Access Client Machine from AIR on Ease

This is a dream come true.
To run an EXE from AIR, do the following steps:
Step 1:
Install the exe from this Link
Step 2:
Import Flex Project samples, from install dir ex: C:\Program Files\FluorineFx Aperture\Samples
Step 3:
Copy *.dll files (apimaging.dll,apoutlook.dll,apSystem.dll,fluorinepp.dll and msi.dll) to your Flex src directory
Step 4:
Copy your ‘-app.xml’ to ‘C:\Program Files\FluorineFx Aperture\Debug’ location of install dir for debugging or just pack the AIR

Elearning using Flex

I am glad to announce the first Step for basic requirements of E-Learning using Flex has been achieved.
Basic Requirements met:

• All Flash player versions starting from Flash Player version 6 to 10, should be loaded. (For support of old elearning courses).
• Without any memory leak due to loading multiple swf files.
• Ability to navigate to any particular lesson (SWF).
• XML Support for loading swf files into a lesson.
• PreLoader for showing the loading status of individual SWF files
• Ability to detect events of SWF files (eg: totalframes, swf playing etc.,) 

See the demo of loading a number of animations. The source files include floader.mxml, ForcibleLoader.as and XML

Power of FP10

Get your own mp3 from local system played from web. more

AVM1Movie Controller in Flex

Overcome restrictions on an AVM1 SWF file loaded by an AVM2 SWF file:

While trying to control AVM1Movie (Flash Player 8, 9, 10 or older) from flex, we will get the below error message: ”Property stop not found on flash.display.AVM1Movie and there is no default value. ”

To overcome this problem, ForcibleLoader class converts them into latest player versions on runtime. The below is an working example for how to control AVM1Movie from Flex.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”absolute” initialize=”init()”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var swfURL:String = "AVM1Movie.swf";
private var libMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
private function init():void{
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, swfComplete);
var fLoader:ForcibleLoader = new ForcibleLoader(loader);
fLoader.load(new URLRequest(swfURL));
swfContainer.addChild(loader);
}
private function swfComplete(event:Event):void{
libMC = event.currentTarget.content as MovieClip;
libMC.gotoAndStop(1);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:UIComponent id=”swfContainer”/>
<mx:NumericStepper id=”slide” change=”{libMC.gotoAndStop(slide.value)}”/>
</mx:Application>

Loading flash library asset in Flex

The below is the code to load flash library asset (using linkage name) on Flex.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” creationComplete=”onCreationComplete()” >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.UIComponent;
private function onCreationComplete():void{
var swfLoader:Loader = new Loader();
swfLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onSWFLoadComplete);
swfLoader.load(new URLRequest("flash.swf"));
}
private function onSWFLoadComplete(event:Event):void{
var tempClass:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition("libraryAsset") as Class;
var movieClip:MovieClip = new tempClass() as MovieClip;
var uiComp:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
uiComp.addChild(movieClip);
addChild(uiComp);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

Flash Player 10 Release

Great news, now we can save file from flash. we have new data type vector, support for 3d, new text engine and lot more   To develop code using flex for Flash 10

Code to Save any file in using flash
var fr:FileReference;
fr.save(‘data to be saved in a file’, fr.name);

example : files

Adobe release notes 

access MovieClips Recursively

access MovieClips inside layers Recursively, the below is example to stop all movieclips recursively

private function stopMCRecursively(mc:MovieClip) : void
{
var ind:uint;
if (!mc)
{
return;
}
if (mc != this)
{
mc.stop();
}
ind = 0;
while (ind++ < mc.numChildren)
{
if (mc.getChildAt(ind) is MovieClip)
{
stopMCRecursively(mc.getChildAt(ind) as MovieClip);
}
}
return;
}