RE: [Flashcoders] Install flash 8 player without user interactivity
What does the ‐-character means when generating a size-report?
Is it a character that can not be displayed by my OS, or is it a non-existing
character in the fontfile?
I don’t like that the embed-options also can embed glyphs that does not exist
in the fontfile.
So the embedding character-sets having glyphs that is not supported will still
be added to the filesize of the swf. Really stupid really.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ
‐
/ martin
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Re: [Flashcoders] lightbulb motion
Andreas I've ported your cloth to AS3 :) amazing :) http://www.franto.com/blog2/as3-cloth-simulation-verlet-algorithm On 11/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.thesundancekid.net/code/pendel/index.html http://www.thesundancekid.net/code/cloth/index.html fps is set too low (for some reason i can't remember now) which is why the movement looks a bit jerky. unfortunately i don't have the fla:s here in london but i built the code around a white paper from one of the coders who worked on the game Hitman. it was real easy to follow and if you just google for verlet hitman and perhaps something else, i'm sure you can find it too. i created a class around it in javascript a couple of years back and then later converted that to flash. /andreas Corban Baxter wrote: Hey guys I am trying to create an effect as if a light bulb is swaying from a string in the ceiling. Anyone know what the best approach would be to do something like this? Corban Baxter | rich media designer | www.funimation.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] change icon
what about mac application? (change the icon) To change to the icon of a mac application, you only need a mac and the icon. You open the information panel of the application and you can copy the icon selecting it or paste another icon above, much more easy that in Windows without using externals programs like ResHacker for Windows. // McCain // http://www.auskalo.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] gradient fills based on temperature maps
I'm building a temperature grid in a 2d array, where i'd like to build some kind of smooth gradient based on the entire map. For instance this map can start red in the top left, fade to a cool blue near the center, then flare into red again off to the right, while everything else becomes a green tinted blue. As is i could use the drawing api to draw colored blocks to give the impression of such a map, but ideally i'd be able to smooth out the values with gradients, because the map is really quite low res. Anyone got any ideas for this? - Andreas ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Load file from local path to swf which is on web
Hi, I've problem with loading swf from local path to swf on net. Example: you can swf on net somewhere and code inside is: mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip(content,100) mc.loadMovie(file://c:\test.swf) on local there si test.swf with code: System.security.allowDomain(*) This wirks in Flash7, but not in Flash 8. I was searching bit, and find such things: - http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html Quotation from page: --- New Restrictions # Loading restrictions: SWF and HTML content from non-local URLs may no longer load any content (SWF, HTML, PNG, and so on) from local paths. - there is some security manager for flash 8 content http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html i allow localhost, but it doesnt helps.. And I need to work this with manual allowing localhost (It's kiosk system, players can not set security settings for Flash player) Does anyone have working solution for this? Thanks many times... - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins - Window/ComboBox/Button
Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Steve Warren wrote: *[A WHILE AGO ON FLASHCODERS...]* On 8/3/05, Iestyn Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all, i've skinned the FMX2004 scrollpane component by altering the ScrollBarAssets MC, and now i've been told that i need to have 2 completely different skins for the scrollpane - and that they need to be shown at the same time. Is this possible? If so... err.. how? :) * [SOUND OF CRICKETS CHIRPING] ie: nobody replied. * --- I need to do the same thing with a Window component, and have perhaps an easier question about the ComboBox. I've been studying and working with Themes, Styles and Skinning for the V2 Components on a project with a deadline that has come and gone - we're behind! The project was developed using the V2 components early on, with the skinning of the components and final design implementation saved for last. I was recently brought into the project to do this work, and have found working with the v2 components to be, well... difficult to accomodate. I have since dug my heels in, and am doing the best I can under the circumstances. We've been successful at skinning the RadioButton and CheckBox, and have had limited success with the ComboBox. Button and Window have been the most difficult. If you look at the built-in Macromedia Help, there's lots of detailed information on the subjects. Here are my questions, and thanks in advance for any help provided! 1) Window I need to create several instances of the Window component - some with TitleBackgrounds (standard MenuBars with a Title and a Close Button), and some without. If you read the Help section [Components Language Reference/Window Component/Customizing The Window Component] you'll see what you can do with Styles and Skins. The TitleBackground is a skin element only, so if you customize the skin to delete the TitleBackground... it affects ALL instances of the Window component. I would have liked to see a Window Style setting TitleBackgroundVisible:Boolean which could be set to TRUE or FALSE. Or better yet, a Style setting that would accomodate [Default, Disabled, CustomLinkageID]. I started creating a custom MyWindow component that simply opens a container with a close button (the simplest form of window), but I ran into other problems. To create the window I'm struggling with, a custom built DialogBox class is called first, which creates an instance of a Window that depends on (Macromedia's built-in) PopUpManager class to manage overlapping Windows and their Modality. Without using the actual Window component, these features are unavailable without doing lots of extra research, development and testing. MY QUESTION IS: Is there any way to create more than one standard Window component that PopUpManager will recognize? It seems we are locked in when we use the Window component to ONE SKIN per document. I would love to use a standard Window component for application wide usage, but have additional custom Window implementations with custom graphics that reference elements in more than a single Window assets folder inside a single THEME. 2) ComboBox I edited the skin graphics for ComboBox inside the ComboBox assets folder. We're currently basing our THEME on the standard HALO THEME. Currently the highlight of the ComboBox when you pull it down is green. I looked into the ThemeColor Style setting for Halo's ComboBox and was surprised to see three possible values - [HaloGreen, HaloBlue, HaloOrange]. I dug into the components FLA file to try to figure out why there might be a limited three settings in a Style, and couldn't figure it out. Maybe you'll laugh when I say I would have appreciated a HaloGrey option... but I'm not laughing. Can someone please tell me how to achieve GREY??? - CONCLUSION - I would have preferred to write my own classes or custom components for this type of job, but I came into the project after those critical decisions were made. I like some of what I see from the whole Theme/Style/Skin implementation, but overall it seems kludgy and weird to me. I didn't even talk about the most basic Button component yet, which I overrided immediately and created a custom component for. There is nothing more difficult than skinning a Button that you need to use everywhere, but looks different than the default Buttons that come with the program. Can anyone shed some light on my predicament? -steve warren See articles: Skinning the Flash 8 Components or Skinning the Flash MX 2004 Components at MM Flash Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/ I think you can achieve easily what you want by using Pass in the Values with initObject or Subclassing a Component Class approach. It seems we are locked in when we use the Window component to ONE SKIN per document. I think it's true only
[Flashcoders] skinning mcom scrollbar
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Re: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP !
Hi Dom, I have an initial swf in which im loading 2 external swf's into. That's all working perfectly however firefox is not caching the external swf's and is insisting on reloading them from scratch every time one of them is requested from a button click, whereas Internet Explorer knows they were cached and doesn't insist on preloading them again. (which is how it should be) Have you got caching turned off in Firefox? Seems like a simply enough question, but we had memory caching (not just hd caching) turned off one one of our machines here that caused us some real headaches with swf preloading. Check the relevant settings in about:config, quit and restart the browser. Hope this helps! Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Interactive Developer Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP!
Hi Steve Sorry forgot to mention that yes ive also checked that too. The work is very heavily in development so ignore the work in progress. http://www.darka.co.uk/MB_test/default.asp when the interface loads, it also preloads the profile.swf and review.swf which work fine however when selecting them from the buttons on the left (ignore menus and contact) that is when firefox insist to reload them from scratch again. Man this is driving me insane. Cheers, Dom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Webster Sent: 04 November 2005 10:23 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP! Hi Dom, I have an initial swf in which im loading 2 external swf's into. That's all working perfectly however firefox is not caching the external swf's and is insisting on reloading them from scratch every time one of them is requested from a button click, whereas Internet Explorer knows they were cached and doesn't insist on preloading them again. (which is how it should be) Have you got caching turned off in Firefox? Seems like a simply enough question, but we had memory caching (not just hd caching) turned off one one of our machines here that caused us some real headaches with swf preloading. Check the relevant settings in about:config, quit and restart the browser. Hope this helps! Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Interactive Developer Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] certificates
Hi Fruber and Grant, thanx a lot for answers. Fruber : How can you get execute Java command from a flash component? I knew only Flashstudiopro (now Zinc) to execute VBScript or such langages within an exe but no idea on executing java from an online swf Grant : your idea seems to be good too. I don't know if it's sufficient for me, but I have to work with the Java developper this afternoon, so we'll look for a solution using your ideas and I'll post again after this. Thanks once more PR Fruber Malcome a écrit : Without putting too much thought into it - sounds like you could build a component that executes a java command and then stops, and the java shell that received the command would make a call back into the flash component for the result. Same theory applies to C#.NET. So doing a google on verifying certificates using Java will go a long way as well. Thanks - Fruber -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PR Durand Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:41 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] certificates Hi list! is everyone ok? (don't answer all, I just hope so ;) I have to verify from flash if a specified certificate is activated (I don't know the exact term cause I don't know certificates and it will be made by someone else, but I mean that before the website is launched, a condition has been verified and the certificate is correct, activated, created...etc). so I'd like to know if it's possible to acces the certificates from Flash and what is the way for this. Any ideas, links about certificates functioning in general are welcome too. thanks a lot! PR ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
You need to access the result property of eventObj. This works well for
me:
import com.ffsys.util.WSProxy;
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( company : + eventObj.result.company );
for( var z in eventObj.result )
{
trace( z + || + eventObj.result[ z ] )
}
}
var ws:WSProxy = new WSProxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
Hope it helps.
cheers -- mischa
On 11/3/05, Jeroen Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still not getting it :(
I'm using this code with the class Mischa provided but it doesn't work.
