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Next Generation Flash
I've just seen a video presentation of the features in the next version of the Flash Player. Have a look for yourself at moock.org.

To summarise, it includes:
Saffron, a new type-rendering engine
Dramatic performance improvements (a sluggish calendar app jumps from 14fps to 125fps)
Realtime bitmap effects including blurring, dropshadows and a colour matrix
Realtime video alpha channel

How long do you reckon before the download?

Generation Of Flash
What comes when ....
Flash 6 Vs Flash 8 Vs Flash 9

what are the major difference in between this versions of the flash.

Flash Mx Generation Txt File
Is it possible for flash mx to create a commaseperated txt file directly, - not via asp/javascript etc??

Regards

Godowsky

Statics Generation In Flash MX
Hi all,

Does anybody knows about a component in Flash that generates and shows graphical statistics? I'm looking for something like this component allready made (and preferably free) and just in case that there's nothing like this, I'll code it by myself... any ideas?

Thank a lot in advance

Flash Generation Tools
hi guys,
I'm interested in flash generation tools that I can use to add some flash flavors to my designs. I have used monoslideshow which is really nice for adding slide shows.

do you have other tools which you could recommend ?

thanks,
-Jason

Next Generation Flash Applications?
hello, I Am new in this forum, great site!

A friend tell me a very cool site (he told that have two ex-macromedia programers in this site)
http://www.flashexperience.com

You see very interesing full applications for flash, made in a component architecture.
(I never see it before)
I was thinking to sell that sound player to my clients!

what you think about it? will it be begining of next generation flash applications?

Help In Dynamic Flash Menu Generation
Hi,

I am working on a menu in flash which I have to make dynamic using mySql database. The menu that I am making can be seen at left column of the template at: http://www.letstieup.com/site_flash/ . It’s a template from template monster. You can see the menu at left. Dynamically I want to make them as categories but I need subcategories too. You can see the image1 and image2 attached here with this message. I need submenu to be appeared at right side of main menu when I put my mouse over there.

Now problem is that I am a newbie and I need help in designing the menu. I know simple flash, xml, php and mySql and very little actionscripting so if someone suggest about it then it would be great.

I have browsed few sites and have seen the menus but this menu is complex one because it has “stars” effect in the background. I tried for simple menus that I can make but difficulty is in the “star” effect that I need in main menu and in submenu when I make new menus.

I need main menu to be database driven as well as the submenu that I want to make. Please suggest how to do that without loosing the quality of the flash template.

Thanks,
Harjinder

HTML Generation Tools For Flash
Just made a couple new tools for users of Flash, swfobject, expressInstall, and swffit (aka fitflash).

One is just a .html publishing template that can be used to publish the correct html straight from Flash.

The other is a desktop AIR application that allows you to just specify an output directory, then drag and drop a swf file onto a target - the .swf, .html, and .js files will be automatically spit out in the chosen directory..

Not so useful if you don't use swfobject, expressInstall, and swffit - otherwise a nice time saver..

More information and downloads over at the blog: http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/?p=84

Spider Menu Generation Flash
Hi guys

Has any one seen seen the 3D menu visulisation that is carried out at www.blinkx.com (run a search to see the menu)

are there any resources out there so i can learn how to do something similar

later

[MX] Random Flash Intro Page Generation?
I have 3 flash intros for a website and I need to generate a new look each time a person visits this site. Also if a person refreshes then also I need to have a new intro out of the three.

Is it possible? Can I do this using flash or does it need to be done using a scripting language?? Any ideas and help is greatly appreciated.

Flash Thumbnailer - W/automatic Thumbnail Generation
Here's just a quick method of automatically generating thumbnails on the fly - no more fiddling about with photoshop to create thumbnails... .

http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=76

F8/PHP/AS2

Liam

Image File Generation Using Pure Flash
I have kind of strange question. Is it possible to generate image file using pure flash? I know, how I can do it using flash + php or using some other server side language.
But a lot of the stuff added in action script 3 - maybe there are some tricks for the file generation?

What I need to do - generate image file using pure Action Script and send it for the download to the user.

