1. Cropping of User Image on upload

2. Image editing option such as red eye correction, resizing, some different filters etc.

3. Text decoration and Arc Placements

4. Masking of Image in manner that any irregular shape is shown visible/3D view of product with user image.

However these feature list are addition to basic software, but in last few prospect I observe they are becoming more or less the part of default studio. Now this is what we call Moving computer to WEB. User want to do everything on web only.

var kLastSlash:Number = _root._url.lastIndexOf(‘/’);
var baseUrl:String = _root._url.substr(0, kLastSlash+1);

now use baseUrl variable where you need.

I try this article and it actually works.

Thanks to Fernando and Ernie, the Flash programmers, who told me about this article and some other great technique to program in ActionScripting.

Do I need to say anything else ?

var myGlowFilter = new flash.filters.GlowFilter();  //Make a Instanace of a Filter that we need to apply
var myFilters:Array = QuizPlaceHolder.AnswerPanel.filters; //Copy existing Filters on this MovieClip
myFilters.push(myGlowFilter); //Insert new Filter to list of Filters
QuizPlaceHolder.AnswerPanel.filters = myFilters; //Apply new filters back to MovieClip

Hope you find it useful to make your ActionScript stand against designer’s Flash. Please note that I test this code using CS 3 with AS 2.0 but I believe it should work with AS 3.0 as well.

It was sometime really hard to explain clients that designer is not a programmer. This is what happen in project I am working right now. Client reach a Flash animator and ask him to make website, and put image gallery, music gallery, event gallery all through XML. Designer has read some XML reading code from Search engine, and copy paste those code without understanding the use or it. And now I have to fix all those issues, you can understand the mess by following example.

In main menu I have a about 7 menu buttons, now client ask me to put Authentication one section, so my obvious choice is to put check on button click so when user click that button we check authentication. and to make that one Button click capture I have to make changes to atleast 10 buttons, as designer use lot of Keyframes, and movieclip per different situtations.

Hope if some client read this article he understand that you should contact a team if you want to flash website, Only a Programmer or Only a Designer cannot make good flash website.

It was fun working on above flash as this flash doesn’t use any graphics to draw the screen. All code is written in AS 3.0, to make the waves move towards each other and then superimpose. This is a demo of my on going project. I love doing flash work.

mx.controls.*;

mx.data.binding.*; (if you need to create Menu using databinding)

here is the code

var mm:Menu = Menu.createMenu(Me);
mm.addMenuItem({label:”All”});
if (aIndustry.length > 0 ) {
aIndustry.sort();
for (var i=0;i
if (aIndustry[i] != “”) {
mm.addMenuItem({label:aIndustry[i]});
}
}
}
mm.swapDepths(mergerbg_sp);
if (_global.styles.Menu == undefined) {
_global.styles.Menu = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
}
_global.styles.Menu.setStyle(“backgroundColor”, 0xFFFFFF);
_global.styles.Menu.setStyle(“borderStyle”, “menuBorder”);
_global.styles.Menu.setStyle(“selectionColor”, 0x6E8ABA);

mm.show(100,200);

var menuListener:Object = new Object();
menuListener.change = function(evt_obj:Object) {
IndustryShown = evt_obj.menuItem.attributes.label;
redisplay();
};
mm.addEventListener(“change”, menuListener);

Important note: You must have the Menu Component in your Library of first flash. i.e. swf file that is called using Object or embed tag library need to have Menu Component.

Hope that helps

 var nw = PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root,mx.containers.Window,true,{_width:150,_height:110,_x:((Stage.width-150)/2),_y:((Stage.height-125)/2)});
 nw.title = “Choose Industry”;
 nw.createClassObject(mx.controls.ComboBox, “cb”, nw.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:25, _y:40});
 nw.cb.addItem(“All”);
 if (aIndustry.length > 0 ) {
   aIndustry.sort();
   for (var i=0;i      if (aIndustry[i] != “”) {
       nw.cb.addItem(aIndustry[i]);
     }
   }
 }
 nw.createClassObject(mx.controls.Button,”btnclose”,nw.getNextHighestDepth(),{_x:25,_y:70,label:”Show”});
 nw.btnclose.onPress= function() {
   IndustryShown = nw.cb.selectedItem.label;
   nw.deletePopUp();
   redisplay();

}

http://www.flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_xml.php

Will explain this some day.

for (obj in related_mc.sp_related){
// root.mc1[obj] instanceof MovieClip same as typeof(_root.mc1[obj])==”movieclip”
       if (typeof(related_mc.sp_related[obj])==”movieclip”){
         related_mc.sp_related[obj].removeMovieClip();
       }
}

this loop through all child of related_mc.sp_related and remove the instance if its of the type “movieclip”.

mx.xpath.XPathAPI

 in your Actionscript to have the XPath API enable for you. You can find more information about this in Flash Help file but some major functions are:

XPathAPI.selectNodeList(object/mc,”xpath”);

XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(object/mc,”xpath”);

the above return XML node object array where as later returns the node only.

Hope that help as quick guide… will post sample code later someday

EDIT: if you need to read a attribute in any node (not searching but reading the attribute value) then simply append the .attributes  ["attributename"] to your selectSingleNode or selectNodeList array element.

 Either I am not a good programmer

OR

 Flash AS2 is still far from been a mature programming langauge.

Though, I feel first one is true .

Action script doesn’t have any inbuild function to search a value in array. But its simple look I create myself. Next it cannot pass class object within a function that is set to be run by a timer (setInterval) from another function in same class. Did you get it ?? okay, leave it.. its complex for me to explain.

But at the end I found my way to complete my code working, is the main things and hence I am not a good programmer .

Will post someday how to optimze saving process from client to server. This I done using Flash but applies all over