ActionScript 3.0 :: Get First 3rd-party Component Working?
Mar 16, 2011
I feel like I'm walking into a brain surgery symposium to get help opening a box of Band-Aids...I've tried pretty hard to find tutorials about this but no luck. I'm the densest person who's ever dared to start up Flash. I'm making a scheduling utility for students in my online classes, and I went out and found a "Date Picker" component which looks nice. I've downloaded it, but I can't get Flash CS4 to recognize it no matter what I do. The picker came from [URL]
First issue - there are a several different downloads. One contains only a file called Datepicker-v4.4.1.swc with a red envelope icon, the other is version 4.2 (I don't really care which version I end up with). The 4.2 yields a directory containing
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I tried to do that, but my directory structure doesn't correspond to that path very well. (I don't have a Local Settings directory, first of all.) Looking for something analogous on my WinXP/CS4 machine I ended up at C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Flash CS4enConfiguration. That didn't have a Components directory so I made one, dropped DatePicker.swc into it, and nothing seemed to happen. (By that I mean, I started Flash, created an AS3 Flash file and opened the components palette, and nothing DatePicker-like was there.)
Does anyone know of a easy to install photo gallery. I'm assuming it would have to be flash. I want to implement it on my own site. I am looking for the one that is thumbnails,and when you click a thumbnail, it expands and you can navigate through the other photos.
I have a Master SWF that has several buttons on it's stage.These buttons each load a remote SWF of a clickable graphic into the Master movie's upper left hand corner. Inside these loaded clips are several clickable areas that I would like to use to load yet another movie into the bottom half of the Master clip ... so, it's loading a remote SWF onto the stage of a third party.I'm having a simple targeting problem. I'm not quite sure how to call a movie to load into a loader on the stage of a different movie clip. I'm using "parent" ... but i got something wrong:
_________________________________ var unitSwfLoader:Loader = new Loader();unitSwfLoader.x = 25;unitSwfLoader.y = 390; function getUnitSWF(e:MouseEvent):void { unitSwfLoader.load(new URLRequest( "units/"+ e.currentTarget.name +".swf" ) ); parent.addChild(unitSwfLoader);}
When clicking on a link for an mp3 [URL] on my website, the mp3 plays in my I.E. explorer window because it is set as my default. I assume that most visitors to the site will have a pre-set application to run mp3's. Is there a way to force the mp3 to actually download instead of running the 3rd party application? I want the pop-up box to appear on all users allowing them the option of saving it to their harddrive. I can achieve this by .rar or .zip, but I would prefer not to go this route.
At the moment I'm trying to make a game using Box2D and QuickBox2D but I'm having a problem at the moment because the Player character is actually a QuickObject I don't know how to construct a class that extends that.
For instance if I was just to create the object I want in the main constructor it would be something like this:
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So how would I go about this?because I'm getting loads of problems one of which is the the 'World' variable can't be accessed within the Player Class.
Error is : TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at fl.containers::BaseScrollPane/drawBackground() at fl.controls::List/draw() at fl.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher()
I am trying to mimic the basic mailto: href command you find in HTML in Flash AS3 but cannot figure it out.I simply have text in my flash project like "someone@someone.com" which i want to, when clicked, launch a new compose email with "someone@someone.com" in the to field of the users default email client.
First, excuse the screen name, I tried a lot more and was frustraded and wrote that. I got nothing but love towards google. now to my problem, when I try to play a video on some websites, ite tells me to and when i go to that website I can NOT click on the allow box and check it.
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I updated flash. I deleted the whole macromed folder and reinstalled flash, did a system restore. and nothing worked. I tried to update java but it gave me error 1606 and that it couln't get to %appdata% did the offline manual thing and got the same error.
Is it possible to read first party cookies from flash?It should be noted that we have complete access to javascript via the ExternalInterface class.So, now the question is - can we access first party cookie from javascript? Our javascript code will be loaded by a website which is not hosted by us. This makes the cookies created by that website - first party cookies. How can we access these "first" party cookies?
I am working on Flex 4 and I want to use reports with my Flex project. Is there any way to do the same? I mean any report library provided by Flex or any 3rd party application integration?
How can I do the following in Flex 4.5 or later: Compile an swc library file containing packages of simple functions Compile an swf application referencing the swc file as RSL Publish the swf application Send the source code of the swc file to another developer Allow the developer to modify the code of some functions while keeping their interfaces Allow the developer to compile the source code into a new swc file using only compc Allow the developer to replace my original swc file with his new swc file, then execute my swf application having the new swc file in the same directory.
my flvplayback component is not working when i tried to pass the url of the video to be played from js to the actionscript.(using actionscript 2)
I properly embedded the swf and added the object ids as well. i just assigned the url to a string and then passed it to the function in the as but it's not working...
I have an FLV Playback component in a website that I'm working on and for some odd reason the controls do not work. The video loads and plays fine and the controls appear but you cant click on anything like you can when you assign the skin in the parameters. It is a default Flash skin. At first I thought it was due to the video layer being under a mask, so I moved it on top and it didnt change anything.
