How to choose the webcam/camera manually in Adobe Air? In Flash it's working through this:
Security.showSettings(SecurityPanel.CAMERA);
Is there something like that in Adobe Air?
I have two columns: the left one is a Canvas containing an mx:Tree and the right one is a Canvas containing a Canvas (to allow for scrolling) of some custom Sprites that go along with the tree nodes on the left. I made the right Canvas scrollable (horizontal and vertical) and I want the vertical scroll to also scroll the left Canvas so that the tree nodes line up with their representations on the right. The scrolling portion works fine and when I embed with wmode="window" there are no problems. Unfortunately, the customer requires dynamic HTML to overlap the Flash at times and when using wmode="opaque" or "transparent", there are issues. The scrolling still works, per se, but Flash does not seem to redraw either Canvas appropriately. The Canvases become out of sync and artifacts often remain on the right side.I catch a scroll event on the right column and update the scroll position on the left column like so:
public function onTimelineScroll(scrollEvent:ScrollEvent):void {
leftColumn.verticalScrollPosition = rightColumn.verticalScrollPosition;
}
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I would like to take advantage of Adobe's Runtime Shared Library system for swc's, but I'm not sure how it ACTUALLY works, like the programming behind it. I understand that it allows you to load SWCs at runtime, but how does it do that?
I'm asking because I would like to try to mimic something like the Signed RSL "swz" system Adobe uses to cache the Flex Framework into the Flash Player, so if you ever visit a site that downloads the Flex framework for some flash website, then the next time, and forevermore, you don't have to download it again.
I can't do this because I'm using my own version of the Flex SDK from the Sandbox, and I have like 5 other swc's I'm using (Mate, RestfulX, etc.). I would like to be able to cache these things permanently, and only have them re-download them if they change.
How do I do that, or what should I read, other than the Adobe RSL docs and such? Can I use javascript or ruby to do this?
I want my site's users to be able to record videos straight from their webcams into my site. Videowhisper is one such tool which seems to work fine - [URL] But I'm looking for opinions on better / more scalable / reliable solutions. Paid solutions are fine.
View 4 RepliesI've downloaded the latest version of Air (3.1 now), but I can't choose it as my player in CS5.5. Is there something specific I'm supposed to do so I can access it? I assume I can also import the Air 3 libraries into flash builder as well, right?
View 6 RepliesI am planning to develop a facebook application which uses iframe concept, it involves some rich UI and image manipulation, I am new to html5 but aware of flex
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to change the font in my menu's dynamic textfields using xml data. I can already change the color but can not figure out how to change the font. Here's what I'm using to change the colors, and this format is what I'm trying to achieve with the fonts also.
[Code]...
We bought this Flash template to save time:to make this siteI knew a template would limit us (especially since I only know HTML/a little CSS), but of course, we need a few tweeks. To save time (and if anyone is interested), I have uploaded the source files so you can see the structure here:The flash file is set up like this:Fla file for all the image souces & layoutIndex.html File has some sort of fancy javascriptText.html file is the editable file where non-flash-knowing dingbats like me can just edit the text and POOF! Magic!I know I have bastardized them from the original and some stuff is probably wonky.The biggest problem is that the "thumbnails" that you click on at the starpage are auto-generated, cropping the top left 100x100 square. I don't know why this is the case, and honestly, I think it looks awful.
Is there any way to manually set the thumbnail images, so they are cropped artistically rather than randomly? I asked the template tech support and they told me to "make my images 100x100". I did that for the first blue logo, and it looks like CRAP! Sure, I have the icon I would like, but when someone goes to browse the gallery, they get a 100x100 icon displaying instead of a lovely fullscreen pic.
write down the formulas that flash MX uses when you use the functions tan/sin/cos...I am trying to get a good grasp on these things and it
View 12 RepliesI have a video business and my website has a lot of video examples. I wanted to show some image quality as well as a decent frame size for viewing. The video files were encoded in AME at vbr 775kbps (max of 1100kbps) with a frame size of 720x405. Do you think these bitrate settings are acceptable for internet speeds today?
View 2 RepliesI've just started experimenting with RSS in Flash - so far I am able to pull a feed in, but what I want to try now is to actually separate values from within a feed to go to different movie clips. So let's say my feed looks like this:
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>title goes here</title>
<link> [URL]>
<description>description</description>
[Code] .....
What I'm trying to do is have a few bubbles of boxes etc floating everywhere where you can click one and it shows a different (or random) <item> from the feed (with the relevant item child values inside). I've looked at creating nodes etc but it seems to only create to pulling the first one with that specific name, instead of choosing from the whole array.
I hv 5 movieclips on stage mc1,mc2,mc3,mc4,mc5. I m trying this code to run random movieclip on stage
function Randvalue(){var randVal=Math.round(Math.random()*4)this[mc+randVal].gotoAndPlay("over")}
Randvalue()
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Can I choose a thumbnail? My SWF player I have told not to autoplay, but I want it to display an appropriate thumbnail. how do I set the thumb nail?
View 4 RepliesI'm starting flash and already familiar with some of the basics (movie clips, coloring them, adding them on stage, events).And while I read a book to follow, and see tutorials here and there, I kinda follow the "learn as you go" approach.I think the most challenging part here is the scroller to choose colors. I already tried to look for online tutorials but I guess my google terms were simply weak and inaccurate.
