i am wroking in action script 3 with flash i need to save mouse drawing data in xml and retrive it later for edit purpose i have found a good technique -here but not able to make sure how to store in xml and how to retrive it
View 4 Repliesi am working in action script 3 , is there any way that we can save mouse drawing data with color and stroke size in XML and retrieve back that data and present that in the same format and same position and edit again.?
View 2 Repliesthe short version of what i need to do - via AS3 and PHP - is a user can come to this project and draw something. drawing's no problem, that's done. my issue is figuring out how to take that drawing data, converting it into something i can save to my database ... then reload said data and recreate it on the stage when the user "loads" it.
i guess i'm just searching for a way to take drawn data (just using typical as3 drawing methods) and breaking it down to a string, then bringing that string back in and recreating it. i'm not super versed in ByteArrays - which i suspect is where my answer lies.
user doesn't need to adjust any of this after it's loaded, fwiw. i'd just like to send this drawing data out - then bring it back in and place it back on the stage.
i've seen a few good examples to save out a png of the current flash display area from a webbrowser from a flash, such as:[URL]what they normally do is stream the image data through a png encoder to a web server somewhere and then decode the image data back to current webbrowser and then trigger the web browser SAVE function, by prompting user to select a path and file name to save, like a download.however, the difference is when you click that save button, you can save your png image directly to a certain location with a fixed file name, such as on your local computer:
View 5 RepliesAt school, we're going to have something which translates kind of "degree in computers" which requires to create something, anything, in any programming language, to get a lousy A and pass.
The standards are really low, a grade A is something a site you'd make in PHP in 45 minutes and have only 3 pages.
But this "degree" has made me think of an application, destined for kiddies. In fact, the idea belongs to my girlfriend, but that stays between us ^^
The fact is, using the Drawing API (or not, but that's the only idea I have at the moment) how could I draw something on the Stage, and then have it saved as an external .jpg? Is this possible using only Flash?
I have a web page with a button that does a redirect to another web page with a flash movie in it. The button on the first page sends http post data as part of it's functionality.
View 1 Replieshow to display multiple data (retrieved from xml files using a for loop) horizontally in flash. For example, I'd like to display images (fetched from the database using XML) in a flash file where in i want to display 3 records in a row and rest of the images to appear in the next row having the set of 3 images in each rows. I'm having a hard time handling this task.
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// Create new XML Object and set ignoreWhite true
book_xml = new XML();
book_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
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I am building a flash app to retrieve XML data which depends on what a user searches for. The following as3 code places an input field and submit button which allows a user to type in a postcode into the input box and click search and what should be returned in a list of all the properties that have that postcode.
Code:
import fl.controls.Label;
import fl.controls.TextInput;
import fl.controls.Button;
var postcodeLabel:Label = new Label();
var postcodeTi:TextInput = new TextInput();
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However, this doesn't seem to happen. Instead an error is returned. I've never worked with flash and xml before so just taken the above xml bits from online websites but cant get it working.
How to retrieve and show data from database in flash? I want to show data on a page like below,
1. Name1 -- Address1
2. Name2 -- Address2
3. Name3 -- Address3
Im building a flash app to retrieve XML data which depends on what a user searches for. The following as3 code places an input field and submit button which allows a user to type in a postcode into the input box and click search and what should be returned in a list of all the properties that have that postcode.
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I'm using Flash 4.0 as UI tier, and I'm trying to send data to the server side, which runs on Tomcat. I wrote a servlet that the calls are directed to it. But I do not understand how can I see the data that was sent from the flash tier. to clarify, hereby example:
Flash tier:
<fx:Declarations>
<s:HTTPService
id="setCustomerDataService"
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how can I retrieve "data" from Flash, in my Servlet?
I am newie to Flash and actionscript. However, I have some years of programming experience, Java, VC++, JSP, ASP, and etc.Now, I have a project to about E-Business. I want a method to embed some data into a flash then retrieve it later. The idea is that I want some secure protection for the data embeded, then the data (maybe audio, video, or photoes) is encrypted first (so the data is changed) and embeded into the flash. When the viewer want to view the flash, it will be prompted to input a password, then the flash will try to use the password to decrypt the data and let the flash player show it.
View 0 RepliesBasically I've got a reasonably complex drawing object in a fla and I want to reproduce it in a class definition using the drawing api. However obviously this is a tedious task, so is there some trick or automated method of doing this?
Last time I needed to do this it was a drawing of an arrow and I ended up writing down x,y,width,height values for everything but this one has curves in it which I don't have experience with drawing anyway.
I am trying to retrieve data from database through php scripts and display in flash using actionscript 3. For actionscript 3, I have 2 functions:
private var postArrayTxt:Array;
public function stampTwo() {
// constructor code
var stampNumber1:MovieClip = new stamp1();
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if I were to run the php script itself, the data could be retrieved from database. However, if I run in Flash, it returns a null value.
I've been all over the interwebs, including Stack Overflow, for hours, trying to identify a solid, workable example of saving information in Flash into an XML file.
I want to take the positions of two different types of objects and export the lists of each to XML. We'll call the objects ball and bat.
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I'm having trouble retrieving the value of a multi-select list component. It always traces the last value selected, but I need to trace all values to parse the data.
