Flash :: Why Is AS1 Documentation Not A Part Of CS3 Help

Just Found This Out....1 Part Heads Up / 2nd Part A Question..
old i know you won't care but maybe some will take this into consideration..i just found out that aol's new browser 7.0 and ie 6 are not compatible..buttons that call javascripted buttons (pop ups, etc), are not working..I guess bill gates and the new timewarner/aol guru are having tissies..aol will have to go back and build a patch for aol 7.0, the only other option for them i guess would be switch to netscape as there default browser..but bill probably, somehow, owns that one too..

anyways just thought you guys would like to know that for anyone who clicks on your sites with aol7.0 your javascript isn't working..

craziness.............

now for the question..i know this is the wrong forum but i'm gona ask you guys to explain this to me..it's a javascript that preloads images..will someone break it down and explain this to me..benefits of it of course i know..just not understanding exactly how it works..


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>


carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

Documentation Help
Can someone please point me to a good, rich documentation source on Flash MX. I am new to it and flash in general. I am looking for something that will help out from the beginner to the advanced stage. thanks ..

Fla Documentation
Hi everyone.

I want to know if anyone use a methodology do distribute task and for build flas. It is very popular have this type of methodology for actionsript and back-end technology, but for fla I have never seen before.

The problem is that in my office have the as programmers and the flas builders. And the programers need to send a documetation for this builders for how the flas must be constructed. If the inside parts will be in diferentes as, or if will be inside a movie clip. If the external swf will be loaded insided a movie clip or inside a level.

Any info will be fine. Thanks.

About Documentation
Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I'm starting with Flash and Actionscript in my job, here in Brazil.

I wanna learn about documentation in projects that uses these tecnologies. I'll be very thankful!

* Sorry for my english! :/

Documentation
I long for the day when a development team can sit down and write documentation that makes sense and is applicable to real world scenarios.

Flash.ocx - Documentation
Does anyone know where I can find this?

Thanks,

peetm

JSAPI Documentation ?
http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...dex.html#jsapi :
" SAPI Documentation
Stay tuned. The Flash JavaScript API documentation will be available on this site soon. "

how long we have to wait ... !??!? Im curious !

Documentation 2004
I have downloaded the PDF's and tutorials from Macromedia... I am currently printing them out as we speak but I have no clue what order I should read through these in...

Here is what i got... could you tell me what order to read and do these in??

Using Flash
Getting Started
Learning Flash
Using Components
ActionScript Reference Guide
Flash Lite Authoring Guidelines for the i-mode Service by NTT DoCoMo
Flash Lite Users Guide

Then I grabbed 2 tutorials from their site
Import and Edit Video
Data Tutorials

Basically i will spend the next 4 weeks or so going through all this documentation so that I dont have to ask as many questions on here... and maybe if i do all of this i might actually be able to help out others too...

Thanks,
Carlos

How To Create As3 API Documentation
Hi,

Im working on localization Flash CS3.

Just simple classes that localize date,month,zip code, tel. numbers etc.

I want to display this classes like they are displayed (API Documentation) on

http://www.maclema.com/assql/asdoc/index.html.

Thanks.

AS Documentation Software
I would like to document my actionscript classes using some sort of documentation software. Do you know of any good documentation software which is easy to use and supports AS?

Also, another thing, does anybody knows a way where I can create my own classes and then when calling their methods in Flash, I would get that sort of help which opens a small light yellow rectangle indicating the parameters for that function (which opens up when you press the "(" key before after typing a function name with various standard functions / methods e.g. trace(). When you write trace and press "(" you get a small light yellow rectangle saying 'trace(message);'. I would really like to have that feature with my own classes).

That would be really helpful if it is possible to have by modifying someway Flash.

Thanks!

Online Documentation
Hi,

Are there good documentation available for AS3 like how below is for AS2?
http://www.gotapi.com/actionscript

I got link for below

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/...tml/wwhelp.htm

But this one is not nice. In gotapi, I can just type of half of keyword and it shows me all the matches.

Also, the adobe link opens up search results in new window and most of the search results are not relevant. It is tough to browse through them.

