Possible to determine hrefs from flash?

Hi - I'm writing a web crawler. I am running into an issue
with sites that use menus written with flash as I am not able to
grab the hrefs. Is there a way to do this? If so could someone at
least point me in the direction of where to look? I've never worked
with flash so any hand-holding would be appreciated.
Thanks -

I'm afraid you've taken a wrong turn somewhere. This is the forum for Photoshop Elements, the consumer version of Photoshop, which has nothing mentioned in your post.

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Switching from Flash to Flash Catalyst/Flex

For the last few years I have been developing applications for project reporting. To explain this in simplest terms, my clients give me hundreds of reports and supporting documents, graphics, videos, etc. which I then condense and reorganize into a presentation/application in Flash. The project is then published as an .exe to be burned to CD ROM or DVD along with any supporting files and is then distributed to project stake holders, investors, etc.
I'm considering the possibility of a switch from Flash to Flash Catalyst/Flex and want to outline what my needs are, here in the forum, in hopes that others now using Catalyst/Flex can help me decide if this is an appropriate move.
Features needed:
1. Basic animation, transitions, etc.
2. Full Navigation (up to 3 levels) for up to 300 slides.
3. Keyboard navigation (PageUp/PageDown) to navigate sequentially through the entire presentation.
4. Linking into other applications and documents - Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.
5. Full Screen Mode
6. Slide Show Mode
7. Search Features
8. Slide sharing (via email)
9. Video and audio w/controls
10. Pan and Zoom w/controls (panning and zooming of graphics and .swf files)
11. Scrolling (scrolling of text, graphics and .swf files)
12. Interactive forms
Can anyone please comment specifically on these features and wether or not they are possible using Catalyst and/or Catalyst/Flex in combination.
Thank you all for any insight or suggestions.
John

With the exception of making fre-form animations (like a cartoon for example), everything you can do in Flash can be done in Flex considerably faster.
The downside is that Flex applications (especially ones designed in Catalyst) are generally larger, and consume more memory. Personally, I never publish anything made in Catalyst without optimizing it in Flash Builder first.
If the drop in operating performance isn't a deal breaker (most of the time you can't even notice it), then I would certainly consider moving to Flex going forward on new projects.

Is it possible to run a command prompt(or DOS Command) through flash and run a Activex(.OCX) file from flash

Hi all
Is it possible to run a command prompt(or DOS Command) through flash.If it possible please guide me to do that throug AS 3.0.
and
Is it Possible to run a activex (.OCX) file from flash. If it is so please guide me the way to do it
Thanks and Advance
Sankar.M.S

Or create a desktop shortcut (in Windows) or an application launcher ( in Linux GUI).

Is it possible to implement files into an InDesign document, that are exported from Flash?

I have worked with InDesign quite a lot, and now I'd like to make an eBook using the software. I don't know much about Adobe Flash, just starting to learn, and I'd like to know if there is a file format exported from Flash that can be used in an epub format document made with InDesign?
(I'm not sure if I gave the right definition of things but I hope you'll undersand.)
Thanks in advance,
Bibi

Hi Bibi,
the quick answer is no. You can place swf in InDesign and that will be honored during a interactive PDF-Output, but not with EPUB. If you try to get some animations to EPUB, you must use HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. This can be done in InDesign CC with the help of Adobe Edge Animate.
But note: There is only a minor support for this feature for different devices.

