Questions tagged [flash-cs4]

Flash CS4 Professional is a tool for creating Flash Applications. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite 4.

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Flash CS4 Rotating Around Z Axis Without Distorting For Stage Center, Is It Possible?

I've got three boxes rotating around their Z axis respectively. What I'm trying to do is keep them rotating around their respective Z axis without distorting if I move them away from the center of my stage. addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,…
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Good way to make a flash button animate when clicked

This may be obvious but it's been ages since I used flash. I have an object drawn in flash lets say a clock. When the clock is clicked I want to animate the hands spinning round. So do I create the clock as a button and call the animation on the…
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How can I have relative paths in flash library in order to be able to update all images from any computer?

I would like to ask how can I use relative paths in flash library in order to be able to update images from any computer? I use Flash CS4. I tried to import images from File->Import->Import to Library but i stil get absolute path... Thanks!
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How to get the text and rectangle color from flash as3?

I want to get the text color and rectangle background color from flash to javascript. what is the best way for this? for example, when flash movie will load i want to send its text color and rectangle background color to javascript. then javascript…
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A Hello World in ActionScript Not working

I am trying to create this very simple hello world kind of application . And no matter what I try I am getting this error . Here is Error and Defination of class in TheSimplestPlayer.as file . VerifyError: Error #1079: Native methods are not allowed…
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1084: Syntax error: expecting rightbrace before dot

I'm new to ac3 can you help me please. getting this error 1084: Syntax error: expecting rightbrace before dot. {}.progress = function (event:ProgressEvent) : void
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Uploaded flash movie expanding to entire page... want to just show correctly proportioned stage

I'm sure this is very simple, but it's not readily apparent how to do it. I created a flash file. Uploaded the file to my server. I'm going to it at blahblah.com/demo.swf , not included in any html or anything. When I go to the file, the browser…
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Pass variables into a Flash movie from HTML

As a Flash newbie I found this very confusing and it cost me a couple of hours. Answering my own question here in case anyone has the same problem. Technically you should be able to do something like this:
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Flash CS4 & AS3: How to add/use hyperlinks in externally loaded dynamic text

The basic setup is this: I am loading text from external text file into a "news & events" style dynamic text field, which is nested within a movieclip. Like so: var newsloader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new…
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How to build a ~500 page Flash site

I am about to embark on building a Flash site with approximately 500 pages. The site is an interactive learning type of system, with about 10 "chapters" each containing around 50 "pages". Each page has some sort of animation and interactivity, for…
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AS3 new BitmapData(w,h); gets ArgumentError: Error #2015: Invalid, works for a while then stops with this error

I have a game that produces new chunks of terrain as the player explores, to allow for a seemingly unlimited level size. It's been working perfectly, but I decided to let my character travel in one direction for a long time, and eventually it gets…
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Estimate quote for a Flash Application with server side interaction

I am building a Flash AS3 application that allows users to modify images, (drag and drop, select, scale, alter saturation, etc) and then submit-save them to a server. The user will then have the ability to log in and access these saved images via a…
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Convert Adobe Flash CS5 file to Adobe Flash CS3

I have Adobe Flash CS5 file named bannerCS5.fla, how can I convert it to Adobe Flash CS3 file ? When I googled, I heard it is impossible to do so. I tried the following alternative, Installed Adobe Flash CS5 30 days trial Tried to save…
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How do I amplify sounds by a specified number of decibels in AS3?

A few days ago, this was my question, and I found the answer. Maybe this will help someone else. A. The first part of the problem: can you amplify sound using Flash? The AS3 documentation for SoundTransform says this about the volume attribute: "The…
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AS3 - mailto is opening a new browser window

Intro to the problem - With AS3 I want that when people clicks an email address, it opens their email program. Therefore I do this: mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, sendEmail); function sendEmail(e:MouseEvent):void{
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