Flash :: Flash 8 Editor Window No Longer Prints ActionScript ?

Flash Movie Scaled To Fit Browser Window - Prints Stretched In Explorer PC
Hello,

Has anyone noticed this problem before?

I have a clients' Flash website (500 x 800 pixels) scaled to fit the browser window (width 100%, height 100%) - works fine, looks great.

The problem is printing the page in Explorer on a PC. The page is printed scaled / vertically skewed.

Prints fine in Netscape (PC/MAC) and Explorer (Mac).

I have tried selecting the "scale" options (exact fit, no borders, default) - no difference.

Appreciate your help. Thanks!

Button1 Prints A, Button2 Prints B, But How?
In short: Clicking Button1 should print Picture1, and clicking Button2 should print Picture2, but both buttons print the same picture OR (if I change something) both pictures.

More info. I have Flash MX, but the Publish Settings are for Version 4. In the Flash file you see a picture(#1) and a button(#1). Button1 prints Picture1 and causes the movie to move on to Picture2 with Button2. Button2 prints Picture2. This is what should happen, but I can't get it right. The frame of Picture1 is labelled #p. Clicking Button1 AND Button2 prints Picture1. If I label the frame of Picture2 with #p too, both buttons print both frames. And I want Button1 to print only Picture1, and Button2 to print only Picture2.

I have tried various things, but I can't get it right. I guess it must be easy, but I'm not that familiair with Actionscript yet ;-(

Hope someone can help me. My labour so far is to be seen at: http://www.stolker.nl/test-print3.html , and the Flash MX file can be downloaded here: http://www.stolker.nl/test-print3.sit

One more thing, all the buttons and pictures should be in one .swf-file, not in seperate files.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Pop-up Window Script No Longer Working In V8
i've been using the following script for a while now to create pop-up windows in the centre of the screen, but i've tried inserting it for the first time since upgrading, and it's coming up with errors... can somebody please help...

(it's not formatted properly as it is normally on a single line, but i thought it would be clearer to break it up over several lines in this post)

Code:
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:window.open('" add url add "','" add winName add "','
width=" add winW add ",
height=" add winH add ",
top='+((screen.height/2)-(" add winH/2 add "))+',
left='+((screen.width/2)-(" add winW/2 add "))+',toolbar=" add tools add ",
scrollbars=" add scroll add ",
resizable=" add resize add ",
menubar=" add menu add ",
status=" add status add ",
directories=" add directory add ",
location=" add location add "');
void(0);");
}

Garbage Collection - Takes Longer And Longer To Occur
We have a kiosk running an 800x600 flash application that loads in external images and data from an external source. (Sometimes quite high rez. e.g. the full 800x600 etc) After many hours the software will die due to running out of RAM. Initial thought were memory leaks. After a lot of research and testing I've found an interesting issue that I think may be a flash bug.
Garbage collection is hard to understand mainly due to the fact that there is no good documentation about how it works (Please Adobe write some somewhere)
The situation is this. The backend holds 200 meg of internal cache and the flash holds up to around 200 meg of images. So all up the software should use between 450- 550 megabyes of ram pretty consistantly.
Now due to the nature of garbage collection the ram will climb and fall back down to the 550meg mark repeatedly as the software runs throughout the day.
The issue I have is that the longer the software runs, the more time seems to pass in between garbage collection passes.
For example. After an hour the garbage collection process sweeps through about once every 60 seconds or so. After 5-6 hours it only seems to sweep through and garbage collect once every 10-15 mins or so. Eventually of course the sweep is hgappening so infrequently that the entire 2 gig of ram gets eaten up and the software dies.

So questions:
1. Is there a way to force garbage collection (I've searched a lot and found nothing but "No's" to this question)
2. How does garbage collection work and why would it become less frequent?
3. Why do we need garbage collection in the first place? Why cant we simply destroy a movie or variable and have it immedialy removed from memory? (True it would require more strict programming but AS3 is strict now anyway)
4. Has anyonce else seen this issue of garbage collection happening less frequently?
5. Can anyone help with my issue?

