Test touch events in SWF file?

I'm sure this is one of those "Oh, press this button in Preferences" type of questions, but I have googled to no avail which makes me think I'm either missing something so simple no one has even bothered saying it or I'm asking the wrong question.
I am trying to write a simple program, just to practice, that will use touch events for an iPad. I don't have a developer account and so am testing the app on my computer. However, it does nothing. Clicking the mouse on the movie clip does nothing. I even copy and pasted someone else's code so that I was sure it wasn't because I got my syntax wrong. Nothing. Is there a way to test touch events on a computer, or do I have to compile the app and send it to an iPad everytime I want to test the app? Is there no AIR simulator that will simulate touch events using a mouse, as there is with XCode?
Thanks
Amber

http://www.republicofcode.com/
Check for the latest tutorials on the right hand side for touch events

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BitmapData draw method doesn't work when the project is published as the .swf file of the web applic

Hi,
        I am totally confused by this strange error. When I tried using the draw method of BitmapData to draw a movieclip symbol of my project, it seems to work fine locally. However, as I uploaded the published .swf file to my web server and launched it as the plugin of my web application, it failed. The source codes as follows,
function printscreenClicked():void
     //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message1
    var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(stage.width,stage.height);
    //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message2
bd.draw(stage);
    //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message3
message3 didn't show at all. Instead, the browser console shows "Uncaught Error: Error calling method on NPObject.". My understanding of this error message is that the .swf is calling something crashing, and I believe that bd.draw(stage)is the crashng method call.
Also, here is my html embed tag:
    <embed src="/tests/videoplayer.swf" id="flash" quality="high" height="510" width="990" scale="exactfit" name="squambido" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" style="margin: 0px auto;clear:both;position:relative;"/>
Can someone help me?

Thank you for your reply.
I tried stageWidth and stageHeight, but it still doesn't work.
The draw() methid is triggered when I clicked a screenshot button in my application as follows,
ExternalInterface.addCallback("printscreenClicked", printscreenClicked);
function printscreenClicked():void
     //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message1
    var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(stage.width,stage.height);
    //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message2
bd.draw(stage);
    //ExternalInterface.call calls a javascript function to print message3
Would you please give me an example of "waiting for Event.RESIZE is good, or just at least Event.ENTER_FRAME"?
My real purpose in this application is to capture a snapshot of a streaming video. The video is contained in a movieclip object. I tried stage first since BirmapData.draw() doesn't work when drawing the movieclip on the web site. Do you have any suggestion for this situation? Also, is there any good method to find out what happened if the browser have "Uncaught Error: Error calling method on NPObject."?

Problem with music in swf file when loading site to server

Hello,
I am a newbie to Flash and have an swf file I created for a
website,
http://www.kanzamancleveland.com.
I have a button there that turns the music on/off when the site
loads. I also put some music into the swf file, but instead of
putting it directly in the swf file, I am calling it from the
actionscript code in the swf file. I want it to stream when the
site loads and start loading/playing after the site loads. The code
is embedded in the on/off button. Now this code works when the swf
file is on my local hard-drive, but when I put it on the server
with the rest of the website, it doesn't work. Any ideas?
Here is the code:
import fl.motion.Keyframe;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var _sound:Sound;
var _channel:SoundChannel;
var _playing:Boolean = false;
var _position:int;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("lowsaaloony.mp3");
var buffer:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(5000);
_sound = new Sound( );
_sound.load(request, buffer);
_channel = _sound.play( );
_playing = true;
offbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onPlayPause);
function onPlayPause(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (_playing) {
_position = _channel.position;
_channel.stop( );
} else {
_channel = _sound.play(_position);
_playing = !_playing;
gotoAndPlay(2);
stop();
I put the code together going from various Flash help
websites, and it works when everything is on my local hd, but again
as I mentioned before, when I put it up on the server, the music
doesn't play. I contacted the hosting company and they said that
they do allow streaming music on a website using Flash. Any help on
what I am doing wrong, or what else I need to do would be highly
appreciated. Thank you.
Jay

Hi. It looks like your code is not finding the mp3. At least,
I can reproduce your error code by removing the mp3 from the
directory, or renaming it.
Btw, if you test with FF instead of IE, you'd see the error:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032:
Stream Error.
at KZFlash_fla::Sound_2/KZFlash_fla::frame1()
Hope that helps.

How to attach a Callto Link to a swf-file?

Hi,
I'm currently working on an animated skype button (swf-file) which I included into my website and I'd like to attach the following command to it:
Callto://myskypeid
It would be perfect, if - when hovering on it - it shows that it contains an active link (showing the "hand") and when clicking on it, it calls the user's skype app. to phone me on skype
So, in the adobe tutorials I found the following code for inserting a "hyperlink" to a button.
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function gotoAdobeSite(event:MouseEvent):void
   var adobeURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com/");
   navigateToURL(adobeURL);
linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoAdobeSite);
I customised the code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function openskype(event:MouseEvent):void
   var Skype:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Callto://myskypeId");
   navigateToURL(Skype);
linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openskype);
But the problem is that there occur "linkbutton not defined property or method" errors when running the code.
My swf or rsp. my fla file contains 10 movieclips which run one after another on the timescale, all in different layouts so that the colour changes during the "run".
I tried it with the first movieclip - layer1 - and named its instance "linkButton".
Didnt work.
Then I tried to insert another layer and attached another picture with alpha=0, converted it into a button and gave its Instance the name "LinkButton", but also didnt work.
Can someone please help me here? I suppose its just a "small" mistake and I couldn't be "so far away" from succeeding...
That would be great! Thanks for the help in advance!!

