I'm coding a website in pure AS3 using FlashDevelop and have an object that loads an XML file on init. Is there a good way to make my main function wait until it has finished loading? I know about onComplete events and how to use them internally in the object but I'm not sure how to proceed.
View 1 RepliesI want to know, Is there any way to handle or control the shockwave objects in flash by using 'as3'? I know this is possible in 'Director' by using 'Lingo'. But I am not able to find any way or any articles from where i can get some idea about this. In the director, I've seen there is way to set some properties like camera position, light affects etc. with the shockwave objects. But I am not sure about the FLASH. Can it possible to use these type of properties with shockwave objects in flash, which could be controlled in action script3 ?
View 1 RepliesI want to handle the mouseevents for all the sprites on the stage including the one those are hidden behind (or overlapped or occluded) and the main condition is that I want to handle the occluded sprite (that hidden behind other sprite). example, say I have sprite1 and sprite2 on stage and I want to start drag whenever i click on the sprite and stop drag after another click.
This can be done easily, but the problem and my main requirement is that if I drag the sprite1 and drop it exactly on top of the sprite2 then sprite2 will be hidden behind the sprite1 I wont be able to drag the sprite2 without moving the sprite1 first. if you have played zynga's empires and allais game on facebook, it is handled seperatly, it is how it works in that game, the mouse event is triggered on the sprite behind the overlapping sprite, if you have two sprites overlapping one sprite than the mouse event is triggered on the sprite which is last and not the one in front irrespective of whether there is only one sprite overlapping or two or three and this happens to irregular shaped sprites (not just rectangles)
How does flash player handle objects when they are no longer on the visible stage? Is the graphical data still in memory? Does hittestobject/point consider them? Are enterframe and interval events still running?
In AS2 I would hold metaobjects (minimal x,y,width,height data) that would delete/create movieclips as the screen scrolled. Is this still a correct approach in AS3? If not, is there anything I can do to offstage display objects that improves efficiency, assuming around 400 are created initially?
I'm trying to load some WDDX data into a shared object, but I'm having some troubles getting it back out. I can open the sol file in a text editor and see that my data is in there, but I can't manage to access it... does putting information into a sharedObject change things? Can you load an array into a sharedObject and have it retain it's array-ed-ness?
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to read some data in from a sql source, some of which contains double quotes embedded in the text. I know I can strip the doublequotes, but don't want to go that route if I can avoid it. I've tried replacing to double quotes with hex codes before passing the text via parameter to my flash file, but the text string always cuts off at the hex code, the same as if the double quote were present in the string. For example:This is a "text" stringreplace double quotes with hex: This is a x22textx22 stringesults when read into flash: This is a <remainder is dropped>Yet if I type the same text string in a variable in flash, the string displays the double quotes properly:
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 am trying to perform two way binding e.g I have a button (out of many controls), on its selection, I am showing the values of its diff properties(like height, width etc) in some textinput. This one way process works fine.But the reverse process doesn't work. i.e When I select some button, and try to change its dimension by entering some value in height, width textinputs, the dimension are not changed.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
//Create some data and bind it to the grid
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My xml data [URL]. I need to load this xml data through httpservice and in the handle result function I need to access the individual data like complaints.complaint.title using for loop function. I had tried this I couldn't get the result as I need
<s:HTTPService id="Complaints" url="[URL]" result="Complaints_resultHandler(event)" fault="Complaints_faultHandler(event)" >
</s:HTTPService> <fx:Script> <![CDATA[
protected function Complaints_resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void {
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I need to get the data like title, complainturl, latitude, longtitude etc.
I am running into trouble with a multidimensional array. This works well with up to about 2000 "sets"
var datasets:Array = new Array(
// one "set"
new Array(
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I would like your advices on how to handle loading errors which is dependent on network or maybe timeouts from server. I have a game hosted on a dedicated server but it seems that some users from different locations are experiencing loading errors.Is there anyway we can detect a timed-out loading? How should one handle loading errors for an online game in general depending on network connection? For example, loading of game assets etc.
View 1 RepliesI'm sending through a socket from java to flex client some data and the flex side can't seem to handle it right. In the java i'm looping over 8 objects and for each object I create a long string 1:lsls:2:3:justexample then the java does writeToSocket("1:lsls:2:3:justexample") for every iteration of the loop. But in the client side, it seems that only 2 out of the 8 arrived. what can be the problem?
View 1 RepliesAm making an xml-driven boardgame and was wondering if there is an established methodology for handling fairly large amounts of xml? I'm pretty familiar with working with small amounts of xml and have my loader class in place, etc. However, I'm unsure as how best to handle the sequencing of loading in several xml files, where to store the data once it is loaded and then cascade it down to the various classes which will use the data.
View 1 RepliesHow do I handle php gibberish when loading url-encoded variables? If either vars or no vars return I have a way of executing an event, but if html/php errors return in the string, how can I tell the program to execute an event?
View 1 RepliesWe are making a system that has a main swf for the application, and loads separate tools from separate swfs -- there will be versioning issues in the future since the separate swfs are coming from a cms (especially now since we're still developing, but also in the future when other developers might create an incompatible tool). I'm trying hard to prevent them as much as possible but I'd really like to be able to display a message to the user of the system when an incompatible swf is loaded.
This would mean that we need to catch that VerifyError or at least determine the loading failed for some reason - I've got no idea how to handle that at the moment. I suspect it might be possible using 10.1 and the uncaughtError system, but we are currently targeting flash player 10. Does anyone have a good idea? (we are already handling IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR)
UPDATE: I've built a solution that scans the bytecode before importing, looks like that will work. I'll post the solution later.
