Re: [Flashcoders] mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass problem
Yes, that's true, but then someone without MTASC cannot compile (it
will not work), so if my customer will want sources and want to
compile it, it will be problem :)
On 3 Feb 2006 06:40:47 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do something similar in my arp extensions to force command classes
defined in an xml document to be loaded at runtime. I use the -pack feature
of mtasc that forces classes from a package into your swf.
so if you wanted force all the classes in com.bluetube.command into your swf
you would pass
-pack com\bluetube\command to mtasc.
I hate having to put a dummy constructor or fluff in the code to make it
work, I prefer the mtasc approach.
Grant.
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From: Cdric_Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: 2/2/06 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass problem
but please, remember that this is a Flash Hack with a lot of whack
and crack :)
you're welcome!
cedric
This works Cedric, thank you very much :)
All of you
On 2/2/06, Cédric Muller wrote:
in your .as file (main class, or classesManger,...) you can simply
put references to the classes you will/should use ...
I did it once the following way:
/**
* setPackagesToImport
* fake method, never gets called. just here for 'import' +
reference
purposes
*
*/
private function setPackagesToImport ():Void {
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer. ScreenEffects;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.ScreenVideo;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.Screen;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.HelperFunctions;
// and so on ...
}
with such, you assure yourself that Flash will include the
classes . not very official, nor clean, but really worked for me
(as I had to reference the classes paths through xml)
cedric
Yes it works
var dummyVar:Function=sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; (with
no import)
this is not problem
but i create instance dynamicly, i got string in XML
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test
and i need create instance, but application doesnt know which
classes
will be instantiated, so i cannot create instance of all possible
class in initialize phase of application
On 2/2/06, franto wrote:
but Ian, why it find other classes, i dont instantiate any of
class,
that code you can see in email is everything, and it has found 15
classes, but 3 doesnt find
Classes found: 15
Classes not found: 3
Why?
On 2/2/06, Ian Thomas wrote:
Hi Franto,
As far as I understand it, 'import' isn't enough to get a class
compiled
into your .swf.
The line:
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
just tells the compiler that any mention of the word Test in your
code will
refer to that class.
If the class isn't compiled into the SWF, ClassFinder won't find
it. You
actually need to access or instantiate the class somewhere in
the code to
make Flash include it. From memory I think just referring to the
class
constructor is enough e.g.
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
var dummyVar:Function=sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; //
somewhere
later in the code
I also have a vague memory that you might be able to force MTASC
to include
classes, but not being a user of MTASC (yet!) I'm not certain on
that one.
HTH,
Ian
P.S.
You may just get away with
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; // refers to the
constructor, so Flash
includes the code
I seem to remember reading that somewhere... although
syntactically it's
odd.
On 2/2/06, franto wrote:
Can someone explain me this?
Im using mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass to find class and make
instance
from it
but some classes it cant find, it's not just problem of
mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass im using another way to create
dynamic class (as I wrote yesterday to the list)
but same classes are not found e.g
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test
but when I create instance in this way
new sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test()
it is created!!! Can someone tell me why? I try all I know, add
imports and such but nothing
help me. Im stuck on this for 8 hours now :( and i have to find
solution
Please help :)
Maybe you can try it on your own projects, if it will find your
classes
Thank you
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Re: [Flashcoders] mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass problem
grant, how do you make your classes as shared libraries (for example
making fx.swf provide the rest of the app with all the available
classes for transitions, tweens, ...) ?
I always wondered how mtasc would handle such (I don't have time to
dig that part...)
cedric
Yes, that's true, but then someone without MTASC cannot compile (it
will not work), so if my customer will want sources and want to
compile it, it will be problem :)
On 3 Feb 2006 06:40:47 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do something similar in my arp extensions to force command
classes defined in an xml document to be loaded at runtime. I use
the -pack feature of mtasc that forces classes from a package into
your swf.
so if you wanted force all the classes in com.bluetube.command
into your swf you would pass
-pack com\bluetube\command to mtasc.
I hate having to put a dummy constructor or fluff in the code to
make it work, I prefer the mtasc approach.
Grant.
- Original Message -
From: Cdric_Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: 2/2/06 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass problem
but please, remember that this is a Flash Hack with a lot of whack
and crack :)
you're welcome!
cedric
This works Cedric, thank you very much :)
All of you
On 2/2/06, Cédric Muller wrote:
in your .as file (main class, or classesManger,...) you can simply
put references to the classes you will/should use ...
I did it once the following way:
/**
* setPackagesToImport
* fake method, never gets called. just here for 'import' +
reference
purposes
*
*/
private function setPackagesToImport ():Void {
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer. ScreenEffects;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.ScreenVideo;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.Screen;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.HelperFunctions;
// and so on ...
}
with such, you assure yourself that Flash will include the
classes . not very official, nor clean, but really worked
for me
(as I had to reference the classes paths through xml)
cedric
Yes it works
var dummyVar:Function=sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; (with
no import)
this is not problem
but i create instance dynamicly, i got string in XML
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test
and i need create instance, but application doesnt know which
classes
will be instantiated, so i cannot create instance of all possible
class in initialize phase of application
On 2/2/06, franto wrote:
but Ian, why it find other classes, i dont instantiate any of
class,
that code you can see in email is everything, and it has
found 15
classes, but 3 doesnt find
Classes found: 15
Classes not found: 3
Why?
On 2/2/06, Ian Thomas wrote:
Hi Franto,
As far as I understand it, 'import' isn't enough to get a class
compiled
into your .swf.
The line:
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
just tells the compiler that any mention of the word Test in
your
code will
refer to that class.
If the class isn't compiled into the SWF, ClassFinder won't
find
it. You
actually need to access or instantiate the class somewhere in
the code to
make Flash include it. From memory I think just referring to
the
class
constructor is enough e.g.
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
var dummyVar:Function=sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; //
somewhere
later in the code
I also have a vague memory that you might be able to force
MTASC
to include
classes, but not being a user of MTASC (yet!) I'm not
certain on
that one.
HTH,
Ian
P.S.
You may just get away with
import sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test;
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test; // refers to the
constructor, so Flash
includes the code
I seem to remember reading that somewhere... although
syntactically it's
odd.
On 2/2/06, franto wrote:
Can someone explain me this?
Im using mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass to find class and make
instance
from it
but some classes it cant find, it's not just problem of
mx.utils.ClassFinder.findClass im using another way to
create
dynamic class (as I wrote yesterday to the list)
but same classes are not found e.g
sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test
but when I create instance in this way
new sk.sowhat.linuxPlayer.play4dogs.Test()
it is created!!! Can someone tell me why? I try all I know,
add
imports and such but nothing
help me. Im stuck on this for 8 hours now :( and i have to
find
solution
Please help :)
Maybe you can try it on your own projects, if it will find
your
classes
Thank you
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Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag
Unfortunately _lockroot doesn't fix the path problem. Even if the _root is being changed through _lockroot, the base path is still the one of the wrapping SWF. I guess I'll have to go with Ade's suggestion unless somebody has another idea... On 2/2/06, Cédric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you try '_lockroot' ? cedric You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. Ade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jan Schluenzen Sent: 02 February 2006 10:23 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag Hi- does anyone know of an ActionScript equivalent of accomplishing the effect of the BASE tag (part of the embed and object tags in HTML)? The problem is, I have a flash application that loads XMLs and SWFs relative to the application's base SWF index.swf. Now I need to load my index.swf into another container, a stand- alone projector. I don't want to fix all paths within my application so that they are relative to the new container (which is outside my actual application folder). Is there some way to set the basepath through actionscript? To clarify, here's the structure of my app: + root index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Now with the new container, it will look like this: + root container.exe (Stand-alone Flash projector) + data index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Since all paths for loading files are now relative to the container.exeinstead of index.swf, everything's broken.. Is there an easy fix? Jan ___ 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] plz advise :-0
i have a Datagrid and a Window component.On click of a button,the column fields(headings)present in the datagrid should be displayed in the Window component for the user to select.there is a checkbox next to the column fields in Window component.User selects few checkboxes from Window,clicks ok button.Then,the selected checkboxes/datagrid columns should only be visible in the datagrid. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] plz advise :-0
oh thanks Nick well,how should i display only 2 checkboxes in the LIST component which is in a WINDOW component.i used list_instance.cellRenderer() =classname. classname is a class in which i am attaching 2 checkboxes. Actually,2 checkboxes are needed because there are only two columns in the datagrid. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] plz advise :-0
oh thanks Nick well,how should i display only 2 checkboxes in the LIST component which is in a WINDOW component.i used list_instance.cellRenderer() =classname. classname is a class which contains code to attach 2 checkboxes. IN SHORT,I WANT TO DISPLAY 2 CHECKBOXES IN LIST COMPONENT.THIS LIST COMPONENT IS IN A WINDOW COMPONENT. Regards, Srishti , Tata Elxsi Limited, Engineer-Design and Development. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] International Address to Map position
Quick sideways thought - does it have to be Flash? You can embed the Google Maps code on your own site, and the API allows you to layer your own data over the world map, or even substitute your own map. All the zooming/latitude/longitude/place marker on map location code is already built in. Cheers, Ian On 2/3/06, clark slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Folks, I'm working on an application that has a requirement for generating a world map showing outlets for a particular product. There are *lots* of outlets and they are updated very frequently so the spec is that the map should be able to render a new outlet in the correct location on the world map based on address only. Anyone done this before and care to offer any suggestions? Right now I am thinking I will need to acquire a db of city/long/lat or else find a public webservice that accepts an international address and returns long/lat info. Then I'm thinking I'll just need a scale map in my swf that approximates to the long/lat grid so can place the new outlet in the right position. Any advice or tales of woe appreciated. Clark ___ 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] plz advise :-0
On 03/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh thanks Nick well,how should i display only 2 checkboxes in the LIST component which in turn,is in a WINDOW component.i used list_instance.cellRenderer() =classname. classname is a class in which i am attaching 2 checkboxes. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be helped on a(ny) mailing list: a) Type a meaningful subject. b) Do not send duplicate posts - replies or new e-mails. c) Reply in one concise e-mail, rather than spamming the list every 10 minutes. d) Do not type in caps. e) We do not want to read your company's disclaimers. Use a separate account for use on mailing lists. f) Be patient. -K ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Seeking a bit of drawing API inspiration..