Random Image Generation In Flash Intro
Hi, I am having trouble figuring out how to do a relatively simple funtion in flash (I am an actionscript noob). I basicly want to do exactly what URL has, in which every time you go to the site, the image in the background of their intro is randomly different. Every time you refresh the page to restart the intro= random different picture out of 4 images. What steps do I need to take to recreate this in my intro? If someone could tell me what actionscript to use and how to apply it I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!!!

A New Generation Of Flash Mode7(prerelease Demo With As3.0 Source)
Z-Ground is the ‘level editor’ of F.L.A.S.W.F. It is used to set up and display objects in a fake 3D space.
The main technology is 3D slice engine.
Actually, it will become a further development of old flash mode-7 and z-mapping engine.
But it still has lots of limitations; you can't look freely at any angle but at some static angles.
I decided to lock X-axis, you can't look up or down, otherwise, it's will be more complicated to deal with objects on the ground-
they must have more transformations. (But it's easy if you want to look up or down, some small change of original code will do)
This time I release this demo just to show you the core code to map the ground texture, create the sky, and calculate and update the position of objects.
Not much optimization there, so it's very slow.
Don’t worry; the further demo I will release will be much better and the code structure may be very different.
There will be real time shadows, physics, water, walls, ceilings terrain and more!
DEMO:http://flaswf.googlecode.com/files/z...lease_demo.swf
SOURCE:http://flaswf.googlecode.com/files/z...lowversion.rar
(http://code.google.com/p/flaswf/downloads/list)
Original core code by André Michelle:
http://www.gotoandplay.it/_articles/.../3dmapping.php

SWFFix - "Next Generation" Flash Embed Script.
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http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ - Available for Download (check for latest releases)

From the site:
Quote:

Developer Team:
Geoff Stearns - creator of SWFobject script
Michael Williams - Adobe software engineer involved in Adobe Flash player detection kit and Adobe Express Install.
Bobby van der Sluis - creator of Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) script

About SWFFix:
SWFFix is an open source project by Geoff Stearns, Michael Williams and Bobby van der Sluis with the goal to create a next generation JavaScript library for embedding Flash content.

All team members have made their marks by authoring SWFObject, the Flash player detection kit and UFO, which are currently the most popular Flash embed libraries available.

Although these solutions may be best of breed today, we believe that things can always be built better. We teamed up to combine our knowledge and skills and to evolve our current libraries into one new and improved solution: the SWFFix library.

Keep in mind - that its still only a pre-release public alpha, but definitely something for people to keep an eye on and be aware of as it's development advances. (Thats why I posted it).

4-D The Next Generation
I was thinkin, u have 2-d 3-d, but what about 4-d????? If their is any one interested in making 4-d things contact me......And we'll change the world!!

DVD Generation - Help
Hi all,

I have just been asked to do some work for an old friend, they want me to create a DVD - i've been away from the hub of the design and multimedia world and actively creating anything within it this last year and half
i've never created a DVD anyone any idea what program i would use, if so any tutorials on it?
He has video he want to be included within it as well as visuals type and audio also i assume, thing is he will want it to be very design orientated also so whatever program i use it will have to accomodate this
any suggestions idea advice feedback welcome on this one!
pretty urgent meeting with him to discuss furhter the end of this week - need to let him know whether i can actually create the thing

thanks

XML Map Generation
I am currently developing a multiplayer flash game. I really need some help with the best way to go about the map generation. It allows a character to walk around anywhere on the map until it basically runs into an obstacle.

I will make it so that a default grass background shows up which of course you can walk anywhere on it.

Then I want to load all these things via XML and place them on the map: Water, Items, Trees, Walls, Bridges. Each of these items has an X,Y,Rotation quardinate.

The problem is that the character can walk in a direction until it runs into the water then it must stop on the edge. The player can walk in the direction until he runs into a tree or a wall. But then if that isnt enough the character can fire bullets that pass over the water but explode when it hits an item, tree, or wall. Then even more to it, the character can walk over a bridge to get over the water.

Now, my problem is not how to do this, its what is the best way to store everything above the ground within the XML.

What sort of information should I put within the XML file and how could I store it so that all those variables and data could be referenced easily later.

Example:

Code:
<water>
<piece name="river" coords="10,20,30" walkable="false" shootacross="true" />
</water>
<items>
<piece name="healthpack" coords="10,20,30" walkable="false" shootacross="false" />
</items>
The above is a sample of what I am trying to accomplish so the map can be dynamically built but yet have all the necessary properties and fully optimized. I am sorry if I have poorly explained myself it is very difficult.

