I am trying to get a handle on interfaces with AS3 and am kind of at a sticking point. Someone tried to explain them to me using legos and conceptually I get the idea of consistent interaction. Where I seem to get stuck is, I don't really see how the implementation of interfaces accomplishes this.
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Should each button get a class and a listener, or should I dump everything into one Object and use e.target.name to figure out what is getting clicked? That way I can just use one listener, but then I won't be able to recycle anything. I could probably work around that though.
View 1 RepliesI'm creating a scrollbar gallery from a tutorial on this site. Though I've completed the tutorial, and customised the gallery to my own needs, however I'm trying to make a very small change to it - and no matter what I do, keep running into problems. I'm trying to replace the rectangular handle with my own customised handle - a (20 x 20) 'circular' png image that I've imported into Flash, made a graphic and stored in the library (though I understand it can be imported using actionscript, like the other images in the gallery).
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I have four objects with a .speed property. I want to compare all four and snag the object with the lowest speed. That alone I can get a grip on no problem. But, it's quite possible that 2 or more of the objects could have the same lowest speed. Here's where my ideas start to get muddled and rather involved. Compare two, toss the lowest in an array, if equal toss them both in.Compare the third to the array, if it's lower replace the existing item(s) with this one, if it's equal add it.Do a similiar thing with the fourth.To do all that I can't think of anything but a boatload of IFs and nested IFs.
View 3 RepliesLets say we have an online application written in AS3 and served from a server as a SWF. The first version to go out is V1.0.
Several users, some behind a proxy server, use the V1.0 application and now there is a cached copy on the client machines and the proxy server.
V1.1 is released and placed on the server. All users should see V1.1, but results will vary, some will be served the fresh copy, some will for a period receive their cache's copy, and finally some will be served the cache'd copy in the proxy server.
I can be code in the V1.0 that checks a server variable to see if it's out of date. BUT if it is out of date, is there a way in AS3 to force it download a fresh copy, or apply the differences into itself?
Considering that I don't have access to the proxy server and can't manually or automatically clear the cache.
what I am trying to do and maybe some of you nice people can point me in the right direction or present some code examples etc.I am an intermediate Flasher but have never really done anything too hardcore....Here goes.I have an html file(or maybe it's flash depending on what's easier) with 5 radio lists in a form. Each of the lists have post variables that consist of say, option1a,b,c etc... option2a,b,c etc.Once you have checked each option and submit I want to post those variables to an XML file.
NOW STEP 2....I create a flash file with 5 empty movie clips named box1,box2,box3 etc.I create individual LoadMovie actions which dynamically get the name of the .swf file they need to load in each box by calling the variables from the xml file.
I would like to create a swf that pulls images from a folder, creates a thumbnail for them and preloads them. This would have to work like a bare template that could pull 2 or 20 images depending on what folder it is placed in. I'm not asking for code here, what I would like to get from you is thoughts on what works, and what doesn't. paste code if you want to explain someting, but really I just want to be able to wrap my head around this, and then code it myself, and comeback here with specific questions if I run into problems. I would like to keep this to just flash and php if at all possible.
View 5 RepliesCan someone clear up for me the theory behind the fact you can not redispatch custom event?I am talking about the situation where you get custom event (in your event handler method) and try to dispatch it again as it is - and you get the Error #1034: Type Coercion failed.example:
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I have been using flash since version 3 as a designer.I want to know how to make an object that I have manually placed on the stage from the library with a Class attached to it, interact with the Document Class? So I am basically dragging the item onto the stage and this item has a class attached and the Document Class with all of its SubClasses needs to know this exists.
Now I was dabbling with making geometry wars to learn AS3 Classes and it was great fun, I set up the Document Class, my enemies and Player 1 Spaceship. I worked out my different SubClasses, and everything was added to the stage by AddChild() along with all SubClasses being created through the Document Class....Every Class Object was linked to the Document Class as everything was created either by it or through SubClasses under it. So I had full control to do what I wanted. However, all I ever see are elements generated dynamically to the stage. As a designer I want to animate things here and there and then at specific times possibly gain control of this item with it's Class attached, but I want the Document to have a link to this Item.