Thanks Fumio - I already had an 8-segment circle-drawing function, I was
looking for a 4-segment. It turned out to be pretty trivial - not accurate,
but close enough for what I needed. So my problem is solved.
Thanks anyway!
Cheers,
Ian
On 2/3/06, Fumio Nonaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
function xDrawCircle(target_mc:MovieClip, nX:Number, nY:Number,
nR:Number, nSegments:Number):Void {
if (nSegments == undefined) {
nSegments = 8;
}
var nAngle:Number = 2*Math.PI/nSegments;
target_mc.moveTo(nX+nR, nY);
for (var i = 1; i=nSegments; ++i) {
var nTheta:Number = i*nAngle;
var nAnchorX:Number = nR*Math.cos(nTheta);
var nAnchorY:Number = nR*Math.sin(nTheta);
var nControlX:Number =
nAnchorX+nR*Math.tan(nAngle/2)*Math.cos(nTheta-Math.PI/2);
var nControlY:Number =
nAnchorY+nR*Math.tan(nAngle/2)*Math.sin(nTheta-Math.PI/2);
target_mc.curveTo(nControlX+nX, nControlY+nY, nAnchorX+nX,
nAnchorY+nY);
}
}
// Test
var _mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip(target_mc, 1);
_mc.beginFill(0x00);
_mc.lineStyle(2, 0xFF);
xDrawCircle(_mc, Stage.width/2, Stage.height/2, 100, 8);
_mc.endFill();
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Ian Thomas wrote:
Thanks for that - I've come up with an approximation based on very
similar
code. Not ideal, but it's close enough for the purpose I needed it for.
That
combined with a quick hash table to make sure I'm not plotting circles
near
other circles has given me the performance I need.
Good luck,
Fumio Nonaka
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Re: [Flashcoders] Seeking a bit of drawing API inspiration..
Whoops, replied too fast without reading carefully - I hadn't spotted the nSegments parameter. That might come in handy, thank you! Ian On 2/3/06, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Fumio - I already had an 8-segment circle-drawing function, I was looking for a 4-segment. It turned out to be pretty trivial - not accurate, but close enough for what I needed. So my problem is solved. Thanks anyway! Cheers, Ian ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] xpath - returning object not string?
Continuing my further adventures in xpath land: clientList = XPath.selectNodes(this, root/clients/client/@name); trace(typeof(clientList[0])); That trace statement returns object, so my array is an array of objects, not the strings I was after. WIll I have to String(clientList[0]) everytime I need the string value, or is there some other way? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Chinese / Japanese Text Input
I think it's possible Japanese characters in Tahoma font won't be present on some installations - but that on others Tahoma will have all the Japanese characters. I think they have to be installed, so switching locales doesn't help. I'm wondering if a typical windows XP machine set up in Japan will have all the characters in Tahoma font. Using _sans sounds like another good thing to try. Thanks. On 2/2/06, Kenneth Kawamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Tahoma on our world-wide country sites and so far, it has worked fine for all of the character sets we've come across. Really? If I set the input text font to Tahoma, I cannot type in Japanese - it comes out as just squares. Tahoma has no Japanese characters (obviously), that is predicted outcome. I'm not convinced - or are you talking about European character sets? Kenneth Kawamoto www.materiaprima.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- -- http://www.centralquestion.com/flauntit ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
Ya like prototyping, XP style spike solutions are a very good idea. Reach a proof of concept prototype asap. Do it dirty, do it by stealing, do it whichever way you can do it as long as it's fast. And from the experiences garnered during this spike, a better solution of the problem can be deducted. It feels awful planning to do something you haven't done before, so a minimum of a day or two just for experimenting with solutions and learning about the real scope of the problem is pretty much a given for me at work these days. Then again i haven't worked on anything small and quick in years. I miss the quick stuff :( year-long flashdev on the same project gets so demotivating... But i digress. Important to remember that people, at least most people, are monkeys that like playing and pushing and pulling and kicking stuff. Feeling the texture of a surface will tell you more about it than any picture. ryanm wrote: After spending a couple of hours, tracing my codes , pulling my hair out, and smoking 2 packets of cigarettes, I felt that rewriting it from the scracth was a better way. So, I did that and the result was satisfying. However, I think working twice on the same codes is not good at all. So here I am, asking for your guidance about how to code/design Flash applications (not only Flash sites) efficiently, as simple as possible, without making things overcomplicated. Or maybe it is just a matter of experience? Planning, that's all. Work it out in your head, on paper, on a whiteboard, whatever, before you write the first line of code. If you are unsure about how something will work, prototype it. Don't get hung up in the details, just test whatever it is you need to test, and figure out how to make it work how you want, and then go back to planning. Once you know how it all should work, writing the code is more like taking dictation than experimenting. As with anything, the more complex the app, the more necessary good planning becomes. If it's a quickie, one-off interactive ad, maybe all you need is to scribble out a few diagrams on a whiteboard for 15 minutes. But if it's a large-scale application, you might need several months of planning resulting in a substantial document that describes what components are to be built, how they work, and how they integrate. Once you have a good plan, though, writing clean, efficient code is easy. Even with good planning, there will be times when things don't work out as expected and you have to rewrite some code. But with good planning, you usually don't have to rewrite the whole thing. That is another advantage of that whole OOP thing that many people turn their noses at. One of the major benedfits of using OOP techniques is that it often saves you from having to rewrite the whole thing, and instead you may only have to rewrite a single function, class, or component, while the rest of the app works just like it is. The bottom line, though, is that you answered your own question. After you spent a few hours making sense of exactly what you wanted to accomplish, you found a much better way to do it. The question you need to ask is if you can put those couple hours at the beginning of the project, and skip over the whole first draft completely. Two hours up front to save you 8 hours of writing code that will end up in the trash anyway is a 63% increase in efficiency (assuming it took 8 hours both times you wrote it). It *more* than cuts your development time in half, because you spent those 2 hours working out how to build the thing either way. And I'll bet it was much faster to write the second time (when you really knew what you wanted to accomplish and how to accomplish it), too, wasn't it? ryanm ___ 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] xpath - returning object not string?
But doesn't that object get put into the array (clientList - declared as an array earlier), and I'm targeting a single item in the array? On 3 Feb 2006, at 12:16, Alias wrote: Your query will return a list of objects which have the attribute name. There may be more than one of them, hence you get the object. HTH, Alias On 2/3/06, Kent Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing my further adventures in xpath land: clientList = XPath.selectNodes(this, root/clients/client/@name); trace(typeof(clientList[0])); That trace statement returns object, so my array is an array of objects, not the strings I was after. WIll I have to String(clientList[0]) everytime I need the string value, or is there some other way? ___ 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] ActionScript study group in New York City
FYI: FlashCodersNY is starting a new session of weekly study group meetings. The topic will be Keith Peters excellent Making Things Move [ Friends of Ed ]. The plan is to work through the book and remember all the math we missed in high school. The final goal is to use the techniques in the book to build a toolkit / library of code that can be easily re-used. All FlashCodersNY meeting are free and open to the public. The goal is to learn by teaching. Both advanced ActionScript developers and beginners are encouraged to attend. // About the new Making Things Move sessions: http://flashcodersny.org/ // About our group. http://flashcodersny.org/?p=63 Best, Jean-Charles ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] plz advise :-0
ya Anngie,,u r right,my keyboard needs oiling ;-) The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoders
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[Flashcoders] feed parser in actionscript
somebody knows to parser of feed in actionscript that it works with rss 0.9, 1.0, 2.0 and atom? tks, etruta ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again... My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF to center it correctly in its container? Here's my tests on that particular problem 1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect. 2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect. |When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions are OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's dimentions are those of the main movie. I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the stage inside the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me! I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it impossible? Thanks a million. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
};
my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you mean?
