Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Style Flash MX2004 Components

2005-11-15 Thread Cedric Muller
Sparkle anyone ? I find just the opposite; I think it's easier in Flex. I'm with you, though. The pendulum has swung too far to the other side. Pre-Flash MX, it was no Flash UI assets look the same. Now, post Flex 1.5 it's all Flex apps look the same. Mars needs women. Flex needs UI

Re: [Flashcoders] Component Name Problem

2005-11-15 Thread Gregory_GOusable
eric, It's quite strange/funny/having_no_sense for me, but in fact = component's name of installed component is the name of (!) movie clip symbol in the library BEFORE converting to a component. = I have experienced the same thing several times. So, if you have been

Re: [Flashcoders] Eclipse/FDT/Subclipse weirdness

2005-11-15 Thread Julien Vignali
Jim, The only files that you don't need to put in version controls are binaries that you can regenerate. You can safely put any other files including .project, .as2_classpath files. I've been doing this since last summer without any problems with SVN subclipse. Have you tried to clean the

[Flashcoders] zeh/laco and MovieClip.as

2005-11-15 Thread Martin Klasson
Hi Coders. An issue that I have dealt with before is now again coming back as an issue. We would like to use a tween-engine as the one of Laco or the one of Zeh Fernando. The problem as I see it is that in either one of the tween-engines above you MUST make changes in the MovieClip.as

Re: [Flashcoders] Ho to hide flash layer in Mozilla?

2005-11-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i guess you could try moving it to -1000px or something like that. might be a work around at least.. Gregory_GOusable wrote: Hello Flashcoders, I have a DIV layer (named 'my_layer') which is over HTML page. Then I want to hide it using Js call as getURL(javascript:hideLayer(););

[Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-15 Thread Stephen Matthews
Hi guys, I'm trying to solve the shared library, dynamic fonts thing. I have a shared library with some fonts contained in MovieClips. Everything has instance names. Everything is set with linkage identifiers and set to export. In my other FLA I bring the shared library in and access the

Re: [Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-15 Thread Cedric Muller
take a look here mind the wrap! (this is babelfish translated from spanish to english, so please be imaginative) http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent? lp=es_enurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zarate.tv%2Farticulos%2Fshared_fonts%2Find ex.php read the small text and look at the ZIP

Re: [Flashcoders] Ho to hide flash layer in Mozilla?

2005-11-15 Thread Janis Radins
document.all doesnt exist in w3c specifications there for FF doesnt know about it use document.getElementById instead, and it will work in both browsers 2005/11/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i guess you could try moving it to -1000px or something like that. might be a work around at

[Flashcoders] Flash Detection Kit

2005-11-15 Thread lieven.cardoen
I've been playing a little bit with the flash detection kit and I'm frustrated about something. I'm using the express install. When user has flash 6 or 7, then the flash player is upgraded from within an flash6 swf (locally). This swf loads a autoUpdater.swf from macromedia site which does the

Re: [Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-15 Thread Zárate
Hi! Thanks Cedric! I've to say that Martin Klasson has found some problems with the hack of one single file per font[1], and i haven't had time enough to check it. Hope i will soon. Anyway, i think it still can be usefull. Bye! [1] -

Re: [Flashcoders] rotate mc through press+drag?

2005-11-15 Thread Amanda Kuek
Thanks Robert for your help. Just for the record, I have the following code on the mc at the moment - hold down shift and drag the mouse for rotation to occur. It's not very good - I'm still trying to improve it, to remove that rotation jump you can see when you first hold down shift and drag the

Re: [Flashcoders] zeh/laco and MovieClip.as

2005-11-15 Thread Zeh Fernando
What do you think about this? About modifying the MovieClip.as -it cant be of good practice? It isn't. Usually you shouldn't even think about it. However, I believe both of these tweens work without major problems or warnings under AS2. The only problem I know is mctween can't tween sound

Re: [Flashcoders] Eclipse/FDT/Subclipse weirdness

2005-11-15 Thread Ron Wheeler
I have never seen anything like this. Why do you need the refresh - what is happening outside Eclipse? You did not mention just exiting and restarting Eclipse. Does that do anything or show any errors? Are other Eclipse projects affected? That is a tremendous housecleaning - only thing you do

[Flashcoders] Pointers

2005-11-15 Thread Jorrit de Vries
Hi, In C I can store pointers to variables. How can I do this in ActionScript? Regards, Jorrit ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] TextArea - Impossible requests?

2005-11-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Dear All, I'm working on a daily news site - headlines display on left, and when one clicks on a given headline the story loads on the right. I'm using the UI TextArea component to display the story. All is well, but as usual, customer has tossed a couple of curves. 1. When there is only a

RE: [Flashcoders] TextArea - Impossible requests?

2005-11-15 Thread Chris Wilson
For the first problem, how about adding a number of blank lines to the end of the news story so the total number of lines is a multiple of the TextArea's visible page size to allow a full scroll? -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[Flashcoders] WebService Class Help

2005-11-15 Thread Doug Coning
Greetings! I'm trying to setup a WebService class to handle multiple operations. Some operations will have many parameters, while others may have none. However, I'm having problems figuring out how to pass either an array or an object to the WebService class. Below is an example that sends 2

Re: [Flashcoders] TextArea - Impossible requests?

