[Flashcoders] Flash IME
Hello people, I am trying to use System.IME.setConversionMode(System.IME.CHINESE); to turn my IME to chinese. It set it and then use System.IME.getConversionMode() to get the mode and i get UNKNOWN. When i set the IME to CHINESE my self in the task bar it work fine and when i trace it with System.IME.getConversionMode() i get CHINESE. I read that note all windows system support these calls, but was wondering if any one has come across this issue and if they have a fix or work around. I am on a windows xp pro sp2. Flash player 9 ActionScript 2. The project is export to a exe not swf. Thanks, tommek. ___ 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] injecting System.security.allowDomain
I am trying to use a bunch of image sequences that were exported out of ImageReady as swfs. This process has been working so they can tweak the timing of the image sequences without having flash. The problem is that I would like to make these child swfs controllable crossdomain so I can put them into a parent swf on a different server. Right now when these are pulled crossdomain I can't control the playback of the children. I would like to somehow inject System.security.allowDomain(this._parent._url) for all these, preferrably server-side so I can inject them when they are initally uploaded to the site. Anybody done anything like this before? Thanks, Jason ___ 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] injecting System.security.allowDomain
MTASC will do that for you. Create a simple class with a static entry method, place allowDomain() inside that, compile and inject it into the existing SWFs with MTASC. Attila jv I am trying to use a bunch of image sequences that were exported out of jv ImageReady as swfs. This process has been working so they can tweak the timing jv of the image sequences without having flash. jv jv The problem is that I would like to make these child swfs controllable jv crossdomain so I can put them into a parent swf on a different server. Right jv now when these are pulled crossdomain I can't control the playback of the jv children. jv jv I would like to somehow inject System.security.allowDomain(this._parent._url) jv for all these, preferrably server-side so I can inject them when they are jv initally uploaded to the site. Anybody done anything like this before? ___ 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] practical limits to size of XML files?
I've done in the past something as Rakos says and i think it could be a good choice. If you really have to go for the xml, i'd say: - wherever possible, try to use attributes instead of nodes to avoid unnecessary nesting. - wherever possible, split the xml files so you can read exactly what the user needs and not everything. Good luck : ) On 3/12/07, Rákos Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while ago I had problems with parsing and processing a large XML. It was too slow even after utilizing some tricks and optimizations, so I decided to convert the XML into an ActionScript source file containing constant arrays and objects. This AS file was then compiled into swf, loaded into the main movie and it became much more faster, there was no noticable processing time. Since on CD you will not need an editable XML, maybe you can try such way, too. Attila ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.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] Controlling flv
Hi, I'm working with Flash 8 and I've imported an flv to the stage and set it as a progressive download, using a preset skin to control the video. This has created a Flash Video component on the stage. This works fine but the clip ends abruptly before returning to the start. I'd like to pause on the last frame of the video before fading to black over a few seconds. It can then return to the start. As the video is not on the timeline, is this possible? Can the video be controlled with script to do this? Thanks, Adrian __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ 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] sharing a class with several movieclips, in AS3
Create simgle clas definition which holds functionality of your selection
state and add several instances of same class to stage
2007/3/11, Andrei Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hello list,
With AS2, I could associate the same class with several movieclips. This
was
useful, for example, to create buttons for a menu, when all the buttons
were
associated with the same class (some kind of button, that implemented the
'selected' state, rollout and rollover animations, and so on).
Now, I am trying to migrate the code to AS3, and I am having problems to
share the same class with more than one movieclip. When I try to do this,
I
get this error: You must specify a unique classname to export this
symbol.
Can I make this, in some way? The only thing i can think is not very
elegant; it would be to create empty classes for each button, like that:
class MyButton extends MovieClip
{
// code here
}
class MyButton01 extends MyButton
{
// nothing
}
class MyButton02 extends MyButton
{
// nothing
}
thank you,
andrei
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Re: [Flashcoders] sharing a class with several movieclips, in AS3
Sounds like you are negating the whole purpose of classes.
How about a little reengineering of the buttons.
Build your single class and have multiple instances of the button on screen.
Part of the class would be to load in the proper animation MC for display.
Thus you have the single class that is applied to all buttons and each
button has an independent animation associated with it.
Or if you wanted, you could do as you listed in your first e-mail and extend
a single base class and make specialized classes for each button. But again,
that is sort of defeating the purpose of classes and OOP.
Charles P.
On 3/12/07, Andrei Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello Janis,
the problem is that I don't want several instances of same symbol in the
stage. Imagine a menu for the sections of a site: you have a button, with
some animations, for each section. So, I cann't use several instances of a
same symbol. What I want, and what it was done with AS 2, was to have a
symbol for each button, and associate the symbols with the same class,
what,
I am afraid, it is not possible in AS 3.
What I am doing is similar with the buttons in Gugga framework (you can
read
about the buttons in GuggaFF here, http://www.gugga.com/flashblog/)
[]'s
andrei
On 3/12/07, Janis Radins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Create simgle clas definition which holds functionality of your
selection
state and add several instances of same class to stage
2007/3/11, Andrei Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hello list,
With AS2, I could associate the same class with several movieclips.