Beware, this is my first time working with listeners so I could do
something incredibly stupid ;)
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( eventObj.company );
}
var ws:wsproxy = new wsproxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
I already used different methods for the listeningobj but none of them
seem to work.
Please help :)
Jeroen
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From: NEILHIGHLEY.COM http://NEILHIGHLEY.COM [mailto:
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Sent: woensdag 2 november 2005 19:59
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
Well, with a little bit of guidance from Mischa I have this sorted.
I had to use an event proxy which was visible from the root, to
courier the event from the webservice class I created back to the
consuming class, as the addEventListener was not returning to the
class if the listener was added to the webservice class...phew..
e.g.
The following worked (note: this is a selection of code)
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(in standard class)
public function getCategorys(){
_root.eventProxy.addEventListener( categoriesLoaded,
populateCategorys );
webservice.getCategorys();
}
(in webservice class)
function getCategorys():Void{
wsCall=webService.getCategories(wsPassword);
wsCall.onResult=function(result):Void{
trace(webservice returned);
_root.eventProxy.triggerEvent(categoriesLoaded,result);
}
}
(eventProxy class)
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
class event_sender{
//broadcaster
private var controller:Object;
public var dispatchEvent:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
function event_sender(){
EventDispatcher.initialize( this );
}
function triggerEvent(sEvent:String,oValue:Object){
trace(proxy triggered);
var eventObject:Object = {target:this,
type:sEvent,result:oValue};
dispatchEvent(eventObject);
}
}
(and in root..)
var eventProxy:event_sender=new event_sender();
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
It seems to me that actionscript still loses references to remote
objects within its code and without referring to a global you cannot
link two objects via events.
If you can suggest an easier way of doing this, or point out that Im a
noob and show me a proper way, Im all ears.
Neil
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RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP!
Hi Nick,
1.06 firefox
Ive made the profile.swf bigger in file size now just so you can see if the
preloading is working or not and if you get that horrible re-preload
Cheers,
Dom
The code im using for preloading at the moment is:
(ignore all the dirty if statements, im going to be animating the load bar
supersmooth)
bar_mc.onLoadProgress = function(loaderObj) {
this._xscale = loaderObj.getPercent();
};
myListener_obj = new Object();
bar_mc.onLoadStart = function(loaderObj) {
trace(Loading of +loaderObj.getTarget()+ has started);
};
myListener_obj.onLoadProgress = function(loaderObj) {
trace(Percentage: +loaderObj.getPercent());
if (loaderObj.getPercent()1) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 10, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()10) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 20, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()20) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 40, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()30) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 60, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()40) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 80, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()50) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 100, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()60) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 120, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()70) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 140, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()80) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 150, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()90) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 160, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
};
bar_mc.onLoadComplete = function(success, loaderObj) {
trace(Loading of +loaderObj.getTarget()+ is completed);
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 172, 1.5, easeOutSine, 0, Continue);
function Continue() {
nextFrame();
}
};
myLoader = new com.qlod.LoaderClass();
myLoader.addListener(bar_mc);
myLoader.observe(this);
myLoader.load(movie_mc, profile/profile.swf, myListener_obj);
myLoader.load(movie_mc, reviews/reviews.swf, myListener_obj);
stop();
then on the buttons im using:
// 1. Load Profile
function LoadProfile() {
trace(Load Profile);
EnableNav();
loadMovie(profile/profile.swf, movie_mc);
}
// 2. Load Reviews
function LoadReviews() {
trace(Load Reviews);
EnableNav();
loadMovie(reviews/reviews.swf, movie_mc);
}
Cheers,
Dom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Weekes
Sent: 04 November 2005 10:49
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Dom,
You got seperate preloaders for each section? As on my PC (XP SP2) I don't
see any difference in behaviour between IE and Firefox...So I can't tell if
the movies you are preloading are preloaded or not, as there is only a delay
of like 1 second before the content starts appearing. So im guessing it may
be a firefox issue on your machine? What version?
Cheers,
Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominic Fee
Sent: 04 November 2005 10:38
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Hi Steve
Sorry forgot to mention that yes ive also checked that too.
The work is very heavily in development so ignore the work in progress.
http://www.darka.co.uk/MB_test/default.asp
when the interface loads, it also preloads the profile.swf and review.swf
which work fine however when selecting them from the buttons on the left
(ignore menus and contact) that is when firefox insist to reload them from
scratch again.
Man this is driving me insane.
Cheers,
Dom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve
Webster
Sent: 04 November 2005 10:23
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Hi Dom,
I have an initial swf in which im loading 2 external swf's into.
That's all
working perfectly however firefox is not caching the external swf's
and is insisting on reloading them from scratch every time one of them
is requested from a button click, whereas Internet Explorer knows they
were cached and doesn't insist on preloading them again. (which is how
it should be)
Have you got caching turned off in Firefox? Seems like a simply enough
question, but we had memory caching (not just hd caching) turned off one one
of our machines
[Flashcoders] eval()
hi,
can you help with this line of code?
eval(_root.something + i + .onRollOut) = function()
{
}
well i know this is wrong in flash 6.
Is this possible?
this[_root.something + i + .onRollOut) = function()
{
}
thanks,
Spiros
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Re: [Flashcoders] change icon
McCain wrote: what about mac application? (change the icon) To change to the icon of a mac application, you only need a mac and the icon. You open the information panel of the application and you can copy the icon selecting it or paste another icon above, much more easy that in Windows without using externals programs like ResHacker for Windows. // McCain // http://www.auskalo.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ok thanks!!! cool. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] eval()
_root[something+i].onRollOut=function()
{
}
HTH,
Ian
On 11/4/05, Spiros Gerokostas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
can you help with this line of code?
eval(_root.something + i + .onRollOut) = function()
{
}
well i know this is wrong in flash 6.
Is this possible?
this[_root.something + i + .onRollOut) = function()
{
}
thanks,
Spiros
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RE: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
Thanks for helping me out!
I tried the code you posted but I still get the same result.
It seems that onresult fires a resultHandler method and not the
listeningObject.result method.
This is what I see if I uncomment your trace commands:
f : doCompanyInfo
Method doCompanyInfo was called with arguments: any,any,macr
Web service result : [object Object]
f : resultHandler
Method resultHandler was called with arguments: [object Object]
Is it due to the eventdispatcher class you are using?
Grtz,
Jeroen
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From: Mischa Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: vrijdag 4 november 2005 11:45
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
You need to access the result property of eventObj. This works well
for
me:
import com.ffsys.util.WSProxy;
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( company : + eventObj.result.company );
for( var z in eventObj.result )
{
trace( z + || + eventObj.result[ z ] )
}
}
var ws:WSProxy = new WSProxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
Hope it helps.
cheers -- mischa
On 11/3/05, Jeroen Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still not getting it :(
I'm using this code with the class Mischa provided but it doesn't
work.
Beware, this is my first time working with listeners so I could do
something incredibly stupid ;)
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( eventObj.company );
}
var ws:wsproxy = new wsproxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
I already used different methods for the listeningobj but none of them
seem to work.
Please help :)
Jeroen
-Original Message-
From: NEILHIGHLEY.COM http://NEILHIGHLEY.COM [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: woensdag 2 november 2005 19:59
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
Well, with a little bit of guidance from Mischa I have this sorted.
I had to use an event proxy which was visible from the root, to
courier the event from the webservice class I created back to the
consuming class, as the addEventListener was not returning to the
class if the listener was added to the webservice class...phew..
e.g.
The following worked (note: this is a selection of code)
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(in standard class)
public function getCategorys(){
_root.eventProxy.addEventListener( categoriesLoaded,
populateCategorys );
webservice.getCategorys();
}
(in webservice class)
function getCategorys():Void{
wsCall=webService.getCategories(wsPassword);
wsCall.onResult=function(result):Void{
trace(webservice returned);
_root.eventProxy.triggerEvent(categoriesLoaded,result);
}
}
(eventProxy class)
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
class event_sender{
//broadcaster
private var controller:Object;
public var dispatchEvent:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
function event_sender(){
EventDispatcher.initialize( this );
}
function triggerEvent(sEvent:String,oValue:Object){
trace(proxy triggered);
var eventObject:Object = {target:this,
type:sEvent,result:oValue};
dispatchEvent(eventObject);
}
}
(and in root..)
var eventProxy:event_sender=new event_sender();
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
It seems to me that actionscript still loses references to remote
objects within its code and without referring to a global you cannot
link two objects via events.
If you can suggest an easier way of doing this, or point out that Im a
noob and show me a proper way, Im all ears.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP!
Ah yeah, I see the problem, and it's the same on my firefox 1.07, so that
clearly aint the issue.
I don't use the bokel class for preloading, so hopefully there are enough
people on the list who do, and have experience of it with firefox...
