I have a flash preloader in the same folder as the swf file it's supposed to load, located on the webhost server. Within Flash, the preloader loads the swf without problem, but online it can't find the file/it won't load (404 seen under developer tools -> network), but the file is patently there, in the same folder, and the file name is correct (copy/pasted).
The preloader loads, only the requested file doesn't.
using (relevant snippet, there are no errors with the rest of the code):
var myloader:Loader = new Loader();
myloader.load(new URLRequest("movie.swf"));
I've set 'Access network only' under Publish Settings (didn't work with or without).
Anyone being able to tell what other thing could cause a 404 error other than file not existing at said location?
As an aside, the preloader text (bytes loaded) doesn't show either, (no 'movie not loaded' under right click), is it because it can't find the file?
Also, 'type' for the swf under developer tools reads 'text/html' while the other swfs on the page read 'application/x-shockwave-flash', in case relevant.
Very, very weird. When opening the preloader from file manager, the swf is loaded, wtf.
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I'm using dropbox to distribute large swf files with corresponding html files that load the swfs. All the large swf files access a small "Key" swf in the same folder as the html file. That all works fine. But when the large swf files also try to access a remote text file on my server I get a security sandbox violation. After reading about this, I see that this is by design for security reasons.
But there has to be a way around this without having the user authorize the domain containing the txt file. The reason I say this is because the swf files are running right from the browser on the persons computer. I then thought about a cross domain policy. Not sure what it would look like since it's a local computer that's asking. I hope this makes sense. I was hoping I could put the cross domain policy (or some other file) on the users computer right along with the other files, but I don't think that's what they're for.
This is an update to the question above as my problems relate to crossdomain policy's. I'm showing a small snippet of code that is causing this error shown in Debug mode in the Flash IDE. The code eventually gets the txt file loaded, but is delayed due to the warning I believe and I'm wondering if this can be fixed? The delay is causing an issue.
Attempting to launch and connect to Player using URL C:\Users\Jeffrey\Dropbox\Photos\ABC\bopAnimationSales\testingGettingVariablesFromExternalSWF_simplestForm3.swf
[SWF] C:\Users\Jeffrey\Dropbox\Photos\ABC\bopAnimationSales\testingGettingVariablesFromExternalSWF_simplestForm3.swf - 21834 bytes after decompression
Warning: Domain www.postureviewer.com does not specify a meta-policy. Applying default meta-policy 'master-only'. This configuration is deprecated. See http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files to fix this problem.
Complete
[UnloadSWF] C:\Users\Jeffrey\Dropbox\Photos\ABC\bopAnimationSales\testingGettingVariablesFromExternalSWF_simplestForm3.swf
Debug session terminated.
Here's the code:
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.system.Security;
//flash.system.Security.loadPolicyFile("http://www.postureviewer.com/trials/crossdomain.xml");
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.postureviewer.com/trials/jeffaberle.txt" + "?" + Math.random()); // + Math.random()
var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
urlLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
urlLoader.load(urlRequest);
function completeHandler(e:Event):void {
trace("Complete");
}
function ioErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace("ioErrorHandlerJeff: " + e.toString());
licenseKeyNotFoundScreen.visible = true;
}
To authorize your local swf file to access to a remote content ( a text file in your server in your case ), you don't need a crossdomain.xml file that
grants a web client—such as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, etc.—permission to handle data across multiple domains
So in your case, when using a local swf to get data from a remote location, you have just to add your swf to the list of trusted locations like I explained in my answer of this question.
Hope that can help.
