actionscript

HI all - I am using anchor points and control points to create a shape using curveTo. It's all working fine, but I cannot figure out how to get my lines to go through the center of the control points (blue dots) when the line is not straight. Here is my code for drawing the shape: // clear old line and draw new / begin fill var g:Graphics = graphics; g.clear(); g.lineStyle(2, 0, 1); g.beginFill(0x0099FF,.1); //move to starting anchor point var startX:Number = anchorPoints[0].x; var startY:Number = anchorPoints[0].y; g.moveTo(startX, startY); // Connect the dots var numAnchors:Number =

In ActionScript, how can you test if an object is defined, that is, not null? Matthew Crumley test if an object is defined This works in AS2 and AS3, and is the most reliable way to test if an object has a value. if (obj != null) { doSomethingWith(obj); } Its also the most reliable way to test an object's property and read it in the same expression: if (arr[0] != null && arr[0]>5) { doSomethingWith(arr[0]); } test if an object is null There's a difference between null and undefined, but if you don't care you can just do a normal comparison between either one because they compare equal: if (obj

I am trying to call a Actionscript function from javascript but I am having problems in Internet Explorer. I am using Swiff.remote in mootools 1.2.1 to call the actionscript function ie: Swiff.remote(playSwf.toElement(), 'sendResult', result, plays, name); This all works fine in FireFox, Safari and Opera but I'm getting an "unspecified" error in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. I have tried using the bog standard: window['flash'].sendResult(result, plays, name); To no avail. Thanks for any help. Mark I'm not familiar with the Swiff plugin, but you don't need a plugin to call flash functions from

I am looking into internationalizing a Flex application I am working on and I am curious if there are any best practices or recommendations for doing so. Googling for such information results in a handful of small articles and blog posts, each about doing it differently, and the advantages and disadvantages are not exactly clear. Edited to narrow scope: Need to support only two languages (en_CA and fr_CA) Need to be able to switch at runtime Of course, after googling a bit more I come across an article on runtime localization . And followed these steps: Add the following to the compiler

Is it possible to call a function asynchronously in Flex? I want to parse a file at regular intervals without blocking the rest of the application, what is the recommended approach for this? Actionscript doesn't support multithreading, which I think is what you are really asking about here. While the functionality isn't inherent in actionscript (or Flex) you could set up a mock system using events and timers. I'm a little unclear on your exact question, so I'll give two answers: 1) You want to process a file every few seconds to act on any changes. In this case all you need to do is set up a

Are there any examples of using the Flash 10 beta RTMFP UDP based protocol to build real-time Flash games. The RTMFP examples so far seem to focus on P2P networking between flash clients does anyone know of any examples of traditional client/server UDP based communication over RTMFP. Does anyone know the ability of RTMFP to do NAT firewall punch-through to allow clients to "host" real-time games. Imagine being able to over the web through flash client perform XBox live-like matchmaking and allow a client to host a Flash based realtime "Call of duty"-like game server through a web browser. It

I'm looking for a way to do a traceroute client-side, i.e. in a browser. As far as I know, it's not possible to send ICMP, UDP or TCP packets with arbitrary TTL values via Javascript or Flash. I know Flash allows TCP connections via the Socket class in Actionscript but it doesn't seem useful for a traceroute implementation. Is the only solution to develop a browser plug-in ? EDIT : I just found out that it has been done with a Java applet: http://www.codefromthe70s.org/traceroute.aspx The bad news is that this applet requires to be signed code because it actually parses the output from the