Greetz
Hans
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Thibault
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Subject: RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again...
My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF to center
it correctly in its container?
Here's my tests on that particular problem
1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect.
2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect.
|When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions are
OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's dimentions are
those of the main movie.
I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the stage inside
the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me!
I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it impossible?
Thanks a million.
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[Flashcoders] MX combobox disabled still receive key down focus
Hi Coders, I've got a strange behaviour with MX combobox. I've got 3 combobox in my scene. They use the same function with the onchange event. the user have to fill a textfield with his email, but when the user start to type some key, the combobox is 'changing' according to the letter typed. I've tried the _combobox.setEnabled(false), the _combobox.enabled = false... the combobox appears to be disabled but still 'trapp' the keys typed and still change. any ideas ? Sorry for the bad english sentences Guillaume ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] 0,0????
I have to say Tom, that it's perfectly aligned on 0,0 on my F7. Yotam. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] 0,0????
nope.
thanks both of you, maybe I am mad then. I've always had my suspicions ;)
I've got an alignment prob and was running this on the root of a one frame
movie in flash 8 to see if it might be this bit of code and I only see 90%
of the bottom and right of the clip on the stage, only one rounded corner on
the bottom right is visible the rest is cropped by the bounds of the movie
at the top and the left!
h. weirdness.
thanks again!
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Looks fine to me.
Is your code nested inside another clip?
Alias
On 2/3/06, Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello, if anyone's got a mo, I'm going mad..
code
function
makeBG(roundness:Number,w:Number,h:Number,colour:String,targ:MovieClip):Movi
eClip
{
var bg:MovieClip = targ.createEmptyMovieClip(button_bg,1);
with(bg)
{
lineStyle(0,0,0);
beginFill(colour,100);
moveTo(roundness,0);
lineTo(w-roundness,0);
curveTo(w,0,w,roundness);
lineTo(w,h-roundness);
curveTo(w,h,w-roundness,h);
lineTo(roundness,h);
curveTo(0,h,0,h-roundness);
lineTo(0,roundness);
curveTo(0,0,roundness,0);
endFill();
}
return bg;
}
var buttBack = makeBG(4,140,20,0xFF,this);
trace(buttBack._x + : + buttBack._y);
/code
can someone paste that in a blank movie and run it, you'll see that even
though it traces 0:0 and as far as I can tell the pen never goes into
negative numbers, the shape's top left hand corner is above and to the
left
of 0,0??
cheers,
tom.
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Re: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
I already do that... but the width and height of the container clip
takes into account any instances outside the boundary of the loaded
SWF's stage...
So I'm getting the total with and height but want only the stage
dimentions of the loaded SWF!
I want to align the loaded SWF'stage in the loading flash
If it was just for me, i would not put anything outside the stage of the
loaded SWF but I'm not the producer of those swf...
And having the stage dimentions would help because the loaded SWF's
dimentions only takes into account the instances present on frame 1...
(mc_square 100*100 at (0,0) on a stage of 300*300 results in a container
clip of 100*100!)
A+
j.c.wichman wrote:
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
};
my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you mean?
Greetz
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thibault
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:11 PM
To: Flashcoders Mailing List
Subject: RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again...
My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF to center
it correctly in its container?
Here's my tests on that particular problem
1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect.
2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect.
|When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions are
OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's dimentions are
those of the main movie.
I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the stage inside
the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me!
I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it impossible?
Thanks a million.
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10 depths apart, as in navigation container at 10, content container at 20, footer container at 30, etc, instead of at 1, 2, and 3. That way, if I need to add a new section, or if I need to drop in additional elements like a scrollbar, etc, I have a depth available without having to go through the code and increment all the subsequent depths. Since there are 65k depths available and I rarely use more than a dozen on any given timeline, I figure spacing them out is safer than putting them right next to each other. ryanm ___ 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] How do you code your Flash applications?
Yeah, the sudden shut downs has frustrated me enough times that I just plain stopped using it, even though it's a better editor than SciTe Flash. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Derksen Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Yah, I really like it too, but it does the same thing for me. I save constantly anyways, so I rarely lose anything. I have yet to get the Mac version to actually run, which is a shame. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 2, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: I love Sepy, except for the fact that it seems to have a memory leak as it keeps shutting down every now and then with no warning, causing me to lose whatever work I had not saved - even though I have the latest version. It did it in the previous version too. Maybe its just an anomoly and doesn't happen to anyone else. For that reason, I went back to SciTE|Flash and the Actionscript editor. Eclipse was just too much for me, (though in Flexbuilder 2, its' great) - it's great for what it does if you're at or almost at guru level and can figure out all those project workspaces and junk, but sometimes, I just want to write a class and be done with it. Anyway, Anggie, I think maybe what I was getting at, (and honestly I'm very sorry if my little joke about it being a can of worms somehow made you feel bad), was that perhaps you could sharpen the question a little more so as to be not quite so broad. What is an example of a specific problem you're trying to solve other than write clean code? I guess when I saw your question, my thought was, where would anyone begin to answer that question effectively without writing a book on the subject. Could you give an example of something you've struggled with, which maybe people here could assist you in designing it better, making it more efficient? It probably won't be me that will help though, I'm still trying to get better at this stuff myself. Jason Merrill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bjorn Schultheiss Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:09 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? 9-5 I've been working on the same Flash RIA for the last 3 months. For this I have adopted to Sepy as this is what the rest of the dev team are using. Prior to that I was an Eclipse / MTASC k.i.d. Though when I get home and the collar comes and I'm UNLEASHEDtm into the flex beast that lays dormant during the day time within Flash Lemming. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:58 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Are you actually deploying Flex 2 applications? Doesn't it still require the alpha/beta Flash 8.5 player? Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: The enlightened Lemming would also like to add some comments. /* * Begin * * Flex 2 kicks ass. Any app dev I will work with flex. * Any GUI component / animation works I'll use Flash * * Thank you * * The end */ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:44 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Don't feel bad Anggie, I think it is an interesting topic that is worthy of discussion. The problem is that best practices are quite subjective, and as such some people feel the need to be offended at alternative suggestions :) Of course, the method I use (Eclipse/MTASC) really is The Best Practice, as in my infinite wisdom and experience have found that every other method is simply inferior, and only suitable for ignorant lemmings. You're all lemmings, you hear me!! ;) Regards, Grant Cox Anggie Bratadinata wrote: On 2/3/06, Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (to open) a can of worms, idiom: to ask for general stylistic advice on a professional mailing list, often resulting in contradicting advises that turn into flame wars, ending with somebody crying and repeated demands for the thread to be discontinued. Ugh, I didn't mean to start another flame war. I just wanna learn from you, folks I'm sorry if my question was considered a can of worms. If there's any Indonesian Flash mailing list that is as good as this one, I'd turn to them instead, keeping the worms in Indonesia. -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id
RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
It's not when you don't want the movieclip to be on the highest depth. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10 depths apart, as in navigation container at 10, content container at 20, footer container at 30, etc, instead of at 1, 2, and 3. That way, if I need to add a new section, or if I need to drop in additional elements like a scrollbar, etc, I have a depth available without having to go through the code and increment all the subsequent depths. Since there are 65k depths available and I rarely use more than a dozen on any given timeline, I figure spacing them out is safer than putting them right next to each other. ryanm ___ 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] Question about xpath and cdata
Anyone? :o) Mark Burvill wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still a bit new to using xml with flash, and I'm just starting to dig into xfactorstudio's xpath for AS2. I'm generally loving the way it's clearly going to save me loads of time in searching through my xml docs, but I'm having a bit of a probem getting html formatted text from a CDATA tag to display properly Say this is my xml file: content biog ![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet.]] /biog /content What I'm trying to do is get the Lorem ipsum text and display it in an html text field in Flash. I would normally do something like this: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; Using nodeValue makes sure that the text gets treated as html, and the line breaks work properly rather than doing: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild; ... which would display Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet. in my textfield - not good. My question is, how do I get the same result using xpath? Doing this: XPath.selectNodes (myXML, /content/biog/text()); ..gives me the right text, but won't treat it as html. Thanks! Mark. -- *Mark Burvill* Interactive designer www.eyegas.com http://www.eyegas.com *Work:* 0117 953 0100 *Mobile*: 07780 608498 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Ah yes, that's a fun issue. Unfortunately, once you load an SWF
inside another, there is no way that I know of to get the original
published stage size. I would love to be proved wrong, though, but I
have looked hard for a way to do that as well. All you can really do
is keep xscale and yscale to 100, and use a fixed size mask so that
anything outside of the area you have set aside for the clip is
hidden (in case stuff goes outside the bounds of the stage).
Nathan
http://www.nathanderksen.com
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Éric Thibault wrote:
I already do that... but the width and height of the container clip
takes into account any instances outside the boundary of the loaded
SWF's stage...
So I'm getting the total with and height but want only the stage
dimentions of the loaded SWF!
