Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I don't see a huge issue? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you're talking about configuring a CD-ROM app via a net connection (some sort of activation system) - in which case ignore me. :-) Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating a CDROM application (Flash 8 PC only) and would like to control it with an external configuration file. From what I can see, I have a choice of a XML or JSON solution - can anyone recommend one over the other? Also if anyone has a link to a working version of JSON and JSONConfig, then I would appreciate it as the version I downloaded is giving me several errors. Any pointers on the use of a configuration file for a CDROM also appreciated - such as any problems I could encounter with security etc Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of event, in this case onObjectDrag stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher (a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator. (Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.) Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits (and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to strictly-typed programming. -- T. Michael Keesey ___ 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] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
Hmm good point Ian. Any reason why people would use xml or json files rather than plain text? Ease of editing, speed of loading etc? With regards security implications, just wanted to be sure there was no problem reading data from the CDROM as I am sure I read somewhere about some issue that arised with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I don't see a huge issue? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you're talking about configuring a CD-ROM app via a net connection (some sort of activation system) - in which case ignore me. :-) Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating a CDROM application (Flash 8 PC only) and would like to control it with an external configuration file. From what I can see, I have a choice of a XML or JSON solution - can anyone recommend one over the other? Also if anyone has a link to a working version of JSON and JSONConfig, then I would appreciate it as the version I downloaded is giving me several errors. Any pointers on the use of a configuration file for a CDROM also appreciated - such as any problems I could encounter with security etc Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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] Trace the _x and _y from node of Tree component
I'm sure that print the _x and the _y from node to the tree component, is
impossible; but now I trying to print some element by roll over the mouse.
I have the same listener, but this traces the atribute in the node of the
xml:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.itemRollOver = function(eventObject:Object) {
//Only works if I click in the node.
trace (eventObject.target.selectedNode.attributes.idnod);
//it doesn't work!
//trace (eventObject.target.itemRollOver.attributes.idnod);
};
menuTree2.addEventListener(itemRollOver, listenerObject);
If I try to trace the atribute idnod from my xml by roll over the mouse,
the result is undefined but if I press on any node it works..
How can I modify this code to works only with on roll over function?
Thanks a lot, and sorry if you don't understand all the message... my
english is too bad.
2007/1/27, Alain Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
import mx.utils.Delegate;
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.itemRollOver = Delegate.create(this, handleRollOver);
function handleRollOver(eventObject:Object) {
trace(menuTree2.selectedNode._y);
}
menuTree2.addEventListener (itemRollOver, listenerObject);
If the selectedNode has a ._y property it will work well. Otherwise
check to see what properties are available to you for that node. I don't
really know the Tree component so I can't be sure.
HTH
Alain
Lois IN wrote:
I'm sorry, but when I typing the code I forget this 2.
The code is the same, and the listener is working, but I can't print
the the
_x _y:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.itemRollOver = function(eventObject:Object) {
trace(menuTree2.selectedNode._y);
};
menuTree2.addEventListener (itemRollOver, listenerObject);
2007/1/26, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
i see menuTree*2*.selectedNode and menuTree.addEventListener?
Beside that, might be a scoping/reference issue, your listener doesnt
have
a
reference to the menuTree.
greetz
JC
On 1/26/07, Lois IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
(first of all, sorry for my english)
I have the Tree component in my scene and this is generated by a xml.
It's
working fine.
But I want to know the _x and the _y of any tree node or folder, by
passing
mouse over them, with the function itemRollOver.
For example, the Tree shows that:
FOLDER
SubFolder_A
SubFolder_B
SubFolder_B1
SubFolder_B2
SubFolder_B3
SubFolder_C
If the mouse is over SubFolder_B1 the _x and the _y are diferent
than
SubFolder_A...
I try with a Listener, like this:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.itemRollOver = function(eventObject:Object) {
trace(menuTree2.selectedNode._y);
};
menuTree.addEventListener(itemRollOver, listenerObject);
but the tracer is undefined.
Somebody knows about it?
Thanks a lot!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Hi, maybe a dumm question but would it be off limits to express this changing-behaviour in the interface? For example in such an object as you are describing, you could add a method setResizeBehaviour(r:ResizeBehaviorImpl) (in pseudo then). Then you can change a certain type of behavior at runtime and it is explicit in the interface. Assuming you don't want to use decorator that is. Or is this not done? greetz JC On 1/30/07, T. Michael Keesey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of event, in this case onObjectDrag stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher (a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator. (Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.) Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits (and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to strictly-typed programming. -- T. Michael Keesey ___ 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] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
We've had absolutely no problem reading text files from CD-ROM using Flash 8. :-) XML/JSON wouldn't be any faster to read in. I'd choose XML if you had a much more complex configuration task that needed lots of nested config (unlikely unless you've got a huge sprawling app - you can handle most situations by choosing your key=value keynames appropriately) or if your config involved chunks of (possibly unicode) textual data. I wouldn't use JSON for configuration as I find it far less readable - it's primarily a serialisation/data interchange format rather than a configuration file format. Additionally, it ties you to a particular implementation/data layout in your app; whereas if, for whatever reason, you wanted other apps to read your key/value pairs plain text file (for example, for patching or updating or simply cataloguing) then it's very straightforward. Cheers, Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm good point Ian. Any reason why people would use xml or json files rather than plain text? Ease of editing, speed of loading etc? With regards security implications, just wanted to be sure there was no problem reading data from the CDROM as I am sure I read somewhere about some issue that arised with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I don't see a huge issue? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you're talking about configuring a CD-ROM app via a net connection (some sort of activation system) - in which case ignore me. :-) Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating a CDROM application (Flash 8 PC only) and would like to control it with an external configuration file. From what I can see, I have a choice of a XML or JSON solution - can anyone recommend one over the other? Also if anyone has a link to a working version of JSON and JSONConfig, then I would appreciate it as the version I downloaded is giving me several errors. Any pointers on the use of a configuration file for a CDROM also appreciated - such as any problems I could encounter with security etc Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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 ___ 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] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
Thanks Ian for the useful advice. I would appreciate your thoughts and indeed the thoughts of anyone else, on my use of a config file for this project. Not sure if a config file is the best solution for what I am doing. Basically the CDROM consists of 60 separate pages / sections. I have just used 60 labels on the timeline for these e.g 1_1 1_2 2_1 2_2 Etc I have not created separate swf files for each of the 60 sections as the content of most sections is simply a video clip or one sentence of text. I therefore thought it was more manageable to keep all the sections within one flash movie. All video clips are external flv files. I have also set up the navigation menu like this, with 60 labels. The idea of using a config file is to set various things for each section such as: What video clip to play The Page title Which label of the navigation menu mc to display Which buttons to display e.g forward / backward Which label to navigate to when any button is clicked Assign actions to visible buttons etc The idea of doing it this way is to prevent there being lots of code in all the 60 labels across the timeline. Hence the configuration file would have details of what actions to take upon arriving at each of the 60 sections. Does the above solution sound like the right way to go? Or can you suggest a better solution. The application is PC only and is being developed with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration We've had absolutely no problem reading text files from CD-ROM using Flash 8. :-) XML/JSON wouldn't be any faster to read in. I'd choose XML if you had a much more complex configuration task that needed lots of nested config (unlikely unless you've got a huge sprawling app - you can handle most situations by choosing your key=value keynames appropriately) or if your config involved chunks of (possibly unicode) textual data. I wouldn't use JSON for configuration as I find it far less readable - it's primarily a serialisation/data interchange format rather than a configuration file format. Additionally, it ties you to a particular implementation/data layout in your app; whereas if, for whatever reason, you wanted other apps to read your key/value pairs plain text file (for example, for patching or updating or simply cataloguing) then it's very straightforward. Cheers, Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm good point Ian. Any reason why people would use xml or json files rather than plain text? Ease of editing, speed of loading etc? With regards security implications, just wanted to be sure there was no problem reading data from the CDROM as I am sure I read somewhere about some issue that arised with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I don't see a huge issue? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you're talking about configuring a CD-ROM app via a net connection (some sort of activation system) - in which case ignore me. :-) Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating a CDROM application (Flash 8 PC only) and would like to control it with an external configuration file. From what I can see, I have a choice of a XML or JSON solution - can anyone recommend one over the other? Also if anyone has a link to a working version of JSON and JSONConfig, then I would appreciate it as the version I downloaded is giving me several errors. Any pointers on the use of a configuration file for a CDROM also appreciated - such as any problems I could encounter with security etc Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo
Nicolas is developer and promotions team for haXe all in one. ;-) But haXe alone can't compete with Laszlo and Flex in some aspects. For example, just because these frameworks offer a XUL like attempt for fast developing GUIs. What I mean is, that both are using a declarative, xml-based programming language (MXML or LZX) sometimes mixed with some ECMA-Scripts. Of course Flex generates AS classes out of the MXML before compiling, but you don't have to bother about that all the time while you write nice apps. I have made a comparison of several workflows/frameworks (Laszlo VS. Flex (1.5 at that time) VS. Flash IDE VS. FAMES VS DHTML/XmlHttpRequest (AJAX)) in my diploma thesis, which is written in german. The biggest problem in comparing such workflow/frameworks is in setting up nice criteria in which one can compare them. I wrote the same calendar application using all of these workflows/frameworks. Interesting for me: I finished the application fastest with OpenLaszlo, which I had never used before. Don't get me wrong each workflow (also haXe) has its advantages and disadvantages. It depends on your problem/project definition. Matthias 2007/1/30, Nicolas Cannasse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At this point, the only runtime Flex 2 targets is Flash Player 9/AS3. Laszlo targets FP7/AS2, plus Ajax/DHTML and soon Java ME. I believe Laszlo shows future development targeting FP9/AS3. BTW there's also haXe which targets FP6-7-8 and FP9 as well. http://haxe.org Nicolas ___ 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] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
Hello :) I use Eden (Ecmascript data exchange notation) write by zwetan to creates config in my application. For the moment the Eden page project is down in http://www.burrrn.com/ but you can try this library in my opensource framework with a little version : VEGAS my openSource project : http://vegas.riaforge.org/ 1 - install the sources (SSAS for Flash Media Server, or AS2 or AS3 in the src directories. Example : the AS2 version in the Subversion : The buRRRn package based on VEGAS and not Core2 : http://svn.riaforge.org/vegas/AS2/trunk/bin/test/buRRRn/eden/ The config and localization tools in my extension ASGard : - config : http://svn.riaforge.org/vegas/AS2/trunk/bin/test/asgard/config/ (you can find a JSON config tool too...) - localization : http://svn.riaforge.org/vegas/AS2/trunk/bin/test/asgard/system/(Localization 02 - Eden.fla) For me Eden is the best with all primitives and you can instanciate your custom class etc... I wait the final documentation of this framework. You can download for the moment the original ASTuce (unit tests) , Core2 (extends the core objects in JS, AS2, AS1, SSAS etc... with ecmascript tools), and Eden write by zwetan in this web page : http://download.burrrn.com/ EKA+ :) 2007/1/30, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Ian for the useful advice. I would appreciate your thoughts and indeed the thoughts of anyone else, on my use of a config file for this project. Not sure if a config file is the best solution for what I am doing. Basically the CDROM consists of 60 separate pages / sections. I have just used 60 labels on the timeline for these e.g 1_1 1_2 2_1 2_2 Etc I have not created separate swf files for each of the 60 sections as the content of most sections is simply a video clip or one sentence of text. I therefore thought it was more manageable to keep all the sections within one flash movie. All video clips are external flv files. I have also set up the navigation menu like this, with 60 labels. The idea of using a config file is to set various things for each section such as: What video clip to play The Page title Which label of the navigation menu mc to display Which buttons to display e.g forward / backward Which label to navigate to when any button is clicked Assign actions to visible buttons etc The idea of doing it this way is to prevent there being lots of code in all the 60 labels across the timeline. Hence the configuration file would have details of what actions to take upon arriving at each of the 60 sections. Does the above solution sound like the right way to go? Or can you suggest a better solution. The application is PC only and is being developed with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration We've had absolutely no problem reading text files from CD-ROM using Flash 8. :-) XML/JSON wouldn't be any faster to read in. I'd choose XML if you had a much more complex configuration task that needed lots of nested config (unlikely unless you've got a huge sprawling app - you can handle most situations by choosing your key=value keynames appropriately) or if your config involved chunks of (possibly unicode) textual data. I wouldn't use JSON for configuration as I find it far less readable - it's primarily a serialisation/data interchange format rather than a configuration file format. Additionally, it ties you to a particular implementation/data layout in your app; whereas if, for whatever reason, you wanted other apps to read your key/value pairs plain text file (for example, for patching or updating or simply cataloguing) then it's very straightforward. Cheers, Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm good point Ian. Any reason why people would use xml or json files rather than plain text? Ease of editing, speed of loading etc? With regards security implications, just wanted to be sure there was no problem reading data from the CDROM as I am sure I read somewhere about some issue that arised with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I
Re: [Flashcoders] Tooltip for disabled buttons: Ideas?
