I'm loading as2 swf into AIR application. It works properly when loaded from file. But when loaded from bytes, it is broken in some way (it reacts to mouse, but some elements are inactive)
var bytes:ByteArray = ... //loaded from resources
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(false);
context.allowCodeImport = true; //this is neccessary
// Method 1 - blocks some scripts in loaded SWF
//context.applicationDomain = new ApplicationDomain();
// (application domain has no effect with as2 swf)
//context.securityDomain = SecurityDomain.currentDomain; //gives error 2114: securityDomain must be null
loader.loadBytes(bytes, context);
// Method 2 - loads properly
//loader.load(new URLRequest(file.url));
So why not just load it from file? My resources are protected with encryption and I can't dump them to disk - they must still be protected.
What tricks may exist to load from bytes properly?
There is similar question, but in my case as2 causes more problems.
AS2 and AS3 use different runtimes (bytecode is different) so you won't be able to properly execute any AS2 bytecode in the AS3 runtime. you are basically injecting AS2 code into your AS3 application, so it ain't gonna work :/
According the the documentation for LoaderContext you should only use the applicationDomain property only when loading ActionScript 3.0 SWFs. Try dropping that parameter (or setting it to null) and see what happens.
It seems that old SWF movies (AS1 and AS2, which require AVM1) loaded into an AIR app with load get put in their own domains, but those loaded with loadBytes share a domain. So if you have multiple AVM1 SWFs loaded with loadBytes their _global properties will clobber each other. This affects the Flash MX UI components (ca. 2002).
I can't be the only one trying to package ancient Flash files in AIR apps, so I figure this info may be useful to someone.
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I need to read a part of two files, and once both parts of both files are loaded to trigger a function that does some work.
What is the best way to approach this problem.
I am currently triggering the second file load once the first is loaded, however it seems poor coding style, I think this because my OO code starts looking procedural.
EDIT: So its an Air based app so using filestream.
In the end I found I actually needed to read each file in a different way. Because I need the same part of both files, and I dont know the file size, I need to read one file first and once I have fileStream.bytesAvailable and position, I can then look for the same data from the second file. I found I must handle files smaller than my read size and the end of files beyond multiples of my read size.
You don't specified what file and from where you wont to load the file but you can actually load multiples files in parallel.
If you want to read only part of file from local machine you can use AIR's FileStream class - very easy and you don't have to load whole few hundreds MB file:
import flash.filesystem.*;
var file:File = File.documentsDirectory;
file = file.resolvePath("Apollo Test/test.txt");
var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
fileStream.open(file, FileMode.READ);
var str:String = fileStream.readMultiByte(file.size, File.systemCharset);
trace(str);
fileStream.close();
Another option is to use URLStream and listen for ProgressEvent.PROGRESSevents to read data of partially loaded file.
You may also want to see NetStream class which is used to stream video.
there is many options, using File, FileStream is only available on air applications.
The File class extends the FileReference class. The FileReference
class, which is available in Flash® Player as well as Adobe® AIR®,
represents a pointer to a file, but the File class adds properties and
methods that are not exposed in Flash Player (in a SWF running in a
browser), due to security considerations.
as noted above, if you are creating a non-AIR application, FileReference should be used instead of FileStream and File classes, as you dont tagged AIR in your question.
FileReference does not provide any open("path") to you (due to security considerations), but a browse method will be available and ask's your client's for selecting a file. here is an example, which also explain how to trigger a function when opening is done:
var filereference:FileReference = new FileReference();
filereference.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFileSelected);
var text_files:FileFilter = new FileFilter("Text Files","*.txt; *.html;*.htm;*.php");
var all_files:FileFilter = new FileFilter("All Files (*.*)","*.*");
filereference.browse([text_files, all_files]);
// triggered when a file is selected by user
function onFileSelected(e:Event):void {
filereference.removeEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFileSelected);
filereference.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileLoaded);
filereference.load();
}
// triggered when file loading is complete
function onFileSelected(e:Event):void {
var data:ByteArray = fileReference["data"];
filereference.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileSelected);
}
two more events to be listened for suddenly error's occurred and displaying a progress bar for loading progress (its sync):
IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR and ProgressEvent.PROGRESS
What i have
Large amount of swfs without it's sources (so i couldn't modify its)
What i need
To load and play this swfs with my AIR app.
The problem
The problem is that this swfs seems having
Security.allowDomain('*')
in their source, so they would throw
SecurityError: Error #3207: Application-sandbox content cannot access
this feature.
after i load it. I know that Air doesn't need to use this line, but instead of ignoring or warning on it my full app would stop to executing after loading one of this swfs. If only i could try/catch this string, but as i said i don't have an source of that swfs, so the only thing i could do is to modify my AIR app.
