Re: [Flashcoders] OO way to start RIA app
This is advice is not exclusive to the realm of ActionScript but to OO in general. Unless carefully orchestrated, making method calls from within the constructor can result in unexpected results. It becomes more apparent when derived classes are instantiated and there is confusion between expecting a derived class to be initialized but the base class has not been fully initialized. The other thing to note is that ActionScript does not have deconstructors (with the exception of MovieClip.onUnload which I find great). So when finishing an application, your objects must also know how to 'finish' themselves and those objects that it created. If you put great care into making a constructor method in each of your classes, you should put some thought in a dispose() method which will be responsible for cleaning up what it started (for example, remove the movieclips it created dynamically). -mL http://knowledge.lapasa.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Recently had to re-jig the start-up sequence to an AS2 flash app - caused lots of unexpected side-effects Struck me that there must be an agreed OO way to start/finish an application. Does anyone have some useful advice on best practice for app start-up from an AS2 perpective? regards ___ 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] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..?
do you mean something like this: http://www.strille.net/works/misc/z_mapping/z_mapping.html greetz JC On 11/10/06, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This site will hopefully help you on your way http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/3dindex.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Murphy Sent: 10 November 2006 18:32 To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..? Hello. I'm trying to take a vector map of North America and produce the sense of 'flying over' it. I want to have the flat map tipped along the X axis, so that the bottom (Florida, Texas, etc.) appear closer and the top (Nunuvut, Greenland, etc.) appear farther away. Then I want to be able to pan the map left and right, up and down, and 'zoom' in by scaling it.. scaling it a little faster vertically so that it seems to flatten out a bit as you get closer to the ground. So far I've only been able to achieve that in Illustrator and then saving the perspectively squished vectors as a .swf What I'd love to do is to get that perspective squish done within Flash 8 using script. I know about 3D program extensions for Flash like Sandy, but I find them cryptic (at best) and over kill for my simple needs. Any suggestions..? Thanks. :) - - - - - - - - - -[andrew murphy]- flash developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] delvinia interactive inc. 214 king street west, suite 214 toronto canada M5H 3S6 voice 416.364.1455 ext. 232 cell 416.820.8723 fax 416.364.9830 www.delvinia.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient or received this communication by error, please notify the sender and delete the message without copying or disclosing it. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ Ce message peut contenir de l'information légalement privilégiée ou confidentielle. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire ou croyez avoir reçu par erreur ce message, nous vous saurions gré d'en aviser l'émetteur et d'en détruire le contenu sans le communiquer a d'autres ou le reproduire. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.1/527 - Release Date: 09/11/2006 6:00 PM ___ 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] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/10/2006 1:32:09 PM Hello. I'm trying to take a vector map of North America and produce the sense of 'flying over' it. I want to have the flat map tipped along the X axis, so that the bottom (Florida, Texas, etc.) appear closer and the top (Nunuvut, Greenland, etc.) appear farther away. Like so? http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/11/spidermonkeys-relative-tamarin-joins.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] Noob question: Text effects, apps/components?
Hi all, Sorry if this is noob question, but it has been several months since I have had to do fancy text effects in Flash... I am on XP pro using FP8... What is currently the best component or external app for creating flash-based text effects? Swishmax still the standard? http://snipurl.com/iwzt I do not need a ka-zillion effects, just looking for a tool to help streamline production (but prefer non-cheezy FX). Any links/tips/suggestions you guys/gals can give me would be fabulous. :) Many thanks in advance. Cheers, Micky -- Wishlist: http://snipurl.com/vrs9 Switch: http://browsehappy.com/ BCC?: http://snipurl.com/w6f8 My: http://del.icio.us/mhulse ___ 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] Google queries / iweb services / API in A.S. 2.0.