Cheers,
Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominic Fee
Sent: 04 November 2005 11:03
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Hi Nick,
1.06 firefox
Ive made the profile.swf bigger in file size now just so you can see if the
preloading is working or not and if you get that horrible re-preload
Cheers,
Dom
The code im using for preloading at the moment is:
(ignore all the dirty if statements, im going to be animating the load bar
supersmooth)
bar_mc.onLoadProgress = function(loaderObj) {
this._xscale = loaderObj.getPercent();
};
myListener_obj = new Object();
bar_mc.onLoadStart = function(loaderObj) {
trace(Loading of +loaderObj.getTarget()+ has started); };
myListener_obj.onLoadProgress = function(loaderObj) {
trace(Percentage: +loaderObj.getPercent());
if (loaderObj.getPercent()1) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 10, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()10) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 20, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()20) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 40, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()30) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 60, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()40) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 80, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()50) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 100, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()60) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 120, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()70) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 140, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()80) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 150, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
if (loaderObj.getPercent()90) {
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 160, 2.5, easeOutBounce, 0,
Preloader);
}
};
bar_mc.onLoadComplete = function(success, loaderObj) {
trace(Loading of +loaderObj.getTarget()+ is completed);
_root.tweener.tween(_width, 172, 1.5, easeOutSine, 0, Continue);
function Continue() {
nextFrame();
}
};
myLoader = new com.qlod.LoaderClass();
myLoader.addListener(bar_mc);
myLoader.observe(this);
myLoader.load(movie_mc, profile/profile.swf, myListener_obj);
myLoader.load(movie_mc, reviews/reviews.swf, myListener_obj); stop();
then on the buttons im using:
// 1. Load Profile
function LoadProfile() {
trace(Load Profile);
EnableNav();
loadMovie(profile/profile.swf, movie_mc);
}
// 2. Load Reviews
function LoadReviews() {
trace(Load Reviews);
EnableNav();
loadMovie(reviews/reviews.swf, movie_mc);
}
Cheers,
Dom
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Sent: 04 November 2005 10:49
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Dom,
You got seperate preloaders for each section? As on my PC (XP SP2) I don't
see any difference in behaviour between IE and Firefox...So I can't tell if
the movies you are preloading are preloaded or not, as there is only a delay
of like 1 second before the content starts appearing. So im guessing it may
be a firefox issue on your machine? What version?
Cheers,
Nick
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Sent: 04 November 2005 10:38
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Hi Steve
Sorry forgot to mention that yes ive also checked that too.
The work is very heavily in development so ignore the work in progress.
http://www.darka.co.uk/MB_test/default.asp
when the interface loads, it also preloads the profile.swf and review.swf
which work fine however when selecting them from the buttons on the left
(ignore menus and contact) that is when firefox insist to reload them from
scratch again.
Man this is driving me insane.
Cheers,
Dom
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Webster
Sent: 04 November 2005 10:23
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox -
HELP!
Hi Dom,
I have an initial swf in which im loading 2
Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
You are right it is to do with the EventDispatcher. If i put this line into
MM's addEventListener method:
trace( add event : + this[queueName] )
The output is:
add event : [type Function]
When clearly it should be an array. I think it has something to do with the
WSProxy class being dynamic. I haven't got time to debug it properly, but i
have uploaded my EventDispatcher class:
http://freeform-systems.com/share/actionscript/EventDispatcher.as
Which definetely works with the WSProxy class and the code you posted.
Hope this helps.
cheers -- mischa
On 11/4/05, Jeroen Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for helping me out!
I tried the code you posted but I still get the same result.
It seems that onresult fires a resultHandler method and not the
listeningObject.result method.
This is what I see if I uncomment your trace commands:
f : doCompanyInfo
Method doCompanyInfo was called with arguments: any,any,macr
Web service result : [object Object]
f : resultHandler
Method resultHandler was called with arguments: [object Object]
Is it due to the eventdispatcher class you are using?
Grtz,
Jeroen
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From: Mischa Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: vrijdag 4 november 2005 11:45
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
You need to access the result property of eventObj. This works well
for
me:
import com.ffsys.util.WSProxy;
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( company : + eventObj.result.company );
for( var z in eventObj.result )
{
trace( z + || + eventObj.result[ z ] )
}
}
var ws:WSProxy = new WSProxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
Hope it helps.
cheers -- mischa
On 11/3/05, Jeroen Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still not getting it :(
I'm using this code with the class Mischa provided but it doesn't
work.
Beware, this is my first time working with listeners so I could do
something incredibly stupid ;)
var listeningObj:Object = new Object();
listeningObj.result = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
trace(###);
trace( eventObj.company );
}
var ws:wsproxy = new wsproxy(
http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/companyInfo.wsdl; );
ws.addEventListener( result, listeningObj );
ws.doCompanyInfo(any,any,macr);
I already used different methods for the listeningobj but none of them
seem to work.
Please help :)
Jeroen
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From: NEILHIGHLEY.COM http://NEILHIGHLEY.COM http://NEILHIGHLEY.COM
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Sent: woensdag 2 november 2005 19:59
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Autopopulating from a webservice
Well, with a little bit of guidance from Mischa I have this sorted.
I had to use an event proxy which was visible from the root, to
courier the event from the webservice class I created back to the
consuming class, as the addEventListener was not returning to the
class if the listener was added to the webservice class...phew..
e.g.
The following worked (note: this is a selection of code)
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(in standard class)
public function getCategorys(){
_root.eventProxy.addEventListener( categoriesLoaded,
populateCategorys );
webservice.getCategorys();
}
(in webservice class)
function getCategorys():Void{
wsCall=webService.getCategories(wsPassword);
wsCall.onResult=function(result):Void{
trace(webservice returned);
_root.eventProxy.triggerEvent(categoriesLoaded,result);
}
}
(eventProxy class)
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
class event_sender{
//broadcaster
private var controller:Object;
public var dispatchEvent:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
function event_sender(){
EventDispatcher.initialize( this );
}
function triggerEvent(sEvent:String,oValue:Object){
trace(proxy triggered);
var eventObject:Object = {target:this,
type:sEvent,result:oValue};
dispatchEvent(eventObject);
}
}
(and in root..)
var eventProxy:event_sender=new event_sender();
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
It seems to me that actionscript still loses references to remote
objects within its code and without referring to a global you cannot
link two objects via events.
If you can suggest an easier way of doing this, or point out that Im a
noob and show me a proper way, Im all ears.
Neil
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Re: [Flashcoders] Load file from local path to swf which is on web
Hi; Are your sure wether the mc.loadMovie(file://c:\test.swf) targets YOUR local drive or the SERVER local drive? PR franto a écrit : Hi, I've problem with loading swf from local path to swf on net. Example: you can swf on net somewhere and code inside is: mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip(content,100) mc.loadMovie(file://c:\test.swf) on local there si test.swf with code: System.security.allowDomain(*) This wirks in Flash7, but not in Flash 8. I was searching bit, and find such things: - http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html Quotation from page: --- New Restrictions # Loading restrictions: SWF and HTML content from non-local URLs may no longer load any content (SWF, HTML, PNG, and so on) from local paths. - there is some security manager for flash 8 content http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html i allow localhost, but it doesnt helps.. And I need to work this with manual allowing localhost (It's kiosk system, players can not set security settings for Flash player) Does anyone have working solution for this? Thanks many times... - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Load file from local path to swf which is on web
in Flash 7 it was MY local drive, not SERVER local drive... We had working example, which works in Flash7, but doesnt work in Flash8 On 11/4/05, PR Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; Are your sure wether the mc.loadMovie(file://c:\test.swf) targets YOUR local drive or the SERVER local drive? PR franto a écrit : Hi, I've problem with loading swf from local path to swf on net. Example: you can swf on net somewhere and code inside is: mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip(content,100) mc.loadMovie(file://c:\test.swf) on local there si test.swf with code: System.security.allowDomain(*) This wirks in Flash7, but not in Flash 8. I was searching bit, and find such things: - http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html Quotation from page: --- New Restrictions # Loading restrictions: SWF and HTML content from non-local URLs may no longer load any content (SWF, HTML, PNG, and so on) from local paths. - there is some security manager for flash 8 content http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html i allow localhost, but it doesnt helps.. And I need to work this with manual allowing localhost (It's kiosk system, players can not set security settings for Flash player) Does anyone have working solution for this? Thanks many times... - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- - Franto http://blog.franto.com http://www.flashcoders.sk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Flash Certification
Greetings All, My company is encouraging all its developers to pursue certification over the next year in their realms of expertise. I know that there have been several threads on the legitimacy of certification and I'm not trying to revisit that discussion. Instead, I'd like to ask if anyone know the plans for certifications now that Flash 8 is out (i.e. will there be a Flash 8 certification test?) and also is Adobe going to continue the flash certification process when Flash becomes Adobe Flash? Thanks, Doug Coning Software Developer FORUM Solutions, LLC This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended for the specified recipient(s) only and are legally protected. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to sender's e-mail address with notification of the error and then destroy this message in all electronic and physical forms. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins -Window/ComboBox/Button
Without having to change the skin entirely, you can change the halo color to a light grey with the following: _global.style.setStyle(themeColor, 0xee); -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Warren Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:36 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins -Window/ComboBox/Button *[A WHILE AGO ON FLASHCODERS...]* On 8/3/05, Iestyn Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all, i've skinned the FMX2004 scrollpane component by altering the ScrollBarAssets MC, and now i've been told that i need to have 2 completely different skins for the scrollpane - and that they need to be shown at the same time. Is this possible? If so... err.. how? :) * [SOUND OF CRICKETS CHIRPING] ie: nobody replied. * --- I need to do the same thing with a Window component, and have perhaps an easier question about the ComboBox. I've been studying and working with Themes, Styles and Skinning for the V2 Components on a project with a deadline that has come and gone - we're behind! The project was developed using the V2 components early on, with the skinning of the components and final design implementation saved for last. I was recently brought into the project to do this work, and have found working with the v2 components to be, well... difficult to accomodate. I have since dug my heels in, and am doing the best I can under the circumstances. We've been successful at skinning the RadioButton and CheckBox, and have had limited success with the ComboBox. Button and Window have been the most difficult. If you look at the built-in Macromedia Help, there's lots of detailed information on the subjects. Here are my questions, and thanks in advance for any help provided! 