Thanks Andy and Hans for sharing your solutions. I like both of them and will implement one of them...not sure yet which one, though. stefan. On 1/26/07, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we use a ButtonTooltipWrapper thingy. Basicly you do: new Tooltip (myButton, myTooltip, [hitArea]) it creates an empty movieclip, with the button as hitArea. All events that are not triggered on this clip are used to show/hide tooltip and then dispatched to lower lying button. Still tweaking it, but the basic principle works ok for us. greetz JC On 1/26/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the disabled state for our buttons we actually use a different movie clip. Basically, each button consists of a Button object and a Movie Clip with the image used for the disabled state. When the button is disabled we hide the Button and show the MC, and when it's enabled we do the opposite. Both the MC and the Button have the handlers for the tooltip. -Andy On 1/26/07, Stefan Thurnherr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello flashcoders, How did/would you implement showing a tooltip over a disabled button? The onRollOver/onRollOut events seem not to fire when a button is disabled. I see two solutions right now: 1. Add an onMouseMove listener (within MyButton extends Button) and check whether _xmouse/_ymouse coincide with MyButton's area (x+width/y+height). 2. Attach an additional MovieClip to every MyButton instance, set its depth to the top and its _alpha=0, and check for the onRollOver/onRollOut events on that MovieClip instance. Any thoughts on which one is better, or any other solutions? Thanks, stefan. ___ 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 ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Just to clarify mixins and strategy are a bit different. One is more
structural while the other is more behavioral.
Also mixins aren't really considered a design pattern but it is made up of
composites, proxies / facades (all structural design patterns ) +
interfaces. They are used to emulate multiple inheritance. So something
could have functionality of say a MovieClip and a Sound Object.
The strategy design pattern is used to encapsulate interchangeable logic
(layout, validation, etc).
However, I think what you're really asking is more of an architectural
question so I would take a look at ARP and Cairngorm.
Cairngorm is labeled for Flex but can be easily adapted to Flash
development. Similarly ARP is thought of as being used for slides but can be
adapted to using MovieClips.
Just a note, Cairngorm is less prescriptive about how to structure your
views (which may or may not be a good thing depending on your disposition)
so if you're already pretty far a long in your development check out
Cairngorm
Cairngorm:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm
ARP:
http://www.osflash.org/ARP
If you want want something a bit more fine grained you can do a search on
MVP (Model View Presenter) or MVC (Model View Controller). Both are similar
but have different rules of communication and responsibilities.
-erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ham
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:40 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
OK, this is helping a lot. And Steven I see what you mean, poor Flair
is starting to look a little meager now.
In my app, I have several different states. Each state sets itself
up by initializing variables and drawing its various pieces, and the
final piece is to subscribe various parts of the app to events that
happen in other parts. So in one state I have methods like:
onRoomObjectPress()
onRoomObjectRelease()
that are triggered by onPress and onRelease events in my object
movieclips. These onSomething() methods contain the core logic of the
app--code to resize clips or process values or what have you. This
structure is good because I know where to look to track down where
things happen, but its bad because sometimes a bunch of things are
supposed to happen at once and those onSomething() methods get hairy.
So in this new mixin strategy (which does look a lot like Strategy,
thanks James!), should I design my Snappable class to have methods
that would map to movieclip events, such as:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
Am I headed in the right direction?
Thank you again, this
OK
DAH
The theory of mixins originated from multiple inheritance programming
languages such as C++.
So for example: Say you wanted to make an object dragable,
clickable and
resizable. You would then create separate classes called: Dragable,
Clickable and Resizable (common naming convention for a mixin).
Then your base class would just inherit form those 3 classes.
Since AS2 doesn't support multiple inheritances you can emulate a
mixin
using interfaces and composed classes.
For example:
IClickable, IDragable, IResizable
So then your AS2 class would say:
Class MyClass extends Whatever implements IClickable, IDragable,
IResizable
Those interfaces just specify what methods your class has to support.
From there you could have a class (or a consolidated class)
implement that
functionality
private var clickable:Clickable = new Clickable();
private var dragable:Dragable = new Dragable();
private var resizeable:Resizeable = new Resizeable();
from there you just forward / wire the appropriate methods to its
corresponding instances.
public function startResize()
{
this.resizeable.startResize();
}
Or for arguments:
public function startResize()
{
this.resizeable.apply.(this.resizeable.startResize, arguments);
}
You could get even more fancy by externalizing those classes so
based on
various rules you could pass in different resize logic, etc.
Anyhow, hope that gets the gears turning. =)
DISCLAIMER: Didn't spell check or test anything in the compiler so
maybe
some typos. =)
-erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Ham
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:12 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Anyhow I tend not to use decorators (matter of personal taste). I
prefer to
not Frankenstein an object at runtime and rather use mixins
(composition +
interfaces).
Ah, thank you, now we are getting somewhere!
Tell me about mixins. I have used EventDispatcher before, but I am
unfamiliar with the theory behind
RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator; it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Michael
Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:09 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to
strictly-typed programming.
--
T. Michael Keesey
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I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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
AW: [Flashcoders] Re: IE6 problem with SWFAddress?
Ok i´ll try it out, thanks for help jason and steven :) Cheers Peter »» -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- »» Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] »» [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im »» Auftrag von Steven Sacks | BLITZ »» Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 00:08 »» An: Flashcoders mailing list »» Betreff: RE: [Flashcoders] Re: IE6 problem with SWFAddress? »» »» Yes, mixing getURL and ExternalInterface causes problems »» with IE6 (and 7 to a lesser extent) when using SWFAddress. »» He talks about it on his site and there are also discussions »» on his forum, as well. I didn't see them at first, either. »» It took me awhile to figure out why the site was behaving »» oddly because the class that I had that used getURL (an »» omniture tracking class) wasn't making getURL calls on my »» server but was on the client's server. I didn't put the two »» together until I spent an afternoon chatting with Rostislov »» (the author of SWFAddress) and he asked me casually about »» whether I was using getURL somewhere else. »» »» The solution is to use ExternalInterface instead of »» getURL(), which actually performs better anyway. »» »» -Steven »» ___ »» 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] File upload in flash
Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. ___ Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio http://www.13bit.com.ar MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:24094716 ___ 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] File upload in flash
Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. Hi Claudio, Check out the Loader class @ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/index.html, this will give all the info that you need. Cheers, Petro ___ 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] File upload in flash
Or FileReference, if you just want to save the file out on a server somewhere.. h. On 30/01/07, Petro Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. Hi Claudio, Check out the Loader class @ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/index.html, this will give all the info that you need. Cheers, Petro ___ 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] File upload in flash
Thanks for your help Petro and Henry! This class is for AS3 on Flex2, right? I'm working with Flash 8 and AS2. The loader class that I found in AS2 seems to allow me retrieve content from a remote location and pull it into a Flash application (from help) Is the same class?. And Henry, yes, I need to save the file in the server. Looking for Filereference class I found this link: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/upFiles.php . I think that's what I needed. Thanks for your help! ___ Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio http://www.13bit.com.ar MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:24094716 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petro Bochan Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:09 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] File upload in flash Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. Hi Claudio, Check out the Loader class @ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/index.html, this will give all the info that you need. Cheers, Petro ___ 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] Player 8 fluidity
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Re: [Flashcoders] Player 8 fluidity
Since player 8 is out, it seems to be impossible to make a fluent animation if there are more frames than pixels, i.e a simple 100 pix tween on _x in 50 frames It's not really the player, but the compiler. see example here, it's the same code, juste changed the export player version, and it's not related on the textField, as the result is the same with a vector or bitmap movieClip: http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP7.swf http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP8.swf is there a way to have the FP7-like result, exporting in FP8 ? This is because of the textfield rendering mode. You're probably using antialias for readability, which provides better visual rendering but which has a necessary snap to pixels. Switch to antialias for animation for this textfield, which is equivalent to Flash 7- text rendering and takes pixel fractions into account when rendering the text antialias. Zeh ___ 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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That's odd, but good to hear that not everyone is having problems. Maybe with some tweaking I may be able to avoid these crashes. Do you have any huge images in your project? I have a 1600x1200 jpeg image that represents the track. Maybe that has something to do with the crashes, since I don't remember having any problems when I was just prototyping the car's physics with no assets at all. I'm also using references to assets in other Fla files, but I don't thing those should be causing any problems, since Flash just copies them over into the main Fla file. On 1/29/07, James Marsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Frederico, I'm using 9 Alpha for a large game project, and the only problems I've had have been with my code. It seems just as stable as the Flash 8 IDE. There are a couple of things I'm not keen on though, and that's the inability to assign more than one MC to any one Class (which has been addressed in the Flash 9 IDE) and a 'cannot write to read only property' error when adding and manipulating display objects whose classes are loaded from child swfs... J Frederico Ferro Schuh wrote: Is anyone else developing with Flash 9 Alpha? Maybe you're also having such crash problems, but were able to find workarounds or know of any common pitfalls that can cause these problems? I'd appreciate any help, as I'd really like to know if it's too risky to go for developing a full product in this version of flash, or if it's better to just stay in the experimental phase and wait a little more. But we need the Flash IDE to develop our games, it's just not possible to do it with Flex alone. If Flash 9 alpha is really that unstable, we'll just have to keep developing in AS2 for a little longer. Thanks. ___ 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 -- Frederico Ferro Schuh ICQ 20486081 MSN [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
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Public Alpha stability issues
Hey, We have some enormous images, but we're chopping them up into 256px squares and tiling them with a scrolling engine, as the game would chug badly on lesser graphics cards throwing images of that size around. J Frederico Ferro Schuh wrote: That's odd, but good to hear that not everyone is having problems. Maybe with some tweaking I may be able to avoid these crashes. Do you have any huge images in your project? I have a 1600x1200 jpeg image that represents the track. Maybe that has something to do with the crashes, since I don't remember having any problems when I was just prototyping the car's physics with no assets at all. I'm also using references to assets in other Fla files, but I don't thing those should be causing any problems, since Flash just copies them over into the main Fla file. On 1/29/07, James Marsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Frederico, I'm using 9 Alpha for a large game project, and the only problems I've had have been with my code. It seems just as stable as the Flash 8 IDE. There are a couple of things I'm not keen on though, and that's the inability to assign more than one MC to any one Class (which has been addressed in the Flash 9 IDE) and a 'cannot write to read only property' error when adding and manipulating display objects whose classes are loaded from child swfs... J Frederico Ferro Schuh wrote: Is anyone else developing with Flash 9 Alpha? Maybe you're also having such crash problems, but were able to find workarounds or know of any common pitfalls that can cause these problems? I'd appreciate any help, as I'd really like to know if it's too risky to go for developing a full product in this version of flash, or if it's better to just stay in the experimental phase and wait a little more. But we need the Flash IDE to develop our games, it's just not possible to do it with Flex alone. If Flash 9 alpha is really that unstable, we'll just have to keep developing in AS2 for a little longer. Thanks. ___ 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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Re: [Flashcoders] File upload in flash
Hmm. I don't think you want a Loader if you just want to pass the file through (as opposed to loading its content *into* Flash) - if you're just duplicating the functionality of an HTML file upload form element then FileReference is definitely what you need - you give it a form catcher to POST to, exactly the same as an HTML form. It's Flash 8/AS2. There's a bunch of stuff in Flash's online help on it, or Googling about throws up loads of relevant stuff, including the one at the always-excellent Kirupa: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/uploading_fileReference_pg1.htm h. On 30/01/07, Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your help Petro and Henry! This class is for AS3 on Flex2, right? I'm working with Flash 8 and AS2. The loader class that I found in AS2 seems to allow me retrieve content from a remote location and pull it into a Flash application (from help) Is the same class?. And Henry, yes, I need to save the file in the server. Looking for Filereference class I found this link: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/upFiles.php . I think that's what I needed. Thanks for your help! ___ Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio http://www.13bit.com.ar MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:24094716 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petro Bochan Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:09 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] File upload in flash Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. Hi Claudio, Check out the Loader class @ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/index.html, this will give all the info that you need. Cheers, Petro ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Using drawing API to draw dotted lines?
