Flex :: Swc - The Meaning Of "External" Linking Mode In Builder?
Sep 22, 2010
There are three modes to link an SWC library to a flex application: "Merged into code", "External" and "RSL". I understand what is "RSL", but I don't understand what is "External"."RSL" works just fine for me, without any code changes. However, External doesn't work for me. Although my application starts, the classes in the SWC set to External are never found.What is the meaning of "External" if it is not "RSL" ? How do I make use of that ?
I am currently using Flex (Flash Builder 4) and making web service connections to a Apache PHP Zend AMF server to retrieve data. This works great, but I am wondering what options are available for fault tolerance. I know I can probably set up a second server that the application would switch to in the event it is unable to reach the first server. I am also thinking about trying to give each individual machine some tolerance.
For example, if they at least had the ability to input data to the application, that would be a start. So if they click 'save' and it can not reach the server, it caches it or stores it to a local file until the server is back up. Though lack of being able to do data look-ups might be a big problem. Maybe there are already some libraries or something I can look at to do this?
When i try to open my mxml script in design mode i'm always getting following message "This Component is base on VBox, which is not a visual component. Switch to source mode to edit it"
How do I turn on the strict mode in Flash Builder 4? --update I found something about "Preferences -> Actionscript 3 Settings", but there is no such option in Flash Builder preferences.
If I have a component that has some states defined, is there a way to make changes in design mode but not have it tied to a particular state? For example, if I have state1 and state2, any changes in design mode will be based on state1 or state2 (i.e. width.state1). I understand this is the direction Flex is going in but I'm transitioning from a Flex 3 app and right now I just want to make the change to width and not width.state1.
I've made a flex 3 app that is sitting on my web server. People will be able to link to this flex app on my web server on their own sites/blogs/forums and so on. Is there any way I can log where a user that clicks on it comes from? Example: the URL to the flex app is [URL] User A links the flex app at his blog at [URL] Then User B comes in to User A's blog and clicks the flex app and finally ends up at my site. Any way I can log User B's click through the flex app?
I have a set of users who run my application in non debug mode. Off late they have been reporting lot of issues. But I am not able to debug as there is no log file.Is it possuible in flex 3 to do logging in a file without running in debug version. I understand trace only works if we run application in debug version.
I imported two projects in Flex Builder 3 (A and B). Those two projects A and B are in the same folder and in mxml file which is located in A/src I have
<mx:Style source="../../B/b/assets/b.css" />
this relative path is correct, but Flex Builder keeps showing message: "Problem finding external stylesheet: ../../B/b/assets/b.css"
What am I doing wrong? Btw, I am newbie in flex, so,
I just upgraded to Flash Builder 4 (beta 2) from Flex Builder 3 which I have been using since it came out. Problem: All the projects that were in my workspace from Flex Builder 3 did not carry over into Flash Builder 4 (e.g. in the "Flex Navigator" view if FB3). Flash Builder 4 now uses the .FXP format to manage projects, but Flex Builder 3 did not. Is there an easy way to get all my projects back into Flash Builder 4?
Does anyone know if there is a way to make the new Package Explorer window in Flash Builder emulate Flex Builders 'Flex navigator' window?
Bottom line is I don't always need to peer into SWC's, and I don't like having a 'default package' automatically created for me. Not sure why the interface wasn't made simpler, allowing access to more power and complexity only if necessary. I want to focus on the code, not on how to navigate and use the bells and whistles in the coding environment.
When setting up a source control repository for a Flex Builder workspace, what do you consider to be worth checking in? Do you exclude the workspace .metadata folder but keep the .project and other project specific files? Keep both? Throw away both? Is there a guideline you use to decide which is worth holding onto or do you do it out of practical experience?
On the following language reference page [URL] the word Beta is associated with the AnimatorFactoryBase class. Can one presume that the class is not yet fully functional?When I right click on a functional motion tween in Flash and select "Copy Motion as Actionscript 3.0", the code does NOT work at all (no errors though).
Here's what that custom class reports (I can't make out where the bold lines come from -- no such thing on the stage or anywhere else in my document):[code].....
I am trying to migrate a project from Flash Builder 4.0 to Flash Builder 4.5. After Flash Builder prompts me to choose my new SDK, I choose 4.5, Then I get the following error:" error "The required skin state 'disabledWithPrompt' is missing".