If somebody can suggest a better UI for API then it would be great. I was quite happy with gotapi for AS2.

Funny thing is gotapi seems to be using adobe livedocs itself on backend.

thanks,
Mukesh

Trying To Use Search In Help Documentation
Although all the help books are loaded and i can view their content, I am unable to use the search facility.
I type in a word, hit the search button but whatever content is currently in the right hand panel stays there and doesn't refresh. Could anyone tell me what the problem is?

Current Documentation Help
Will someone please provide a some recent documentation about flash remoting to a .cfc using flash 8 . I have been trying for over a week to query a database with no success. When I use cfinvoke, my components work just fine. All the examples/articles I find are old / out of date. I think if I query a database and populate a combobox component just once successfully, I think it will be all I need to start kicking butt. I would especially like to see any information on how to use the netconnection debugger because I can't see any errors if they are there.

Thanks
Dave

DoFScommand Documentation
I don't know where to report something like this, but I just spent half an hour or more trying to figure out why my DoFScommand function wasn't being called, and I finally figured out it was because the C is capital. In the documentation for Flash MX, it lists the function name as myMovie_DoFScommand (with a lower-case c) several times in the first few paragraphs.

Is this error fixed in the newest version?

Current Documentation Help.
Will someone please provide a some recent documentation about flash remoting to a .cfc using flash 8 . I have been trying for over a week to query a database with no success. When I use cfinvoke, my components work just fine. All the examples/articles I find are old / out of date. I think if I query a database and populate a combobox component just once successfully, I think it will be all I need to start kicking butt. I would especially like to see any information on how to use the netconnection debugger because I can't see any errors if they are there.

Thanks
Dave

Unclear Documentation
I'm trying to use a server-side script to call a function on the client side, but do not understand the documentation. I have created a function (Test) on the client, but do not understand what I am supposed to put into the ss script. The documentation states that I should use:

application.streams["foo"].send("Test", "hello world");

What am I supposed to put in place of streams["foo"]?

AS Documentation Generator
Hi,

Has anyone had an experience with any software that automatically generates documentation for AS-based applications? I mean some sort of program that would read packages and describe the classes, etc.

I believe there are such programs for other languages.

Thank you.

Edited: 05/31/2008 at 10:37:46 AM by Andrei1

Documentation About Screens
hi, does anyone knows about a really good book / tutorial that teaches how to work with screens?

I can't find anything and macromedia docs are very poor.

I'm starting to do somenthings with screens but it has several dificulties

i f anyone knows please tell me

thanks

Papervision 2 Documentation?
I need to use one of the 3d drawing API's for flash and I don't know which one to choose. If you search for comparisement on google you don't really find anything usefull. I need the engine to be very fast to draw shaded cubes, and from what I found out, Papervision 2 should do the job, but there is momentarely no documentation for Papervision "great white" as they call it, does anybody know when that would come?

Thanks in advance

Edit: http://www.flashbookmarks.com/PV3D-GreatWhite-DOC/ is the place to find Papervision 2 docs

AS3 Documentation In Flash CS4
Not really a code question but it concerns AS3.

Ok I got Flash CS4 and one of the many things I dislike about it is the new help/documentation. I really HATE that the documentation appears only in the browser. Does someone knows if there's a way to get the help back in the old format? Like in a little window in the program that is much more usable and readable?

[Shockwave ActiveX] Some Documentation ?
Hi developpers,

Where can i find some documentation on the ShockwaveFlashObjects (Flash.ocx) API ?
I've look it throw the OLE Viewer, and found some interesting methods (play(), stop() ...)
and semi-understandable methods (i think to 'AllowScriptAccess' which have a very interesting name !).

Does somebody have something which could help me in my research ?

thanks very much in advance,
reùm

Licencing Agreements, Documentation, Etc.?
Does anyone have a link to free websites that offer printable documentation for things like Software licencing agreements and the like? You would be helping me a lot.

Thank you,
Gene.

Application For Creating AS2 Documentation
http://www.bodurov.com/viewclass/

Any comments are highely appreciated

Actionscript 2.0 Documentation Software
Hello everyone. I made some software to make documentation for actionscript 2.0 classes similar to JavaDoc. If anyone wants to try it out you can download it at:

http://www.jellyvision.com/actiondoc/

I'll be updating it periodically. In the meantime, I'd appreciate any feedback, ideas, feature requests, etc.