What i tried
What i already tried is to catch all errors inside loader by doning
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, loaderIOErrorHandler);
private function loaderIOErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void {
e.preventDefault();
}
but it seems it isn't catch errors inside loader at all
Update
I couldn't share one of this swfs, but here is simulation i made that reproduce problem https://www.dropbox.com/s/0spbdzijfpboi47/problematicSwf.swf?dl=0
Here it's init code
private function init(e:Event = null):void
{
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
Security.allowDomain('*');
tf = new TextField();
tf.text = 'Me loaded!';
addChild(tf);
}
As you could see it is crashing on allowDomain inside loaded swf.
And here is how i load it
var ctx:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(false, ApplicationDomain.currentDomain);
loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
loader.load(new URLRequest(path), ctx);
This is a typical security restriction but it's a very strict one and it's purpose is to make sure the served swf will never be used outside of what it was made for in the first place.
So the short answer to your problem is this: externally loaded swf that are sandboxed with "Security.allowDomain('*');" will not allow a sandboxed AIR app to interact with them in anyway. Instead those swf will be able to interact with the parent AIR app under restrictions via a sandbox bridge.
If truly you cannot modify those swf then you will never be able to add them to a display list in a AIR app or call any of their methods. A sandbox bridge will also be of no use to you.
It's not the answer you want to hear I bet but it's the only one you'll get.
So, I've a few libraries that I'm loading as RSL's to my project.
I do this in Flash Professional, since it's the easiest way to give your RSL's to your project with fallback.
I'm loading other swf's into my main swf via Loader and I NEED to give this swf's the same Application Domain so that everything works as it should. But this swf's use a very old version of GreenSock(embeded) and I'm now using the latest (loaded as RSL) and thus have a conflict if loading both libs into the same Application Domain.
That is why I ask you guys, is there a way for me to pass an specific ApplicationDomain or LoaderContext to my RSL's ? maybe through the cross-domain file?
Any ideas?
Thank you
I'm not pretty sure what are you trying to do, but of course you can specify ApplicationDomain:
var appDomainA:ApplicationDomain = new ApplicationDomain();
var contextA:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(false, appDomainA);
var loaderA:Loader = new Loader();
loaderA.load(new URLRequest("application2.swf"), contextA);
Reference:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/ApplicationDomain.html
I have "Question.swf", which was created from "Question.fla". Note that Question.fla has no Document Class associated with it. (Note that this is legacy content, and there are over 14,000 variants of "Question.swf"; changing all these is not a viable option.)
Now I have my main Flash application, which loads in Question.swf at runtime. I know that Question.swf has a "Document Class" automatically created which represents the entire "stage" of the SWF (and that it's named "MainTimeline"). I want this application to be able to instantiate multiple instances of that Question.swf Document class... how can I?
I've been working with Flash/AS3 since 2006 (I'm very familiar with loading/using external content, the ApplicationDomain, etc.), but I find that I have no idea how to do this!
Things I've tried which haven't worked include querying the relevant ApplicationDomain with hasDefinition( "Question_fla.MainTimeline" ) - this returns false - as well as running getQualifiedClassName() on my loader.content object - this just returns MovieClip.
I'm not sure how to duplicate the main content of the Loader. However, a reasonable workaround might be to load the SWF bytes once and create multiple Loaders from those bytes:
Load your SWF bytes with a URLLoader:
var urlloader : URLLoader = new URLLoader();
urlloader.load(new URLRequest("your url here"));
Once it is loaded, use the bytes to instantiate new display objects:
var loader : Loader = new Loader();
loader.loadBytes(urlloader.bytes);
Use your loaded loader's loader.content display object on the display list (or the loader itself).
I'm trying to load swf like this :
var _mcl:Loader= new Loader();
var loader_context:LoaderContext= new LoaderContext();
loader_context.securityDomain= SecurityDomain.currentDomain;
_mcl.load(new URLRequest(p_url), loader_context);
_mcl.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadImageComplete);
_mcl.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onLoadImageError);
_mcl.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, onLoadImageError);
but the problem is that some of the swf are in AS2 and their script don't excute (a simple stop() on the last frame is not executed and the movie loops)
If I remove
loader_context.securityDomain= SecurityDomain.currentDomain;
it works, the AS2 files scripts are executed but flash throws a security error for the swf that come from a different domain
So I'm wondering if there is a way in an AS3 file to load AS2 swf from another domain ?
thanks
provided you have access , wouldn't a crossdomain policy file solve the problem?