You can load a cross domain policy from an arbitrary location via "loadPolicyFile"
I would recommend hosting it at the same location as the remote text file to keep things simple, i.e.
http://www.example.com/clients/clientfile.txt
http://www.example.com/clients/crossdomain.xml
Then in the 'big' SWF, import the Flash Security package if you are not using it already:
import flash.system.Security;
Then before making any calls remote calls to load data content from your local based SWF, call loadPolicyFile:
flash.system.Security.loadPolicyFile("http://www.example.com/clients/crossdomain.xml");
Then you will be able to call URLRequest, etc... without any issues:
urlRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.example.com/clients/clientfile.txt");
Your crossdomain.xml should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="www.example.com/clients"/>
</cross-domain-policy>
PS: An online cross domain generator is # http://www.crossdomainmaker.com Helps prevent typos and that painful head scratching when yours does not work... ;-)
PSS: Personally for local SWFs, I prefer AIR packaging as it eliminates the cross-domain issues, no browser is required, etc... Only one file that contains all your other SWFs as resources that can be deploy as an '.air' file or via a native Windows installer (exe) or OS-X dmg and .app installer.
I'm trying to load the swf created by 'flip book maker' into my project.
the files created by flipbook maker are
book.swf
framework.swf
I used the following code
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("book.swf");
myLoader.load(url);
addChild(myLoader);``
the framework.swf is linked with book.swf, so it cannot run alone.
When I run the movie it shows the Error #2032, Stream error to framework.swf
book.swf and framework.swf both are in the same directory.They are generated by flip book maker What I needed is to load the book.swf into my project at a particular frame. I need help in AS3 for this purpose.
How to fix it..?
please help me..!
Error #2032 means that your Flash application could not load the framework.swf for some reason (you know this already of course). What you need to find out is why. Possible reasons are: you have the wrong URL, the framework.swf is not in the place you expect, there are crossdomain restrictions on the file you are trying to access ( you did not state where frameworks.swf).
What I would suggest doing is using a web debugging proxy tool like Fiddler (http://www.telerik.com/fiddler) or Firebug (is a Firefox extension) and take a look at the http requests to get more information on your error. You may find out that frameworks.swf is not in the location you expect.
This is just a IOError event triggered by Adobe Flash. Most likely the file just isn't found. Check your path and make sure you place the .swf file in your bin-debug directory if you're doing this from within Adobe Flash Builder
So I have run into an issue and I think it is mostly because I haven't worked with as2 in about 5 years so things are pretty hazy. Anyway, my problem is that I need to display PDF files within the flash movie. To do so I have resorted to running SWFTools in my backend and converting pdfs to swf for display. SWFTools, though, outputs AS2 files which I can load into AS3 but I can't actually control (for example, calling stop()).
Thus I have resorted to using an AS2 loader which gets loaded into the AS3 project which is responsible for loading the converted pdf swfs. The problem I am running into is that the listener does not seem to be firing when I load the AS2 file in via AS3 but it fires just fine when run on it's own.
This is the code I am running. To summarize when I run this code on it's own "LOADED" correctly prints to the output and the loaded SWF stops. However, when I run it via an AS3 container the swf loads in correctly but the "LOADED" trace never occurs and the stop is not executed.
thanks so much for any help!
var loader:MovieClipLoader
var listener = new Object();
listener.onLoadComplete = function(loadedClip) {
trace("LOADED");
loadedClip.stop();
}
loadFile("data/testing.swf");
function loadFile(target){
loader = new MovieClipLoader();
loader.addListener(listener);
loader.loadClip(target, holder_mc);
}
SWF Tools does support AS3, you need to change it in the options.
1. Open your PDF in swf tools
2. Edit=>Options
3. Viewer tab
4. Check "No viewer" and flash version 9. (Or use the simple viewer)
- You can also do the "Insert stop after each frame"
I know this because I've done the same thing with a PDF. If you don't have those options, then it's time to download the latest version!
I'm a complete noob when it comes to flash coding.
I have a flash swf file that I'm loading from an S3 assets bucket. Inside the flash swf it should be displaying a "Browse" button, images also courtesy of the same bucket. This works fine when I host the images and swf file from the same domain that the site is on, but not when loaded from S3.
I have added a crossdomain.xml file to the assets bucket as follows (I'm trying with '*' to start just to get it working, and will narrow it down to my actual host when it appears to be doing anything):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>
I also have a cross-origin resource sharing configuration in the bucket so that the fonts will correctly load for our stylesheets (This is working).
