Flash :: Touchscreen Development In Flash

Touchscreen And Flash Are Having Issues
We are using a touch screen to navigate a web site for a retail kiosk _32" and 19". Everything works fine until you navigate into a portion that is built with flash. The "only" thing that we need it to do, as a function on this page is highlight a qty. box and use our numerical touch pad to update the customers desired qty. This function work fine on the html built portion of the site. To confuse our issue even more - when you use a mouse (which we won't have - because why have a touch screen) to click in the qty box - touch the numeric keypad - it works.
I have had techs from elo and 3m beat thier heads on this one, changed every setting possible between the keypad and touchscreen.

So, please, I am begging for help... if you knows of an program to assist, an microsoft xp adjustment - past the obvious, or what I should tell the client that the webmaster needs to do to the flash page to allow us us to lock down the curser and update the field with the touchpad.

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Flash 8 And Touchscreen Implementation
Hello everybody,

I graduating within a few months and now I've got this really great idea to present the stuff I'm doing now in some kind of installation/POI/kiosk. I was thinking of using flash for creating the interface by using bits of the pseudo 3d cube with clickable parts tutorial. This interface is projected in a touchscreen, so that the users can immerse in depth (I'm graduating within an architecture office).

Does anyone have some kind of experience with the use of flash and touchscreens? Advise, tips, hints or big no-no's? Or should I forget about this and master Lingo in a few months (which wont be something that'll make me happy )?

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Flash Touchscreen Kiosks
Hey all - anybody know of a documentr / code / application that will allow me to change a flash prezzo / site etc into a touchscreen kiosk ? -- basically want to see how manyu options ther are / how flexibly this is to do from within flash -- or using 3rd party software

any help much appreciated

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It Is Possible Use Flash To Develope Touchscreen Systems?
hi i was wondering if it is possible to build kiosks with touchscreen technology but the interfase would be made by macromedia flash ?

any link with tutorials or demos of these interfase would be very appreciate

thanks

Qubito

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Touchscreen A Go Go
Hi

We have a client who wants to have an interactive touchscreen in their retail outlet.

Can i build the interface in flash? Ive never built a touchscreen project, so any info anyone has out there will help heaps.

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Touchscreen Interface
Does anyone know actionscripting for touchscreens to create
a flash interactive interafce without a keyboard and mouse?
( Like KIOSK or ATM interactive interface functionality on touchscreens )

Thanks!

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Is there a third party software to take your flash projector to the touchscreen world.

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Please Help - Trying To Design For Touchscreen
I'm writing a kiosk flash for use with a touchscreen. There's no standard mouse our keyboard. What I'm creating is a "soft keyboard" with an array of movieclip objects on the screen. It is a bit challenging, however, because of the nature of the touchscreen interface.

A touchscreen, if I understand correctly, registers the equivalent of a mouse down, a drag, and a mouse up. There is no equivalent of moving the mouse without the button down.

What I'd like to do is change the state of the keyboard button movieclip if the cursor is over top of it (a "depressed" look). What is likely going to screw things up is that someone will touch the touchscreen ("mouse button down") in a blank part of the flash, drag the cursor over top of the key movieclip, and then release the touchscreen ("mouse button up"). I'd like to do the key animation when the dragged mouse cursor comes over the movieclip, and do the inverse animation when the mouse cursor leaves the target area of the movieclip. I can do this just fine with the typical "on(rollOver)" and "on(rollOut)" if I didn't need to worry about the fact that on a touchscreen, if you are moving the cursor, the mouse is always down. I looked at the on(dragOver) and on(dragOut) events, but they don't seem to fire if you don't click down within the movieclip to begin with. If you click down outside the movieclip, and roll over it, the event doesnt' trigger.

Any ideas how to go about this? Do I need to come up with some complex array of absolute position coordinates and trigger the appropriate key movieclip based on its known x,y area on the screen? A simple set of triggered events would be SOOO much easier, especially if I want to change key locations or sizes.

If I need to explain this better, please let me know. I'm open to any ideas.

Thanks.