Edited: 11/21/2007 at 06:39:39 PM by marcus_house

Flash MX2004 And 8 Actionscript Editor Special Keyboard Shortcuts For Commenting
Is there any special keyboard shortcuts for easy commenting in actionscript editor?

I think I have used one accidentally, I had some script selected, randomly hit the keyboard and each line had // in the beginning.

I did not see anything about it in keyboard prefs...

Publishing Time Takes Longer And Longer
it seems like the more i've been working on this project the time it takes to publish takes longer and longer with the more classes and code i write.

it's not a ton of code, but there are a lot of small class objects working together.

there are no graphics and the final swfs file size right now is... 18kbs.

it takes like 15 - 20 seconds to publish. doesn't sound like a lot, but it is when you're trying to test frequently.

does the flex builder do this faster? if so i think i'm interested in switching over

Buttons Can No Longer Have Actionscript Applied In Timeline?
I know very little about flash, but I desperately need your feedback.
Normally I make a button, drag it out onto the stage and THERE I directly write some "on (release) go do something"
But I have to use CS3 for this project I-m doing now, and it does not work the same way?
How will I make the button work?

Please respond - anyone
thanks
Louise

Screwed Up Editor Window
argh, so I accidentlly pressed something and now the actions window in cs3 is showing all my whitespace, tabs, and newlines as characters, any know how to turn this back off?

When Flash Prints Black?
Why is it when I print my work ( or someone else for that matter) it prints black.

For example: I go to a site that I've designed and I want to print it off for whatever reasons and all areas that contain swf files prints with a black background.

What is making that happen?

Help Flash Prints Different On Different Printers
Hi,
I have a weird problem that I can't figure out. I have made a diploma that the user can print when he finished a test. This work perfectly on the black and white smaller printer. When I try to print the diploma on the bigger printer with color it prints the first frame in the movie.

I use the same method as an old movie (that still works fine on both printers and from my computer) so I don't think it can be a property for the specific printer that is the problem.

Anyone have the same problem before? Or have an idea of what can be wrong?
I'm grateful for any suggestions.

MULTIPLE PRINTS IN FLASH
Hi everyone I am creating an online drawing web site that anyone can draw an image and then print it off poster size using multiple prints from a home printer then tap them all together and have an enlarged image of the drawing that they created.
I need a drop in code that I can manipulate to my likings that will take an image and multi print ti to a larger size. The affect that I am going for is similar to rasterbater only not the raster part just the printing part. If anyone can help out I would much appreciate it thanks.

What's The Point Of The Expressions Editor In The Window Get Url?
hi all

why is it we cant use the "_blank" area to call the javascript in the index.html to center the windows...i see that there's the possibility to use the expressions editor...has anyone ever tried this? i mean, what's the point of an expressions editor under window:

if you cant do anything with it...what CAN you do with that?
what is an example of using the expressions editor in the 'window:' area when you choose the geturl command?

best,
slimpixi

Printing From Flash - Prints Too Big DESPERATE NOW
trying to print from swf using a button with a print action.

the print area is set to movie - the movie is 750 pix wide by 550 high.

if i print from the print button in explorer, the movie fits nicely on a page. If I print from my action scripted button, the movie doesn't ven fit on a lanscape page. By my reckoning, 750 pixels wide at 72 dpi would work out to 10.42 inches. But this thing is printing waaay too big.

is there a command I can tag to my button script which will tell it to scale to 90% or something like that?

Thanks much
SumSum

Problem Printing In Flash... It Prints Twice?
I have an all vector form that displays data within it. As soon as it opens, it prints. I am running this in the first frame of the root time line.

Code:
print(_level0, "bmax");
stop();
The timeline is 2 frames and I am wanting to print both pages. Everything works fine expect after the print dialog box pops up and you hit print, then it prints the 2 frames, it pops up again and wants to print the pages one more time. I only want it to print once. Any ideas?

Flash Prints Black Page
I have a charting program that was created in Flash that allows the user to print the graph after it is loaded. In Internet Explorer this works flawlessly but on Firefox and Safari the graph prints with the page printing black for some reason. Any ideas on this one?