Opening an HTML popup from Flash, not as tab

Hi
I need to open an HTML popup from Flash (using ActionScript in
Flex 4).
Thus far I found a solution, and it does work in Safari - a new
and separate HTML window is popped up (with a new web page).
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
var url:String = "http://www.adobe.com";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
try {
    navigateToURL(request, '_blank');
} catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
But in (my) Firefox (with my settings), when I click on the Flash
(Flex) button, the page is being opened in a new tab.
I need a solution which pops up the HTML page in a new/separate
window, as far as possible regardless of the browser (and browser
settings).
I found an example where a popup is opened from HTML, and it opens a
separate window (a real popup) in my Firefox:
http://www.gtalbot.org/FirefoxSection/Popup/PopupAndFirefox.html
-> "Open a requested popup"
The JavaScript code seems to be:
OpenRequestedPopup(this.href, this.target); return false;
with this function def:
function OpenRequestedPopup(strUrl, strTarget)
    if (WindowObjectReferenceOfRequestedPopup == null || WindowObjectReferenceOfRequestedPopup.closed)
    WindowObjectReferenceOfRequestedPopup = window.open(strUrl, strTarget, "top=" + windowTop + ",left=" + windowLeft + ",width=" + windowWidth + ",height=" + windowHeight + ",menubar,toolbar,location,resizable,scrollbars,status");
    else
    if(WindowObjectReferenceOfRequestedPopup.focus)
      WindowObjectReferenceOfRequestedPopup.focus();
How could I call such code from ActionScript? Should this work through
ExternalInterface? I couldn't even get this to work:
ExternalInterface.call('alert', 'foo');
Should I use swfobject.js for embedding the .swf in the HTML wrapper?
Any other ideas?
The two files are pasted below.
Here's the compiler command I'm using:
mxmlc -output button.swf -target-player 10.0.0 flash_to_editor.mxml
I'm running the examples locally (as files, not over http). Would it
help to place the files on a server?
Tobi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle">
<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
// This 'http://www.adobe.com' is just an example URL.
// Works but opens tab in FF (not a separate window):
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
var url:String = "http://www.adobe.com";
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
try {
    navigateToURL(request, '_blank');
} catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
// Doesn't work:
// var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("javascript:alert('foo'); void(0);");
// navigateToURL(url, "_self");
// How to get this to work?
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
ExternalInterface.call('alert', 'foo');
// How to get this to work?
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
ExternalInterface.call('launch','http://www.adobe.com');
// Or
// ExternalInterface.call("window.open", "http://www.adobe.com", "win", "height=200,width=300,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes");
// Perhaps it's necessary to try different approaches:
// (As soon as I get two approaches to work.)
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
var s:String;
if (ExternalInterface.available) {
    // Necessary? Safe?:
    // Security.allowDomain('*');
    s = ExternalInterface.call('launch','http://www.adobe.com');
} else {
     // TODO: Then try URLRequest?
     s = "Wrapper not available";
Alert.show(s);
    ]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:Panel title="One way to open the HTML editor"
width="75%" height="75%">
    <s:Button id="button" label="Open the HTML editor"
    click="this.popUpTheHtmlEditor();"
    horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"/>
</s:Panel>
</mx:Application>
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>html_around_swf.html</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
function launch(url) {
alert(url);
// OpenWin = this.open(url, "FOO", "toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=400,height=200");
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <object id="button" name="button" width="550" height="400"
    classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
      <param name="movie" value="button.swf" />
      <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
      <embed id="foo" name="button" src="button.swf" width="550" height="400"></embed>
    </object>
</body>
</html>

Hi,
Here's a solution.
1. Make ExternalInterface work when files are loaded as local files:
Go to
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.htm l
In tab Global Security Settings: Edit Locations -> Add Location ->
browse to the .swf file, add it. Make sure it's in the list (under the
Edit Locations drop down, with a green check mark.)
Now open the HTML wrapper in a browser (eg Firefox).
Now this works (ActionScript):
private function popUpTheHtmlEditor():void {
ExternalInterface.call('alert', 'foo');
On Windows: perhaps:
http://techjig.blogspot.com/2008/03/flash-global-security-settings-windows.html
"In order for external interface functions to be called, you must also
specify the folder/file where the swf file is located."
The above setup isn't necessary when the files are on a server.
Also see:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/external/External Interface.html#call()
""ExternalInterface" "
"call() method"
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7ea6.html
"About ExternalInterface API security in Flex"
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf626ae-7fe8.html#WS2d b454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7f31
"Using the ExternalInterface API to access JavaScript"
2. Open a real popup: Example:
ActionScript:
private function popUpSomething():void {
var editorPathOrUrl:String =
    'wrapper.html';
var windowName:String =
    "SomeNameSeeDocs";
var windowFeatures:String =
    "toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,location=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=500,height=700";
ExternalInterface.call(
    'launch',editorPathOrUrl,windowName,windowFeatures
JavaScript:
function launch(editorPathOrUrl,windowName,windowFeatures) {
windowRef = window.open(
    editorPathOrUrl,windowName,windowFeatures
Works in all browser I tested except Opera.
Tobi

