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Flash Embedded In Flex Embedded In Flash
I have a flash 9 as3 movie that contains a flex flv player that uses an embedded flash flv player. All works great, except the main timeline of the top level flash movie, I need to unload the embedded flex/flash when someone exits the video player. Currently the player is unloaded from the stage, but the movie continues to play (still hear audio).

The flex application & flash flv player (as2) communicate via local connection. Works great standalone.

The wrapper flash movie is dynamically loading the flex application via Loader.
The main timeline contains a flvPlayer:MovieClip instance of "movieClip".

movieClip contains the actionscript to load & display the flv player via myLoader:Loader.

So... root->movieClip->myLoader

I have another movie that contains animated navigation... I need to check & see if the moviePlayer is loaded when any navigation button is clicked... if it is, unload it.

Currently I have...

ActionScript Code:
if(MovieClip(this.root).moviePlayer)
if(MovieClip(this.root).moviePlayer.parent ) {
trace("Deleting");
var c:MovieClip = MovieClip(this.root).moviePlayer.myLoader.content as MovieClip;
c.myLoader().unload();
c.removeChildAt(0);
}
...which doesn't work.

I have a feeling that I just need to stop playback of the actual movie first? If that's true, then I need to be able to access the Local Connection (toFlash_lc:LocalConnection) of the Flex Application to fire the setPath of the flex-embedded flv player. toFlash_lc is in the swf loaded via myLoader.

So I need to be able to call a function (local to Flex) that contains...

ActionScript Code:
toFlash_lc.send('lc_from_flex', 'setPath',String(event.currentTarget.mediasource))
... or call this directly.

I'm out of things to try. Can anyone help?

Kevin

Dynamic Textfield - Embedded Font - Embedded Characters Problem
Hi everyone,
In AS in flash 8, i'm doing the following : a font "Garamond" in my library,creating a textfielda textformat that is used on my textfieldi define the characters that should be embedded...
This last point doesn't seem to work...
This is my code (you can also check my fla) :

--
var myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font = "Garamond";
myFormat.size = 20;
myFormat.color = "0xFFFFFF";

createEmptyMovieClip("myContainer",10);

myContainer.createTextField("myText", 11, 0,0,400,500);
myContainer.myText.border=true;
myContainer.myText.autoSize = true;
myContainer.myText.html = true;

_root.myContainer.myText.embeddedCharacters = "ęąłńśźćóĘĄŁŃŚĆŻÓ";
myContainer.myText.htmlText = "test characters : : ęąłńśźćóĘĄŁŃŚĆŻÓ" ;

myContainer.myText.selectable = false;
myContainer.myText.wordWrap = true;
myContainer.myText.embedFonts = true;
myContainer.myText.setTextFormat(myFormat) ;

--
I was also trying with the following :

myContainer.myText.useDeviceFonts = true;

But without problem (otherwise I wouldn't email here, huh?)

Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong that my embeddedCharacters don't seem to work?

Thanks in advance!
Greetz,
Dzjoepke

How Do You Define Which Character Set Gets Embedded With A Font Embedded In The Library (i.e. Korean)?
I have project that uses a shared fonts. The fonts are all contained in a single swf ("fonts.swf"), are embedded in that swf's library and are set to export for actionscript and runtime sharing.

The text in the project is dynamic and is loaded in from external XML files. The text is formatted via styles contained in a CSS object.

This project needs to be localized into 20 or so different languages.

Everything works great with one exception: I canâ€™t figure out how to set which character set gets exported for runtime sharing. i.e. I want to create a fonts.swf that contains Korean characters, change the XML based text to Korean and have the text display correctly.

Iâ€™ve tried changing the language of my OS (WinXP) and re-exporting but that doesnâ€™t work correctly. Iâ€™ve also tried adding substitute font keys to the registry (at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFontSubstitutes) as outlined here:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
but the fonts I added did not show up in Flash's font menue.