Please forgive me if this is a repost. It did not appear for over 24 hours after I posted it. I changed the subject line in case the spam filters blocked it due to killwords in the subject... This may be a very stupid question, but I did search online and not find the answer. I saw examples of Flash apps (eg the quite fun Guess-the-Google http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/ game) that grab images from Google Image search, but I couldn't find any coding examples. I don't even know if the right way to do it is stupidly low-tech (by making a query string URL and parsing the page Google returns) or involves web services etc. (which I have never used). I am supposed to call the potential client tonight to tell her whether I can do it and how much work is involved etc. She hired someone else a few years ago (a professional programmer on her campus IT staff) to do it who was unable to figure out how to grab Google images and incorporate them into the page. He used Javascript/DHTML as the front end. I intend to use Flash as there are many multimedia elements. I have a potential client who wants their site to incorporate Google Image Search results. I have never used Google web services or their APIs, so I don't know how much work this will involve and what server side resources are required. I will be using Flash 8 and PHP (if necessary). Also, do people use the Flash webservices component/class for anything real or does one always end up doing one's own server-side coding (aside from wrapping the web services call to get around security restrictions)? Is there a reason to use a web service rather than constructing a query string and parsing the results? Forgive me if this is newbieish. I am a server side newbie, but not an Actionscript newbie. Millie Niss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sporkworld.org ___ 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] frustrated with textFields: getting height while text isn't fully 'there'
This is totally driving me crazy.
I'm creating a textfield as a sub to another clip, setting it's width,
making it autosized, giving it a stylesheet. I then toss in it's
htmlText.
I just want to know if the darn thing is one or more lines. Trouble is
it's not reporting back properly...it seems as if it's just in the
middle of adjusting itself or something, as if I trace out a lot of
stuff, it works out fine. But I shut off tracing, and it stops
working.
For example:
var mTitle:TextField = mcTxt.createTextField(mc_title, 6, tR.x+20,
tR.y-14, 230, 0);
mTitle.autoSize = right;
mTitle.wordWrap=true;
mTitle.selectable=false;
mTitle.html = true;
mTitle.border=true;
mTitle.multiline = true;
mTitle.styleSheet =_global.gPrefs.CSS;
mTitle.htmlText = title;
fontsize = 30; // i know this
lCnt = (mTitle.textHeight/fontSize);
Sometimes lCnt works and sometimes it doesn't -- and I'm tracing out
all elements.
I've even tried to do something like
while(mTitle.htmlText!=title){
trace(not there);
}
But that doesn't work either.
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[Flashcoders] Mac - Flash gets keyboard events when not in focus
Our games site has a problem - people pause a game and use the chat, which is a separate movie in an iframe servred from a separate domain. However, the game continues to get keyboard events. In fact, it even gets events from people typing in the address bar of the browser! In some games this is a real problem, because the game unpauses when you hit the space bar or whatever. This happens in both Safari and Firefox on the Mac. Doesn't happen on Windows. A friend suggested trapping the keyboard events using Javascript, to keep them from getting to the games... has anyone else dealt with this problem? For an example of this, see: http://kongregate.com/games/pixeljamgames/gamma-bros You can login as: user: flashcoders pwd: focus Thx, Jim Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company: http://kongregate.com Blog: http://jimonwebgames.com home: 159 Dolores #4, SF CA 94103 work: 430 Fillmore Suite A, SF CA 94117 ___ 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] Google image search from Actionscript
I have a potential client who wants their program to incorporate Google Image Search results. I have never used Google web services or other programming tools, so I don't know how much work this will involve and what server side resources are required. I will be using Flash 8 and PHP (if necessary). Also, do people use the Flash webservices component/class for anything real or does one always end up doing one's own server-side coding (aside from wrapping the web services call to get around security restrictions)? Is there a reason to use a web service rather than constructing a query string and parsing the results? Forgive me if this is newbieish. I am a server side newbie, but not an Actionscript newbie. Millie Niss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sporkworld.org regards ___ 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] launching an exe?