PrintJob Prints Ok, But Zooms Into The Flash Movie
Hey everyone,

Well, the title says it all. After it prints, the movie is zoomed, and to go back out, I have to right click and "Show All".

Why does it do that? How do I get around it?

Thank you,

Printing In Flash - Prints Real Small, Why?
I created a button that prints a flash movie. I need the movie to print at 8.5 x 11 size but i always comes out very small. Is there a way to make it print full size?

Prevent Flash Projects From Illicit Prints
Happy New Year Everyone.

I need to know if there is any way to protect flash projects images from viewers who right click end print them.

Thank you again.

Actionscript Editor
Hi!

Is there some application that can edit actionscript in exported swf files, and if there is, could any gave me the link????

Thanks,
Cash

P.S.
Problem is that I was found one cool xml dynamic menu in "movies" section, but, it was made for web menu.
I can't use it in flash because when i put in xml link like javascript:someFunctionInFlash(), action opens my web browser with link "javascript:someFunctionInFlash()".

And, ofcourse, there is no fla to download main "flashwebmenu.swf", but only swf and fla that calls main swf.

Swf Actionscript Editor
Hi!

Is there some application that can edit actionscript in exported swf files, and if there is, could any gave me the link????

Thanks,
Cash

P.S.
Problem is that I was found one cool xml dynamic menu in "movies" section, but, it was made for web menu.
I can't use it in flash because when i put in xml link like javascript:someFunctionInFlash(), action opens my web browser with link "javascript:someFunctionInFlash()".

And, ofcourse, there is no fla to download main "flashwebmenu.swf", but only swf and fla that calls main swf.

__________________
Cash

SE|PY ActionScript Editor
i did a search on FK, and i was a little surprised to find noone has mentioned anything about this new(ish) FREE actionscript editor by Sephiroth di Crugnola Alessandro, available here.
Authors comments
SE|PY is a FREE ActionScript editor for Macromedia Flash files. If you're currently not satisfied with the Flash IDE editor or you're already using Scite|Flash (also a great editor!) you maybe interested in this editor

i stumbled across a few days ago, and i must say i am very impressed. I know a lot of people use Scite|Flash, but for me Scite|Flash just didnt cut it feature wise, in fact i didnt think it was good at all. Up until now ive been scripting in the IDE, and everyone knows how much of a pain it is navigating more than 500 lines of code in that piece of junk.

i also own ultraEdit for php, but this little app beats UE hands-down in the AS department.

i advise you own this if you want to be taken seriously.

Looking For An Actionscript Editor (for Fla's)
From: http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...hreadid=610163

Quote:

Originally posted by Ironclaw
Well, is there a way to make an imported swf's _root to work (using loadMovie).

I import a swf into a MC called Movie. But as you all know, the _root of that swf is no longer in itself, it's now in the swf which imported the swf.

Is this fixable? I tried using _root = Movie();... but I knew it wouldn't work.

I know that to make it work, I shouldn't use _root in the imported swf... but it's too late for that now.

Just curious if someone knows if there is a work around for this.

The _lockroot didnt do its job. It worked the same way as loadMovieNum(url,level).

If I loadMovie the swf, then almost nothing works. If I use loadMovieNum(url,level), some things works. If I use the _rootlock, some things work also. But none of them want to play the music in the menu of the game. It will only play when playing the swf when it's not imported. So _lockroot isn't perfect.

Therefore:

Does anyone know of a nifty actionscript editor?. I don't mean a swf decompiler. I need a program that can open up ALL the AS in a fla and search for _root and replace with something else.

The current Action editor in Flash can only search in the current opened script holder. Need one that can search them all.

But in the future I will try not to use _root incase I would need to import the swf.

Actionscript Editor . Is This Possible ?
hi .....

I ask Can I edit the code inside SWF File Without source FLA file ?

I have one swf file and i want edit the Actionscript . I do not want to extract something . i just want edit Small Line only . Is there is a programme can edit swf file and allowd to you to edit the Actionscript ?

and if not So Why you think steel no programme can do that .