quick request really, was wondering if anyone knows a way to use the flash drawing api to create lines such as those seen when using the line tool in the IDE, you have many options like dot length and gap length, wavyness etc in the ide but only thickness from what I can tell with the api. Anyway to duplicate this functionality? thanks in advance guys ___ 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] Player 8 fluidity
hi Zeh thx for answer, but at the end of my mail, I said that it isn't related to textfield, as the problem remains the same with a shape or bitmap inside a movieClip... it seems that it's alaways moved on pixels... ++ PiR Zeh Fernando a écrit : Since player 8 is out, it seems to be impossible to make a fluent animation if there are more frames than pixels, i.e a simple 100 pix tween on _x in 50 frames It's not really the player, but the compiler. see example here, it's the same code, juste changed the export player version, and it's not related on the textField, as the result is the same with a vector or bitmap movieClip: http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP7.swf http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP8.swf is there a way to have the FP7-like result, exporting in FP8 ? This is because of the textfield rendering mode. You're probably using antialias for readability, which provides better visual rendering but which has a necessary snap to pixels. Switch to antialias for animation for this textfield, which is equivalent to Flash 7- text rendering and takes pixel fractions into account when rendering the text antialias. Zeh ___ 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] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
why not you try it in DOS commands first. You need to check what kind of parameters the application supports . If the application does support a parameter like -o filename, then you can write a bat file and use fscommand to call it. On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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 -- /* Bored, sometimes. */ ___ 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] Using drawing API to draw dotted lines?
well, you can always simulate a dotted line with multiple lines with spaces between them. I don't see any way to do it in the API, so you may need to do it that way (and that may even be the way the IDE does it, I don't know). Doing some quick googling I came across this. Maybe it'll help you: http://www.flashguru.co.uk/drawing-api-enhancements/ -Andy On 1/30/07, Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quick request really, was wondering if anyone knows a way to use the flash drawing api to create lines such as those seen when using the line tool in the IDE, you have many options like dot length and gap length, wavyness etc in the ide but only thickness from what I can tell with the api. Anyway to duplicate this functionality? thanks in advance guys ___ 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] Tooltip for disabled buttons: Ideas?
I have a third suggestion. You don't need to set the button enabled=false, instead you create your own parameter of tracking the status. when the button is disabled, just set the useHandCursor to false. onRollOver if(btnEnabled) showRollOverEffect else showToolTip onRelease if(btnEnabled) doReleaseFunction else doNothing On 1/30/07, Stefan Thurnherr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andy and Hans for sharing your solutions. I like both of them and will implement one of them...not sure yet which one, though. stefan. On 1/26/07, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we use a ButtonTooltipWrapper thingy. Basicly you do: new Tooltip (myButton, myTooltip, [hitArea]) it creates an empty movieclip, with the button as hitArea. All events that are not triggered on this clip are used to show/hide tooltip and then dispatched to lower lying button. Still tweaking it, but the basic principle works ok for us. greetz JC On 1/26/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the disabled state for our buttons we actually use a different movie clip. Basically, each button consists of a Button object and a Movie Clip with the image used for the disabled state. When the button is disabled we hide the Button and show the MC, and when it's enabled we do the opposite. Both the MC and the Button have the handlers for the tooltip. -Andy On 1/26/07, Stefan Thurnherr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello flashcoders, How did/would you implement showing a tooltip over a disabled button? The onRollOver/onRollOut events seem not to fire when a button is disabled. I see two solutions right now: 1. Add an onMouseMove listener (within MyButton extends Button) and check whether _xmouse/_ymouse coincide with MyButton's area (x+width/y+height). 2. Attach an additional MovieClip to every MyButton instance, set its depth to the top and its _alpha=0, and check for the onRollOver/onRollOut events on that MovieClip instance. Any thoughts on which one is better, or any other solutions? Thanks, stefan. ___ 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 ___ 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 -- /* Bored, sometimes. */ ___ 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] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration
I'd probably do that in XML, as what you're defining is a bunch of different sections, each with a number of different properties. A simple text config is more suitable for basics like screen size, basic interface text strings, resource locations etc (IMHO) I'd probably do it something like this: section name=sectionName navLabel=[nav mc label] titleSection Title/title clip name=someMovie.flv button name=forward display=yes button name=backward display=no etc... /section And repeat that section node a whole bunch of times for all your sections. You'll need to read up on the XML class as to how to parse this in a useful way for you though... h. On 30/01/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ian for the useful advice. I would appreciate your thoughts and indeed the thoughts of anyone else, on my use of a config file for this project. Not sure if a config file is the best solution for what I am doing. Basically the CDROM consists of 60 separate pages / sections. I have just used 60 labels on the timeline for these e.g 1_1 1_2 2_1 2_2 Etc I have not created separate swf files for each of the 60 sections as the content of most sections is simply a video clip or one sentence of text. I therefore thought it was more manageable to keep all the sections within one flash movie. All video clips are external flv files. I have also set up the navigation menu like this, with 60 labels. The idea of using a config file is to set various things for each section such as: What video clip to play The Page title Which label of the navigation menu mc to display Which buttons to display e.g forward / backward Which label to navigate to when any button is clicked Assign actions to visible buttons etc The idea of doing it this way is to prevent there being lots of code in all the 60 labels across the timeline. Hence the configuration file would have details of what actions to take upon arriving at each of the 60 sections. Does the above solution sound like the right way to go? Or can you suggest a better solution. The application is PC only and is being developed with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:27 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration We've had absolutely no problem reading text files from CD-ROM using Flash 8. :-) XML/JSON wouldn't be any faster to read in. I'd choose XML if you had a much more complex configuration task that needed lots of nested config (unlikely unless you've got a huge sprawling app - you can handle most situations by choosing your key=value keynames appropriately) or if your config involved chunks of (possibly unicode) textual data. I wouldn't use JSON for configuration as I find it far less readable - it's primarily a serialisation/data interchange format rather than a configuration file format. Additionally, it ties you to a particular implementation/data layout in your app; whereas if, for whatever reason, you wanted other apps to read your key/value pairs plain text file (for example, for patching or updating or simply cataloguing) then it's very straightforward. Cheers, Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm good point Ian. Any reason why people would use xml or json files rather than plain text? Ease of editing, speed of loading etc? With regards security implications, just wanted to be sure there was no problem reading data from the CDROM as I am sure I read somewhere about some issue that arised with Flash 8. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 January 2007 08:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JSON vs. XML for CDROM configuration Um - surely there's a third option, which is plain text? It does depend what you're configuring, but our external configuration files look like java.properties files: language=en useDirectX=true etc. etc. We just read them in using LoadVars (overriding onData) and parse them. Very straightforward. Security implications etc. - well, that entirely depends what you're trying to protect against, and what info you're putting in the configuration file. In general, if the config file is on the CD itself, it's unchangeable, so I don't see a huge issue? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick and you're talking about configuring a CD-ROM app via a net connection (some sort of activation system) - in which case ignore me. :-) Ian On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating a CDROM application (Flash 8 PC only) and would like to control it with an external configuration file. From what I can see, I have a choice of a XML or JSON solution - can anyone recommend one over the other? Also if anyone has a link to a working version of JSON and JSONConfig,
Re: [Flashcoders] Using drawing API to draw dotted lines?
ah thanks for the googling andy, that dashTo class is perfect, thanks On 30/01/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, you can always simulate a dotted line with multiple lines with spaces between them. I don't see any way to do it in the API, so you may need to do it that way (and that may even be the way the IDE does it, I don't know). Doing some quick googling I came across this. Maybe it'll help you: http://www.flashguru.co.uk/drawing-api-enhancements/ -Andy On 1/30/07, Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quick request really, was wondering if anyone knows a way to use the flash drawing api to create lines such as those seen when using the line tool in the IDE, you have many options like dot length and gap length, wavyness etc in the ide but only thickness from what I can tell with the api. Anyway to duplicate this functionality? thanks in advance guys ___ 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] Player 8 fluidity
The same can occur with bitmaps because of the different way the players treat bitmap smoothing - Flash 8+ actually respects the smoothing property from the image (on the library) while Flash 7- depends on your global _quality settings first. So you might have to turn on the smoothing option on the library for the image you want. Now, you say you have tested it with shapes, and this makes me intrigued. Do you have an example where shapes (not textfields, not bitmaps) are moving by 'pixel' positions only? Zeh hi Zeh thx for answer, but at the end of my mail, I said that it isn't related to textfield, as the problem remains the same with a shape or bitmap inside a movieClip... it seems that it's alaways moved on pixels... ++ PiR Zeh Fernando a écrit : Since player 8 is out, it seems to be impossible to make a fluent animation if there are more frames than pixels, i.e a simple 100 pix tween on _x in 50 frames It's not really the player, but the compiler. see example here, it's the same code, juste changed the export player version, and it's not related on the textField, as the result is the same with a vector or bitmap movieClip: http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP7.swf http://www.foolarts.com/lab/testAnimFP8.swf is there a way to have the FP7-like result, exporting in FP8 ? This is because of the textfield rendering mode. You're probably using antialias for readability, which provides better visual rendering but which has a necessary snap to pixels. Switch to antialias for animation for this textfield, which is equivalent to Flash 7- text rendering and takes pixel fractions into account when rendering the text antialias. Zeh ___ 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
[Flashcoders] full screen window
Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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] full screen window
This is for a swf http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/fullscreen.htm and for a .exe add this to the first frame fscommand(fullscreen, true); David Brunswick Senior Multimedia Developer/OLP Administrator FedEx Customer Information Services Customer Service Organizational Learning 901-434-6605 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Marella Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:37 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] full screen window Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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] full screen window
This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. Can't be done AFAIK. I'm pretty sure you have to launch a new window (which is a good thing, as no one wants browsers to be able to resize themselves to fullscreen) Danny ___ 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] full screen window
Or this html body script language=JavaScript !-- window.open (http://yahoo.com;, ,fullscreen=yes) -- /script /body /html David Brunswick Senior Multimedia Developer/OLP Administrator FedEx Customer Information Services Customer Service Organizational Learning 901-434-6605 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Marella Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:37 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] full screen window Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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] full screen window
Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_and_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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] full screen window
I cant afford two windows as the window which I have to open will get opened by a link on client's site which will just launch this window and so if I use another window, it'll make two popups opening using a single link which is not desired. I got this code on net: self.moveTo(0,0); self.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height); But this doesn't hide the standard buttons, address and status bar. RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:17 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] full screen window This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. Can't be done AFAIK. I'm pretty sure you have to launch a new window (which is a good thing, as no one wants browsers to be able to resize themselves to fullscreen) Danny ___ 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] full screen window
Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard buttons of the same window? RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Cooke Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an d_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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] full screen window
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html - ericd. On 1/30/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard buttons of the same window? RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Cooke Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an d_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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 -- eric e. dolecki senior interactive engineer http://www.ericd.net ___ 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] full screen window
I'm no JavaScript coder, but I don't think you can change the properties of an already open window. Not sure though, Google about a bit, see what you can find.. h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard buttons of the same window? RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Cooke Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an d_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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 ___ 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] full screen window
You state there is a link on a page which launches the window then use this
html
body
script
!--
function fullwin(){
window.open(yourswf.html,,fullscreen,scrollbars)
}
//--
/script
A HREF=javascript:onClick=fullwin() Minimize/A
/body
/html
David Brunswick
Senior Multimedia Developer/OLP Administrator
FedEx Customer Information Services
Customer Service Organizational Learning
901-434-6605
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Marella
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:58 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] full screen window
Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard
buttons of the same window?