Iâ€™ve also tried the method outlined here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275
to no avail.

I know there must be a simple solution that will allow me to embed language specific character sets for the fonts embedded in the library but I have yet to discover what it is.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275

Difference Embedded And Not Embedded Font
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone had the same problem I did.. I'm using a font called DS-Digital (free font) in one of my movies and well if I don't embed the font and use the textFormatter to determine my dynamic text width then everything is find, however if I use the embed font feature and determine it's with the same way then it's about 5-10 pixels smaller, which causes the text to display incorrectly..

Is there a way to fix it easily. Right now I just add 25 pixels to the textFormatter width just to be sure the font is displayed properly, but I hope there will be a different solution for this problem..

Thanks for any help..

Embedded Video + Embedded Cuepoints
I am using embedded video with embedded cuepoints.

When i put setBufferTime on 0 the cuepoints of the flvmovie will be readed good, the right moment.

If i put setBufferTime on 10 or 20 than the cuepoints will be readed 10 or 20 secs faster.

Somebody known of this problem?
And have a workaround for this?

I am using Netstream connection.
(not the flvPlayback or mediaPlayback component)

Embedded Flash
Hi Guys,

I am trying to embed some flash in my site, but it doesn't seem to be working. When I type the full URL of the SWF, it comes up, but when I try to embed it it doesn't.

I am using this HTML:

Code:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...rsion=6,0,29,0" width="300" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.gawmir.com/music/monkeykn...troduction.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="<A href="http://www.gawmir.com/music/monkeyknuts/introduction.swf">http://www.gawmir.com/music/monkeyknuts/introduction.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="100"></object>
All that appears is a white box, where the flash should be...
Does anyone know whats wrong please?

Cheers,
Mike

Flash And Embedded FLV
Hi there!
I haven't clear idea where this should be but I'm going to try here.

I made a small video with After Effects - a sign that flips. It's seem like a loop but...
When I import it into Flash (in MovieClip) and when it reaches the last "frame" the video disappears like there is one empty frame. But there isn't.
How can I make a clear loop with FLV video?

Embedded Flash In Webpage
i have a "skip" button on my movie and it shld skip the whole flash movie and go straight to the webpage.

but im only able to direct the user to the webpage and the flash movie still remains onscreen. is there any way to terminate the movie so that it will not be onscreen?

Flash Embedded In HTML
I am new to Flash & was wondering if anyone out there can help me... I would like to embedded a .swf file to an html and I also need to take it to the home page after it done playing the file. Thank you in advance for your help.

Quicktime Embedded In Flash
I got a quicktime movie to play inside a flash movie, using dreamweaver to play the quick time movie on top of the flash movie. but the quicktime movie blinks insanely when it plays. Im guessing this is because it is sharing the timeline?

is there any way to get both to play smoothly at the same time?

Does Flash Have To Be Embedded In HTML
Is there a way to create a website in Flash and not embed it in an HTML (index.htm) file?

Embedded Flash In Email
Hi all,

What is the correct way to embed flash into an email? I have a friend who was sent an embedded flash movie that worked fine when he opened outlook express but when I tried to send an embedded file he had a dialogue box saying active x controls were disabled?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I want to send out some cool flash xmas cards

Director Embedded Into Flash?
Hi, does anyone know if it is it possible to import a movie made in Director into Flash and then make Flash interact with the Director movie?

Would all of this be carried out through script?

thanks!

Embedded Flash Player RAM
I recall reading somewhere that Flash player in a web browser requires 2mb of RAM in addition to the file size of the SWF. Unfortunately, I havent found any formal information about this at MM web site.

Can anyone provide a link to a technote at MM about the amount of RAM that the embedded Flash player occupies?

Embedded Flash Picture
Is there a way to download embedded flash pictures like the one here of a world map?

http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?nav=MS&cid=1,24&pid=2057

I tried an app called Flash Capture but it only downloads the Frame around the map with the options "Zoom In", "Pan West". The place where the map should be is black when I download with the Flash Capture program.

