Im trying to create a small data visualization project. i'm wanted multicoloured balls to fall the mouse round the screen and when you click one it brings up data from an xml document. im currently using a image of a ball is there away to generate one in flash so far this is what i have
ball.onEnterFrame = function() {
var xMouse = _root._xmouse;
var yMouse = _root._ymouse;
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I have been goggling a lot to find anything with link-based data visualization in Flex 4. something like below screen shoot (made using Ravis). Where user can drag these nodes, without removing the links and on double click of any node we can set some properties for that particular node. I found this Ravis (Birdeye), but not much of examples and support is available for that.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying out the FlasBuilder ide with ColdFusion 8 on OS X. When I try to create a new project, I get stuck at the server setup screen that forces you to validate your paths for your ColdFusion root folder and your webroot. Every combination I try says either "LiveCycle Data Services is not installed at the specified location" or "Invalid root. The WEB-INF/flex folder must contain either flex-config.xml or services-config.xml." The flex-config.xml file is sitting in that directory. Is there some trick to getting this to work?
View 1 RepliesI am using the flash SoundMixer.computeSpectrum. to make a flash visualization for my music player. It all works inside flash. but if i run it on the internet the visualization does not show up
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Is it possible to run the .json file which is has status data from twitter and run it with flex to create a visualization of the data ?
View 1 RepliesHow do I use [URL] with Flash CS3 in AS3. I don't intend to use Flex.
View 1 RepliesAre there javascript libraries that can handle large data visualization? I've seen Protovis, but not sure how much data it can handle. Also, how do Actionscript libraries compare to Javascript in terms of performance?More:I've tried Flare, but seems to be slow for my applictaion. Now I'm yet to figure out if it is the rendering or if it is the shaping of data for rendering. I am looking at interactive graphs like the JobVoyager.
View 1 RepliesAre there any good data visualization libraries that you swear by? I'm looking into what is available for the creation of tree-like graphs that represents rounds of competition.
View 3 RepliesI'm working on adding a small preview video player to a flash project I'm creating. I've successfully created an actionscript 3-based video player before, so my code is pretty much adapted from that. However, though the code executes successfully (seemingly), I can't see the video anywhere.
Code:
private function buildVidPreview(page:Array):void {
vidPreviewa.x=stage.mouseX;
Tweener.removeTweens(vidPreviewa);
Tweener.addTween(vidPreviewa, {alpha:1, time:1});
setupPreviewVid(page);
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I've got a pure AS3 (no Flex) project that uses Flare to display and interact with a data visualization. I just implemented some panning behavior, so you can click and drag the visualization around, and now I'd like to give the user a visual indicator that this is possible, by switching the arrow cursor with a nice grabby-looking hand icon.The user can click and drag at any time except when the mouse is over a clickable node (at which time the cursor swaps to a pointer - this behavior is already in place).
1) Do I need to create my own custom bitmap/sprite or is there a palette of built-in cursors I can use? (I'm not using Flex.)
2) Is there a way to simply replace the default arrow with the pan cursor project-wide, or do I need to attach the swapping to mouse events on display objects? Can I use the stage object to make this behavior apply everywhere?
3) How do I perform the swap? Do I use the Cursor object directly or do I need to get involved with the CursorManager?
does anyone know of any alternatives to the flare data visualization framework that is in regular AS3 and not Flex? [URL]..
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to visualize the results of a quiz in ActionScript 3.0.What I would like some input on is how to best link the "filters" (top right corner in attached image) to the data source in a flexible OOP way.The result array now contains both number of correct answers and meta data about the person taking the quiz. The meta data could be both discrete (sex) or continuous (age).
results = [{name: "Lisa", correct: 5, sex: 0, age: 52}, {name: "Peter", correct: 3, sex: 1, age: 32} ... ]
How do I tell the boxes to, for example, change color when I change filter?Should each box object hold its own data or should there be some sort of controller listening to the filter object to dispatch an event and thereafter call a box.setColor method?
I am trying to create a sound spectrum analyiser, or as I call it, audio visualization. I have seen many examples, including the competition held on this site. However, I have yet to find anything on real time audio, whereby the spectrum reacts to sounds it hears rather than pre compiled songs. provide me with links to some tutorials on real time sound spectrums
View 2 RepliesI start to work on new web 3d engine. I call it IGood engine.As can be seen from the video, it is already possible to create a simple application of visualization without lines of code.Base on for alternative 3d.I am waiting your opinions.
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know of software or flex/flash/as3 source or visualisation software that could be used to make interactive graphs, where the user would enter a query that would pull data from a MySQL database and the user would build a sunburst or icicle graph by dragging and dropping items into a tree-like structure and they would be able to view the graph? i have attempted to use flare but my programming skills are pretty bad. So far from what i gather, flare only allows the graphing of defined datasets rather than allowing a user to modify the dataset and thus creating a new dataset.
View 2 RepliesIs possible to create dynamic bar chart for flash mp3 player?I mean the similar effect like in Winamp or others music players (WMP) to display bar chart depending on the sound intensity.
View 6 RepliesI have a professional license of Flex 3.3. This allows me to create applications using the data visualization components (charts) without watermarks. However, all of release builds (test, production, etc) occur on our build server.
The build server only has the Flex SDK installed (not full Flex Builder). As a result the SWFs compiled with this SDK contain watermarks on all the charts. How can I apply a Flex Builder Professional license to the build server to remove the watermakrs w/o installing Flex Builder?My build environment is Flex SDK 3.3 + CruiseControl.NET + NAnt.
