Usually when I am looking for a specific field name, section of code or variable, I will run a GREP regex search to search through my ASP files, which works great as they are just stored as plain text, however I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to do the same with ".fla" files.
The GREP search looks through all my files in one go and returns a list of files which match the search terms; but wouldn't work on .fla files as the actionscript is not stored as plain text. Possibly this would work if I converted all my ".fla"s to use seperate ".as" files but this would be a lot of work and I'd rather avoid it if possible.
I installed Flash CS4 Professional trial version for school use. It wouldn't install successfully. I deleted the font files the troubleshooting guide said to, tried again, but gave up. (I'm afraid to run regedit and mess up everything else I have loaded.) (I previously had the Fireworks CS4 trial version loaded, then uninstalled it.) My problem is this- I have it running, but it saves files and then they can't be opened, even if I use the save function often- it's worse when I create the file, test the movie and then save.If I try to open it again, it says "cannot open file." Once it opened a copy I had saved, and it appeared blank, even though it was 544 kb file size. I only need it for a few more days, one more assignment and I'm afraid my previous files are corrupt. I have Windows Vista Home Edition.
I am constructing a Flash animation and I was hoping to build it by scenes. These scenes would be individual SWF movies that I could import into my final Flash file in consequential order and when finished I would have a completed Flash Movie. There would be no interaction beyond Play/and replay. Where can I get information on how to construct this and is this a recomended way to do it?
(All the words are in alphabetical order)All in all, I have around 400,000 words neatly organized in 31 XMLs.
1. The CPU randomly picks a letter from A to Z. Based on that letter, it loads the appropriate XML file. From that XML file, it randomly loads one word (and when it first loads it, it skips words ending in "nt" - last two characters).
2. When it is presented with the word, the user needs to type in another word, which must start with the two characters that the previous word ended with. Here, the same rule of "nt" applies. Also, Flash needs to check if the word is valid (must check inside the XMLs for the word.
3. If the word is valid, Flash picks another word that starts with the last two characters of the previous word. (Here, the "nt" rule doesn't apply).
In Flash CS3 when you did Modify/Document it allowed you to type in a document Title and Description which were metadata searchable by internet search engines. According to the book "Brilliant Flash CS4" this is still possible in CS4, but I think they have removed the option, and the book is wrong. add metadata for searching to FLA documents or is this now gone?
I have a few different XML documents that get loaded into my app. What I would like to know how to do is search the incoming XML string for a certain attribute (apple or peach) then route its use to the correct location.example:
<boringExample1 apple ="somevalue" ... /> <boringExample2 peach="somevalue" ... />
I am not trying to read the value of the attribute but the name of attribute itself. if my XML string has apple attribute go here else if my XML string has peach attribute go there. I hope that makes sense
I have gone thru the Kirupa's tutorial "Using XML in Flash CS3/AS3", and it helped a lot in my project. Now, I have a question in XML searching. If an attribute's value is say title="kirupa tutorial" and a user wanted to search only the word "kirupa", then how can i get this node of xml, which title is "kirupa tutorial"..
@title == "kirupa" only works when the whole word matches the value of "title" attribute, but i want to search a partial word.
I do not know flash at all and i am writing some code in Action Script 3 and am having some trouble.
Basically i have a list that is read from an XML file.
I am busy writing a function to allow a user to enter a search word that will allow him/her to find the closest matching node.
For example, if the nodes are:
1) movies 2) music 3) books 4) plays
typing "m" will search and scroll through 1 and 2 continuosly after every button click but typing "mo" will find only 1.
Using mytree.findNode("label", search_word); //will only find nodes of EXACT name Using mytree.getNextIndexAtLetter(search_word, i); //Will only find nodes with starting letter of search word
Does anyone know of an easy way to use the data from a combo box to either search or reference the XML tags? I have an xml document formatted like this:
[Code]...
Ultimately, I would like to use the data from the combo box to find/reference the information contained in the Brand tags so I can display the information in the remaining tags (stuf1, stuf2, stuf3 & stuf4) in separate text fields.
I'm working with tons of array generated from a XML. How should I go about creating a search function that will be able to search and retrieve a particular nod from the array. Sth to do with .toLowerCase() and getIndexOf? The search function should be able to search and retrieve any text that contain the letter/letters... not the whole word. Like for example if user enter "gre", it should retrieve results containing "great" and so on.
I have a text file 100,000+ words (A scrabble dictionary) sorted alphabetically and I want to be able to search the file to see if it contains a word entered by the user. I should be able to write a binary search algorithm easily enough but I don't know how to access all the items in the list. I've only ever done file I/O with python so I don't know how in actionscript.