MediaDisplay Component Documentation?
I've been searching for a full set of documentation for this component but have only come up with several tutorials... while they were helpful I need to know all of the properties etc.

Specifically I'd like to know how to tell percentage loaded/cached ... but would like to see all the properties. (for instance I found out how to add an event listener for when the movie has completed playng, where can I find more?)
Thanks!

DispatchQueue, EventDispatcher - Documentation?
Has anyone got any good documentation on using dispatchQueue in EventDispatcher?

I've searched all of the places I can think of, there doesn't seem to be anything.

Thanks!

Flash Documentation Error?
Hi,

I find this (which is in the flash docs) not to be true:

When calling loadMovie(), set the MovieClip._lockroot property to true in the loader movie, as shown in the following code. If you don’t set _lockroot to true in the loader movie, the loader has access only to its own library, but not the library in the loaded movie:

Any comments appreciated...

I created a main.swf which contains a movieclip mc1

external.swf is empty except in its library it contains a symbol with linkage "mcBox"

These actions are in main.swf and it works successfully even though I have not used mc1._lockroot = true;

Code:
mc1.loadMovie("external.swf");

mc1.onRelease = function(){
this.attachMovie("mcBox", "mcBox", 1);
}
So in other words...the loader movie does have access to library items in the loaded movie, even though I have not set _locktrue = true!!

Normally I use the MovieClipLoader class anyway to load in external assets..but just for my understanding want to know ..what the hell is the docs talking about!!

Cheers in advance

Looking For RegExp Documentation/tutorials
I've just discovered Regular Expressions in Flash and I'm trying to find some good tutorials on them.

I've downloaded The RegExp class from http://www.jurjans.lv/flash/RegExp.html

I've got the "Flash 8 ActionScript Bible", where I found out about the RegExp class.

I'm an "intermediate" ActionScripter (but still pretty bad with arrays) and I'd love to know if there are any good tutorials or examples of the RegExp class in ActionScript 2.0

Any help?

Flash CS3 Remoting Documentation
Hey, does anybody have any of the remoting documentation in Flash CS3 ? I know you're meant to use netConnection or similiar, but is there just no mention on remoting as per fl8 anymore ?

AS3 Documentation (offline Version)
If you are using language reference often (Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference & ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference) this post may be helpfull for you.

I am not sure how page works in other countries but here in Poland you have to wait a moment before page load up (usually few seconds). Still if you are using it often even few secound makes difference. I have crated offline version today using Teleport Pro

You can extract files to local folder and just add index.htm file to browser bookmark insted of adobe server links.

Disadvantages are that over time newer updated version will appear (but those will be propably small changes) and you'll dont have acces to new user comments. To me it isn't problem and it just seems more comfortale to work with offline (local) version.

ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference Offline (13 sept 2007)
Flex 2.0.1 Language Reference Offline (13 sept 2007)

Where Can I Find Some Decent AS 3.0 Documentation?
Ok, as far as I'm concerned, Flash AS 3.0 native documentation sucks.

Adobe's tutorials are great, I've learnt lots from them.

What I'd really like to know is if there's any really good reference material out there. What I'd really like to be able to do is look up a particular class or package and see comprehensive examples of all the methods, properties, etc. in use, with all the necessary syntax to make them work. (Like the old AS 2.0 documentation!).

Does anyone know where I can find that?

Actionscript Documentation / Reference
Hello guys,

is there any good free actionscript documentation out there?

I mean, e.g. if you understand the basics of coding and take the official PHP Manual, that's all you need to start coding PHP. It's great.
For AS I only found this official AS Dictionary, but thats a laugh, a VERY brief nearly chaoatic reference... no language basics.. operators, classes, functions and stuff everithing mixed up.. i already hate it :-(

sorry, some frustration's coming up... *lost*

regards
schnizZzla

Flash 8 PDF Documentation Required
Hi ,

I've just now started to learn flash and I'm a novice user in Flash . I'm planning to develop a Computer Based Training (CBT) material in Flash , so need the Flash Documentation provided by Macromedia. I tried the Link provided by Adobe , but unfortunately the link was broken and I was not able to downlad the documentation.
So , If anyone have the Documentation or Any other Study materials for Flash 8 would be very useful. Kindly send me the web-link for that.

