Flash CS4 Professional is a tool for creating Flash Applications. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4.
Questions tagged [flash-cs4]
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how do I use netstream.appendBytes() for http dynamic streaming?
I am trying to figure out how to use http dynamic streaming with flash 10.1 but I can't get the basic functions working. What is the syntax for using appendbytes with a video file?
package com.player {
import flash.display.Stage;
import…

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Flash CS4 vs Flash CS5 Actionscript - Should I upgrade?
From the perspective of coding, what are the major improvements from Flash CS4 to Flash CS5?

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Flash CS4 tag in with htmlText
Wow, this one is really weird.
I have the following setup:
Two textfields on the stage with Arial normal and Arial bold, both embedded. I then have another textfield which I am setting like so:
tb.htmlText = "Test Test";
For some reason, the…

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How to sequence events in Actionscript 3
I've been working with AS3 a lot over the last weeks and I've run into a situation that google hasn't been able to help with. The crux of the problem is that before I run a function I need to know that certain conditions have been met, for example…

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slightly blurred text and bitmaps AFTER 3d transformation
I have a series of movieclips containing both bitmaps and text.
After applying some 3d transformations and moving in 3d space, my text and bitmaps are slightly blurred. This is AFTER I reset all the 3d coordinates (ie z=0, rotationX=0,…

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Package external files into flash deliverable?
Is it possible to package all external files, such as images and videos, into the final .swf or equivalent file? I want to keep the external files separate because it is easier to change them out while developing, but I don't want them to be…

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Flash AS3 error when importing 3D-tweened movieclip
I've been working on an AS3 application and it's nearing completion. At the same time, one of the designers I work with has been building a movieclip in a separate .fla that acts as an intro animation to the application. The intro uses the 3D…

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Convert an XML node to a MovieClip
I have an xml document that I would like to use to show MovieClips in my .fla:
TestClip
In my .fla, I created a symbol called TestClip and select Linkage > Export for Actionscript and named it TestClip.
My code in…

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ArgumentError: Error #2015: Invalid BitmapData
I am having problems loading a bitmapData. I am getting the following error
Engine Init //trace
loadimage//trace
ArgumentError: Error #2015: Invalid BitmapData.
at flash.display::BitmapData()
Below is my code. it appears it happens after the…

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Flash CS4 combobox not showing when embedded
I have a Flash CS4 movie that uses a standard Flash combobox. This works fine, as long as I don't use the resulting SWF embedded on a HTML page. When I do embed it, the combobox doesn't show up, doesn't dispatch mouse events, it's just as if it…

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How to use a static function in Actionscript 3.0?
I would like to have a few objects (e.g. 20 of them), each time I mouse over any one of them, it moves up and each time my mouse leaves, it moves down.
obj1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,…

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How to detect if the delete key was pressed in Actionscript 3?
How do I determine if the delete key was pressed using actionscript?
addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, onKeyUp);
...
function onKeyUp(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
trace(event.keyCode);
}
The above code yields no value when delete,…

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Access SimpleButton children
I have a Flash .fla file that has SimpleButton. That SimpleButton is basically a button-like shape, with an icon on it (say it's a "pause" sybol). I want to change the color of that icon programmatically, but I can't seem to access it from AS.
I've…

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Capture video to memory and play back with actionscript?
This may or may not even be possible, but here's the situation: I want to use the ActionScript 3 Camera class to capture a video from a local camera (webcam, built-in camera, etc) and then play that video back within the flash application.
I'm…

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How can I get the width/height of a loaded swf's stage in AS2?
I'm using MovieClipLoader to load an external as2 swf file into my as2 flash project, and I'm having trouble getting the original stage size of the loaded swf.
When I run the following code:
var popup:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("popup",…

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