In my Adobe Air application, I have a room and my player that can walk around it. I set it so it automatically opens in fullscreen, however, when you exit fullscreen it doesn't scale anything, so it just shows you the edge of the room, where you can't see the player or anything else. How do I make it so that when you exit fullscreen, everything will scale down to the windowed version, and back again? This is in Adobe Flash Builder 4.7.
I tried scaling everything down by putting an If statement in an update function, that constantly checks if the window is full screened or not, and if not, it'll scale the x and y down by .5, and if full screened again, it'll scale it back up by 1. The player however changes position, and if I try to make the X equal it it just does it again if I move the player, so it doesn't work. I've also tried verticleCenter and horizontalCenter on both the player and room, it also doesn't work.
What I'm wondering is if there is a stage.autoScale line that can solve everything, or if I have to do it manually another way like I've tried.
So you got 2 options here.
Check for fullscreen event and then in the listener function scale everything according to your logics. This will give you more control over the scaling and visual display of your components and graphics. You can find a working example for fullscreen event handling at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS2E9C7F3B-6A7C-4c5d-8ADD-5B23446FBEEB.html
Allow FP to scale the stage according to the window size. This can be achieved by setting up stage.scale mode. There are couple options which you can find at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/StageScaleMode.html. Use the one best suit for your application.
I would prefer using first method. Hope that make sense.
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I have made a flash as3 project in adobe flash pro with the dimensions 20px x 150px.
i would like to ceep it this size, but the problem is that my application needs to ask for the MICROPHONE premissions
( like in the image )
but this only happens if the flash object is big enough.
are there any workarounds with maybe the "overflow = visible" method or something ?
thx for any help
Here are a couple of options:
Temporarily increase the dimensions of the SWF in HTML. I've never done this, but I imagine it would work and is the most simplest solution.
Use wmode="transparent" or wmode="opaque" in your embed code. In both of these modes you can layer HTML on top of or underneath the Flash object. The SWF should be sized so that it is big enough to display the dialog. When the dialog is not visible, you can hide portions of the Flash app by covering them with HTML.
I've used the 2nd option successfully, not for this purpose, but for showing some HTML elements (arrow images and text) to guide the user through these "allow" camera/microphone dialogs.
For both of these options to work, you need to be able to detect when the user has closed the dialog. Though there is no official Flash API for doing this, however, there are some good work arounds for doing that.
So, I'm pretty much a beginner in Flash and Actionscript (using AS3, as I said in the title), and I'm trying to make a basic escape the room game. I haven't gotten far, and right now that's because every time I test my game (or publish preview it) the graphics get this annoying outline. Here it is when tested: http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn228/chokingondrama/flash.png
Every outline corresponds to some object present in the game, most of which have an alpha component of 0 since they're on different sides of the room. This didn't happen before, but once I added the code that allowed the player to change their view with the arrow (each viewpoint/wall is a different frame) these appeared.
It's a little different when published to HTML, basically it just gives each image a white background: http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn228/chokingondrama/html.png
Also, it would be nice if somebody could give me advice on how to make sure importing to flash won't result in lower quality.
Thanks in advance. If needed, I'll post any part of the code.
Some tips:
Don't set alpha to 0, instead use the visible property, setting movieclip.visible = false will make it a lot more efficient.
As for the importing and quality, after you import to stage or library, bring up the library (ctrl + l), and right click on the file you imported, go to properties. If it's an image, set compression to lossless, and allow smoothing.
For audio, go to file-> publish settings, and change audio stream and audio event (whichever you might use) to 128kbps.
As for your main question, I need more info, if you want you can post your source. It might be because of how you are placing your graphics on the stage.
For each of your MovieClips in question:
Try disabling button mode and see if the rectangles go away.
movieClipName.buttonMode = false;
If that doesn't help, or you really want button mode, try setting
movieClipName.tabEnabled = false;
There's a chance that since you added keyboard interaction each of your MovieClips are now expecting to be selected by the user when they press the tab key, much like any normal web form.
tabEnabled in the docs
You could also try
movieClipName.focusRect = false;
focusRect in the docs
I'm Building a mobile application with Flex (Air 3.3).
For Android there is sum nasty bug with stageVideo.
When I minimize the app when the stageVideo is playing or paused and open it again sometimes the stageVideo comes on top of everything. In my understanding that should be impossible because the stageVideo in a layer above the stage layer but it's happening. I don't have any clue how to fix this. I don't use any masks, I'm only attaching netStream.
Regardless of why, you may be able to fix it simply by re-asserting its index in the DisplayList with addChildAt().
The only question left is when to call the operation. I don't know about AIR, but you'd likely be looking for something akin to Event.ACTIVATE. If you can't catch an event to trigger the check, check periodically with either a Timer or Event.ENTER_FRAME
I've built an AIR application with flash/as3 that has a webcam display on the stage. While building the app, and in all my tests everything looks and works just dandy, but when I publish for AIR the image gets stretched. The bounds of the image seem to stay the same, but the actual cam output is what's distorted. Has anyone come into this problem before?
I should add, this is a desktop app, which is permanently installed on one machine, so device compatibility should not be an issue.
this is the camera setup:
var cam:Camera = Camera.getCamera();
cam.setMode(280,380,20);
var video:Video = new Video(380,380);
this is where i first call the camera...
video.attachCamera(cam);
video.x = 355;
video.scaleX = -1;
video.y = -100;
addChildAt(video, 0);
the reason for the odd sizing, is that it sits behind a frame, that changes positions throughout the interactive.
Not necessarily the answer you are looking for, but you should keep this in mind:
You are asking the camera to capture at the resolution of 280 x 380, which is not a standard 4:3 aspect ratio.
When you call cam.setMode(280,380,20); the docs say that Flash will try to set the cameras resolution to your specifications, and if the camera does not support that resolution it will try to find one that matches. So you may or may not be getting this actual resolution.
setMode() has a fourth parameter, which can disable this functionality. Read the docs on that so you understand the implications :)
Then you display the video in a Video object that is 380x380. So I would expect the image to be stretched in the horizontal direction (b/c the original source is only 280).
It's not clear why this behaves differently: are you saying that running the debug version of the app works, but when you export the release build and run that it looks funky?
Finally, what is scaleX = -1 doing? I recall this as some sort of nifty trick I used in the past... but it's purpose here is escaping me :)
Yep, source code would be cool. Btw, i suggest you, as soon as you get the video streaming running, to set by hand the video.width and video.height property.
This will force the cam to display at the correct size.
I have two flash movies, on different tabs of a user's browser.
They use LocalConnection to talk to each other, but the one on the tab which isn't active doesn't do anything until you switch back to that tab, can you change this? Maybe in the embed tag?
One of the things that Adobe changed about the Flash player after 10.1, in order to make it consume less CPU cycles was to force the player to only execute at 2fps (or some other ridiculously low amount) when the swf is no longer in focus (or even if it's still "in focus" but not being rendered to the screen by virtue of being in a section of the browser window that's scrolled offscreen.
I'm not aware of anything inherent to the new Flash player that would prevent LocalConnection from working, though. Do you have listeners set up to detect whether the swfs in question are active or not before they attempt to make any calls?