Thanks in Advance,
Lokesh R

Documentation For Flash Professional
Hi,

All the Flash related documents in the Adobe website seem to relate only to Flash CS3 and their sample code doesn't work with FLash Professional either. Does anyone know where they keep the old documentation and sample code for Flash Professional? I am not sure what parts of the new CS3 documentation will still work with the Flash Professional software I am using.

thanks

-malena

PLEASE HELP - FLASH OCX Properties, Need Documentation
Dear all,

I am desperately looking for documentaion on the Flash ActiveX control properties
(Quality, Quality2, AllowScriptAccess, ScaleMode, ProfileAddress and so on).
I am developing a c++ Windows application which uses Flash in its UI.
I managed to do the basic stuff (embedding multiple CShockwaveFlash ActiveX controls
in a Windows dialog, communicating values between the C++ code and ActionScript).

What baffles me is that I did not find any documentation on the control properties
- neither using Google, nor navigating Adobe LiveDocs etc.!
Please can someone provide a link?

Another topic I am very interested in is performance and syncing between C++ and the Flash control(s).
In my current prototype, the Flash controls are not even able to correctly display (read: without stuttering)
a simple second counter which gets its value set by the C++ code!
Amazing. As I am using a half-decent PC (2Ghz, 1GB RAM), CPU Load and Memory Usage never come close
to anything above 30%, so I am asking myself what is going on.
I suspect it has something to do with the Flash VM's garbage collection, caching or stuff like that.
Any hints on this subject are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Patrick

P.S. I am a senior C++ developer, so don't spare any juicy details you can provide, I'll understand without lengthy explanations. :)

Compiling AS Documentation In Flash CS3?
The flex SDK has a documentation compiler called asdoc. It is possible to download the flex SDK and compile documentation for actionscript files used in a flash project.

However, my flash file has objects exported for actionscript using the "Linkage" settings, and the actionscript source files refers to these exported classes, causing a compile-time error when I compile the project with the flex compiler. Asdoc won't generate documentation unless the project compiles with the flex compiler.

Is there a way of generating documentation for Flash Actionscript? I've considered creating dummy classes with the same names as the exported classes just to persuade the project to compile, but it seems a bit ugly!

Any help appreciated!

FMS3 SSL Acceleration- Need Documentation
I've read all the avaliable documentation and came up empty handed. I am trying to get FMS 3 to function through an SSL accelerator(proxy). It is an F5 BIG-IP_HA appliance. I previously had the server/ssl accelerator running an install of Breeze/Connect for a few years.

All I need is 3 bits of info.

1.What rtmp style string do I need to make the client and server understand how the traffic will flow?

2. How does the traffic flow(I assume return stream is SSL on 1935)

3. What special settings need to be applied if any to make FMS 3 work with a hardware SSL proxy.

The picture is actually fairly simple, 4 steps:
FMS server has 2 IPs 10.1.1.13, 10.1.1.14(now we are just using 10.1.1.13)
The proxy externally operates on 72.x.x.213 and 72.x.x.214 (just using 213 for this case)
The proxy operates on 10.1.2.22 for its internal ip.

1. Client requests stream on port 443 to (proxy)server 72.x.x.213(ssl encrypted)
2. Proxy takes request on 443 and forwards it to FMS3 server 10.1.1.13 on port 80(no ssl encryption)
3. FMS3 server replys on 1935 back to proxy server(unencrypted stream)
4. Proxy server changes it to an ssl encrypted stream and sends it back to client on port (1935) from 72.x.x.13

Sounds simple, but they only tell you how the stream gets to the server in a diagram, nothing more. You must know how to configure the return stream on 1935 or 443 and how to configure the rtmp in the flv so the client/server talks properly. I can do all the F5 configuration just fine, but I need someone at adobe to fill in some blanks for me.