(How can we) Export FXG from Flash Professional using JSFL

How can we export a selection from Flash Professional as .FXG using JSFL? It appears that this is not possible... just yet! I have added this as a feature request within the Adobe Labs site for Flash Professional. Someone at Adobe suggested that I also explore the forums, so here we are. If you would also like to have this feature added, please let Adobe know by promoting the idea.
Our use case is this: we have a large Flash file with a library of over one thousand skins and assets that were built in Flash with Adobe's Flex Skins Templates. These stateful, graphical skins were used within a custom theme by several Flex 3 projects. Our ultimate goal is to bring these through Catalyst, maintaining their vectors, and use them to create Spark skins.
We've got a JSFL that can export each linked library asset, as well as any frame-labeled 'state' within these clips. However, currently we are using exportPNG, which is not ideal as it flattens our vector art into raster images. We are about to try the exportSWF option, and see what Flash Catalyst does with this. Our early attemps with importing swf's haven't been too amazing.
I'm starting to imagine some cross-product scripting in which we export symbols at a state-by-state level as .swf from Flash, then rebuild these onto layers in Illustrator, and THEN import these into Catalyst...yikes!
Anyone have a better solution?

Follow-up:
Out of pure wishful thinking I decided I would just see what happened if I pretended 'exportFXG' was already a part of JSFL. Based on the signature of 'exportPNG', i tried the following lines:
var success = fl.getDocumentDOM().exportFXG("file:///C:/mySymbol.fxg");
fl.trace("success:"+success); // output: success:true
It worked! Fantastic! I'm not sure if exportFXG is considered still in "beta" and therefore intentionally excluded from the docs, or if it was just an oversight. But at least it gives us something to experiment with.

Quicktime movie export from Flash CS3 is skipping frame.

When I try to export Quicktime movie from Flash CS3, the
resulting mov file is skipping frames. i.e.: The movie is showing
frame number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 15
etc...
As you can see the frame number 7 is repeated 3 times and
frame 8 and 9 are nowhere to be found.
The last configuration I used is 960x540, Sorenson video 3
medium quality, 25 fps, keyframe every 25 frames. 6400 kbits/s.
I tried various configurations,with different codecs and even
with keyframe all frames and I always get simillar problems.
Anyone have an idea what is going on, and how to fix this?
Thank you,
Olivier.