RaviKiran Marella
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry
Cooke
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window
Ravi,
It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to
allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by
scammers and such.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an
d_dimension_error_correction
Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;)
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
h.
On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no
answer anywhere.
How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want
to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any
other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch
it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks
for replies in advance.
cheers,
Ravi
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Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window
i think this is still in the realm of techniques illegitimate designs used in the early days of the web. additionally... you should probably consider how many users won't return to your site bc you've messed with thier primary browser settings, as most users might not have the knowledge to turn all those things you're turning off, back on. On 1/30/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard buttons of the same window? RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Cooke Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an d_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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 ___ 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 opportunity Montreal : Game Flash Programmeur AS2/AS3
Tribal Nova is a company of development and exploitation of interactive properties which works in close relationship to the industry of the media and the entertainment. Our expertise is mainly on the design, the production and the marketing of interactive products for children based on the most popular TV series broadcasted worldwide. With a team of programmers, you will share the responsibility of develop environments and universe of plays which put in scene the favorite televised characters of the young people (Stone, Toupy and Binoo, Spider Riders, Di-Gata...) Main tasks: * To program environments of multi-media diffusion of contents with Flash ActionScript 2.0 / 3.0 * To program modules of plays Flash * To program Flex applications intended to the parents * To take part in the integration of the various visual and sound elements of the programmed applications In the case or you would be interested by this offer, I invite you has to take quickly contacts with me. http://www.tribalnova.com http://www.tribalnova.com/ or job@ Nicolas Lee Tribal Nova (514) 598-0444 #208 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tribalnova.com http://www.tribalnova.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] full screen window
I'll tell you the exact scenario I'm facing: I'm making a course in flash MX which has to be uploaded on Client's LMS. The course needs to be compatible with 800*600 screen resolution, which we have achieved. but the client can't see the course completely coz the toolbars are not hidden on the client's browser. So I'm trying to launch the course in a fullscreen. I can do this using two windows but just wanted to know if this can be done using a single window. if this is not possible then either I've to add another page which will make two popups or ask the client to F11 every time. RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jah Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:42 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window i think this is still in the realm of techniques illegitimate designs used in the early days of the web. additionally... you should probably consider how many users won't return to your site bc you've messed with thier primary browser settings, as most users might not have the knowledge to turn all those things you're turning off, back on. On 1/30/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then...can we atleast hide the status bar/address bar and other standard buttons of the same window? RaviKiran Marella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Cooke Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:20 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] full screen window Ravi, It's a tricky one, most modern browsers are specifically designed not to allow you to size up to fullscreen onLoad, as it was being abused by scammers and such. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open#Note_on_position_an d_dimension_error_correction Probably explains why you've been having trouble making it work ;) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... h. On 30/01/07, Ravi Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours and got no answer anywhere. How can you open a window in full screen mode using JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for replies in advance. cheers, Ravi ___ 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 ___ 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] full screen window
The best user experience would be two windows: have a launch page with a link that would open a new JavaScript child window, and tell the user that the course is going to open in fullscreen. Then you can control the size and properties of the window as much as you like, and the user doesn't get the surprise of his/her browser opening way up unexpectedly. OK DAH ___ 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] Flex vs. Laszlo
Warning William ... Brain Dump in Progress... First I want to mention that I try not to compare them too much on email lists because what invariably happens is that somebody somewhere reads the post, takes a line or two out of context and it becomes overemphasized. Or somebody compiles all the comparison posts into a horribly simplified and misleading table and posts it somewhere for managers to use instead of giving their developers the time to evaluate the options for themselves. I do think it's appropriate to compare them a little bit here as methods of flash coding and I do want to offer my summary of current thoughts for fellow flash developers who are thinking of trying them out. But anybody who reads this, please consider it light conversation. Like Matthias, I've spent a lot of time now with them both and think that it really comes down to your criteria more than anything else. I can see a lot of reasons why even the same company might use one instead of another on different projects and I'm certain to miss some of the important points of comparison. I'm interested in Haxe also, but focus on Flash, Flex and Laszlo because I'm a contractor in a small city, so a lot of work seems to pop up in mid project, when the language choice has been made long ago and they need an extra set of hands or help with a problem. I should mention that I have less experience with Flex than I do with Flash or Laszlo, and more with Flex 1 than 2, though I've spent 2 months now trying to catch up with Flex2. In general, I prefer them both over Flash for projects where you have more than one person, but for small programs I think it's quicker to do them in Flash and they both benefit from Flash as a prototype tool and benefit from swf vector assets guiding the design, even if you are going to use the drawing api to draw out the images. The things that I love about Laszlo and Flex are their maintainability and how they scale to larger applications and more people. These are the same. I love the declarative nature of the xml tags, but find xml itself to be a bit clunky and would be curious to see what declarative layout features in a language like Haxe might look like. It will also be interesting to see what Flash 9 does for components and layout. Language Features: States, Binding, Constraints, Animators These are all very similar since Flex2. In general, Laszlo's syntax is more terse and Flex's is more formal. Things happen automatically for you in Lzx that you have to explicitly type in with mxml. Personally I like the terser syntax of Laszlo, but realize that Flex's more formal style; which reminds me of taking my medicine, has some advantages. A good example for comparison here is the repeaters. With Flex you need to embed things in a repeater component. Laszlo's views automatically replicate when the view is bound to more than one data node. In general, the lzx way is nicer, but what do you do when you want to explicitly reference one of the replicated views after the fact to do some manipulation? You need to know what's happening behind the scenes and know that an array of clones has been created for you; that you can use the array to reference them. Something like that tripped up a friend of mine when he was learning lzx. It's nice to have things happen for you invisibly, but it raises the stakes that you know what is happening behind the scenes. Similarly a new coder given the equivalent code written in the two languages would have the name of the repeater to go from to look up what is happening, so there is some benefit to being explicit from the start - and this probably enables some speed optimization in Flex - it just ends up also being much more verbose, which gets old. E4x and Regular expressions are two really nice language features Flex has at this point that Lzx doesn't. But at some point in the future those will be incorporated into lzx as well. Flash Player Features:Drawing Api, Video, Sound, Printing, Fonts and Text Formatting This is a mixed bag, but is generally in Flex's favor over both Laszlo and Flash in that Flex and As3 fixed and improved some fundamentals that laszlo hasn't incorporated yet. A big one is text formatting. Like with Haxe, the actionscript api's are still available to you with Laszlo, but in most cases they've wrapped up functionality into their own classes. In many cases there is some benefit to this as it allowed them to fix things that were fundamentally wrong with the early versions of the flash player, but now that everything seems to work, it does potentially become tougher to track down problems because you have two layers instead of one to look at. On rare occasions you still need to actually use actionscript to access some of these features. Components The Out of the Box Lzx components are generally good, but not quite as good as the Flex ones. I don't think they look as nice, and a few of them are slower than their Flex counterparts, though I've yet to see a
Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator; it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
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On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to
strictly-typed programming.
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[Flashcoders] Cannot Access Superclass Static Var from Subclass in FLA
Hi all. It's been a LONG time since I've posted and now I need your help
again.
I have come across something that to me doesn't seem correct and I don't
know why things are behaving this way. I have 2 classes, one a subclass of
the other. Both have public static variables (AS2.0 Flash 7).
class mypackage.Fruit {
public static var COLOR:Number = 0;
}
class mypackage.Orange extends mypackage.Fruit {
public static var SEEDS:Number = 0;
}
Now in the Orange class or any other class that needs to use Orange. The
following code: Orange.COLOR returns 0.
import mypackage.Orange;
class Table {
public function Table() {
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs 0
}
}
Things change when this code is applied to the timeline:
Table.fla
import mypackage.Orange;
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs undefined
trace(Orange.SEEDS: + Orange.SEEDS); // outputs 0
Tracing Orange.COLOR gives me undefined. But if I import mypackage.Fruit.
Fruit.COLOR traces out 0.
Table.fla
import mypackage.Fruit;
trace(Fruit.COLOR: + Fruit.COLOR); // outputs 0
Can someone shed some light on why in an FLA that the subclass (in this
case Orange) cannot access its super class static variables
(Orange.COLOR)?
Thanks.
\m/
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[Flashcoders] Re: full screen window
script language=JavaScript
function fullScreen(theURL) {window.open(theURL, '', 'fullscreen=yes,
scrollbars=auto');
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RE: [Flashcoders] (AS3.0) new TextField -- what is wrong?