Dont tell me about SWF Decompiler Softwares . Because there is no one from them can edit the Actionscript .

Know An ActionScript Editor For Mac
Hey does anyone know an actionScript editor for Tiger OSX? I tried installing SEPY, but it simply will not install. So, I was looking to see if you guys know of a good one.

Actionscript 3.0 Editor
i am trying to get hold of it ... i have a slower system that i am running flash 8 ... and if i get this i will be able to build as3 stuff using flash 8 on the slower system ... please leme know ?

Actionscript Editor Lag?
I don't know if it's with flash8 but my actionscript editor is exhibiting some strange lag when I type. This only seems to happen when I'm typing in AS on a frame. Not when I'm typing AS in an *.as file. Anyone else run into this problem?

ActionScript 3 Editor
hey guys,
I was wondering if there is a good editor I could use for scripting in actionscript 3. I dont want to use flash 9 alpha or flex builder 2. Are there any other ones just for actionscript that yall can recommend?

Actionscript Editor
this is a really handy tool. its very impressive. 100% open source.

http://fdorg.meychi.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=6

SE|PY Actionscript Editor On OS/X
Heh guys, realise this isn't technically a flash post but after the last two Fuse tutorials and upon Lee's recommendation of SEPY actionscript editor, I thought i'd give it a whirl.
Downloaded the package, installed and attempted to launch.. no dice.
I'm running OS/X 10.3.9 and all I get is a bouncing icon in the dock that then dissepears with no errors.
Was wondering if anyone else has managed to get it running on OS/X as this seems to be a common problem according to their forum.
If not, does anyone use a third-party editor on mac, and have any recommendations?

Php + Flash Problem, Flash Gets Values But Browser Also Prints Them
Hi,

I am working in a project using both flash and php working together as well as Smarty template engine.

I need to send variables from php to flash and I already got it by using loadVars, but the problem is that the browser keeps on writing the string:

when i pass the values like this echo 'variable=value' the browser also prints it.

Is there anyway of solve it or any other way to implement it without using loadVars.

Thank you

UML Diagram Editor For ActionScript?
I am starting to move first steps into UML and it is starting to become the only option not to get lost into code....

Do you know some good diagram editor easily usable for ActionScript on PC?

Thank you...
Pippo

Actionscript Editor Very Slow
Flash Pro 8

I have a Flash movie I am working on. It is pretty big (fla is about 90Mb) it's for a presentation.

Flash itself runs fine, I can do everything without a problem until I come to open the actionscript editor, that's when it all slows down.

There isnt much script, only a few lines, but even if I edit one value I then get the egg timer for about 4 seconds before the change appears in the editor.

If I restart Flash it is all fine again so long as I dont open the script editor, so it seems to be related to that.

Whats Flash trying to do thats so difficult here?

Thanks

[CS3] Resize The Actionscript Editor
Hello,

I've been writing long blocks of actionscript and as a result the actionscript editor has resized itself larger than my screen area. In fact, it's so big I can no longer grab the resize handle on the bottom right. So far it hasn't become a problem but it's getting dangerously close to forcing my actionscript off the screen to where I can't see it. Does anyone know how to reset the size of the editor? Thanks. I'm running OSX.

Actionscript 3 External Editor
I'm getting fla files that are predesigned with all the content I need and I have to make them work, at the moment I'm writing the code in the external editor and then going in to flash and changing the fla's document class to my Main.as file.
The problems with this is that if I want to change text on the flas stage I have to use someTextField.text = "blah blah" and ofcourse flashdevelop wont compile then because someTextField hasnt been declared. If i declare it then an error shows saying that its already been declared in the same namespace.

Is there an easier way to have a prebuild fla file and code externally?

Cheers

Recommended Actionscript Editor For OsX?
I just started using sepy on xp, but is there something similar for osx? I see that there's an alpha version of sepy for mac, but was wondering if there was something that was already established with proven stability.

after trying sepy, I don't want to go back to flash's internal editor anymore..