Thank you in advance!

.pdf Generation
Is it at all possible to generate a .pdf document from a Flash movie? Supposed I have a few variables in my .swf (eg. firstName, lastName, phoneNumber, etc.). Would it be possible to generate a .pdf file with that data? Thank you very much!

Help, RSS Generation
I am not sure if this is the best place to post this question, I am not sure if it is truely advanced.

I would like to make the flash file created on the page:

http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/newseditor.htm

Generate valid RSS-2.0 files instead of xml files like this:

HTML Code:
<news>
<entry date="Fri Dec 23 22:59:39 GMT-0800 2005">
<title>
News!!!
</title>
<body>
Here is the News, Yay!!!
</body>
</entry>
</news>

Thanks,

BobDawg

Dynamic Mc Generation
hi, i need a clear mind that can help me with the following problem...

i'm making an e-shop project for uni and want to load variables (product description, cost etc.) from a text file.

for each product, i have a movie clip (called productMC) with two textfields in. and some buttons to link to a pic and add to it to the basket.

the productMCs are then attached to productHolder (an emptyclip) so they are displayed one after another.

productHolder is then displayed underneath a mask so only part of it is displayed and can scroll up and down.

the problem is that the textfields for all of the productMCs are not displaying.

it is not a hierarchy problem as when i use debugger, it shows all the variables are loaded and they are loaded into the correct productMC.

the file is here:

http://daffy.doc.stu.mmu.ac.uk/bsc/l...uctLister.html

any help will be appreciated, this is doing my nut in!

cheers!

vince

Variable Generation
Hi all, I have a series of variables:

variable1
variable2
variable3
variable4

etc.

Using a loop etc I would like to access the values contained withing the variables, but I'm not certain how to access them.

If I make a random number between 1 and 4
--> (randvar = random (4)+1)

then how do I select the variable corresponding to the random number.

--> newvar = "variable" + randvar
will obviously not work because the value of newvar will be set to literally "varable3" etc. not the value stored in variable3.

what is the correct syntax for this?

thanks in advance.

Name Generation Game
Need to create a game in Flash MX 2004 that contains at the most 13 (poker) cards.
When any two cards are selected, a name for this unique pair is generated in a text field. For example, a Jack and a Five is called Motown. Another example, a Five and a Seven is called Heinz.
How would I go about programming this type of game? My skills in actionscript are basic, but I'm always willing to learn.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Dave

Symbol Generation...
Hey all...
I'm trying to generate instances of a symbol at various sizes and transparencies in a movieclip. Anyone have any suggestions as far as code goes? I don't even know where to begin. Thanks!

Graph Generation From XML In AS
Hi guys, long time, no see and all that. Just wanted to ask a question. I'm at work trying to create a graph from XML data. Now, that in itself is fine, I can load the data and I can get AS to draw the line with no problems. The real problem is the axes and their labels. Since each graph line is different, I've got it such that the y-axis scale (the small markers along it) changes according to the maximum value of the graph data (the x-axis is months, so remains static).

I'm trying to use a loop to create multiple textfields position along the line and vary the text contained within them depending on their position. So the position has to be dynamic (in itself, not hard) and the text has to be different according to where it is. This is hard, because loops don't seem to generate more than one text field... they only make the last one.

Please help! Alternatively, if you can think of/know a better way to do this, please let me know!

Latest Version (remember to rename data.txt to data.xml)

Help W/ Page Generation
Hello everyone,

I'm planning on updating my site and need some help with a problem. How can I have a flash swf file generate a thumbnails automatically to what images(or a specifically name ex. "canada##.jpg" so displays canada01.jpg canda02.jpg etc.) and has it in this format like this below.

http://www.flashcomponents.net/compo...m?nav=2&id=173

so all I have to do to update my images gallery is just drop the images into the images folder and the swf file will automatically display it next time the html file is pulled up.

please help me out.

Random Particle Generation.
.. I'm in a state of confusion ..

Can any of you help me out? Just want a tutorial on random partical generators, please.

Random Number Generation
If I want to generate a random number between 1 and 6, i.e., acceptable numbers must equal 2, 3, 4 or 5, what is the actionscript that will generate such numbers?

