So I'm following this tutorial and in the part, "Getting graphics there", the guy/girl says to, and I quote, "We’ll start with what I consider the best one, an swf. Make a new directory in the root of your project folder called assets and save this nice picture of a leek in there."
In the linked webpage there was no copy or save as... option when right-clicking, so I googled how to copy swf from websites and it said to view source code, and to do so by hitting CTRL + U on chrome. I did and nothing. So I tried going on the top right corner > Tools > Developer Tools and it gave me the page HTML, but in the code, where the HTML was getting the image from was the webpage link itself, so... help? ^^".
Maybe I'm suposed to save the link/location to that image and FlashDevelop will get it from there?
(I can't print screen it because I'll get the white background by doing so when I believe the file is the leek only, with no background.)
The problem can also be solved in another way since getting this particular leek is not important, I do have an image I made in photoshop and I could use it aswell, although it's PNG and not SWF as he says in the tutorial... :P
Are there any online png to swf converters? How can it be done properly?
I just need help getting an swf image
An SWF file is a compiled Adobe Flash "movie." It's not really an image. Flash movies can be interactive, dynamic, static, etc., much like a Java applet. For this reason, there is no way to "convert" a PNG file to an SWF file. If you had Adobe Flash, you could create an SWF yourself, but chances are you do not.
In the case of your leek, it appears to be just a simple static image embedded in the SWF. The reason you didn't see "copy" or "save as" when right-clicking was that Adobe Flash player has its own context menu. Ctrl-U didn't work either because Flash player traps keystrokes. If you want to save it, you can use your browser's file menu. That would be the easiest way. The reason your search results suggested viewing the source was that usually when people want to save SWF files, they are taking them out of existing web pages. By contrast, you are looking directly at the SWF file - you don't have to try to find the url in a web page's source because you're already at that url.
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I have a TinyMCE editor working with Dynamics365. In it, I'm able to get images to copy and paste into the window. However, I'm wondering where these images get posted to and/or stored and what I need to do to bring them back up when the page is closed and reopened.
When I reopen the page I get a list of errors saying the images can't be found (makes sense).
Thanks
When you copy and paste the image into TinyMCE what actual HTML are you getting before you save the content? What plugins are you loading in TinyMCE to help facilitate the copy/paste? There is a free paste plugin and a commercial powerpaste plugin - these would typically result in slightly different HTML depending on the source of what you are copying.
Knowing what sort of HTML you get after the paste would be the first step in determining possible solutions.
We are using URLs for inserting the images into the page.
I'm attempting to get an array of pixels of the screen (web page) but i know of no way of doing that without using canvas (either straight-up or converting HTML dom elements into canvas, first). I need to capture every pixel on the screen and i don't know what operating system is going to be used so i can't request the display from the O/S, either. Is there a third-party tool, possibly, or a way to do this from the window object in the DOM?
I have only one idea. Maybe you should try to move this functionality to the server. You can use WkHtmlToPDF(http://wkhtmltopdf.org/) for saving websites as PDF, pdf file you can convert to an image and read pixels array.
As web developers with no control of the client machine, there's two approaches to getting a screenshot of a webpage:
Open the webpage in a headless browser on the server and make the screenshot there. phantomjs is a popular one.
(I'm including this for completeness, though you said you don't want to take that route): Use the canvas element on the client. html2canvas is an interesting project that re-renders an entire HTML document into a canvas element so a screenshot can be made.
If your use case allows it, you could of course instruct your users to take a screenshot and paste it in an upload form that can handle images from the clipboard. On Windows, that's a matter of hitting "Print Screen" and CTRL+V.
Here is an api to generate images from online web pages: http://www.page2images.com/Create-Website-Screenshot-with-Javascript-API
I made a custom html file for my Unity web project. Though after building my project, it opens the default pre-made one. Is there a way to make Unity open my own html file instead of the default one?
You're looking for the Web Player Templates manual page.
In your Assets folder, create a folder named WebPlayerTemplates, and put your template in there. You'll need an HTML file. To help make this slightly easier, Unity will look in that HTML for certain tokens that it can replace with data from the project.
For example, one such tag is %UNITY_WEB_PATH%, which will be replaced with the path to your built project file.
Some tags include:
UNITY_WEB_NAME Name of the webplayer.
UNITY_WIDTH UNITY_HEIGHT Onscreen width and height of the player in
pixels.
UNITY_WEB_PATH Local path to the webplayer file.
UNITY_UNITYOBJECT_URL In the usual case where the page will download
UnityObject2.js from the Unity’s website (ie, the Offline Deployment
option is disabled), this tag will provide the download URL.
UNITY_UNITYOBJECT_DEPENDENCIES The UnityObject2.js have dependencies
and this tag will be replaced with the needed dependencies for it to
work properly.
In every deployment I've seen, the WebPlayer plugin is is launched via JavaScript, by instantiating a UnityObject2 and calling its initPlugin method:
var u = new UnityObject2();
u.initPlugin(jQuery("#unityPlayer")[0], "Example.unity3d");
The above assumes that you have a div with id #unityPlayer, and that Example.unity3d is a valid path to your Unity build file.
In practice, though, I recommend working from Unity's generated HTML files; they include some failsafes for cases where the WebPlayer plugin isn't installed or fails to load. The manual page linked above also has HTML source examples which include some of those special tags.
UnityObject2 does have some advanced features, which are also documented in the manual. If your game needs to communicate with the outer web page, that is also possible.
I want to add a pdf and word format of my resume to my portfolio page and make it downloadable. Does anyone have some simple script?
Add a link to the file and let the browser handle the download.
You may be over-complicating the problem. It's possible to use a href pointing to the location of the .pdf or .doc file, when a user clicks on this in their browser, generally they will be asked if they would like to save or open the file, depending on their OS/configuration.
If this is still confusing, leave a comment and I'll explain anything you don't get.
Create the PDF. Upload it. Add a link.
Save yourself 30 minutes tossing around with PDFGEN code.
You will want to issue or employ the Content-Disposition HTTP header to force the download otherwise some browsers may recognize the common file extensions and try to automatically open the file contents. It will feel more professional if the link actually downloads the file instead of launching an app - important for a resume I think.
Content-Disposition must be generated within the page from the server side as far as I know.
Option:
Upload your resume to Google Docs.
Add a link to the file on your portfolio page just as I do in the menu of my blog:
Use Google Docs Viewer passing to it the URL of the PDF as you can see in this link.
What I'd like to be able to do is download any web page, and be able to view it offline.
It seems like html WebKit views cannot be converted to PDFs (on the Mac, you could 'print' a PDF, but that isn't possible on iPhone?).
So, the only way is to save the actual resources - save the html, the step thru each image, css, js file and save it locally. Then maybe alter the urls within the code so they point to the right place...etc ...etc...
Is there a standard way to do this?
Or, is there an open source project (in any programming lang) which does this kind of thing?
There's an excellent webkit html to pdf converter appropriately called wkhtmltopdf. Given the reources available on the iphone and its toolkits, I think it'd be easy to compile a version for the i-Phone ('think' being the operative word). We've managed to use the tool in a Windows, Linux and Solaris environment with absolutely no bugs. Here's the link:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/