Emboss Effect in Pictures at Runtime

Notice the following sample swf carefully, and press the "Emboss" button to view Emboss Effect

1. Create new Flash File (File->New or Ctrl + N) and Name it as Emboss effect.
2. Import image which you want to apply emboss effect
3. Convert this image as an movieclip using Modify->covert to symbol or press F8.and name it as mcEmboss.Refer below image
4. Click on this Movieclip and set Instance name as "mcEmboss".
5. Drag and put buton component from componts , and name it as "btn_emboss".
6. Create new Layer called "script" and open the Action layer
7. Create one more layer , and drag and drop the movieclip called "smoke" .
8. Paste the following code inside
   
   
   
   
   import flash.filters.* ;
   btn_emboss.onPress=function()
   {
   var myConvolution:ConvolutionFilter = new ConvolutionFilter(3, 3);
   mcEmboss.myList = new Array();
   mcEmboss.myList.push(myConvolution);
   mcEmboss.filters = mcEmboss.myList;
   var matrix1:Array = new Array(4, 1, 0,
   1, 1, -1,
   0, -1, -4);
   
   templist = mcEmboss.filters;
   
   templist[0].divisor = 1;
   templist[0].bias = 0;
   
   templist[0].matrix = matrix1;
   mcEmboss.filters = templist;
   }
   
   
9. Now give ctrl+Enter to run the player.

Download the Source code from here.

Setting Auto-Run Option for CD-ROM

This tutorial will show you, step by step, how to create Flash *.exe file as well as an auto run for your Flash *.exe file when distributed on CD-ROM. First we will how to make flash *.exe file

Lets start!

 

First we will learn how to make  *.exe from file  

1. Open you Flash Movie and open Publish Settings( File->Publish settings)
2. Here Choose moviename.exe option and click the publish option.
3. Now you got the exe file of your movie.

To make Auto run .

1. Open a new notepad and type the following ,      
2. In the above code movie name indicating your movie name , and your icon indicating your custom icon name .
3. Save type as an "All Files (*.*)" with the filename autorun.inf.
4. Now write all files in your CD ( in root).

Loading XML Data from External Sources

The subject of loading data from servers is much more involved than can be covered in a chapter on XML. Therefore, we discuss this in its own section later on in the book. However, in case you’re really itching to try loading some data from a server, these are the basics of how it’s done.

In the AS2 implementation of XML, the data was loaded through a method called by the XML class. However, in AS3, that functionality has been moved outside of the class to the flash.net package. In this example we use a URLLoader to load the XML file and then create an XML object from the data we’ve loaded

import flash.net.*;
var myXML:XML;
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.your-domain.com/test.xml”);
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(url);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadComplete);
function onLoadComplete(event:Event):void {
if (loader.data) {
myXML = XML(loader.data);
}
}