I am having a problem in getting this code to work for a similar range of random numbers and would appreciate if someone could provide these lines. Thanks.

Most Effecient Way To Random() Generation
Heya,

the random number is deciding the chance of a shot from an automatic turret. this method is really easy, but i'm wondering if it will slow older machines down?

because it's used onEnterFrame, it's running through lots of numbers each second.. is this a potential memory hog?

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_root.shoot = Math.round(Math.random()*100);
if (_root.shoot == 13) {

shoot code here

}

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FK

Dynamic Content Generation ?
Hi,
so what I am planning to do is writing an application which browses through XML data ("a flash browser for help pages")
The XML data consist of elements like we have in HTML: hyperlinks, images, buttons, textfields, radiobuttons,... (but it is not HTML)

Now my question is: Is it possible to implement that in Flash?

More exact:
Is it possible to - depending on the respective XML data - dynamically generate stuff like hyperlinks, textfields and so on (including particular behavior)?

Sorry, I am new to Flash but maybe this is an interesting question anyway..

Thanx!

Pop-up Window Generation From Loaded SWF?
Can a pop up window be generated from a .SWF file
that has been loaded into a movie?

Dynamic Generation Of Instances?
hey there boys & girls - got a bit of a problem I hope someone has a solution for!

To put it bluntly: I'm trying to create a function that, upon an action, will spawn a duplicate instance of itself (which can then, theoretically, do the same as its parent).

bit of a mouthful, I know, but I'm trying to put it in a bite-size chunk!

I'm not entirely sure if this is actually possible; at the moment I'm fiddling with new Object(); commands, but I have no idea if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Any ideas or suggestions would be ridiculously well-received.

Chee-arz
p

Dynamic Text Generation
Hi guys

I want to create some buttons with dynamic text fields. For a start when I have a button I can't seem to be able to get at the dynamic text in the button to change the text - how can I get around this. (whenever I try to access any properties of the dynamic text field they all come back as undefined)

Secondly I want the text fields I create to re-size their width according to the length of the string passed in. At the moment I have an empty dynamic text field that has the text changed to whatever it should be. This leaves only about the first letter of the string visible. How can I get it to re-size the field to the correct width?

Thanks

Giles Roadnight

Random Number Generation
I need to randomize an array, I know how to do this using Math.random but this will randomize the array everytime, I need to set some sort of array, so if they try and randomize the array again, during the same session it will not change, I hope this makes sence?

Random Number Generation
I want to generate numbers on suitcases for an advent calendar in Flash MX. I've tried modifying a script I found in a tutorial but to no avail.

I want any number between 1 and 24 to be generated, to appear on one of 12 suitcases. The number can't be repeated though.

I'm quite stuck on this one....

Here's the Swf.

And here's the Fla.

Help much needed and very much appreciated

Cheers in advance

Dynamic Site Generation (via PHP)
Hasn't got anyone experience with this?

i'm getting data info via php and one site has 6 items. when item 7 is added it should create a new site automaticly with next & back buttons.

does anyone have any infos on this? any source-files, any ideas at all?

help asap very apperciated, thanks very much!!!

Randomizing And Score Generation, Help
Hey Everyone!

What I basically am trying to do is have a movie running, and when it gets to a particular scene - a button comes up and clicking it ramdomly determines an ending. I can do the movie, buttons, and timeline jumps myself.

What I cant do is have the button generate 2 random options (or more). Ideally, by generating option 1: the movie would jump to point x in the timeline, and by generating option 2, the movie would jump to point y.

If that wasnt hard enough (for me!) I also want to somehow see if I can create a scoreboard for both options, which displays a summative account of how many times that option has been randomly generated.

I'm using Flash MX, and I'm going crazy trying to look up help. Any simplified help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks!

Username And Password Generation
Hi,

I know this is probably been on the forum before, but i'm new and desperatly looking for some tutorial or help in making a flashmovie embedded in Html looking into a textfile to verify a username and password so an authenicated user can go to an restricted area of the site.

Does anyone know how to do that? And will you be so kind showing me how?

thnx a million

Report Generation And Flex?
Hi all,

1) The macormedia site states about report generation for Cognos. Can anybody tell me how it is done

2) What is the purpose of Flex and what is the diffrence between Flex and Flash

Thnaks

Text Generation Programs
Hello,
I know there are several Text Generation Programs available as 3rd PArties for Flash.