1) Window I need to create several instances of the Window component - some with TitleBackgrounds (standard MenuBars with a Title and a Close Button), and some without. If you read the Help section [Components Language Reference/Window Component/Customizing The Window Component] you'll see what you can do with Styles and Skins. The TitleBackground is a skin element only, so if you customize the skin to delete the TitleBackground... it affects ALL instances of the Window component. I would have liked to see a Window Style setting TitleBackgroundVisible:Boolean which could be set to TRUE or FALSE. Or better yet, a Style setting that would accomodate [Default, Disabled, CustomLinkageID]. I started creating a custom MyWindow component that simply opens a container with a close button (the simplest form of window), but I ran into other problems. To create the window I'm struggling with, a custom built DialogBox class is called first, which creates an instance of a Window that depends on (Macromedia's built-in) PopUpManager class to manage overlapping Windows and their Modality. Without using the actual Window component, these features are unavailable without doing lots of extra research, development and testing. MY QUESTION IS: Is there any way to create more than one standard Window component that PopUpManager will recognize? It seems we are locked in when we use the Window component to ONE SKIN per document. I would love to use a standard Window component for application wide usage, but have additional custom Window implementations with custom graphics that reference elements in more than a single Window assets folder inside a single THEME. 2) ComboBox I edited the skin graphics for ComboBox inside the ComboBox assets folder. We're currently basing our THEME on the standard HALO THEME. Currently the highlight of the ComboBox when you pull it down is green. I looked into the ThemeColor Style setting for Halo's ComboBox and was surprised to see three possible values - [HaloGreen, HaloBlue, HaloOrange]. I dug into the components FLA file to try to figure out why there might be a limited three settings in a Style, and couldn't figure it out. Maybe you'll laugh when I say I would have appreciated a HaloGrey option... but I'm not laughing. Can someone please tell me how to achieve GREY??? - CONCLUSION - I would have preferred to write my own classes or custom components for this type of job, but I came into the project after those critical decisions were made. I like some of what I see from the whole Theme/Style/Skin implementation, but overall it seems kludgy and weird to me. I didn't even talk about the most basic Button component yet, which I overrided immediately and created a custom component for. There is nothing more difficult than skinning a Button that you need to use everywhere, but looks different than the default Buttons that come with the program. Can anyone shed some light on my predicament? -steve warren ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins -Window/ComboBox/Button
Nice one - that works! Why does the Macromedia documentation suggest there are only three options for this haloGreen, haloBlue, and haloOrange? Thanks Chris. -steve On 11/4/05, Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without having to change the skin entirely, you can change the halo color to a light grey with the following: _global.style.setStyle(themeColor, 0xee); -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Warren Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:36 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins -Window/ComboBox/Button *[A WHILE AGO ON FLASHCODERS...]* On 8/3/05, Iestyn Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all, i've skinned the FMX2004 scrollpane component by altering the ScrollBarAssets MC, and now i've been told that i need to have 2 completely different skins for the scrollpane - and that they need to be shown at the same time. Is this possible? If so... err.. how? :) * [SOUND OF CRICKETS CHIRPING] ie: nobody replied. * --- I need to do the same thing with a Window component, and have perhaps an easier question about the ComboBox. I've been studying and working with Themes, Styles and Skinning for the V2 Components on a project with a deadline that has come and gone - we're behind! The project was developed using the V2 components early on, with the skinning of the components and final design implementation saved for last. I was recently brought into the project to do this work, and have found working with the v2 components to be, well... difficult to accomodate. I have since dug my heels in, and am doing the best I can under the circumstances. We've been successful at skinning the RadioButton and CheckBox, and have had limited success with the ComboBox. Button and Window have been the most difficult. If you look at the built-in Macromedia Help, there's lots of detailed information on the subjects. Here are my questions, and thanks in advance for any help provided! 1) Window I need to create several instances of the Window component - some with TitleBackgrounds (standard MenuBars with a Title and a Close Button), and some without. If you read the Help section [Components Language Reference/Window Component/Customizing The Window Component] you'll see what you can do with Styles and Skins. The TitleBackground is a skin element only, so if you customize the skin to delete the TitleBackground... it affects ALL instances of the Window component. I would have liked to see a Window Style setting TitleBackgroundVisible:Boolean which could be set to TRUE or FALSE. Or better yet, a Style setting that would accomodate [Default, Disabled, CustomLinkageID]. I started creating a custom MyWindow component that simply opens a container with a close button (the simplest form of window), but I ran into other problems. To create the window I'm struggling with, a custom built DialogBox class is called first, which creates an instance of a Window that depends on (Macromedia's built-in) PopUpManager class to manage overlapping Windows and their Modality. Without using the actual Window component, these features are unavailable without doing lots of extra research, development and testing. MY QUESTION IS: Is there any way to create more than one standard Window component that PopUpManager will recognize? It seems we are locked in when we use the Window component to ONE SKIN per document. I would love to use a standard Window component for application wide usage, but have additional custom Window implementations with custom graphics that reference elements in more than a single Window assets folder inside a single THEME. 2) ComboBox I edited the skin graphics for ComboBox inside the ComboBox assets folder. We're currently basing our THEME on the standard HALO THEME. Currently the highlight of the ComboBox when you pull it down is green. I looked into the ThemeColor Style setting for Halo's ComboBox and was surprised to see three possible values - [HaloGreen, HaloBlue, HaloOrange]. I dug into the components FLA file to try to figure out why there might be a limited three settings in a Style, and couldn't figure it out. Maybe you'll laugh when I say I would have appreciated a HaloGrey option... but I'm not laughing. Can someone please tell me how to achieve GREY??? - CONCLUSION - I would have preferred to write my own classes or custom components for this type of job, but I came into the project after those critical decisions were made. I like some of what I see from the whole Theme/Style/Skin implementation, but overall it seems kludgy and weird to me. I didn't even talk about the most basic Button component yet, which I overrided immediately and created a custom component for. There is
RE: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins-Window/ComboBox/Button
I don't know, unfortunately. I've struggled with skinning components too, and have yet to do so successfully. I stumbled into the code I sent before completely by accident. :-] -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Warren Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:36 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] V2 Components - Themes/Styles/Skins-Window/ComboBox/Button Nice one - that works! Why does the Macromedia documentation suggest there are only three options for this haloGreen, haloBlue, and haloOrange? Thanks Chris. -steve On 11/4/05, Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without having to change the skin entirely, you can change the halo color to a light grey with the following: _global.style.setStyle(themeColor, 0xee); -Chris ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts + HTML
Maybe I need to be a little bit clearder. I have a textfield with embedded fonts set to true. Next I want to render html-text (.html = true and .htmlText = ...). If I don't use embedded fonts, it works fine. With embedded fonts, nothing appears. Thx, Lieven Cardoen Ps: Is there a workaround for this. I need to use embedded fonts because the font isn't supported on most computers. And I really need to render HTML. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lieven Cardoen Sent: vrijdag 4 november 2005 12:26 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts + HTML Does this work ? In my project it doesn't seem to work... Flash7MX Update 7.2 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Help For Custom Components
Ok I have this all figured out, but is there an application that actually creates Help for components (generates the XML)? Its a pain in the ass composing help right now. A little app that generates the hierarchy of stuff would be awesome (reference panel). e.dolecki On 11/4/05, Robert Edgar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, We bought AS2Doc a year ago, its good, probably still the best around(due to lack of any real competition) but... the bad news is AS2Doc development was abandoned in March and now there is no support whatsoever or bug fixes or new releases coming ever... There are a number of bugs, like some Interface classes get skipped, the PanelActions generate junk at times, and some essential features missing like no way to document events and of course once AS3 is here there wil be no way forward. It still might be worth buying but anyone doing so needs to do it with there eyes wide open. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JOR Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:29 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Help For Custom Components Gregory_GOusable wrote: In MX 2004, you can write the help in form of HTML files (number of files) instead of reference tag in customactions. Then, add the tag for each html file to your .mxi like that: file source=_your_path_/file_name.html destination=$flash/HelpPanel/Help/_your_folder_ / See Extending Flash Help Panel Content article in Flash Documentation on MM site. Also, I'd recommend just download any component (for Flash MX 2004) and look through it's content, mxi etc. I just bought AS2DOC and it's awesome at creating Flash documentation files. I just ran it on a couple of packages I had recently written with JavaDoc style commenting and in a matter of seconds it created detailed help docs and an mxi file for me. I packaged the mxi file into an mxp and installed it into Flash. After looking through the docs I see I left some comments out so I'm going to use it as a reference to where to go back to my classes and add more information to fill out the pages more. Pricey but great product. Highly recommended. Unfortunatley their free trial version does not do Flash help files. JOR ___ === James O'Reilly === === SynergyMedia, Inc. === www.synergymedia.net http://www.synergymedia.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] gradient fills based on temperature maps
Take a look at this. http://motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/t/gradientTween/gradientTweenEditor.html I hope this helps -Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Rønning Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:46 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] gradient fills based on temperature maps I'm building a temperature grid in a 2d array, where i'd like to build some kind of smooth gradient based on the entire map. For instance this map can start red in the top left, fade to a cool blue near the center, then flare into red again off to the right, while everything else becomes a green tinted blue. As is i could use the drawing api to draw colored blocks to give the impression of such a map, but ideally i'd be able to smooth out the values with gradients, because the map is really quite low res. Anyone got any ideas for this? - Andreas ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field
Hi All, I'm having a weird problem with a text editor i made ages ago, i'm updating it to use styles instead of textformat. however, whenever i have my input text field set to use the style sheet nothing displays. in the output window, the text and the htmlText are filled with what they shoudl be, but i see nothing. the fontFamily property is Arial, and i have Arial embedded on the textfield. still nothing showing. anyone seen this before??? tia, tom. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts + HTML
One workaround is this: 1. Place a textfield offstage in frame 1. 2. Set it to dynamic text, html-enabled, and embed the chars you need 3. Type some text in it with the correct font, if you need bold you should also type some bold text in it. Best regards, Pål Østerud Maybe I need to be a little bit clearder. I have a textfield with embedded fonts set to true. Next I want to render html-text (.html = true and .htmlText = ...). If I don't use embedded fonts, it works fine. With embedded fonts, nothing appears. Thx, Lieven Cardoen Ps: Is there a workaround for this. I need to use embedded fonts because the font isn't supported on most computers. And I really need to render HTML. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field
make sure you have all styles of the font you are using embedded, we were using bold in a style but forgot to embed bold specifically and nothing rendered. Grant - Original Message - From: Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 9:52 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] text not displaying in an input text field Hi All, I'm having a weird problem with a text editor i made ages ago, i'm updating it to use styles instead of textformat. however, whenever i have my input text field set to use the style sheet nothing displays. in the output window, the text and the htmlText are filled with what they shoudl be, but i see nothing. the fontFamily property is Arial, and i have Arial embedded on the textfield. still nothing showing. anyone seen this before??? tia, tom. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] odd action of getURL to run a javascript function
I'd suggest to use getURL w/o javascript:
getURL(downloadCore.asp?file=+fileName, downLoadFrame);
it
1)is shorter ;-) and
2)doesn't depend on JS enabled or not in the
user's browser.
= Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Nathan Kirby wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this or may have suggestions to
fix it. I've got an image viewing swf that is in a pop-up. Inside this movie
I have a button that says download. The button works 100% of the time in
FireFox but IE 6 it only works once and then beeps from then on. I'm using
the getURL to call a javascript function in the asp page that holds the
movie.
Actionscript:
getURL(javascript:doDownLoad(+fileName+));
Javascript:
script language=javascript1.3
function doDownLoad (args) {
var downLoadFrameObj = document.getElementById('downLoadFrame');
var thePath = downloadCore.asp?file=+args;
if (args != ) {
alert(args);
downLoadFrameObj.src = thePath;
}
}
/script
After the object tag for the flash movie I have
Html:
iframe id=downLoadFrame name=downLoadFrame style=visibility:hidden
src=downloadCore.asp?file=/iframe
Basically what happens is I run a asp page to give the user a download box,
instead of poping another window and providing a link.
Besides the security stuff - already added the webserver to trusted hosts
and all that.
I'm wondering why it works one time only in IE - if I close the window it
will work just once the next time I open it. It seams like a javascript/IE
thing sorry for the off topic - just looking for some suggestions.
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Re: [Flashcoders] odd action of getURL to run a javascript function.
Why the javascript?
Try calling the asp page directly, using the iframe id as the target window
getURL(downloadCore.asp?file=+fileName, downLoadFrame);
I even doubt you need the iframe entirely, but not 100% sure though.
regards,
Muzak
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] odd action of getURL to run a javascript function.
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this or may have suggestions to
fix it. I've got an image viewing swf that is in a pop-up. Inside this movie
I have a button that says download. The button works 100% of the time in
FireFox but IE 6 it only works once and then beeps from then on. I'm using
the getURL to call a javascript function in the asp page that holds the
movie.
Actionscript:
getURL(javascript:doDownLoad(+fileName+));
Javascript:
script language=javascript1.3
function doDownLoad (args) {
var downLoadFrameObj = document.getElementById('downLoadFrame');
var thePath = downloadCore.asp?file=+args;
if (args != ) {
alert(args);
downLoadFrameObj.src = thePath;
}
}
/script
After the object tag for the flash movie I have
Html:
iframe id=downLoadFrame name=downLoadFrame style=visibility:hidden
src=downloadCore.asp?file=/iframe
Basically what happens is I run a asp page to give the user a download box,
instead of poping another window and providing a link.
Besides the security stuff - already added the webserver to trusted hosts
and all that.
I'm wondering why it works one time only in IE - if I close the window it
will work just once the next time I open it. It seams like a javascript/IE
thing sorry for the off topic - just looking for some suggestions.
thanks
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Re: [Flashcoders] placing an action at the end of a FLV video!
Check the livedocs.macromdedia.com for adding cuepoints to your media
player for whatever
version of Flash you are using.
Just have it listen for that cuepoint at the end and then load the
home.swf.
listenerObject = new Object();
listenerObject.cuePoint = function(eventObject){
// insert your code here
}
myMedia.addEventListener(cuePoint, listenerObject)
Gerry
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William J. Miller wrote:
I have a swf that calls a flv on my server. The swf loads into a
movieclip on the main swf. I need the loaded swf with the flv to
load the default swf..(home.swf) into the mailloader clip when the
flv is finished.
Thanks
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RE: [Flashcoders] gradient fills based on temperature maps
Oops, just realized that when running my code in Flash 8 nothing shows up -
because the drawing is just outside the bounds of the stage.
After line 52 or so
canvas._x = i;
just add
canvas._y = canvas._height;
Find the corrected code below.
hth
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temperatureValues = new Array();
// create some random temperature data
for(var i= 0; i400; i++){
lastVal = i ? temperatureValues[i-1] : 50;
if(lastVal 100){
c = -1;
}else if(lastVal 0){
c = 1;
}else{
c = Math.random() 0.5 ? 1 : -1;
}
temperatureValues[i] = lastVal + c;
}
neutralColor = 0x00;
coldColor = 0x66;// temperature = 0
hotColor = 0xFF;// temperature = 100
hotColdRange = colorRange(coldColor, hotColor, 100);
drawGraph();
function drawGraph(){
for(var i=0, len=temperatureValues.length; ilen; i++){
canvas =
this.createEmptyMovieClip('canvas'+i,this.getNextHighestDepth());
// highest temperature: v = 255
// lowest temperature: v = 0
// for this sample we use a temperature range from 0 to 100
temperatureRange = 100;
v = temperatureValues[i] * (255 / temperatureRange);
ratios = [0, v, 255];
colors = [neutralColor,
hotColdRange[Math.floor(temperatureValues[i])],neutralColor];
alphas = [100, 100, 100];
// more graph, less 'borealis'
//ratios = [0, v-30, v, v+30, 255];
//colors = [neutralColor,
neutralColor,hotColdRange[Math.floor(temperatureValues[i])], neutralColor,
neutralColor];
//alphas = [100, 100, 100, 100, 100];
matrix = {a:100, b:0, c:0, d:0, e:100, f:0, g:100, h:100, i:1};
matrix = {matrixType:box, x:0, y:0, w:100, h:100, r:0};
canvas.beginGradientFill(linear, colors, alphas, ratios,
matrix);
canvas.lineTo(100, 0);
canvas.lineTo(100, 1);
canvas.lineTo(0, 1);
canvas.lineTo(0, 0);
canvas.endFill();
canvas._rotation = -90;
canvas._x = i;
canvas._y = canvas._height;
}
}
function colorRange(c1, c2, n) {
var c1 = {r:(c1 0xFF) 16, g:(c1 0x00FF00) 8, b:c1
0xFF};
var c2 = {r:(c2 0xFF) 16, g:(c2 0x00FF00) 8, b:c2
0xFF};
var r = (c2.r-c1.r)/(n-1);
var g = (c2.g-c1.g)/(n-1);
var b = (c2.b-c1.b)/(n-1);
var color_arr = new Array();
for(var i=0, len=n; ilen; i++){
color_arr[i] = ((c1.r+i*r) 16) + ((c1.g+i*g) 8) +
(c1.b+i*b);
}
return color_arr;
}
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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Certification
Thanks. I agree with your assessment. Doug Coning Software Developer FORUM Solutions, LLC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:55 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Certification Good morning... :) I don't think there is many people who can actually answer your question on that Adobe matter, but I am 100% sure that Macromedia will have a certificate for F8... (If not, I'll give you one of my certificates... I've got plenty...) I don't know about the power of the certificate though... I do have several from F6 days and I am sure it has done some magic(?) when I was landing my current job but I don't know how powerful it was or how powerful it can be if I am looking for a new job... I mainly took the test because of my personal fulfillment nothing more nothing less... and I think that's pretty much how the certificate works for most of the people... Just my 2 cents on this... Jason - Original Message - From: Doug Coning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:12 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash Certification Greetings All, My company is encouraging all its developers to pursue certification over the next year in their realms of expertise. I know that there have been several threads on the legitimacy of certification and I'm not trying to revisit that discussion. Instead, I'd like to ask if anyone know the plans for certifications now that Flash 8 is out (i.e. will there be a Flash 8 certification test?) and also is Adobe going to continue the flash certification process when Flash becomes Adobe Flash? Thanks, Doug Coning Software Developer FORUM Solutions, LLC ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended for the specified recipient(s) only and are legally protected. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to sender's e-mail address with notification of the error and then destroy this message in all electronic and physical forms. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] passing mouse event
Hi Eric,
The _droptarget property changes before you 'release' a movieclip. It
changes whenever the majority of the area of the movieclip is over something
other than what is taking up the majority of the area at that instance. I
accually made sure this was the case before I posted because I was sure that
you would need the target before it was droped.
