Re: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools

2013-05-23 Thread Jon Bradley
There are many better alternatives for professional coding that include automated building, unit testing, support for SCSS and LESS, grunt, etc. I wouldn't consider Dreamweaver a serious platform for building web applications. Useful for some, certainly, but there are many better options out

Re: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools

2013-05-23 Thread Jon Bradley
Need to step up to IntelliJ for that. On May 23, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto kennethkawam...@gmail.com wrote: Webstorm doesn't support PHP :( Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ On 23 May 2013, at 17:35, Jon Bradley wrote: There are many better alternatives

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future

2013-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
Nice to see you're still lurking, mesh :) CreateJS looks interesting and I've toyed with it a bit. Some of the new integration opportunities with Flash CC will be interesting to check out. However, it'll be primarily a toy and best for demo work until (and if) Adobe can create a clear

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Flash future

2013-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea, that's why it's excellent for demoware. The suite clearly allows creatives to demonstrate work and it adds a fair amount of value to prototyping/demo work. In the keynote, we saw Photoshop to Edge Reflow export – a very useful step to PS CC to export graphics quickly and have them in-place

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: OT: Interactive conferences (Merrill, Jason)

2013-01-24 Thread Jon Bradley
, there is still some activity here! cheers, jon bradley cynergy. | Director, Research Development O: 585.563.2132M: 585.729.0837 @: jon.brad...@cynergy.com On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Dave Watts wrote: Our key learning event for 2013 will be O'Reilly's Fluent Conference in San Francisco

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Ooops...mis-quote. I didn't write that bit :) On Sep 18, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Cédric Muller wrote: Jon Bradley wrote : The problem of flash for mobile is as much about politics and protecting the Apple appstore than anything else -it seems to me that flash was a threat by allowing apps

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Of static art and of limiting complexity. The moment complex vectors are used, the data requirements balloon and once motion is taken into consideration (data for per-control point manipulation) the argument is far out the window. Either way, it's a moot argument. -j On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:13

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
even run). -j On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Jon Bradley skriver: Of static art and of limiting complexity. The moment complex vectors are used, the data requirements balloon and once motion is taken into consideration (data for per-control point

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Just look up the storage and memory needs of a vector point (plus it's animation) and compare that to an RGB triplet. It's pretty easy to find what you are looking for. -j On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Ross P. Sclafani skriver:

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
to a smaller form. It most certainly has less processor overhead (maybe not memory). -j On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: On 17/09/2012 22:10, Jon Bradley wrote: Just look up the storage and memory needs of a vector point (plus it's animation) and compare

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple changes their guidelines

2010-09-15 Thread Jon Bradley
LLVM. On Sep 9, 2010, at 9:59 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: how does cs5 generate files for iphone? Does it create a swf and then use a cocoa framework to make it work or does it transcode the file directly into objective c? suddenly looks very interesting again

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex generative art???

2010-06-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Canvas has a significant impact on performance if you allow the flex framework to do measuring and layout and style management. It is not ideal for generative art work that needs to have a high level of performance. You can do it but you just need to override a whole bunch of methods to

Re: [Flashcoders] iPhone viable solutions???

2010-04-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:19 AM, Julio Protzek wrote: HTML5 is less powerfull than Flash. But it is in the right way. We will see Tweeners and TweenLites done for canvas in no time. Flash guys can amuse with any technology. Just give us some time :) HTML 5 is s standard for describing

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agr eement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhon e Compiler

2010-04-12 Thread Jon Bradley
I wouldn't call that amazing – I would call that whining. No offense to Lee, of course. Although all of us would love to develop iPhone and iPad applications using the Flash platform, frankly that is not a proper methodology for developing for these systems, in my opinion. Learn C, C++

Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agr eement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhon e Compiler

2010-04-12 Thread Jon Bradley
that runs like a snail and does not make any money. Jon Bradley wrote: I wouldn't call that amazing – I would call that whining. No offense to Lee, of course. Although all of us would love to develop iPhone and iPad applications using the Flash platform, frankly that is not a proper

Re: [Flashcoders] Has everyone seen this yet?