These docs are supposed to have all the info I need. But they barely even touch in any detail on how to configure FMS3 for hardware acceleration. And of course Abobe wants buko bucks for support.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashmediaserver/3.0/docs/flashmediaserver_config_admin.pdf

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashmediaserver/3.0/docs/flashmediaserver_install.pdf

Edited: 05/05/2008 at 12:49:37 PM by CybrGuy

ActionScript 3 Full Documentation
Hi there,

maybe I'm blind, but I wasn't able to find full actionscript 3 reference, including private and protected methods and properties.

I'd like to create my own component and in articles I can find references to private/protected methods, but they aren't listed in the AS3 documentation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Michal

Tween Class Documentation ?
Other than the tutorial over at actionscript.org, does anyone know if there is any documentation/tutorials to be found on the (undocumented) Tween class that Macromedia licensed from Robert Penner?

...and yes, I have Rob's book "Programming Macromedia Flash-MX"

Flash Project Documentation?
Hi everybody,

I don't know if this is the right place to post this.

Does anyone know of where to get samples of documents used in the development of flash projects? example: Contracts, invoices, technical especifications, etc, etc, etc.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Documentation On Special AS 3.0 Stuff?
When doing pure AS 3.0 projects, i use in example this line:

[SWF(width="800", height="600", frameRate="80", backgroundColor="#DDDDDD")]

which then controls the appearance on the SWF. I've been trying to search for the documentation on this, but the keywords are not exact enough so i havent found it.

Id like to know what i can control here.

ActionScript 2 Documentation Creator?
Is there open source or commercial program that creates Documentation from ActionScript 2 class files?

Thank you

Application For Creating AS2 Documentation
http://www.bodurov.com/viewclass/

Any comments are highely appreciated

Undoc MC Tween Documentation?
Hey all,

I have been trying to make sense of everybody else' MovieClip tweening prototypes with little luck and then I ran into some information about undocumented Tweening methods for MovieClips.

Is there any documentation (non-Macromedia I guess) for these "hidden" tweening methods? If so, where can I find a complete list of methods with explanations?

If not, a series of partial lists would be great too. In case you are not sure what I am talking about, there's a MC Method called yoyo that I had never seen before...so what others exist?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jase

Flash CS3 + Actionscript 3 Documentation
Hi,

I just started with flash 2 day's ago, im helping out a friend that has to present his work (a few 3D videos he made) in a flash webapplication. I already found out how to use buttons, do simple animations, import his video's & synchronize sounds. I think we can do about everything he wants with that knowledge.
But i, as a comp science student, would like to get some more information on using action script 3 in flash CS3, information i dont seem to find easily. I tend to find actionscript 3 in combination with flex2 in eclipse, so without flash cs3, or find very specific tutorials without background information.
So I would like to find references on a broad intro, with lots of basic concepts on AS3 in Flash, and Flash itself. For someone who is completely new to Flash and AS, but has more than basic knowledge of Object Oriented programming concepts and some languages like C++ and java.

EDIT: the help function of flash cs3 seem to have what i am looking for , maybe was a little to fast to ask this question, any additions are welcome though.

Play 1st Part, Preload 2nd Part, Play 2nd Part: Possible?
I've recently started with Flash development and I was wondering if the following was possible using only one Flash file?

- The first part is shown and the user can click a button here to continue.
- When he clicks the button, a preloader part is shown and the rest of the file is loaded.
- When it's done, the rest is shown.

I already have the parts seperated in movieclips and unchecked the "export in first frame" option on the movieclips for the second part, but that doesn't help.

If this isn't possible, how should I go about it then? Should I use a second .swf which I load with a loadMovie statement?

Why Is AS1 Documentation Not A Part Of CS3 Help

hello;in my flash CS3 help, there is AS2 and AS3 documentation, but no AS1 documentation;I have come to the understanding that AS1 would continue to be supported in future flash authoring environments;any thoughts?thanksdsdsdsdsd

hello;

in my flash CS3 help, there is AS2 and AS3 documentation, but no AS1 documentation;

I have come to the understanding that AS1 would continue to be supported in future flash authoring environments;

any thoughts?

thanks
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