The QT exporter in Flash is honestly my least favorite
feature - not the feature itself but how it
works (or how it doesn't work in some cases). For me it is
almost unusable unless you have a very
short timeline, small stage, lower frame rate - like AS
generated effects or something - otherwise,
for true frame accuracy to video output - it is not reliable
enough and not fast enough for any real
world production environment.
So typically for me - I love SWF2Video (www.flashants.com) as
it takes any SWF and makes it into an
AVI that is frame accurate no matter what the frame rate is -
quite incredible - enough so that I
always felt it should have been bundled with Flash (as well
as Wacom tablets).
Harmony is an incredible product - as is SOLO and TBS (Toon
Boom mStudio) - each of those programs
are dedicated animation programs designed for output to video
- Flash has a lot of hats to fill and
it was never really designed for animation to video even
though many of us have found it suitable
for all intents and purposes as an animation program for full
production.
But all in all - the quicktime exporter doesn't really
deliver how we would expect it too I am sorry
to say - I only hope it works as well as it does on the Mac
(Mac users could always choose to export
to Quicktime Video but not PC users).
For now if I am exporting to video I keep it all on the
timeline or nested in Graphic symbols or use
the SWF2Video tool.
hope this helps.
-chris
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
OBastien wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Chris.
>
> I tried different possible solutions you listed but it's
not working.
> Disabling sound had no effects. Changing the FPS is not
an option, it has to be
> 25 FPS. I lowered the resolution to 300 something, it
seemed to be a little bit
> better, but it still dropped some frame, and the image
quality was horrible.
>
> I think it is really sad that we have to try different
settings in the hope
> that flash will grab all the frames. I'm really
disapointed in Adobe. I'm
> pretty sure it is the fault of Adobe and not Apple,
because I don't have does
> problems with Quicktime in ToonBoom Harmony. What is
strange is when I do an
> AVI export I never noticed a dropped frame. I'm not
using AVI video right now
> because I can not find a codec that gives me small size,
fast encoding times,
> the ability to seek in the movie by dragging the
timeline progress bar, and the
> possibility to edit in After Effects. If you know an AVI
codec that does all
> that it would be really great news.
>
> Thank you again,
> Olivier.
>

How to get list of logged-in users from Flash Media Server in a Flash programm? (Or login/logout notifications)

Hi there,
I'm Very sorry for asking this. I guess it's a very basic problem, but I'm very new to Flash and Flash media Server and I need a very fast answer...
Currently I'm working on a Director project using a flash program which connects to Flash Media Server (I guess version 3, it's quite old). Unfortunately they forgot to make a flash method to send the actual userlist (or a notification when someone logged in or out) to Director. AND, unfortunately, they lost the source code of that flash programm, so I cannot look into it or alter it *sigh*.
Now I want to do a new flash programm which covers the old one, letting all known methods "pass trough" and building an additional method to gain the user list (or login/out notification).
How do I get the login information from Flash Media Server? (Would be good if you could provide an idea already for flash code... as I said I'm a tard at flash till now)
Thank you so much. And I hope you understand my situation asking here...
Jana

hparmar : yes, that's what I feared... I hoped it would be possible to tell the server from which application I do need the login information. What a mess.
Dimo Hristov: thanks for your offer! I already tried decompiling the flash program with the shareware version of Trillix Decompiler. It only decompiled the UI (in a terrible way) but no source code at all. It was the shareware version where I can decompile 2 or 3 programms to test the software. Are you sure the non-free version of Trilix Flash Decompiler will do..?

Possible to get data from a partly optimized/stripped core file?

