[Swftools-common] Re: [ FIXED ] Creating a Simple Viewer

[Stephen More]

Here is a template that creates a basic viewer in actionscript 3.0.
It compiles with flex.

Feel free to place it anywhere on the swftools web site.

/*
    /opt/swftools-2009-02-16-1757/bin/pdf2swf --flashversion=9 --stop
source.pdf -o dest.swf
*/

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;

    import flash.display.Loader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;

    public class Main extends MovieClip
    {
        private var backBtn:Sprite;
        private var fwdBtn:Sprite;
        private var loader:Loader;
        private var viewport:MovieClip;

        public function Main()
        {
            backBtn = new Sprite();
            backBtn.graphics.beginFill( 0x00ff00, 1 );
            backBtn.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, 100, 100 );
            backBtn.buttonMode = true;
            backBtn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, backOne );

            var backField:TextField = new TextField();
            backField.x = 50;
            backField.y = 50;
            backField.text = "Prev";
            backBtn.addChild( backField );
            addChild( backBtn );


            fwdBtn = new Sprite();
            fwdBtn.x = 100;
            fwdBtn.graphics.beginFill( 0xff0000, 1 );
            fwdBtn.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, 100, 100 );
            fwdBtn.buttonMode = true;
            fwdBtn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, fwdOne );

            var fwdField:TextField = new TextField();
            fwdField.x = 50;
            fwdField.y = 50;
            fwdField.text = "Next";
            fwdBtn.addChild( fwdField );
            addChild( fwdBtn );

            var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(
"http://127.0.0.1/dest.swf"; );
            loader = new Loader();
            loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener( Event.INIT, loaded );
            loader.load( request );
        }

        public function loaded(event:Event):void
        {
            viewport = MovieClip( loader.content );
            trace( "Frames: " + viewport.totalFrames );
            viewport.y = 100;
            addChild( viewport );
        }

        public function backOne( event:MouseEvent ):void
        {
            trace( "back: " + event.target );
            viewport.prevFrame();
        }

        public function fwdOne( event:MouseEvent ):void
        {
            trace( "fwd: " + event.target );
            viewport.nextFrame();
        }
    }
}


-Steve More

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM,  wrote:
> I am trying to follow "Appendix A: Creating your own Viewers" on
> http://www.quiss.org/swftools/pdf2swf_usage.html but I am not having
> much luck.
>
> When I try to swfcombine from 2009-02-16-1757 I get error: WARNING
> Didn't find anything named viewport in file. No substitutions will
> occur.
>
> Here is the Simple Viewer code that I have compiled:
>
> package
> {
>    import flash.display.MovieClip;
>    import flash.display.Sprite;
>    import flash.events.Event;
>    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
>    import flash.text.TextField;
>
>    public class Main extends MovieClip
>    {
>        private var backBtn:Sprite;
>        private var fwdBtn:Sprite;
>        public var viewport:MovieClip;
>
>        public function Main()
>        {
>            backBtn = new Sprite();
>            backBtn.graphics.beginFill( 0x00ff00, 1 );
>            backBtn.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, 100, 100 );
>            backBtn.buttonMode = true;
>            backBtn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, backOne );
>
>            var backField:TextField = new TextField();
>            backField.x = 50;
>            backField.y = 50;
>            backField.text = "Prev";
>            backBtn.addChild( backField );
>            addChild( backBtn );
>
>
>            fwdBtn = new Sprite();
>            fwdBtn.x = 100;
>            fwdBtn.graphics.beginFill( 0xff0000, 1 );
>            fwdBtn.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, 100, 100 );
>            fwdBtn.buttonMode = true;
>            fwdBtn.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, fwdOne );
>
>            var fwdField:TextField = new TextField();
>            fwdField.x = 50;
>            fwdField.y = 50;
>            fwdField.text = "Next";
>            fwdBtn.addChild( fwdField );
>            addChild( fwdBtn );
>
>
>            viewport = new MovieClip();
>            viewport.graphics.beginFill( 0x0000FF, 1 );
>            viewport.graphics.drawRect( 0, 0, 200, 200 );
>            viewport.graphics.endFill();
>            viewport.y = 100;
>            addChild( viewport );
>
>        }
>
>        public function backOne( event:MouseEvent ):void
>        {
>            trace( "back: " + event.target );
>            viewport.prevFrame();
>        }
>
>        public function fwdOne( event:MouseEvent ):void
>        {
>            trace( "fwd: " + event.target );
>            viewport.nextFrame();
>        }
>    }
> }
>
>
> Here is the beginning of swfdump:
> [HEADER]        File version: 9
> [HEADER]        File is zlib compressed. Ratio: 66%
> [HEADER]        File size: 1566
> [HEADER]        Frame rate: 24.000000
> [HEADER]        Frame count: 1
> [HEADER]        Movie width: 500.00
> [HEADER]        Movie height: 375.00
> [045]         4 FILEATTRIBUTES usenetwork as3 symbolclass
> [04d]       559 METADATA
> [041]         4 SCRIPTLIMITS
> [009]         3 SETBACKGROUNDCOLOR (86/9c/a7)
> [029]        26 SERIALNUMBER
> [02b]         5 FRAMELABEL "Main"
> [052]       907 DOABC "frame1", lazy load
> ....
>
> Thanks for any help in getting this viewer to work.
>
> -Steve More
>