Flash and Flex Help

I have a flash movie I created in Flash that has a couple
buttons in the clip. Is there a way to make the flash buttons
change the currentstate in Flex?
I know in Flex state changes are as easy as
currentState='STATENAME';
Flex uses actionscript and so does flash, that is why I am
hoping this is possible.
PLEASE HELP, I appreciate your anticipated response.
Thanks
Todd

Is Flash movie created using ActionScript 3? If so, you
button click can dispatch an event and Flex application can
register a listener to this event and whenever the event is
dispatched, change the state.

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Posing a question for those well versed in flash and flex

I would like to start an off-line communication chat with those of you who are well versed in Flash and Flex.
I've worked with Cold Fusion but I am not up to date on all the technologies available. This seems like the perfect forum for this question.
I simply want to build an application (web or desktop is unknown) in which a person can learn a foreign language, in this case English.
I need some technical advice as to whether Flash, Flex, or a combination of technologies (Cold Fusion for server side functionality) is the best choice for this application. I do not understand the technical aspects of Flash or Flex in building applications so I need the advice of you experts.
As with most foreign language textbooks, audio, or foreign language video training, the material is not interesting, not pertinent to daily life, and is great for late night insomnia. I've never seen any type of foreign language training that is interesting, fun, or uses current events as part of the curriculum.
I would like to illustrate my idea with an example. I want to use an existing English beginners textbook (for kids), scan the images in the textbook, store the content (rules of grammar) in a database and store example sentences in a database.
I would like to record basic audio sentences from the textbook (Do you know tomorrow's weather), incorporate some animation (baseball player hitting a home run), incorporate some basic video (purchasing an item at the grocery store), add a quiz, test question or puzzles, etc..
In addition, since this is a classroom setting and the kids are split into groups, I would like to store a seating chart with the kids names and pictures in a database. After the first segment is finished (e.g. purchasing a toy at the store) the kids next perform an activty. I want to use a combination of audio, video, and animation to explain the activity, give instructions, split the class into groups,and perform the activity.
As I mentioned before, I would like to start an off-line discusion for those of you who are willing to share some of you knowledge and experience with both Flash and Flex. Since you are extremely busy, maybe you might be able to point me in the right direction.
Hopefully, some of you can provide some sound technical advice.
Thanks in advance
Michael Poplawski

This is an abitious project even for some-one well versed in flex/flash, i have to give you points for outstanding courage on this .
You need to cover quite a few areas in a project like this both for the client and the back end, you need a strong understanding of animation(either through code or the flash timeline), data parsing, logic trees for the quiz/test elements and a lot more before the first line of code would be written.
In Australia there are already a few companies using flex for online educational applications and at least 1 state educational Authority. A search on the internet will find several sites pertaining to flash/flex based online education software and this would be a starting point to give you an idea of the strength flex has in this area.
Beyond this it is not the sort of project that 'help' would be readily available for unless it was relating to very specific issues you could readily define. Also this is not the best forum to request this type of help as the forum is more about testing a beta product. I am sure that if you start learning about flex and have trouble understanding different aspects of how things work there will be plenty of support from the flex community.
Message was edited by: David_F57
by forum I don't mean the whole forum just this branch.

Same fonts used in Flash and FLEX are different

Fonts used in Flash and Flex differs in appearance even though they are same. It lacks the anti alias property and shows pixelated in flex even if it appears normal in flash. Please see attachment.

There can be several reasons for that. First make sure the font is embedded properly. Rotate the object and see how it looks. It is also possible that in Flex the fonts are being captured as a bitmap which can turn off AA at times.
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

AS Library for both Flash and Flex

Hi all,
I want to create an action script library that i can use with
both flash and flex. i understand how to do it if i want to just
use it in flex, but i also want it to compile down in to an swf or
whatever so i can use the functions in flash. i tried creating an
action script library, but it requires me to specify a 'runnable
application file.' which doesn't make much sense, since i just want
a class library.

