Comments on: How To: Communicate Over Serial With Flash and Arduino http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/ Where streams of thought converge into pools of knowledge. Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comment-302 John Pencola Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:45:31 +0000 http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158#comment-302 Update: The Flash project file MIME type has been fixed. Downloading it should no longer append the '.txt' to the FLA file. I ended up compressing both the Flash FLA and SWF into a project directory. Update: The Flash project file MIME type has been fixed. Downloading it should no longer append the ‘.txt’ to the FLA file. I ended up compressing both the Flash FLA and SWF into a project directory.

]]> By: John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comment-301 John Pencola Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:26:01 +0000 http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158#comment-301 @Dan Wilkinson Hi there, thanks! The downloadable fla file had a .txt extension somehow being appended, so if you remove that and keep the .fla it should work for you ( It appears that you already figured that out ) :) To address the other issue, first double-check that these imports are included at the top of the Actions-Frame panel: <pre> import net.eriksjodin.arduino.Arduino; import net.eriksjodin.arduino.events.ArduinoEvent; </pre> Then...make sure you have assigned the classPath for that Flash file to point to the location on your drive where you downloaded the AS3Glue library. It sounds like the compiler is not finding the reference to the 'ArduinoEvent' class because the path to the library source is not correct. Let me know how you make out. Hope that helps and good luck with your project! @Dan Wilkinson
Hi there, thanks! The downloadable fla file had a .txt extension somehow being appended, so if you remove that and keep the .fla it should work for you ( It appears that you already figured that out ) :)

To address the other issue, first double-check that these imports are included at the top of the Actions-Frame panel:

import net.eriksjodin.arduino.Arduino;
import net.eriksjodin.arduino.events.ArduinoEvent;

Then…make sure you have assigned the classPath for that Flash file to point to the location on your drive where you downloaded the AS3Glue library. It sounds like the compiler is not finding the reference to the ‘ArduinoEvent’ class because the path to the library source is not correct. Let me know how you make out.

Hope that helps and good luck with your project!

]]> By: Dan Wilkinson http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comment-300 Dan Wilkinson Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:18:20 +0000 http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158#comment-300 Hello again, I have figured out how to get your flash file to work, but it has come up with an Error message Scene 1, Layer'Layer 1',Frame 1, 1046: Type was not found or was not a cc function onReceiveFirmwareVersion(e:ArduinoEvent):void{ Where am I going wrong Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have a uni deadline in two weeks. Thanks Dan Hello again, I have figured out how to get your flash file to work, but it has come up with an Error message
Scene 1, Layer’Layer 1′,Frame 1, 1046: Type was not found or was not a cc function onReceiveFirmwareVersion(e:ArduinoEvent):void{

Where am I going wrong

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have a uni deadline in two weeks.

Thanks

Dan

]]> By: Dan Wilkinson http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comment-299 Dan Wilkinson Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:06:05 +0000 http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158#comment-299 Hi john, Thankyou for the tutorial, i found it very easy to understand. I have been trying to get my arduino to talk to flash all week and still no luck, I am running Leopard on my macbook and your example flash file doesnt seem to be downloadable. Would you possibly be able to repost the link or send it to me. I would be eternally grateful as i think i may be starting to go mad. Thanks once again. Dan Hi john,
Thankyou for the tutorial, i found it very easy to understand.
I have been trying to get my arduino to talk to flash all week and still no luck, I am running Leopard on my macbook and your example flash file doesnt seem to be downloadable. Would you possibly be able to repost the link or send it to me.
I would be eternally grateful as i think i may be starting to go mad.
Thanks once again.

Dan

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