now the problem am facing is with the computespectrum . Randomly , the computespectrum is failing for the same file and is throwing error.The error is as follows [code]Am actually uploading the file into a folder named "mp3files". The "mp3files" folder and the swf are lying in the same domain.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to get coordinates of my graphic that is on the screen and failing. I am using AS2.
View 2 RepliesHere is the error I get:
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: fbAPI.
Here is my MXML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="startGame();">
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I have an ancient project that has thousands of lines of AS2 code spread out in class files. I started to try to make an on-screen keyboard and I noticed an issue with FP8 and the Selection class. I need to use FP8 because it's a MDM Zinc extended project and Zinc does not allow me to export to FP9 or FP10 if I use AS2.0. Of course this issue doesn't happen in FP9 or FP10.I have a reproducible example here that's highly simplified and stripped down. It has 3 class files, a Main, ExampleKeyboard and ExampleOutput. Main just instantiates the other 2 classes. The keyboard is all of 3 buttons (again very simplified to stick to the point). The output just generates an input TextField. This issue seems to be isolated to using the Selection class when your project has other classes. For mine, the keyboard is in one class and the TextField is drawn in another. I did a single frame no-class example and this problem does not exist so it's specific to the Selection methods using FP8 when a project contains classes. URL...After you run it you MUST press the red button to Selection.setFocus() the input field. The other 2 gray buttons simply send the letters 'a' and 'b' to the input text field. In FP9 and FP10 this all works just fine. The Selection. getCaratIndex() reports the cursors proper position (which I set every time you press a button). In FP8 you will see that Selection.getCaratIndex() ALWAYS returns -1. Has anyone had these Selection class issues in a project that used multiple classes and FP8?
View 1 RepliesSo I have been able to generate random numbers before, but now they just seem to be spazzing out randomly.I created 4 dynamic textboxes with the variable names item1, item2, item3 and item4. The code that I have used on the frame is:
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item1=random(5)+1
item2=random(10)+1
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The main class shown below is showing a blank screen and is NOT navigating to [URL].
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
public class NavigateToURL extends Sprite {
public function NavigateToURL() {
var url:String = "[URL]";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
navigateToURL(request); }}}
I am trying to create and build a flex library project (.swc) using maven 2 firsttime.I am able to create directory structure but build is failing. My maven settings are : Maven version : apache-maven-3.0.2
mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.sonatype.flexmojos
-DarchetypeArtifactId=flexmojos-archetypes-library
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I have a Flex app that uses Flash Remoting and the RemoteObject to pull data from a ColdFusion CFC. About 75% of the time it works, but the other times I get a message using Charles (a debugging tool) that says faultString = "Unable to Invoke CFC". FaultCode = "Server.Processing".
Here's my RemoteObject:
<mx:RemoteObject id="carsSvc" destination="ColdFusion" source="ca.sqmIDash.cfc.sqmIdash">
<mx:method name="getCARs" result="resultHandler(event)"/>
</mx:RemoteObject>
The server set up on our web farm is to use load balancing. I'm not sure if this is causing the problem or not. Probably not, but it's a thought.
I am trying to create and build a flex library project (.swc) using maven 2 firsttime.I am able to create directory structure but build is failing. My maven settings are : Maven version : apache-maven-3.0.2
mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.sonatype.flexmojos
-DarchetypeArtifactId=flexmojos-archetypes-library
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I am working on a project using flex/java/blazeds. This worked fine on local host however now that i have uploaded to a tomcat server(online), after having an error with the service uri, this error has now seemingly been solved, yet I am receiving another error which is as follows:
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I'm trying to call an ActionScript function from JavaScript. In Firefox, it works perfectly, but in Internet Explorer, I cannot get TCallLabel or an ExternalInterface call to work.
here's the JS:
flashController = document.getElementById("flashMovie");
lashController.TCallLabel("/functions", "frameLabel"); //go to frame on "functions" movie clip
This shows "Error: Unspecified Error" (don't you just love IE's JavaScript errors? )
If I do the same thing using ExternalInterface:
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