I am working on a AS3 only project in Flex....I tried to listen ENTER event when use clicks enter/return in my textinput box....but it seems not working well...I did try using TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT and it worked fine but not Component.ENTER.
I want to create flex application by which i can verify user age i have use following code can u tell me why i cant see mx component "dialogtitle","dialogcontent""dialogbutton"
Ok so i have this dyanamic textbox called logtxt and i have a UIScrollbar attached to it. It works, but only if i add it through typing/pasting it into the textbox. I need it to work when i add the text through the code. (it is linked correctly through the components inspector)
I'm trying to make a UI editor and I'm using a color picker component I found online. I've tried a couple different color picker components but they all seem to have the same issue. If I put an instance of the component on the stage and run the movie, it works fine. The text showing the current color (in hex) as well as any button labels show up and all is well. If I take that same component and put it in another movie clip and put THAT mc on the stage, all is still right with the world. However, if I give that mc a linkage ID and load it using an attachMovie call, all text is blank. I thought it may have to do with embedding, but the button labels are static text, so that shouldn't be an issue.
I know my way around basic Flash, I can work with script as long as I have script assist for basic things like getting URLs and linking buttons etc. I'm trying to create a "don't show this page again" on the opening page of a mini-site using a checkbox component and so far, I've dragged a checkbox onto the stage from the components window and only been able to change its label to "don't show again" from "checkbox" in the parameters window. I've given it the instance name of 'showAgainCheckBox' and I have this code on the component layer first frame looking like this.
Code: Select allshowAgainCheckBox.addEventListener( Mouse.Click, onshowAgainClick ); function onShowAgainClick( e:MouseEvent ):void { // do something about the click here }
Of course the code is filled with errors from what I get of the compiler message. I've been trying to get the logic. So I might need like a 'checkbox component for dummies' kinda explanation.
Working off the the tutorial here: [URL] I'm unable to get the onchangehandler working for the list component in MX 2004. I have just the basics and its still not working. I have a listbox named photolist, and I can fill it just fine but the onchangehandler isn't working. Below is the basic code that I have that isn't even tracing for the onchangehandler.
I'm trying do a simple experiment here, coz I'm stuck with manage Focus because of the component.I'm trying :1. Put an Input Text to the stageYep, the focus works fine. If u click the input text>>the input text get focus, while u click the stage area outside the input text>>the input text lose focus , and so on.2. I put some component, i put a List comp.The focus just go mad, when u click the Input Text, then click stage/another object, the focus doesn't want to leave the Input text.How's that possible? There's no script totally.
When I run the following script, the variable userParty is lost between the scoreCalculate function and the bottom of the script, where it should set the value of the quizVariable.party for the URLloader to function correctly.
I have a code library that I have built. It relies on 2 other (third party) libraries. At the moment, when I compile the library into a swc, both third party libraries are included. I am looking for a way to compile my code library against the third party libraries, but without including them in the compiled swc.
This would obviously mean that anyone using my library would need both libraries as well, but I would prefer it this way. I am not using Flex/Flashbuilder which I know allows you to choose the classes to include in a swc.
In an ideal world, I could do this through a browser in real-time and send a notification that would include the DOM information needed to remove the ad. In this type of model, I could theoretically then use all clients (web visitors) as test subjects. I believe that this might be far fetched, and thus will need to rely on a smaller subset of users. I'm looking for any way to do this. I have even thought about using speakers and a microphone to detect when a sound is playing, and then some how capture a screenshot and the DOM information.
I've seen something like 3rd party software that works along with the Flash Player and extends its functionality. For example: video decoding, opening external files, etc. How such things can be built? Any useful info and maybe links...
I have an Adobe AIR application for Android. Using for this AIR 3.0 and Flash Builder 4.6. I need to make MyANEFile.ane - which must include 2 external .jar files: Flurry.jar + Tapjoy.jar. But when I made .ane file - it does not work. How can I add this 2 jar files to my main application jar file to make .ane file properly? It shows me such errors in dalvik:
I used a scrollbar component out of my Flash Library for a text field. It worked with no problems in the swf file . However, when I checked out my html file in my browser the thumb in the scrollbar was gone making it unusable.I built a new scrollbar from scratch and everything works again in both the swf and html.
Offline (on my drive) it works, but online (on my website) it loads the entire flv before displaying anything (..I get the animated barber shop sign scrub bar thing).Is there any additional coding or setup I need to do for it to allow me to play it even while it is downloading, as it's supposed to? I just spent a week trying to get my Quicktime .mov's to Fast Start, and it just isn't happening, despite everything I try.I had it work ONCE now using QT Pro, but now they aren't working again.
I gave up on QT, and am trying the FLV route using the FLV Player component... which looked promising, but is now giving me the same issue.Clip thumbnails (embedded movies) on my HTML page that don't download until you click play... and when you click play, it starts playing as soon as it has a good enough head start in the load.I've tried Fast Start QT's....as well as external FLVs loaded via a swf with a FLV Player component inside..
