Problem with SWF layering in Flex

The problem is that I have a SWF placed on top of everything
else and there's a zone I need to be clicked, but the rectangle
that encloses the symbol obstructs it. Is there a way to export the
SWF, so that the symbols on the it only take up the space of the
shape they have?

BTW, in Flash, I would use hitTest to solve that... I don't
know if that helps you in Flex.

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A problem with importing layered PSD file into Flash

Hi.
There's a problem with importing layered PSD file into Flash.
If I import a layered PSD file, some part the color of the lower layer is shown at the edge of objects or shadows. Instead, if I crop each layers first and import them, there's no problem.
If the higher layer has brush or transparent effects, it becomes worse.
Any help with this problem?
Thanks.

How was the original art created? Was the original RGB or CMYK? What is the resolution of the Photoshop file? Flash only works well with RGB and 72 pixel per inch resolution. If your original art is not set this way, then Flash will attempt to convert it as it imports it. Flash uses the sRGB color space. You'll get the best color translation if your Photoshop file is using this color preference.

Sudden problem with fill layers

I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. Until recently, I've had no problem with fill layers. I'd make a selection from the photo, then I'd make a layer of the selection, then I'd go to edit, fill layer, fill with background/foreground color. Then the selection only would be filled. Now, all of a sudden, I make the selection, make a layer of the selection, go to edit/fill layer/fill with background/foreground color, and the whole photo becomes filled with the fill color, and not just the selection. I'm always on the selection layer, not the background or any other layer. I've reset all the tool defaults, and I've even deleted the defaults file, but to no avail. What's happening here? How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Sue

Sue and MichelB
MichelB
When I tried to help Sue with the inquiry, I was doing so based on what was written and my interpretation of it
then I'd go to edit, fill layer, fill with background/foreground color.
For me that Photoshop Elements 11 Full Editor, Edit Menu/Fill Layer and the issue did not fit.
But if the route were as you have suggested Photoshop Elements 11 Full Editor, Layer Menu/New Fill Layer/Solid Color then everything would fall into place, centering around that option in the New Layer dialog "Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask" being checked or unchecked.
Sue
We look forward to your follow up.
Thank you both.
ATR

Problem with .swf playback

Hello,
I have a problem with .swf animation playback in captivate 4. I created the .swf in flash with as3 on one frame. The animation is contained in a movieclip. I exported from flash and made sure the framerates between captivate and flash work. I import the animation to a slide and notice that the duration of the animation is .01 (could this be a red flag?). When previewing my captivate file the animation does not play it shows up static. I have my captivate file set up with continue buttons but I tried taking the button off the animation slide and it still shows up with the static what would be animation. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm really at a loss as to whats going on
For bonus points: I'm still getting a transition that fades to white briefly even after I put no transition. Is their a way to just have an abrubt transition without the fade?
Cheers
-Matt

Alright now it makes more "sense".
Your SWF problem is caused by a bug in Captivate. I have encountered this many many times. Basically if you import a Flash animation and you have more than 1 slide in Captivate it will play to the end before you get to the slide with the animation. It's a really annoying bug that also occurs if you insert an SWF created in Captivate into a master Captivate project.
There are a couple of solutions to your problem.
1. Try and Externalize your animations when you publish your Captivate project. This can sometimes remove the problem. You can edit the settings in Preferences - Publish Settings.
2. Create a loader in Flash that will pull in your animation SWF. Basically you just need to do a loadMovie shell in Flash and then have that pull in your animation SWF. I use this all the time for AS2 projects, but I guess that it will work just the same for AS3 projects.
As for your fade in / fade out issue. Did you by any chance set a transition effect on your slides? Check the Slide Properties for a transition effect. If that's not it - is your fade in issue only occuring on the first slide? The "master" setting for a Captivate project has a default to fade in on the first slide. You can change that in Preferences - Project - Start and End.
/Michael
Visit my Captivate blog with tips & tricks, tutorials and Widgets.

