Comments on: Compiz-like wobbling windows in AS3

By: David Charney

David Charney — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:27 +0000

Hey Manuel,
First, this is a fantastic demo. I hate to sound naive, but how do I use the source code? I am a bit new to AS3 and don’t see a FLA to play around with.

Thanks so much.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:14:06 +0000

Hello Eugene, this is due to the Flash Player security policies, that’s it, the video must resides on the same .swf domain in order to be loaded correctly from any client running it. In fact, the demo on my blog loads a small demo video that resides itself on *this* server.
You’ll have to upload the video to the colorpictures.ru domain *AND* remember to setup your own crossdomain.xml to describe your cross-domain policies.
This descriptor will be read from the Flash Player whenever a request to get the video resource from this domain occurs, take a look at what YouTube is using right now (http://youtube.com/crossdomain.xml): since you are using subdomains too as win.colorpictures.ru, i think you’ll be fine in setting a crossdomain.xml with domain=”*.colorpictures.ru”.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:48:46 +0000

When I copy your project to the server, and trying to move a window with video (when it loaded) — window begins to disappear. (http://win.colorpictures.ru/flash/windows/)
But locally it works …

Could you suggest, what’s my mistake?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:20:21 +0000

Thanks man! great code, great work!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:59:31 +0000

There’s something quite satisfying about these windows… like they suddenly become tangible objects.

Thanks for releasing the code.