Multitouch Class in Flash CS4?

Does anyone know how to use the new multitouch class and its gesture/touch events in the ActionScript Editor of Flash CS4? The AIR 2.0 Runtime environment is installed on the machine, but what else do I need to use the multitouch class?
I’d appreciate any guess.

Download the lateset version of the Flex SDK, and follow the steps outlined in the link below
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/air/2/releasenotes_developers.html#h

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how can i develop multitouch in my adobe flash cs4? currently i am also using the flash develop IDE, my adobe flash cs4 does not have the ability to publish in flash player 10.3 which i think it is the player that supports multitouch?

http://rhuno.com/flashblog/2011/04/04/how-to-compile-for-flash-player-10-2-with-flash-cs5/
The above way you have to proceed to have flash player 10.3 as a target from your publish settings. The above only explained how to get 10.2 google it for 10.3 swc and configure the way proceed above.

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While trying to work with a revised version of the CSSFormatResolver class (created by timoisalive and posted on this thread) the compiler threw the following error:
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getChildAtIndex through a reference with static type flashx.textLayout.elements:FlowGroupElement.
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public function invalidate(target:Object):void {
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There is no FlowGroupElement.getChildAtIndex method.
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Hello,
I'm very new at Dreamweaver and actionscript so any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm on a PC and created a simple gallery in flash cs4 to load images on a button click. The images are being loaded with a loader class. When I test the gallery in flash the images load correctly. However, I inserted the .swf into Dreamweaver and when I uploaded the page onto the server, the buttons and the animation worked correctly, but none of the images were being displayed. I tested it in both Firefox and IE and it did not work in either browser.
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How can I use Flash_Slideshow.SWF in my Flash CS4 document?

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I have downloaded a nice Flash Slide show file (.SWF) and would like to use in my Flash CS4 document without any modification (as it is). How can I use it? There is no .Fla file this Slide Show. It just works using xml file.
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Hi,
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http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/Loader.html
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hi there,
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I am using ActionScript 3.0, Adobe Flash CS4 software
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package
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Ok. Now after I changed it to:
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info.
I've tried to use the "fontFamily" directly but Flash didn't seem to find the font at all:
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I'm just learning how to use Flash CS4 (taking college online
class) and I'm trying to follow the step-by-step instructions in a
specific lesson. Whenever copy a motion-tweened animation and then
try to "paste motion special" the option is grayed out. I've looked
thru the documentation but can't seem to find an explanation. I'm
hoping there is someone out there that has a very simple
explanation of
why it's happening and then can walk me thru
what I need to do to fix it.

quote:
Originally posted by:
RPlummer
I'm just learning how to use Flash CS4 (taking college online
class) and I'm trying to follow the step-by-step instructions in a
specific lesson. Whenever copy a motion-tweened animation and then
try to "paste motion special" the option is grayed out. I've looked
thru the documentation but can't seem to find an explanation. I'm
hoping there is someone out there that has a very simple
explanation of
why it's happening and then can walk me thru
what I need to do to fix it.
I think I'm in the same online class....having the same
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Here's the information I'm providing to my class tonight. Anyone else encountering the same? BTW, I upgraded to release 10.0.2 but to no avail.
THE PROBLEM:
I think I discovered a pretty major bug in Flash CS4. When creating an ActionScript 3 file (with scripts written on the timeline) and saving the FLA source to an external drive (such as a USB thumb drive) and then testing (Control > Test Movie) or publishing (File > Publish), the AS3 code is ignored in the resulting SWF or EXE. If you save the file to the C: drive and then test/publish, it works fine. I tried this on several computers with several different FLA files and differing script, with several devices including a network drive – all with the same result.
I posted the problem to the ActionScript forum at adobe.com and contacted tech support (via email) but have yet to receive any useful feedback.
SOLUTIONS:
OPTION 1: Save your FLA to the hard drive before testing. You can create a temporary folder on the desktop of the campus computers or should have access to C:\TEMP. So save your files there and at the end of you session, be sure to copy the files (both the FLA and any published files) to your USB for safekeeping. When updating your FLA, first copy it to the internal C: hard drive, then make changes and test, etc.
OPTION 2: AS3 code written to an external .AS file does work when compiled. But this really is beyond the scope of this class and adds a lot of complexity.
OPTION 3: Use Flash CS3 – works fine in CS3, but of course you can’t use any of the cool new CS4 features such as new motion tweening, and inverse kinematics (IK bone structures).

Susan,
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Hello everyone,
I must warn you I am an absolute beginner with flash, however am proficient in Illustrator / ps cs4 and now have flash cs4. I have a mountain of graphic work for a client and as part of this welcome work I've inherited a flash header that I need to finish for a website. The only problem is, I usually work in print and know nothing about flash, but would like to tackle this if I can. The inherited header is 980 x 230 with 8 images that fade in/out as they change over each other (morph). It was originally done in flash 10 using tweens but I gather flash has changed a bit with regards to this sort of thing.
I like to learn new things but I have spent HOURS online and just can't find out how to do this. I've had a good look around flash but unfortunately I just can't dedicate days or weeks to learning the entire program.
From what I can gather so far:
The images go into flash library (is jpeg ok or do they have to be BMP) then I need to convert them to symbols then they go into the timeline as layers ...OMG I guess my first question is..is this a fairly simple thing to accomplish or should I look at outsourcing it? I'm pretty good with the teaching myself stuff, but my biggest enemy is time. I've looked at the adobe tv tuts but didn't see anything like what I'm after (the image doesn't need to slide, it just needs to fade into another one).
I'm so buggered, hoping if I get some sleep some kind soul will either be willing to help, or tell me to forget it, either way helping to end my frustration!
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A bona fide Flash Dummie...
Lauren