This
was
useful, for example, to create buttons for a menu, when all the
buttons
were
associated with the same class (some kind of button, that implemented
the
'selected' state, rollout and rollover animations, and so on).
Now, I am trying to migrate the code to AS3, and I am having problems
to
share the same class with more than one movieclip. When I try to do
this,
I
get this error: You must specify a unique classname to export this
symbol.
Can I make this, in some way? The only thing i can think is not very
elegant; it would be to create empty classes for each button, like
that:
class MyButton extends MovieClip
{
// code here
}
class MyButton01 extends MyButton
{
// nothing
}
class MyButton02 extends MyButton
{
// nothing
}
thank you,
andrei
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Re: [Flashcoders] Creative Suite 3 To Be Announced 3/27
Yeah here is the link. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ps_psext_info.html Charles P. On 3/9/07, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/9/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hadn't seen it mentioned here yet. March 27th: http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/launchevent/ I wonder what to think in multiple dimensions meanscould it be? Might be this (from the Photoshop CS3 Extended blurb linked off the home page): New to the Photoshop family, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with measurement, analysis, and visualization tools. Note the bit about rendering 3D. Ian ___ 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] practical limits to size of XML files?
I agree with what's been said, and would add that if you cannot use Flash 9 AS3 for your XML, then be wary of the third party XML parsers when dealing with XML files of this size. I had been in love with xfactorstudio's Xpath classes (which are mostly great by the way), until I had to read in a large XML file and convert to objects in Flash (I had to convert to objects in order to preprare the data for a webservice transfer). I ended up abandoning those classes and used the build-in XML classes. While very cumbersome to use, it was a huge improvement in performance. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
Hi list, this is totally OT - so would be great if you could reply off-list... My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for a bit - and moving to live and work in Europe. I'm wondering if anyone working as a Flash Developer in Europe (France or Spain in particular) or who knows could tell me what the going rate is for Flash work is in those countries... Now i don't necessarily need to know what YOU earn, just what i could expect to earn as a middleweight Flash developer. thanks. T Trevor Burton Flash Developer Virtue Fusion Ltd 14-16 Betterton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9AH Tel: +44 (0) 20 7420 6420 Fax: +44(0) 20 7420 6449 ___ 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] sharing a class with several movieclips, in AS3
hello Charles, In respect to AS 3, I agree with you: create specialized classes is against OOP, and the idea of having different movieclips being loaded for each button is good. The good thing of the old solution (the same used by gugga ff) is that having all the animations of a button in a single timeline seems a bit easier to visualize (for a designer) than to split the animations along three of more movieclips. And all that I needed was a single class for all the buttons. thank you, andrei On 3/12/07, Charles Parcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you are negating the whole purpose of classes. How about a little reengineering of the buttons. Build your single class and have multiple instances of the button on screen. Part of the class would be to load in the proper animation MC for display. Thus you have the single class that is applied to all buttons and each button has an independent animation associated with it. Or if you wanted, you could do as you listed in your first e-mail and extend a single base class and make specialized classes for each button. But again, that is sort of defeating the purpose of classes and OOP. Charles P. On 3/12/07, Andrei Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello Janis, the problem is that I don't want several instances of same symbol in the stage. Imagine a menu for the sections of a site: you have a button, with some animations, for each section. So, I cann't use several instances of a same symbol. What I want, and what it was done with AS 2, was to have a symbol for each button, and associate the symbols with the same class, what, I am afraid, it is not possible in AS 3. What I am doing is similar with the buttons in Gugga framework (you can read about the buttons in GuggaFF here, http://www.gugga.com/flashblog/) []'s andrei ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for a bit - and moving to live and work in Europe. Darn those French, do they still consider the UK to be not part of Europe? ;) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
Actually it's more us Brits. 'Europe' or 'The continent' is the name we use for the big landmass the other side of the channel... On 12/3/07 14:26, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for a bit - and moving to live and work in Europe. Darn those French, do they still consider the UK to be not part of Europe? ;) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
it totally depends, but one friend of mine, working for a well known company, earns 30-40 € per our as a flasher worker. greez Trevor Burton schrieb: Hi list, this is totally OT - so would be great if you could reply off-list... My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for a bit - and moving to live and work in Europe. I'm wondering if anyone working as a Flash Developer in Europe (France or Spain in particular) or who knows could tell me what the going rate is for Flash work is in those countries... Now i don't necessarily need to know what YOU earn, just what i could expect to earn as a middleweight Flash developer. thanks. T Trevor Burton Flash Developer Virtue Fusion Ltd 14-16 Betterton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9AH Tel: +44 (0) 20 7420 6420 Fax: +44(0) 20 7420 6449 ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Why is using prototypes bad practice? - Original Message - From: Janis Radins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface also you should know that using prototypes is bad practice better create seperate class for button that needs that extra functionality ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
Just a thought Trevor, but I had some friends (more designer than developer, but same rules apply), who spent the summers working Hossegor and the winters in Chamonix. They contracted for UK based companies, while living on European rates (rent and food both being considerably cheaper). This required the occasional journey back to London, but if you situate yourself sensibly close to an airport, not a big problem or expense (except in planetary terms I guess...). At the time I was insanely jealous of their lifestyles, as they would work the morning, take a couple of hours off mid-afternoon to surf or snowboard, have a nice barbeque for dinner (provided it was surfing weather of course;), do a couple more hours of work, drink some good, cheap wine...repeat until bored... Pete This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. This email was sent by a company within the corporate group owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, registered in England and Wales with company number 53723 and VAT number GB 278 5371 21. ___ 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] Q:input textfield woes setting maximum lines
That's generally how I deal with text fields that have to be centered with localisable text. Attach a dummy textfield, enter the text, see how big it is then apply the positioning information to the real field and remove the dummy one. Adding/removing a field and getting the values out within 3 lines is quick enough that you don't see it drawing. It's a bit awkward, but it works! On 11/3/07 14:56, Latcho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anoyher fix might be overlaying the displaying field, you don't want to have overflowed your max lines with an input field that has _alpha 100, and has an embed font. Use the later as input, ans if maxscroll 2 after onKeyup, feed it to the underlaying visible textfield. Otherwise ,restore its content with the previous buffered text and don't feed it to the visible field. Dirty but worling I guess. Latcho. ___ 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] practical limits to size of XML files?
