Questions tagged [flash-cs5]

Flash CS5 is part of Adobe's Creative Suite released on 30 April 2010. Its main features over its predecessors are the iPhone packager, new text engine (TLF), and code snippets.

About Flash:
Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs").

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Accessing child/nested movie clips with JSFL AS3 CS5.5

How can I access a movie clip's children (specifically child movie clips) in jsfl? I am already at the instance level from flash.documents[0].timelines[0].layers[0].frames[0].elements[0].instance I've found this documentation but not much…
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Does AS3 Event.ENTER_FRAME run on every frame, always? Even on slow computers?

I have a script that relies on ENTER_FRAME event to run every time. I have noticed on some slower computers there can be some lag when a flash movie is playing. Does ENTER_FRAME run on every frame, even if its on a slow computer? If the flash movie…
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Is Flash or Flex better to build a user interactive ordering "wizard" website?

i want to see if these "build a . . ." flash sites (to support a user customized ordering process) are done using regular flash or Flex? Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 All of these "walk a user" through a customized ordering process and capture all…
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Best practices for handling external functions files in AS3 / CS5

I was told recently by a Flash developer that I respect that using include "functions_file.as"; is not the appropriate way to import a list of functions into an AS3, Flash CS5 document. We're not talking about objects and packages, just a list of…
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Alternative for getDefinitionByName

In the past, there was a simple trick, to include the flex mxmlc module by adding the following line to the flash-cs4 makefile: -include-libraries “/absolute/path/to/my/assets/assets.swc” This gave you the ability to use getDefinitionByName, an…
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VerifyError: Error #1107: The ABC data is corrupt, attempt to read out of bounds. - Flash CS5

I tested this flash application in Flash IDE, it never through this error. But When I uploaded in server, got this error. Why we getting this VerifyError? It is a flash application loads all the library assets through bulk loader, later it will get…
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Flash Editor font size on Mac vs PC problem

I have the exactly same font on Mac and on PC. I have created the .fla file on PC with Flash Professional CS5 and when I open it on Flash Professional CS5 on Mac, the font is noticeably smaller. This causes all kinds of layout problems between our…
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XFL - What's purpose of the ./bin/SymDepend.cache file?

Does anybody knows any details about this file? Is it for example safe to exclude this file from SVN? I would say that it should not be problem because when I delete this file, I can still load the XFL and the file is created again on the next save.
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Monotouch vs Flash CS5 for iPhone App Development

With the recent loosening of the Apple Developer licence on third-party development platforms, I have had a brief look into app development with Monotouch and Flash CS5 but am unsure of which to develop with. I am competent in both C# and…
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Is there difference in performance between movieclip and graphic symbol?

I was wondering if there is any difference in performance/memory use between movieclip symbol and graphic symbol?
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How do I change the background of a Flash document using ActionScript 3.0?

Let me preface this question by saying that I am a .NET developer at heart, just helping a friend with a project he is working on. I have been searching online for something that I think should be pretty simple. Here's what I have: A standard Flash…
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How to check if mouse is over a symbol instance with ActionScript 3 in Flash

How does one check if mouse is over a symbol instance using ActionScript 3 / Flash CS5?
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Change the position of the registration point in Flash CS5

Is there a way to change the position of the registration point inside a Movie Clip using Flash5 ? I've found stuff online for older Flash versions but not CS5.
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get the raw data of mp3 file which is downloading with the `Sound` object

I have dynamically created Sound object var files:Object={}; files["file1"]={}; files["file1"]["snd"]=new Sound(); ...... //url etc files["file1"]["snd"].addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onLoadProgress); function…
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Capturing Video on Mobile device using Adobe AIR

I am tasked with creating a video recording app for mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android) where the users are asked to record a short clip using their phones/tablets. The video is then uploded to a server (either within the same app or a secondary…
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