I want to align the loaded SWF'stage in the loading flash
If it was just for me, i would not put anything outside the stage
of the loaded SWF but I'm not the producer of those swf...
And having the stage dimentions would help because the loaded SWF's
dimentions only takes into account the instances present on frame
1... (mc_square 100*100 at (0,0) on a stage of 300*300 results in a
container clip of 100*100!)
A+
j.c.wichman wrote:
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
}; my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you
mean?
Greetz
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Éric
Thibault
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:11 PM
To: Flashcoders Mailing List
Subject: RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again...
My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF
to center
it correctly in its container?
Here's my tests on that particular problem
1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect.
2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect.
|When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions
are
OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's
dimentions are
those of the main movie.
I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the
stage inside
the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me!
I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it
impossible?
Thanks a million.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
This is the only thing I have found that works: XMLNode((XPath.selectNodes(myXML,root/node/text())[0])).nodeValue; Ugly isn't it? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Burvill Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:20 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata Anyone? :o) Mark Burvill wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still a bit new to using xml with flash, and I'm just starting to dig into xfactorstudio's xpath for AS2. I'm generally loving the way it's clearly going to save me loads of time in searching through my xml docs, but I'm having a bit of a probem getting html formatted text from a CDATA tag to display properly Say this is my xml file: content biog ![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet.]] /biog /content What I'm trying to do is get the Lorem ipsum text and display it in an html text field in Flash. I would normally do something like this: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; Using nodeValue makes sure that the text gets treated as html, and the line breaks work properly rather than doing: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild; ... which would display Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet. in my textfield - not good. My question is, how do I get the same result using xpath? Doing this: XPath.selectNodes (myXML, /content/biog/text()); ..gives me the right text, but won't treat it as html. Thanks! Mark. -- *Mark Burvill* Interactive designer www.eyegas.com http://www.eyegas.com *Work:* 0117 953 0100 *Mobile*: 07780 608498 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Looks like that info is in the swf header (Northcode pulls from that to
do its getStageSize) but I don't know how you can access the header of a
loaded swf from within Flash itself.
Helen
Éric Thibault wrote:
I already do that... but the width and height of the container clip
takes into account any instances outside the boundary of the loaded
SWF's stage...
So I'm getting the total with and height but want only the stage
dimentions of the loaded SWF!
I want to align the loaded SWF'stage in the loading flash
If it was just for me, i would not put anything outside the stage of
the loaded SWF but I'm not the producer of those swf...
And having the stage dimentions would help because the loaded SWF's
dimentions only takes into account the instances present on frame 1...
(mc_square 100*100 at (0,0) on a stage of 300*300 results in a
container clip of 100*100!)
A+
j.c.wichman wrote:
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
}; my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you mean?
Greetz
Hans
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[Flashcoders] site check plese (possible preloading issue) - or is it just me ?
Hi all, Sorry for off topic posting. I was wondering if anyone on the list can post back any comments on a preloading bug issues they may encounter when visiting www.themillbank.com http://www.themillbank.com/ which I've just finished. I'm using a loderclass and not sure weather it's this or myself whose broke my firefox cache config settings. As it only appears in firefox on one certain machine ive tested (not sure if it's a particular firefox build on that machine) Basically the site preloads fine however the content will not show up until a navigation button is clicked. If anyone has any preloading issue, could they let me know. I think its just my firefox build, but better safe than sorry. Please ignore the menus section as this is incomplete with content, design and a few tween bugs here and there. Client wanted it launching regardless These should be finished Mon, Tue. Cheers Dom ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Eric-
I have run into the same problem before. the only way I found to force a clip
to have a certain dimension is to put a graphic in at the size you want the
clip to be. I realize that you don't have control over the swfs that are being
created but I have never been able to solve this either. The width and height
of the clip always equate to the width and height of the content in the clip.
The Only way I have been able to solve this is to use onLoadInit and set vars
on the child that state the width and height explicitly. But this requires
having access to the fla.
Child Swf in the first frame:
this.w = 300;
this.h = 300;
Parent centering function called from the loader.onLoadInit
function centerClip(clip){
var w = clip.w;
var h = clip.h;
clip._x = Stage.width/2-(w/2);
clip._y = Stage.height/2-(h/2);
}
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:06 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
I already do that... but the width and height of the container clip
takes into account any instances outside the boundary of the loaded
SWF's stage...
So I'm getting the total with and height but want only the stage
dimentions of the loaded SWF!
I want to align the loaded SWF'stage in the loading flash
If it was just for me, i would not put anything outside the stage of the
loaded SWF but I'm not the producer of those swf...
And having the stage dimentions would help because the loaded SWF's
dimentions only takes into account the instances present on frame 1...
(mc_square 100*100 at (0,0) on a stage of 300*300 results in a container
clip of 100*100!)
A+
j.c.wichman wrote:
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
};
my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you mean?
Greetz
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Éric
Thibault
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:11 PM
To: Flashcoders Mailing List
Subject: RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again...
My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF to center
it correctly in its container?
Here's my tests on that particular problem
1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect.
2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect.
|When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions are
OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's dimentions are
those of the main movie.
I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the stage inside
the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me!
I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it impossible?
Thanks a million.
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
Surprised at the lack of support for Primalscript on this list :) It's easily the most comprehensive and solid scripting IDE out there, and for mid to large scale flash development i don't see how i could do without it. In particular the dynamic code completion and code hinting for your own methods as you write them is really really nice to have. Another thing that's nice about something NOT being open source and NOT being modified by every geek on the block is that you have actual customer support heh. Like when i first tried out Primalscript 3 and found that it handled alt gr keys in such a way as to make scripting near-impossible on norwegian keyboards (alt gr+7 through alt gr+0 for brackets and curly braces, and the alt gr key was invariably setting keyboard focus to the menu bar). I notified them, immediatly got a message back that they had ordered a norwegian keyboard and was going to fix it asap. Was fixed within the week. Raw. Never caught on to se|py unfortunately, mostly because i change the colors on my code highlighting to run on a black background (black with light grey letters is easier on my eyes in the long run. Less staring at the sun), and se|py has line highlighting that's black, making the current line invisible ;P Couldn't work with that. Funny how simple i am. - Andreas Nathan Derksen wrote: Yah, I really like it too, but it does the same thing for me. I save constantly anyways, so I rarely lose anything. I have yet to get the Mac version to actually run, which is a shame. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 2, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: I love Sepy, except for the fact that it seems to have a memory leak as it keeps shutting down every now and then with no warning, causing me to lose whatever work I had not saved - even though I have the latest version. It did it in the previous version too. Maybe its just an anomoly and doesn't happen to anyone else. For that reason, I went back to SciTE|Flash and the Actionscript editor. Eclipse was just too much for me, (though in Flexbuilder 2, its' great) - it's great for what it does if you're at or almost at guru level and can figure out all those project workspaces and junk, but sometimes, I just want to write a class and be done with it. Anyway, Anggie, I think maybe what I was getting at, (and honestly I'm very sorry if my little joke about it being a can of worms somehow made you feel bad), was that perhaps you could sharpen the question a little more so as to be not quite so broad. What is an example of a specific problem you're trying to solve other than write clean code? I guess when I saw your question, my thought was, where would anyone begin to answer that question effectively without writing a book on the subject. Could you give an example of something you've struggled with, which maybe people here could assist you in designing it better, making it more efficient? It probably won't be me that will help though, I'm still trying to get better at this stuff myself. Jason Merrill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bjorn Schultheiss Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:09 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? 9-5 I've been working on the same Flash RIA for the last 3 months. For this I have adopted to Sepy as this is what the rest of the dev team are using. Prior to that I was an Eclipse / MTASC k.i.d. Though when I get home and the collar comes and I'm UNLEASHEDtm into the flex beast that lays dormant during the day time within Flash Lemming. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:58 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Are you actually deploying Flex 2 applications? Doesn't it still require the alpha/beta Flash 8.5 player? Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: The enlightened Lemming would also like to add some comments. /* * Begin * * Flex 2 kicks ass. Any app dev I will work with flex. * Any GUI component / animation works I'll use Flash * * Thank you * * The end */ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 1:44 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? Don't feel bad Anggie, I think it is an interesting topic that is worthy of discussion. The problem is that best practices are quite subjective, and as such some people feel the need to be offended at alternative suggestions :) Of course, the method I use (Eclipse/MTASC) really is The Best Practice, as in my infinite wisdom and experience have found that every other method is simply inferior, and only suitable for ignorant lemmings. You're all lemmings, you hear me!! ;)
Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
Ugly indeed - but at least it works! Thanks Jason - you're a star! -- *Mark Burvill* Interactive designer www.eyegas.com http://www.eyegas.com Merrill, Jason wrote: This is the only thing I have found that works: XMLNode((XPath.selectNodes(myXML,root/node/text())[0])).nodeValue; Ugly isn't it? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Burvill Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:20 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata Anyone? :o) Mark Burvill wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still a bit new to using xml with flash, and I'm just starting to dig into xfactorstudio's xpath for AS2. I'm generally loving the way it's clearly going to save me loads of time in searching through my xml docs, but I'm having a bit of a probem getting html formatted text from a CDATA tag to display properly Say this is my xml file: content biog ![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet.]] /biog /content What I'm trying to do is get the Lorem ipsum text and display it in an html text field in Flash. I would normally do something like this: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; Using nodeValue makes sure that the text gets treated as html, and the line breaks work properly rather than doing: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild; ... which would display Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet. in my textfield - not good. My question is, how do I get the same result using xpath? Doing this: XPath.selectNodes (myXML, /content/biog/text()); ..gives me the right text, but won't treat it as html. Thanks! Mark. -- *Mark Burvill* Interactive designer www.eyegas.com http://www.eyegas.com *Work:* 0117 953 0100 *Mobile*: 07780 608498 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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] How do you code your Flash applications?