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[F8] Touchscreen Mouse Problems
Hi,

I have a problem with mouse behaviours on a touchscreen.
In my application I show large amounts of text in a dynamic HTML textfield. Embedded in this text are textlinks which call an actionscript function using the asfunction protocol. (<a href="asfunction:loadppage,name.xml">).
The textlinks are working fine when using a mouse but when I publish the code and run it on the touchscreen the links are nearly unclickable.

Textlinks in flash have the nasty habit of not working when after the press, before the release event the mouse cursor changes position (even within the link area itself).

To resolve this problem I have tried many things, nothing seems to work. Does any of you guys have an idea to resolve this problem?

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Touchscreen Keyboard Design
I'm writing a kiosk flash for use with a touchscreen. There's no standard mouse our keyboard. What I'm creating is a "soft keyboard" with an array of movieclip objects on the screen. It is a bit challenging, however, because of the nature of the touchscreen interface.

A touchscreen, if I understand correctly, registers the equivalent of a mouse down, a drag, and a mouse up. There is no equivalent of moving the mouse without the button down.

What I'd like to do is change the state of the keyboard button movieclip if the cursor is over top of it (a "depressed" look). What is likely going to screw things up is that someone will touch the touchscreen ("mouse button down") in a blank part of the flash, drag the cursor over top of the key movieclip, and then release the touchscreen ("mouse button up"). I'd like to do the key animation when the dragged mouse cursor comes over the movieclip, and do the inverse animation when the mouse cursor leaves the target area of the movieclip. I can do this just fine with the typical "on(rollOver)" and "on(rollOut)" if I didn't need to worry about the fact that on a touchscreen, if you are moving the cursor, the mouse is always down. I looked at the on(dragOver) and on(dragOut) events, but they don't seem to fire if you don't click down within the movieclip to begin with. If you click down outside the movieclip, and roll over it, the event doesnt' trigger. That's basically what I need to trap.

Any ideas how to go about this? Do I need to come up with some complex array of absolute position coordinates and trigger the appropriate key movieclip based on its known x,y area on the screen? A simple set of triggered events would be SOOO much easier, especially if I want to change key locations or sizes.

If I need to explain this better, please let me know. I'm open to any ideas.

Thanks.

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Kios Touchscreen (URGENT)
hi,
well im creating a touchscreen application that connects with other monitor, then the touchscreen is the navigation and the other screen is the information.

Then i want the user t touch the screen and move his finger around the application.
The application are 82 squares that have a little images, then when the user rollover the squares they scale to 150 %, and when rollout the squares return to 100%.
I know that rollovers and rollout dont exist in touchscreen, but im wondering how can i solved this.

i try with ondragover and ondragout but seems to have no result.
i try comparing in every sigle suaare the hittest with the mouse x and y possition but my application seems to be very slow.

can someone help me to solve this ??

thanks

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Touchscreen Signature And Export
We have a tablet PC with a touchscreen and pen. We want to use a flash interface with video and at the end of the video the viewer would sign a box confirming they understand what they just saw. The signature would then be captured as a jpg or a whatever image format and then stored locally or remotely on a server. Is this possible with Flash 8 and AS 2?

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Kiosk Touchscreen (URGENT)
hi, hope someone can help me.
well im creating a touchscreen application, i have this code:

Code:
System.useCodepage = true;Stage.scaleMode = "noscale";
import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*;
ZigoEngine.register(Fuse, FuseItem, FuseFMP, PennerEasing);

MovieClip.prototype.bt = function(){
this.onRollOver = function(){ ZigoEngine.doTween({target:this, scale:150, ease:'easeOutQuint', seconds.8});
this.swapDepths(1000)
}
this.onRollOut = function(){
ZigoEngine.doTween({target:this, scale:100, ease:'easeOutQuint', seconds.8});
}
}

setup = function(){
for (var i:Number = 0; i<82; i++){
this["f"+(i+1)].bt();
}
}
setup();
well this is my code, what it does is that i have 82 squares in the movie when i roll over any of them then they scale to 150% and when i roll out they scale to 100%
when when i try this to touchscreen i found that the rollover and rollout dont work in touch screen i have try with dragover and dragout and i dont found anything
can someone help me to solve this ??
thanks

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AS 2 PSP Flash Development Anyone?
I own a PSP, and I was an user on PSU (Playstation forum). You know about PSP Portals? Flash applications designed for the PSP. Here is a nice examples:

- PSPfVista beta 3
You can download it here, but not sure if it works on PC

Does someone here own a PSP? it would be nice to make my portals here instead of a Playstation forum.