I just discovered impure.com and was very impressed by what can be achieved in terms of visualizing data using their workspace. Although the platform is free to use, but not open source yet. This causes a few problems because the API section works with .com sites for eg. for ebay, so I cannot visualize ebay listings for regional sites such as ebay.in because the link to ebay.com is hardcoded.I searched around, but didn't find other projects that offer a similar way to work with site APIs and other data sources with the kind of user interface and detail that impure.com does in a realtime way within a browser window.This brings me to the questions:
-What technologies would be involved in creating a similar kind of project
-What are the open source tools that can help develop a fullscreen UI to render the workspace. Are there any alternatives to flash for this, and how do they compare
The goal would be to use standard python data structures, python scripts to do some processing on these data structures, scripts to gather data from csv, json and API sources such as google yahoo, wikipedia and flickr, and scripts to render graphs, tag clouds, network visualizations etc. Then bring them all together into a visual interface that supports drag drop and simple type checking.How would the python backend integrate with the UI.
Buteh, I sat down to create a small app to calculate X in order to solve 2nd grade equations.
So, in order to manage this I had to translate "x = -p/2 +- sqrt((p/2)^2 - q), right?
Everything works fine until I reach the step when I must perform equations with -p/2 and sqrt((p/2)^2 - q).
Adding and/or subtracting with these numbers causes Flash to return NaN.
i have a problem to make the trademark symbol smaller and stick on the top (to give it a nice look, now it looks like this "dflasdfa�" and thats not very nice). Im using htmlText textfield, the data comes from an xml file. So i could use CDATA and put some <span> tags around trademark, but that wouldnt send it to the top right? And it would be a lot of work too.
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to create a contact form, using a small PHP script.The PHP is working fine, the problem is in the AS.For some reason, I can't get the ActionScript to gather the information from all the fields in the contact form.For the last two fields, I get the error "Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type Number." Here's the relevant part of the code:
var email_data:String = "name=" + name_txt.text
+ "&email=" + email_txt.text
+ "&place=" + place_txt.text[code]....
All of the fields exist as input text fields on the Stage - anyone have an idea why there's a problem with the time_txt and message_txt fields?
I'm using AS 2.0 I have big MC(circle - vector). It's not perfect circle because of Flash.On this circle I have some mc's (small circles - bitmaps) --> I'm using attachMovie on Big circle. I'm rotating with big circle by 45 degrees.
Sometimes I have to delete small circle and create another one at the same location. But after rebuild the position of new small circle is a little bit changed[mm].
It's visible and I'm very disappointed. It happens even the rotation is 0.
I'm using AS 2.0.I have big MC(circle - vector). It's not perfect circle because of Flash.On this circle I have some mc's (small circles - bitmaps) --> I'm using attachMovie on Big circle. I'm rotating with big circle by 45 degrees.Sometimes I have to delete small circle and create another one at the same location. But after rebuild the position of new small circle is a little bit changed[mm].It's visible and I'm very disappointed. It happens even the rotation is 0.
View 6 RepliesI have been using AS3 for over a year but only to create some web pages with simpleanimations using tween Engines like TweenLite etc. without having to rely too much on custom classes, one reason is obviously because I don�t know understand classes that well, even though I have created some re-usable classes like a class to add a glow or fade all my images or links when mouse over, but nothing fancy and I have been always curious as to how or what the pros do for small projects like a web site or a simple banner. 1- How often do you have to create custom classes for small projects, and for what parts of the project (navigation etc)? 2- Do you try to manipulate all of your MovieClips with classes? The reason for my question is because I want to start thinking more about classes (OOP) and stop witting all my code in the .FLA file or a class using the Document Class (which is no different than putting it directly on the .FLA file) IF classes is the way to go.
View 8 RepliesHow can I have a function create Array depending upon the passed argument. Am I doing this right?
function createArray(n:int):Array
{
for(var i:int=0; i<n; i++)
{
var nArr = new Array();
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As part of my brief, I have to create a small flash movie that will load a random quote (which is actually a jpeg image), fade it in to view, display it for a length of time (probably only 3-5 seconds), fade it out and then load another random quote. Is this possible to do, purely using actionscript? I can randomly load an image - I used the "Random Background Image" tutorial on this site - but getting the fading/pausing/fading then moving to another quote has got me stumped.
The images are imported into their own swf file that is loaded into a placeholder movie on the html page. I tried adding in a for loop to the individual swf and the placeholder movie, to loop through alpha property of the image (just to fade up for the moment, till I get it working) - but this didn't work at all. I could use tweens for the fading, but this could end up a mess and more work than it needs to be as there could be quite a lot of quotes added over time.
I'm making a small Flash game, which is rotating rings in an image to create a coherent picture. Think of the puzzles in Assassins Creed.I have three scenes set up, one with the puzzle, one with a fade to white transition, and one with a congratulatory screen.
I have this code to check if the orientation of the rings match, but I'm really new to actionscript so I'm not sure if it's right or not.
function orientationCheck()
{
if (center.orientation == 0 && ring1.orientation == 0 && ring2.orientation == 0 && ring3.orientation == 0 && ring4.orientation == 0)
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Unfortunately it keeps playing through the movie and not giving the player time to solve the puzzle.
I am dynamically loading images into my project using xml. If possible I'd like to use one xml file for the whole project and target different parts of the xml file. How can I target different parts of the xml file?
Ex:
<murals>
<image .....>
</murals>
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Only access the images in the murals section when wanted and only access the images in trompe when wanted and so on.
I can get the data from the mysql database into the flash onDataLoad function but cant get it outside the function, and that is what i need to malipulate other data already in the project (update it)
var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader() myLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES myLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://localhost/flash_php_mysql/FormData.php?"))
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I have to do an animation project for college. I would like to create an animation to use within a bigger project, that looks similar to the First Boot Animation from the new Windows 7.
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