I would like to know if any awesome dude knows if there are any AS3 Flex tutorials on the net or in books that explains how to build apps and games from scratch - step by step via Flex
View 4 RepliesI was wondering if its possible to automate games and apps that have been written in flash.
For example.
Suppose a simple card game was written in flash. To automate it I would need to
-read all of the values of all labels on the screen. -figure out the location and identity of active objects like buttons and text boxes.
I suppose these values could be passed to some kind of executable flile running outside the browser which would then move the mouse and click the buttons as desired.
Mabey there is a better way of doing this ?
I tried running flash apps in Firefox with firebug and fireflash installed to see if I could see what was going on inside the flash files. It didn't work. Mabey debugging has to be enable inside the files themselves which is no use if they are owned by somebody else.
Is it possible to automate a gmae somebody else has written in flash ?
I'm playing a flash game on facebook. I know I can decompile it to find out all the commands and would like to make scripts to automate the game by calling procedures in the actionscript of the game. So I guess I would like to make a plugin also that would insert this console into any flash app and this would be handy for a lot of things. Then if anyone wants to hack a new game, u just decompile it and make a handbook of methods for people to make scripts with. So how would I go about making this console? I don't know if I could make a swf interact with the game or if it has to be compiled into the game's swf. Or if it is easier with javascript, that is cool too. maybe we can make a javascript library just for this. anyone can tell me more?
View 2 RepliesOr a word doc or XLS file in the native file viewer on iOS devices. navigateToURL does not seem to work. I have included a test.pdf file in the "included files" in my iOS settings but won't launch on the device.
View 1 Repliesbuilding a desktop app that can compile java, c, c++ files and display the results using the flex app
View 3 RepliesIs there any clear view on how to build 3d apps in flash? I have heard of paperview(?) and recently saw something called Away3d. Are there any other choices and any clear leaders?
View 1 RepliesI want to build apps to stream to Apple/IOS devices but I don't have an Ipad or Iphone.......what programs can I use to emulate Apple/IOS devices? Is there an emulator? Or will a download of quicktime work? maybe HTML5 video object will work in any webbrowser. I haven't looked into what it takes to use FMS on Apple/IOS devices, so maybe I will answer this question by this afternoon.
View 6 RepliesIs there a unique device ID that I can use in Flash Builder/AS3 to differentiate between devices in a Flex mobile project? I am trying to circumvent having to code a login/registration system.
View 1 RepliesIn TFS 2010 build, I have a new build and I want to call an ant script that builds Flash. How do I call the ant script? Also How can I compile the Flash directly? I've seen the Power Tools and this question but it doesn't help me as we don't have TFS 2008. I can't find any documentation on how to use the power tools except the 1 sentence on the bottom of download page saying to create your build the old way and import it (which isn't very helpful). I've installed the power tools on the agent computer but I don't see any new options in the Toolbox when I'm designing the build flow.
View 2 RepliesI just started working with ant a few days ago. Right now I have a general buildall.xml which should call each project's build.xml. Because some projects depend on each other, I need to rebuild some other projects which depend on it. This isn't a problem--I'm just setting the depends property of the target. However, ant is always building the dependencies, even when the files haven't changed.Let's say project1 has no dependencies; project2 depends on project1; project3 depends on project1, 2; project4 depends on project1, 2, and 3; and so on.I could hack a solution which looks at project K, and checks if project 1 .. project K have updated files using uptodate. If so, then run the target. This is messy and appears unnecessary.
What is the cleanest way to implement this?EDIT: So I decided to just hack in a bunch of targets, "check_projectK" where it does the uptodate checks on all of its source files, its build file, and the build files of the 1 .. K-1 projects. Due to dependencies, this is always handled correctly. However, this is still a large amount of copy and paste for a large workspace.
Using FDT, when I have a debug configuration with several operations in the launcher chain and the final launcher opens in Flash Player, how can I retrieve the build output from the console once the build is complete and Flash player is running?
It seems that once Flash Player has started the console clears to make way for the application's trace output, but I need to be able to look back over the events and build times for each item in my launch chain while Flash Player is running. Is there a setting I can enable to either log my build output to a file or to preserve it in the console?
Edit: I know I can still read the info when building normally, this question is specifically for building with the debugger.
I googled this online, and almost all of them start with dragging the scrollpane from the component toolbar.
I don't like the way this scrollpane looks. How to change the color, shapes, etc. Can I do this through altering the code, or do I need to start from scratch?
I need help building a site entirely on Flash from scratch. I am a beginner at the software, I know what most tools do, I know how to create basic tweens and stuff, but well, all in all, I'm a beginner. I know absolutely nothing on Action Script (be it 2 or 3), and I want very much to learn Flash now. To do so, I want to put online a portfolio site for me. I already know Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects quite well, so I think now's the time to give it a shoot. On to business:
1. So, first, what size should it be? I wanted it to be something around 1024 x 768 maybe? Is it possible to set an adapative resolution for the site? (I don't know if that's the correct term, what I meant is that the site changes resolution according to the users who are accessing it.)
2. I heard that if you don't use ActionScript to animate things, the site gets mega heavy. Is that true? What should I use ActionScript for when building this website?
3. Is it possible to organize the loading priorities? As in, the order in which things load, so that the site gets a bit more dynamic allocating the user's connection?
4. Are there global standards for Flash-based websites?
For now, I guess this is it. I'm starting this project today, so I'm still not quite sure what other doubts may pop up.