No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Scott Hyndman wrote: It's not when you don't want the movieclip to be on the highest depth. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10 depths apart, as in navigation container at 10, content container at 20, footer container at 30, etc, instead of at 1, 2, and 3. That way, if I need to add a new section, or if I need to drop in additional elements like a scrollbar, etc, I have a depth available without having to go through the code and increment all the subsequent depths. Since there are 65k depths available and I rarely use more than a dozen on any given timeline, I figure spacing them out is safer than putting them right next to each other. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I always have a movie clip as a base. Gives a better platform for moving everything around together if I need, and getNextHighestDepth () works as advertised. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Bart Wttewaall wrote: And certainly not when you work within the _root. It will give depths at which you can't remove movieclips. 2006/2/3, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's not when you don't want the movieclip to be on the highest depth. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10 depths apart, as in navigation container at 10, content container at 20, footer container at 30, etc, instead of at 1, 2, and 3. That way, if I need to add a new section, or if I need to drop in additional elements like a scrollbar, etc, I have a depth available without having to go through the code and increment all the subsequent depths. Since there are 65k depths available and I rarely use more than a dozen on any given timeline, I figure spacing them out is safer than putting them right next to each other. ryanm ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
Have you tried not using cdata at all? If your html text is xml
compliant (XHTML) then you can use xpath to get the value of the node
and return it. Then you load the text. I just had to solve the same
problem and it worked beautifully.
XPath select Nodes returns an array of child nodes. Take the returned
array and join it using and empty string and you now have a string of
html text. Then use css to mark it up and you're done.
Here is the function that loads the xml:
function loadXml(){
//trace(load xml called);
this.xml = new XML();
this.xml.ignoreWhite = true;
this.xml._parent = this;
this.xml.onLoad = function () {
//trace(xml loaded);
this._parent.headertext =
XPath.selectNodesAsString(this, /page/h1/text());
var c = XPath.selectNodes(this,
/page/content/node());
this._parent.contenttext = c.join();
//trace(header text :: +this._parent.headertext);
//trace(content text :: +this._parent.contenttext);
// resume the load manager to load the next item
this._parent.loadManager.resume();
}
// this.datafile is just the path to the xml file
this.xml.load(this.datafile);
}
Here is the xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1??xml version=1.0
encoding=iso-8859-1?
page
h1This is the name of the page/h1
content
h2This is a second level header/h2br/
pblah lbha lbhh Blah /pbr/
h2This is a header/h2br/
pmore content/pbr/
h2another header/h2br/
pblah blah /pbr/
/content
/page
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill,
Jason
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:31 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
This is the only thing I have found that works:
XMLNode((XPath.selectNodes(myXML,root/node/text())[0])).nodeValue;
Ugly isn't it?
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Burvill
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:20 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
Anyone?
:o)
Mark Burvill wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm still a bit new to using xml with flash, and I'm just starting
to
dig into xfactorstudio's xpath for AS2.
I'm generally loving the way it's clearly going to save me loads of
time in searching through my xml docs, but I'm having a bit of a
probem getting html formatted text from a CDATA tag to display
properly
Say this is my xml file:
content
biog
![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet.]]
/biog
/content
What I'm trying to do is get the Lorem ipsum text and display it
in
an html text field in Flash.
I would normally do something like this:
var myText:String =
myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
Using nodeValue makes sure that the text gets treated as html, and
the line breaks work properly rather than doing:
var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild;
... which would display Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet. in my
textfield - not good.
My question is, how do I get the same result using xpath?
Doing this:
XPath.selectNodes (myXML, /content/biog/text());
..gives me the right text, but won't treat it as html.
Thanks!
Mark.
--
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Interactive designer
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*Mobile*: 07780 608498
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Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata
Why not use Xpath.selectSingleNode() if you are only looking for one node? mySting = XPath.selectSingleNode(myXML, /content/biog).firstChild.nodeValue; Works fine in my application in a node with CDATA content. -Chris On 2/3/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the only thing I have found that works: XMLNode((XPath.selectNodes(myXML,root/node/text())[0])).nodeValue; Ugly isn't it? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Burvill Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:20 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about xpath and cdata Anyone? :o) Mark Burvill wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still a bit new to using xml with flash, and I'm just starting to dig into xfactorstudio's xpath for AS2. I'm generally loving the way it's clearly going to save me loads of time in searching through my xml docs, but I'm having a bit of a probem getting html formatted text from a CDATA tag to display properly Say this is my xml file: content biog ![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet.]] /biog /content What I'm trying to do is get the Lorem ipsum text and display it in an html text field in Flash. I would normally do something like this: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue; Using nodeValue makes sure that the text gets treated as html, and the line breaks work properly rather than doing: var myText:String = myXML.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild; ... which would display Lorem ipsum dolorbrbrsit amet. in my textfield - not good. My question is, how do I get the same result using xpath? Doing this: XPath.selectNodes (myXML, /content/biog/text()); ..gives me the right text, but won't treat it as html. Thanks! Mark. -- *Mark Burvill* Interactive designer www.eyegas.com http://www.eyegas.com *Work:* 0117 953 0100 *Mobile*: 07780 608498 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ 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] LoadClip and centering new content
Not that I know of. If the first frame was representative of the size as a whole, then iterating through the movie clips looking for clips with negative x/y values could be done, however it's sort of a moot point as soon as everything moves around in subsequent frames. I also don't think that will work if some of the symbols are graphic symbols instead of movie clips. You basically need to know in advance what the size of the clip is going to be, then code that into your positioning code. Not pretty, but it's doable. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Éric Thibault wrote: Mmm... The funiest thing is that if I want to center my loaded SWF that has instances outside the loaded SWF'stage, it gets shifted :'( Is there a way to know the nomber of pixels to the left, top, bottom and right of the registration point (0,0) of a container? I could than compensate for the extras of the SWF inside of it... Say that my container is 200px in width but I know that it has 50px extra to the left (-50px), my real width is then 150px?? A+ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I meditate on the 3 base chakra's during 4-7am whilst considering the coherence between my left and right testicles. At a certain point I discharge conceptual code forward through foreign elements into sepy and charge an application with the spirit of that which I AM. PEACE hehe Deep. Anggie, my immediate advice would be to design your application API before you begin unit testing your functions; break down and generalize the internal communication of the application, use your own diagramming dialect to describe the application on paper. If you're gonna be hardcore about it, begin reading a book on UML diagramming. I would say about 70 percent of programming is knowing what you're going to do, and how everything will communicate via object API ( this is where design patterns come in ). It's important to consider design patterns, I would highly recommend reading Actionscript 2.0 essentials. It's important that you move away from programming in actionscript 1.0 (frame code). I would further recommend Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides (the GOF). It is a timeless classic that has less to do with code and more to do with the way things should be constructed and thought about. I'm not sure what the others wrote, so I may be repeating what they've already elaborated. There was too much bs for me to keep reading, except for what Bjorn wrote, whom hence forth I shall refer to as Yoda. Some of the other replies were so long that I was frightened. I preach concision to my fellow programmers. And to contradict my preaching concision, I feel compelled to mention that it's more intelligent to take advice then to give it, so, keep on keeping on, as the North American southerners would say. It will make sense when you read it to yourself with a 'hick' accent. Go ahead, try it. Good luck, M. On 2/2/06, Bjorn Schultheiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meditate on the 3 base chakra's during 4-7am whilst considering the coherence between my left and right testicles. At a certain point I discharge conceptual code forward through foreign elements into sepy and charge an application with the spirit of that which I AM. PEACE hehe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 11:37 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? I personally use Eclipse / MTASC, so all code is class based. In my Flash file all symbols that need functionality have a linkage id, and almost all of my symbols are only a single frame (unless shape tweening is needed). To make the Flash compile faster, none of these symbols are linked to Classes in the Library, this is all done in the external code using Object.registerClass. I find it a lot cleaner to have all of my code in a nice external structure, in a decent IDE. My code is all right where I need it, I can control all animation simply (using an animation / tweening library like Fuse), and I can let the designers do almost whatever they like to the Flash file without worrying about them stuffing code up. And, of course, I get decent version control on the source files. After using this for a few months, I just wouldn't code inside the Flash IDE any more. Movieclip spaghetti is a bitter dish. Regards, Grant Cox Anggie Bratadinata wrote: Hi expert coders, Just a simple question, How do you develop your Flash applications? How do you write clean, readable, and reusable codes? The reason I'm asking this is because, so often, I got lost in MovieClips spaghetti. Different depth/levels/timelines drive me nuts and in the end, after reviewing my codes, I can't help re-writing everything from scratch in order to make it much cleaner. So, on the same project, I always work twice. :( What I do so far is write-then-test every single function in my codes;if it works then I'll write another function. And I tend to write everything in a single frame. I'd be more than happy if you, experts, can tell me the right way to code/develop Flash applications. TIA, -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.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 ___ 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] How do you code your Flash applications?
