ActionScript 3.0 :: Interacting With Html Documents From Flash?
Apr 9, 2011
I created a world map in flash. The map has regions (Europe, North America, Latin America, etc.). The regions on the map are defined as buttons.
The final flash map will be embedded in map document (map.html). The idea is that when you click for example the "Europe" button on the flash movie, this will open an html document called Europe.html and will show it underneath the map flash (inside map.html).
The "Europe.html" for example contains a list of countries.
In this mission I have 2 problems:
1.What script I have to attach to every region button on the flash map so it will call the right html file into the div on the map.html?
2.What script do I have to put inside the html document?
I'm a newbie in actionscript. I created a world map in flash. The map has regions (Europe, North America, Latin America, etc.). The regions on the map are defined as buttons.
The final flash map will be embedded in an html document (map.html). The idea is that when you click for example the "Europe" button on the flash movie, this will open an html document called Europe.html and will show it underneath the map flash (inside map.html). The "Europe.html" for example contains a list of countries. In this mission I have 2 problems:
1. What script I have to attach to every region button on the flash map so it will call the right html file into the div on the map.html?
2. What script do I have to put inside the html document?
I accidentally posted this topic in the Game/AI Programming section by mistake right below this due to lack of sleep so I reposted here. I was wondering if anyone has a way of making it so a webpage is loaded within a swf. For example: Say I have a swf file that has a menu on the left and title animation at the top. Kinda like this.
I'm searched adobe and android developers sites, but can't find any details on this. Is it possible to use Flash as a part of my app? E.g. like a widget/GUI element? Or it's integrated in browser only and can't be simple accessible? I know, Adobe AIR apps are supported as standalone .apk. So it must be some API/SDK (from Google) to connect with Flash player. Is there any details, how to program it (more clear: launch swf from my app and interact with it)?
I've recently gotten myself Flash CS 5.5 and I'm having quite an issue developing applications using the ActionScript frame. Whenever I type inside the AS frame there's major lag. It takes ~1 second for the content to appear after I've typed it using my keyboard. I've got an i7 CPU so there shouldn't be any issues directly related to my CPU's power.
I need to build a simple database (3 elements total) using XML and make the swf interact with it.What I need is an interface that pops out if you've done a better score (better than the 3 saved in the XML).
Then you insert your name, send it with the proper button (or clear the field with the reset one) and then get a new classification in the txt field below dividing the players with their score. To do this, since I wasn't able to do it on my own, I've found a ready-script and this is it:
Here's my problem:I have a project with loads of text ergo I am loading textfrom external files with html formating. Now I have to insertvideos linked to the text file too (as in "dolor ipsum ... press here to view video"). All I need is a code that lets my textinteract somehow with the movie.Can I do it somehow through Javascript/Coldfusion/anything ordo I have to scrap my text and make things manually ?
My XML scripts work fine in the local swf. If I load an external swf, can I still retrieve XML data from the same way. What problems will I encounter with XML and externally loaded swf files?
VARIABLE TYPES var timer:Timer = new Timer(10); var myString:String = "";
We're working with a product called ProForm to create online courses that are Flash-based. It's a pretty cool product, created by Rapid Intake and using ActionScript 2 as the basis.
The problem we're seeing is that when we try to use this method to connect directly to Office documents, the links fail to open the documents in Internet Explorer. When using Firefox, they work fine, and soon after clicking the link the user receives a dialog asking if they wish to save or open the document. This is the behavior which we expected in IE, and which one can achieve by holding the CTRL button and clicking the link (and don't ask me how that was figured out, 'cuz I don't know). But when just clicking the link in IE, a browser window briefly pops up, then the thing disappears and nothing else happens - no file opens, no dialog appears, nothing.
My team and I are considering switching to using the "Flash CS5 Uncompressed Document (*.xfl)" option in Flash CS5 based on the assumption that it will allow better collaboration and conflict resolution when working in a version-controlled (SVN) environment. We would like to avoid the common situation of irresolvable conflicts when multiple people edit an FLA. at least in the initial release of Flash CS5: [URL] Has anyone had success or failure with this approach? Is this a favourable or detrimental change in workflow?
For some reason whenever I try to access a any of the files within a project that I'm working on it goes extremely slow. I'll click something, or type something and it'll take like 30 seconds before I actually see it do anything. I never had this problem with this project before, seems like it came out of no where. If I just make a new document, or goto another project it's fine.
got a new problem with Flash CS4 which came up yesterday after trying to profile a swf with Flex Builder (3).As soon as I close a open document (like fla, as) or close a running swf (started with Cmd+Enter) it crashes. Reinstalled CS4 today, but the problem is still there. Really annoying stuff.
I actually dotn do a ton of flash work but I have a client who would like to have the ability to post PDF documents to the web using a flash based document viewer like the one found here: [URL] they want the ability to make certain areas of the document clickable like links so they can take you to a url - and they want the ability to roll over or click on an area of the document to zoom in on it. is there some kind of canned component i coudl either get as freeware or purchase that woudl allow me to do this?