As for your other problems, you should gather as much information as you can
about the anatomy of the movieclips that need to be triggered if you arent
able to collaborate with your partners. If you're able to collaborate with
the developer that is creating the targets, you should have him construct an
abstract API for each target so you can 'question' any of the movieclips for
a movieclip group style identifier; which will allow you to differentiate
one target from the next without loops.
Good luck,
H
On 11/3/05, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks
I've tried it with no success because the droptarget property is only
initialised once the dragged mc is droped! Is there another property
that can say over wich instance the dragged mc is?
Thanks a million!
elibol wrote:
Hi Eric,
Maybe a more optimized solution would be to have an onMouseMove event on
the
movieclip that is being dragged, which would be activated when the
movieclip
is dragged, that would run eval on the clips _droptarget property for
each
onMouseMove event. Each target could have a distinguishing public
property
that would be evaluated with the hitTest that would serve as the
exception
for triggering the onRollOver function. The dragging clip would also do a
onRollOut trigger on the last clip it was over once the clip is no longer
over the target.
I tested this:
var lastMC:MovieClip;
function onPress(){
this.startDrag();
onMouseMove = runOnMouseMove;
}
function runOnMouseMove(){
var t = eval(this._droptarget);
trace(t);
if(t!=lastMC){
if(lastMC.isTarget){
lastMC.onRollOut();
lastMC = undefined;
}
if(t.isTarget){
lastMC = t;
t.onRollOver();
}
}
}
function onRelease(){
this.stopDrag();
onMouseMove = undefined;
}
onReleaseOutside = onRelease;
Good luck,
H
On 11/2/05, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all!
I have an application that uses startdrag events.
My problem is that I have about 20 targets with rollover events (each
hilighting a different portion of a radiography). When I drag an MC
over those targerts, the rollover dont get triggered! Is there a way to
pass the mouse event under my dragged MC to trigger my rollovers? To
temporary solve this (an get a demo working) I've put en onenterframe
inside each of my targets that checkes if the mouse is over them!
There must be a better way to do that!
Thanks a million! :-)
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Re: [Flashcoders] skinning mcom scrollbar
John Grden showed me how at one point and it really wasn't all that hard. Anyway, you basically have to create MovieClips for all of the component's assetts and make sure that each of them have the appropriate linkage identifier setup. Here is a brief overview of that on Metaliq's website: http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/getting_started.htm#skinning I hope that helps. -Chris On 11/4/05, marcel vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi has anyone expirience with skinnig the mcom scrollbar. marcel -- vogt mit vogt marcel vogt multimedia zwinglistrasse 34a 8004 zürich phone:+41 (0)43 233 71 11 cel: +41 (0)79 222 26 55 website: http://www.vogtmitvogt.com blog: http://nointro.kaywa.com flash user group: http://sfug.ch -- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] skinning mcom scrollbar
yeah if you got to that page and follow that tutorial and still have issues, let me know, I've got an FLA that's already setup. On 11/4/05, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Grden showed me how at one point and it really wasn't all that hard. Anyway, you basically have to create MovieClips for all of the component's assetts and make sure that each of them have the appropriate linkage identifier setup. Here is a brief overview of that on Metaliq's website: http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/getting_started.htm#skinning I hope that helps. -Chris On 11/4/05, marcel vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi has anyone expirience with skinnig the mcom scrollbar. marcel -- vogt mit vogt marcel vogt multimedia zwinglistrasse 34a 8004 zürich phone: +41 (0)43 233 71 11 cel: +41 (0)79 222 26 55 website: http://www.vogtmitvogt.com blog: http://nointro.kaywa.com flash user group: http://sfug.ch -- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- John Grden - Blitz ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
I have a component, where part of the live preview is to show the date of compile. How can I code this so that when the resulting SWF is run some other time, it uses a burned in value for the date, and not my get todays date function? Somene suggested localSharedObject - but that doesn't really work - since the 1st time you run it, the date could be inaccurate. ed ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
Put this in your onLoad/initLayout function in your class.
if ( _global.isLivePreview == true)
{
// you are running in the Flash Live Preview
compile_txt.text = compiledDate;
}
To get the actualy compile date itself, you'll have to go ask the dudes on
OSFlash; I think using ANT or some other post/pre-processor, you can set
vars/global vars to a preset value.
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From: eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
I have a component, where part of the live preview is to show the date of
compile.
How can I code this so that when the resulting SWF is run some other time,
it uses a burned in value for the date, and not my get todays date
function? Somene suggested localSharedObject - but that doesn't really work
- since the 1st time you run it, the date could be inaccurate.
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Re: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
I have a dedicated live preview SWF, so I don't need that isLivePreview
thing. So I guess the only way to do this is to publish the SWF and then
inject a value in it aftwerwards. I have no qualms about a pre-processor,
but I'm making components for designers to use. I guess maybe instead of
trying to do some llifting for them by auto-completing the date, they can
just enter it as a string and be done with it :/
thanks.
ed
On 11/4/05, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Put this in your onLoad/initLayout function in your class.
if ( _global.isLivePreview == true)
{
// you are running in the Flash Live Preview
compile_txt.text = compiledDate;
}
To get the actualy compile date itself, you'll have to go ask the dudes on
OSFlash; I think using ANT or some other post/pre-processor, you can set
vars/global vars to a preset value.
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From: eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
I have a component, where part of the live preview is to show the date of
compile.
How can I code this so that when the resulting SWF is run some other time,
it uses a burned in value for the date, and not my get todays date
function? Somene suggested localSharedObject - but that doesn't really
work
- since the 1st time you run it, the date could be inaccurate.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
Tracy, I think you're going to find the latter of your two approaches to be more efficient and quite easy to accomplish, especially the server will be authored in .NET. If you're using the term port to refer to the actual socket, then you'll find that handling multiple clients concurrently is fairly easy to achieve without needing to filter results on the client side. The main issues you're going to find with this sort of thing (network / tunneling issues, thread management) will probably be non-existent in a controlled environment with 100 clients. I see the very basic architecture as something like this: Flash client - xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer - .net socket server - xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer - system internals or .net remoting to the service aggregator / whatever The other option in which you could avoid writing a server would be to poll (even though it seems yucky) very quickly. Probably not such a huge burden if you're on a lan and use flash remoting. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
Keep in mind that you can use a single port and send to a specific destination. If you can identify the client specifically, then this should be pretty easy. That would allow you to send messages only to the clients that require the message. Creating a separate port for each connection would not scale well (I know you said this wasn't so much of an issue) and it could potentially be an administration nightmare. With that said, there are a number of free servers out there. Oregano (java-based) comes to mind. You had mentioned .NET, are you looking specifically for a .NET server? I don't know of any offhand, but I vaguely remember coming across one, maybe search on source forge. If you are familiar with network programming, it is possible you could roll your own if it has a specific need. What I mean is that it is not too difficult to build something if a) you know how to build it (duh), and b) the solution is very specific. The difficulty of writing a server comes with all the options (plugins, clustering, highly customizable messaging data, etc.). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
can your client afford Flash communication server, it has true push technology to the flash application but its not cheap licensing. Can you really push using an XMLSocket, I thought it was still request/response and not listen from the flash runtime unless you use rmtp and net connection. red5 would meet your needs but won't be GA for a while.. Grant - Original Message - From: Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 3:09 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Tracy, I think you're going to find the latter of your two approaches to be more efficient and quite easy to accomplish, especially the server will be authored in .NET. If you're using the term port to refer to the actual socket, then you'll find that handling multiple clients concurrently is fairly easy to achieve without needing to filter results on the client side. The main issues you're going to find with this sort of thing (network / tunneling issues, thread management) will probably be non-existent in a controlled environment with 100 clients. I see the very basic architecture as something like this: Flash client xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer .net socket server xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer system internals or .net remoting to the service aggregator / whatever The other option in which you could avoid writing a server would be to poll (even though it seems yucky) very quickly. Probably not such a huge burden if you're on a lan and use flash remoting. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
Yeah, you can push with sockets. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:16 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture can your client afford Flash communication server, it has true push technology to the flash application but its not cheap licensing. Can you really push using an XMLSocket, I thought it was still request/response and not listen from the flash runtime unless you use rmtp and net connection. red5 would meet your needs but won't be GA for a while.. Grant - Original Message - From: Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 3:09 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Tracy, I think you're going to find the latter of your two approaches to be more efficient and quite easy to accomplish, especially the server will be authored in .NET. If you're using the term port to refer to the actual socket, then you'll find that handling multiple clients concurrently is fairly easy to achieve without needing to filter results on the client side. The main issues you're going to find with this sort of thing (network / tunneling issues, thread management) will probably be non-existent in a controlled environment with 100 clients. I see the very basic architecture as something like this: Flash client xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer .net socket server xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer system internals or .net remoting to the service aggregator / whatever The other option in which you could avoid writing a server would be to poll (even though it seems yucky) very quickly. Probably not such a huge burden if you're on a lan and use flash remoting. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
You can push to the client with sockets. Every time something comes from the server with a 0 byte terminating it the XMLSocket object gets an onData event. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:16 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture can your client afford Flash communication server, it has true push technology to the flash application but its not cheap licensing. Can you really push using an XMLSocket, I thought it was still request/response and not listen from the flash runtime unless you use rmtp and net connection. red5 would meet your needs but won't be GA for a while.. Grant - Original Message - From: Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: 11/4/05 3:09 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Tracy, I think you're going to find the latter of your two approaches to be more efficient and quite easy to accomplish, especially the server will be authored in .NET. If you're using the term port to refer to the actual socket, then you'll find that handling multiple clients concurrently is fairly easy to achieve without needing to filter results on the client side. The main issues you're going to find with this sort of thing (network / tunneling issues, thread management) will probably be non-existent in a controlled environment with 100 clients. I see the very basic architecture as something like this: Flash client xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer .net socket server xml/ascii serialization/deserialization layer system internals or .net remoting to the service aggregator / whatever The other option in which you could avoid writing a server would be to poll (even though it seems yucky) very quickly. Probably not such a huge burden if you're on a lan and use flash remoting. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Dynamically setting the height of the text area component based on the content?