Is it possible to make a Tilecomponent from scratch only wiith AS3 ?I want to make a xml driven dynamic video playlist with thumbs and text description but without a premade flash componenent.The thing I can't understand is how-to to manage the "cellrenderer" from scratch
View 2 RepliesThe following code doesn't work on a mac but works fine on a pc. Anyone know how revise it so it works on both platforms?
stop();
startDrag("/coin", true);
MovieClip.prototype.startScratch = function(width){
[Code].....
I was wondering what would be the most optimal way of coding something that work this way: There's 10 buttons, you click button 5 (for example) which causes button 5 to gotoAndStop(2) while at the same time it tells all the buttons which aren't button 5 to gotoAndStop(1)
View 1 Repliesi have a little scratch and win game that's working perfectly, except i am being asked to make a custom cursor (a coin). now, i can easily make a custom cursor for the whole thing, but i think it looks trashy (especially with it going on a website with ads and the like, how would anyone know to click the ad when theres a freakin' coin over it?
anyways, what i want, is to make the coin only show up when the coin is like... over a "scratchable" box..
Does anyone have any tips for how to approach building a two level accordion menu from scratch? ...or better yet a tutorial? I haven't been able to find anything online other than references to the accordion component which I do not want to use.
Right now I got as far as loading in all the 1st level menu items and their child items from an XML file, when you click one of the 1st level items a function is called which moves all of the 1st level items below the one you click on down far enough so that all of that item's sub items have space, they then attach to that item.
I'm using a for loop within a for loop, is there a better way?
Does anyone know of any good tutorials that will walk me through building an as3 player from the ground up including: clickable seek/progress bar, volume control, and fullscreen support?
Lee Brimelow has a great series of tutorials at gotoandlearn.com, but they are for actionscript 2. He has one new tutorial for as3 video basics but he hasn't gone further yet.
I'm not so good at backwards engineering existing players so I think I'd rather just walk though it. I'd also really like to avoid components and pre-cooked stuff.
I would like to write a very simple 3d engine just to learn it. I have some knowledge about 3d in as3 and perspective concept but I would like to see some tutorial about where to start to build it.
View 3 RepliesIm trying to do a "Pano" 360 flash app from scratch. Using Away3D I should apply an stereographic image very well, everything is working well.But looking in some apps on web (like Panorama), they load only 6 images and somehow they "merge" this 6 images and, I suppose, apply this merge into the sphere 3D. Or it doesnt use a sphere and make kinda illusion of sphere?Could you help me find out how can I merge the images and "apply" those flat, separate images, in my Sphere primitive or, if this isnt the right way, how can I "emulate" those panorama?
View 4 RepliesI need to create a webcam chat which i intend to use in my website. It will allow two or more persons to video chat through their webcams.I want to develop the webcam chat from the scratch. I have no idea which software to use. I did a thorough search for this topic and alli got is adobe flash with some actionscript is required to build it.
View 1 RepliesI have started learning about flash about 3 years ago, I had a shot at making a small application for my boss' website and that went down well... but since this first feeling of flash, this technology has evolved rather quickly. I used to write my scripts in AS 2.0, now AS 3.0 has come with a bunch of new stuff like event listeners and such. I have tried to catch up for the past two weeks but I kind of lack some training on all the new stuff added to or changed in AS 3.0.
So to come to the problem, I have tried to make a pretty simple menu from scratch, I wanted it dynamic so I took advantage of reading data in an xml file. I have created buttons but figured that movie clips were actually more flexible so I went down this way and it kind of works except that when i click one of my buttons, the button_down state works once but not twice, it stays as the button_over state even if i click repeatedly. My script is quite ugly as I could not figure out how to loop the creation of my menu buttons from a single set of movie clips (one for the up state, one for the over state and one for the down/clicked state).
I want to create an online q-bank with questions pertaining to a specific medical board examination. This is similar to the way kaplan and other companies creates Q-banks for standardized exams. The reason: No banks exist for these board examinations
what tools would you use to create a Question bank that has the ability to sort questions by user settings, implement timers, keep track of overall performace, display explanations for each questions, and have the options for video explanations. Is ActionScript up to this task?
does any1 know or have done any 'scratch and win' type of game in flash?
View 4 RepliesAre there any tutorials available that will show me how to create a multiple class program from scratch? I have 2 classes working with a fla and when I add a 3rd class every object I create comes up as an error.1120: Access of undefined property.I'm very frustrated cause I can't figure what the problem is. I have just migrated to OOP so I'm relatively new at this.
View 2 Repliesdoes anyone know where I can get a tut on making a scrolling thumbnail viewer from scratch? I tried to recreate the one in the tutorial here but for some reason I cannot get it to work. I need from scratch step by step (I learn better that way).
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to make an scratch lottery ticket in as3 by using the bitmapData class. The scratch function is working fine, but I want to add an function that is challenging. When 75% of the lottery ticket surface is scratched of I want to trigger an event.
My ActionScript Code:
var toolsize = skraper_mc.width;
var tooloffset = toolsize/2;
var basepoint = new flash.geom.Point(0,0);
var bitmap:Bitmap=new Bitmap();
[Code] .....
Code:
Scratch = function() {
this.previousClip = null;
this.startScratch = function(clipName) {[code].....
I'm trying to set the previousClip variable (which belongs to the Scratch-class) in the onMouseUp function. I know I'm not doing it the right way, but can someone tell me how to set a the previousClip variable properly?
I'm looking for resources on making an interactive charting component in Adobe Flash without use of Flex (or, minimal use). That is, starting "from scratch" with Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Is there recommended reading? Perhaps a good recent book on the subject, or a detailed blog article, or an open source project to look at? I'm interested in the development process, and specific design patterns (for example, extending Sprite as the logical base class for your component).
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