Question 1: How do I add a filter to a movieclip from actionscript,More specificly, the "adjust color" filter, and I want to decrease brightness, saturation,hue, and contrast... by actionscript...If you dont know what I mean, use the circle tool to create a circle, convert to movie clip, click the "filter" tab, then click + and add a adjust color filter, you'll see what I mean...Question 2: I need to output text to 'text' documents, no I cannot use shared objects for this, as it is a program for a client, and it isn't safe enough for me.
Code: var archive:Array = []; archive[7] = "Hello I am the 8th archive";
How or what do I need to know programming wise in order to interact with the web using c++. For instance i want to wrote a program that automatically sends invites to players on yahoo chess. How would i go about doing this?
First, I should mention that I haven't used Flash for years and I'm feeling a bit out of my depth.I've created an offline presentation for a client using ActionScript 2, authored with Flash CS3 (to run off a laptop).The presentation has an FLV (currently attached to the stage via the FLVPlayback component) which must play through it's entirety and at the end present 3 questions. Each question will present an answer once clicked. The user will then be presented with a "watch again" button which should restart the FLV from the beginning.
The second time the FLV plays back it should pause at 3 key points and present the user with questions and answers as before. Once the user has dealt with the Q&A's they should see a button to continue and the FLV should continue playing from where it was paused.I'm happy making the various interactive Q&A's, but have no experience of interacting with video. After a brief search in the web "cue points" look like the best tool for the job.
What languages/techniques are used for letting the web browser interact with the desktop, e.g. dragging files to the web browser, dragging files from web browser to desktop, and maybe more features that I'm not aware of.
On a webpage there would be multiple swfs. There could be one, there could be 15. It depends on the client.Each instance is the same swf but with different parameters. The swf is a simple toggle button, play/pause.When the page initially loads up, nothing happens.All the swf's default to the pause icon.An ID is passed from the html using flashvars i.e., FlashVars="Playerid=1" in the code, for each instance.When a user clicks on one swf (here is the problem), all the instances need to be listening and if they are not the clicked swf they need to change from play to pause if they were the previously playing swf or if the were in the 'pause' state to do nothing.
I was looking at using localConnection but it seems that a single swf can only listen to multiple swfs but multiple swfs cannot listen to one swf.I need them all to be continually listening for a user interaction (addEventListener.CLICK) and then all acting accordingly.I tried an enter.frame event for every instance to check if they were no longer the chosen track and update accordingly but it didn't work out.I have been playing with sharedObjects, storing the currentID (after being clicked), the previously played swf and whether the status is playing or paused.None of my efforts worked properly.Having re-written the above question many times, It is still a little unclear. I'll try again.
There will be say ten tracks from an album. Next to each track name will be a simple flash button the user can press to hear a 30 second sample. On clicking the icon, if no track is currently playing the icon will change from pause to play and the track will then play. If there IS a track already playing (say track 3) then on clicking say track 1 will stop track 3, change it's icon and then start track 1 and change it's icon from pause to play.The problem is that each swf on the page is exactly the same apart from an ID from flashvars and trackname which will be from an XML file or passed as a parameter when instantiated such as flashvars.
I have a class that has a couple of events after each other:It loads an image, loads another image, fades in a player, and plays a video.Now when the user goes to somewhere else, this instance keeps on doing all it's stuff.. Setting it to null doesn't help..
Basically I have a SWF file, there is a movieclip in this SWF file with instance name "stage" and I can alter the parameters of "_level0.stage" from within this SWF file to change the way it acts. But now, I am making a second SWF file, which loads the first SWF file, and from this new SWF file I want to interact with the same "_level0.stage" variable from the first SWF, does that make sense? This is the AS3 code for the second SWF, I have a movie clip with instance name "LoadSWF" in this SWF.
Code: var movieLoader:Loader = new Loader(); var movieRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("load.swf"); movieLoader.load(movieRequest); LoadSWF.addChild(movieLoader); load.swf is the file which contains movie clip "_level0.stage"
I've tried referencing this movie clip from this code using "_level0.LoadSWF.stage" but it doesn't find it?
make a variable readable from other flash movies, on the same website, but just in different frames. For example, if one frame was a menu, and the other frame had a picture of some sort, could i program my movie so that if a user clicks on a button on the menu side, the movie on the other side will display a different picture?
1. Is there any way to send events from one native window of an application to another native window of the same application? For ex. a login window pops up when the app starts in the main window. Once the login is successful, an event should be posted to the main window, so that it starts displaying other things. Right now, I am posting an event, but it is not reaching the main window (nothing shows up in trace and breakpoint is not hit in the main window).
2. Is there a way for any window to grab focus? For ex. the login window above grabs the focus till the creds are keyed in. I mean, the user should not be able to select the main window at all till this window is active.
I'm working on my website and I have one main swf file with the loader, and other four swf. files with home, about, contact and work.This is the code for the main one
Code: var holdercontent:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); holdercontent.x = 0
Alright, is there some way to keep a clip with masked content from reacting to the mouse?'ve got a button clip with a masked image inside (so the image that goes beyond the button's bounds can't be seen), but, when the mouse rolls over the masked-off image area, the button still reacts. I've been looking for a few days now, and I can absolutely not figure out what to do!
We have a requirement to show documents (if we have URL for a document) within Flash. We have a need use embedded document viewer for MS Office and PDF documents. Are there any Flash controls available to acheive this?
