Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and needed computer specs

2007-04-11 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Thanks for all the advice guys :-D.. i'll just tell him to spend some money :-P - Original Message - From: Randy Tinfow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:14 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash and needed computer specs I'd

Re: [Flashcoders] Delegate.create() not working in flash develop.....

2007-04-11 Thread Omar Fouad
D. ache i tried it but unfortunately it didn't work. More ideas??? On 4/11/07, dr.ache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scope problem. try to create the Delegate before applying it to the onEnterFrame function like that: function new() { var del:Funtion = Delegate.create(this,traceIt);

Re: [Flashcoders] Delegate.create() not working in flash develop.....

2007-04-11 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, the problem is Note: I had set the USEMX option in flash develop to true... Setting the option to true, means mtasc is passed a flag -mx which means: do NOT use the mx classes. So you are not compiling the delegate class into your project. If you want to use the -mx flag, simply create an

Re: [Flashcoders] Remove me from the list

2007-04-11 Thread Blaine Fisher
Sorry to be always sending this kind of e-mail to the list every now and again, but I am still unable to unsubscribe, nor am I able to get in contact with the list owner. I can't block the list, either, as it comes in from multiple senders. I would really appreciate it if someone can take me off

Re: [Flashcoders] double clicking on swfs to click button

2007-04-11 Thread nik crosina
all works fine now. it also has the effect of removing layer restrictions: e.g. I have a swf playing at the top of the page on a layer at the back and html text on the layer in front of it (div's). there is a button on the swf, that did not work previously with the layer on top of it, which

Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling Filters

2007-04-11 Thread quinrou .
try to use the matrix to scale ur mc to see if that persists On 4/11/07, Zeh Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this works (But I wish it did). I have a HOLDERMC.CHILDMC.MCwithblurfilterapplied I'm scaling HOLDERMC 200% and the blur does not scale on any child MCs. All I've

[Flashcoders] [semi-OT] XPath expressions

2007-04-11 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Hi all, I've been giving myself a crash course on XPath using XFactor Studios XPath (AS2) in Flash and also with the XML Spy's built in XPath evaluator tool. I'm still having some difficulty constructing some XPath expressions to best fit my needs -- assuming that it can be done. I'm working on

[Flashcoders] More fun with XPATH... now I want XSLT in Flash!

2007-04-11 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Okay, next question re: XPath in Flash Does anyone know of an XSLT implementation for Flash MX/MX04/8 ??? The end result of what I am doing is actually generating an XHTML file from the XML. I know I can use the built-in XML class and XFactor studios XPath to traverse and find what I need,

Re: [Flashcoders] double clicking on swfs to click button

2007-04-11 Thread nik crosina
Yes, I am on a PC here and it took a colleague to point it out to me! I never realised it in my flurry of pointing roll-over and clicking frenzy during my development. I also distinctly remember this behaviour NOT being there on other flash site I developed earlier. [sorry - I seam to be getting

[Flashcoders] named while loops in AS3

2007-04-11 Thread khair
I seen this kind of syntax for loops where you can use break to break out of a specific loop that you named. Is it possible to do this in AS3? If so, please give an example with proper syntax. Thanks -- Keith H -- //Not sure if my syntax is right. //Use identifier LOOP_B to break out of the

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] XPath expressions

2007-04-11 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might try asking this in a forum dedicated to XPATH and XSLT. (Perhaps on Apache) http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ They recommend http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/index.html I suspect you will find some real XPATH gurus who can fix you up in a hurry . Ron Hairy Dog Digital wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Jer Brand
This just gets weirder and weirder. Based on a few pages found in google with people having the same issue, I tried switching out sendAndLoad() with send(), and the data gets posted. Switch it back to sendAndLoad() and it fails. I've reduced this code to the simplest possible, in the PHP and

[Flashcoders] minesweeper style game?