Johannes, at a minimum the following attributes need to be set for your text field: [textfield instance].html [textfield instance].wordwrap [textfield instance].multiline 'wordwrap' is necessary unless you also include tags like br within your text. jm _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ___ 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] File upload in flash
Cladio, perhaps it is the FileReference class you need.. its in the Help file..used to upload/download files from the server... x From: Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] File upload in flash Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:35:16 -0300 Thanks for your help Petro and Henry! This class is for AS3 on Flex2, right? I'm working with Flash 8 and AS2. The loader class that I found in AS2 seems to allow me retrieve content from a remote location and pull it into a Flash application (from help) Is the same class?. And Henry, yes, I need to save the file in the server. Looking for Filereference class I found this link: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/upFiles.php . I think that's what I needed. Thanks for your help! ___ Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio http://www.13bit.com.ar MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:24094716 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petro Bochan Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:09 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] File upload in flash Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio Hi guys, I hope you can help me on this. I need to add an upload file control inside a flash form, like the one in html. I'm working with php and MySql in the backend. But I don't really know how to add such a feature in flash. Any help/links examples will be much appreciated. Hi Claudio, Check out the Loader class @ http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/index.html, this will give all the info that you need. Cheers, Petro ___ 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 _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ 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] Remove / Hide a video component
I have a flash 8 movie that is composed of 60 sections and hence there are 60 labels. Some of these sections include a video clip playing and I have used the Flash 8 FLVPlybk component. What I would like to do is have this on stage in the correct position and then hide or remove it for sections that do not have an associated video clip. I have tried the following with no joy where my_FLVPlybk is the instance name: my_FLVPlybk._visible = false; my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = ; I would appreciate any advice on how to remove the video for sections that do not have video. For sections that do have a video I am setting the content path as follows: my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = media/video/1_0.flv; Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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] Remove / Hide a video component
I just did a quick test and dragged a component on stage and set myvid._visible = false; and it seemed to hide the component just fine Failing that you could always change it's x or y position to somewhere off stage like myvid._x = -1000 On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a flash 8 movie that is composed of 60 sections and hence there are 60 labels. Some of these sections include a video clip playing and I have used the Flash 8 FLVPlybk component. What I would like to do is have this on stage in the correct position and then hide or remove it for sections that do not have an associated video clip. I have tried the following with no joy where my_FLVPlybk is the instance name: my_FLVPlybk._visible = false; my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = ; I would appreciate any advice on how to remove the video for sections that do not have video. For sections that do have a video I am setting the content path as follows: my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = media/video/1_0.flv; Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
You cannot send parameters from fscommand to the bat file. Allready tried once to no avail. It is a security feature If I remember right my readings on the subject. Zinc would be a better option than fscommand. Or if you want to avoid Zinc, use fscommand to call a bat file that has all the parameters inside it. Usually you can just open de needed file with the bat file, and the System will find the proper app to open it if it's defined in the Registry. HTH Alain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shang Sent: 30 janvier 2007 09:55 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector why not you try it in DOS commands first. You need to check what kind of parameters the application supports . If the application does support a parameter like -o filename, then you can write a bat file and use fscommand to call it. On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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 -- /* Bored, sometimes. */ ___ 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 incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 2007-01-30 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 2007-01-30 ___ 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] Remove / Hide a video component
Thanks - yeah you are right, I was mistaken that the video was still there as I had a black overlay movie clip the same size as the video on a higher layer. However I notice that even when the video component is not visible, the video still plays - so if a user navigates to a section with no video, I can still hear the video playing. I guess I could just stop the video, but I wondered if there is a better solution. Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick G Sent: 30 January 2007 18:07 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Remove / Hide a video component I just did a quick test and dragged a component on stage and set myvid._visible = false; and it seemed to hide the component just fine Failing that you could always change it's x or y position to somewhere off stage like myvid._x = -1000 On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a flash 8 movie that is composed of 60 sections and hence there are 60 labels. Some of these sections include a video clip playing and I have used the Flash 8 FLVPlybk component. What I would like to do is have this on stage in the correct position and then hide or remove it for sections that do not have an associated video clip. I have tried the following with no joy where my_FLVPlybk is the instance name: my_FLVPlybk._visible = false; my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = ; I would appreciate any advice on how to remove the video for sections that do not have video. For sections that do have a video I am setting the content path as follows: my_FLVPlybk.contentPath = media/video/1_0.flv; Thanks in advance Paul ___ 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] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
Hi Paul, I know that swf studio has a shell object that allows you to call an execute function and pass it parameters , but it's that application that will determine what it can receive. Generally if you launch an application with parameters after the app name they will get sent to the app, but whether that app receives them and does anything with them or not is up to the individual application. Are you creating the exercise application or does it exist already? -Cort On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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] Cannot Access Superclass Static Var from Subclass in FLA
I was able to have someone test the sample code below and it worked fine
for them. I had their files sent to me but couldn't open the FLA. I'm
using MX2004 and I assume they have 8 or higher. I tested using the sample
that was sent and still had the same errors.
Has anyone heard of this before? Assuming this affects Flash 7 MX2004?
Thanks.
Chris
Hi all. It's been a LONG time since I've posted and now I need your help
again.
I have come across something that to me doesn't seem correct and I don't
know why things are behaving this way. I have 2 classes, one a subclass of
the other. Both have public static variables (AS2.0 Flash 7).
class mypackage.Fruit {
public static var COLOR:Number = 0;
}
class mypackage.Orange extends mypackage.Fruit {
public static var SEEDS:Number = 0;
}
Now in the Orange class or any other class that needs to use Orange. The
following code: Orange.COLOR returns 0.
import mypackage.Orange;
class Table {
public function Table() {
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs 0
}
}
Things change when this code is applied to the timeline:
Table.fla
import mypackage.Orange;
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs undefined
trace(Orange.SEEDS: + Orange.SEEDS); // outputs 0
Tracing Orange.COLOR gives me undefined. But if I import mypackage.Fruit.
Fruit.COLOR traces out 0.
Table.fla
import mypackage.Fruit;
trace(Fruit.COLOR: + Fruit.COLOR); // outputs 0
Can someone shed some light on why in an FLA that the subclass (in this
case Orange) cannot access its super class static variables
(Orange.COLOR)?
Thanks.
\m/
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RE: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
Thanks Alain Yes Zinc looks promising and has the necessary function. Just need to get some info on the actual application I want to call and if it can accept parameters. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Rousseau Sent: 30 January 2007 18:11 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector You cannot send parameters from fscommand to the bat file. Allready tried once to no avail. It is a security feature If I remember right my readings on the subject. Zinc would be a better option than fscommand. Or if you want to avoid Zinc, use fscommand to call a bat file that has all the parameters inside it. Usually you can just open de needed file with the bat file, and the System will find the proper app to open it if it's defined in the Registry. HTH Alain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shang Sent: 30 janvier 2007 09:55 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector why not you try it in DOS commands first. You need to check what kind of parameters the application supports . If the application does support a parameter like -o filename, then you can write a bat file and use fscommand to call it. On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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 -- /* Bored, sometimes. */ ___ 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 incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 2007-01-30 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.17.15/659 - Release Date: 2007-01-30 ___ 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 9 Public Alpha stability issues
Frederico Ferro Schuh wrote: Do you have any huge images in your project? I have a 1600x1200 jpeg image that represents the track. Maybe that has something to do with the crashes, since I don't remember having any problems when I was just prototyping the car's physics with no assets at all. That sounds like a reasonable candidate... when decompressed into working memory that's about 6 megabytes, and the sudden memory request could destabilize a browser or system. I realize that this is an intermittent symptom on that configuration, but if you temporarily replace the large image with a much smaller one, then does your mean time between failures suddenly decrease...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ 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] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
Thanks Cort - the application is one that exists already. I have emailed the developers and fingers crossed the application accepts parameters. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cortlandt Winters Sent: 30 January 2007 18:31 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector Hi Paul, I know that swf studio has a shell object that allows you to call an execute function and pass it parameters , but it's that application that will determine what it can receive. Generally if you launch an application with parameters after the app name they will get sent to the app, but whether that app receives them and does anything with them or not is up to the individual application. Are you creating the exercise application or does it exist already? -Cort On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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] Launch an application from CDROM based projector
If you are just trying to run a Flash application and get it to read parameters from a file, you can use the projector that comes with flash and have it read an XML file or a text file from the CD or hard disk or a server. Sometimes we have a small text file that tells our projector application what the client name is and where to find the top level XML files that contains the index into the rest of the XML files that contains the rest of the data. This helps to get the application to startup quickly without making the user wait for all of the data to load. We have built an eLearning delivery system and a stand-alone database/search engine with just the projector that comes with Flash. You can use a .bat file to write into the text file and then start your application if you want to use shortcuts to select what the text file says. echo exercise1.xml startup.bat myflashapp.exe myflashapp.exe is your projector file and it reads startup.bat. Ron Alain Rousseau wrote: You cannot send parameters from fscommand to the bat file. Allready tried once to no avail. It is a security feature If I remember right my readings on the subject. Zinc would be a better option than fscommand. Or if you want to avoid Zinc, use fscommand to call a bat file that has all the parameters inside it. Usually you can just open de needed file with the bat file, and the System will find the proper app to open it if it's defined in the Registry. HTH Alain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shang Sent: 30 janvier 2007 09:55 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector why not you try it in DOS commands first. You need to check what kind of parameters the application supports . If the application does support a parameter like -o filename, then you can write a bat file and use fscommand to call it. On 1/30/07, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am creating an application using Flash 8 (PC only) and need to launch an application that is installed on the users hard drive. I think this can be fairly easily achieved using a third party app such as Zinc. However I need to do a bit more than just launch the application. I also need to get this application to go to a certain exercise. Basically this application consists of a series of exercises. I was hoping I could simply pass a parameter to the executable but as I do not know if this is at all possible or indeed what that parameter would be, I think this may not be possible to do? Anyone know if this is possible and how to go about it? Many thanks Paul ___ 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] Cannot Access Superclass Static Var from Subclass in FLA
Static variables are not inherited by subclasses in ECMAScript therefore
can not be referenced through derived class objects. This differs from
Java and C#.
James O'Reilly — Consultant
Adobe Certified Flash Expert
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all. It's been a LONG time since I've posted and now I need your help
again.
I have come across something that to me doesn't seem correct and I don't
know why things are behaving this way. I have 2 classes, one a subclass of
the other. Both have public static variables (AS2.0 Flash 7).
class mypackage.Fruit {
public static var COLOR:Number = 0;
}
class mypackage.Orange extends mypackage.Fruit {
public static var SEEDS:Number = 0;
}
Now in the Orange class or any other class that needs to use Orange. The
following code: Orange.COLOR returns 0.
import mypackage.Orange;
class Table {
public function Table() {
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs 0
}
}
Things change when this code is applied to the timeline:
Table.fla
import mypackage.Orange;
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs undefined
trace(Orange.SEEDS: + Orange.SEEDS); // outputs 0
Tracing Orange.COLOR gives me undefined. But if I import mypackage.Fruit.
Fruit.COLOR traces out 0.
Table.fla
import mypackage.Fruit;
trace(Fruit.COLOR: + Fruit.COLOR); // outputs 0
Can someone shed some light on why in an FLA that the subclass (in this
case Orange) cannot access its super class static variables
(Orange.COLOR)?
Thanks.
\m/
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RE: [Flashcoders] full screen window
If I understand correctly, you want users to click on a link that then opens
up a new window that is fullscreen and closes the previous window that is
now behind.
This is what we do:
script language=Javascript
function openWindow()
{
window.open(**URL**,NewWindow,width=+screen.width+,height=+screen.he
ight+,left = 0,top =
0,fullscreen=yes,navigationbar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,stat
us=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no);
closeWindow();
}
function closeWindow()
{
window.open('','_parent','');
window.opener = window;
window.close();
}
/script
After playing around with many options, this code seems to work well for us.
Remember, fullscreen is not really fullscreen anymore. You still have some
browser chrome left behind and in IE 7 there's a bar left behind in
fullscreen that you can't remove by default. So unless you plan to scale
your content, adjust the area size of your file accordingly.
Joey Rivera
Flash Developer
iLearn, Inc.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Marella
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:56 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] full screen window
I cant afford two windows as the window which I have to open will get
opened by a link on client's site which will just launch this window and
so if I use another window, it'll make two popups opening using a single
link which is not desired.
I got this code on net:
self.moveTo(0,0);
self.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height);
But this doesn't hide the standard buttons, address and status bar.
RaviKiran Marella
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny
Kodicek
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:17 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] full screen window
This might be simple but I'm trying this from last 4 hours
and got no answer anywhere.
How can you open a window in full screen mode using
JavaScript? I want to open the same window in full screen
mode, I mean with out using any other window to launch this
full screen window or any button to launch it i.e. something
to do with the onLoad event of the body tag. Thanks for
replies in advance.