Hi Everyone- The mail server seems to have rejected my earlier messages, so here goes again: Thanks for the responses. I understand the security concerns and sympathize with them, but I still want my users to be able to install the app much easier regardless. I'd be happy to display a warning much like FireFox does when launching exes. Taking a step back, launching exes is generally dangerous, and yet still vital. Granted, I'm trying to lower the barriers to exe launching (skipping the user clicking on the download window and selecting to launch the file), but the fact is people can still launch exes downloaded from web pages without my devious schemes to make it easier. The signed Java applet option is interesting. I'd basically like a signed Flash movie that could do the same thing, using Flash instead of Java because it's more ubiquitous and doesn't take so friggin' long to launch. I imagine there's still no way though huh? Thanks again everyone. -Adam On 11/10/06, Cortlandt Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adam, I think this is one of the rare opportunities to actually say definitely not possible. If you could do this it would be a major security flaw as the .exe could, say, wipe out a hard drive instead of doing something beneficial. If somehow you find any way to do this, please notify Adobe as we are all in grave trouble. Glad to be able to say that ! :D -Cort On 11/9/06, Adam Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to launch an exe with any version of Flash? I basically want to download my installer using Flash and then automatically launch it, basically bypassing the browser's download and launch cycle to make things easier on the user. I know very little actionscript/mxml, but I'm just curious if something like this is possible. Would I have to set something in a policy file somewhere? Thanks so much. -Adam ___ 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] Mac and Eclipse syntax checking
I'm using the FDT plugin, and it shows any errors you're making.. not 'on save', but 'as you type'... which I prefer because I usually save by a shortcut, and almost in the same shortcut switch to my browser to refresh (it calls a compile script and displays the result...) cheers. Joeri On 11/12/06, Jay Pozo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was curious if anyone on a Mac is successfully using Eclipse for writing their AS and has the Syntax checking On save working. I guess I could always use Sepy, but I thought I'd check first. ___ 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: Re: [Flashcoders] Mac - Flash gets keyboard events when not in focus
Using Safari 2.0.4 here doesn't give me any problems with the focus. I can type in the chat without unpausing the game, and typing in the location bar behaves as should. good luck bug hunting. Joeri On 11/12/06, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fscommand(trapallkeys,true); //? On 11/12/06, Jim Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our games site has a problem - people pause a game and use the chat, which is a separate movie in an iframe servred from a separate domain. However, the game continues to get keyboard events. In fact, it even gets events from people typing in the address bar of the browser! In some games this is a real problem, because the game unpauses when you hit the space bar or whatever. This happens in both Safari and Firefox on the Mac. Doesn't happen on Windows. A friend suggested trapping the keyboard events using Javascript, to keep them from getting to the games... has anyone else dealt with this problem? For an example of this, see: http://kongregate.com/games/pixeljamgames/gamma-bros You can login as: user: flashcoders pwd: focus Thx, Jim Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company: http://kongregate.com Blog: http://jimonwebgames.com home: 159 Dolores #4, SF CA 94103 work: 430 Fillmore Suite A, SF CA 94117 ___ 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[2]: [Flashcoders] launching an exe?
AF I'd basically like a signed AF Flash movie that could do the same thing, using Flash instead of Java AF because it's more ubiquitous and doesn't take so friggin' long to launch. I AF imagine there's still no way though huh? You are right, there is no way :) You cannot sign a Flash movie and Flash doesn't allow the fine-tunning of security permissions (as Java does). Maybe it will provide more options in a future version (or at least in Apollo, which seems to be similar to Java Web Start in this respect). Attila ___ 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] Google image search from Actionscript
MN I have a potential client who wants their program to incorporate Google MN Image Search results. I have never used Google web services or other MN programming tools, so I don't know how much work this will involve and what MN server side resources are required. I will be using Flash 8 and PHP (if MN necessary). As far I know, Google doesn't provide API for searching images, so you have to dig out information from the HTML pages returned by the normal Google Image Search service. You need some well formed regex expressions and nothing else (until Google changes the format of the HTML document). Unfortunatelly XPath cannot be used since the returned page is not an XHTML document. There is a sample project in C#: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/google_image_search_api.asp Attila ___ 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] off-display mouse listeners still listen in AS3?