I have a collection in Flex and I have sorted it by a date field, so the latest elements appear first in my view.
In order to do this I have applied a sort field like so:
var articleSort:Sort = new Sort(); articleSort.fields = [ new SortField('published', false, true), new SortField('id', true, true)]; articles.sort = articleSort; articles.refresh();
Now I want to be able to use a cursor to findFirst() in that collection based on the id. However in order to do that I have to also pass through the published date in the findFirst() method. This is a real pain as I don't have the published date at that time, (or it's expensive to get).
As you can see I am having to get it from the modelLocator in my application, and basically look up the item...
Ideally I would like to pass a wildcard though for the date in the FindFirst() function, as the id is the only thing I care about when searching. However it seems it Flex I can't do that.
The other option that occurred to me is to resort the collection before searching, but that would cause my view to re-render (as it's bound to the collection) on the collections refresh event. Plus it seems rather silly to have to resort in order to search.
Is there a way to search for a piece of actionscript code inside the whole of the fla? I have a project with multiple library movieClips that contain actionscript and I was wondering if its possible to search the whole fla for a specific as3 piece of code?
Is it possible to sort dynamically? I have random String messages that I am working with like the one posted below and I want to search for ":" and sort the date that comes after it. Is this possible? what is the best way to go about dealing with something like this? The messages are always going to have a ":" followed by a date in the format seen below. This Junk message contains random words lala and numbers 58493: October 06, 2011, 6:00 PM
I want to search a dynamic text field through a search bar in As3, but I can't seem to find the code to "search". If you have any easy way to do this please tell me, in the mean time I found a tutorial but it's in Flash 5, and I have no experience in transforming as1 to as3, can anyone help me here is the code: (on the search button)
ActionScript Code: on (release) { msg = "";[code]........
Does anybody have an idea how to search the strings in the array? Let's say the user types "ci" to the search field, searching in "taste" (it would be marked). Now it should return the objects which have the string "ci" in the taste, as: apple - acid - red berry - acid - purple..
how to make flash search for certain entries ( by title or similar things ) of entries that are in an XML file and just pull all the information of that out? I have been trying to get it to work but it keeps on failingthe XML file ( code ) that I use at the moment is:
I am searching for a free charting library, either in Java, JS, or Flash, that allows for drill-down type interaction. An example of this sort of behavior can be found in the trends section on mint.com. JFreeChart seems like the generally recommended choice for charting purposes, but from a little browsing of their API there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to detect mouse clicks on a particular slice and change the chart in response.
Any advice on how to handle this sort of behavior using JFreeChart, or if this is not possible any recommendations for other libraries that do support this behavior?
I'm looking for a multiple file upload button. the ones I've found areswfuploaduploadifyI want to integrate it in a django app. ATM the only one which is working without any problems and is in widespread use seems to be swfupload.
I have one global array, and I am pushing other arrays (which contain strings) in it. [GOLD, SILVER, BRONCE] [BLUE, RED, GREY, ORANGE, PURPLE] [JUICE, BEER, WATER, MILK, COFFEE] [MERC, BMW, SUBARU, MITSUBISHI, TOYOTA]
Lets say I have these 4 arrays, and I push them into global array in that order. Example 1: if I have string "MILK", I need to search the global array and what I want is to pull out last array (with cars) because "MILK" is contained in third array (going from the beggining). Example 2: if I choose "ORANGE" I want to pull out last 2 arrays (drinks and cars). Example 3: if I choose string from the last array ("MERC") nothing is pulled out. And by pull out I mean just get to it.
I am almost finished with my project and I am once again stumped on how to tackle a search feature. I have one more section to do that will be a printing function.
Having an XML file, I need to search this file based on a range for criteria.
My XML data will have many sets of data separated by a gamenumber tag. The gamenumber is unique in value but the sub data will not be. There will be same values in that range.
So what I am looking to do is search anywhere from 2 to 10 gamenumbers at a time with 2-10 numbers. These numbers are in an input box and get called from a click event listener.
I have the routine working to search 1 data set but I can for the life of me think of how to do multiple data sets in one shot.
Here is an example,
Search games 2-5 for numbers 2 7 13 19 43 80 etc... Each number is in it's own input box.
The results could be an array or 4 different strings. It should be dynamic because the searches will changes from 2-10 games.
I am using an if else if statement to separate the searches and run it's own routine. So when the start number is not null and the second search number is null, it only searches a single record. The search parses only the data based on the start number search input box.
But if the end number is not null, it will go to the routine and search the scope of the the number range. I am thinking that the routine starts with the start number and then use each gamenumber in a loop to parse the data for that game only and store the results. Append each result into an array or strings.
I looked at for each and for in loops but I am not seeing who to put it together yet.