Can't be done AFAIK. I'm pretty sure you have to launch a new window
(which
is a good thing, as no one wants browsers to be able to resize
themselves to
fullscreen)
Danny
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo
I'm not in a position to have an opinion (everyone would think I'm tainted ;-) , but I just made an interesting observation, when comparing the size of the mailing list for creating Laszlo, to that of the mailing list for using it: http://www.openlaszlo.org/pipermail/laszlo-dev/ http://www.openlaszlo.org/pipermail/laszlo-user/ The mailing list volume among people *using* the system has dropped to 44K in Jan07, compared to 149K in Jan06. Similar year-to-year declines are seen in prior months. But the mailing list volume for *creating* the system itself has increased, to 330K in Jan 07, from 139K in Jan 06, with slightly smaller increases in the preceding three months. When the two lists started, in late 2004, users outnumbered its developers by 2:1 or 3:1. During 2005 the two mailing lists grew to about equal conversational levels, but during 2006 the conversation about using the tool dropped to less than half that of writing the tool. During the past month, conversation about writing Laszlo was about eight times the level of people actually using it. I don't know of a similar chart of conversational levels for FlashCoders, but there's one for FlexCoders: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ Here, there were 3200 full messages in Jan07, compared to 1300 in Jan06. The highwater mark was in June-Aug 06 (after the release of Flex 2) with about 3600 separate messages per month. For the past three months conversational volume has been about twice that of the year-ago levels. How people talk about something doesn't mean everything about a technology, but it's one indicator of how people regard things... take it for what it's worth. Pretty startling changes, though. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ 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] Cannot Access Superclass Static Var from Subclass in FLA
Thanks for the input James. I understand what you're saying but the fact
that accessing inherited static variables works in another class but not
on the timeline still gets me.
This solution was proposed to me and seems to work.
In Orange.as add:
private static var __proto__:Function = mypackage.Fruit;
Now, Orange.COLOR outputs the proper value.
Chris
Static variables are not inherited by subclasses in ECMAScript therefore
can not be referenced through derived class objects. This differs from
Java and C#.
James O'Reilly Consultant
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Design Code Train
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all. It's been a LONG time since I've posted and now I need your help
again.
I have come across something that to me doesn't seem correct and I don't
know why things are behaving this way. I have 2 classes, one a subclass
of
the other. Both have public static variables (AS2.0 Flash 7).
class mypackage.Fruit {
public static var COLOR:Number = 0;
}
class mypackage.Orange extends mypackage.Fruit {
public static var SEEDS:Number = 0;
}
Now in the Orange class or any other class that needs to use Orange. The
following code: Orange.COLOR returns 0.
import mypackage.Orange;
class Table {
public function Table() {
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs 0
}
}
Things change when this code is applied to the timeline:
Table.fla
import mypackage.Orange;
trace(Orange.COLOR: + Orange.COLOR); // outputs undefined
trace(Orange.SEEDS: + Orange.SEEDS); // outputs 0
Tracing Orange.COLOR gives me undefined. But if I import
mypackage.Fruit.
Fruit.COLOR traces out 0.
Table.fla
import mypackage.Fruit;
trace(Fruit.COLOR: + Fruit.COLOR); // outputs 0
Can someone shed some light on why in an FLA that the subclass (in this
case Orange) cannot access its super class static variables
(Orange.COLOR)?
Thanks.
\m/
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[Flashcoders] FMS 2.0 Flash 8 Flv Player Continues Playback after Window Close
Hi, the guys on the FMS list quasi-suggested I contact you guys as you might have encountered similar playback enigmae? I've been working around some strange errors in NetStream codes (InvalidArg) which prevents seeks from working sometimes and now I've created a player that just will not stop playing the stream until the complete browser - every window - it's in a child window - is closed. I'm closing 3 windows to get the stream to stop playing. What can I do to insure that a browser window close will shut down the stream? I've created destroy methods in my AS but they don't seem to be getting called at least as long as the parent window is open. The player is in a child window. Thanks for any suggestions... Jeff Harrington [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
Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo
Hi John, Yes, I watch the traffic too and find it interesting, but not really startling. I wouldn't read TOO much into it. Just so you know, at this time last year Flashcoders traffic was about the same as Flexcoders, but now it's about a quarter of Flexcoders traffic as well. I would trust, too, that you really wouldn't be all THAT tainted, maybe in this case poking a dog with a stick, but I think there is plenty of work to go around and that such pokes are probably still pretty good natured. There are a couple of reasons I'd suggest for what you've noticed. The first is that because it's open source, most serious user's really become developers at some point, which I think is a part of the juice of open source. I think I've made more posts in dev than in user, even though most of the time I'm really just a user. More significantly, It's just that after some time the use becomes not that interesting. You figured stuff out. I think the last time I put up a traditional content question on Flashcoders was in the last millenium, but I still develop flash applications and stay current with it and stay subscribed. There just aren't as many questions(problems) to motivate posting. Similar with Laszlo, there were a lot of questions when 3 was fresh and new. Now, the questions and problems have more or less been answered, the docs are more up to date and searches bring answers. I look forward to flash9 and hope that it reinvigorates flashcoders, but actionscript references are so much better now that that must be taking a toll on the flash user lists as well. Once was, if you relied on the docs you were doomed and needed the folk knowledge of the groups, but the as3 docs seem top notch and has an effect. ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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] FMS 2.0 Flash 8 Flv Player Continues Playback after Window Close
Could you put some javascript in the window the movie actually plays in (you said it's a browser window, so I'm guessing javascript is doable) that detects when the window is closed and sends a message to the Flash movie? The flash movie can then detect that and stop playing? That is weird that it's not stopping when the window is closed. I figured the Flash player would shut down the movie once the window containing it is gone. -Andy On 1/30/07, Jeff Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the guys on the FMS list quasi-suggested I contact you guys as you might have encountered similar playback enigmae? I've been working around some strange errors in NetStream codes (InvalidArg) which prevents seeks from working sometimes and now I've created a player that just will not stop playing the stream until the complete browser - every window - it's in a child window - is closed. I'm closing 3 windows to get the stream to stop playing. What can I do to insure that a browser window close will shut down the stream? I've created destroy methods in my AS but they don't seem to be getting called at least as long as the parent window is open. The player is in a child window. Thanks for any suggestions... Jeff Harrington [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 ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator is meant to be dynamic. It adds responsibilities to an object at
run time.
You take ComponentA and add methods to it on mouseclick, that's a decorator.
ComponentB is made up of ComponentC and ClassA, that's a composite.
My implementation of a mixin which I borrowed from java is really just using
composites + interfaces to emulate multiple inheritance.
Decorators and composites are similar however in that they are both
structural patterns and define an interface for communicating between parent
and child components / classes.
Best,
-erik
-Original Message-
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator;
it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
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On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of
event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to
strictly-typed programming.
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Re: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper?
I normally just create a new movieclip and set it up with the questions/answers the way that it should print. Then I just use print(my_mc); --- nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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 Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
I've never tried any of this, and I'm not really familiar with Flash Paper, but... Google gives me this: http://www.blazepdf.com/ It's commercial (you have to buy it), but it looks like it can do what you want. Might be worth looking into if you can't find other solutions. -Andy On 1/30/07, nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Opps meant to add: that's my interpretation anyways. I could be wrong. I'm
wrong all the time. In fact I consider myself a professional mistake maker.
-erik
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator is meant to be dynamic. It adds responsibilities to an object at
run time.
You take ComponentA and add methods to it on mouseclick, that's a decorator.
ComponentB is made up of ComponentC and ClassA, that's a composite.
My implementation of a mixin which I borrowed from java is really just using
composites + interfaces to emulate multiple inheritance.
Decorators and composites are similar however in that they are both
structural patterns and define an interface for communicating between parent
and child components / classes.
Best,
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator;
it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of
event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to
strictly-typed programming.
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Re: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper?
Yeah I normally do the same. but sometimes there are issues with the safari browser on macs. Plus , i really like flash paper, I guess i'm more wondering wether it can be done or if there are any better methods than the standard way. thanks On 1/30/07, Joseph McHeffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally just create a new movieclip and set it up with the questions/answers the way that it should print. Then I just use print(my_mc); --- nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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 Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ___ 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] FMS 2.0 Flash 8 Flv Player Continues Playback after Window Close
Hey Andy, Wow... and duh... Thanks for making me look at it again, I was modifying the onunload code for something which gets pushed into a sub-div. That fixed it! The onunload videoController.destroy method just wasn't getting called. Thanks for making me reexamine my code. Ouch! Still a weird problem though. This video playback must be pretty deeply-embedded code in the OS. (This was an IE only problem fwiw). Jeff Andy Herrman wrote: Could you put some javascript in the window the movie actually plays in (you said it's a browser window, so I'm guessing javascript is doable) that detects when the window is closed and sends a message to the Flash movie? The flash movie can then detect that and stop playing? That is weird that it's not stopping when the window is closed. I figured the Flash player would shut down the movie once the window containing it is gone. -Andy On 1/30/07, Jeff Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the guys on the FMS list quasi-suggested I contact you guys as you might have encountered similar playback enigmae? I've been working around some strange errors in NetStream codes (InvalidArg) which prevents seeks from working sometimes and now I've created a player that just will not stop playing the stream until the complete browser - every window - it's in a child window - is closed. I'm closing 3 windows to get the stream to stop playing. What can I do to insure that a browser window close will shut down the stream? I've created destroy methods in my AS but they don't seem to be getting called at least as long as the parent window is open. The player is in a child window. Thanks for any suggestions... Jeff Harrington [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 ___ 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] import package
I'm just now trying to wrap my head around AS3.0, so this is a very basic question. Why is the import statements necessary? The Adobe site says that in AS2.0 it was a shortcut, so you didn't have to type the full path, but in AS3.0 it is a requirement. So why does the following simple code work with and without the import statements? If I don't create my own classes in an external .as file because I just want to use Flash's predefined classes, do I have to use the import statement? import flash.display.Sprite; //is the import necessary? works with or without it. // // draw a circle and add it to the display list var circle:Sprite = new Sprite(); circle.graphics.beginFill(0x99); circle.graphics.drawCircle(50, 50, 50); circle.graphics.endFill(); addChild(circle); ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
The answer is no. We recently tried going down this path, but the FP API does not support data integration. Andrew Rost -Original Message- From: nelson ramirez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:00 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper? Yeah I normally do the same. but sometimes there are issues with the safari browser on macs. Plus , i really like flash paper, I guess i'm more wondering wether it can be done or if there are any better methods than the standard way. thanks On 1/30/07, Joseph McHeffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally just create a new movieclip and set it up with the questions/answers the way that it should print. Then I just use print(my_mc); --- nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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 Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
Hello :) Flash paper is dead... Apollo is the next big project of Adobe and replace for me FlashPaper to display books etc. With apollo you can display a PDF or a HTML page in a MovieClip. For me Digital Edition is baed on Apollo : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions/ In 6 month or 1 year this player for me is the better :) Now with FlashPaper you can't do nothing... FlashPaper use static text inside with the TextSnapShot class (read the Flash documentation about this class). But FlashPaper is based on Macromedia V1/2 components (lots of bug inside !) If you want create dynamic documents the best way is a dynamic flipbook : http://www.page-flip.com/?c=12kw=book-flipgclid=COi63uqViYoCFR8OZwod6gv9eQ EKA+ :) eKA+ :) 2007/1/30, nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah I normally do the same. but sometimes there are issues with the safari browser on macs. Plus , i really like flash paper, I guess i'm more wondering wether it can be done or if there are any better methods than the standard way. thanks On 1/30/07, Joseph McHeffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally just create a new movieclip and set it up with the questions/answers the way that it should print. Then I just use print(my_mc); --- nelson ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this quiz app that at the end allows the user to print out their answers with results plus some static content. We normally use Flash paper for printing the static assets. I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate the dynamic user answers into the static flash paper print content. Does anyone have any experience with this or perhaps a better approach? thanks in advance, -NR ___ 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 Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