ActionScript Editor As FlashDevelop Or Anyone.
Hi all, i'm now moving to Mac and i'd like know if exist some good actionscript editor for mac, as FlashDevelop or Sepy on PC.

Thanks.

Seeking An ActionScript Editor
I have to use many custom classes for a project, each class includes lots of elements(methods,properties) and I generally forget their names when coding.
Is there any editor which I can enumarate the elements of my classes after pressing "." like Flash's built in classes?
thanks...

Using External Actionscript Editor
Does anyone have any experience using external actionscript editors? I've given a brief look at SE|PY, but not sure why it's any better than the native editor in Flash.

Better Actionscript/code Editor?
Hey I was just wondering if there is a code program/editor for actionscript where you can select/highlight a section of code and then be able to use the search/replace function to find a word in that piece of code you've just highlighted, instead of going through the whole document.

Thanks in advance!

Actionscript Text Editor
I'm about to create a simple text editor in Flex that needs to provide controls for italics, bold, links, and color. Are there any free Actionscript code snippets out there to take care of pieces of this project? It should act on a TextField.

I think the following will need to be accomplished:
- maintenance of controls which apply the above actions to selected text, or starts to apply these controls if nothing is selected
- a redundancy check that prevents nested italics, bold, color, or link tags (this is the part I really don't want to do)
- system that can remove the above styles from selected text

This system won't be very complicated and it shouldn't be a big deal - but if you know where I can find some of these things already done then I would appreciate it.

NOTE: I really don't want an entire option bar like the one in these forums...I want to make the system just for the named controls.

Thanks.

External ActionScript Editor
Hi,

Just a simple question here: Why should someone use external ActionScript Editor (like SE|PY ActionScript Editor) rather than use the one in Flash Professional ?

Thanks for your input on that !

--
M.
www.martinc.biz

Sepy Actionscript Editor
hey, I've been recommended this tool for any external actionscripting of flash.

I downloaded it, but just can't figure out how to setup the preference there, you know the specific font color, boldness to different types of text in actionscript. I looked at the preference panel, and saw those settings, but just don't know why they are just not working.

anyone know how to get that done?

Exterior ActionScript Editor
Is there, and if so, can anyone recommend an exterior AS editor with codehinting?

/Michael

Favorite ActionScript Editor
When it comes to coding I've used Crimson Text Editor for years as it let me write AS, HTML, CSS, PHP and C# files. The last release was in 2004 and sometime in the past year the syntax section of the site went down. Crimson worked with different programming languages via a couple of external files. Each language had two of these files which defined its syntax. As it stands now I can't find any ActionScript 3 syntax files so I'm left with either making my own or finding another editor.

I thought it would be fun to see what everyone else likes using. If anyone uses an editor that's not in the list then make a new post here and I'll add it to the poll. Please note that I will remove any non-contributive posts to this thread to keep it concise. I'm going to leave this poll open indefinately but remember you can only vote once.

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."

Can't Type Actionscript In My Editor
I'm a programmer that has to learn flash and the going is rough to say the least. For whatever reason, I can copy code into my editor, but I can't type code directly into it. It just ignores my keystrokes. So I open up a new document, click on key frame number one, then bring up the actionscript code window. I simply can not type anything into the editor. I'm beginning to think I have a busted version of Flash. Anybody have a clue? Thanks in advance.

Buggy Text In Actionscript Editor
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Text on my Mac appears as above...inside the actionscript editor. Flash 5 was fine. I've re-installed rebooted thrown out pereferences , re-re-installed without extentions..... At work it's fine. I can type in the editor with out a problem. I can't see the text on the left hand side. Is this an apple problem? A system bug? I've looked into the text preferences and still nothing.

Thank you all,
BW

Advanced Customisation Of The ActionScript Editor
Is it possible to customise the ActionScript editor's syntax colouring so that I can specify a colour for a specific words such as 'myNewCode'? I'd like to be able to do this as I'm working on a file developed by another developer and I need to be able to quickly find my changes to the original code.

Many thanks

NB. Please could any replies only answer this specific question and not suggest alternative methods as I am aware that there are other ways to find my new code.