I use curl for grabbing data from sites, but now I need to grab content from Flash objects. I haven't had any experience in flash, so could you tell me, is it possible in general? If yes, what will I need to learn in order to perform this action?
View 1 RepliesI'm creating a small app to run from CD-Rom/local installation that will use multiple shared objects for data storage. To ensure proper saving without surprising the user with a permissions dialog unexpectedly, I'd like to request unlimited data storage on first time app launch - Joey Lott shows how to do this in the Actionscript Cookbook... request=mySO.flush(1024 * 500);
My question is,Can I perform this permissions request with the user a single time with a generic app SO in global fashion, so that the permissions would be set for any SOs created during the use of the product (all written to same SO directory),or do I have to request
permissions for each and every SO created? Since the latter would be unacceptable from a UE standpoint, that means stuffing all app data into a single SO which doesn't seem so great from a data config perspective...
Using Flash 8 & Freehand 11
Whenever I try to copy an object from Freehand into flash,either with Copy&Paste or with Import, My Flash crashes (closes without any msg)
I have a transparent video playing on my front page, with a small semi-transparent controller. After the movie plays and fades out, the controller remains. How can I remove the controller display after the movie finishes playing?
View 1 RepliesI'm wondering if it's possible to access a shared object's data (once it's been changed) without reloading the swf. Specifically, I have two swfs: one changes the data in the so and lets the second swf "know" via a localconnection. I have a function in the second swf that fires via the local connection.[code]This function looks for the new value however it doesn't show the updated value in my textfield unless I refresh the browser. Thoughts?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to save a Sprite object as a file on the device I'm working on and it seems to work. the problem I'm having is reading the saved file back and placing it back on stage as a sprite. Below is the code I have so far, could someone tell me what it is I'm doing wrong? I have a suspicion that the saved isn't what I expect it to be since the file sizes have been under a kilobyte.
public function save_album(e:Event):void
{
var outFile:File = File.documentsDirectory; // dest folder is desktop[code]....
is there a way to clear an XML object of its data to allow it to load new data from the same URL?
View 1 RepliesI'm using a loader for people to use to upload their own images for a background, and I want it to remember the image the next time they come to the page, so is there any way to save the loader data in a shared object? I haven't tried just using something like
Code:
sharedObject.data.dataName=loader
because I assume it doesn't work that way.
I am wondering if it is possible to get the data that is stored in a shape/graphics object in flash using actionscript 3?
In my project I would like to be able to draw a shape and then read all the points in that shape into my script. The reason for that is that I need go generate lines from those points that I later can use to check if my characters velocity intersects with any of them.
I'm using Flash and AS3 to write an app for iOS and for Android and I'm saving XML-data using shared objects. Now it struck me that when I supply an update to the app store and the user updates the app, will the shared objects remain intact or will they be replaced? I'd very much like them to remain as they were.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to load data from another shared object from another flash file? if so how?
View 1 RepliesI am having a hell of a time getting around the new IE flash/embeded content protocols. I have tried using various formats, like using <noscript> tags outside of the <object> tags. All that results in is the entire flash content disappearing. I've tired using this external JavaScript file:
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Is there any AS3 library or code-snippet that can create altered versions of a Sound object on-the-fly (at runtime)? Either based on:
An existing Sound object; A ByteArray object;
For example, say you have a "dry" sound of a gun-shot. You could:
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How to trigger a custom jQuery event from Flash, passing some data through event object?
View 2 RepliesThe Context of the Problem.I'm working on a rotator banner in flash. I use an external xml file to pass the banners info (like info-text, link, image-path, priority, etc). Everything is going well so far. I'm loading the xml something like this:
var bannersXML:XML = new XML();
bannersXML.ignoreWhite = true;
bannersXML.load("myBanners.xml");
The Problem itself.Now I need to construct this xml on-the-fly in php and somehow pass it to my flash object. So instead of read the external file I want my flash script receive an xml parameter it can work with.
is there a way to clear an XML object of its data to allow it to load new data from the same URL?
View 21 RepliesI have a flash banner rotator that runs using PHP at the backend. The way in which the flash banner is called into the script is by using the following PHP:
<? php include("
http://www.mysite.com/banners");
?>
I have also used this in other ways such as:
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I have an AS file that declares and sets data for a bunch of objects. Specifically, they are locations for a business, as well as phone numbers, addresses, etc, associated with each location. Ultimately, they will appear as pins on a map, and clicking a pin will reveal information like phone number, etc.I need to come up with a way for a separate SWF file to draw in the data from the AS file so it can be implemented on the map. The trouble is that the AS file will be frequently updated, and it will not always contain the same number of objects. me, the swf needs to reference the AS file, and generate a pin on the map for each object within the AS file.I've already set up my SWF to "#include" the AS file, and I can successfully use the data within using dot notation, but I don't know how to set it up to automatically go through the AS file and process each object, especially since the total number of objects is subject to change
View 1 RepliesI have have a problem loading and accessing data from a value object in my new project.. I load an xml file via a service, which contains title and locations of asset files, I need to be able to access the location of an asset file by specifying the title and retrieiving it from a value object.. I'm using the Robotlegs framework, here's an example of the xml:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<files id ="xmlroot">
<file title="css_shell" location = "css/shell.css" />
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how to access data from object I instance on stage?Inside class XmlParser I have function that parse some XML:
ActionScript Code:
package src
{
import flash.events.Event;
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And I instance object on stage using:
ActionScript Code:
var xmlInstance:XmlParser = new XmlParser(xmlData, 0);
trace (xmlInstance);
//trace outputs [object XmlParser]
I`d like to access data in holdXml variable from stage.
