Flash :: 3D And Flash Hard Core.

Unable To Import Core Flash, Fl Packages
I recenlty installed Flash CS3, and yesterday, everything was working beautifully.

I'm not sure what happened, but I can no longer import any package starting from "flash" or "fl". Here's what I'm trying:

1) New Flash Document (AS3).
2) Create an action for Layer 1, Frame 1.
3) In the action, write "import fl.controls.ComboBox;"
4) Test the movie.

I'm getting an error:

1172: Definition fl.controls:ComboBox could not be found.

I've checked my ActionScript 3 Classpaths, and both "." and "$(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/Classes" are listed.

What's really driving me nuts is that FLA files that I wrote yesterday that do the same thing will work--I just can't make any new ones that do!

I might be missing something obvious, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does Flash 8 Lag On Dual Core High End Machines?
Hi, does anyone know of any issues using flash 8 and viewing version 8 swf's on high end machines.

I have a new alienware dual core amd 64bit laptop and have noticed lagging and slight stuttering in speed in playing flash files back?

any info would be great, thanks

FMS 2 On Fedora Core 5
Hi All,
I am tryiong to install FMS 2 on FC5
When I do a ./installFMS
I get the following error

./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shar ed object file: No such file or directory

Any pointers on how to resolve this issue would be really helpful.
Thanks a lot
-Rajan

Red Hat Fedora Core 4 ?
Will FMS2 run on Red Hat Fedora Core 4? Or do you need Red Hat Enterprise?

FMS Core Crash
Hello,

We have been developing a live video chat application and we have come accross a problem where the FMSCore crashes at random times. There are average 50 connections at a time, no memory or CPU load. There is no error message in the logs, except for the following:

TCMsgQueue dropped more than 100 video messages, type: 1, clientID: 284122432, streamID: 1

which not always there before a crash. We have also tried to work around this problem, by stopping the streams for users that are not able to receive them. This did not solve the problem either.

We are running FMS 3.0.2 on Windows Server 2003, so we put in a stack dump which shows the following at all crashes:

00 0315f724 005e37e5 010c3a68 16cafab8 01aa0244 js32!JS_SetProperty+0x38
01 0315fa48 63020dd3 00000000 00000000 00000000 FMSCore!operator++0x8e7b5
02 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 js32!js_Invoke+0x683

Does anyone what this could mean? Any help is appreciated.

Core Keeps Restarting
Once or twice a day my FMS Core with it's application restarts. As far as I see it happens when FMS runs on certain part of server side code that sets properties in shared object very fast (in for loop), for instance:

for (k = 0; k < sharedObjectNamesArray.length; k++)
{
application[sharedObjectNamesArray[k]].setProperty(propName, propValue);
}

Log in my Core is:

#Fields: datetimex-pidx-statusx-ctxx-comment
2009-01-2601:19:5831823(i)2581247Core (31823) disconnected from edge.-
2009-01-2601:19:5831823(i)2581233Core (31823) disconnecting from admin.-
#Date: 2009-01-26
#Fields: datetimex-pidx-statusx-ctxx-comment
2009-01-2601:19:5929582(i)2581237Starting admin app on core (29582).-
2009-01-2601:19:5929582(i)2581238Core (29582) connecting to admin.-
2009-01-2601:19:5929582(i)2581231Core (29582) connected to admin.-
2009-01-2601:19:5929582(i)2581234Core (29582) connection to admin accepted.-
2009-01-2601:19:5929582(i)2581246Core (29582) sending register cmd to edge.-

Missing A Core Concept Here...
Ok...

I feel like a tool for asking this because graphically I am able to create buttons with no problem.

In the project I am working on though, I have to create 14 text buttons with an identical graphic symbol attached...

I can't imagine I have to create 14 different symbols as it seems to defeat the purpose of "instances" but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make the "base" button symbol and then change the text for each instance required.

I would really appreciate some direction here.

Thanks again folks.

Changing Core Classes?
Hey guys, i need a little advice from the experts...