Flash paper is dead... Apollo is the next big project of Adobe and replace for me FlashPaper to display books etc. Uh, isn't Apollo going to be a desktop app though? I understand how Apollo can render HTML and connect to the internet and the like, what about users running IE or Firefox? Wouldn't Flashpaper still be useful??? I don't understand your argument I suppose. Can you clarify? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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] import package
If it works without it, it is not required. Import is a compiler directive. It does not result in any code being generated. It merely tells the compiler that If I mention some function or class/object/datatype that I do not define, you should also look here to see if this code has a definition. If the compiler is already adding the library automatically to the list of places that it looks for things, you do not need it. For example, the Flash IDE knows about MovieClip and will find any method or property that deals with a MovieClip object without being told where MovieClip is defined. It looks like Sprite is also in the list of things that it knows. If you add the import but never reference anything from it, it will not have any effect on your resulting swf file. It is a shortcut in the sense that if you did not have the import, you would have to write the full name with flash.display.Sprite.xxx every time that you referred to a method or property of a Sprite. I am not even sure of the syntax since no one in their right mind would trade an import statement for all that typing and it NEVER appears in any code examples that I have seen. I hope that this helps Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just now trying to wrap my head around AS3.0, so this is a very basic question. Why is the import statements necessary? The Adobe site says that in AS2.0 it was a shortcut, so you didn't have to type the full path, but in AS3.0 it is a requirement. So why does the following simple code work with and without the import statements? If I don't create my own classes in an external .as file because I just want to use Flash's predefined classes, do I have to use the import statement? import flash.display.Sprite; //is the import necessary? works with or without it. // // draw a circle and add it to the display list var circle:Sprite = new Sprite(); circle.graphics.beginFill(0x99); circle.graphics.drawCircle(50, 50, 50); circle.graphics.endFill(); addChild(circle); ___ 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] AS DTD validation
I don't know of any, but that would be awesome. It would be easier, actually, to do XML Schema validation, since XML Schema is itself XML. Thus, you could use Flash's native XML processing to help validate. But, again, I don't know if anyone's done this. Definitely a worthwhile project for anyone with time on their hands! On 1/30/07, Oliver Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there any AS2/3 class or script that performs DTD validation on a xml-document? -- cheers, Olli ___ 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 -- T. Michael Keesey Director of Technology Exopolis, Inc. 2894 Rowena Avenue Ste. B Los Angeles, California 90039 -- The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com Parry Carney: http://parryandcarney.com ISPN Forum: http://www.phylonames.org/forum/ ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
hello :) About apollo : read : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=234 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=75 http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2006/10/load_html_pages.html http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:DeveloperFAQ watch : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 For me with this tools you can create HTML/AJAX/AS3/FLEX/PDF projects in Linux/OSX/Windows with all tools to creates rich media application. EKA+ :) 2007/1/30, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Flash paper is dead... Apollo is the next big project of Adobe and replace for me FlashPaper to display books etc. Uh, isn't Apollo going to be a desktop app though? I understand how Apollo can render HTML and connect to the internet and the like, what about users running IE or Firefox? Wouldn't Flashpaper still be useful??? I don't understand your argument I suppose. Can you clarify? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
About apollo : read : LOL. I think you need to read those very links you sent. Apollo targets operating systems (Windows and Mac), not browsers. People using browsers will not use Apollo in the browser. Apollo is a desktop app you download and install, which can load in RIAs. It's not a plugin/player. So Flashpaper will still be used for people not using Apollo. For me with this tools you can create HTML/AJAX/AS3/FLEX/PDF projects in Linux/OSX/Windows with all tools to creates rich media application. That statement is irrelevant to my question. Please answer my question and explain how this is a Flashpaper killer. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eka Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:02 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper? hello :) About apollo : read : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=234 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=75 http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2006/10/load_html_pages.html http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:DeveloperFAQ watch : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 For me with this tools you can create HTML/AJAX/AS3/FLEX/PDF projects in Linux/OSX/Windows with all tools to creates rich media application. EKA+ :) 2007/1/30, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Flash paper is dead... Apollo is the next big project of Adobe and replace for me FlashPaper to display books etc. Uh, isn't Apollo going to be a desktop app though? I understand how Apollo can render HTML and connect to the internet and the like, what about users running IE or Firefox? Wouldn't Flashpaper still be useful??? I don't understand your argument I suppose. Can you clarify? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
helo :) I think it's very really interesting to speak about the futur of Flash/FLEX and AS3 ... if you want only ask a question and don't speak about the question of the future of the Flash technology .. sorry Now FlashPaper don't work in AS3... and you can't modify the content. I Use FlashPaper in FMS application with a sharing display of the internal component in the FlashPaper swf and this component is bugged and very limit. Now for me in AS2, i repeat, the good solution is to use a custom flip book with dynamic content. You can load in a MovieClip : swf/jpg/png/gif/external datas... FlashPaper is just a little tool with a bad API. For me if you want extend the FlashPaper.. use ActionScript and external tools (PHP/JAVA/etc...) and you must create your application. Work with FlashPaper it's a waste of time. PS : sorry for my english ... I have evil to render comprehensible my comment. EKA+ :) 2007/1/31, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: About apollo : read : LOL. I think you need to read those very links you sent. Apollo targets operating systems (Windows and Mac), not browsers. People using browsers will not use Apollo in the browser. Apollo is a desktop app you download and install, which can load in RIAs. It's not a plugin/player. So Flashpaper will still be used for people not using Apollo. For me with this tools you can create HTML/AJAX/AS3/FLEX/PDF projects in Linux/OSX/Windows with all tools to creates rich media application. That statement is irrelevant to my question. Please answer my question and explain how this is a Flashpaper killer. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eka Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:02 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper? hello :) About apollo : read : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=234 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=75 http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2006/10/load_html_pages.html http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:DeveloperFAQ watch : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 For me with this tools you can create HTML/AJAX/AS3/FLEX/PDF projects in Linux/OSX/Windows with all tools to creates rich media application. EKA+ :) 2007/1/30, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Flash paper is dead... Apollo is the next big project of Adobe and replace for me FlashPaper to display books etc. Uh, isn't Apollo going to be a desktop app though? I understand how Apollo can render HTML and connect to the internet and the like, what about users running IE or Firefox? Wouldn't Flashpaper still be useful??? I don't understand your argument I suppose. Can you clarify? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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 ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator object composites the object it wishes to decorate and is
used in it's place. Since the decorator inherits from the the same base
class as the object it decorates they can both be used interchangeably
through polymorphism.
consider something like this:
var myBagel:Bagel = new Bagel();
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 200
// Add creamcheese to my bagel
myBagel = new CreamCheeseDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 300
// Add lox to my bagel
myBagel = new LoxDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 330
//---
// bagel looks something like this
public class Bagel {
public function getCalories ():uint {
return 200;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class CreamCheeseDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function CreamCheeseDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 100;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class LoxDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function LoxDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 30;
}
}
You can add more Bagel types like EggBagel and EverythingBagel and more
Decorator objects like Butter and use them all interchangeably.
note, this untested code, I just typed it out in the post so their might
be typos.
James O'Reilly — Consultant
Adobe Certified Flash Expert
http://www.jamesor.com
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Erik Bianchi wrote:
Opps meant to add: that's my interpretation anyways. I could be wrong. I'm
wrong all the time. In fact I consider myself a professional mistake maker.
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Bianchi
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:49 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator is meant to be dynamic. It adds responsibilities to an object at
run time.
You take ComponentA and add methods to it on mouseclick, that's a decorator.
ComponentB is made up of ComponentC and ClassA, that's a composite.
My implementation of a mixin which I borrowed from java is really just using
composites + interfaces to emulate multiple inheritance.
Decorators and composites are similar however in that they are both
structural patterns and define an interface for communicating between parent
and child components / classes.
Best,
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Michael
Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator;
it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Michael
Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:09 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of
event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
non-function as a function. That can't happen if you stick to
strictly-typed programming.
--
T. Michael Keesey
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[Flashcoders] set and retrieve a netstream property
Howdy -
I'm upgrading a video application from stage-based code to OO, and have run
into a sticky problem:
Using metadata injection, I am able to read a duration property on the
netStream class, and pass the value to another function, as such:
public function metaDataInfo(obj:Object) {
times = obj.keyframes.times;
var vidDuration = Math.ceil(obj.duration);
// pass duration value to another function
durationTime(vidDuration);
positions = obj.keyframes.filepositions;
};
However, I can not figure out how to retreive this property via a
'getDuration' or 'get duration' function, because I can't make the value
persist throughout the class. This is important because I also employ a
scrubbing function that requires a duration property, but cannot accept
parameters.
please help
thanks
- kelly
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RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
I've seen examples of it both ways where a decorated object maintains the
objects interface or it adds additional methods so it breaks polymorphism.
Don't have the GOF book with me to reference so no idea what they actually
outlined. Doing a quick search wikipedia states 1 to 1 where doFactory shows
otherwise.
On a side note I love doFactory as they offer simple UML diagrams and sample
code (both conceptual and real world).
Been a while since I've posted here, a few years I think. I miss the geek
tangents / debates. =)
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JOR
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:55 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator object composites the object it wishes to decorate and is
used in it's place. Since the decorator inherits from the the same base
class as the object it decorates they can both be used interchangeably
through polymorphism.
consider something like this:
var myBagel:Bagel = new Bagel();
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 200
// Add creamcheese to my bagel
myBagel = new CreamCheeseDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 300
// Add lox to my bagel
myBagel = new LoxDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 330
//---
// bagel looks something like this
public class Bagel {
public function getCalories ():uint {
return 200;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class CreamCheeseDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function CreamCheeseDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 100;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class LoxDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function LoxDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 30;
}
}
You can add more Bagel types like EggBagel and EverythingBagel and more
Decorator objects like Butter and use them all interchangeably.
note, this untested code, I just typed it out in the post so their might
be typos.
James O'Reilly - Consultant
Adobe Certified Flash Expert
http://www.jamesor.com
Design . Code . Train
Erik Bianchi wrote:
Opps meant to add: that's my interpretation anyways. I could be wrong. I'm
wrong all the time. In fact I consider myself a professional mistake
maker.
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik
Bianchi
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:49 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator is meant to be dynamic. It adds responsibilities to an object
at
run time.
You take ComponentA and add methods to it on mouseclick, that's a
decorator.
ComponentB is made up of ComponentC and ClassA, that's a composite.
My implementation of a mixin which I borrowed from java is really just
using
composites + interfaces to emulate multiple inheritance.
Decorators and composites are similar however in that they are both
structural patterns and define an interface for communicating between
parent
and child components / classes.
Best,
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Michael
Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator;
it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Michael
Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:09 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of
event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the Event Dispatcher
(a.k.a. Observer) pattern than Decorator.
(Also, it might be better to tie checkForSnap to mouseMove.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of mix-ins because, well, they're kind
of sloppy. They involve tinkering with stuff that should be off-limits
(and is in AS3, I think). Using mix-ins, you could accidentally use a
Re: [Flashcoders] Flex vs. Laszlo
Cort, Thank you very much for your very thoughtful and informed post. This is a great time to be a Flash developer. It is great watching the Flash/SWF ecosystem expanding. I have my hands full with Flash and Flex. But I appreciate having an understanding of how others generate swfs. Your post was very informative for me in this way. And with Apollo likely launching sometime this year, wow, look out! Best regards, g ___ 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] Caps Lock behaviour inconsistent between Mac and Windows!
I posted about this a while back and didn't get much of a response.