XFL is the new uncompressed ADOBE FLASH (CS5) source file, it consists from XML definitions, most of them are clear but unfortunately, the important one are strange. Looking to various existing sources, I can see shape's EDGE definitions like:
I have am having a bit of trouble. I am trying to run a flash presentation in fullscreen mode that loads and unloads several external swf files when you click on different buttons around the stage. There are no problems at all if you are not in full screen mode. As long as none of the external swf files have a flv playback instance they play fine...there are 2 files that have flv movies playing in them. When the playhead gets to the keyframe playing them the screen goes to black and the entire presentation locks up even though I have
subFLV.fullScreenTakeOver = false;
in the actions for the external swf file (subFLV is the name of the flvplayback)
I have also tried
this.subFLV.fullScreenTakeOver = false;
I'm not sure how to force the flvplayback in a child instance of a movie to not take over the screen. Any ideas? Or have I talked myself into a circle again..
The accordion i created works by recreating a single movie clip as the frame/holder for each and every 'tab' the accordion has.Now I want to have seperate links for each 'tab'. which means, at the 1st tab for example, if you click anywhere on the content area, it will take u to page #a.If you go to the 2nd tab, click, it will take u to page #b.
the current flash file has holders in it in order to let it load the xml data. such as the tab titles, content etc. they are also reproduced in AS hence there is only one instance of each in the FLA.I have created an area which is TO BE the "clickable" area on each page. But i do not know what else to do from here...
Remark from editor: Op miss-classified actionscript as javascript.I am new to Javascript and am confused by the following function declarations in ECMAScript.js2.
public class String extends Object { ... public native function charAt(pos:Number):String;
I want my movie to go to a specific location on the basis of whether or not a variable is attached to the swf reference. Kind of trying to control it from the outside...so I've written this in my embed code:
i am working on a flash website with actionscript 3.0. i am using a scroll pane to view a external swf file that has buttons that move forwards and backwards through the swf. my problem is that when the naviagtion buttons are clicked the page changes but is at the bottom of the scrollpane. i want the verticalPostion = 0 so it starts at the top of the next page but don't know how to do this. this is the code for my
Is there a way to link a button in a swf to a java script. I'm trying to use the "lightbox" java script so that when a user clicks on an image in the swf, a larger image appears on top of the page. Here is what the link looks like in html:
how i can achieve deep linking with the external swf import technique? Im using the "Transitions Between External SWF's" tut from Kirupa but am not able to post a link here since im new. I have created a website that has this functionality between sections and would like to apply the deep linking to it.
I googled it and found that in 2006 someone was trying to do the same exact thing I am and suceeded, but didn't give much detail for a beginner like me to figure out. . I am using xml to call different swf files. What i want to do is create a link in my fla file. Or my xml to call a different swf file into the same page. Pretty much like the main menus do, but I want to create a link to it inside of the text. For instance I have an swf file called members. You click on members on the left it directs you to the members swf file switch on the right. Now that swf page is reading from my xml. At the end of everyone's brief profiles i want to put a link that says more info and it directs to a different swf that has a more indepth profile of that person, but loading in the same window as all my other swf pages of course. The person that did it before said he used actionscript to do this.
Does FMS 3.5.2 in development impose restrictions via the origin of connections? That is, does it only allow localhost connections via ActionScript (NetConnection) or are external connections allowed?In other words, can I have FMS in dev mode on a dedicated server and then have my client code running on a different machine that opens connections to this development server?
I have solved my remote linking from an external html, to specific swf frame problem. But now, as usual another problem has reared its ugly head. I have a button(s) with a spotlight animation effect in the "over state". It works fine on the "home" page, smooth and clean, but when you link to a frame in the timeline, once in that frame the spotlight effect stills shows up when mouseover, but becomes erratic and very jittery.[URL].. Once there, if you click on about, events, or news, and load any of those pages/frames, you should see the spotlight flicker on mouseover on all buttons
Okay so I am building a website in Flash for the first time and I am having some trouble with the code. I have a twitter icon that has an instance name of twitter_home and I need it to link to a twitter page [URL]... The code I pasted below opens up firefox, but does not go to any page. If firefox is already open on my computer...it does nothing.
I am trying to make this website, which has separate files for different screen resolutions. I am using a first.swf file to load the right file, depending on the screen resolution, it goes to a different frame for diff resolutions. There I have placed a loadMovie function.The code for the loader follows the loadMovie call. loadingbar is a movieclip on screen, which presently does nothing.[code]This was displaying nothing, so I replaced the _root.loadMovie with mcholder.loadMovie("filename.swf"). This is not working either, the screen flashes for one second and then disappears. I put a stop(); before the code, and the screen remained, but the movie still did not load.I txt1.text shows 100. meaning percentage did reach hundred, but I am guessing that is for first.swf, and not for the file which is being loaded.