I'm responsible for running a small weboffice, and we have some default flash/components/tools that i'm maintaining, but in the end..its always in the hadns of the one using the component/tool/etc..

Now, instead of having the hassle of making "user friendly" tools, spend a lot of time building qerky components, and whatnot to ensure it will be executed correct, instead, cant i simply add stuff in the core libriary of flash AS classes..?? so that the SWF's compiled from there on will have specific AS in, without they even have to know.

If its possible, what file should i change, and are there any guidelines/tutorials for this?

Regards, Jot

Changing Core Classes
Is it possible to make changes to the core classes that ship with flash, i.e. Datagrid.as, will this break flash, is it even allowed

Override Core Functions
just wondering if it is possible to override core functions ( in particular gets and sets ) in as3? i was wanting to modify the functionality of 'parent'

AS3 Core Maths Problem
Hi. If you run the code at the bottom in AS3 you get this:
0.1
0.2
0.30000000000000004
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.7999999999999999
0.8999999999999999
0.9999999999999999

if you run it in AS2 you get

0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1

the as2 version is what you would expect. Anybody know why this is?

Attach Code

var myNum:Number = 0;

for (var i:Number = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
myNum += 0.1
trace(myNum)
}

Question About Mx.core.UIObject
hello;

in the UIObject.as file:
quote:
class mx.core.UIObject ...
{
...
static var symbolOwner:Object = UIObject;
...
} ;

it seems to me as if
static var symbolOwner:Object = UIObject ;
would set up some kind of infinite referencing situation;

is
static var symbolOwner:Object = UIObject ;
the same as
static var symbolOwner:Object = this ;

thanks
dsdsdsdsd

Intel Dual Core
Hi, I would like to know if Intel Pentium D 915 Dual Core 2,8Gb can host a Developer Edition of FMS. If not, could someone place a list of supported Processors other than P4 3.2, if any?

thanks in advance, Paolo

FMS Core Rotation Problem
I've configured my FMS installation in this way:

<Application>
<Process>
<Scope>inst</Scope>
<LifeTime>
<RollOver>3600</RollOver>
<MaxCores>5</MaxCores>
</LifeTime>

My expectation was to observer a new FMSCore.exe (with new PID) every 3600 seconds and maximun 5 cores. This don't happen.
Someone have tried this FMS feature?

FMS Core Crash(defunct)
hello,

I intend to make an application with FMS3 without using SharedObject which means I would achieve most functions by server side script.

So I made some simple tests on JSEngine:
Connecting about 1000 clients to one application instance and each client call the server every 5 sec.(By NetConnection.call ).
The server broadcast a message after recieving a function call by each client.

Unfortunately FMS core allways crashing(defunct) after it runs a few hours with no special message in the logs.

The only information we can find in master.00.log is :
#Fields: datetimex-pidx-statusx-ctxx-comment
2008-08-1115:06:5910624(i)2581223Core (3717) is no longer active.-
2008-08-1115:06:5910624(w)2581256Core (3717) _defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_1 experienced 1 failure[s]!

FMS version: 3.0.2
System :RHEL AS4

The only change in FMS configuration is "<RuntimeSize>500000</RuntimeSize>" in application.xml

Any one can help?

Extending The Core Classes In AS3
Is it possible? If so, what's the preferred way?

I'm seeing lots of ArrayUtil and StringUtil AS3 classes, but I don't like using them as it defeats the purpose of an object (StringUtil.trim(str) instead of str.trim()).

Where To Download AS3 Core Library?
Hi, where to download as3corelib?

Planning For Shiit Computers... On A Core 2 Duo
Alright guys,

When your making your games,

How do you plan how they will look/run/play on others computers?

I get that we all basicly use the default flash video size... that sorts out monitor sizes.

And almost everyone know has a true bit graphics card.

But i made a game the other day, and it ran good on my pc, but it was sooooo slow at uni, unplayable -- when i checked the ctrl+alt+del thing, it said cpu usage was at 100% -- not good.

But it ran fine on mine.

How can you insure that most pc's will not have a problem running games.

Many thanks.

