[Flashcoders] Hole-in-a-mask (a reverse mask question)?
Hello everybody, I've been racking my brain tonight trying to figure out a way to create a reverse mask in Actionscript. I'm working on an application which is entirely object-based; nothing on the stage other than object initialization on the first frame. So everything needs to be programmatic. Normally a mask displays what's on the underlying layer. I'm trying to create a mask that would display an intermediate layer for the areas outside of the mask shape, and basically be invisible for the areas of the mask shape showing all underlying layers, whtever is displayed at that spot from below. An illustration (as viewed from the side :) may help... [--] - mask layer containing a shape, say a box in the middle [------] - an intermediate layer whose contents would be shown in the areas *outside* of the above box-shaped mask [ ] - various content layers [- -- -] - whose visible content would [--- - --] - show through the mask [--] - on the top I found a short comment by someone (Xeef) on Actionscript.org regarding reverse mask as follows: you will need to use more masks BackGround --Box on it -- An other Background Masked by an EMPTY mask (will by invisible) now draw on the Mask the part of the 2. Backgound will by revaled and over lap the Box I haven't figured out yet what that means. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts? Thanks! Ville ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
If I'm understandung this... You add the IDE generated swf (IDE.swf) to the project. You then create an external class that has a 'main' entry point and it loads the IDE.swf. (with a preloader of course). Do I have this right? Sounds good, though the test will be can I impliment it myself. You could also break IDE.swf into several library1.swf, library2.swf and load them seperately, to spread out the load, couldn't you? this sounds similar to the Natural Entry Point method. Do you instanciate the entry point class? If it extends MovieClip, then it could also serve as _root, couldn't it? I'm searching for examples as we speak...write?... Im close, thankis for the help On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. An added benefit is that you can display a preloader on the asset swf which is quite likely large. Hope that helps, Scott On 6/3/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] SharedObject path?
I just noticed this problem when re-compiling my games from Flash 6 to Flash 7. Some of my SharedObjects (i.e. Flash cookies) weren't being read properly by some of my Flash content. Getting out .SOL editor (Flash cookie viewer), I took a look at what was being written out. Turns out some of the games are writing out to the directory www.thecodezone.com and others are writing out to thecodezone.com. For the life of me I can't find the rule that determines what gets written out and how. Anyone have any insight as to how Flash gets the source URL for its cookies so I can make 'em write out to one consistent place? --- John Hattan The Code Zone - Sweet Software for a Saturnine World www.thecodezone.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Hole-in-a-mask (a reverse mask question)?
If you're using the drawing API to make the mask shape, you can make an inversion of it (to show everything but the mask shape) by giving the commands to draw the overall shape (ie, that covers the whole stage if that's what you want) and then the commands to draw the shape of the mask, in the reverse direction of the original drawing -- ie, draw the mask clockwise if the original shape was drawn counterclockwise--, and do both sets of commands between the beginFill and endFill. Example here http://flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_drawingapi.php#cutout under Using a shape with a cutout as a mask if you need. Helen Ville Walveranta wrote: Hello everybody, I've been racking my brain tonight trying to figure out a way to create a reverse mask in Actionscript. I'm working on an application which is entirely object-based; nothing on the stage other than object initialization on the first frame. So everything needs to be programmatic. Normally a mask displays what's on the underlying layer. I'm trying to create a mask that would display an intermediate layer for the areas outside of the mask shape, and basically be invisible for the areas of the mask shape showing all underlying layers, whtever is displayed at that spot from below. An illustration (as viewed from the side :) may help... [--] - mask layer containing a shape, say a box in the middle [------] - an intermediate layer whose contents would be shown in the areas *outside* of the above box-shaped mask [ ] - various content layers [- -- -] - whose visible content would [--- - --] - show through the mask [--] - on the top I found a short comment by someone (Xeef) on Actionscript.org regarding reverse mask as follows: you will need to use more masks BackGround --Box on it -- An other Background Masked by an EMPTY mask (will by invisible) now draw on the Mask the part of the 2. Backgound will by revaled and over lap the Box I haven't figured out yet what that means. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts? Thanks! Ville ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
I've had a lot of success with the Code Injection method, which I've describe here: http://www.pasz.com/articles/workingWithFame/ You can still load external assets as needed, but you have full access to the library of your main SWF. It works well too if you need to create projects that need to be compiled with *both* MTASC and Flash IDE. On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. Not sure I folow how you're doing this. When you load an external clip, you can't do attachMovieClip, etc. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] setting the centerpoint of a movieclip?