Surprised at the lack of support for Primalscript on this list :) Its probably just the cost of Primalscript, that's all - its competing with Eclipse, SEPY, SciTE Flash, which are all free. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
Free is always nice to have :-) That's pretty wicked support, though. I considered it, but I like to support SEPY partially because they are at least working on a Mac version, while PrimalScript is not that I know of. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Andreas Rønning wrote: Surprised at the lack of support for Primalscript on this list :) It's easily the most comprehensive and solid scripting IDE out there, and for mid to large scale flash development i don't see how i could do without it. In particular the dynamic code completion and code hinting for your own methods as you write them is really really nice to have. Another thing that's nice about something NOT being open source and NOT being modified by every geek on the block is that you have actual customer support heh. Like when i first tried out Primalscript 3 and found that it handled alt gr keys in such a way as to make scripting near-impossible on norwegian keyboards (alt gr+7 through alt gr+0 for brackets and curly braces, and the alt gr key was invariably setting keyboard focus to the menu bar). I notified them, immediatly got a message back that they had ordered a norwegian keyboard and was going to fix it asap. Was fixed within the week. Raw. Never caught on to se|py unfortunately, mostly because i change the colors on my code highlighting to run on a black background (black with light grey letters is easier on my eyes in the long run. Less staring at the sun), and se|py has line highlighting that's black, making the current line invisible ;P Couldn't work with that. Funny how simple i am. - Andreas Nathan Derksen wrote: Yah, I really like it too, but it does the same thing for me. I save constantly anyways, so I rarely lose anything. I have yet to get the Mac version to actually run, which is a shame. Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] As2 Event Broadcasting for fp 6.0
Hi All, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do events in as2 published for fp6.0. Something like Brandon Halls EventBroadcaster would be perfect, but in as2 obviously. Does anybody have any ideas? BTW: I'm trying to stay away from AsBroadcaster/ASBroadcaster, if pos. Cheers, Giles ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] International Address to Map position
Thanks Ian - that's a great idea I haven't yet looked into the Google maps API, will check it out now. Clark On 2/3/06, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick sideways thought - does it have to be Flash? You can embed the Google Maps code on your own site, and the API allows you to layer your own data over the world map, or even substitute your own map. All the zooming/latitude/longitude/place marker on map location code is already built in. Cheers, Ian On 2/3/06, clark slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Folks, I'm working on an application that has a requirement for generating a world map showing outlets for a particular product. There are *lots* of outlets and they are updated very frequently so the spec is that the map should be able to render a new outlet in the correct location on the world map based on address only. Anyone done this before and care to offer any suggestions? Right now I am thinking I will need to acquire a db of city/long/lat or else find a public webservice that accepts an international address and returns long/lat info. Then I'm thinking I'll just need a scale map in my swf that approximates to the long/lat grid so can place the new outlet in the right position. Any advice or tales of woe appreciated. Clark ___ 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] How do you code your Flash applications?
Only when you use v2 components on the root as well ithink? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Wttewaall Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:24 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? And certainly not when you work within the _root. It will give depths at which you can't remove movieclips. 2006/2/3, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's not when you don't want the movieclip to be on the highest depth. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan Derksen Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 11:07 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? getNextHighestDepth() is your friend :-) Nathan http://www.nathanderksen.com On Feb 3, 2006, at 2:05 AM, ryanm wrote: Another little bit of advice you may find useful, don't put depths right next to each other, leave room between them. When developing a UI, I often put them 10 depths apart, as in navigation container at 10, content container at 20, footer container at 30, etc, instead of at 1, 2, and 3. That way, if I need to add a new section, or if I need to drop in additional elements like a scrollbar, etc, I have a depth available without having to go through the code and increment all the subsequent depths. Since there are 65k depths available and I rarely use more than a dozen on any given timeline, I figure spacing them out is safer than putting them right next to each other. ryanm ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] As2 Event Broadcasting for fp 6.0
does EventDispatcher not compile to fp 6? i thought it did. On 2/3/06, Giles Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do events in as2 published for fp6.0. Something like Brandon Halls EventBroadcaster would be perfect, but in as2 obviously. Does anybody have any ideas? BTW: I'm trying to stay away from AsBroadcaster/ASBroadcaster, if pos. Cheers, Giles ___ 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] LoadClip and centering new content
Thanks erery one for all the solutions and support
I'll put a note in my component that the centering function can
sometimes produce indesirable results depending on the SWF loaded. I'll
strongly suggest to activate my mask option and align top-left to make
sure everything is OK...
As for my own SWF, i'll go with Ryan's solution.
Thanks again!
Ryan Potter wrote:
Eric-
I have run into the same problem before. the only way I found to force a clip
to have a certain dimension is to put a graphic in at the size you want the
clip to be. I realize that you don't have control over the swfs that are being
created but I have never been able to solve this either. The width and height
of the clip always equate to the width and height of the content in the clip.
The Only way I have been able to solve this is to use onLoadInit and set vars
on the child that state the width and height explicitly. But this requires
having access to the fla.
Child Swf in the first frame:
this.w = 300;
this.h = 300;
Parent centering function called from the loader.onLoadInit
function centerClip(clip){
var w = clip.w;
var h = clip.h;
clip._x = Stage.width/2-(w/2);
clip._y = Stage.height/2-(h/2);
}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Éric Thibault
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
I already do that... but the width and height of the container clip
takes into account any instances outside the boundary of the loaded
SWF's stage...
So I'm getting the total with and height but want only the stage
dimentions of the loaded SWF!
I want to align the loaded SWF'stage in the loading flash
If it was just for me, i would not put anything outside the stage of the
loaded SWF but I'm not the producer of those swf...
And having the stage dimentions would help because the loaded SWF's
dimentions only takes into account the instances present on frame 1...
(mc_square 100*100 at (0,0) on a stage of 300*300 results in a container
clip of 100*100!)
A+
j.c.wichman wrote:
Hi,
If you use something like:
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var myListener:Object = new Object();
myListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace(target_mc._width);
};
my_mcl.addListener(myListener);
my_mcl.loadClip(YOUR path to SWF here eg test.swf, path
to container here_root.dummy);
It should trace the width of your clip upon load. Is that what you mean?
Greetz
Hans
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Thibault
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:11 PM
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Subject: RE:[Flashcoders] LoadClip and centering new content
Hello again...
My problem is : how to know the stage's dimentions of a loaded SWF to center
it correctly in its container?
Here's my tests on that particular problem
1. Set _lockroot inside the loaded SWF : no effect.
2. Set Stage.scaleMode = |noScale : no effect.
|When I execute the loaded SWF independently, the Stage dimentions are
OK but once loaded inside another Flash movie, the Stage's dimentions are
those of the main movie.
I was looking to include a mc with the same dimentions as the stage inside
the loaded SWF but there will be a lot of SWF and not all made by me!
I there a way to retreive this kind of information or is it impossible?
Thanks a million.