2007-04-11 Thread Lewis
i have a uni project coming up - and im hoping to make a 'minesweep' style game for it, i wondered if anybody out there knew of a good tutorial or source file to get me started?! my idea is you have to locate say 5 warheads, and you are in an arctic condition, so the bad elements are enemy units

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Jake Prime
Hi Jer I just tried your page in IE / Windows and using Fiddler saw the following result: 4 POST a Array ( 35 [helpme] = this must work somehow ) GET Array ( ) 0 Seems like it's working? Hope that's of some help (or at least doesn't add to your woes!) Jake On 11/04/07, Jer Brand [EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] XPath expressions

2007-04-11 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Thanks Ron! I realized I was wandering off-topic with this thread. As it turns out, short of an XSLT implementation in Flash MX 04 (or Flash 8), I'm not going to get any further with transforming my input XML to the desired output XML/XHTML. I burned the night working on traversing nodes and

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Lars Schwarz
you are sending an empty loadvars object... returning an empty post array when doing so is a feature, not a bug :) _send_lv.sendAndLoad(testing.php, _send_lv, post); Am 11.04.2007 um 16:59 schrieb Jer Brand: This just gets weirder and weirder. Based on a few pages found in google with

Re: [Flashcoders] named while loops in AS3

2007-04-11 Thread Andrés González Aragón
Something like this with ':' to create the label: var n:int=0; LOOP_A: while(n 10) { var z:int=0; LOOP_B: while(z20){ if(n == 3){ break LOOP_A; } z++; } n++; } You can do it with any block of code like this: chido : { trace(Quantium

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 4/11/07, Lars Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are sending an empty loadvars object... returning an empty post array when doing so is a feature, not a bug :) _send_lv.sendAndLoad(testing.php, _send_lv, post); No, _send_lv.sendAndLoad(testing.php, _result_lv) will send _send_lv, not

[Flashcoders] File Upload via Flash crashes Browser

2007-04-11 Thread Soenke Ruempler - NorthClick
Hi, I was pointed to this mailing-list by a friend. He developed a (Multi-)File Upload for our application. Now some of our users have the issue that the browser crashes (just closes) when they click on the browse button (i. e. the file browser should appear). This happens in IE6/7 and Firefox

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Lars Schwarz
ooops, sorry, my fault. 2nd par is the target, not the source, right Am 11.04.2007 um 17:51 schrieb T. Michael Keesey: On 4/11/07, Lars Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are sending an empty loadvars object... returning an empty post array when doing so is a feature, not a bug :)

[Flashcoders] embeded fonts

2007-04-11 Thread Juan Anzaldo
Hi!, I have many problems with dinamic fonts, is there any tutorial about the rules of embeding fonts? thanks Ing. Juan Anzaldo Tel Cel. 614 427-6523 Blog : http://janzaldo.wordpress.com Get your

[Flashcoders] Jr, Int Sr Flash Developers wanted

2007-04-11 Thread webgurl
The company I work for is currently looking for Flash developers to work on-site (Ottawa, ON) Here are the job descriptions... please don't contact me directly about the positions, contact the email given in the job descriptions. Thanks Sherri Flemings FLASH DEVELOPERS ? REF: SD02(INT)-07 (FC)

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars.sendAndLoad with POST

2007-04-11 Thread Jer Brand
Ugh, it's working, but this whole situation, and the solution, makes no sense. I started testing this with ethereal to monitor the requests, and a combination of ethereal and the server logs showed some pretty odd behavior. Ethereal and IE/FF showed a POST request for the testing.php, with the

[Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-11 Thread Blumenthal, Peter
Hi List. I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on the issues surrounding prevention of software piracy on Flash based applications, released on CD-ROM. We have an existing product range that we are planning to roll out to territories renowned for software piracy. The infrastructure is

RE: [Flashcoders] named while loops in AS3

2007-04-11 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You'll have to set a flag. var a:Number = 10; var b:Number = 10; var breakLoop:Boolean = false; while (a--) { if (breakLoop) break; trace(a = + a); while (b--) { if (b 5) { breakLoop = true; break;

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-11 Thread Roy Pardi
At 5:53 PM +0100 4/11/07, Blumenthal, Peter wrote: Hi List. I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on the issues surrounding prevention of software piracy on Flash based applications, released on CD-ROM. Since you are running in Director, one technique I have used in the past which may