I took a rotateZ method from Robert Penner's Vector3D class and added
a pivotpoint to the formula. It works pretty well as a dynamic
registrationpoint :)
var mc:MovieClip;
var position:Object = {x:mc._x, y:mc._y};
var pivot:Object = {x:position.x+mc._width/2, y:position.y+mc._height/2};
var angle:Number = 0;
onEnterFrame = function():Void {
angle += 5;
rotate(angle);
}
function rotate(angle:Number):Void {
var ca:Number = cosD(angle);
var sa:Number = sinD(angle);
var x = (position.x - pivot.x) * ca - (position.y - pivot.y) * sa;
var y = (position.x - pivot.x) * sa + (position.y - pivot.y) * ca;
mc._x = pivot.x + x;
mc._y = pivot.y + y;
mc._rotation = angle %= 360;
}
function sinD(angle:Number):Number {
return Math.sin (angle * (Math.PI / 180));
}
function cosD(angle:Number):Number {
return Math.cos (angle * (Math.PI / 180));
}
2006/6/1, grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
That'll do it! Thanks.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
Yes you can, as long as you attach your movieclips BELOW the loaded clip. Scott On 6/4/06, Adam Pasztory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a lot of success with the Code Injection method, which I've describe here: http://www.pasz.com/articles/workingWithFame/ You can still load external assets as needed, but you have full access to the library of your main SWF. It works well too if you need to create projects that need to be compiled with *both* MTASC and Flash IDE. On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. Not sure I folow how you're doing this. When you load an external clip, you can't do attachMovieClip, etc. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
If I'm understandung this... You add the IDE generated swf (IDE.swf) to the project. You then create an external class that has a 'main' entry point and it loads the IDE.swf. (with a preloader of course). Correct Do I have this right? Sounds good, though the test will be can I impliment it myself. You could also break IDE.swf into several library1.swf, library2.swf and load them seperately, to spread out the load, couldn't you? No, unfortunately not. Assets are only available to use from the closest loaded parent. Let me explain with a little picture. shell.swf (where all your classes most likely reside) | |-assets.swf (loaded by shell.swf) | |---movieclips that can access assets.swf library | |---assets2.swf | |movieclips that can access assets2.swf (but not assets.swf) It's limited by this parent cut-off idea, but it is still very useful for getting IDE generated assets into my MTASC generated projects. You can split this up a bit further even by including your classes in a separate swf. The limitations shown above do not apply to loaded classes. As soon as they are loaded, they are available. Hope this helps, Scott this sounds similar to the Natural Entry Point method. Do you instanciate the entry point class? If it extends MovieClip, then it could also serve as _root, couldn't it? I'm searching for examples as we speak...write?... Im close, thankis for the help On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. An added benefit is that you can display a preloader on the asset swf which is quite likely large. Hope that helps, Scott On 6/3/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Re: Hole-in-a-mask (a reverse mask question)?
Helen, Thanks for that info, it was very helpful! Works perfectly! :) Ville Helen Triolo wrote: If you're using the drawing API to make the mask shape, you can make an inversion of it (to show everything but the mask shape) by giving the commands to draw the overall shape (ie, that covers the whole stage if that's what you want) and then the commands to draw the shape of the mask, in the reverse direction of the original drawing -- ie, draw the mask clockwise if the original shape was drawn counterclockwise--, and do both sets of commands between the beginFill and endFill. Example here http://flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_drawingapi.php#cutout under Using a shape with a cutout as a mask if you need. Helen ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Eclipse Workflow
thanks, there's nothing left but to actaiully try it. On 6/4/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm understandung this... You add the IDE generated swf (IDE.swf) to the project. You then create an external class that has a 'main' entry point and it loads the IDE.swf. (with a preloader of course). Correct Do I have this right? Sounds good, though the test will be can I impliment it myself. You could also break IDE.swf into several library1.swf, library2.swf and load them seperately, to spread out the load, couldn't you? No, unfortunately not. Assets are only available to use from the closest loaded parent. Let me explain with a little picture. shell.swf (where all your classes most likely reside) | |-assets.swf (loaded by shell.swf) | |---movieclips that can access assets.swf library | |---assets2.swf | |movieclips that can access assets2.swf (but not assets.swf) It's limited by this parent cut-off idea, but it is still very useful for getting IDE generated assets into my MTASC generated projects. You can split this up a bit further even by including your classes in a separate swf. The limitations shown above do not apply to loaded classes. As soon as they are loaded, they are available. Hope this helps, Scott this sounds similar to the Natural Entry Point method. Do you instanciate the entry point class? If it extends MovieClip, then it could also serve as _root, couldn't it? I'm searching for examples as we speak...write?... Im close, thankis for the help On 