Sockets And Multi Core Troubles
I have a 'hybrid' application as its refered to in the docs that I use to generate 3D scenes with the sandy flash library, and use those as motion graphics on top of a live video source for recording and broadcasting.

The Camera sends hello to the flash socket, the flash app, draws the scene, the socket sends a byte array to the camera where it is alpha blended to into the live camera.

On a single core system, there are no issues.

On a dual core system, I do not get the whole byte array. Some how it seems in the middle of getting the bitmap to the array, something stops the writing and the socket is flushed anyway.

I am receiving all 307200 bytes to the camera, but image is not fully drawn to the byte array. It results in a random quartering of the image, depending on how many bytes are actually sent.

another behavior noted is when I drag the window, the socket still responds to the c++ code calling it, still sends 307200 '0''s but nothing is drawn to bytes in the getPixels call.

Code:
b.draw(m_iDrawable);
bytes=b.getPixels(new Rectangle(0,0,320,240));
writeBytes(bytes,0,307200);
flush();

Is there any info regarding multi core processors interupting drawing or socket comunication?

FMS Application Core Eating 3 Gb Per 24 Hours
1. FMS is installed on a P4 3 Ghz cpu and 4 Gb memory
2. FMS is running in the 'application-scope' ; each application (main.asc) has it's own core
3. both applications create +/- 30-60 instances (lets name them chat-rooms) and those get abandoned when they are empty (they get removed by the idle or garbage collector after 5 minutes in case no clients are in the instance any more)
4. About 100-250 connections are in use, divided over 2 applications and about 40 active instances
5. We call in every instance for every user every 20 seconds an PHP script using the XML.load method which validates the connected user (obj_xml = new XML() ; obj_xml.load("phpscript.php"); obj_xml.onLoad = checktheaccessetc ; delete obj_xml)

However using this setup both applications start with 0 Kb memory usage and have grown to monsters, eating up to 3 Gigabyte of memory each. When the size reaches approx. 3072 Kb of memory the core crashes and it sometimes takes down the FMS master-service too resulting in rejected connections for ALL current and new users to both applictions (!)

I think that's a serious memory-leak. (+/- 3072/24 = 150 Megabytes per hour). We've made a graphic of the memory-usage and it shows a straight line from the start (0 Kb) to 3 Gb of memusage after about 24 hours.

One application uses a shared-memory-object on the server (NOT persistent) the other does not. Both applications use the XML object to load a php-script. (see above).

Is anyone familiar with this crazy use of memory by FMS and knows how to deal with it, besides restarting the FMS service every 12-24 hours to prevent a lockup ?

Fms Core Backwards Time Stamp
I am getting constant errors regarding 'backward timestamps' that crash fms core. I have seen the thread that suggests disabling time synchs as a resolution for this issue, but we have the server set up as a cluster, which requires Windows time synch service to be running. The issue only occurs with certain meetings - is there a way to get rid of the error that does not involve crippling a critical windows service?

Socket And Multi-core Troubles
I have a 'hybrid' application as its refered to in the docs that I use to generate 3D scenes with the sandy flash library, and use those as motion graphics on top of a live video source for recording and broadcasting.

The Camera sends hello to the flash socket, the flash app, draws the scene, the socket sends a byte array to the camera where it is alpha blended to into the live camera.

On a single core system, there are no issues.

On a dual core system, I do not get the whole byte array. Some how it seems in the middle of getting the bitmap to the array, something stops the writing and the socket is flushed anyway.

I am receiving all 307200 bytes to the camera, but image is not fully drawn to the byte array. It results in a random quartering of the image, depending on how many bytes are actually sent.

another behavior noted is when I drag the window, the socket still responds to the c++ code calling it, still sends 307200 bytes, all '0''s, while nothing is drawn to bytes in the getPixels call.
I can live with this behavior, but not the former.
quote:
//b bit mapdata, bytes is byte array
b.draw(m_iDrawable);
bytes=b.getPixels(new Rectangle(0,0,320,240));
writeBytes(bytes,0,307200);
flush();

Is there any info regarding multi core processors interrupting drawing or socket communication? Even passing static bitmapdata that is never changes or displayed on the stage is interupted.