Am hoping someone might have discovered a workaround as this bug is a
bit of a show-stopper for the project I am working on.
I am trying to trap whether the Caps Lock key is down at any given
moment, not toggled, but down. On Windows, the Caps Lock key results
in the onKeyUp and onKeyDown events being generated whenever the key
is pressed or released. On the Mac the same is not true. The
onKeyDown event is only generated when the Caps Lock key is untoggled
and the user presses the key. The onKeyUp event is only generated
when the Caps Lock key is toggled and the user presses the key. What
makes it more frustrating is that the isDown(Key.CAPSLOCK) code on
the Mac returns true when the key is toggled not whether the key is
in fact down. It makes accurately tracking the up and down states of
the Caps Lock key on the Mac impossible.
The project I am working on requires knowing the state of the Caps
Lock key. Again, it works as expected on Windows, but not on the Mac.
You can see this in action here:
http://www.aleph-1.com/keyboard/
You can donwload the FLA here:
http://www.aleph-1.com/keyboard/keyboard.fla
The code is as follows:
fscommand('trapallkeys',true);
var frames:Number = 0;
var keyListener:Object = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyUp = function() {
if(Key.getCode() != Key.CAPSLOCK) return;
_txt.text += 'frame ' + frames + ': Caps Lock was released.' + newline;
_txt.scroll = _txt.maxscroll;
}
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if(Key.getCode() != Key.CAPSLOCK) return;
_txt.text += 'frame ' + frames + ': Caps Lock was pressed.' + newline;
_txt.scroll = _txt.maxscroll;
}
Key.addListener(keyListener);
onEnterFrame = function () {
frames++;
if (Key.isDown(Key.CAPSLOCK)) {
_txt.text += 'frame ' + frames + ': Caps Lock is down.' +
newline;
_txt.scroll = _txt.maxscroll;
}
};
Please, if anyone has had any luck in successfully trapping the up /
down state of the caps lock key on the Mac, please let me know.
Cheers.
Daniel Barber
aleph1
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[Flashcoders] Tiles Based game engine
Hello! I am curious if anyone happen to know a nice AS2 based tiles based game engine for use to create Mario Bros or Commander Keen like games. Somehow I don't get the scrolling and/or ladder stuff working correctly. Stupid games ;) Yours, Weyert de Boer ___ 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] Known limitation for length for loaded content's path
Hello all! I have a strange case... i've built a projector for mac and pc with external content (images, flashpapers, videos...). Everything works well except on some PCs?!? I dont have access to those PCs (student's) but is there a known issu regarding path length (every path is relative to the main movie)? I would like to cover all the possibilities before debugging directly on those computers! Thanks a million! ___ 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] - dynamic content for flash paper?
You can generate flashpaper swf's on the fly with Coldfusion. Muzak - Original Message - From: Rost, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:16 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] - dynamic content for flash paper? The answer is no. We recently tried going down this path, but the FP API does not support data integration. Andrew Rost ___ 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] FLV Encoding at 640x480 Frame dropping
Try dropping the framerate (divide by 2 seems to work well) If original video is 30 fps, encode at 15 fps If original video is 24 fps, encode at 12 fps. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Yehia Shouman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:51 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoding at 640x480 Frame dropping Hi List, We've been frustrated with our client trying to bring the best smoothest experience of playing video at 640x480 (stretched to fullscreen). Does anyone know what exact encoding settings for a movie with a lot of motion, to play fullscreen at that resolution without stalling and dropping frames ? I am streaming over FMS, got the latest updates for FMS, FLVPlayback and Flash Player. I know FMS drops frames when the bandwidth is insuffiecient, and I know it favors Audio then netstream calls and then it may drop video frames based on whats left of the bandwidth. But if I even encoded at 640x480 with NO audio at all it still drop frames, we're currently using On2 VP6. Should we try Sorenson ? Any ideas PLEASE help ! Thank you Yehia ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Yes, it's very common to add additional methods in your subclasses for
additional behaviour. Polymorphism is maintained only through the base
case's interface.
I'll have to check out doFactory, haven't heard of it before.
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Erik Bianchi wrote:
I've seen examples of it both ways where a decorated object maintains the
objects interface or it adds additional methods so it breaks polymorphism.
Don't have the GOF book with me to reference so no idea what they actually
outlined. Doing a quick search wikipedia states 1 to 1 where doFactory shows
otherwise.
On a side note I love doFactory as they offer simple UML diagrams and sample
code (both conceptual and real world).
Been a while since I've posted here, a few years I think. I miss the geek
tangents / debates. =)
-erik
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JOR
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:55 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator object composites the object it wishes to decorate and is
used in it's place. Since the decorator inherits from the the same base
class as the object it decorates they can both be used interchangeably
through polymorphism.
consider something like this:
var myBagel:Bagel = new Bagel();
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 200
// Add creamcheese to my bagel
myBagel = new CreamCheeseDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 300
// Add lox to my bagel
myBagel = new LoxDecorator(myBagel);
trace (myBagel.getCalories()); // 330
//---
// bagel looks something like this
public class Bagel {
public function getCalories ():uint {
return 200;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class CreamCheeseDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function CreamCheeseDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 100;
}
}
//inside the decorator is something like this:
public class LoxDecorator extends Bagel {
private var _bagel:Bagel;
public function LoxDecorator (bagel:Bagel) {
_bagel = bagel;
}
public function getCalories ():uint {
return _bagel.getCalories() + 30;
}
}
You can add more Bagel types like EggBagel and EverythingBagel and more
Decorator objects like Butter and use them all interchangeably.
note, this untested code, I just typed it out in the post so their might
be typos.
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Adobe Certified Flash Expert
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Erik Bianchi wrote:
Opps meant to add: that's my interpretation anyways. I could be wrong. I'm
wrong all the time. In fact I consider myself a professional mistake
maker.
-erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik
Bianchi
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:49 PM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
A decorator is meant to be dynamic. It adds responsibilities to an object
at
run time.
You take ComponentA and add methods to it on mouseclick, that's a
decorator.
ComponentB is made up of ComponentC and ClassA, that's a composite.
My implementation of a mixin which I borrowed from java is really just
using
composites + interfaces to emulate multiple inheritance.
Decorators and composites are similar however in that they are both
structural patterns and define an interface for communicating between
parent
and child components / classes.
Best,
-erik
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Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
How is this any different from a Decorator/Wrapper? Looks like a
double decorator.
On 1/30/07, Erik Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually my definition of a mixin is very strict compared to a decorator;
it
uses design by contract, composition and declares type:
Class ClassA implements IClassB, IClassC
{
private var classB:ClassB;
private var classC:ClassC;
private function classBMethod():Boolean{...};
private function classCMethod():Number{...};
}
-erik
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Keesey
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
On 1/29/07, David Ham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
startObjectDrag triggered by obj_mc.onPress
checkForSnaptriggered bysetInterval or onEnterFrame type of
event,
in this case onObjectDrag
stopObjectDrag triggered byobj_mc.onRelease
This looks more like the Broadcaster pattern or the
Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
Been a while since I've posted here, a few years I think. I miss the geek tangents / debates. =) Good man! Seriously, the world affords precious few opportunities to truly geek out on design patterns and such. Internet mailing lists excepted of course. I have the Head First Design Patterns book, and I have to say I like it, in spite of its profusion of clip art and cheesy humor. Despite these stylistic affronts, it presents the material in a way that is easy to learn. What's the consensus on the GoF book? I know it's a classic, but so is Ulysses and dog if I can read that. I don't have a CS background-- Flash is about as far as my programming expertise extends--so the Head First style works for me. Is GoF accessible for people who don't program in C++? OK DAH ___ 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] Q: offset x,y in StartDrag()
Hi I have a nested MovieClip with an onPress handler. OnPress I create a mirror copy of this nested MovieClip but in _root and initiate a StartDrag(false) on this MovieClip. The problem is this mc ( in _root ) is offset from the Mouse position by the x,y coordinates of the nested MovieClip. How can I update the x,y coordinates of the _root mc so that it 1-initially mimics the exact position of the nested MC and 2-follows the mouse using StartDrag Hope this makes sense...I'm wondering if I should even try simulating a StartDrag using Mouse listeners and converting local to global coordinates. Any help appreciated. [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@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: set and retrieve a netstream property
You just need to declare var vidDuration outside the metaDataInfo function for
it to remain persistent in the instance of the Class containing it.
class WhateverClass{
var vidDuration:Number;
public function metaDataInfo(obj:Object) {
times = obj.keyframes.times;
vidDuration = Math.ceil(obj.duration);
// pass duration value to another function
durationTime(vidDuration);
positions = obj.keyframes.filepositions;
};
public function getDuration():Number{
return vidDuration;
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] FMS 2.0 Flash 8 Flv Player Continues Playback after Window Close
this is a sort-of-known issue - i don't think adobe ever posted a knowledge base article about it, but they implemented a fix for it in flash player 9 (which was buggy) i replied to your post here: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/forum/discussion/123/fms-20- flash-8-flv-player-continues-playback-after-window-close/ On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Jeff Harrington wrote: Hey Andy, Wow... and duh... Thanks for making me look at it again, I was modifying the onunload code for something which gets pushed into a sub-div. That fixed it! The onunload videoController.destroy method just wasn't getting called. Thanks for making me reexamine my code. Ouch! Still a weird problem though. This video playback must be pretty deeply-embedded code in the OS. (This was an IE only problem fwiw). Jeff Andy Herrman wrote: Could you put some javascript in the window the movie actually plays in (you said it's a browser window, so I'm guessing javascript is doable) that detects when the window is closed and sends a message to the Flash movie? The flash movie can then detect that and stop playing? That is weird that it's not stopping when the window is closed. I figured the Flash player would shut down the movie once the window containing it is gone. -Andy On 1/30/07, Jeff Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the guys on the FMS list quasi-suggested I contact you guys as you might have encountered similar playback enigmae? I've been working around some strange errors in NetStream codes (InvalidArg) which prevents seeks from working sometimes and now I've created a player that just will not stop playing the stream until the complete browser - every window - it's in a child window - is closed. I'm closing 3 windows to get the stream to stop playing. What can I do to insure that a browser window close will shut down the stream? I've created destroy methods in my AS but they don't seem to be getting called at least as long as the parent window is open. The player is in a child window. Thanks for any suggestions... Jeff Harrington [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 ___ 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] Flair Pattern bad mixins good (?)
The Head First Design Patterns book rocks and I definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to learn about design patterns. I actually got a kick out of the clip art and humor but I'm kind of quirky that way I guess. The Java examples were trivial to port to ActionScript and a good exercise. The GoF book reads more like a college textbook. I use it from time to time to compare notes between my different pattern books but it's definitely not the one I pick up first. The introduction section of the book is a good read. However, unlike Java or C#, if you don't know C++ you might find the examples difficult to understand. The ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns is also very good. It's obviously very specific to ActionScript unlike the other two books so the samples don't need to be ported. James O'Reilly — Consultant Adobe Certified Flash Expert http://www.jamesor.com Design • Code • Train David Ham wrote: Been a while since I've posted here, a few years I think. I miss the geek tangents / debates. =) Good man! Seriously, the world affords precious few opportunities to truly geek out on design patterns and such. Internet mailing lists excepted of course. I have the Head First Design Patterns book, and I have to say I like it, in spite of its profusion of clip art and cheesy humor. Despite these stylistic affronts, it presents the material in a way that is easy to learn. What's the consensus on the GoF book? I know it's a classic, but so is Ulysses and dog if I can read that. I don't have a CS background-- Flash is about as far as my programming expertise extends--so the Head First style works for me. Is GoF accessible for people who don't program in C++? OK DAH ___ 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
