I created a game in as3 in FlashDevelop IDE. I have my own webspace, but I'm a rookie in the sense I've never put a game on it before. I currently have a .as3proj file and a bunch of .as and .png files. What steps would I take here? I know it will involve embedding it in html, but I have no idea what to embed or how/what that entails.
When you compile your project in Flash Develop, you have a bin folder containing a html file and a swf file. You need to transfert the content of the bin folder and every assets loaded at runtime (images, xml, mp3, ... ).
Can you post your directory structure for more help?
At the bare minimum, there should be a swf file in there that you need to deploy. This is the equivalent of an exe. Do not deploy .as files, as3proj files, or anything else like that. As for pngs, only do so if you do not have them embedded directly into the swf (this would at least generally involve the Embed tag being placed above non-local variable declarations). Make sure the path the swf is using to access the pngs, mp3s, and whatever else will still be valid once you deploy it and those files.
If you use code like:
[Embed(source = "plane.png")]
private const PLAYER:Class;
for every picture, you're embedding them, so you don't need to deploy them. If you weren't embedding them though, you'd just be linking to them. If you're linking over the Internet, just use a public URL to access those pngs, not a private, internal IP or localhost or anything like that. If you own the pngs and can copy them onsite, you would probably want to use a relative path. If the path to your pngs when running out of your IDE is assets/images/<png file>, go ahead and use that relative path, then wherever your swf is located on the server, make sure the pngs are in <swf's folder>/assets/images.
You do not necessarily have to embed the swf; it can act as its own webpage. This is not smart though, in many situations. The main reason is cache-busting. Also you may wish to use JavaScript to do things like detect whether the person has an enabled, valid Flash Player.
There are two open-source js files that help with embedding your swf: AC_OETags.js and functions.js. Use them. As a matter of fact, I believe Flex/Flash builder will build an HTML or ASP file that embeds the swf, with the help of these files. Just remember to put cache-busting meta tags into that file, so that you can immediately change the swf later.
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Users upload images and select a template AS3 file, which would be used together with the images to compile into a SWF and be downloaded by the user.
Basically, use my own custom animations with the user's resource files in order to compile a new SWF at run-time.
I found a tool called "swftools", which can convert images into a slideshow, so I know something like this is partly feasible, I just don't know enough about AS3 to know how to load resources dynamically, without creating a FLA file manually.
EDIT: To clarify, I do not want to dynamically load an image from a URL or file at run-time. I want to embed the image into the SWF, but the image data is decided at compile-time.
Same problem here, and I found some great tuts that show how it's done, but (unfortunately) in AS2 (not AS3):
loading images
The code to convert:
loadMovie("photo.jpeg",photo.empty);
loading text
The code to convert:
myData = new LoadVars();
myData.onLoad = function () {
myText_txt.text = this.myVariable;
};
myData.load("myText1.txt");
AS2 to AS3 is very poorly documented, even for small scripts…
If you have a solution I'd like to know it ;-)
Use Flex and compc compiler.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7fd2.html
You can modify as3 sources on server and embed your images with [Embed(source='path/file.ext')] directive, run compc and get final swf...
Is it possible to load .ttf font from bytecode without using [embed] metatag or compiling font into .swf?
Situation next: My app gets zip archive with graphics, and I want to add chance to change visualization font.
But I can't use swf-compilation in that case. Instruments: FlexSDK, FLashDevelop.
The only way to use runtime loaded ttf/otf fonts is do the same that mxmlc do: transcode font files to AS3 classes, construct the new swf, load it into Loader and get fonts classes (that is embed ttf file into newly crated swf in runtime). You have to check the swf spec and I guess the Flex SDK 4.6 sources will be helpful. May be you will be able to find implementation, I can't managed to do this.
The still is the simple way - precompile each font file to swf and include it to your graphics zip, I don't this it's too hard even for non developer profession to click the bat file (you can make the template with as file and place the sdk and build bat file, all that artist need it's place the font file with the given name near the bat file, you event can ask in bat for the name of font and replace it in the template) :)
Actually this isn't an answer, but I don't have enough reputation yet to add a comment.
I see the question is over a year old. Did the situation happen to change since then? For a VJ application I'm working on it would be nice if the users could just drop a TTF file in the resources directory to use it, rather than me having to make SWFs of all fonts that could be interesting to use - which would be way too time consuming anyway and will pose licensing issues I'd like to avoid.
I have a swf template that can be used with different data input such as colors, texts etc. however i don't want to use the ordinary way of binding data to it such as xml. I would like the application to be able to produce a compiled swf with all the data in it.
Is it possible to inject the data in the compilation time?
Thanks
it should be, but depends on how much you want to mess around with the code of the template.
You can embed resources in flash, so you can just embed the XML with the information you want.
Then all you need to do if find the place in the code where it loads the XML file, and give it your own embedded XML file instead.
Yes it is possible, but only if you have access to the the source .fla file, so that you can generate a new .swf file from it.
If you simply want to change a few colors or other looks of some of the objects in the .fla file you should be able to do that without having to mess with xml, simply open the library items in Flash and edit their colors.
If you want to put your external assets within the actual .swf you can do that too, but if you already have it to pull external assets I would recommend keeping it that way.
For the XML, in ActionScirpt you can actually declare the XML within the actual Actionscript code. Open up the XML file and copy the the XML contents over to your code where it is parsing it.
For images you can simply drag image files directly on the stage or into the library.
I have a .swf file inside a website I've been asked to modify. Will this file contain normal html files and if so how do I get to them, there are no .fla file on the machine that created the site.
Thanks
Ross
.swf file is a flash element which is "playable" by your flash player. .swf is normally created used action script. In other words, the .swf file is the compiled version of the .fla file, and you can therefore not edit the .swf file.
Although Roskvist is completely right, there IS a way to convert .swf files back to actionscript code (and possibly .fla). This won't get you the original source code, but an 'estimated' code (with different variable names etc) that would give you pretty much the same .swf upon rendering. This can be done by software called a 'flash decompiler'.
A word of warning though: It's not okay to use this for stealing flash code from others' flash creations, you must have the rights to use any source code.
I have a folder "/assets/animations" filled with .swf files. I would like my AS3 script to embed all these assets so they can be later called to play or stop.
I hear a lot about the Loader class but it looks like it doesn't embed all the files at compile time but rather grab them from a url when needed.
Basically these assets are cut scenes for a flash game. I would like all of them to be present in one final .swf so its easy to play on any machine without an internet connection.
[Embed(source="scene1.swf", symbol="scene1ID")]
public var Scene1:Class;
private var scene1:MovieClip = new Scene1();
scene1.play();
This should help you...
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=853
no, you cannot dynamically use the embed metadata command.
it's actually more like an inline compiler argument than actual as3 code.
so no, you can not use variables the embed command.