Hi Ned and all the others,
ok ...the problem isn't really fixed so far.
But the first step is done! :-) with the following code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
function openskype(event:MouseEvent):void
   var Skype:URLRequest = new URLRequest("Callto://myskypeId");
   navigateToURL(Skype);
linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openskype);
I replaced the "Callto://myskypeId" with "skype:myskypeId?call" as the first syntax shows a wrong Skypname resp. the name will be shown with a "/" in the end.
But now i'm faced with the problem, that
1st: there's no "hand" shown, when hovering the button on the website.
2nd: I have to doubleclick on it to open the skype application.
3rd: after i doubleclicked on the button there opens up always an additional blank page shown in the browser. And now I try to fix that - I tried it with navigateToURL(Skype, "_self"); or "_parent" and so on...but didnt work.
Meanwhile I think the because of not all of the pictures - MCs - are attached to the instance of "linkButton" that there's the missing "hand" when hovering with the mouse the button. On testing i found out that some of the pics are still bitmaps although i converted them all in the beginning to MCs (??dont know what i did there...).
Think the "missing hand" problem will be fixed more easily.
The bigger problem is, how to avoid the additional blank page in the browser when clicking on the swf on the website?
It seems to me, that on the one hand, I'd like to have an "active" link on that swf (or button) that shows the "hand" in the mousepointer - but on the other hand, it's not really a website which I'd like to open up then but just an application. So maybe here's the main problem.
Alternatively I thought about replacing the sequence with the URL request in the code by something rather appropriate for lauching applications e.g. FS Command or something like that. (read that somewhere).
If someone knows/had similar problems/could help me again - or at least to the next step that would be perfect!
Thanks again, Ned for your helping advice (I learned something!!!) - maybe you could help me with the above probs?
Best regards
steff

Links don't work on Menu Bar: swf file location error too.

Hi folks, I'm using CS5 and Menu Bar 2.0 and am getting this error when attempting to save files using a particular template: http://imm.io/3chF
When I upload my site, some of the links are faulty, presumably to do with this error. I've tried using Menu Bar 1 and get the same error message.
The files it asks for are already in my root directory as well as in the Scripts directory. Where should they be?
FYI my test site is at http://www.arrowmark.co.nz/web4/portfolio.html. Links work from this page, but they do not work within other pages based on that template. Eg you can get from there to tatler.html but that's where the linkage fails.
Thanks in advance for advice on this problem.
Jo

Hi,
looking to your source code from "portfolio.html" you can't have a working link, 'cause there always these "#"-placeholders are "waiting" for their job:
<li> <a href="tatler.html">Prime, Tatler, 12Bar</a>
          <ul>
        <li> <a href="#">Marketing</a></li>
        <li> <a href="#">Sales</a>
            </li><li> <a href="#">Web</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Image Editing</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Photography</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Publications</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Collateral</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Editorial</a>
                        </li><li> <a href="#">Event Management</a>
                              </li></ul>
for example: </li><li> <a href="imageEditing.html#">Image Editing</a> aso.
What concerns your swf-file: In my IE8 it's working, so it seems it's on the right place, or did I misunderstood your question?
Hans-G.

Embed Animated Flash Objects (*.swf file) in Oracle Forms.

Hello All,
To Embed Animated Flash Object (Shockwave *.swf File) in Oracle Forms, Please Follow the Steps Below.
1. Draw "ActiveX Control" Item on Canvas with the Name "OCXITM".
2. Select "ActiveX Control" Item & Go to its Properties (By Pressing F4).
3. Select "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash" in "OLE Class" Property of "ActiveX Control" Item.
4. Come again to the Canvas.
5. Right Click on "ActiveX Control" Item, Select "Insert Object...".
6. In Control Type List, Select "Sockwave Flash Object" and Press "OK".
7. On Canvas, Select "ActiveX Control" Item, Go to "Program" Menu, Select "Import OLE Library Interfaces...".
8. Select All "Method Package(s)" & "Event Package(s)" for "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.X" & Press "OK".
9. Go to "Object Nevigator" (By Pressing F3) & Expand "Program Unit" to verify that the Packages are Successfully Imported.
10. Compile All the Objects (By Pressing "Ctrl+Shift+K").
11. In "WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE" Trigger Write the Below Code.
** Author   : Muhammad Waseem Haroon                        *
** Dated    : 07-Apr-2005                                   *
** Purpose : To Call Macromedia Flash Object (*.swf File) *
** Module   : Logo                                          *
DECLARE
     oleitm OLEOBJ;
BEGIN
     oleitm := :item('OCXITM').INTERFACE;
     ShockwaveFlash_IShockwa_0.Movie(oleitm,'d:\movie.swf');--it can be dynamic.
END;12. Compile, Save & Run Your Form.... and... See the Beauty.
Thanks & Regards
Muhammad Waseem Haroon
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Mark Striekwold did an effort to put flash into forms
http://mark-oradev.blogspot.com/2010/02/flash-inside-oracle-forms.html
http://mark-oradev.blogspot.com/2010/02/flash-test-inside-oracle-forms-part-2.html
http://mark-oradev.blogspot.com/2010/04/flash-test-inside-oracle-forms.html

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