Hello,
This may not be possible, but I figured it was worth asking about.
I've got a C/C++ GUI application compiled with Solaris Studio 12.3 that is experiencing an infrequent crash when compiled for production and running on production boxes. This is on Solaris 10 for x86 running in 64-bit mode. Most of the app is in libraries which are statically linked.
I working on trying to replicate the issue in a development environment, but have not had luck yet. In any case, it would be interesting to know what kind of data can be gleaned postmortem from the core file I've got access to.
The application is actually a small "main.c" file which is complied and linked in debug mode with "-g" and no optimization, but this thin wrapper calls into the main logic in statically linked libraries which are optimized and not built in debug mode. (See the call stack below.)
From the core file :
1) For functions in the call stack that have names, can I get the value of one of the parameters? I ask because several such functions take pointers to structs with data that should be very useful.
2) For functions in the call stack that appear as ??????, is it possible to determine at least what .o or .a file they came from? This could help narrow things down.
Some basic Googling indicates that either of the above may not be trivial or even possible. But I'm wondering if the fact that we've got a "main.c" debuggable wrapper might somehow help.
As a related question, pstack produces sensible output, but dbx shows the error: "dbx: internal error: could not iterate over load objects -- link-maps are not initialized". Is there some flag I need to supply to dbx?
Thank you for any help,
David
Background info:
I've been unable to replicate on non-production deployments, but the machines do differ a bit.   Eventually I will be able to borrow a production box to deploy an instrumented binary, but for now all I've got is a core file and access to source.
The core was generated with gcore while the app was displaying a popup from it's SIGABRT cleanup handler.   The production build scripts do some binary stripping, but I'm not yet sure where it is getting done.
Here is the (slightly cleaned up) output of pstack for the core file:
fffffd7ffeb3244a nanosleep (fffffd7fffdfd4b0, 0)
0000000000514485 ZWidget_ModalEventLoop () + 65
00000000004f74a9 ZWidget_ShowPopup () + 4a9
000000000049d2ab ???????? ()
fffffd7ffeb2dd16 __sighndlr () + 6
fffffd7ffeb225e2 call_user_handler () + 252
fffffd7ffeb2280e sigacthandler (6, 0, fffffd7fffdfd640) + ee
--- called from signal handler with signal 6 (SIGABRT) ---
fffffd7ffeb3351a _lwp_kill () + a
fffffd7ffead81b9 raise () + 19
fffffd7ffeab6b4e abort () + 5e
000000000052c3bc ZUtil_Query () + 3c
000000000059b66e ZUtil_QueryString () + 3e
00000000004a1e2a ???????? ()
00000000004a0879 ???????? ()
000000000058b303 ???????? ()
000000000052d517 ZUtil_Set () + 767
00000000004f4805 ZUtil_DBSet () + 35
00000000005094b5 ZWidget_ProcessCallback () + 465
0000000000516814 ???????? ()
fffffd7fff242424 XtCallCallbackList () + 114
fffffd7ffef84d2e ActivateCommon () + 126
fffffd7ffef84b72 Activate () + 1e
fffffd7fff244efa HandleActions () + 14a
fffffd7fff24b1b7 HandleComplexState () + 177
fffffd7fff243a9e _XtTranslateEvent () + 4e
fffffd7fff24382a XtDispatchEventToWidget () + 2ea
fffffd7fff2430ee _XtDefaultDispatcher () + 15e
fffffd7fff242db6 XtDispatchEvent () + 106
00000000005142df ZWidget_ProcessEvent () + ff
0000000000514099 ZWidget_ProcessEvents () + 19
00000000005ac67a ZEventLoop_ProcessEvents () + 5a
00000000005ac528 ZEventLoop_Execute () + 48
000000000049d133 Main () + c93
000000000049bdf9 main () + 9
000000000049bc7b ???????? ()

Thanks for reporting this problem.
>1) For functions in the call stack that have names, can I get the value of one of the parameters? I ask because several such functions take pointers to structs with data that should be very useful.
Use compiler option -preserve_argvalues={none|simple|complete} to preserve incoming argument values. Note that this feature was introduced in Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4.
You may also be interested in a new option in Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 which provides much finer-grained control over debug information, which allows you to choose how much information is provided and to reduce the amount of disk space needed for the executable. Dev Tip: How to Get Finer-Grained Control of Debugging Information.
>2) For functions in the call stack that appear as ??????, is it possible to determine at least what .o or .a file they came from? This could help narrow things down.
The following 2 commands may help:
where -l
# Include library name with function name.
whereis -a <addr-of-?????> # Print location of an address expression
>As a related question, pstack produces sensible output, but dbx shows the error: "dbx: internal error: could not iterate over load objects -- link-maps are not initialized". Is there some flag I need to supply to dbx?
This may be caused by corefile mismatch. See dbx online help: "help core mismatch" for suggestions.
Hope this helps.