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Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag
You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. damn, i always thought prepend was a real word. anyway, I dont know of a way to set the BASE tag in actionscript, and this sounds like the solution i would go with. PREPEND all your calls with a variable so they would look like xml.load(baseURL+myfile.xml)...this way if the baseURL variable doesn't exist, the call will still work. Then, if you wanted to, you could pass in the baseURL value through flashvars or something, so you wouldnt have to recompile whenever you wanted to change it. On 2/3/06, Jan Schluenzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately _lockroot doesn't fix the path problem. Even if the _root is being changed through _lockroot, the base path is still the one of the wrapping SWF. I guess I'll have to go with Ade's suggestion unless somebody has another idea... On 2/2/06, Cédric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you try '_lockroot' ? cedric You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. Ade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jan Schluenzen Sent: 02 February 2006 10:23 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag Hi- does anyone know of an ActionScript equivalent of accomplishing the effect of the BASE tag (part of the embed and object tags in HTML)? The problem is, I have a flash application that loads XMLs and SWFs relative to the application's base SWF index.swf. Now I need to load my index.swf into another container, a stand- alone projector. I don't want to fix all paths within my application so that they are relative to the new container (which is outside my actual application folder). Is there some way to set the basepath through actionscript? To clarify, here's the structure of my app: + root index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Now with the new container, it will look like this: + root container.exe (Stand-alone Flash projector) + data index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Since all paths for loading files are now relative to the container.exeinstead of index.swf, everything's broken.. Is there an easy fix? Jan ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag
The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. To prefix is the opposite of to append characters at the end. As a verb, prefix is not English. The correct word is prepend, but computer people are notorious for turning any English word into a computer term. http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/prefix On 2/3/06, Rich Rodecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. damn, i always thought prepend was a real word. anyway, I dont know of a way to set the BASE tag in actionscript, and this sounds like the solution i would go with. PREPEND all your calls with a variable so they would look like xml.load(baseURL+myfile.xml)...this way if the baseURL variable doesn't exist, the call will still work. Then, if you wanted to, you could pass in the baseURL value through flashvars or something, so you wouldnt have to recompile whenever you wanted to change it. On 2/3/06, Jan Schluenzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately _lockroot doesn't fix the path problem. Even if the _root is being changed through _lockroot, the base path is still the one of the wrapping SWF. I guess I'll have to go with Ade's suggestion unless somebody has another idea... On 2/2/06, Cédric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you try '_lockroot' ? cedric You could do it manually. Create a variable and prepend(not a word!) it to all your loadMovie(), load() etc. calls. Ade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of Jan Schluenzen Sent: 02 February 2006 10:23 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] ActionScript equivalent of embed/object BASE tag Hi- does anyone know of an ActionScript equivalent of accomplishing the effect of the BASE tag (part of the embed and object tags in HTML)? The problem is, I have a flash application that loads XMLs and SWFs relative to the application's base SWF index.swf. Now I need to load my index.swf into another container, a stand- alone projector. I don't want to fix all paths within my application so that they are relative to the new container (which is outside my actual application folder). Is there some way to set the basepath through actionscript? To clarify, here's the structure of my app: + root index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Now with the new container, it will look like this: + root container.exe (Stand-alone Flash projector) + data index.swf some.swf other.swf + content/ foo.xml bar.xml Since all paths for loading files are now relative to the container.exeinstead of index.swf, everything's broken.. Is there an easy fix? Jan ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] online export paths to illustrator or eps
Hello, Is there any library tools, compiled clips or SWC files currently in use that enable a live swf to export vector paths to adobe illustrator, encapsulated postscript, etc.? The user would like to be able to drag vector objects around on the screen, press export or save and be able to take vector art to the printer for production. Thank you, -- Derek Lords http://www.itsnyc.net/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] online export paths to illustrator or eps
Hello, Is there any library tools, compiled clips or SWC files currently in use that enable a live swf to export vector paths to adobe illustrator, encapsulated postscript, etc.? The user would like to be able to drag vector objects around on the screen, press export or save and be able to take vector art to the printer for production. Thank you, -- Derek Lords http://www.itsnyc.net/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need to add another content container (for rotating ads or something), you want it to be next to the other content in depth so that it's under the navigation. I avoid getNextHighestDepth like the plague, it is an evil monkey living in your closet that wants to kill you. Or at least be a major pain in the ass while you try to figure out why you can't control the z-position of your elements. I don't even use it in loops when I'm generating a bunch of movie clips, like rows in a select box or something, I use the iterator for the loop, that way their depth and their index in the array is always the same. The only time I've ever used getNextHighestDepth was in one-off projects where I didn't know or care where the elements ended up because they were created and forgotten. Anything that might have to be referenced or moved later should probably have its depth set explicitly. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] OT I did pull out the electronic can opener with that _global question didn't I
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[Flashcoders] Q:creating a 'snappable' class
Hi I'm creating a 'snappable' class, that would work with a predefined set of x,y pairs or 'hotspots'. When a dragged movieclip was within a 'offset' distance of any of these hotspots it would 'snap to' and stop drag. The best way of doing this I thought would be to simply pass an array of predefined x,y pairs as an object into the class when it was instantiated. However, having to cycle thru an array, especially if there are a huge number of 'hotspots', while dragging doesn't seem very efficientcan anyone suggest a better way of approaching this? Thanks in advance Jim Bachalo [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation is life in search of a style. - Bruce Mau,'LifeStyle' ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I completely agree with what Ryan says, but if you still want to use getNextHighestDepth(), as Nathan commented, you could do something like this and get a similar result: ...getNextHighestDepth() + 10; Daniel On 2/3/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need to add another content container (for rotating ads or something), you want it to be next to the other content in depth so that it's under the navigation. I avoid getNextHighestDepth like the plague, it is an evil monkey living in your closet that wants to kill you. Or at least be a major pain in the ass while you try to figure out why you can't control the z-position of your elements. I don't even use it in loops when I'm generating a bunch of movie clips, like rows in a select box or something, I use the iterator for the loop, that way their depth and their index in the array is always the same. The only time I've ever used getNextHighestDepth was in one-off projects where I didn't know or care where the elements ended up because they were created and forgotten. Anything that might have to be referenced or moved later should probably have its depth set explicitly. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Daniel Cascais Tel: +56 (0)2 4589495 Cel: +56 (0)9 9417355 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Attn: John Grden
My bad- I missed the big ATNN subject: hectic day On 2/3/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has not changed- You can email me at this address? Sorry- Been kinda swamped this week. M On 2/3/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed you offlist and didn't get a response, so I'm wondering if your email address has changed. Email me, I have a question for you. ryanm ___ 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] Attn: John Grden
hmm... Does John Grden = Manuel Saint-Victor? On 2/3/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has not changed- You can email me at this address? Sorry- Been kinda swamped this week. M On 2/3/06, ryanm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emailed you offlist and didn't get a response, so I'm wondering if your email address has changed. Email me, I have a question for you. ryanm ___ 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] Creating Components - What am I over looking?
Another great resource! Thanks a ton guys!! I didn't see if off the page from the previous link. Charles P. On 2/3/06, Julien Vignali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, I think you should also look into Joey Lott's framework called ASCB, which is a really great source of inspiration while creating your own components, or at least understand them better. It saved me a lot of time ;-) http://www.person13.com/ascblibrary Julien Charles Parcell a écrit : Great resource. Everything I was finding was on how to build from the v2 framework. I think that was really messing me up. Thanks Charles P. On 2/1/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check Joey Lott's tutorial on building components that subclass MovieClip http://www.person13.com/articles/components/creatingcomponents.html Mani On 2/1/06, Charles Parcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I really am at a lose. There is some sort of property and or event/function that is getting called that I just am missing. I have created a simple component that extends MovieClip (NOT UIObject or UIComponent). If I scale the component in Flash (the IDE) there is no visible change to the component. Once I publish the component is scaled. I can accept that. But in my code, I have the visual part of my component size itself (via _width and _height) on EnterFrame. This is completely ignored. OR and here is where I might be all messed up, the component is being scaled as a whole after all the internal parts of the component are drawn. If this is the case how can I communicate with these top level component properties s that I can draw my component properly? I have tried getting the component _xscale and _width with no luck. Please school me. I want to pull my hair out and the documentation within Flash is not helping me. Thanks, Charles P. ___ 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 mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] FFMPEG info
Could you guys help me out for a second I am looking for some good information on FFMPEG the system that google uses to convert all video formats to flv's for video.google.com. I am one looking for the download and two looking for any information people have posted about there experiences with FFMPEG. Thanks! //cb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:creating a 'snappable' class
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm creating a 'snappable' class, that would work with a predefined set of x,y pairs or 'hotspots'. When a dragged movieclip was within a 'offset' distance of any of these hotspots it would 'snap to' and stop drag. The best way of doing this I thought would be to simply pass an array of predefined x,y pairs as an object into the class when it was instantiated. However, having to cycle thru an array, especially if there are a huge number of 'hotspots', while dragging doesn't seem very efficientcan anyone suggest a better way of approaching this? theres a fair few spatial partitioning approaches around these days, but i guess you could do something easy with quadtrees. It depends on how many hotspots you have and what shapes the objects are etc..I think the first thing to do is some performance tests to see if checking the whole array is too expensive. If you do need them then quadtree's are quite simple, basically you divide the screen into 4, then you can recursively subdivide each section, stopping when you think you have a small enough resolution. Then when you are dragging this clip around you will only need to test for proximity to items contained within certain nodes of the tree, not everything on screen. I dont know of any AS2 implementations, but its quite fun to code :) i've found a few references that should help explain : http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1303.asp http://www.ece.eps.hw.ac.uk/~dml/cgonline/hyper00/model/spacediv.html theres even a paper on macromedia.com that covers quadtrees http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/director/articles/collision_detection/collision_detection_lingo.pdf good luck martin. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FFMPEG info