Also can everybody please stop generating text boxes dynamically all of the time. just create a MovieClip with the form elements on it if it's a form that isnt going to change in layout at all. But this leads onto the same sort of questions, the items arent being created and added to the stage as objects so you still have to make the MovieClip Class understand the items under it exist, I would do it by the Instance Name but is this dirty these days in AS3..
My goal: To create a side-scrolling motocross game (horizontal - already have terms on side scrolling methodology).The bike - should react to jumps, etc.Wheels need to turn when gas is pressed, etc (is this a basic animation on keyboard events, or is it actually what 'drives' the machine??)The rider - should hang on to bike, lean forward, backward, etc.My question lies within where should be the best place to start? I know this isn't going to happen over night, and my primary focus is on the bike & suspension & rider physics (making sure the suspension/bike/rider react correctly to bumps).URL...
View 2 RepliesI understand flash does not allow to save text to file, but i have been using zinc 3.0 and can save and load a single text file within flash.1. run me through what the theory would be to have multiple input text fields that save to 1 text file and then is able to load the text from those text fields back into the same place? In theory or if someone knows.2. Is it possible to automatically load and save text to files using something similar to flush() with shared objects?3. Is it possible to have a username and password so multiple people can save and load there own answers? Perhaps having this password on the first frame as i have multiple frames with sl.
View 13 RepliesIs there any utility that indicates in a comprehensible way what is referencing and object and why it can't be garbage collected.
View 2 RepliesI have a fairy sizable class, a`nd an mx:Application that will periodically instantiate a new object of this class, which results in member functions of the class being assigned as event listeners to the application, and also other member display objects of the class being added as children to the application. When the application creates a new object of this class the old object is destroyed: to accomplish this, removeEventListener and removeChild are called on various members of the old object (to decouple them from the parent application) and then the final reference to the old object is set to null, and then finally the well known localConnection hack is called to force FP to actually free the memory.
And the thing is, the above destruction procedure always works to deallocate an object - except for the very first object allocated. it has proved impossible thus far to release the memory of the first such object created, or find out what is preventing it (i.e. find out what is still referencing it). So my question is - is there any useful utility that will tell you what is still referencing an object and keeping it from being garbage collected. Someone implied to me that the flex profiler would do this (which I do not have access to) but another 3rd party profiler I found for flex would not do this (i.e. tell you what is referencing an object and keeping it from being deleted.)
I have a web application created using Flash Pro and I want to use external ActionScript files to support it. I have a package with multiple classes. I want to be able to create utility functions to do things across classes. How do I make these functions accessible to any of the classes? I know I can create a class with these functions and then instantiate the class with a dummy variable to be able to access the methods but is there a better way?
View 4 RepliesIf my main class I define
var arrItems:Array=[];
and in a utility class (in a different file) I define
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I am aware of Zinc (which was disappointing) and SWF Studio (demo didnt work for some reason, I contacted them with nor eply just yet) but there were problems with these and they simply offer more than I need. Is there a simple utility that will allow me to eliminate the users ability to maximize the player window? Something that wont force me to bundle my 50 FLV videos into the EXE making an EXE thats like 300 MB...something that will not change anything about how the projector works but allow some projector top bar modifications?
I tend to remember long ago there was a very simple 1-2 screen utility that allowed you to simply check a few boxes, export and it acted in every way like a regular projector (exe) but simply disable a few options (like maximize).
I am aware of Zinc (which was disappointing) and SWF Studio (demo didnt work for some reason, I contacted them with nor eply just yet) but there were problems with these and they simply offer more than I need. Is there a simple utility that will allow me to eliminate the users ability to maximize the player window? Something that wont force me to bundle my 50 FLV videos into the EXE making an EXE thats like 300 MB...something that will not change anything about how the projector works but allow some projector top bar modifications?I tend to remember long ago there was a very simple 1-2 screen utility that allowed you to simply check a few boxes, export and it acted in every way like a regular projector (exe) but simply disable a few options (like maximize).Anyone know of such a utility?
View 3 RepliesI am seeing fms utility time during the playback. What could be casuing it to timeout. when size around 179KB it starts to throw this error. Don't know exact size when it throws. For small sizes it is successful.
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I have just uploaded a new swf and its packages to my server, and it works has expected. However, inside my Document Class I have two imports:
import com.utils.calendarFunctions;import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;
Neither of these are on my Server - believe me I've checked, repeatedly. So how is it possible that my swf still functions as if these two packages where there. Does the import actually embed these inside the swf or what?