Hi, I'm making a site in AS3 with lots and lots of buttons. I'm worried that all the listeners on the buttons will clog the memory. I realize that sprites that are not in the display list cannot receive mouse events, but do they still listen for them, taking up memory? I'm not sure how to test that. If they do, then in the buttons I'll 1) add listeners for added and removed events to detect when the buttons are added to the display list, and 2) handle these events by toggling the mouseEnabled and mouseChildren properties off and on (that will kill and revive the listeners) But it seems funny to kill listeners that cannot hear anything, and a hassle to add this code to all the button species I'm working with. Thanks Matt On Nov 12, 2006, at 9:00 AM, flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Flashcoders mailing list submissions to flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Flashcoders digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: functions outside a class (Helmut Granda) 2. Re: Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..? (Zeh Fernando) 3. Re: OO way to start RIA app (Mark Lapasa) 4. Re: Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..? (Hans Wichman) 5. Re: Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash8..? (Mike Nowak) 6. RE: functions outside a class (Mike Keesey) 7. Re: Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash8..? (Mike Nowak) 8. Noob question: Text effects, apps/components? (Micky Hulse) 9. Google queries / iweb services / API in A.S. 2.0. (Millie Niss) 10. frustrated with textFields: getting height while text isn't fully 'there' (grimmwerks) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:45:34 -0600 From: Helmut Granda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: functions outside a class To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed ok, i figured it out. it works if i make reference to where the function is. this.function(); _parent.function(); if i just call the function: function(); it is where I was getting stuck, but it all works now. ... On 11/10/06, Helmut Granda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several classes that will use a function. for scope reasons i have placed the function in a different file but i would like to be able to access that file from within the classes. If the function has been declared outside the class, what is the best way to accces those functions? sample: utils.controls: classA classB utils/functions: functionA functionB main timeline: include functionA include functionB now I would like to access functionA or functionB within the class... TIA -- ...helmut -- ...helmut helmutgranda.com -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:46:11 -0200 From: Zeh Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Faking 3D perspective of a 2D map in Flash 8..? To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original So far I've only been able to achieve that in Illustrator and then saving the perspectively squished vectors as a .swf What I'd love to do is to get that perspective squish done within Flash 8 using script. I know about 3D program extensions for Flash like Sandy, but I find them cryptic (at best) and over kill for my simple needs. Using something like Sandy is the only choice you have. For example: http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distortimage-20-the-fastest-way-to- freely-distort-image-with-flash-in-actionscript.html http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distordimage-the-way-to-distord- bitmaps-by-code.html You need something like this. This is done by dividing an image in triangles and then projecting them. But you'd still have to be careful, as simple distortion ISN'T perspective. The above examples are simply distorting the image, but not accounting for proximity (it's just squishing the texture). If you get a side too thin, it'll just look thin, not far. This is an old example, but uses a similar approach but with correct calculation (each side of the box is made of 4 triangles): http://www.nkag.co.jp/ For something like that, you'd need to either build a complex plane with Sandy, using a bunch of squares (so it will do correct perspective, or close to it anyways), or build the whole calculation and projection yourself. Which can be
[Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem.
Hello all, Im using the Point class to convert polar co-ordinates to Cartesian co-ordinates (i.e. an angle length to an x y co-ordinate). The built in function Point.polar(len:Number, angle:Number) should do exactly this but I am getting some weird values returned. This code takes the angles 0, 90, 180, 270 360 with a length of 10 for each and converts to an x y. [[code snippet]] import flash.geom.Point; trace(Point.polar(10, (0 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (90 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (180 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (270 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (360 * (Math.PI/180; This is the output: (x=10, y=0) (x=6.12303176911189e-16, y=10) (x=-10, y=1.22460635382238e-15) (x=-1.83690953073357e-15, y=-10) (x=10, y=-2.44921270764475e-15) As you can see the first value is correct, the rest have weird values. Can anyone explain this to me? Jim ___ 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.geom.Point Problem.
Just a quick additional note, I looked up how to comvert the co-ords myself and found the formula X= R*cos(Theta) Y= R*sin(Theta) On this website about converting co-ords http://www.delphiforfun.org/Programs/Math_Topics/polar-cartesian.htm . The thing is this formula gives exactly the same un expected results. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim Sent: 12 November 2006 21:15 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem. Hello all, Im using the Point class to convert polar co-ordinates to Cartesian co-ordinates (i.e. an angle length to an x y co-ordinate). The built in function Point.polar(len:Number, angle:Number) should do exactly this but I am getting some weird values returned. This code takes the angles 0, 90, 180, 270 360 with a length of 10 for each and converts to an x y. [[code snippet]] import flash.geom.Point; trace(Point.polar(10, (0 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (90 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (180 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (270 * (Math.PI/180; trace(Point.polar(10, (360 * (Math.PI/180; This is the output: (x=10, y=0) (x=6.12303176911189e-16, y=10) (x=-10, y=1.22460635382238e-15) (x=-1.83690953073357e-15, y=-10) (x=10, y=-2.44921270764475e-15) As you can see the first value is correct, the rest have weird values. Can anyone explain this to me? Jim ___ 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.geom.Point Problem.