I've been using trace(myList.value);
I'm having trouble retrieving the value of a multi-selectlist component. It always traces the last value selected, but Ineed to trace all values to parse the data
View 8 Replieshow to send data to asp thru flash & how to retreive data from an asp into flash...
View 3 RepliesI'm using Flash CS4 & Actionscript 3.0 to create a grid with different objects that a user can move with the mouse. This is a standalone application meant to be used on a Windows machine. Is there a way to download and save the user's responses (viz. location of mouse, type of object clicked, etc.) onto the local computer without using the Flash Debugger?
I came across an article [URL] which states that it is possible to save local data onto a user's computer without a backend script (e.g. php) in Flash Player 10 but the article doesn't really say how this is done.
I know how to get the data from my database, but i can't seem to figure out how to send data to the database from flash using amfphp! give me an as3 and php service example.
View 1 RepliesHalf way through;user saves the answers to a CSV file to a location.then continue the test and save the 2nd part to the same location (different file name). The next person completes the same test, and theoretically saves in the same location OVERWRITING the file. HOW IT SHOULD WORK when they overwrite the file, it SHOULD add it to the next ROW in the excel (csv)document, not overwriting the WHOLE file. In the end, you would (in theory) have a number of rows in one excel document, each row, a different user who completed the test The issue is: on the MAC computer, this works (im not sure if it's because the previous developer developed it on a MAC) however when I play it or move it to windows computer; It overwrites the whole CSV file, and doesn't add it in the rows.Here is the main code (half way through) for the first save:
Code:
stop();
qNum.text="Q 11-13";
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i want a solution or sample file of exactly how to save a flash input data to xml file.. im really new to xml.. i dont know how to script it in flash. Ex: there will be a two fields of input... 1) text input... 2)checkbox input/ other... and a submit/ save button the above will be in flash interface.... so when i run the file and key in the data into the text input box or other.. the data what ever i key in has to reflect in XML that means it has to save the data in XML... so that i can open the xml and have look of the data wat ever i have keyed in..
im really badly in need.. what action to put where and how to create xml. what to put in that... i know some of you really would have done this.
I have an Access Database (doesn't need to be Access, I can phpAdmin or mysql, whatever will work) that has a list of names. I want the user to open a Flash form and have the names load up into seperate input boxes for each name. The user can then change the names, move them, whatever, and then save the record. I want it to just overwrite the record. I donlt want create a new record. I cannot, for the life of me, figure this out. I have tried to find some tutorials but nothing makes sense. Is ASP a good way to go? I have been struggling with this for a week now.
View 3 RepliesI tried this way, but it doesn't draw on the image. Only if I tries to draw on right border (outside the image) it working.
private var oldX:Number, oldY:Number;
private var mode:String = "modeBrush";
private function onMouseDown(e:MouseEvent):void {
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I have the following form code in my HTML, basically including a couple of hidden input fields and the Flash object (disregard the missing <object> and <embed> values):
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I am seeing repeated comments on this discussion forum that it's not possible to save data from Flash into a locally stored XML file . . . but there must be a way to do this. Why is you can read data from a locally stored XML file but not update or add data to it. how absurd a design would that be, it simply wouldn't be logical!
View 8 RepliesI have read through Shared Objects but i couldn't get it work...
I just have to save my data, maybe array into .txt file and later on
retrieve from the same .txt file...
Anyone here have an example or some source code so i can have reference on it?
I'm making a drawing application, everythings looks and works ok, except for one thing...My mouse cursor is hidden and a paintbrush like cursor follows it. This cursor is a movieclip, because the user chooses a color, and the tip of this paintbrush changes to the selected color.But there's one problem... when I draw to the left the line is drawed with no problem, but when I draw to the right, the line is interrupted, and I don't understand why.I made one experiment, and with no movieclip "attached" to the mouse cursor, the line is drawed with no problem, both to the right and left.
View 10 RepliesI'd like to know if there's a way to take data entered into a field in flash, save it, and call it later via an object.I don't want anyone to walk me through it if there is, that's not what I'm asking. I'm just asking what I need to know in order to do this. I'd like to build a certain flash app that takes information (such as a name, paragraph, and/or sentence) saves it, and can then be recalled when a user clicks a button... even if the user has closed out the application.I'm still relatively new to flash, I know enough to get by on basic projects, but I want to expand my knowledge so I don't end up stuck in a beginners rut.Would this require using PHP and Flash? Or can it be done entirely in flash via exporting data to a designated external file?
View 2 RepliesI've created a small game with Box2d for AS3 - I have sprites attached to the stage that take their position from the underlying Box2d world. These sprites are mostly PNGs.When the game runs with DrawDebugData() bening called every update, it runs nice and smoothly. However when I comment this out, it runs choppily. In both cases all my sprites are being rendered. So it seems that it's running faster when it's drawing the debug data additionaly (i.e. my sprites are on the screen in both cases!)What's going on? Does drawing the debug data flick some sort of 'render quick' switch? If so, what's the switch!? I can't see it in the Box2D code.
function Update(e){
m_world.Step(m_timeStep, m_velocityIterations, m_positionIterations);
// draw debug?[code]...
Interestingly, If i set the debug draw scale to something different to my world scale, it slows down to 19fps. So there's something happening when it draws the boxes under my sprites causing it to run quicker..