RSL Problems with DataVisualization Components and Flex 3.4 SDK

After discovering that the 3.4.1 SDK included with Flash Builder Beta 2 seems to be incomplete (missing the data visualization components and some of the signed swz files).
I've attempted to install the latest official build SDK into Flash Builder 4 and I'm running into a problem with the RSLs for datavisualization.swz. I did have to locate the datavisualization components on adobe.com an coppied them into the apporpiate directories.
Error #2046: The loaded file did not have a valid signature.
Failed to load RSL http://...com/flex/rsls/datavisualization_3.4.0.9271.swz
Failing over to RSL http://...com/flex/rsls/datavisualization_3.4.0.9271.swf
The app run fine but it isn't caching the RSLs. Is this a known problem with attempting to use an older build of the SDK with Flash Builder or is there something else going on? I previously was building this project with Flex 3.2 but I figured while I was at it to upgraded to the latest official 3.4 SDK.

So I've added the suggested lines to the flex-config.xml and it doesn't help. I had to alter the path to the swf and swz slightly to get it to match the pre-existing entry for the framework.swz so I have the following rsl entries in my config now:
<runtime-shared-library-path>
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<runtime-shared-library-path>
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Error #2046: The loaded file did not have a valid signature.
Failed to load RSL datavisualization_3.4.0.9271.swz
Failing over to RSL datavisualization_3.4.0.9271.swf
I've verified that all the copies of the swz are exactly the same and that no corruption is taking place as all the copies of the swz have the same md5 of 8b3138326f85d4b5b1aae9866f3909c0. I figured that 3.4 has been out long enough it would be a known issue is there was a problem with how the swz is signed and I'm unable to locate any such beug reports. I can't be the 1st person to try loading 3.4's datavisualization components as an RSLs.
The corresponding section of of .actionscriptProperties file for the RSL is currently this
<libraryPathEntry index="4" kind="3" linkType="4" path="${PROJECT_FRAMEWORKS}/libs/datavisualization.swc" useDefaultLinkType="true">
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(Eng/Esp) Problem with .SWF in DW/Problema con .SWF en DW.

Hello,
Sorry for my English, im learning, but im not yet a expert.
I have problem with my Dreamwaver, when I put a .swf (I've done my web with Flash) and press F12 i cant see my SWF. And the error mensager is the follow:
Could u help me, plz?
Thnx.
Andrés
Buenas tardes,
Estoy diseñado mi pagina web. La he hecho en Flash, pero a la hora de exportarla a Dreamwaver y al darle al F12 para verla como seria en el FireFox, me sale este mensaje
Si le doy aceptar, me aprece el fondo de mi web, pero donde esta la parte de flash se queda totalmente en blanco. He probado otros exploradores y me sale el mismo mensaje. He actualizado el flash a la última versión, etc. Alguien me podría ayudar?.
Muchas gracias,
Andrés

On lines 33 and 42, change this:
<param name="swfversion" value="20.0.0.0" />
To this:
<param name="swfversion" value="8.0.35.0" />
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Problems with tilt viewer in FLEX

I have a problem with the tilt viewer component in a FLEX
prpoject that uses AS2 and AS3 we can't seem to resolve. Looking
for someone who would like to help us out to fix the problems and
provide assistance in creating a functioning PC and MAC code base.
James Pearson, Project Manager
Metaxpert
[email protected]

"italiantometa" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gk5em7$3s7$[email protected]..
> Hi Amy,
>
> This isn?t spam and I hope you get the email. The tilt
viewer is a
> component
> that allows the images on the screen to be moved about
from a central
> point in
> a see-saw fashion ? kind of like a flat panel can be
tilted
> up/down/left/right.
> I?m looking for someone with FLEX, AS2 and AS3
experience to take a look
> at
> this and fix it for us. Interested?
Is this a Flash component or a Flex component? What's the
issue?

Problem With Swf File. Please Help!!!!

Hi! I recently got adobe flash cs4 and i tried to create swf wallpaper (flash lite 1.1), so everything looked good, untill i opened the file. The problem is its constantly blinking, like its refreshing with every second or frame or something. Then i transfered it to my phone and theres no change. I had the same problem with CS3...I attached the sample, if someone cares to see...Please can somebody help me??? Thank you!