2010-02-16 Thread Jon Bradley
It's an Adobe AIR application running on an unknown tablet device. It's not an iPad and has nothing to do with it. Someone made a mistake with the copy for the article. FYI, it's not impossible to do this in other languages or environments. There are other, more powerful frameworks that

Re: [Flashcoders] Has everyone seen this yet?

2010-02-16 Thread Jon Bradley
I think the statement was justified... this is Flashcoders. I just wanted to state that developing UIs like that isn't limited to Flash, that's all. :) After doing more research, it's entirely possible that this is running on an iPad. We just can't tell from the video if that really is, in

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime Font embedding

2010-02-11 Thread Jon Bradley
You can embed a range of characters through AS3. The unicodeRange property of the embed directive handles this. [Embed(source='pathToFond', fontName='NameOfFont', unicodeRange='Range1Start-Range1End,, RangeNStart-RangeNEnd')] - jon On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Geografiek wrote: Hi

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs. Flex libraries

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 23, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Jason Boyd wrote: 1. Can Flex libraries (mx.*) be used in Flash CS3/4? Is this as simple as adding source files and/or SWCs to an FLA project's classpath? And, where are all these libraries (Windows XP or Vista)? Yes.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: A funny little hover problem with CSS

2008-12-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote: I always round everything I place. That was one of the first things I checked. Rotated bitmaps and text often have this problem, which is fair enough because half pixels don't exist. Actually, they do. The native coordinate space for

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: A funny little hover problem with CSS

2008-12-17 Thread Jon Bradley
wrote: Now that is odd. Is 0.5 the general rule to follow or is it simply different for every object you put down? 2008/12/18 Jon Bradley jbrad...@postcentral.com One of the most interesting tests is to create a rounded rectangle and add a 1 pixel border line around it. Notice it looks funky

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: A funny little hover problem with CSS

2008-12-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote: Right. I recreated everything slowly in a new file, introducing things one by one and here's the culprit - Advanced Anti-Aliasing.Now I really would like to use advanced, because text looks dramatically better, but there has to be a

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Carl Welch wrote: Good point. I'd recommend using SlideShowPro. It's cheap ($29), looks slick, and you'll be done in no time - your client will be none the wiser and you'll be $350 richer. http://slideshowpro.net/ At least there will be an email post in the

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: Not sure thats really ripping them off considering they probably don't know how to use the thing even if they bought it themselves. Well, yea. Charging setup, installation and customization of some store bought product is one thing.

Re: [Flashcoders] How much would you charge?

2008-11-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Carl Welch wrote: using tools of the trade is far from ripping clients off. Ridiculous statement. It's not ridiculous at all. Read my reply to my initial email where I elaborated a bit more. The comment about a client being 'none the wiser' and the

Re: [Flashcoders] Congratulations America.

2008-11-05 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea ... now we can all look forward to a re-incarnation of the Welfare State. Yay. :P - jon On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:57 AM, John McCormack wrote: It's off topic, but it is a very special day. You give us hope. Hope that we can help each other. This forum is also proof of that. John

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder: AS Application files outside of /src root?

2008-11-04 Thread Jon Bradley
Hmm I haven't had the time to check this one. But, content in the src folder doesn't need to be 'added' as an individual source path to your application. So, for other application files (AS) you may want to add explicitly the source path of it's parent folder to the project properties

Re: [Flashcoders] LMS -- Moodle

2008-10-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Cor wrote: Can anyone tell me how to read and write to Moodle (SCORM 2004 3e edition)?? Every hint is welcome! What are you trying to do? Moodle is just a CMS system at it's core. What do you want to write back to Moodle? If it's test results and

Re: [Flashcoders] LMS -- Moodle

2008-10-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Cor wrote: Just a CMS??? I thought it is L(C)MS. The main thing we are looking for is a LMS. Itis an LMS - but it's still a content management system. Either way, you just need to figure out how to communicate to Moodle to do what you want to do, if it's not

Re: [Flashcoders] Zipping in AS3

2008-09-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Claus Wahlers wrote: Hey Claus, one of the reasons I can't use it is because of its inability to work with a .zip file created on Mac OSX. AS3 Zip from nochump avoids the alder32 issue by implementing the deflate() mechanism in software.

