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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Detect and Erase specific pixels from an image
Is it possible to detect (dynamically) the white pixels of an image and delete them? Actually i have some images that i load on stage but they are square without the actual image be a square sized. So i want to make the hit area exactly the shape…

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How to change the pixels in an image
i actually try to do the following: I have loaded an external image in a bitmapdata object and create a bitmap from it which i attach it to a sprite/MovieClip in order to have mouse events on it. Now under the previous logic i loaded two images…

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Get Flash CS4 Intellisense to recognize Objects on stage?
When I create an object of a movieclip in code I get the flash intelesense to pop up in Flash CS4 Actions panel which is very helpful but if I simply place a moveclip on the stage then give it an object name in the options the Flash intelesense does…

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Custom button with image
Hi i'm trying to create a button in actionscript 3 that will be made by a custom image ( a car.jpg from my HDD ). Is it possible to do that with SimpleButton class ( i mean is there a way to load the image and attach it to the button ?) or is there…

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Best way to dynamically load an xml configuration file into a Flex4/Flash movie at runtime?
I've got a rather simple question about loading in an xml file at runtime in a SWF.
I've found a couple different methods to load in the xml.
myXml.load("file.xml");
HTTPService object
URLStream object
What is better way to load an xml file that…

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Keyboard Control on characters made with Adobe CS4 Bone Tool?
Is there any way to control a character made with Adobe CS4 Bone Tool via keyboard buttons? Its limbs are linked up by IK chains built by Bone Tool.

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Loading .bmp (Bitmap) and .tiff file in Flash 10 using a Loader
I am developing a Image uploader using Flash 10.
I am using FileReference object to browse images and Loader to show the image:
Sample code:
var tempFileRef:FileReference = FileReference(ev.target);
var oLoader:Loader = new…

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Best practices for blitting in flash as3
I am creating a blit game and as of right now, the only thing that is blitting is the world itself (i.e. roads, fences). i was planning on displaying my character as a sprite and any interactive objects that it comes by as sprites as well. PickUps,…

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Can the Flash CS4 [embed] tag be made to export assets to frame 2 rather than frame 1?
We're working on a Flash CS4 project where the main .fla file has ballooned in size and 'Publish' is taking forever. I suspect a large amount of the size (and at least some of the compile time) is due to the quantity of audio symbols in the…

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Dynamically creating movieclip instances
I use the code below to create 3 movie clips.
var A:Array = new Array();
for (var i:uint = 0; i < 3 ; i++) {
A[i] = new hayvanSec();
A[i].x = 240+i*160;
A[i].y=300;
addChild(A[i]);
}
I have 10 image files in the…

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How to adjust flash objects from all keyframes
I know there has to be away to adjust objects on the stage from all keyframes because it's probably the most annoying thing I've experienced
I adjust a bitmap image and then when you play the movieclip, right when it hits another keyframe it shows…

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How do I duplicate a MovieClip?
Can anyone tell me how to duplicate a MovieClip in ActionScript 3 in Flash CS4?

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Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.text::TextField@1182e101 to flash.display.MovieClip
I am fairly new to actionscript 3.0, and I keep getting the error above. My code is
stop();
Lamp.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,lookatlamp);
function lookatlamp(event:MouseEvent){
Dialogue.text = "It is a very bright lamp. It hurts your…

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Why can't I access dynamic text within a CS4 compiled SWC?
I have a movieclip created in CS4. I export that into my Flex Project's /lib and then try to access the text. All the textfields have ids, embedded text, and show up in intellisense. But when i run the project, the textfield is blank. What is going…

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Convert Flash art to OpenGL-ready vector format?
Say I have some 2D artwork in Flash CS4 format .FLAs, and I'd like to put it into an iPhone game that uses OpenGL ES, keeping it in vector format. An OpenGL-ready format could just be a list of vertex positions and colors for a triangle strip.
Is…

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