On 2/3/06, Corban Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you guys help me out for a second I am looking for some good information on FFMPEG the system that google uses to convert all video formats to flv's for video.google.com. I am one looking for the download and two looking for any information people have posted about there experiences with FFMPEG. Thanks! hi Corban, two ways to get a ffmpeg binary for windows: build one yourself, or use the version that comes with the GUI (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=434). not sure about the mac. for linux, proceed normally. my guess is that there might be potential patent issues and that that's why nobody dares to provide a binary. i don't know, though. i also don't know if that's really what google uses. it's probably just a rumor, because it's the only server-side tool people know of. mark -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT I did pull out the electronic can opener with that _global question didn't I
On 2/3/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, My bad on that _global can I left open. i'm not Jason, but think it was perfectly legitimate question (as was Anggie's, btw). where else would you ask it if not here? you're not responsible for some people's incapability to keep discussions on a professional (read: non-personal) level. besides, i find reading flamewars entertaining :) mark -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Attn: John Grden
hank williams schrieb: hmm... Does John Grden = Manuel Saint-Victor? you mean like John Grden === Manuel Saint-Victor ? seems not the case micha ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] OT I did pull out the electronic can opener withthat _global question didn't I
i'm not Jason, but think it was perfectly legitimate question (as was Anggie's, btw). I'm Jason and never said either question wasn't legit. For the _global thread, I wasn't responding to the question, I was responding to people calling each other idiots. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Winterhalder Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:17 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT I did pull out the electronic can opener withthat _global question didn't I On 2/3/06, Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, My bad on that _global can I left open. i'm not Jason, but think it was perfectly legitimate question (as was Anggie's, btw). where else would you ask it if not here? you're not responsible for some people's incapability to keep discussions on a professional (read: non-personal) level. besides, i find reading flamewars entertaining :) mark -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Re: online export paths to illustrator or eps
You could print to a PDF file and then open the resulting PDF in Illustrator to access all the vectors, etc. I'm not sure it works in all cases, but it has worked on several occasions for me. Jack ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Attn: John Grden
On 2/3/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hank williams schrieb: hmm... Does John Grden = Manuel Saint-Victor? you mean like John Grden === Manuel Saint-Victor ? seems not the case micha Good point Micha, I think Hank was setting John to be Manuel. A typical syntax error, which might have evaluated to true in the end, and not to mention it would have been tough to debug. :-) Yikes, what a thought. Have a great weekend. -Chris ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Attn: John Grden
It was a pascal snippet. Hank On 2/3/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hank williams schrieb: hmm... Does John Grden = Manuel Saint-Victor? you mean like John Grden === Manuel Saint-Victor ? seems not the case micha Good point Micha, I think Hank was setting John to be Manuel. A typical syntax error, which might have evaluated to true in the end, and not to mention it would have been tough to debug. :-) Yikes, what a thought. Have a great weekend. -Chris ___ 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] FLV Encoders
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:48 AM, John Giotta wrote: Just as a note. I heard from a co-worker yesterday that Sorenson Squeeze's price jumped $100 USD Still kinda buggy for that money. And the interface... I'd much rather have a straightforward HIG compliant kind of thing. Like a real compression utility, not a toy. I realize that many of us on this list specialize in custom interfaces, but I'd prefer standard OS windows and buttons in my compression utility. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Attn: John Grden
I think it's more along the lines of: var correctEmail:Boolean= manueSaintVictor.canMultiTask(); It was one of those days. M On 2/3/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a pascal snippet. Hank On 2/3/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/06, Michael Stuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hank williams schrieb: hmm... Does John Grden = Manuel Saint-Victor? you mean like John Grden === Manuel Saint-Victor ? seems not the case micha Good point Micha, I think Hank was setting John to be Manuel. A typical syntax error, which might have evaluated to true in the end, and not to mention it would have been tough to debug. :-) Yikes, what a thought. Have a great weekend. -Chris ___ 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] How do you code your Flash applications?
Here here! Another negative vote for getNextHighestDepth(). The _root.removeMovieClip() gotcha when using v2 components wasted several hours of my time when first learning AS2.0 ... why the he!! can't I remove those clips! I use a custom class to assign depth just to spite Flash. /-- | Bryan Thompson | Cyberian Tiger Multimedia \-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryanm Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:35 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what getNextHighestDepth() is for. Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need to add another content container (for rotating ads or something), you want it to be next to the other content in depth so that it's under the navigation. I avoid getNextHighestDepth like the plague, it is an evil monkey living in your closet that wants to kill you. Or at least be a major pain in the ass while you try to figure out why you can't control the z-position of your elements. I don't even use it in loops when I'm generating a bunch of movie clips, like rows in a select box or something, I use the iterator for the loop, that way their depth and their index in the array is always the same. The only time I've ever used getNextHighestDepth was in one-off projects where I didn't know or care where the elements ended up because they were created and forgotten. Anything that might have to be referenced or moved later should probably have its depth set explicitly. ryanm ___ 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] site check plese (possible preloading issue) - or is it just me ?
No problem in my FF 1.0.7. It's a beautiful site, btw. -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id On 2/3/06, Dominic Fee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry for off topic posting. I was wondering if anyone on the list can post back any comments on a preloading bug issues they may encounter when visiting www.themillbank.com http://www.themillbank.com/ which I've just finished. I'm using a loderclass and not sure weather it's this or myself whose broke my firefox cache config settings. As it only appears in firefox on one certain machine ive tested (not sure if it's a particular firefox build on that machine) Basically the site preloads fine however the content will not show up until a navigation button is clicked. If anyone has any preloading issue, could they let me know. I think its just my firefox build, but better safe than sorry. Please ignore the menus section as this is incomplete with content, design and a few tween bugs here and there. Client wanted it launching regardless These should be finished Mon, Tue. Cheers Dom ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
On 2/4/06, elibol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anggie, my immediate advice would be to design your application API before you begin unit testing your functions; break down and generalize the internal communication of the application, use your own diagramming dialect to describe the application on paper. If you're gonna be hardcore about it, begin reading a book on UML diagramming. I would say about 70 percent of programming is knowing what you're going to do, and how everything will communicate via object API ( this is where design patterns come in ). It's important to consider design patterns, I would highly recommend reading Actionscript 2.0 essentials. It's important that you move away from programming in actionscript 1.0 (frame code). I would further recommend Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides (the GOF). It is a timeless classic that has less to do with code and more to do with the way things should be constructed and thought about. Ugh, I haven't finished reading the GOF's book. I think I need brain vitamins. Could you suggest one? ;) In your experience, are patterns useful in small projects? You know, I've been learning patterns through C#.NET Design Patterns and so far, to me, patterns only useful in big projects (in small ones, it might make things overcomplicated). Correct me if I'm wrong, please. I'm not sure what the others wrote, so I may be repeating what they've already elaborated. There was too much bs for me to keep reading, except for what Bjorn wrote, whom hence forth I shall refer to as Yoda. Some of the other replies were so long that I was frightened. I preach concision to my fellow programmers. And to contradict my preaching concision, I feel compelled to mention that it's more intelligent to take advice then to give it, so, keep on keeping on, as the North American southerners would say. It will make sense when you read it to yourself with a 'hick' accent. Go ahead, try it. Good luck, Thanks -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
I completely agree with what Ryan says, but if you still want to use getNextHighestDepth(), as Nathan commented, you could do something like this and get a similar result: ...getNextHighestDepth() + 10; No! Bad bad bad! Now you *really* have no way to find your objects. Why not just do this: getNextHighestDepth()+10*152/36%23*Math.random()*362; ... it would be equally as useful. The whole idea is that you keep things at *predictable*, and whenever possible explicitly defined, depths so that things are easy to manage. If you need getNextHighestDepth, that means you don't know what the current highest depth being used is, and that means you aren't in control of the z-depth of your objects. That's a bad thing. At any given time, you should be able to say I know that objects A, B, C, and D are at depths 35, 36, 37, and 38, so it is safe to put this new object at 40, and so on. And even better is to set constants in the class that defines those objects, that way you can just add a new constant for the new object, and you can see what the other depths are for reference when you are defining it. ryanm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Yeah, the sudden shut downs has frustrated me enough times that I just plain stopped using it, even though it's a better editor than SciTe Flash. Same. Sepy will not run on my Macs. Basically crashes on launch. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Any one can explain about Flash media server
Hi guyz, I want to know about the Flash media server and how to create and small application using it. S.Hidayath ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] site check plese (possible preloading issue) - oris it just me ?
Worked great on IE 6 on a PC. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Anggie Bratadinata Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 7:08 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] site check plese (possible preloading issue) - oris it just me ? No problem in my FF 1.0.7. It's a beautiful site, btw. -- Anggie Bratadinata Graphic|Web|Flash Jl. Raya Langsep 21 Malang - East Java I N D O N E S I A www.ibshastautama.com www.nextrand.co.id On 2/3/06, Dominic Fee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry for off topic posting. I was wondering if anyone on the list can post back any comments on a preloading bug issues they may encounter when visiting www.themillbank.com http://www.themillbank.com/ which I've just finished. I'm using a loderclass and not sure weather it's this or myself whose broke my firefox cache config settings. As it only appears in firefox on one certain machine ive tested (not sure if it's a particular firefox build on that machine) Basically the site preloads fine however the content will not show up until a navigation button is clicked. If anyone has any preloading issue, could they let me know. I think its just my firefox build, but better safe than sorry. Please ignore the menus section as this is incomplete with content, design and a few tween bugs here and there. Client wanted it launching regardless These should be finished Mon, Tue. Cheers Dom ___ 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