j As you can see the first value is correct, the rest have weird values. Can
j anyone explain this to me?
This is because of the precision errors of floating-point arithmetic.
Try to round the results:
import flash.geom.Point;
var angles: Array = [0, 90, 180, 270, 360];
for (var i = 0; i angles.length; i++) {
var p: Point = Point.polar(10, (angles[i] * (Math.PI/180)));
trace(x: + Math.round(p.x) + , y: + Math.round(p.y));
}
Attila
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RE: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem.
Thanks man, my girlfriend just pointed the same thing to me, you are both
clever I am stupid.
Jim
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rákos Attila
Sent: 12 November 2006 21:32
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem.
j As you can see the first value is correct, the rest have weird values.
Can
j anyone explain this to me?
This is because of the precision errors of floating-point arithmetic.
Try to round the results:
import flash.geom.Point;
var angles: Array = [0, 90, 180, 270, 360];
for (var i = 0; i angles.length; i++) {
var p: Point = Point.polar(10, (angles[i] * (Math.PI/180)));
trace(x: + Math.round(p.x) + , y: + Math.round(p.y));
}
Attila
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Re: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem.
Having a girlfriend who knows flash makes you clever by default. :)
just sayin.
a
jim wrote:
Thanks man, my girlfriend just pointed the same thing to me, you are both
clever I am stupid.
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rákos Attila
Sent: 12 November 2006 21:32
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.Point Problem.
j As you can see the first value is correct, the rest have weird values.
Can
j anyone explain this to me?
This is because of the precision errors of floating-point arithmetic.
Try to round the results:
import flash.geom.Point;
var angles: Array = [0, 90, 180, 270, 360];
for (var i = 0; i angles.length; i++) {
var p: Point = Point.polar(10, (angles[i] * (Math.PI/180)));
trace(x: + Math.round(p.x) + , y: + Math.round(p.y));
}
Attila
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Re: [Flashcoders] frustrated with textFields: getting height while textisn't fully 'there'
Create a second textfield (hidden) that is as wide as the original, is only one
line high and does not autosize, dump the text in it
and grab its maxscroll value.
regards,
Muzak
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From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] frustrated with textFields: getting height while
textisn't fully 'there'
This is totally driving me crazy.
I'm creating a textfield as a sub to another clip, setting it's width,
making it autosized, giving it a stylesheet. I then toss in it's
htmlText.
I just want to know if the darn thing is one or more lines. Trouble is
it's not reporting back properly...it seems as if it's just in the
middle of adjusting itself or something, as if I trace out a lot of
stuff, it works out fine. But I shut off tracing, and it stops
working.
For example:
var mTitle:TextField = mcTxt.createTextField(mc_title, 6, tR.x+20,
tR.y-14, 230, 0);
mTitle.autoSize = right;
mTitle.wordWrap=true;
mTitle.selectable=false;
mTitle.html = true;
mTitle.border=true;
mTitle.multiline = true;
mTitle.styleSheet =_global.gPrefs.CSS;
mTitle.htmlText = title;
fontsize = 30; // i know this
lCnt = (mTitle.textHeight/fontSize);
Sometimes lCnt works and sometimes it doesn't -- and I'm tracing out
all elements.
I've even tried to do something like
while(mTitle.htmlText!=title){
trace(not there);
}
But that doesn't work either.