Btw Hai this is my first thread!

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Flash AIR Development
I have been looking high and low for a good example of the SQlite integration in the Flash AIR API. I am able to get my db read into the app, confirm that with trace(). I can not howerver do anything with the data...I would love to simply display the array on the stage in a datagrid. Any help or resource online would be great. thanks in advance.

Code:

import flash.data.SQLConnection;
import flash.data.SQLResult;
import flash.data.SQLStatement;
import flash.data.SQLMode;
import flash.events.SQLErrorEvent;
import flash.events.SQLEvent;
import flash.filesystem.File;

var conn:SQLConnection = new SQLConnection();

var dbFile:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("Playbook.db");

try
{
conn.open(dbFile, SQLMode.UPDATE);
trace("the database opened successfully");
}
catch (error:SQLError)
{
trace("Error message:", error.message);
trace("Details:", error.details);
}

// create the SQL statement
var selectStmt:SQLStatement = new SQLStatement();
selectStmt.sqlConnection = conn;

// define the SQL text
var sql:String =
"SELECT ID, inst_title, inst_desc " +
"FROM install";
selectStmt.text = sql;

try
{
selectStmt.execute();

var result = selectStmt.getResult();
var numResults = result.data.length;

for (var i = 0; i < numResults; i++)
{
var row = result.data[i];
var output = "ID: " + row.ID;
output += "; inst_title: " + row.inst_title;
output += "; inst_desc: " + row.inst_desc;
trace(output);
}
}
catch (error)
{
// Information about the error is available in the
// error variable, which is an instance of
// the SQLError class.
}

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Touchscreen Application Load Swf In Flashplayer Instead Of Browser
Hi all,

Using AS3 I am building a touch screen application consisting of independent locally stored swf files. Users can access these swf files via a menu (again in a separate swf).

Problem I have is that when a menu item is selected the swf loads in a browser window in instead of the standalone flashplayer installed on the computer.

This code is used to open the swf files:

ActionScript Code:
//open external swf page if any
if (releaseOutsideTarget["info"].attributes.url!="") {
var request1:URLRequest = new URLRequest(releaseOutsideTarget["info"].attributes.url);
navigateToURL(request1,releaseOutsideTarget["info"].attributes.window);
}

the location of the file is read from a xml file like this:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<scene>
<object source="thumbs/overview1_thumb.jpg" url="../intro/intro.swf" window="_blank" title="intro" />
</scene>
Any suggestions on how to open the standalone flashplayer instead of the browser would be very welcome.

Thanks.

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Although Flash has all the capabilities for a great development tool – Database integration, XML support etc. I hardly ever come across a site that has been constructed just with Flash.

I know there are issues around search engine recognition, but am I barking up the wrong tree in believing that my studying the application will enable me to construct complete sites with the app. or is it more a question of Flash being used as maybe the animated component of a site constructed by other means?

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Its working fine on my local system. But when i am trying from other machine its not working.

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Hi

We need to develop some high graphics game in Flash. We have coders well versed with Actionscripting however we have not much of experience with game development. We have a query for the game development

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We know the class base development will save our a lot of time but not sure if this is best practice for game development.

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Regards
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Edited: 11/18/2006 at 09:36:05 AM by wintechmedia

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Good day! Traditionally touchscreen applications are developed in Director. We would like to start doing the development in Flash. Is anyone aware of any impending issues that Flash might have? Thanks! Rob

Good day!

Traditionally touchscreen applications are developed in Director. We would like to start doing the development in Flash.

Is anyone aware of any impending issues that Flash might have?

Thanks!
Rob