I think (at a first look) that you should put a stop() command at each frame of your movie.
Playhead is running through your movie from one frame to another and back to beginning if you don't stop it with stop() command.
What I mean is:
in frame one of your movie put ActionScript: stop();
in frame two of your movie put ActionScript: stop();
etc.
If navigation through your movie is linear, like some animations then don't put this AS in frames, but it seems to me that this will solve your problem.
For more (if this isn't helping) upload your movie along with ActionScript.

Problems With Dual Layers Break Points

I have 3 G5 Macs all without intell chip sets. I have tried this with all 3 Macs so lets take the newest one of the 3. Its running on mac osx version 10.4.11 Processer and is 4x2.5 ghz power pc g5 with hl-dt-st dvd-rw gwa-416sb. I can burn single DVD'S all day long, but the problem starts with dual layers. I am using verbatim DVD+R DL. I have one movie which is 2 hours and 36 minutes it burns fine when I burn a single layer, however when I try to build and format a dual layer I get that message window: formatting failed (its says formatting was not successful, the image exceeds the max allowed size for a dual layer configuration.) That is on automatic breakpoint. I have tried inputting in my own break point no matter where I put it the same message window appears. I am using DVD SP 4.1.2 also on FCP 5.1.4. I also tried buring dual layers on Sony DRX A10 UL-T all was working fine last year. I cant figure out why this has changed. Any suggestions will be helpful and appreciated. Sincerely Bob.

Welcome to the boards
Since you are using a Dual Layer Disc, there has to be a break point where it crosses over from Layer 0 to Layer 1, if you have no Chapter Markers at all (or a limited number of Markers, none of which fall near the point which is a bit more than half the size of the assets you will get an error that a Layer is the wrong size.
What you do is
1.) Set up markers in the areas where your would guesstimate the Layer Break(s) should be
2.) Build the project (but not format)
3.) Format a Disc (in the dialog that comes up, click on advanced tab, then where it says break point, use the pulldown which will have all valid breakpoint markers dark/black, while non-valid Layer Break Markers will be faded) If no marker is black there is no marker in the right place, regardless of you use automatic or not.
If the message is not for a layer issue as above (meaning one of the two layers exceeds the permissable size) then it can be an encoding rate issue. 2 Hours and 36 Minutes on a DL should be about 6.9 Average with AC3 audio @ 192. Even then it may be too close depending on menus and the rest. If using uncompressed audio or higher settings for video, could be the problem.
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Problem with image loading in flex (with web dynpro ABAP integration)

Hi,
I am working with integration of flex and web dynpro abap. I am facing unusal problem while loading the images. I have the images in the MIME folder of web dynpro application. Since my swf file and all the images that I want to use are in the same folder(MIME), I am accessing them giving just the image name as source for the image in flex.
By this method I get the images sometimes, but not everytime. So could anyone suggest me alternative method.
Regards
Prashant Chauhan
Edited by: Prashant8809 on Jul 17, 2011 11:56 AM

Hello Prashant,
you need to mention the full path as source for the image in flex.
ex. if your WD application name is Z_TEMP and image file name in mime folder is 'image.jpg' then you need mention the source in flex as
http://servername:50001/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/Z_TEMP/image.jpg
Hope this solves your problem.
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Windows 8.1 Upgrade problem with Ethernet on a Flex 15

Windows 8 was upgraded to Windows 8.1 Upgrade on a Flex 15.
The first time I tried to do the upgrade, I had enough problems that I re-installed from a Windows 8.1 image. All went well and all the drivers work except the Ethernet. The upgrade was relatively painless if you ignore the necessary reboots.
The latest Ethernet driver was downloaded from Lenovo and it was upgraded through Device Manager to version 8.26.218.201
In spite of Device Manager saying the Realtek ethernet adapter is working, no network is recognized by Networks and Sharing Centrewith when an ethernent cable is plugged into the Flex 15 i. The cable is good and has been checked by way of another computer.
I have previously used the hard-wired ethernet once and it worked but I do not remember where the laptop stood during the pgrade path.
This may be a hardware problem which will require mailing the laptop for the repair, or it may be a software / dirver issue.
If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know. The only other thing I can do is reistall from scratch to confirm it is a hardware problem.
With thanks in advance.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

OK So I'm not the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.
The Ethernet worked all along, but I inserted the ethernet cable UP-SIDE-DOWN. The Flex 15 has a 1/2 size ethernet female plug and it has a small cover which flips down. This is to allow the adapter in a thin shell
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DW CS3 ImageViewer - problem with .swf file