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[Flashcoders] Job Opportunity - Melbourne, Australia
Hey Aerin, You might want to post this on 2 other lists. FlashAussie http://groups.google.com/group/flashaussie FlexAussie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexaussie Regards, Bjorn Schultheiss Senior Flash Developer QDC Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miles Thompson Sent: Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:08 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Fwd: [Flashcoders] Job Opportunity - Melbourne, Australia Aerin, I know it's miles distant from Brisbane, but did you see this on Flashcoders? Miles We are looking for a Senior Flash Developer / Interaction Designer for our Melbourne Office. Join our expanding, vibrant and innovative team in creating award winning web solutions for Australia's leading brands and businesses. Our culture is positive and productive, with highly passionate and experienced strategists, developers and designers working together to create memorable, powerful and relevant web applications and user experiences. Responsibilities include leading the flash team in a technical and creative role, working closely alongside the design and tech teams to best utilize flash in all of DTDesign's projects. You will be working in a small team and with the opportunity to make a real contribution. Technical Requirements: - At least 2 years Flash Development experience in a commercial environment - Excellent ActionScript 2.0 / Flash 8 / OOP - Experience with XML data integration - Demonstrated ability to write clean, well documented code - Confidence in working with and extending code written by other developers - Experience in other aspects of web design and development (design/ HTML/CSS/JavaScript) Personal Requirements: - Confidence in taking a management and advisory role in the Flash and Creative teams - Ability to mentor one or more junior flash developers, and to liaise with and direct freelancers Only applicants who have the right to work in Australia and meet the selection criteria outlined above need apply. Please send a PDF resume and relevant links to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.32/523 - Release Date: 11/7/2006 ___ 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: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] launching an exe?
Arrgh!! Yeah, I thought the idea was a long shot. Thanks again for all of the responses. I love finding such healthy communities like this out there! -Adam On 11/12/06, Rákos Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AF I'd basically like a signed AF Flash movie that could do the same thing, using Flash instead of Java AF because it's more ubiquitous and doesn't take so friggin' long to launch. I AF imagine there's still no way though huh? You are right, there is no way :) You cannot sign a Flash movie and Flash doesn't allow the fine-tunning of security permissions (as Java does). Maybe it will provide more options in a future version (or at least in Apollo, which seems to be similar to Java Web Start in this respect). Attila ___ 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] Shared fonts, linkage and Arabic
Finally figured out how to make font symbols (with linkage turned on) include foreign character sets. The instructions outlined here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275 do actually work given you take into account two crucial pieces of info regarding BUGS IN FLASH. The two pieces of crucial info that solved the issue for me are these: 1) If there is more than one font symbol in the library Flash will not add foreign character sets to any of the fonts. That means creating one swf per font symbol. 2) If a font symbol (with linkage turned on) uses the exact same font that is embedded in a text field in the same swf, all non-Roman characters stop getting exported. For example: text field 1 has the font Tahoma set to Korean characters embedded. Export, it works fine. Now, set a font symbol in the library (with linkage turned on) to use Tahoma. Export, no non-Roman characters get exported. I'll eventually report this to Adobe but I'd be happy if someone beat me to it. ___ 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: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] launching an exe?
You can do it if you make it an exe and its run locally off a users system. I believe you can do an fscommand and do exec and if the exe is in the fscommand folder it will launch it. Check it out. Best, Austin -- Original Message --- From: Adam Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:15:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Flashcoders] launching an exe? Arrgh!! Yeah, I thought the idea was a long shot. Thanks again for all of the responses. I love finding such healthy communities like this out there! -Adam On 11/12/06, Rákos Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AF I'd basically like a signed AF Flash movie that could do the same thing, using Flash instead of Java AF because it's more ubiquitous and doesn't take so friggin' long to launch. I AF imagine there's still no way though huh? You are right, there is no way :) You cannot sign a Flash movie and Flash doesn't allow the fine-tunning of security permissions (as Java does). Maybe it will provide more options in a future version (or at least in Apollo, which seems to be similar to Java Web Start in this respect). Attila ___ 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 --- End of Original Message --- ___ 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] Job Board or List
Anyone know of any Flash specific job boards or jobs list? Please let me know. Thanks, Dave ___ 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] Job Board or List
actionscript.org has a pretty active one. On 11/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of any Flash specific job boards or jobs list? Please let me know. Thanks, Dave ___ 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
