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.
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I'm loading in an external image (a book cover from goodreads.com) into a library viewer AIR app (used on ipad and in-browser) running on Starling (in case you need to know). After it loads, the cover should be clickable to take further action.
This all works fine on ipad and when directly built from FlashDevelop, but when it's viewed in-browser, click events don't do anything on the loaded images. It'll work on my embedded placeholder bitmaps no problem (sitting in a "Book" class extending Sprite).
It seems to be a security problem, but if it was, I'd expect the image to not load at all. But instead it loads but isn't interactive anymore. I've tried various things like:
Add loader and click listener to the Book object
Add loader.content as Bitmap and click listener to the Book
Create a BitmapData and draw the Loader.content, then add the resulting Bitmap (it's blank in-browser, but works perfectly when built from FD)
Add loader and place a transparent sprite on top of it, add listener to the sprite
Has anyone had this problem? Would anyone know a work-around?
Thanks!
This was a sand-box problem.
I think it's intentional; you shouldn't be able to hot-link other site's assets unless given express permission.
I fixed this by only pulling images hosted locally and using crossdomain.xml to make sure there was no lookup issues when www.domain.com and domain.com were different.
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 have a flash app using fl.controls.ScrollPane as a container for a Sprite form.
The ScrollPane.source is referenced to the Sprite form with flash.text.TextField as some of the form's children.
I tested using Firefox and Chrome browsers.
When the flash file is called directly from the development server, the flash application runs correctly, except for the fact that one needs to click twice before being able to select the editable TextField.
The situation worsens when the flash is embedded on a page with strict control attributes such as:
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
src="https://localhost:flashfile.swf" width="400" height="300"
quality="high" scale="scale" allowfullscreen="true"
allowscriptaccess="never" salign="tl" wmode="opaque">
I read that wmode=opaque can bring some undesirable side effects, but it is ridiculous, that I can't even select the TextField objects. Event the mouse scroll isn't captured anymore. The mouse events are not hitting the TextField objects.
This is a peculiar case because other objects such as fl.controls.CheckBox and fl.controls.ComboBox works, as they still are clickable/selectable.
Question: Is there something I should know about in this special scenario of ScrollPane and embedding using wmode=opaque that I'm missing out here?
After searching the web for half a day, and combing the AS3 documentation till my eyes go blind, I finally found a hint to a solution to my problem. I'm just doing a brain dump here to fix the TextField selection issue.
A lot of search results hinted at the problems of wmode=opaque and how browsers control the mouse events, but not many turn up direct answers or solutions.
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=170310
The forum question above gives a hint, that the ScrollPane object, actually captures the first mouse click for focus, then lets the subsequent click go through to the children object. The tip given is as shown:
myScrollPane.focusEnabled = false
setting focusEnabled property to false.
For completeness, I've explicitly set more properties just to be sure:
mouseFocusEnabled = false; // disable mouse focus on the scrollpane
focusEnabled = false; // disable focus on the scrollpane
mouseEabled = true; // receives mouse input
mouseChildren = true; // enable for selecting children objects
Miraculously, my clicks are able to select the editable TextField objects when the flash is embedded using the wmode=opaque (I'm still not actually sure whether this is the issue).
The mouse scroll events however, seems to be only solvable with external javascript. There's no internal AS3 solutions.
That said, the unanswered question is: I'm still not sure where or how web browsers capture the mouse events then selectively pass them into the embedded flash containers. If someone can shed light on this, and also point to some solution, that would be great.
A client wants the company I work for to build an expandable flash banner, I'm a dev, so my solution is: stack 2 flash banners, small one visible, big one on top of it, with display:none, catch the click event, animate the big one into position.
The client wants it done without javascript (their banner rotation network doesn't support additional javascript).
I'm baffled, as I have no clue how a flash file can modify it's own html embed code and the css styles and as far as I'm aware, it's not possible.
Any suggestions/ideas? Is there an api in flash to talk to the html file, is there some actionscript magic that could make this happen?
Thank you for your time
You can talk to the parent HTML file via the ExternalInterface API.
You can pass the call() method entire javascript functions to do what you need. This way, you don't have to add extra javascript to the parent HTML file.
For example:
ExternalInterface.call("function() { document.getElementById(\'foo\').dosomemagichere; }");
The stageHeight and stageWidth are read-write properties of the Stage class.
Is there any way to embed the swf so that when you set them to a different value, this is reflected in the HTML page? Possibly without calling a JS function via ExternalInterface to modify the embed's parameters?
The main idea is that I don't know what size my swf will be. I'm loading a video inside it and I want to resize the swf to match the size of the video.
We use
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
which allows for auto resizing in addition to some other nice features.
Your definitely going to need to call a JS function, the good news is it's really simple code, something like this:
function resizeIt(height)
{
document.getElementById("myDiv").height = height;
}
Using SWFObject in this case you can set the width and height to be 100%, so it'll resize with the containing DIV, so you're not modifying the embed paramerters, but just the css.
To my knowledge you can't do that. I can't actually fiddle around with it, 'cause i currently don't have access to flash.
It could work if you would insert the swf into a div, or whatever, that's "too big" for it in the first place, and then just try and resize it. What are you using to embed the swf, the basic thingie offered by the Flash IDE or something else, like swfobject?
I don't know, you might have to actually use ExternalInterface or something like that to get the job done. And if it's not terribly important to work the player into your web layout, i would just implement the whole thing in the flash movie.