6/3/06, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I usually do is load in the assets swf through the MTASC generated swf and use it as the root in the movieclip hierarchy. By this I mean all movieclips created by my MTASC generated swf are descendants of the asset swf. By doing so you can access all symbols in the asset swf through attachMovieClip and you don't have to mess around with injection. An added benefit is that you can display a preloader on the asset swf which is quite likely large. Hope that helps, Scott On 6/3/06, Weldon MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I installed Eclipse, spent a better part of a day downloading plugins and configuring everything. I'm using Ant tasks to compile with MTASC and send it to the standalone player. I don't see the need for swfmill, since I own Flash. My plan was to create vector graphics and any timeline stuff in flash (mostly done by my wife) and then move to Eclipse to write the code. But now I'm not at all sure how to structure a project. I read about several methods, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. What's best practise? Can I use one swf as a symbol library and compile it with the class files and a 'main' entrypoint? Do I inject all the code into the library swf? I've been experimenting with a class that's tied to a symbol in an .fla and would like to switch over to the new workflow, if I can figure out what that is. The symbol is a movieclip with nested movieclips. The class extends MovieClip and uses an init function rather than a constructor. The code I've been using to test is in the .fla but the class file is external. How can I restructure this to include Eclipse in the workflow? Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Weldon MacDonald ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the
Re: [Flashcoders] maxDepth for dynamic movieclips?
You'll love using the XT DepthManager - plus if you read the comments on the classes static properties there are exact (verified) numbers for max and min depths supported by the Flash player. You'll find the class at http://codext.com/code/6 Tyler On 6/1/06, Zimmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, when you have a slideshow that shows clips one after the other then you only really need 2 depths don't you ... If not, perhaps some sort of depth manager that keeps track of used and unused depths... - Original Message - From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] maxDepth for dynamic movieclips? I've got an app that's a glorfied slideshow, slowly adding mc's and gettingNextHighestDepth() -- at some point I'm assuming it will get to the maxDepth; what would be the best way of resetting this? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] create an object of type defined with a string
If you need an object that already exists to be converted into an instance
of the class you can use the XT Prototype class
Prototype.makeInstanceof(obj, Array);
and using Zimmen's suggestion
Prototype.makeInstanceof(obj, _global[tType]);
good luck! you'll find the class at
http://codext.com/code/9
Tyler
On 6/1/06, Zimmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes it is... so you could use
function makeObject(tType){
return (new _global[tType]())
}
test = makeObject(Array)
as well (this is what the findClass method does eventually. :)
On 6/1/06, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Zimmen and Ian, that's helpful. I'll probably go with Ian's
solution, which seems a bit more robust (I've been caught out before by
clever tricks using eval()...)
Danny
- Original Message -
From: Zimmen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] create an object of type defined with a
string
This actually works:
function makeObject(tType){
var tVar = eval(tType)
return (new tVar())
}
test = makeObject(Array)
test.push(foo)
test.push(bar)
trace(test[0])
trace(test[1])
trace(test.length)
Output:
foo
bar
2
On 6/1/06, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to have a function makeObject(tType:String) which returns an
object
of class tType. So makeObject(Array) should return a new Array
object.
Any
good way to do this? I'm sure it's something simple.
And before you ask, yes, there is a reason why I need to do it this
way...
Danny
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Re: [Flashcoders] SharedObject path?
Hi, Maybe you can use the second parameter. As the doc say: *localPath*:String [optional] - A string that specifies the full or partial path to the SWF file that created the shared object, and that determines where the shared object is stored locally. The default value is the full path. Greets, 2006/6/4, John Hattan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just noticed this problem when re-compiling my games from Flash 6 to Flash 7. Some of my SharedObjects (i.e. Flash cookies) weren't being read properly by some of my Flash content. Getting out .SOL editor (Flash cookie viewer), I took a look at what was being written out. Turns out some of the games are writing out to the directory www.thecodezone.com and others are writing out to thecodezone.com. For the life of me I can't find the rule that determines what gets written out and how. Anyone have any insight as to how Flash gets the source URL for its cookies so I can make 'em write out to one consistent place? --- John Hattan The Code Zone - Sweet Software for a Saturnine World www.thecodezone.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Regards, Stéphane Bebrone -- Flash | ASP.NET | Web Developer http://weblog.shaoken.be -- ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] SharedObject path?