Found the answer (sort of). it's only partially possible. The
best way would just to edit the as files in flex builder and not
create an actual library (though this approach doesn't work if you
need to distribute the library).
In order to do create a library, you need to create a Flex
Library Project in flex builder, not an Action Script Library. the
action script library is a misnomer.
then, when you build you have to jump through some hoops to
get it to actually work, but creating a manifest file and setting
"compute-digest=false" as a compiler option. for more info, check
out the following blog post:
http://timwalling.com/2007/10/22/compiling-flash-cs3-compatible-swcs-with-flex/

How to display html content with image in Adobe Flash and Flex mobile project?

Hi,
I have a html content with image in it. How to display it in Adobe Flash Builder and Flex mobile project? Which control needs to be used for this?

Hello,
The only current way is to use an iFrame, or if you only need some html tags you could use the Text Layout Framework.
Here this is the iFrame approach:
http://code.google.com/p/flex-iframe/
If the swc do not work in Flex4 just use its ource code which works...
...it is basically based on this:
http://www.deitte.com/archives/2008/07/dont_use_iframe.htm
see also and vote, please:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-12291
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13740
Regards
Marc

What is the "Language Reference" difference between AS, Flash, and FLEX?

I'm fairly new to the world of Flash9 / Flex2 / ActionScript3
development environment.
As I was reading through tutorial for FLEX/AS, I was
introduced to Language Reference for FLEX 2.0.
At the same time, I noticed in FLASH9 / AS3 there is also
Language Reference page. For a moment, I thought these 2 Language
Reference shared the same API / Language components.
As I have found out, when I was looking up Language Reference
for "Button" class for FLE2.0, it provided
- mx.controls.Button
But for Language Reference for "Button" class for FLASH9 /
AS3, it provided different package
- fl.controls.Butoon
Why are there 2 sets of packages for the class Button?
Shouldn't there just be one package for class Button?
thanks,
Ming

Hello,
The names can be confusing, especially since IE identifies Flash Player as Shockwave Flash Object in 'Manage Add-ons'. They are, in fact, two different programs, as noted in your Programs and Features screenshot. Flash Player plays web content created using Flash Professional, Flex, or Flash Builder (ActionScript programming language). Adobe Shockwave Player plays web content that has been created using Adobe Director. They are not interchageable. Web content created using ActionScript requires Flash Player and web content created with Adobe Director requires Shockwave Player.
More info:
Adobe Director
Adobe Shockwave Player
Flash Player | Adobe Flash Player | Overview
HTH.
Maria

Integrating Flash and Flex

Hello,
I am new to Flex but an experienced programmer. I have a Flash movie that has been saved as an .swc file. This movie shows doors open and close in response to real time events obtained through a messaging service. I would like to be able to place this movie into a flex applicaiton so that I can respond to these events. My question is, is it even possible to interact with a Flash movie clip in Flex? I was assuming that this was the whole point of Flex (Flash Builder). Am I wrong about that? Are Flex and Flash two completely different and incompatible products?

https://iamjosh.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/embedding-flash-in-flex/
Yep. You have the right idea. Flex is a framework (targeted at developers) for developing Flash applications.

Conflict between flash and flex

Detail Description Steps:
1). Created an flex web application with the sdk 3.2 and the application woks fine individually.
2). Loaded that output swf file created by the flex application in to an adobe air 1.0 application it works fine. The air application was created used adobe flash professional cs3
3). When we try to build the air package with adobe flash cs4 professional environment in air 1.5 sdk the swf created using flex application is not loading and displaces an error message .
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at global$init()
at mx.core::Application/initManagers()
at mx.core::Application/initialize()
at registrationForm/initialize()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::childAdded()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/initializeTopLevelWindow()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::docFrameHandler()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/docFrameListener()
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This problem is occurring when we are trying to migrate our application from air 1.0 to air 1.5. Basically we are doing this for better performance.