2005-11-15 Thread Muzak
And since you don't need the scrollbars, use a normal TextField instead of a TextArea. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: RE:

RE: [Flashcoders] Is there a free 'Date Server / web service'?

2005-11-15 Thread Kevo Thomson
Answering my own query. I found a source that provides the current date (based on their server, anyway) for free: http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/servertime.asmx/GetDate -- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:39:38 - From: Kevo Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] Pointers

2005-11-15 Thread Nick Weekes
Jorrit, I don't think actionscript has that sort of access to the underlying OS to enable direct access to memory. It is a scripting language after all, with very proprietary access to the host file system, let alone accessing memory registers. But that's an educated guess, not fact. Why do

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 FLV, audio sync?

2005-11-15 Thread Matthew Gaiser
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows or can point to me to information on how to fix the issue of audio in flash flv falling out of sync on longer videos (more than a few minutes). I work on cd-roms that ar a mixture of flash and video and would love to be able to do these in all Flash.

Re: [Flashcoders] TextArea - Impossible requests?

2005-11-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Muzak, Is that the TextInput component, or something else? I didn't see that it had an .html property. Did I neglect to include something when I installed Flash? Or is TextArea an MX control? Regards - Miles At 11:22 AM 11/15/2005, you wrote: And since you don't need the scrollbars, use a

[Flashcoders] MXML2UI

2005-11-15 Thread Igor Ageyev
Hello flashcoders. The first release of MXML2UI has left;) This is Action Script 2.0 class library for generating user interfaces of flash application (on client side). As language for describing UI it uses MXML. This class package simplifies and accelerates development of flash UI. More

Re: [Flashcoders] ComboBox depth?

2005-11-15 Thread Charles Parcell
Yup, did that. That was actually the fix for my issue of not being able to get the comboBox to display its contents at all. Any other ideas? Charles P. On 11/14/05, Ryan Matsikas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put a comboBox in the library of your loader swf.. should fix it. On 11/14/05,

[Flashcoders] ComboBox dropdown/listbox height? (not row height)

2005-11-15 Thread Matthew Gaiser
Anyone know a way to dynamically set the height of the combobox's dropdown (listbox)? I can set its row height, but would love to be able to set the height of the dropdown part itself (how far it drops down) Best Regards, Matt ___ Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] External text from XML file including superscript and italic

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Steven
I have a flash page that includes several sections of text that are read in from an XML file. I have worked out how to do this assuming all the text formatting is one style. However I would like some of the text to be in italic and it to include the TM as superscript. Ideally I could just write

SV: [Flashcoders] get, setTextFormat(), shared fonts and dynamic text fields

2005-11-15 Thread Martin Baltzer
Hi All, I tried to get trough the translated version of www.zarate.tv and I didn't understand that much :) But as far as I understood the following issues where unsolved - correct? - It cannot have in the film created text fields from the IDE (not even static) with the same source that the

RE: [Flashcoders] WebService Class Help

2005-11-15 Thread Doug Coning
I found my own answer in using arguments to determine the amount of parameters passed then setting up a switch statement to select the correct call... Doug Coning Software Developer FORUM Solutions, LLC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] New Hire Resources list. Input needed.

2005-11-15 Thread Rich Rodecker
Design Patterns: Head First Design Patterns http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfdesignpat/ On 11/14/05, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Books: essential actionscript 2.0 (eas2) http://www.moock.org/eas2/ Flash Remoting (AS1 I think though) http://www.flash-remoting.com/

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash 8 FLV, audio sync?

2005-11-15 Thread Matthew Gaiser
The videos are about 3-5 minutes in length. After around 2-3 minutes they fall out of sync Best Regards, Matt On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:28 PM, John Olson wrote: Matt -- I don't have an answer for you, but what length of videos are you having issues with? I was under the impression that FLV

RE: [Flashcoders] External text from XML file including superscriptanditalic

2005-11-15 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Paul, Looks like the TM immediately following ProductName didn't survive the e-mail process. I also wanted to mention that, of course, your textfield needs to be set to html = true and you must assign the nodeValue from the XML document to its htmlText property. -Keith -Original

Re: [Flashcoders] External text from XML file including superscriptanditalic

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Kremens
This has worked for me in the past as well. Basically, the rule is that if you can actually *see* the character in your xml file, and you've set things up correctly, Flash will render the character. However, I have a project coming up where we'll need to render special characters from the actual

[Flashcoders] LoadVars + sendAndLoad + PERL + FireFox = Problem

2005-11-15 Thread Philip Isaacs
I've seen this posted on a number of websites, but not many useful solutions. I built this nifty application in Flash that reads data from an Oracle database via a Perl cgi script and loads this info back into Flash. The only problem is that I use a Mac and everything works fine, but I was

AW: [Flashcoders] skinnig the listbuttons of mcom combobox (how)

2005-11-15 Thread marcel vogt
thx a lot that wrked just perfect marcel -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von David Rorex Gesendet: Samstag, 12. November 2005 01:22 An: Flashcoders mailing list Betreff: Re: [Flashcoders] skinnig the listbuttons of mcom combobox

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 FLV, audio sync?