Finally remembered my password for this wonderful forum to bother you with yet another (stupid) question...my 2nd already, lets hope it works...AS2 XMLObject1 loads 15 pics.XMLDriven menu button (XMLObject2) triggers loading of new XML (10 pics) in XMLObject1.Works fine but last 5 pics stay in XML Object. In other words: I need to unload all the previous XML data on an onRelease event. Tried new XMLObject, delete (Old) XMLObject (Did not work...). There is no unload XML Method so what to use?
View 4 RepliesI am experiencing problems when trying to traverse XMl returned from the youtube data api.I can trace the XML but cannot access any of the nodes, not sure where I'm going wrong, I have tried various methods including parsing JSON format from youtube but to no avail. I thought it maybe the namespaces so I replaced these using a script to replace them as attributes. A snippet of returned XML is below:
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i am preparing a game, the game has four bet spots. i want to save the user bet details. i like to save the user bet details in an object, so i can access it whenever i need. I have done same thing in AS 2.0. my object will look like
player[0].betSpot1.amount="100"
player[0].betSpot2.amount="200"
I have a flash video loading in a modal window. It works in others browsers but not Firefox. Firefox opens the modal window to the correct width of the object, but with no height. I have come to learn that Firefox does not recognize <param> and instead uses the data attribute. However, when I remove this attribute, the modal opens with correct height. Here is the code the modal window loads:
<object width="720" height="520" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="proxymovie.SWF?file=proxymovie.MP4">
<param name="movie" value="proxymovie.SWF?file=proxymovie.MP4" />
<img src="images/poster.png" width="720" height="480" alt="" title="Download the video below" />
</object>
I remember darkly that the XML class in AS3 would throw an exception if you tried to give it data in it's constructor that was not a valid XML string. But now I got a case where the XML happily takes every kind of data no matter it's valid XML or not...
var xml:XML;
try
{[code]...
... doesn't throw any exception. qname seems not to be null. WTH?
I'm trying to set 2 object each with different data, and pass it into another function as parameters, but when I trace for the data in the object, I can only get the 2nd object data. Seems like the 1st object was replaced by the 2nd object.
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I have created a class which loads the data from an xml file.
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When working with XML I find it best to bring in the XML document and then add the data to new objects so they can be easily referenced later. Previously I have done this by hard-coding the node names when I parse the XML and add the appropriate data to a property in my new custom object, allowing me to state what type of data it is, array, string, etc. I would really like a way to do this dynamically, so when I parse the XML it detects whether the node has children and makes an array, etc. Something was done by XML2Object in AS2.
View 4 RepliesI'm in the early stages of writing a rather complex app that grabs data from a database (via PHP bridge) and builds out content from it.This app is going to be a very visual timeline of sorts, with different entries of many types (images, audio, video, text, etc). Each entry type has some common properties (ID, location, date, etc), and some unique (imageURL for images, audioURL for audio, etc).When creating these objects dynamically, should I:
A) First read the data from the database, assign that data to a new object that contains *just* the data, and then pass that data object to the constructor of the visual representation of that object when instantiating the specific object of that type? Or,
B) Skip the creation of a data object, and instead pass the data property by property to the specific object class.
For instance (very roughly),
A)Code:
// receive queries data here
var newImageData:ImageData = new ImageData(imageURL, headlineText, captionText); // put data into data object
var newImageEntry:ImageEntry = newImageEntry(newImageData); // create new visual object, passing data object
B)Code:
// received queried data here
var newImageEntry:ImageEntry = new ImageEntry(imageURL, headlineText, captionText); // create new visual object directly
I won't be creating the visual representation of the object immediately, so I feel like I have no choice but to map the data to a data object first....but is there another way? Should I try to merge the two, so that an ImageEntry object can be created as the data is received, but then a separate call to that object would be required to actually create the visual representation of it when needed?In the past -- which apps quite a bit simpler -- I've simply mapped all the data during the XML parsing to dynamic objects that act only as containers for the data, which is then passed to a different object to create the visual representation of it...
I have an application that reads a PHP script and populates the Flash applets using the following on frame 1:
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A combobox (created with the returned data) is created on frame 61. When a selection is chosen in the combobox I need to add the value returned from the combobox to the variable catvar, add this variable to the LoadVars object and run the script again. It seems to set c.catvar initially but when I use the 'sendAndLoad command the second time c.catvar isn't included. Is it possible to add variables to a LoadVars object created
on frame 1 from frame 61?