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incredible to believe that Flex could also? I find e-learning
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Dropbox - TV_AL_Q
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But I was hoping someone with more knowledge could take a look and see if there is anything that they know of that I could do to help fix this. I'm working in Flash cs6 and using action script 3.
I have to turn this project in by this Friday (the 20th) so I would love to get this sorted by then but even if I can't I would still be interested in some possible solutions, just for learnings sake.
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Thank you for yet another cryptic reply, remember I'm the idiot here who doesn't understand this stuff so please can you explain things in a little more detail. Thanks.
I am using the JW Player setup assistant and it lists two types of code
The "Embed code" and the "swfobject 1.5 code" but not an Object/Embed code that you mention.
This is the code that the website is telling me to use.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/embed/swfobject.js"></script>
This text will be replaced
<script type="text/javascript">
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so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://web.me.com/nathmac31/Flash/WaineWeddingHD. swf');
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</script>
My movie does play on through the player on the JW site, after about 30 seconds of waiting for the picture to appear. When I cut and paste the above code into my webpage, I don't get anything. I have dropped the "Player.swf" and "swfobject.js" files into the folder containing the contents of the page that I want the player to appear on.
Where is the exact best place to drop these files?

Flash and XML help : (

Hi all
bit of a newbie, so probably quite easy if you know how:eek:
would anyone beable to help with sorting out an XML file, what I have is a tooltip that loads in via XML and exported from flash. the XML loads in 2 text fields, field and field2.
what I am trying to do is add a button also to the tooltip so that you can click and go to a url.
would anyone beable to help with this.
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XML
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<data>
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but just not working, what am I doing wrong:yikes:
many thanks for any help!

hi Saransoft
thanks for that, thats great, yes it seesm to work I now have an extra text field with the menu that is the button, I have put my XML like this, is it correct
<image name="image 2" path="img/img2.jpg"
title="Jazz Time"
text="Information"
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Flash and Flex swc... and a little bit of Blazeds

i have created a flex library project that connects to a BlazeDS endpoint for consumer/producer communication... i have used action script rather than configure the config.xml file on the server... heres a snip of the code...
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(mx.messaging.messages::ErrorMessage)#0
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clientId = (null)
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destination = ""
extendedData = (null)
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headers = (Object)#2
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1. Run pacman -S {alsa-driver,alsa-lib,alsa-utils,alsa-oss}, in this order.
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3. Identify which module to use for my soundcard; http://www.alsa-project.org very quickly told me that I'd need to load snd-emu10k1.
4. Add this to your /etc/modules.conf:
# Sound (ALSA)
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
post-install snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
pre-remove snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl store
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alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
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alias /dev/dsp sound-service-0-3
alias /dev/sequencer sound-service-0-1
alias /dev/mixer sound-service-0-0
5. Run depmod -a again. Kills the warning.
6. Edit your /etc/devfsd.conf and add this:
# Allow access to sound devices for group "audio"
REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660
# Load ALSA sound when needed
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD
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7. That's nearly it. Now open your /etc/rc.conf and add snd-emu10k1 to the MODULES array.
8. Reboot to test, run alsamixer afterwards to set the volume, and try out any sound application. Everything should run just fine, and mixer settings are automatically preserved
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Flash and Flex

Hi,
i wanted to know about the following details of Flex and
Flash
1. Performance
2.Loading time
3.Quality
4.Look and feel
5.time consumeing

I have long thought that if the purpose of the RIA movement
is to create
desktop like apps that run in your browser...then the
platform used to build
those apps would certainly be powerful enough to create
e-learning.
If Flash can be used for e-learning (as we do), what would
make it so
incredible to believe that Flex could also? I find e-learning
to be
well-suited to forms-style development, particularly if you
throw in
some script-driven animation. Seems to me Flex is probably
better
suited to this kind of work than Flash is.

Lost my flash and need help to get it back!!

I have windows 7 home edition and have always had Adobe Flash Player until one day I was instructed to reinstall it. Puzzeled as to why it was removed I followed the download instructions, got stuck on step 2, clicked the icon that stated "if you are having problems with your download click here." Still nothing. I have tried a few times with no luck. Help me get my flash player back please!! Thank you!