2005-11-15 Thread Matthew Gaiser
On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Mike West wrote: Are these loaded from external FLVs or are you placing them on the timeline? I've seen that issue with video on the timeline before, but not using external FLV files and AS They are external flv, loaded into flash. // On Nov 15, 2005, at

[Flashcoders] weird scaling issue in internet explorer and 1900 x 1200 resolution

2005-11-15 Thread grant
I'm getting to the end of a project and have been testing inside eclipse and in firefox, I come to test in internet exploder (windows) and its scaling my move no matter what I set it to in the object tag. I've done a test swf that is 1000 x 600 px and if I view in in firefox it looks great if

[Flashcoders] New Website

2005-11-15 Thread Leonardo Barbosa
http://www.academia.nu Hope you enjoy. About the site -- Watch TV, Browse the Web. The intention here is to introduce the concept behind the services offered by the Grupo Academia through its new media division. Interactivity

Re: [Flashcoders] sorensen squeeze shaving off 1 pixel

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Ganz
i just read an interesting thread about squeeze having difficulties exporting to odd width/heights. i'm finding it hard to believe but here's the link:

[Flashcoders] How to Read/Write Comments with Flash

2005-11-15 Thread Spiros Gerokostas
any good idea flash+php or .asp ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Flash MX Pro 2004 Not Picking Up Code Changes

2005-11-15 Thread Justin Schell
I am working on an FLA in Flash MX Pro 2004 in Windows XP that is using mostly AS1 components, but the component that I am working on is AS2. After I have generated the SWF using ctrl-enter once or twice, when I make further changes to the source code, the changes are not picked up when I generate

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash MX Pro 2004 Not Picking Up Code Changes

2005-11-15 Thread eric dolecki
Assuming by AS2 you mean you are using class(es) for your component. You need to delete your ASO files... check the archives about it - or use Google. ASO are snapshots of your classes to help speed up subsequent compiles. Mike Chambers whipped up a command or something I think to help clear

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash MX Pro 2004 Not Picking Up Code Changes

2005-11-15 Thread Justin Schell
Yes, I'm writing an AS2 class for this component. The Mike Chambers ASO clear command didn't help, still getting the same behavior. Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eric dolecki Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:58 PM To:

Re: [Flashcoders] MXML2UI

2005-11-15 Thread Michael Klishin
Igor Ageyev wrote: Hello flashcoders. The first release of MXML2UI has left;) This is Action Script 2.0 class library for generating user interfaces of flash application (on client side). As language for describing UI it uses MXML. This class package simplifies and accelerates development of

Re: [Flashcoders] How to Read/Write Comments with Flash

2005-11-15 Thread Ryan - Grindstone Media
Spiros Gerokostas wrote: any good idea flash+php or .asp ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders use Matt's xml rpc client.. I assume you talking about writing a

Re: [Flashcoders] TWIPS

2005-11-15 Thread Michael Stuhr
Ryan Matsikas schrieb: its actually 15 twips per pixel.. but the 1440/inch is correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twip function twipsToPixel(p_twips:Number):Number { return (p_twips / 15); } function pixelsToTwips(p_pixels:Number):Number { return p_pixels * 15; } Although this isnt always

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars + sendAndLoad + PERL + FireFox = Problem

2005-11-15 Thread Roman Blöth
Philip Isaacs schrieb: I've seen this posted on a number of websites, but not many useful solutions. I built this nifty application in Flash that reads data from an Oracle database via a Perl cgi script and loads this info back into Flash. The only problem is that I use a Mac and everything

[Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and flash remoting

2005-11-15 Thread Jonathan Xie
Hi guys, I have been scanned through the documentation of the new AS3 and I couldn't find any trace of info about how to connect to flash remoting. I notice that you can use coldFusion adapter to hook up the remoting but I guess that a lot of peoples here (including myself) have some existing

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3 and flash remoting

2005-11-15 Thread hank williams
There are no practices, best or otherwise. It is currently not supported. It appears it may be possible to hack remoting support using a bare metal approach based around the netConnection class, but this is non trivial, and so far no one has demonstrated any working code. It is unclear whether

Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference.upload - Filedata

2005-11-15 Thread M Daggett
Do you know if you can append extra parameters into the FileData? For example, I would like to allow users to describe their picture (name, title) but I don't have anyway to put that into the upload. I guess if worse came to worse I could add it to the URL but that is far from elegant.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pointers

2005-11-15 Thread David Rorex
On 11/15/05, Jorrit de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In C I can store pointers to variables. How can I do this in ActionScript? All variables are always referenced by type, except for the basic types: Number, String, and the special ones like undefined, null. There is nothing equivelent