Re: [Flashcoders] TextArea class properties

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Have you tried selectable = false? I think it might be: textAreaInstance.enabled = false; Getting rid of the focus rect is generally a separate issue though, but when the component 'enabled' property is set to false, the focus rect

Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamic Scrollable textfield

2008-09-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Lehr, Theodore M (N-SGIS) wrote: Thanks, but I am talking about having it scroll, not just be multilined... Ideally, I would like to do it as simple as a div does in html (style=overflow:auto; height:400px;) is there a simple way like this in as?

Re: [Flashcoders] all useless: removeMovieClip, destroyObject, DepthManager.setDepthTo

2008-09-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I can't seem to figure out in AS2 how to get V2 components off the stage. I've tried destroyObject, removeMovieClip and even used the DepthManager class to try to get the depth within range to be removed. It's showing as -32000. Any ideas

Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!

2008-08-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: But what the hell is an interface!!! I've read lots of books and posts without getting the answer. I bought Essential AS3 to read about interfaces and he says that helps for multi inheritance. In other places I read that it is a deal

Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!

2008-08-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote: This strikes me as the typical gratiutous bashing of some product just because it's made by MS. But perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on the idea... Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft. I don't have anything

Re: [Flashcoders] how many coders here actually have a degree related to computer science?

2008-08-20 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Do you have a degree related to computer science? if not, how difficult is it getting jobs programming AS3 without one? I think comp sci is much more geared toward software and computer engineering, as opposed to programming for rich media.

Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?

2008-08-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Dave Watts wrote: It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does this. That wouldn't really be helpful to the

Re: [Flashcoders] flex 3 // Tile Component // Mutliple Drag Selection

2008-07-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:39 PM, artur wrote: would it be possible to Extend the Tile Component? instead of making a new one from scratch? Here's how I'd do it... Add a child to the container that's holding the TileList component. On click (mouse event), start drawing a rectangle (mouse move

Re: [Flashcoders] Netstream fails to close

2008-07-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Jason Van Cleave wrote: I could cast the sound onto a separate object and mute it, so that you don't see or hear any ill effects, but my proxy tells me the flv is still downloading, so if one of my clients users clicks on 10 video clips their connection will crawl

Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but... In my case I can have scaleX 1000, so I loose too much quality with this method. I'm triing to embbed fonts outlines in my TextTield but the result is not very good (bad antialiasing). I guest that I have no other

Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Matt S. wrote: Is this online somewhere? Sounds interesting :) var m:Matrix = new Matrix(); m.scale(100,1); myDisplayObject.transform.matrix = m; cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Maintain position on rotation

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:27 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote: While rotating, I want to place another MC's x,y (each frame) on that rotating MC. However the x,y never updates. I tried localToGlobal, but that doesn't seem to change either during the rotation. Can this be easily done? Give

Re: [Flashcoders] How to avoid fake data being sent to server?

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Ricky Bacon wrote: Security through obscurity is not a very good idea. You also still have the problem of someone decompiling the swf and modifying it to their needs. If Flash Media Server 3 is being used, for a very nice level of protection it can hash

Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlashCS3?

2008-06-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:54 AM, EDELSTAR wrote: Данный почтовый ящик не обрабатывает подгрузки, заявки и прочие сообщения. Вам нужно написать на адрес, присвоенный Вашему СПО. List admin - can you block this? ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Usage of [Event....]

2008-06-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: Can you pass custom properties with this kind of event handling? All that this notation allows you to do is to define the event (as a string) and it's handler (the event class handling the event). It doesn't have anything to do with any

Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?

2008-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 8, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: But it's important to remember movies work well at 24fps because they capture slices of time and not static frames. An entire 1/24 of a second is present on each of those frames, while with computer graphics we have a moment frozen in time.

Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?

2008-05-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 7, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: The fact of the matter is, running at a higher frame rate makes things look smoother. Period, end of statement. That's not an accurate generalization. Higher frame rate != smoother display in all cases. It matters for progressive elements

Re: [Flashcoders] Using FlexBuilder3 profiler with FlashCS3

2008-04-25 Thread Jon Bradley
Good question. I haven't tried that yet. What you could try to do, off the top of my head, is use the SWFLoader and load up the SWF file into a simple Flex application. I believe the profiler will also profile the content loaded through SWFLoader, but I'm not certain of it. good luck!