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-11 Thread Gustavo Duenas
I don't know if this can help you out, but I'm little familiar with director and in south america I've seen that some developer put the libraries of the executable in external and locked. I don't know whether Flash can do it or not, but you would googled that issue...I hope this can help

[Flashcoders] Handling LoadVars.sendAndLoad() redirection

2007-04-11 Thread Elie Zananiri
Hello, I am writing a web application in Flash that sends and receives data to a central server by calling a PHP script using LoadVars.sendAndLoad(). The application is supposed to run on a wireless network at a coffee shop which requires authentication. The way it works is that the first time

[Flashcoders] getURL question

2007-04-11 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
Hello, can anyone tell me how to keep unwanted objects and variable from being posted when i call getURL? for example... i instantiate an WebServices object and need to post the data returned to another server...but what i'm seeing is that the WebServices object is being posted, but not the

RE: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-11 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
This is a topic that's come up several times in the past on the Direct-L list. You might want to search the list archives at http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or

[Flashcoders] Washington, DC Job Opportunities!

2007-04-11 Thread Meghan Lee
Hi, I am a creative recruiter in Washington DC who specializes in interactive freelance and direct hire positions with the area's leading agencies, design firms, and media companies. I don't want to abuse or bombard this list, so . . . . I have one position I would like to share with

Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling Filters

2007-04-11 Thread Mick G
Matrix scaling also does the same thing - does not scale Blur/filter properties. I've tried this... var snapshot:BitmapData = new BitmapData(121,88,true,0x); //Matrix to scale the new image var myMatrix = new Matrix(); myMatrix.translate(-23,-19); myMatrix.scale(0.25, 0.25);

Re: [Flashcoders] named while loops in AS3

2007-04-11 Thread Ignacio Marabotti
continue Andrés González Aragón [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Something like this with ':' to create the label: var n:int=0; LOOP_A: while(n 10) { var z:int=0; LOOP_B: while(z20){ if(n == 3){ break LOOP_A; } z++; } n++; } You can do it with any block of code like this: chido : {

[Flashcoders] webervices question...

2007-04-11 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
am i correct to assume that i need to have a crossdomain policy file on the server i'm getting the data from? what about where i'm sending it to? thanks ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] creating MovieClip frames via code?

2007-04-11 Thread Newsdee
Hi all, I would like to import sprites using a single source image... in other words, take an image containing my animation in a grid, cut it up in single bitmaps, and create an animation with it. I have most of the code done, but I'm not sure how on the best way to go in order to animate the

[Flashcoders] flvplayback component skins for mp3 player

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Tague
Hi all, I've just spent a few hours redisgning a skin for an flv playback component. Now the next section of the website is an mp3 section, is there a simple way to use the skin i made for the flvplayback for an mp3 player? Or to use any of the flvplayback skins for an mp3 player? It's a

[Flashcoders] more web service questions

2007-04-11 Thread [p e r c e p t i c o n]
these are the error messages i'm getting back when i try to load a wsdl file... when i run thw swf standalone it works no problem, but from a browser off of a server i get this Warning: Reference to undeclared variable, 'mx' Could not load WSDL Client.Disconnected Unable to load WSDL, if

Re: [Flashcoders] creating MovieClip frames via code?

2007-04-11 Thread dr.ache
try the following. load your grid bitmap (jpg) into an mc and mask it with a movieclip with exactly the dimensions your single sprite on your grid bitmap has. now let the movieclip under your mask change position in a way that your wanted animation bitmap looks through. got it? Newsdee

Re: [Flashcoders] named while loops in AS3

2007-04-11 Thread keith
Ignacio Marabotti wrote: continue Very cool stuff! -- Keith H -- Andrés González Aragón [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Something like this with ':' to create the label: var n:int=0; LOOP_A: while(n 10) { var z:int=0; LOOP_B: while(z20){ if(n == 3){ break LOOP_A; } z++; } n++; } You

[Flashcoders] DropShadowFilter failure

2007-04-11 Thread Jonathan Fung
Hey List, I recently had DropShadowFilters that randomly failed when applied via AS2 to a MovieClip with a BitmapData attached. It looks like if I had about 4 or 5 BitmapData images attached, one random MovieClip with the filter wouldn't show anything at all until it was forced to redraw by