Hi all! Is there a way to dynamically set the height of the text area component based on the content? What I would really like to 'capture' is the number of line returns and then multiply that by the default row size of 22 to set the height. Setting the component height to the length is mis-leading at best. Say the length returns 180 characters...the component height would not be 180 px..you must account for how many lines of text and that is where I am getting fuzy... - Hope this makes sense... -- Drue Skyymap, Inc. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] placing an action at the end of a FLV video!
or if you are using flash 7...
http://buraks.com/captionate/
you can use a custom event inserted into the FLV like onMarker or
onCaption.
MaTT
On 11/4/05, Gerry Creighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check the livedocs.macromdedia.com http://livedocs.macromdedia.com for
adding cuepoints to your media
player for whatever
version of Flash you are using.
Just have it listen for that cuepoint at the end and then load the
home.swf.
listenerObject = new Object();
listenerObject.cuePoint = function(eventObject){
// insert your code here
}
myMedia.addEventListener(cuePoint, listenerObject)
Gerry
...
http://www.thespikeranch.com
Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 11:46 AM, William J. Miller wrote:
I have a swf that calls a flv on my server. The swf loads into a
movieclip on the main swf. I need the loaded swf with the flv to
load the default swf..(home.swf) into the mailloader clip when the
flv is finished.
Thanks
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Re: [Flashcoders] skinning mcom scrollbar
Thanks for helping John ;) Marcel feel free to email me offlist for skinning help.. (I designed and built all the mCom skins) Cheers, Ryan On 11/4/05, John Grden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah if you got to that page and follow that tutorial and still have issues, let me know, I've got an FLA that's already setup. On 11/4/05, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Grden showed me how at one point and it really wasn't all that hard. Anyway, you basically have to create MovieClips for all of the component's assetts and make sure that each of them have the appropriate linkage identifier setup. Here is a brief overview of that on Metaliq's website: http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/getting_started.htm#skinning I hope that helps. -Chris On 11/4/05, marcel vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi has anyone expirience with skinnig the mcom scrollbar. marcel -- vogt mit vogt marcel vogt multimedia zwinglistrasse 34a 8004 zürich phone: +41 (0)43 233 71 11 cel: +41 (0)79 222 26 55 website: http://www.vogtmitvogt.com blog: http://nointro.kaywa.com flash user group: http://sfug.ch -- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- John Grden - Blitz ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] dataset problems
Hi list, i have a main.swf and 2 subs a.swf and b.swf. Main contains the webservice classes. Subs contains the webservice classes and the dataset component. Main loads a first, then b - b is broken Main loads b first, then a - a is broken a and b are two different applications but with the exact same architecture. If i include the dataset component in main, no problems occurs. So the solution is simply to put the dataset component in the main file. However i would like to know.. why? I dont know what other subs will be programmed in the future, it would not be nice if everytime i get a new subtype i need to include some of its contents in the main file in order to keep things working. Any ideas? Thanks for ur time and help, it is much appreciated if u could help me out here. Hans ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
Well, you could also look into an existing Socket server to handle your messaging teer. I'm working on an applicatino that utilizes XMPP for the push mess ageing layer. There is even a really good AS2 library for utilizing the XMPP protocol. You can find this stuff here: http://jivesoftware.org It's open source and free. There are others that don't use XMPP out there specifically geard towards Flash as well, like Oregano: http://www.oregano-server.org/ and ElectroServer: http://www.electrotank.com/electroserver/ In addition, as Grant already mentioned, you can use RTMP with FCS, or Red5. There are several advantages with using RTMP as opposed to the XMLSocket connection. Binary format as opposed to Strings, can pass actual Data types to the server, can stream audio and video are just a few. Red5 will also be able to utilize AMF messaging and will be able to integrate with server-side infrastructure through the Spring Framework. A 1.0 release of Red5 is scheduled for Spring of 2006, so if you have time to wait, it might be worth looking at. You can see more on the project here: http://osflash.org/red5. And if you have the cash then definitely use FCS. I hope that helps give you some other options to choose from. -Chris On 11/4/05, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, all, good advice. Since my requirements as very specific and I have control over all levels, and I have a bit of experience with .net socket programming, I plan to implement this as a .net socket server talking to XMLSocket AS clients. Jeremy and Jim, you both implied I could ..use a single port and send to a specific destination. I'll take this question over to a .net forum, but my limited understanding of socket programming does not include how this could work. Any follow up hints will be appreciated. Worst case, client filtering does not scare me. Thanks again, Tracy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larkin, Jeremy Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:18 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Keep in mind that you can use a single port and send to a specific destination. If you can identify the client specifically, then this should be pretty easy. That would allow you to send messages only to the clients that require the message. Creating a separate port for each connection would not scale well (I know you said this wasn't so much of an issue) and it could potentially be an administration nightmare. With that said, there are a number of free servers out there. Oregano (java-based) comes to mind. You had mentioned .NET, are you looking specifically for a .NET server? I don't know of any offhand, but I vaguely remember coming across one, maybe search on source forge. If you are familiar with network programming, it is possible you could roll your own if it has a specific need. What I mean is that it is not too difficult to build something if a) you know how to build it (duh), and b) the solution is very specific. The difficulty of writing a server comes with all the options (plugins, clustering, highly customizable messaging data, etc.). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object
What magic secret do I need to know in order to create an embedded video object via ActionScript (not manually, via the Library) in order to perform the requisite NetStream voodoo? In other words, what can I do besides dropping a embedded video asset from the Library onto the Stage? Does the Library's embedded video object have an exposed class somewhere? - pixelTwiddler, a.k.a. Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] placing an action at the end of a FLV video!
I have a swf that calls a flv on my server. The swf loads into a
movieclip on the main swf. I need the loaded swf with the flv to
load the default swf..(home.swf) into the mailloader clip when the
flv is finished.
How are you loading/playing the FLV?
If you're doing it via NetStream, just use something like the following.
yourNetStreamObject.onStatus(status:Object):Void {
if (status.code == 'NetStream.Play.Stop') {
// Place your code for loading the default SWF here.
}
}
As soon as the FLV stream playback completes, the code will execute.
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Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
Use onData instead of onLoad.
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onData = function(str)
{
if(str.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(str);
this.onLoad(true);
}
};
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From: Josh Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
Hello,
Is there a way to get Flash to ignore XML processing instructions
(PI)? I have a project which uses XML files for content and one of
my clients is using Altova Authentic to edit the files.
Unfortunately, this app adds ? altova_sps somefile.sps ? to the top
of the XML file. This line causes Flash to choke on the XML file.
I did some tests and moved the PI to the middle of the XML doc and
Flash is able to read the XML file up to the location of the PI and
then it chokes again. The only way I see of getting this to work is
to have the PI at the very end of the XML document, which of course I
cannot control.
Any thoughts?
thanks,
Josh Gormley
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Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object
Don't believe so. You'd have to make it available via Library. It would be cool to create a video object on the fly if needed, but alas... ed On 11/4/05, Jason Lutes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What magic secret do I need to know in order to create an embedded video object via ActionScript (not manually, via the Library) in order to perform the requisite NetStream voodoo? In other words, what can I do besides dropping a embedded video asset from the Library onto the Stage? Does the Library's embedded video object have an exposed class somewhere? - pixelTwiddler, a.k.a. Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] placing an action at the end of a FLV video!
That's stopped, not finished. Finished is NetStream.Play.Stop followed
immediately by a NetStream.Buffer.Empty.
- Original Message -
From: Jason Lutes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] placing an action at the end of a FLV video!
I have a swf that calls a flv on my server. The swf loads into a
movieclip on the main swf. I need the loaded swf with the flv to
load the default swf..(home.swf) into the mailloader clip when the
flv is finished.
How are you loading/playing the FLV?
If you're doing it via NetStream, just use something like the following.
yourNetStreamObject.onStatus(status:Object):Void {
if (status.code == 'NetStream.Play.Stop') {
// Place your code for loading the default SWF here.
}
}
As soon as the FLV stream playback completes, the code will execute.