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Jer Brand wrote: myMovie.iDontCareIfYouHaveListeners_DIE_DAMN_YOU_DIE() ; LOL. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC vs Cairngorm // who's better?

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if it is a small to medium size app you may want to try EasyMVC from Tom Bray (http://www.tombray.com/2007/10/16/my-easymvc-seminar-wasnt- recorded/). His presentation on 3/28/08 was recorded as an Adobe ondemand seminar and

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote: the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL. and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant. Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a different application to build an SWF file. It

Re: [Flashcoders] Image colorization / contrast adjusting

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Alistair Colling wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for flash to process a regular photograph to produce a pop-arty image like this: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpo7028+pop-art-andy-warhol-1962-che- guevara-poster.jpg A little Warhol-style

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Cutter (FlashRelated) wrote: You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex,

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:35 PM, artur wrote: is this possible? if so does it HAVE to be on a Flash Communication Server? or can it run on others? any links to sample setups would be great too..thanks ?? Flex compiles to an SWF file. However you'd do what you want to do with Flash, you would

Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]

2008-03-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. What am I doing wrong? You can't call new Background_mc() when it's an instance of Class - there's no constructor for it that the compiler recognizes. My

Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]

2008-03-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Oops... my last email was kinda based on the idea that you were running this in Flex. My bad - replying to two lists at once. http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2007/03/associating_cus.php - jb On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: Tweening a very large vector file causes shaking

2008-03-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Matt S. wrote: It seems like the problem started when I added _rotation to the the mix. The file is vector, imported from AI. is anyone familiar with this problem? Any recommendations for handling this sort of basic (or so I thought) effect? There's a bug in

Re: [Flashcoders] Source Control [WAS] to mac or not to mac

2008-03-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 15, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Muzak wrote: There's a new(er) plugin, called subversive that might be worth looking into. I haven't tried it yet, but heard good things about it: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overviewproject=subversive

Re: [Flashcoders] wierd easter egg?

2008-03-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hey this is odd i'm testing my movie at http://qsworld.co.uk/index.php? extcategory=Designextdesigner=Darkest%20Starextproduct=Jacket and when i tried right clicking the top right corner and selecting zoom in, i got

Re: [Flashcoders] multiple TextFormats in one TextField

2008-02-06 Thread Jon Bradley
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: How can I preserve certain substrings of the text to keep their assigned TextFormats? Before you add text to a text field that has a different format than the default that you've specified (with setTextFormat), use setNewTextFormat() on the field and then

Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars maximum?

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Dave Mennenoh wrote: I've been looking and looking and cannot find the info... I am trying to send an array containing many thousands of entries to a php page for db storage. However when I get too much info into a loadvars property, it just stops working and

Re: [Flashcoders] Problems with Gradient Banding

2008-01-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Ed McManus wrote: Does anyone know what causes this? It's as if for large gradients flash doesn't perform enough steps making the transition from the start to end colors, so on a large scale the color difference between steps is clearly visible. This is

Re: [Flashcoders] 9-section scalable graphic

2008-01-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: I know there's a term for what I looking for, but I don't know it and my searches are coming up empty. What do you call the technique of dividing a graphic into 9 different areas so that when you scale it the outer borders don't get

Re: [Flashcoders] Two Solutions: Flex swc’s ( RPC) and or Intrinsic classes within Flash CS3!

2008-01-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Sander wrote: Hi FlashCoders!, I’ve been trying to evangelize my solution to the flash community but I don’t think it came through, really... I hope someone on this list will pick it up! Woah. That's pretty freakin cool. This almost seems as though it will

[Flashcoders] New server!

2007-10-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Whoohoo. Good job guys. Glad to see the server up and running again. Looking forward to massive amounts of email in my inbox all day long from all the flash coders out there. cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] how are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Whether they blit or not, everything is still a pre-rendered sequence, except the text. The clip layout is identical every time. I don't believe any distorian or 3d library API was used (ie PV3D or Sandy). There are a whole bunch of pre-rendered sequences that they are applying color

Re: [Flashcoders] how are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?