The socket seems to be broken on the multicore machine.

The c++ application that is creating the broadcast/file does receive the full frame buffer size, other wise it would hang until the full 307200 bytes are recieived. It appears that flash stops writing, and continues in the next call.

There appears to be no handle to gauge how much data is actually passed to the byte array.

I can set up live demos if desired.
Single core machine and dual core machine running exact same software, and then stream the output graphics over rtmp.

Help! Suggestions! Limiting the app to singe core machines is not an option!

Trying To Create The Core Of This Remake Retro Game...
I have been trying to create an actionscript based app. that is based on an old computer game.
I am heaving real issues with implementing some core functions. but I found a flash version of what I am trying to achieve on line...

Again, I am trying to create the effect of Xonix/ Qix/ Volfied games form the 80's - 90's
so far I was able, mainly through forums to create this:
http://www.discocontinental.com/archive/drawKey.swf
Just an object that draws a line movie clip..., the score is just a dummy score here.

But here is a great finished example (not mine), of my technical difficulty :-(
http://psyark.jp/?entry=20051006022428
I don't read Japanese, but I don't believe it's an open-source, or that they share any code or tips...

So I guess I am looking for a solution for these main issues:
#1. Detect when I 'leave' the black frame (connects to #3)
#2. Separate the Line MC to Lines MCs (break it when turning, although it will look the same. Just to prevent 1 large MC of a drawing).
#3.and detect when hitting back with the frame to be able to fill the area that was created by the Lines...
#4. Do it in a way to be able to calculate the area...

If there is anyone out there who might be able to help, i would really appreciate it! I have been playing around with this for some time...

Thanks

Code for my example:
var xv:Number = 0; // speed of x(left/right)
var yv:Number = 0;// speed of y (up/down)
var score:Number = 0; //score

var mover:Number = setInterval(movePlayer,100);

function movePlayer() {
//trace("Moving player...");
_root.circle._y += yv ;
_root.circle._x += xv ;
}

var keyListener_obj:Object = new Object();
keyListener_obj.onKeyDown = function(){
//trace ("key"+Key.getCode());

switch (Key.getCode()) {
case Key.LEFT :
yv = 0
xv = -6;
break;
case Key.UP :
xv = 0
yv = -6;
break;
case Key.RIGHT :
yv = 0
xv = 6;
break;
case Key.DOWN :
xv = 0
yv = 6;
break;
}

};
Key.addListener(keyListener_obj);
stop();

//Code for the object itself:////////////////////////////////////////
onClipEvent (load) {
this.getNextHighestDepth ();
_parent.createEmptyMovieClip("Line", 1);
_parent.Line.lineStyle(1, 0x800000, 100);
_parent.Line.moveTo(100,6);
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// continually looks for the edges of our ball
//ballBounds = this.getBounds(_root);
this._x = this._x + xv;
this._y = this._y + yv;
_parent.Line.lineTo(this._x, this._y);
if (this._x <= 15) {
this._x = 15;
_root.score = _root.score + 5;
}
else if (this._x >= 335){
this._x = 335;
_root.score = _root.score + 5;
}
else if (this._y >= 300){
this._y = 300;
_root.score = _root.score + 5;
}
else if (this._y <= 14){
this._y = 14;
_root.score = _root.score + 5;
}

}

Multi-core Video With Alpha Channels
I'm currently working on a video project which includes projecting fairly high res video (1366x683) using flash.
At first we tried it with a regular FLV, but we ran into the problem that that only uses 1 core of our Multi-core PC.
So after a little bit of searching we found out that we had to use another video format and we came across the H264 codec which according to our research supports multi-core usage. (Havent had time to test it out at this time)
But now our problem is that that format doesn't support Alpha channels which is also required.
So the question now is; What video format to use?