How can I force focus from flash to another plugin app in FireFox such as with the e.focus() Java Script command in Internet Explorer

Can you force focus from a Flash app to another plugin such as Unity3d using a JS command similar to e.focus() which works in Internet explorer. The following code works in IE, but not FireFox? Any solution would be helpful. Is it even possible?
function hideSWF(){
e=document.getElementById("flash_content");
e.style.width = 1 + 'px';
e.style.height = 1 + 'px';
e=document.getElementById("u3dobjmsiediv_unity");
e.focus() ;
function showSWF() {
e=document.getElementById("flash_content");
e.style.width = gameWidth + 'px';
e.style.height = gameHeight + 'px';
e.focus() ;
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Always existed when switching from Flash app to a different app. ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4

No, I am saying that this isn't the forum for help with that. This forum is for Firefox user support, and the helpers in this forum aren't versed in development issues like that - we're volunteers, not Mozilla developers and don't work for Mozilla. You are better off asking about that in a forum where other web site developers do support.

Third Party Order - Not possible to determine a consumption account

Hi All,
I know there are a number of threads on this subject but the answer for me doesn't seem to be here.
The scenario I am trying to configure is around buying and selling software licenses using a Third Party Sales Order process (Item Cat TAS).
My material is set up as a DIEN with and Account Assignment Group of BANS and a Valuation Class of 3200 (service). I'm assuming that as the license key is a notional concept rather than a physical stocked item as such - a service is the more appropriate material type but maybe I'm wrong?
I have entered two entries using transaction OBYC (Maintain FI Configuration: Automatic Posting - Accounts) for Transaction Key GBB:
i) General Modification = blank
ii) General Modification = 'AUF'
... but this made no difference.
Can anyone advise how to resolve this issue please?
As an aside I am not sure how you ever know what entries are required in this table - how can you tell what General Modification values are relevant to any given scenario?

Hi Raja - yes this was useful but I am still having difficulties.
OK - So I can see from your notes that the Account Modifier that I was looking for was VAX associated with the Account Assigment Group of 'X' - good so I fixed the OBYC - GBB table to ensure I has a VAX - 3200 entry for consumption and it worked - great! BUT ...
I then wanted to get it so that my PO would create automatically so I:
i) Set the Auto PO on the Item Category
ii) Set the ALE paramenters asociated with the Sales Org definition
iii) Set the Auto PO on the Vendor Master
but that didn't work
I wanted to set the AUTO PO on the material master but as my MM was a DIEN this option was not available to me so I created another material that was NLAG (non-stocked) and tried again - this time I marked the Auto PO on material as well but it still didn't work because I am now geti8ng the message "Not possible to determine a consumption account" - Aaaarrrggghhhhh!!!
Everything else remains unchanged - BANS - CS etc.
Any ideas?

Not Possible to determine condition type- supplementry condition STO sch ag

Dear All ,
While creating the stock transfer scheduling agreement in the transaction ME37, Stock transfer pricing schema is getting is picked up. where the standard condition type :P101 is being used for picking the Material valuation price of the supplying plant.
Now for adding the delivery cost or any other conditions , while we are trying to enter other conditions in the Item Conditions in ME37, system is giving an error message "NOT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE CONDITION TYPE".
As NO Access sequence is attached to the condition type : P101, and at the same time, Supplementry pricing procedure is assigned to the condition type : P101.
When we assign the access sequence(e.g 0002) to the conditon type P101 , then system allows us to give the supplementry conditons while creating the scheduling agreement , BUT at the same time material valuation price from supplying plant is not getting picked up in either scheduling agreement or stock transfer order.
Requirement is that BOTH material valuation price as well as system allows us to give the supplementry conditions in the scheduling agreeement.
Thanks & Regards
Nitin Chhabra

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Problems doing copy/paste from Flash to Illustrator