2007-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
It's video. On Sep 15, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Carl Welch wrote: Hi All, Does any one know how this site achieved its card flipping effect? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d? http://www.tripleslanguage.com/?CMP=BAC-1TO1Q3TP7042 Thanks. -- Carl Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.403.4819

Re: [FlashCoders] AS3 TextFields with filters - game performance?

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: My major concern is performance, because of the use of filters. By the way, I want to use the filters so that I won't have to make a new Raster Font Engine in Flash (I've already done one for AS2.0) First thought for performance

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash

2007-08-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering what impact if any this will have on the future of 3d in Flash. Well, all the video updates will have zero effect. Those have nothing to do with 3d. This is basically the inclusion of the MainConcept MPEG4

Re: [Flashcoders] Splitting TextField into Lines - Simple?

2007-08-16 Thread Jon Bradley
Check out Jack's great Text Metrics class. He just posted this Aug. 7th. http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/TextMetrics/ cheers, Jon On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Dan Efergan wrote: Hello FlashCoders. The seemingly simple task of splitting a Textfield into it's (soft) wrapped lines is

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
instead... cheers, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
A better link for those interested in obfuscation of AS3 code. http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266992 peace, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: But I wonder, did anybody compare haXe vs AS3 bytecode yet? A decompiler is likely to assume AS3 has been used, and maybe haXe creates sufficiently different bytecode to confuse it. That doesn't really matter. If it's FP9, it's AS3. The

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Berkey wrote: I found early on that so many people can tear down a wall and condemn it easily when they see the skeleton, without ever trying to climb the wall, and that is not a good judge of the effectiveness of the wall. But if you do not see the

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: obfuscation swf !

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 - Jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: On 7/18/07, Douglas Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're talking about obfuscation/encryption does anyone know of a tool that works for AS3

[Flashcoders] drag and drop

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Anyone attempt a DragManager class in AS3 for use with Flash CS3 (not the flex sources). Specifically a singleton that takes a proxy (bitmap) and uses that for the dragging, with a method to have acceptable targets. Trying to work that out and would like to know if I'm re-inventing the

Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] obfuscation swf !

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Jim Berkey wrote: Congratulations, I obviously have more holes to plug, my methods are no good. I will continue trying . . . You can't do it Jim - there aren't any holes to plug. It's just technically impossible. cheers, - Jon

Re: [Flashcoders] Flipping Effect...

2007-07-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Nick Weekes wrote: In any case, this very useful link was put up and I think its closer to the original request: http://www.reflektions.com/miniml/template_permalink.asp?id=344 This effect would probably be much quicker by performing rectangular region

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 over 400 MB! and 25 minutes to install!

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:31 PM, JulianG wrote: I saw this coming... Once Adobe take over Macromedia, things would start to happen. Bad things, I mean. Still searching to see what can be defined as bad in this thread. How come Flash CS3 Installer is over 400 MB, when Flash 8 was only 110

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

2007-06-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:51 AM, matt stuehler wrote: In other words, if you're using a device font, Flash will properly calculate the height if the font is _sans, _serif, or _typewriter (which is exactly what you suggested); but not if you use another font. This little bit of code properly

[Flashcoders] Cairngorm without remoting?

2007-05-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone here approached Cairngorm development without remoting services? I'm developing in Flash 8 still - no case to go to Flash 9 yet since the penetration is way less than the business requirements. I've got a prototype I'm putting together and am using Delegates that return stub

Re: [Flashcoders] Cairngorm without remoting?

