actionscript

I have a mp4 file put in my website, say http://example.com/a.mp4 , I want a swf player that can be embedded into my html, and play the mp4 file. I don't know how to write actionscript so I just want to have an existing swf file. Requirement: small, fancy, full function, ad free. Thanks. There are plenty of players available, for example http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ or http://flowplayer.org/ . I was recently looking for a simple, robust, usable, non-branded swf video player to use as a flash fallback when using the HTML5 <video> element, and I found the Strobe Media

I am trying to wrap my mind around the best way to implement nested state transitions in a single threaded programming language (Actionscript). Say I have a structure like this behavior tree: Now imagine that each leaf node is a destination point on a website, like an image in a gallery, or a comment nested in a post view nested in a page view... And the goal is to be able to run animated transitions from leaf node to leaf node, by animating out the previous tree (from bottom to top), and animating in the current tree (from top to bottom). So, if we were at the bottom-left-most leaf node, and

How do you get an instance of the actionscript class Class from an instance of that class? In Python, this would be x.__class__ ; in Java, x.getClass(); . I'm aware that certain terrible hacks exist to do this, but I'm looking for a built-in language facility, or at least a library routine built on something reliable. You can get it through the 'constructor' property of the base Object class. i.e.: var myClass:Class = Object(myObj).constructor; Any reason you couldn't do this? var s:Sprite = new flash.display.Sprite(); var className:String = flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName( s ); var myClass

How are infinite/huge procedural generated worlds achieved with minimal lag in actionscript 2? In a game like Terraria or Minecraft for example. What would the best way to go about handling huge world like this be? Obviously looping through every block and moving them that way won't work. I've tried placing blocks into 50x50 'chunks' and then moving each of the chunks, but the result isn't anywhere near as smooth as it should be. Is there any way to completely disable sections of the map if the player isn't near them? Would it be possible to simply store them in memory and load them when