Is that map a JPG and the embedded flash is just for zooming in on the JPG?

Help With Embedded Flash Video.
hi guy's. i'm new to the forums and relativly new to flash.

What i'm trying to do is have a timeline full of movie clips (about300). and when each clip finishes i want the to move automaticaly to a goto frame() command. My problem is that i don't want any user interaction at this stage. i want it to all be automatic.

Each movieclip contains a video i've embedded inside, with no script. ive then named the movieclips and dragged them onto a timeline. At the moment i'm just stuck on frame 1 with the movie looping over and over.

please help

Embedded Flash Keeps Looping [MX]
Hello!

I created a fairly simple (because that's my skill level) bit of flash. It was working fine except for that annoying "click to activate ... "; after going through the forum here, I found one solution to embed my movie in the html. That was successful Unfortunately, my movie is now looping. How can I stop it? Again, I did not have it loop when I created and saved it but after embedding, it loops. I guess its bearable but it gives me a headache when I'm reviewing my pages. Here is the link to my site: http://www.weddingmilestones.com/home.htm.

This is how my movie looks in html:
<td><div id="flashcontent">
<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="750" HEIGHT="250" id="banner" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="banner.swf"> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#CD3433><param name="PLAY" value="false"> <EMBED src="banner.swf" WIDTH="750" HEIGHT="250" loop=false ALIGN="" menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#CD3433 NAME="banner"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="false"></EMBED>
</OBJECT></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("banner.swf", "banner", "750", "250", "7", "#CD3433");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script></td>

If anybody has a solution, I would be grateful to hear it!!

Thanks,

Sue

Embedded Flash Is Cropping - Help
Right, I have a flash movie that needs to be able to scale down to fit a different sized div (same proportions, just 60% smaller than original swf). I'm embedding with swfobject, but for some reason the movie in a smaller div isn't scaling down, it's just cropping.

Embed code for the smaller div below (larger div working fine as it is original size):

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("pageflip_v22.swf", "pageflip_v22", "600", "299", "8", "#ffffff");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
so.addParam("allowscale", "showall");
so.write("smallflashCard");
</script>

I've tried changing the dimensions to 100% each, that didnt work, ive tried the above without the added "allowscale" parameter, that didnt work, and i've added fscommand("allowscale", true); to the movie (which allowed the standalone swf to scale, but didnt help within the browser).

Can anyone offer any advice, cos it's beginning to annoy me!

thanks

Can Flash Tell Which Page It's Been Embedded On?
Hello,

I'm trying to figure out a way to get an swf file to be able to tell which page it's been embedded on.

I've used LoaderInfo.url, but all that tells me is where the swf is located, not the page itself.

Please help.

Thanks,

dougc

Embedded Fonts In Flash...
Hey FK,

I am so glad this place is here as i can throw my messed up code at you folks, and you can show me where my mistakes are.. anyways, heres my newest problem... here's what i did. i created this comboBox that has a list of fonts. Obviously, i want the fonts that i have embedded into my library to correspond to the comboBox now i have two problems. the first is that I can only make the selection once with my AS. but i need to be able to change it whenever the user selects a new value in that comboBox.

the second problem is for some reason all the fonts that i have embedded, i dont believe are showing up properly. like i select comic sans and it shows more like a bookman old style font. here's what i have so far any help is appreciated.

Code:
var fonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false).sortOn("fontName");
var fonts_array:Array = new Array();
for (var i:int = 0; i < fonts.length; i++) {
fonts_array.push(new String(fonts[i].fontName));
}
cb1.dataProvider = new DataProvider(fonts_array);
cb1.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, change_font);
inputTB1.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,change_text);
function change_font(event:Event):void {
var font:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
font.font = new String(cb1.selectedItem.data);
outputTB1.setTextFormat(font);

}
function change_text(event:Event) {
outputTB1.text = inputTB1.text;
}

[F8] Embedded Flash Mp3 Problem - Help
Hey everyone, I have a question about my website and why my flash isn't working correctly. It works how it's supposed to on my Firefox but on my partners Firefox, and on Internet Explorer, all of the recordings play at the same time, instead of just the intro script.