Edited: 11/04/2008 at 01:25:42 AM by TaoHunter

FMS2 Core Dies After A Number Of Connections
Howdy folks

My company developed a flash video chat (adult related) application. We have intensively tested the application without problems on the developer edition of FMS and afterwards we decided to buy a license. We have configured the license on the 1000/40/unlimited and fired the site up. But here's the problem. After a certain number of connections (we counted at about 40 simultaneous streaming sessions plus let's say an average of 2 guests per each stream) the core goes off and dies, therefore not loading the video anymore. Each time this happends we need to restart the FMS and it's working fine for another period of time. The system FMS2 is running on is a Dual Intel Xeon 3.2 Ghz with 4 GB of RAM. The processors are running at about 30 - 40% of their capacity right before the core goes down.
Anyone else had any similar experience and if yes what was the solution? Any help is greatly apreciated. Looking forward to hear from the community.

Warm Regards
Andy

Assert Failed In Servercore../core/../TCFLVCacheMgr.h
Im running fms on windows server 2003 sp1

My fmscore.exe keeps crashing every few hours. all users are disconnected and fms needs to be restarted.

Im getting the following error in the core.log:
Assert failed in servercore../core/../TCFLVCacheMgr.h line 121

anyone knows what this means or how to fix it?

thanks

FMIS3: File.list() Crashes Core
Hi,
I can reproduce a crash of the core when using File.list() (with or without a filter function, it does not matter)

The problem appears after calling the function several times, not the first time.
The directory I list just contains some .flv files.
Calling list() in a loop makes the error appear earlier.
ulimit -c unlimited does not help. (I was suspecting lack of file handles or alike)

Has anybody else experienced a problem with File.list() ?

Crashing it several times seems to point to JS_SetElement() in all core dumps I produced.
OS: RHEL4 (32bit) or CentOS5 (64bit), it makes no difference.

Strange Errors In Core And Edges Logs
Hi i'm running a core server and 2 edges servers conected to core and I'm using Flash Media Live Encoder to encode a live stream to core. Clients are always connect to edge servers. However from time to time i have the following errors in logs :

2008-08-06 17:21:38 2514 (e)2581279 Assert failed in /server/core/FcLiveStream.cpp line 1627 -

And one more strange error:

2008-08-06 16:02:22 2514 (w)2641213 Connection rejected by server. Reason : [ Server.Reject ] : Edge loop detected. Rejecting connection. -

The edge is configured by adding a route in Vhost.xml something like this:
<RouteEntry>edge1.mydomain.ro:1935;master.mydomain.ro:1935</RouteEntry>

When the error "Edge loop detected" appears clients are unable to connect to edge.

Thanks ,
Mihai

Bacis Core Differences Between MC And Graphic Symbols
Can you please be so kind to make a list of features of both MC and Graphic Symbols in Flash MX, by discribing what MC can and cannot and same with Graphic?

Thanks

WARNING: The Component 'fl.core.ComponentShim' Requires ActionScript 3.0.
as the title, how to solve this problem?

Robert Penner's Tweening And Core Classes (as 1.0 Versions)
ok, so I read robert penners book, and have used his tweening "classes" (the as1.0 versions) in a few movies, always publishing for flash 6 player, but this latest project uses MovieClipLoader so I have to publish as 7

when I do that, i seem to lose the ability to attach the addListener method to the MovieClip object. the code being used is below, the last trace line should return "function", but instead returns "undefined"

the motion and tween classes need this and therefore fail. what am I doing wrong???

ActionScript Code:
// set up MovieClip.addListener() if it doesn't exist
// and create an empty clip to broadcast onEnterFrame events
if (typeof MovieClip.addListener != 'function') {
ASBroadcaster.initialize(MovieClip);
mc = _level0.createEmptyMovieClip("$enterframe_source", 9876);
mc.onEnterFrame = function () { MovieClip.broadcastMessage ("onEnterFrame") };
delete mc;
}
trace(typeof MovieClip.addListener)

Hard One...flash + Asm & Xml
Hi there,
this is the thing...i'm working on a portfolio and i succeed to load an xml file & to use the data in it. But now i want to make some admin-pages IN flash to update this XML...so i have to work with ASP-script to overwrite this. Can anyone give me some hints or a good tutorial on this because I can't find anything.
In what type i have to send the dat to the asp-script and how does the script overwrites the xml?
Help would be rrrreal great because i'm stuck on this....