I'm trying to make a slide show in Dreamweaver for the first time. I've searched and found a lot of common problems people have - forgetting to upload the .js file, not including the .swf file, etc.
I think I've done everything right (obviously I'm wrong though), it previews in DW, it works when I preview it in a browser, but when it's uploaded, nothing.
But I think I've found where the problem is. The .swf file that was created doesn't seem to be the right file. When I open it, it shows a blank flash slideshow with three empty slides, just as the sample is when you first open the Imageviewer.
But then what is DW pulling the slideshow from that works in the preview?? How do I re-export the .swf file from DW?
Do my questions even make sense? Sorry, kinda new at all this.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, here is the blank page, but when I view source, the code is there.
http://www.americanindianreport.com/imageviewer.html
The .js file is in the Scripts folder, the .swf is in the same folder. Actually, here you can see why it doesn't work. This is the .swf file, three blank pages:
http://www.americanindianreport.com/imageviewerflash.swf

If you look at my last post, the js file has been overwritten with html code, and this is what will be causing the problem.
The only solution is to delete this file insert a new flash object (any swf file will do for this), then copy the new js file to your server, as your flash will not work with this file.
here is a short example of the js files content (not javascript), -
<html>
<head>
<title>Page not found | www.americanindianreport.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/http://www.falmouthinstitute.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
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Problems with email form in Flex

I've been scouring the web for an email form in Flex for several days now and am stuck because of what I think are these several areas.
Setting up the back end - I am running wamp server 2.0 on my devolping machine and have a Windows 2008 Server with PHP set up at my disposal as well. Most of the tutorials I've come across don't go over these configurations, I've figured a few things out, but am still rather in the dark and am unsure what I've learned is accurate. Here are a couple questions:
How do I set up the Flex Build Path. For example I have a folder created in the www directory of the wamp server named mailform where I tell the HTTPService's url property to post to a php file named 'mail.php' So would this be correct?
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method="POST" resultFormat="xml" result="emailResult()" useProxy="false"/>
Do I need to change values in wamp's php.ini file. From what I've found smtp_server, smtp_port, and php_openssl need to be changed.
Do I need to open up a port on my router (25)?
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2. Are problems still persisting with Flash Player 10, like illustrated in this thread: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=196454 As msfx pointed every email form example I've downloaded, there've been many, I have not been able to get to work. Yet as you can tell there are probably other issues I need to take care of as well.
Please point me in any direction(s) that will help, am open to all suggestions, would just like to get a working email form done in flex so I can finish the client's site. Thank you.

"italiantometa" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gk5em7$3s7$[email protected]..
> Hi Amy,
>
> This isn?t spam and I hope you get the email. The tilt
viewer is a
> component
> that allows the images on the screen to be moved about
from a central
> point in
> a see-saw fashion ? kind of like a flat panel can be
tilted
> up/down/left/right.
> I?m looking for someone with FLEX, AS2 and AS3
experience to take a look
> at
> this and fix it for us. Interested?
Is this a Flash component or a Flex component? What's the
issue?

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When I export from Keynote into SWF, I get an odd audio looping problem when playing the SWF files. Here's the workflow:
Create Keynote presentation (includes transitions typically, but also happens with presentations that don't).
Record audio using Audacity, convert using iTunes to MP3 in order to be able to export from Keynote to Flash (Keynote can't export WAV files).
Drop in MP3s onto slides. Sync up my transitions with audio.
Export Keynote file to SWF, including the audio.
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Anybody seen this? Anyone know how to solve it?
This is pretty critical for us (work related). We are using Keynote to create educational content SWF files, and we only discovered this problem after release.
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import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
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import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
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I've been working with an image with about a half dozen layers. Some of these are Curves adjustment layers, I've also added a layer, using Soft Light mode, and then paint either in black or white to dodge and burn the image. At some point, when I started painting in this layer, or in the masks of the adjusment layers, instead of seeing my results in the image, I'm see red brush strokes being added to the image. It looks like the red you get when you toggle the "\" key and you're seeing what's in the layer and the masks in rubylith.
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