This is a problem I've had since Flash 8: when doing a
copy/paste from Flash to Illustrator (on Windows), there's extreme
degradation of the artwork, sometimes to the extent that no actual
art is even copied. All the curves seem to be approximated with
straight line segments, but at some point it just seems to give up
even trying, leaving an unidentifiable blob for most of the object.
As I said, sometimes it doesn't even copy anything at all -- all
that shows up after pasting into Illustrator is an empty group.
The weird thing is that this process worked fine in Flash MX
2004. What could possibly have changed? I was sure with CS3 it
would be fixed, but it wasn't. I haven't tried Illustrator CS4 yet,
but copying from Flash CS4 to Illustrator CS3 produces the same
problem.
I've seen a few other reports of this problem in other
forums, but I've encountered it on every install of Flash and
Illustrator I've tried (admittedly, all Windows machines, but three
or four different ones, both XP or Vista). Can anyone here confirm
that this problem exists or doesn't exist on their computer? To
test it, create a piece of art with plenty of curves and several
colors in Flash, then copy and paste it into an illustrator
document.
If this problem is as widespread as my experience seems to
indicate it is, why hasn't it been fixed in two major revisions of
the software? Is Adobe even aware of it? If not, how can I let them
know? I'm getting majorly sick of having to deal with it.
Illustrator used to be a much larger part of my animation process,
but now I can't use it how I really want to because of the bad copy
and paste functionality.
-David

Hi,
The integration between Flash CS3 and Illustrator means you
can copy objects from Illustrator to Flash and i think if you copy
from Flash to illustrator or Photoshop, you would not get a good
results.
You can solve your problem by exporting your Flash work as
.AI.
Your idea about the ability to copy from Flash to Illustrator
is a good idea although Illustrator can not read some of the Flash
imported information correctly. But it is still a good enahcement
idea. There is a link where you can add suggestions but I do not
remember it and I am replying using mobile, so my browsing
capabilities is limited.
I will try to post the link here when I got to my back normal
connection
Thanks alot!!

Creating a pdf from flash

im trying to generate a pdf file from a swf form... is it
possible ?

No not really. There are tools like
Flash
Handout that you can buy - but if money is not an option, there
is the PrintJob command in Actionscript. You can set up Flash to
print the form. The only other way I know of is to send the details
from Flash to a PHP file and use an extention like
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Audio from Flash CS3 Video overlapping

audio from Flash CS3 Video overlapping
help stopping the FLVPlayback instance (which has an instance
name of theVideo) when another button is clicked!
How do I stop flv playback when user clicks a navigation
button ...
Excuse me in advance for asking about a topic that may be
very popular!
I'm using the attached code to go from the main stage to one
subset of .swf files (loaded movies) and I apparently have no
problems with overlapping. Hell, the files even seem to unload
themselves correctly. Then, when I go to my second subset of .swf
files (with the exact same AS3 structure), which has a Flash Video
file (made by the FLV Playback component), I get into an
overlapping problem associated with the audio.
How can I stop, cancel, or unload the audio when the file is
clicked away from (the user selects another button on the main
stage)?
Code attached. Please let me know if anything else is needed.
Yours Sincerely,
Jntspecialty

I have tried to clean up code and do this right.
I need help referencing (storing the value in the variable
"stopsoundoverlapReq") the "flvplayback instance AFTER theVideo is
instantiated (ie, the frame that contains theVideo has rendered)"
correctly.
Also, now I need help with the name of my nav bar button's
method followed by parentheses, which should include the
appropriate method parameter.
On my main timeline, I tried to clean up the code and use:
var stopsoundoverlapReq:FLVPlayback =
stop("videopage.swf/MovieClip(ldr.content).theVideo");
Then for my nav bar button on this same timeline use:
any_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopsoundoverlap);
function stopsoundoverlap(event:MouseEvent):void
stopsoundoverlap.stop(stopsoundoverlapReq);
The 3 errors I get now are :
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:
FLVPlayback. var stopsoundoverlapReq:FLVPlayback =
stop("videopage.swf/MovieClip(ldr.content).theVideo");
1061: Call to a possibly undefined method stop through a
reference with static type Function.
stopsoundoverlap.stop(stopsoundoverlapReq);
1137: Incorrect number of arguments. Expected no more than 0.
var stopsoundoverlapReq:FLVPlayback =
stop("videopage.swf/MovieClip(ldr.content).theVideo");

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