look at System.exactSettings Setting this to true will cause the player to use the full domain. So say if someone went to your site and used www.yoursite.com to get there, that's the directory it will use. Then if someone else used yoursite.com, it would use yoursite.com as the path. This could cause problems for your code unless you redirected someone that used yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com. To avoid all this, set exactSettings to false. Then, weather they used the www or not wouldn't matter it'll use yoursite.com in all cases. I believe this is the rule you were looking for. Do look into the documentation for System.exactSettings. Where you use this setting in your code makes a difference. It should be done before anything else in your movie to work and if your loading another swf in your movie it will use the setting of the calling swf and not what you might have set in the sub swf. Hope this helps :) 2006/6/4, John Hattan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just noticed this problem when re-compiling my games from Flash 6 to Flash 7. Some of my SharedObjects (i.e. Flash cookies) weren't being read properly by some of my Flash content. Getting out .SOL editor (Flash cookie viewer), I took a look at what was being written out. Turns out some of the games are writing out to the directory www.thecodezone.com and others are writing out to thecodezone.com. For the life of me I can't find the rule that determines what gets written out and how. Anyone have any insight as to how Flash gets the source URL for its cookies so I can make 'em write out to one consistent place? --- John Hattan The Code Zone - Sweet Software for a Saturnine World www.thecodezone.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Regards, Stéphane Bebrone -- Flash | ASP.NET | Web Developer http://weblog.shaoken.be -- ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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[Flashcoders] Re: JS Error with ExternalInterface and Firefox
Well, no one responded to my question, but after several hours of banging my
head against a wall, I figured out the problem, so I thought I'd update
here.
I was missing the name attribute in the embed tag. Apparently IE keys
of the id attribute of the object tag, but FF looks for name.
On 6/3/06, Adam Pasztory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ack! What happened? This used to work, didn't it?
I'm getting an error with ExternalInterface in Firefox:
thisMovie(ExternalInterfaceExample).fromJS is not a function
This happens even when I try to run the simple example from the Flash 8
Essentials book.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I've been searching around for an
hour for an answer, and come up empty. :(
JS CODE:
function thisMovie(movieName)
{
if (isIE())
{
return window[movieName]
}
else
{
return document[movieName]
}
}
function isIE()
{
return navigator.appName.indexOf (Microsoft) != -1;
}
// This function will call the ActionScript function fromJS
function makeCall(str)
{
thisMovie(ExternalInterfaceExample).fromJS(str);
}
// This function fromAS will be called from ActionScript
function fromAS(str)
{
document.inForm.inField.value = str;
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] What does this code mean and What are Inspectables ...
You might also take a look at Joey Lott's Tutorial on the subject (V2 Components) It's for Flash MX 2004 but still applies to Flash 8. http://www.person13.com/articles/components/creatingcomponents.html and http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=A06B3C7D7B74030D Steven Sacks wrote: They are for AS2 components. http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-38760.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] What does this code mean and What are Inspectables ...
Thanks all, Much appreciated. I now understand Inspectables and how they relate to classes/components/the flash IDE property panel. However, I shouldn't have compressed two questions into one. So the first part of my question remains. What does code appearing inside brackets mean, for example: [Event(click)] Does this have anything to do with the property panel inside the flash IDE ? or is this something else. Please advise if you can. Thanks, Stephen.___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] 19th June Flash Developers Group study group
The next meeting will be 19th June and we'll be contining our study of MXML with validating and formatting (see http://www.flashdev.org.au/program for topic references). Note: the meeting frequency will change to fortnightly (see program for future dates) and there'll be no meetings in July. At the meeting, the moderator will lead discussion and with questions about the topic. The meeting is on at 6:30pm for 7pm start and finishes around 8:30pm. Details about the group, venue and program are available from http://www.flashdev.org.au. Please also note, whilst the meetings and the use of the club are free, the club does require us to purchase beverages and/or snacks in exchange. Please RSVP at http://www.flashdev.org.au/rsvp. There will be lucky door prizes for those who rsvp. (Put yourself on the http://www.frappr.com/flexdevelopers map) Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