2007-05-24 Thread Jon Bradley
That's great, Muzak. It's right in line with what I thought needed to be done - import the remoting classes and use them only for what's necessary. It does seem like quite a lot of effort for something that should be pretty simple - since the built in XML loading already has events that

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV CuePoints - discrepancies between CuePoint time and actual time

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
How are you inserting the cue points? If you are not embedding the cue points directly into the file, then your callback will only happen on the previous, closest key frame. Also, Sorenson has had issues in the past with mis-aligned cue points and keyframes. I stopped using it altogether a

Re: [Flashcoders] toronto flash developer

2007-05-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Tim Arney wrote: Dashboard is seeking a fulltime flash developer to join our growing team For details - Ah... I'd love to move to Toronto. It's quite nice this time of year. Alas, I'm stuck across the pond in Rochester ... loving the lake effect snow I get

Re: [Flashcoders] jpeg 2000 compression

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 3, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Marc furman wrote: Hi can anyone tell me if there is a way to use jpeg 2000 compression in flash mx 2004 or flash 8 also if it is used in a movie can jpeg 2000 compression be viewed in flash player 7 Thank you marc The IDE does support JPG2k though I do not

Re: [Flashcoders] Matrix Building

2007-04-26 Thread Jon Bradley
it to NxM format ... if you do that, please send me the adjusted code. I'll let you figure out only using the values you want (full outer ring on matrix). cheers, Jon Jon Bradley VFX Artist / Animator Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com

Re: [Flashcoders] seek() in VideoPlayer class

2007-04-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Ash Warren wrote: Why do I feel like it's a constant 1 step forward 2 steps back with these new releases??? Well.. you are running Vista ... :) - jon ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote: I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with plugins (except for

Re: [Flashcoders] On2VP6 hardware acceleration

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Bradley
have a fast enough system. H.264 is way more demanding than the OnVP6 codec. It's also quite a bit higher quality and can handle much higher data rates. I'm not sure what your system specs are but I've got HD FLV files that playback quite nicely, from 720p up to1080p. cheers, Jon Jon

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??

2007-04-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:09 PM, thotskee wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on what the Adobe Media Player means for Youtube/Brightcove/Veoh/Google Video/etc. ? My guess is ... not too much. My take on it: It's just a glorified FLV player that talks to various video services and can be

Re: [Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-09 Thread Jon Bradley
Another: Subethaedit for mac Just the fact that it's collaborative editing makes it worthwhile. I've yet to get into all the code-hinting/folding, etc. jazz offered by many of these editors. Though, now I'm getting into more Flex 2 work, I have a feeling I might be making a switch (but

Re: [Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 4, 2007, at 2:54 PM, john robinson wrote: So the Flash front-end gets this path from the CMS, correct? If that's the case, then in your Java application, you you then copy the actual flv somewhere like so: FMS/applications/myApplication/streams/347/filename.flv That's one problem

Re: [Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:34 PM, john robinson wrote: On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? As long as the path exists, then yeah it should be fine. I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and video optimisation ....

2007-04-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Kerem İşeri wrote: I couldnt find any software directly converts avi to flv better then flash. I am open for other ideas : ) FFmpeg is free and it also will do it just as well as Flash. It's just tricky to use and get running, more so if you're on a windows

[Flashcoders] Question: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files

2007-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? We're working within the constraints of a pretty high end post production solution that will end up storing many hours of video content, probably in MXF format in

Re: [Flashcoders] simple code- should work but is not.

2007-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Collins wrote: might anyone know why my wineback_btn is not registering the onPress? i know for sure that my playhead reaches frame 21 where the code is. instance names are specified Are you disabling trace during publishing? That's what I'd check first

Re: [Flashcoders] The great CS3 Swindle

2007-03-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote: I'm surprised that any of the CS3 bundles are available via download. I would think they are only available via physical shipment due to sheer size. Back to the subject at hand, I know that UK and EU pricing typically runs higher on

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Announced

2007-03-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think it's a pretty bogus feature, one of those things that look nice on paper but when you stop to look at it it's far from useful except on extremely specific cases and still far from the magic that will save lives

Re: [Flashcoders] OT:How was this done?

2007-03-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find most of my inspiration from the world of 3d and broadcast graphics, and, increasingly I think we are going to see more and more 'hybrid' work that is a marriage of broadcast and web based media /techniques.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Announced

2007-03-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 28, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: but when the Flash CS3 Full version (not update) will be available?? End of April is when it ships I believe, the 20th rings a bell. The Master Collection isn't slated until June I think ... which is quite a while (ugh). - jon

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