The website in question is http://best3workathomeprograms.com/lantytest.html

Notice the sound players. I used this website to make them
http://ericzhang.com/mp3.php?sub=download

does anyone know why this is doing this? Maybe tell me what it does in your browser. Or maybe you guys know of a way I can do this myself because I have Macromedia Flash 8.

I really need your guys' help, its really crushing my business right now.

If anyone could help me out and get this thing going, or create a new flash mp3 player, I could dole out some dough, so just let me know.

Thanks

Lanty

Also, you can reach me anytime @ autocashmisc@gmail.com

Thanks again!

Embedded Flash WAS Working, Now It's Not....why?
Hey guys, any help is much appreciated.

This website i made with my FLV videos
worked, for pretty much everyone for quite a while
and now, not at all.....not for me, or anyone else

It does work for a very selected few, not sure what the problem is? here is the website

http://www.363sports.com/cover3blitz/Madden.html

Now, i used a new code i found online...and it works
but the problem is, i don't know how to buffer (delay playing video) with the new code....here is a working link for the working flash, that i can't delay

http://www.363sports.com/cover3blitz...e/watkins.html

anyone know what i can do?
please help

Flash Detecting Where It Is Embedded.
I am working on a project where I want people to embed the swf anywhere they want. Since Myspace locks down javascript and stuff like that, I was wondering if there was a way that flash could detect (using as3 alone) where it is? I have done a little searching on google and in here, but haven't really seen anything, yet, so I thought I would ask.

I will continue looking in some of my books, tonight, and post here if I find something.

thanks.

Using Flash In Embedded Systems.
Hey all,
So I have a computer in my car hooked up to a 6.5" in-dash display. (1.8ghz, 1/2 gig o ram, 200g hd)

I was going to write a win32 application in C or C++ that would be a menu system for the whole setup. However, in looking at how easy it is to create very cool looking menu's in flash it drew my attention.

I was wondering before I purchase Flash, what kind of OS limitations does Flash have when creating a local executable file?

Do I have free reign of the harddrive? Accessing MP3's, local images, data from files, etc, or are there access limitation in the OS?

Does anyone have any pointers on a good place to start?

Thanks for any information you are able to provide!

Quicktime Embedded In Flash
I imagine either a simple solution that I'm overlooking, or something complicated that I never would have figured out... or possibly that I can't do what I need with the version I have...

I need to embed 10 Quicktime clips into a Flash movie. The clips range from 30 seconds to three minutes, and have all been cut and compressed to decent file sizes. It seems that when I import the clips into Flash, and the frames are increased to match the clip length, my file size drastically increases. I'm wondering if there is a way to import the file without adding frames. Perhaps, converting the video clip to a movie?

Basically, I need something to function like the video clips here:

http://www.anonymouscontent.com

I'm using Flash MX. The site I've put together has the video clips pop up in html windows, but ideally, I can just place everything in one smooth loading file. I know MX 2004 seems to be more video friendly. Does my version not really support functions to make this possible?

Just going over the Anonymous Content site, it looks so simple...

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Embedded Flash In PDF Not Working
Hi all, hope someone can help with this. I've published a Flash 6 movie and embedded it in a PDF using Acrobat Pro 7. Works fine for me, but when I send it out to certain people they get the following message:

quote:Cannot play media clip because there is no player available that can play the media while satisfying the author's intentions as well as your security settings

The users in question are running XP, have flash player 6, and acrobat reader 7 - which all should be capable of handling this. Is there a setting I need to tweak from within Flash?

Any suggestions? I really hope there's a solution to this as I've spent a fair bit of time working on this only to be thwarted at the last!

