Embedding Flash swf files in the WordPress is something which all designers and developers have to do to showcase their work. And since WordPress is now being used extensively not just for blogging but also as a CMS, there are more and more people showing their Flash portfolio in WordPress pages. Also, usually Flash files…
This is last of the series of posts I have made on loading external swf movies into Main Flash movie and controlling its timeline. In this post, I’ll add the last missing feature in the player which was seek bar. In the previous Post, I added Play, Pause, Forward, Rewind Buttons to control and manage…
Sometime back I had posted several tutorials explaining how to load external swf file into main flash movie and then control the timline of loaded swf from the main flash movie. I had been getting requests on daily basis for the questions on how to load and unload the external swf file on user click.…
I have previously posted several blog posts for loading external swf file and controlling its timeline by adding play/pause/forward/rewind player buttons. Some days back, I got a related and interesting question which involved loading and playing multiple external swf files one after another. It’s a very common scenario and I decided to give it a…
While working in Flash AS3, if you get the following error: Hope that helps. Cheers!
When I tried to launch my Flash CS5 after a while, it crashed and after crashing few more times on failed attempts to launch Flash, I deleted first run and poreferances files of Flash CS5 which resolved this issue. I had the same experience with Flash CS4 too. And this crashing issue is not just…
I was asked for an AS3 Flash counter displaying the time in seconds as they go by and seconds conversion into the proper hours : minutes : seconds display format. To count the seconds, I used AS3 Timer class and for formatting I found this formatTime function of Jeff Depascale and put together following Flash…
In a recent AS3 project, I needed to do draw some shapes using the the Flash AS3 graphics class. Following is a sample how I drew a circle using the graphics class, also how I made it a button and added EventListeners for Mouse Hover and Roll out states. Just open your Actions Panel on…
In Flash CS4 & CS5, Slider component can be used as navigation to move through different frames of a MovieClip on stage. It will display different frames of a MovieClip when dragged. To use the following AS3 code, just create a MovieClip named mc on your stage. You can place different animations/text/artwork/nested clips or whatever…
In the good old days of AS2, if you needed to create a banner for click tracking, all you had to do was tto palce this simple two line AS code in the first frame of your banner after creating a button MovieClip and that would do the job. But no more in ActionScript3. In…
When we load external swf files in Flash Movies, they may take some time to load and it’s better to place a preloader in the main movie to inform user that content is loading. It’s a bit tricky to set up preloader for external swf using ActionScript3 in Flash. Following example will show how you…
Loading external swf into a MovieClip inside your main Flash movie is a routine job and ActionScript3 allows you to do that quite efficiently. What AS3 does not provide you are the built-in functions to control loaded swf file timeline from your main movie. I initially tried to find some built-in functions to control the…
Loading swf files in AS2 used to be a very simple thing, not so more in AS3. In the old days of AS2, loadMovie(“external-file.swf”, containerClip) would do the job. Enter AS3, now you first need to define a Loader class and then URLRequest path from where to load the external swf file location. You also…
In PHP, print_r dumps the array data nicely in readable format but there’s no such thing in Flash. The closest is the following. For numerically indexed arrays, use following: For associative arrays in Flash, you have to use for in loop like this: Hope that helps. Cheers!
While loading FLV videos using FLVPlayback Component 2.5 in Flash, when I tried to navigate to the “cue” point I had created using AS3 cue point object, It failed with following error: The solution to locate the Cue Point is using findCuePoint() method, which returns an associative array of the cue point and then get…