Greetz from Antwerp

ps i was wondering ..what is better ASP visual basic script or ASP based on java?

Hard One...asp+flash+xml
Hi there,
this is the thing...i'm working on a portfolio and i succeed to load an xml file & to use the data in it. But now i want to make some admin-pages IN flash to update this XML...so i have to work with ASP-script to overwrite this. Can anyone give me some hints or a good tutorial on this because I can't find anything.
In what type i have to send the dat to the asp-script and how does the script overwrites the xml?
Help would be rrrreal great because i'm stuck on this....

Greetz from Antwerp

ps i was wondering ..what is better ASP visual basic script or ASP based on java?

From 'flash' To .PSD? How Hard Is This?
I have a flash header for my website. I'm interested in a non-flash version for my message board.

How complicated is it to have a non-flash version created? I'd even be happy with a PSD version, and my vBulletin skin coder could take it from there.

Thanks!

Tell Me How Hard This Flash Site Might Be To Do.....
Okay, first you will have to go to www.oprah.com Yes, it is THE Oprah website. But what I like about is the clean design. It has tabs along the left hand side that you can click on and when you do, the information in the bigger portion changes. I would really like to do something like this for our business website.

Can an average Flash user like myself do something like that or is that something out of my league? Or could there be a template out there somewhere that looks similar?

Thanks!

Flash Crashing Hard
Hi guys,

My flash file is allways crashing when I go to publish it. The file is big I guess about 20 megs for the fla and about 8 scenes long. Im just wondering how to fix this since I need to be able to render out my swf file.

I only have 512 megs of ram on a 2.80 machine and flash will render out smaller projects without problem. I know this file also will render on better computers but it still takes like 5 minutes.

any advice?

maybe when im done could I give my .fla file to an honest member on here to render out for me?

(forgot to ad that the project was made and I am using FLASH 8)

-Ian

Flash To DVD: Easy Or Hard?
Folks -

We have been asked to author products in Flash and deliver them on DVDs, because the company's sales force is equipped with DVD players. Now, unfortunately, I have to ask some very general questions, because I'm completely ignorant of how to approach this problem:

Is QuickTime my only output 'Option'?
When I select 'QuickTime' as a publish setting, and the Flash Player is set to Player 6 - 8, I'm told to use the Flash 5 player. If I've selected the Flash 5 Player first I get no error message, but then I'm limited to a Flash 5 product. I can't remember what that is, exactly, but we know it doesn't include classes.

Is there any option that allows for Flash interactivity? (I can't imagine any, but I thought I'd ask...)

Would I need to convert QuickTime for DVD playback? If so, into what? Using what:Cleaner? FinalCutPro? DVD Studio Pro? Does this mean I need a Mac, or, if I persisted in using a PC, would I wish I'd gotten a Mac?

Doubtless there are a few hundred questions I can't even imagine.

If anyone can point me towards any answers at all, I'd be very grateful. I can't search "DVD" here; searching any form of "video" shows me only info on displaying video in Flash, not outputting Flash as video. Maybe that's because it's soooo easy...

Thanks again,
Dorothy

Why The Hard Feelings For Flash?
I recently offered my services for an open project that uses php and mysql to create a profile of a user. They are having serious problems with their javascript and cross browser validation.

When I offered my services to help out and maybe submit a demo of what would be possible I got a quick reply of a very strong NO. The author saying, I am VERY anti-flash for anything not strongbad.

Now, I had to agree with him about the strongbad part because I happen to like strongbad, but I was shocked to see the bad feelings for flash? And wonder if any of you have experienced this. To me it seems, at least imho, that flash would solve all of their problems because it is perfectly suited to do what they need.

Does flash have a bad name from other sites overdoing their sites with huge flash intros?

Or does flash just have the mis-understanding of being only for animation and cartoons?