Thanks

- B

CCS And Embedded Flash Content
I've been working on a site designed around an external CSS style sheet. Nothing too complex, but I'm dividing a background image up into several div containers. The page is divided into three columns with a header or top section where I want to put flash based navigation.

Everything is working just fine except the adding the flash nav part. It looks like the only images that can be embedded through external CSS sheets are background images.

I've researched this extensively and can't find any examples of embedding a swf inside a div id through an external style sheet. If anyone has tried this or has a link to an example of how to do this please point me in the right direction. Embedding the swf navigation in the pages using the CSS will save me hours of time adding it to potentially hundreds of pages by hand.

Thanks again...
I'm a nubee loving design process in flash but hating the implementation into a page.

Embedded Flash Mp3 Problem - Help
Hey everyone, I have a question about my website and why my flash isn't working correctly. It works how it's supposed to on my Firefox but on my partners Firefox, and on Internet Explorer, all of the recordings play at the same time, instead of just the intro script.

The website in question is http://best3workathomeprograms.com/lantytest.html

Notice the sound players. I used this website to make them
http://ericzhang.com/mp3.php?sub=download

does anyone know why this is doing this? Maybe tell me what it does in your browser. Or maybe you guys know of a way I can do this myself because I have Macromedia Flash 8.

I really need your guys' help, its really crushing my business right now.

If anyone could help me out and get this thing going, or create a new flash mp3 player, I could dole out some dough, so just let me know.

Thanks

Lanty

Also, you can reach me anytime @ autocashmisc@gmail.com

Thanks again!

Embedded Flash Grey Box
I made a flash animation and put it on a web page but now it has a grey box when you mouse over. It does not do anything. How do I get rid of the grey box?

Get URL From Embedded Flash AS3 Movie
I have a thumbnail scroller app built with AS3 on my website homepage. I have the class files but would like to know of any quick workaround to make the embedded Flash movie clickable without reworking the AS3 files. What I would like to do is if you click on a thmbnail or anywhere in the movie, the "portfolio" page loads. I asume this would use javascript? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

360 Image Embedded In Flash
i already have the file of the 360 pic. It is in a quicktime movie format. My problem is that when i embed this only one pictureee shows up and when move the mouse in it it doesn't work...
is there an action script for this. or am i doing it all wrong

Quicktime VR Embedded In Flash
Hello!
Does anyone know how to embed a quicktime VR in flash?
I'm not looking for an actionscript emulation of QVR just a way to embed a quicktime VR movie into flash keeping the original functionality. I've read this is possible...
thank u!

Please Help: Embedded Flash In HTML
I have read several topics about embedding flash in HTML and I feel that I have chosen the best way to my ability. BUT, it is centered appropriately in Internet Explorer and Safari, but not Firefox.

***if you dont want to read my progress in trying to get it centered, just go to bottom***
Begin story (ill write it as briefly as possible)

First I used Flash's built in menu to publish to a 100% by 100% window. This successfully embedded my flash file into html, BUT some users experienced that the flash movie would never launch when I used this method.

I solved this by installing a flash version detection object that I found while browsing this site. I can't remember its name, but you can probably figure it out by viewing my site's source code. After following the tutorial, and cutting/pasting code... everything seemed to work EXCEPT..

Now with this flash version detection object, I had to place my code for embedding the flash movie inside of the code of this detector... the code that I used for the 100%x100% fit would not launch the movie at all now. So I reverted back to simply adding the flash movie without any formatting (Insert>Media>Flash Movie). This version worked perfectly in every way, but it would never center in the window. I've tried changing the variables in the code to 100% x 100% and changing the alignment tags to center.... but none of it had an effect. The closest I got it to be centered with this detector was if the entire movie stretched to fit the screen.