Can someone recommend some of the best ones.

I don't want something that looks like "cheesey wedding video" effects, but more the professional styled one....

Thanks,
Brian

Random String Generation
Hey guys,

I need to create a function with ActionScript that will return a number that will be 13 characters in length and must be unique everytime its ran.

e.g. "1234567890123"

Any ideas? It seems pretty simple but I cant come up with any ideas.. was wondering if anyone has had to do something similar before and can help

Thanks in advance

Random Number Generation
I thought I might contribute something that might help some people out...I have made a really good formula for generating random numbers. Simple to use for noobs too.

Code:
HIGH = 10;
LOW = 1;
(Math.ceil(Math.random() * 100) % (HIGH - LOW + 1)) + LOW

make HIGH equal the highest random number you want generated and make LOW equal the lowest. The only part of this that takes any thinking is knowing what to multipy Math.random() by. This depends on the range of your desired random numbers. If you want numbers less than 100 multiply it by 100, if you want numbers less than 1000, multiply it by 1000, etc... Most of us here should be able to figure this out...

Random Number Generation
Hey

Just recently started a university project which will require different video clips to be played randomly when a user clicks a single button.

The idea behind it is that the user selects a genre of music, and this will then trigger a random music video (just to keep things interesting).

My first thoughts are that the best way to do this would be to create some kind of random number generation attached to the button, which then triggers one of a few video clips into a level?

Doing the levels is easy, but we have never done any kind of random number generation.

Some help/insight into this would be appreciated!

Cheers

Quick .swf Player Generation
When I compressed my .flv files in Squeeze I didn't think I'd need to generate the .swf players also. I was wrong. Now I'm being forced to make hundreds of .swf players that can be linked to by url. The client doesn't have time to make a custom player that can "dynamically" call on .flv files. I'm having to enter the contentPath in Flash for each video and export a .swf file.

Does anyone know of an easier way?

A drag and drop app that would allow me to add the url+filename would be a great timesaver.

Thanks,
Chas

[MX][F8] Random Text Generation
Hello.
I am trying to test the theory that if an infinate amount of monkeys typed on a keyboard each for ever, then one will eventualy type a readable paragraph, or even a page.

Now, i know you can do this using flash actionscript.
The way i think you can do it is by using a variable called text, with a dynamic text box with that variable.
You would have to make a random number generate, from 1 to 27 (26 letters of the alphabet, and space), then flash would recognise the number then add the corosponding letter in the variable (1 for A through to 26 for z, and 27 for space)

How would i do this?

(have both flash versions, so i dont mind if you awnser using either)

Thanks if you can help.

~Tom

[F8] YouTube-like Movie Generation
I'd like to create something similiar to YouTube's SWF-Movie system, so I would like to known if there is a way to import an external movie (.AVI or .MOV file) at runtime and place it on the stage, properly resized and stuff. Is there a way to do this?

Random-ish Generation Of Sprites?
Hello,

I'm working on a Flash project that has me stumped as to how to pull off one portion of it. The request is for a continuously scrolling list of words (50 or so) that scroll across the screen from left to right or right to left (multiple lines). Only in this case each word is a button and when clicked on sets a value in a global that's passed to a movie clip. That part I've figured out. Its this randomly getting these buttons from the word/button pool and making them appear on the screen, move across and disappear on the other end seemlessly. It has the visual effect of a marquee. But I can't do it with a textbox since its not dynamic or static text.

So... I was thinking that maybe some kind of sprite generator that picks from the list at random and tosses one on the stage at a set interval to get the effect? But how?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

M.

Random Generation Of MC Instance
In the game that I'm writing, I am generating a random instance of a MC every 24 frames. Currently, I have this code in every 24th frame:

n++;
x=random(3);
attachMovie(item[x], item[x]+n, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:110, _y:300});

Is there a better way to go about this process of generating an instance every so many frames or seconds?

PDF Generation From Flash

Does anybody know if there is any software or CFX tags out there to convert a flash page into a PDF?Thanks,ryan

Does anybody know if there is any software or CFX tags out there to convert a flash page into a PDF?

Thanks,
ryan