View 5 RepliesHTTPService has a property resultFormat which can be set to any of the following: array e4x flashvars object text xml .I looked at the documentation to understand the difference, but still couldn't understand when to use each. I'm looking for the lightest weight of all of them.
P.S. I'm consuming output from my own server, so can change the output format as needed to make it compatible with each.
Imagine we have an object dispatching some event and this object should perform some action on this event. What's the right way of catching this event? May I listen to this event directly in my object or should I let this event travel through EventMap? Example: I have a popup window with form. On submitting form, I'm going to send a request to remote server and close this popup. Is it ideologically correct to perform popup close on click without dispatching custom event to EventMap?
View 2 RepliesSo. Basically I'm trying to create a news-ticker that feeds of an XML-page that I don't have control over. It rolls horizontally across the screen. (Eventually...)
I'm able to access the different parts of the XML and insert them, but only one kind at the time.
The XML is build with several nodes called 'program' like this[code]...
how would i go about choosing one of the following at random?
ActionScript Code:
var example1:String = "hello";
var example2:String = "how are you";
[code]........
It's just a pure curiosity of mine . I'm using flash to create movie clip objects and never thought about creating them programatically. But today I came across this articlevertheless, there's no official explanation of the process.What if I have e.g. 5 images, and I wanna turn them into a short piece of animation. How can I do it using pure actionscript 3?
View 5 RepliesI have a candlestick chart that is working great when the numbers being dealt with are large but when the numbers are small the vertical axis starts at the very top of my data and ends at the very bottom. For example if my max number in my XML is 12 and my min is 11 the charts top is 12 and the charts bottom is 11 with 11.2, 11.4, 11.6, 11.8 in between. How can I force the chart to do 22 to 1 on the vertical axis ({maxgraph+10} and {mingraph-10}).
View 1 RepliesI have a menu that is built using its own AS3 class, when a link in this menu is clicked it fires a function according to some variables passed in from an external XML file.
The menu is made up of four subsections and I want the user to be able to jump to the parent of that subsection from a button that is completely separate from that menu.
What I'd theoretically like to do is trick the parent button into thinking it's been clicked when the user clicks one the buttons in this other menu.
Is this even possible? I'm tearing my hair out trying to think of a work-around, but I have to admit that it comes to passing variables, never mind passing them between classes!
I need help into handling an animation imported in FLV format which I have a 3D object rotating 360 degree in about 100 frames.I would like to control the rotation myself maybe using a drag scroll system in order to back and forth between frames manually
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to manually set the timer count? Atm i've got a timer that ticks for 30 seconds displaying an image every 10 seconds and I want to make a button that goes directly to the second image when it's clicked.
View 7 RepliesIs it possible to manually add an array of files to a FileReferenceList to upload/download? Rather than selecting from browser()? I need to download a number of images from my server, run some scripts with switchboard, then upload them back to the server, all automated.Is this possible using FileReferenceList or would I need to build some sort of ftp app with sockets?
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to manually trigger a ColorPickerEvent?
View 1 RepliesI just started working with flash CS3 and know the basics of actionscript (3.0).I learned a lot by reading most of "Foundation flash CS3 for designers"by Tom Green.I found the following tutorial to create a nice image gallery I want to use for my online portfolio :http:[url]....The problem is that I'm using as3.0 for my website in Flash.I can read the code and understand what it does,but I'm still not able to manually convert it to as3.0.I'm going to try coverting it myself. It will be a good lesson for me to get a better understanding of the scripting process. The only thing I'm afraid of is there will be really a lot of changes (I really don't know) I know already a few changes:
_root -> this
_x (and _y, _alpha etc.) -> remove underscores
Code: Select allthis.createEmptyMovieClip("container",1);
will become:[code].........
i have n nos of btn's on stage .on clicking any btn i want to duplicate a movie clip on stage "circle_mc" & place d copy with equal spacing along y axis...i dont want to manually put the actions on each btn.the actions can be put on the timeline ...like btn.onRelease = function(){actions}the btns r given instance names btn0,btn1...so on..
View 6 RepliesI'm importing an image that I'll use as my pointer(arrow) in a speedometer. My problem is that I need to manually set the movieClip's registration point so that I'll get the rotation right. If I manually drag the image on stage and use F8 to convert it to a MovieClip, I can set the registration point in the dialog box popping up. The only thing I'm trying to do is just that, but with ActionScript since I create this thingie dynamically
View 3 RepliesI have 2 flash in my website.One is background and the other is menubarThe problem is that the menubar is sent to back of the other flash(background).
View 1 Repliesok in theory this sounds brutally easy. Just can't make it fire. On my stage I have an atm movieclip called "atm". In it I have 8 buttons l1-l4 and r1-r4. I add and remove functions based upon what is on the screen. So on the third screen I want when I hit l1 for a dynamic text box to display "20". So my thought is, place the dynamic textbox where I need it, create the instance name, and where it needs to come up use this line of code:
cashdispense.text == "20";
well the box remains blank. I've posted all my code if it makes things easier to understand.
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;[code].........