*** End story ***

Would anybody mind checking my source code to see if I have anything that is redundant that may be screwing up the formatting?

http://www.yoelinphotography.com/main.html

Thanks so much for reading

CSS Border Around Embedded Flash
In Safari and Opera the border seems to work fine, its firefox thats giving me a problem. Anyone have any ideas? maybe another way of doin it if this isnt the right way? http://www.ternionform.com/temp1111/

Embedded Flash In Email
Hi

I have recently embedded a flash movie into an email and obviously when it's opened the relevant swf is loaded from a webpage. BUT a lot of the people i send it to only have a quick connection to the internet to download mail. This means that they never get the swf and the email remains blank.
How can I attach the swf to the email and get the "object" to call it from it's position attached to said mail? By this, i mean instead of going off to http://.... it knows that the swf is attached to the email! I hope this makes some sort of sense.

Cheers
Dondadon

Quicktime VR Embedded In Flash
Quicktime VR embedded in flash

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Hello!
Does anyone know how to embed a quicktime VR in flash?
I'm not looking for an actionscript emulation of QVR just a way to embed a quicktime VR movie into flash keeping the original functionality. I've read this is possible...
thank u!

How To Find Out Where Flash Is Embedded
hello, can flash know what url it is embedded in? without the use of javascript of course.
calling external php/asp files is possible. does anybody know? thanks.

Flash Embedded In HTML
HI!

I was wondering if it is possible to detect wether the mousepointer is hitting a flash movie or not: elsewhere in the HTML page. The movie im making needs to be flash 5 though.

plz help!
Jan

How Do I Embedded My Flash .swf Into An HTML File?
It's probably really easy, I just don't know how.

Exporting Embedded Flash Movies
How can you export flash movies within another flash movie? I don't have the original files and my movie will not display those elements online when I try to upload the one flash file through Dreamweaver.

Can You Load HTML Into Flash If It's Not Embedded?
I was just wondering if it is a limitation to use an swf file alone as a homepage.

I like how it fills the entire page when it's not embedded in HTML. However, I want to be able to call up text with the load text action. Is that possible if the swf file isn't embedded in HTML? Can you do pop-up HTML windows from a stand-alone swf file? Thanks

HTML PAGE Embedded In Flash? Since When
Okay I have just been wiewing a flash website over at
http://generals.ea.com/english-full/launch.html

And they have an HTML page embeded in the actual flash movie.
The embeded file is:
http://generals.ea.com/english-full/arc7-2002.html

I always thought this was impossible. Is this a new feature in MX?

(I would have done a search first, but the search feature seems to be down )

Communicating Between 2 Flash Movies, Not Embedded.
Hello.

What I would like to do, is have a flash Navigation, send variables to another flash movie which is locating inside a different frame.

How would I accomplish this?

With my knowledge thus far, I have come to the conclusion that I could either:
a) Somehow communicate directly using _global variables.

or

b) Save to a text file, and then load the variables externally.

Now if I did B, how would I save to a text file and then retrieve them?

Or if I did A, how do I get it to do this?

Thanks,
-Kac

Flash-embedded Powerpoint Lock-up
Our company recently had a Powerpoint presentation with embedded Flash movies lock up during the meeting, which was not only embarrasing, but also left us wondering why...

The symptoms are nebulous at best, there are a pair of Dr. Watson errors in the Error Logs of the computer referencing a "ppretail_o.exe" application error, but I have not been successful in tracking down a reference to this anywhere...

Has anyone had a similar issue and could identify some possible causes / watch-outs?

Mailto From Flash Embedded In Director?
Hello people!

I'm making a demonstration CD in Director with flash movies. I'm not so cool with Lingo, so my question is how do I make Director (or Flash, through Director) send an email by pushing a button. All help apreciated. Thanks...

Exporting Flash As .mov With Embedded Movies?
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this.

I have created a flash document that plays some anmation and then plays an embedded avi file in the plash file.

I want to export it as a .mov file, so i can import it into powerpoint, the problem is when I export the flash file to .mov the embedded movie isnt displayed.

Any ideas
Thanks
MAtt