What am I doing wrong to make the button images load in the actionscript? Do I need to modify the actionscript code itself? The code is located here (public library anyone can use, not authored by me): s3-swf-upload-plugin
You can see here that it is instantiating a new browseButton defined here. Like I said I'm not totally familiar with actionscript but believe I could fumble through it if someone could show me what's going wrong :) What's a good way to get actual error reporting? Firebug in Firefox and Chrome's console don't have any kind of messages from Flash about errors going on.
EDIT:
There were some quirkinesses going on in the setting up of the flash object and setting the paths for the button images. I updated BrowseButton.as to do this:
Security.loadPolicyFile("http://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/crossdomain.xml");
I placed this before any of the URLRequest calls in the BrowseButton() function. However it's still not displaying the images :( I also hardcoded the values in the URLRequest to be things like:
upLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/assets/s3_up_button.gif"));
but nothing seems to happen. When I set it to /assets/s3_up_button.gif to pull from the local file then it works fine. What am I doing wrong! How can I get error messages displaying from the flash video? :\ I compiled with <debug>true</debug> but I'm not sure how to get actual exception messages.
Check what sandbox your swf is in:
The Security.sandboxType property
An author of a SWF file can use the read-only static
Security.sandboxType property to determine the type of sandbox to
which Flash Player has assigned the SWF file. The Security class
includes constants that represent possible values of the
Security.sandboxType property, as follows:
Security.REMOTE--The SWF file is from an Internet URL, and operates under domain-based sandbox rules.
Security.LOCAL_WITH_FILE--The SWF file is a local file, but it has not been trusted by the user and was not published with a networking designation. The SWF file can read from local data sources but cannot communicate with the Internet.
Security.LOCAL_WITH_NETWORK--The SWF file is a local file and has not been trusted by the user, but it was published with a networking designation. The SWF can communicate with the Internet but cannot read from local data sources.
Security.LOCAL_TRUSTED--The SWF file is a local file and has been trusted by the user, using either the Settings Manager or a Flash Player trust configuration file. The SWF file can both read from local data sources and communicate with the Internet.
You probably want Security.LOCAL_WITH_NETWORK, although Security.LOCAL_TRUSTED will also work.
An explanation, along with details of how to set the sandbox in Flex, is here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=05B_Security_04.html
If you're working in the Flash IDE, it should just be part of the publish settings.
This is my basic folder structure:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/l1YnV.jpg
My code goes like this:
private var xmlLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();
private var url:URLRequest=new URLRequest("../src/NPClist.xml");
xmlLoader.load(url);
I get the following:
Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: app:/src/NPClist.xml
No matter how many "../" I put in the URLRequest constructor, it only works if NPClist.xml is in the same folder as the .swf (bin-debug), and I even tried copying it around. It seems like it's ignoring/not resolving the "../". I also tried exporting a release build, but it didn't work. The interesting thing is that similar Embeds work (the assets folder is at the same level as src and bin-debug).
[Embed(source="assets/mainmenu/somefile.png")]
Here's how I got it to work:
var xmlFile:File=new File(File.applicationDirectory.nativePath).resolvePath("../src/NPClist.xml");
var url:URLRequest=new URLRequest(xmlFile.url);
The "../" didn't work initially, but it works if you use it like this.
Coming back to it, this seems wrong as well. Here's how it definitely works as expected:
I included the assets with the installer, and I'm using
imgFile=File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("assets/folder/file");
urlReq=new URLRequest(imgFile.nativePath);
ldr.load(urlReq);
You have to keep your local assets inside html-template folder then it'll load your assets with out IOError for Web application otherwise use file:/// to load local assets in case of AIR application
You can not use URLRequest to access local file system resources - URLRequest uses HTTP protocol to get resources.
URLRequest can access only Internet resources that have crossdomain security applied.
If you want to open a local file you should:
either explicitly force the user to open the file use Open File Dialog
(http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/FileReference.html)
or use AIR runtime (with AIR you can open local files, but not with URLRequest but with File class).