Is there an existing javascript library for relaying key press events in the browser (or certain divs) into flash? I am hoping there might be a library kind of like this one for mousewheel events?Something like this handles javascript keyboard shortcuts great. I suppose I could just listen for those events and pass the ones I want into flash?These are great examples, however, if flash has focus, then javascript keystrokes are lost. How can you ensure that all key events go through javascript?
View 4 Replies[url]...I've downloaded clippy and have tried compiling on Mac, Linux, and Windows and I keep getting the same result: The swf compiles with no apparent errors but when I try to load the clippy.swf in my webpage it is unresponsive. I've tried custom builds that others have done and it works fine - just building my own results in a dud. (and yes I do have haxe and swifmill installed). The only thing I can think of is perhaps the latest version of swifmill or haxe is causing the issue.
View 1 RepliesI have a bunch of functionality which is going to be used throughout the application.I already have some utilities which work ok such as changing an AS3 object into XML.public static function convertMyObjectToXML(o:Object): XMLThis can go in a UTIL class somewhere.nother thing i would like to do is create a "createDirectory" via php. public static function createDirectory(name:string, path:String): voidThe problem is, in order to get the response from the server, i need to listen for the load to complete (or fail).So am i right to think that static methods are not possible or desirable here? How else can i solve the problem of reusing such a method throughout an application?
View 0 Repliesi'm using Sephiroth XMLObject to parse Xml and it works nice (handling actions inside the Xml Onload event), but i would like to cut shorter coding writing a class calling Xml and XMLObject, it's possible?. This is an attempt but it doesn't work, or better, Xml file is parsed correctly but is not available.
This is the class:
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import mx.utils.Delegate;
import XMLObject;
class XMLLoader {
private var xmlFileName:String;
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I have a class just full of random STATIC functions and vars that I use often on alot of other classes. things like the classic randRange(min, max) function. . just silly things i dont want cluttering my code My question is does importing this class into other classes increase the memory used by instances of the class. Cause i may import this class of 30 objects and only use 2 of them. I'm thinking it doesn't. But i could be wrong as I haven't found much material on flash memory usage other than garbage collector stuff.
View 1 RepliesHow to use interfaces?
View 2 RepliesFor example, If I have a SWF that loads XML and images, and displays them, is there some kind of 3rd-party tool that will take this SWF and re-render it as if all the text and images were embedded and not external? So I could just use the same SWF without it relying on image and xml data files?
View 1 RepliesOur company is about to create and distribute (and possibly to sell ) the utility to convert Silverlight apps to its equivalents on Flash.For this purpose we're writing our own AS3-compiler. The compiler for correct work must know how to interact with the classes
backed into the FlashPlayer. The Flex Builder solves it by using the playerglobal.swc that is the part of its distribution package.As far as I know we have no right to redistribute the separate playerglobal.swc without the rest of Flex SDK.
And here is the question: Tehnically we're able to learn all the class interfaces defined inside of the playerglobal.swc with the help of e.g. the plugin ExportSWC (shipped for FlashDevelop) and redeclare them inside of our own swc (e.g. named PlayerGlobalInterfaces. swc) or somehow else.It would be enough for the correct work of our AS3-compiler without the need of using playerglobal.swc at all. But I'm not sure would it violate any copyrights or not?
Is there any way to create a sort of interface for variables? In other words to enforce a class to create and use a variable if they implement an interface or subclass something?
View 1 RepliesI'm just trying to make a utility function to convert an array collection into a string.
Supose my item within the array collection (named 'ac') is something like:
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var ac:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{property:'foo'},{property:'bar'}]);
I can get the items property if I use a 'for' loop like:
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var acToStr:String = "";
for (var item in ac)
{
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What I was told, which sparked my curiosity on this topic:Java gui classes can implement hundreds of Listeners and Callbacks and many books teach you to implement all these interfaces in your gui class. Alternatively, these aspects can be implemented in inner classes, so methods called by that listeners do not get mixed up.'d like to know how to do this in ActionScript, which doesn't have inner classes, but has private classes. But, I don't think I fully realize what inner classes are about, so I'm merely trying to wrap my head around the situation where I would use them to organize a class' methods by their usages.
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