So i a building a categorized menu of different foods. I have a class for "categories" (buttons) which essentially will return a string "salads", "drinks", etc. I now have another class "menuItems" for items within categories and this handles sizes such as "small", "med", "large", etc. My problem now is that when i return "salads", i want to invoke an array which contains all the elements of salads, send it to menuItems which will populate the menu. So far i have both the category objects and the menu object setup. I just cant seem to be able to send the data that the category object is returning and pass it to the menu object. Both of which are added to the stage as shown below:
If there was a way that i could say add all these classes to one class so that they can talk to each other that would be great but i dont know how to do this.
I want to create a flash movie which firstly loads a selection of images/objects into a portion of the frame. After this is complete, the user can then drag these objects onto another area and the object will be created where the user has chosen. The user can then drag another instance of the ojects onto the area.
For example, there is a background of a lake in one area. A selection of boat pngs are loaded in an area below the lake. The user can drag these boats and place them on the lake. They can drag a boat multiple times if they wish.
I have a parent SWF (Parent) that handles user navigation between multiple children SWFs (Child_1, Child_2, Child_3). How do I add event listeners to the navigation buttons on the children SWFs so that the user can move laterally between Child_1, Child_2 and Child_3? I can think of two options but can't get either one to work:
1) The parent SWF sets up the event listeners when it loads a child. So, I use a loader on Parent to load Child_1 and in Parent add eventlisteners to Child_1.myNavigationform.myButton.
The problem here is that the Parent is only handing the loader instance and I can't think of how it would drill down to the individual objects within Child_1.
2) Child_1 adds the event listeners to its own objects. This just reverses the problem. Child_1 has no problem accessing its own buttons but when a user clicks them it has no way of accessing methods on parent so that Child_2 can be loaded.
I am trying to read XML data from a SharePoint site. The issue I am having is that the flash project works just fine when I preview the swf in flash, however when I try to view it in HTML it does not load the XML file.Now the XML file is not a simple document that can live in the same folder as the swf. I have to use a link to a web page. This is the code that I am using (sorry. had to change the web address)
Actionscript Code:
var testXML:XML = new XML();testXML.ignoreWhite = true;testXML.onLoad = function(success) if (!success) { trace("testXML did not load"); } else {
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in loading an XML List intoFlash CS3.
View 1 RepliesMy XML looks as follows [code]In my folder I have the XML as shown. There are 6 images in the folder and the names are given as urls. I have a combo box on stage. Its name myCB. There is an image holder imgHolder_mc.I have two tasks.Populate the combo box with the imageNames.Based on the imageName selected the image in the image holder must change. The image must be retrieved using the image url.[code]how I can bind this to my combo box and select images according to the selection I made in combo box.
View 1 Repliesloading a My Sql data base table in to flash
View 2 RepliesI'm going thru the kirupa example of using loading XML data in flash. I came across this example, most of the logic makes sense to me but I don't understand the syntax
preloadbar_mc.target = my_xml; //my_xml is reference to the loaded XML object.
what does movieclip.target mean? I've search for movieclip.target but could not find any documentation.***For some reason, the forum is stripping out all the newslines in the code I'm pasting below! argghhh preloadbar_mc.onEnterFrame = function(){if (!this.target) return (0);var loaded =target.getBytesLoaded();var total = target.getBytesTotal(); var scale = 0;if (loaded && total){var percent = loaded/total;scale = 100 * percent;} this._xscale = scale;}preloadbar_mc.target = my_xml;
loading XML data into Flash using the tutorials in Kirupa but I got stucked just by doing the load code in ActionScript 3.0.
Below's the code that I use...
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var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){
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I have a flash swf loading data from an xml via jsp from the same domain. The swf is displaying the data perfectly fine from where I am at and for most of my user. However, one of my most important user report to me that the flash isn't displaying the data.
So here lies my question. At first, I thought it was merely an Flash player not up to date problem, but that user said he's using flash player 10 already and he has tested it with all sorts of browser. I have also try connecting to the website from that user's area, and it appears to be fine as well.
Base on the user's feedback, he was able to load the flash, but the xml data just won't appear. Somehow, I believe that it could be an individual computer's problem, but since I am no expert in the networking, and am having some trouble solving this problem,
I want to load an RSS feed into flash so it is selectable if that is possible
View 2 Repliesi am creating a dynamic data list to show data for upcoming events on my website [URL] inside of the flash user interface I created: [URL] I loaded the XML file into the flash movie frame but the image will not show up Here is the XML file code used:
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I have a Flash MP3 player that loads the song list from an XML file. I'm trying to set it up to take the customer to the online store to purchase the currently playing song. The player successfully loads the track name, artist name, and url to the song, but for some reason does not appear to the load the new attribute of buylink that I have just added. Given the code below, my buylink value is returned as undefined.
View 3 Repliesim trying to do is assign the font colour and text into multiple text fields.
this is the code i have for the xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE data[
<!ELEMENT title (comments, image)>
<!ATTLIST title name CDATA #REQUIRED>
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I have a database which looks like this
//---ID--//---Name---//---Price---//---Description---//
//--01--//--Classic---//----22----//---blahblahblah--//
I would wish to parse this data using php to flash. In flash, I have 3 dynamic text field. (classic_food_name, classic_food_price, classic_food_des )
This is my php codes
f ($_POST['sendRequest'] == "get_food_text") {
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT food_name, food_price, food_description FROM food WHERE food_id ='4'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
$food_name = $row["food_name"];
$food_price = $row["food_price"];
$food_des = $row["food_description"];
print "food_text=$food_name&food_price=$food_price&food_des=$food_des";
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It only shows my Food Name and nothing else.