Can you please visit this page and follow the instructions for downloading and installing?
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

I'm new to flash and need help with some controls

I'm builidng a site that has a portfiolio of work to display.
When the visitor arrives at the portfolio page he (or she) is
faced with a split panel. The right panel displays a summary of a
client and the work. The left panel displays the work examples
attributed to that client. By clicking forward and backward arrows
in the right panel, the visitor can call the summaries of the
different clients. Landing on a client page 'opens' a separate swf,
called using loader component, that contains the portfolio of that
client's work into the left panel
1. I want forward and backward arrows located on the main
movie in the left panel to control the progress of the loaded swf,
rather than using forward and backward arrows on the loaded swf.
2. I want to prevent the forward and backward arrows in both
panels from clicking beyond frames in the Portfolio area of the
timeline.
3. I want the backward arrow to be innactive on the first
frame, and the forward arrow to be innactive on the last frame.
I have no problems making the arrows work on the main movie
controlling the client summaries. What I don't know how to do is
make them control the movement of the loaded swf, or #2 and #3.
Any help will be greatefully appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Art

"Art Lazaar" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Tralfaz,
>
> Thanks for your response. I must be missing something
very simple here, but I
> can't make this work no matter what I do. Let me see if
I understand some of it:
>
> On my main movie I put the fwd_btn and rew_butn
codes...do I put these on the
> actual buttons, or in an actions time line? When I put
them on the buttons, I
> get an error report saying they need to be in an 'on'
event handler. I thought
> that's what 'onRelease' was.
>
> On my loaded movie, I place the 'one.swf' code. I'm not
sure what you mean by
> placing the code inside a loop, I don't seem to be able
to find a reference to
> using 'loop' anywhere. When I use an 'onEnterFrame', I
presume I do that with
> onEventClip(enterFrame). When I do that, if I run the
'one.swf' by itself, i
> get an error report saying onEeventClip is for movies
only. But there's no
> error report when it loads from the main movie. What
happens tho' is it loops
> continuously, even if there are stops() in it.
>
> Boy, am I confused ;)
>
> I am really baffled by this seemingly simple little
task. Your help is
> gratefully appreciated.
>
> Art
>
>
>
Hi Art,
There are different coding methods, depending on where you
put code..
1) Frame code
Click on a frame of the timeline to enter frame code
2) Attached code for movieclips and buttons
Click once on a movieclip or a button then enter attached
code
To make an onEnterFrame event for a movieclip, first chose
either frame code or attached code method. I personally rarely ever
use
attached code because it hides code in places that can be
hard to find. Almost all my coding is frame code, but it's a
personal
choice.
Frame code method to make an onEnterFrame for the main
timeline..
// put this code into a frame on the main timeline
this.onEnterFrame = function()
// do something once per frame at the frame rate
checkMyButtons(); // once per frame we will check on the
button status
OR
Attached Code method to attach an onEnterFrame event to a
movieclip
// click once on the movieclip (don't dbl click it .. stay at
the root timeline level)
onClipEvent(enterFrame)
// do something once per frame at the frame rate
Those two types of code are not interchangeable. One type
must be entered into a frame and the other style must be attached
to a
movieclip or you will get errors.
Then there is the DOT syntax way to write frame code that is
equivalent to attaching code..
myMovieClip.onRelease = function()
trace("release");
myMovieClip.onPress = function()
trace("press");
myMovieClip.onDragOut = function()
trace("drag out");
tralfaz

Image swap code and flex -- HELP NEEDED

Hello Folks,
I am still new at programming and having a major issue and wondered if anyone know a simple way to do a photogallery by using some code to create an image swap
Thumbnail ( here )                                             Large image here
Next Thumbnail (here )                                      Large Image changes
Next Thumbnail (here )                                      Large Image changes
Someone suggested I use PHP to load all the images at once but it was over my head... any one got some simple explained solutions... Really trying to learn this...
Thanks

Hi 123tron,
For these type of requests you should post a cookbook recipe request to Adobe's cookbook site: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flex
Good luck!

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