I
don't have CS4 so I am not familiar with the new way of tweening, only
with what CS4 calls classic tweens, which is what I grew up with in
Flash. What I described for you is based on classic tweens.
While those in in the know
(a few) praise the wonders of the new tweens, general concensus in these
forums for those that question them is that trying/learning to work
with the new tweens is not straightforward.
As far as movieclip versus
graphic goes, neither is preferable over the other. Both will perform
in a tween. Movieclips are useful when you have more to do with the
object than just display it.
The difference with the motion tweens is that the motion tweens are built to be easily scalable and to provide a graphical interface for easily updating/editing the tweens visually (including path, timing etc). Classic tween is what you want for your project so you're on the right track. As far as the difference between a movieclip and a bitmap not mattering, well it depends really on the scale of the project but best practice is to go with the smaller class. The movieclip class is massive, one of the largest because it is a dynamic type and is near the bottom of the chain of inheritance on the flash displayobject list. So, the bitmap class would be probably like 1/10th the file size of the movieclip class, so go with bitmap. Since flash is primarily a web technology and I'm sure you're doing this project for a website, every byte matters. Imagine the difference in filesize is 5 kb just because of what classes you decide to use but you decide to deploy the project on a website with 5 million users. Thats 25 gigabytes of wasted bandwidth. Anyway that doesn't really apply to you because you're doing timeline tweens and the flash IDE will automatically import all of those bulky classes anyway, but it's good to keep in mind if you decide to pursue getting deeper into flash and working with actionscript.
Anyway it looks like you've almost got your project all sorted out but there is the problem with doing everything inside flash using timeline tweens. As you're aware, it's a pain if you need to update. Below is some basic actionscript you can paste inside of a new fla file. It's not the best example but I just kind of wipped it up and should be more than enough for you to pick apart and learn how actionscript 3 works in flash. So.. create a new fla set the stage to the size of your project (980 X 230) pixels. Create a new blank movieclip (might as well, read up) and give it an instance name of "imageContainer". That's it for setup in the FLA. In the same folder as the FLA create a folder beside the fla called images. Create a new text document inside that folder and name it "filelist.xml". In that list, paste this:
<files>
    <file filename="171_2784_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="165_2564_0.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2690_2.jpg" />
    <file filename="171_2735_1.jpg" />
</files>
Copy all of your images for this project into the images folder. Now modify that XML to include the name of each file in the folder.
Now back in your FLA, click the first frame of the main timeline. Open the actions panel (view -> actions in the menu)
Now paste this into that frame:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.Strong;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
var listIndex:int = 0;
var nextImage:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
var listOfImages:Array = new Array();
var listLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
listLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, parseFileList);
listLoader.load(new URLRequest("images/filelist.xml"));
var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var cycleTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 0);
cycleTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, beginImageCycling);
function parseFileList(e:Event):void
    //trace(e.currentTarget.data); //Uncomment this to debug and see what data is coming in
    var fileListXML:XML;
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        fileListXML= new XML(e.currentTarget.data);
    }catch(e:Error){
        trace("The file list is either not well formed XML or not XML at all");
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    var fileList:XMLList = fileListXML.children();
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In the menu go to Control--->Play. That should do it, it should cycle through those images over and over. I'm at work doing this on my lunch I'll post a completed project/demo of this later when I get home and give you an intro to actionscript by covering the code I've put here. Anyway so now the benefit of doing things this way is that if you want to adjust the transition time, you simply go to the :Tween = new Tween lines and change this:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 1, 1, true);
to:
Strong.easeOut, nextImage.alpha, 2, 1, true);
Which will change the transition time from 1 second to 2 seconds. Or, say if you want to add new pictures, all you have to do is change that XML and copy in new pictures, something even your client could do (which is sure to make them happy).
Anyway I'll post later even if you don't need this anymore it may be useful to somoene else who finds this topic one day. .:)
-Jesse

Flash CS4 help not working

Hi, I'm using Flash CS4. After updating my flashplayer, it no longer works with IE8. Therefor I recently
tried Opera.
When working with AS3 I did what I always do to access context-sensitive help. I placed the cursor in a
blue word and hit the F1 key. This normally takes me where I want, but this time it didn't. First I was
asked if I wanted to make Opera my default browser. I clicked no. Then Opera opened up and I could
see the help home page.
Now, this got me frustrated as I still have IE8 as my default browser. Why did Flash suddenly want to
open the help files in Opera? I guess that would have been fine, though, had the correct page opened. I
wanted to see info about my blue AS-word, not the help home page.
I then uninstalled Opera as it clearly was unable to show me context-sensitive help. I then tried again.
Now nothing happened. I tried selecting Flash Help from the help menu (which would normally take me
to the help home page), but nothing happened.
I also have Firefox installed. Something similar have happened to people when they installed Firefox.
Anyway, Chrome has managed not to do this, I've had it installed for some time now.
I have located my local copy of the help files and I'm able to access the AS3 index.html file and start
trying to navigate to the correct class reference. But I hate it. It's inefficient. I have tried to see if there
are anything helpfyl in the preferences, but I found nothing at all.
Why does not Flash ignore which other browsers I have installed and just open help in my default
browser?
What can I do to once again access context-sensitive help?

I still haven't found any solutions to this. Is there anything I can do?

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