-
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RE: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object
You can put it within a MovieClip and attach the movieclip using attachMovie Of course, then you must refer to it as myMC.videoObj. But it works; it's what I use with my components, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Lutes Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:59 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object What magic secret do I need to know in order to create an embedded video object via ActionScript (not manually, via the Library) in order to perform the requisite NetStream voodoo? In other words, what can I do besides dropping a embedded video asset from the Library onto the Stage? Does the Library's embedded video object have an exposed class somewhere? - pixelTwiddler, a.k.a. Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture
I've done a bit of googling and believe I can figure out the rest of this myself. Thanks a lot all. Tracy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:13 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Thanks, all, good advice. Since my requirements as very specific and I have control over all levels, and I have a bit of experience with .net socket programming, I plan to implement this as a .net socket server talking to XMLSocket AS clients. Jeremy and Jim, you both implied I could ..use a single port and send to a specific destination. I'll take this question over to a .net forum, but my limited understanding of socket programming does not include how this could work. Any follow up hints will be appreciated. Worst case, client filtering does not scare me. Thanks again, Tracy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larkin, Jeremy Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:18 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Keep in mind that you can use a single port and send to a specific destination. If you can identify the client specifically, then this should be pretty easy. That would allow you to send messages only to the clients that require the message. Creating a separate port for each connection would not scale well (I know you said this wasn't so much of an issue) and it could potentially be an administration nightmare. With that said, there are a number of free servers out there. Oregano (java-based) comes to mind. You had mentioned .NET, are you looking specifically for a .NET server? I don't know of any offhand, but I vaguely remember coming across one, maybe search on source forge. If you are familiar with network programming, it is possible you could roll your own if it has a specific need. What I mean is that it is not too difficult to build something if a) you know how to build it (duh), and b) the solution is very specific. The difficulty of writing a server comes with all the options (plugins, clustering, highly customizable messaging data, etc.). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:44 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Need advice on XMLSocket architecture Hello, I'm a regular on the flexcoders list, where it was suggested that I ask my question over here. Any advice will be welcome! I have 100 fixed, identifiable clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail transport. I had planned on a leisurely polling setup to get the clients updated with changes in state, but I now have a requirement for an update with minimum latency. The messaging between clients and server is very low frequency (a few clients updated per minute) and very low message size (a few k per update). I am now looking at a true push connection using XMLSockets. I see two approaches: On would be to have a separate port connection for each client with each client only getting their messages, the other would be a single port, where all clients would get all messages, and ignore those that were not theirs. In my case performance, reliability and simplicity are most important, and scalability not so much an issue. Any suggestions, experiences, resources would be appreciated!! Tracy ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] media display v. netstream and video object
media display component is made with netstream and a video object. FLVPlayback component lets you tweak the buffer time too, so I would think there is no difference in speed to load it up. ed On 11/4/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. quick question. will an external flv begin playing faster thru a media display component or using the netstream with a video object? thanks. -- matt. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object
sure - but i think he was after calling one up without it residing in the Library at all. like a createClassObject kinda thing ed On 11/4/05, Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put it within a MovieClip and attach the movieclip using attachMovie Of course, then you must refer to it as myMC.videoObj. But it works; it's what I use with my components, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Lutes Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:59 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object What magic secret do I need to know in order to create an embedded video object via ActionScript (not manually, via the Library) in order to perform the requisite NetStream voodoo? In other words, what can I do besides dropping a embedded video asset from the Library onto the Stage? Does the Library's embedded video object have an exposed class somewhere? - pixelTwiddler, a.k.a. Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] painless upgrading
Hey guys I want to create my first f8 site but I know a lot of my user still might be f6 player users. What's the most painless way to users up and running the f8 player? Corban Baxter | rich media designer | www.funimation.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object
Well you can use SWFMILL to do that too, but that's pretty much the same concept, especially if you consider the term authoring tool in a very general sense ;-) On 11/4/05, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We wish. Video, Fonts, and a few others must be created in the authoring tool. - Original Message - From: Jason Lutes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:58 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Embedding a Video Object What magic secret do I need to know in order to create an embedded video object via ActionScript (not manually, via the Library) in order to perform the requisite NetStream voodoo? In other words, what can I do besides dropping a embedded video asset from the Library onto the Stage? Does the Library's embedded video object have an exposed class somewhere? - pixelTwiddler, a.k.a. Jason ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
thanks for the quick response, but unfortunately it didn't work.
if I add a trace(this) right after the this.onLoad(true) line, I only
get the XML structure up to the point of the processing
instructions. Here is the code I'm using:
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.load(data/data.xml);
myXML.onData = function(src) {
if(src.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(src);
this.onLoad(true);
trace(this);
}
}
My XML looks like this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM data-schema.dtd
?altova_sps blah.sps?
data
gameSettings
SNIPPED
And the trace from the code above returns this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM
data-schema.dtd
any thoughts?
Josh
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:44 PM, JesterXL wrote:
Use onData instead of onLoad.
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onData = function(str)
{
if(str.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(str);
this.onLoad(true);
}
};
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Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
I guess I could use the string that is passed to the onData function
and remove any processing tags before the string is parsed as XML Is
that what you were suggesting?
Josh
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:44 PM, JesterXL wrote:
Use onData instead of onLoad.
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onData = function(str)
{
if(str.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(str);
this.onLoad(true);
}
};
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Re: [Flashcoders] painless upgrading
Express install if they have 6.0.65.0. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/ - Original Message - From: Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:54 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] painless upgrading Hey guys I want to create my first f8 site but I know a lot of my user still might be f6 player users. What's the most painless way to users up and running the f8 player? Corban Baxter | rich media designer | www.funimation.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
2 things, first, define onData before you call load.
Second, the first character in the str is not ?. So, you'll have to
either hardcode where the ? you are looking for is showing up, or parse it
out using the String functions.
- Original Message -
From: Josh Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
thanks for the quick response, but unfortunately it didn't work.
if I add a trace(this) right after the this.onLoad(true) line, I only
get the XML structure up to the point of the processing
instructions. Here is the code I'm using:
myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.load(data/data.xml);
myXML.onData = function(src) {
if(src.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(src);
this.onLoad(true);
trace(this);
}
}
My XML looks like this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM data-schema.dtd
?altova_sps blah.sps?
data
gameSettings
SNIPPED
And the trace from the code above returns this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM
data-schema.dtd
any thoughts?
Josh
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:44 PM, JesterXL wrote:
Use onData instead of onLoad.
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onData = function(str)
{
if(str.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(str);
this.onLoad(true);
}
};
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Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
Yeah sure, if you know what they are.
- Original Message -
From: Josh Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] XML processing instructions
I guess I could use the string that is passed to the onData function
and remove any processing tags before the string is parsed as XML Is
that what you were suggesting?
Josh
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:44 PM, JesterXL wrote:
Use onData instead of onLoad.
my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.onData = function(str)
{
if(str.substr(0, 1) != ?)
{
this.loaded = true;
this.parseXML(str);
this.onLoad(true);
}
};
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Re: [Flashcoders] Dynamically setting the height of the text area component based on the content?
At 04:45 PM 11/4/2005, you wrote: Hi all! Is there a way to dynamically set the height of the text area component based on the content? What I would really like to 'capture' is the number of line returns and then multiply that by the default row size of 22 to set the height. Setting the component height to the length is mis-leading at best. Say the length returns 180 characters...the component height would not be 180 px..you must account for how many lines of text and that is where I am getting fuzy... - Hope this makes sense... -- Drue Skyymap, Inc. Drue, Actually it's worse than that. You can't simply chop the line at n characters, you have to drop back to the last space and work from there when you are figuring out your line count. Then add in the returns or break tags if it's HTML. Don't know what you're experiencing, but for the past two years we've run AllNovaScotia.com with the standard text area/scroll bar combo. All the while there's been a low-level rumble of We want to use mouse wheel, PageUp and PageDown to move through the issue. Finally, we got around to re-doing the site in MX 2004, using the Flash TextArea component. Easy for me - built-in scrolling support, mouse wheel and PgUp/PgDn. Now they want more and back buttons positioned just below the text if there is more text than will fill the available space. Auuugh!! I've been trying to explain they don't need that - they have the scrolling features they wanted. I can calculate depths, count returns, line lengths, etc. all I want. As soon as a picture or two goes in the story that's a broken formula. Feels like they want me to write a primitive PageMaker in Flash! It's sort of the inverse of your challenge, and I've not really put my mind to it yet, as I'm fixing a combo box change handler MM broke in moving to MX 2004. Listeners ... broadcasters ... registration ... mutter, mutter. Cheers, and have a great weekend - Miles ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
Is it possible to use JSFL to automatically set component's
parameter(s) while in Flash IDE?
== Fri, 4 Nov 2005, JesterXL wrote:
Put this in your onLoad/initLayout function in your class.
if ( _global.isLivePreview == true)
{
// you are running in the Flash Live Preview
compile_txt.text = compiledDate;
}
To get the actualy compile date itself, you'll have to go ask the dudes on
OSFlash; I think using ANT or some other post/pre-processor, you can set
vars/global vars to a preset value.
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From: eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] live preview vs. compiled swf
I have a component, where part of the live preview is to show the date of
compile.
How can I code this so that when the resulting SWF is run some other time,
it uses a burned in value for the date, and not my get todays date
function? Somene suggested localSharedObject - but that doesn't really work
- since the 1st time you run it, the date could be inaccurate.
ed
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