Flash CS3 is the version 3 of Adobe Flash Professional tool, part of Adobe's Creative Suite.
Questions tagged [flash-cs3]
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textbox autoresizing in actionscript3
I need to realize textbox autoresizing in actionscript3(IDE - adobe flash pro cs3). For example my textarea is in width 100 px, user has been wrote in it something, that is bigger than 100 px, then my textbox should become increasingly. any…

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Preloader stalling flash movie in IE
This is only a problem in IE.
the following actionscript is for a simple preloader for a movie i'm working on. It works fine in Firefox but the movie stops on the first frame of the preloader when opened with Internet Explorer. Has anyone had this…

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What is the most effective way to style a Flex application?
This may be more of an opinion poll than a question, but here goes. I have a fairly complex Flex application that uses many different components. I want the application to be able to custom styling and/or skinning. I also want to be sure that the…

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Flash CS3 IDE converting "Use Device Fonts" to "Anti-alias for animation"
Occassionally, when I'm working on an application in the Flash CS3 IDE, that uses very small fonts, I find that I get better results if I use device fonts rather than anti-aliased fonts.
However, I notice that SOMETIMES, if a save an FLA that uses…

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How to click through a display object in Flash with AS3?
I am creating a photo editor app where, at some point, the photo you edit is supposed to be dropped between two layers of DisplayObjects (a background image and an image mask.)
There is a problem, though. When the image you are editing is dropped…

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Stopping the sound of a child swf
The timeline of my child swf, there are layers with specific sound files in them to be in sync with my animation. Now the problem arises when I try to import this swf into my main flash website using a loader and the sound will continuously play…

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How to attach a number to a movie clip
This is what I am trying to achieve but I do not remember the syntax in AS2 if someone could please help.
public function highlightCan() {
var glowId = String(this);
var newId = glowId.substring(47);
trace ("newId : " + newId);
new…

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gotoAndPlay/gotoAndStop not working with numeric frame labels
For reasons beyond my control, I am currently working on a series of flash files, which have numeric frame labels. This causes a problem, because Flash seems to treat strings the same as integers when using gotoAndPlay/gotoAndStop.
Screenshot:
For…

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AS3 TextField not applying tag
Using AS3 I am dynamically creating, sizing, positioning and formatting a textfield. I am dynamically setting the content of the textfield from the contents of an xml file. I am trying to use the bold tag and noticed that it is not working. After a…

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Timer in Action Script 3
I have problem that I need to create timer but I want to pass on a variable to it, how to do it? Is it possible in AS3?
I tried like this:
bonusPlayer1Timer = new Timer(5000);
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Adobe Flash Error creating flash movie file Destination directory doesn't exist
I am working through an audio player demonstration in the book "Foundation Actionscript 3.0". When I try to publish my AudioDemo_final.FLA file I get the following error, "Adobe Flash CS3 - Error creating flash movie file. Destination directory…

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Why can't I remove this Movieclip?
I have a TouchEvent function onTouch inside the constructor function of a item_Potion class that gets run when a Movieclip is touched. This function goes through a series of unrelated checks and then in the end it is supposed to remove itself (the…

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AS3 FLVPLaybackCaptioning Component Displaying Images?
I am using the FLVPlaybackCaptioning Component to display captions for a video. We've built a player that uses a FLV file hosted locally or streamed from the server to show captions for a video, a slide title, and slide text. The example is up here:…
user49989
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add an event to the movieclip inside tilelist in as3
I am working on a component where i need to register a click event on a button inside the moviclip which is inside a tilelist, can somebody point me in the right direction.
Tilelist -> movieclip -> button (i need to register a click event on the…

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DOUBLE_CLICK dont work in actionscript3
I have
MyMovie.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goClick)
function goClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("Trololo");
}
It's work.
Why don't work?
MyMovie.addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, goDouble)
function…
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