We do the same thing. Once you get the hang of the XML classes it is not too bad and you can really tune your access. If you are doing your own tree climbing it gets easier to deal with a multi-file XML structure that can help reduce the amount of XML that you have to parse in any given operation. You can break the tree from the root or from the leaves to optimize the apparent latency to the user. Ron Merrill, Jason wrote: I agree with what's been said, and would add that if you cannot use Flash 9 AS3 for your XML, then be wary of the third party XML parsers when dealing with XML files of this size. I had been in love with xfactorstudio's Xpath classes (which are mostly great by the way), until I had to read in a large XML file and convert to objects in Flash (I had to convert to objects in order to preprare the data for a webservice transfer). I ended up abandoning those classes and used the build-in XML classes. While very cumbersome to use, it was a huge improvement in performance. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Why is using prototypes bad practice? Prototype has been depreciated. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] deleting a progress bar after loading
Hi, I'm trying to delete a progress bar component I have placed in
the stage, and once this load the swf or the loader,
I'd like this to be deleted, but so far I don't have any success
doing it.
This is the code I'm using.
is a simple one. I hope you could help me out.
var myloadListen = this.myloader
mypb.source= myLoader;
myloadListen.complete = function(evt_obj:Object){
delete _root.loaders.mypb;
}
myloader.addEventListener(complete,myloadListen);
regards
gustavo Duenas
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Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface
and now what are they using? gustavo On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Why is using prototypes bad practice? Prototype has been depreciated. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] fauxpenGL library for AS2
I've been tooling around with mimicking openGL in AS2. Here's a demo: http://www.mentalpicture.net/misc/ Currently implemented: 3D Transformation Matrix Stack OBJ File Loader Wireframe renderer Are there similar projects out there? Max Kaufmann Flash Developer SilverTree Media http://www.silvertreemedia.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] Extending buttons interface
Prototype has been depreciated. What are you talking about? This is straight from AS 2.0 Language Reference: prototype (Object.prototype property) public static prototype : Object A reference to the superclass of a class or function object. The prototype property is automatically created and attached to any class or function object you create. This property is static in that it is specific to the class or function you create. For example, if you create a custom class, the value of the prototype property is shared by all instances of the class, and is accessible only as a class property. Instances of your custom class cannot directly access the prototype property, but can access it through the __proto__ property. Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6 ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Inheritance. Well, I guess prototype may not exactly depreciated per se, but inheritance is prefered - prototype is an alternative, supporting previous versions of actionscript. http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/as3preview/langref/Object.html Note: In ActionScript 3.0, prototype inheritance is not the primary mechanism for inheritance. Class inheritance, which drives the inheritance of fixed properties in class definitions, is the primary inheritance mechanism in ActionScript 3.0. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gustavo Duenas Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:19 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface and now what are they using? gustavo On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Why is using prototypes bad practice? Prototype has been depreciated. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Rates of pay in Europe...
repeat until bored Can you get bored of that? : ) In cities like Madrid and Barcelona a Flash developer (i mean, programmer) should be between 22-30k (-~20% tax), depending on skills. And believe me, you're not going to get rich with that salary. Your best bet is working for UK companies and live abroad, but that requieres some travels back to the UK, a good DSL and a very good relationship with the client. A similar approach is working for companies in Madrid/Barcelona and living in smaller cities. Good luck : ) On 3/12/07, Blumenthal, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought Trevor, but I had some friends (more designer than developer, but same rules apply), who spent the summers working Hossegor and the winters in Chamonix. They contracted for UK based companies, while living on European rates (rent and food both being considerably cheaper). This required the occasional journey back to London, but if you situate yourself sensibly close to an airport, not a big problem or expense (except in planetary terms I guess...). At the time I was insanely jealous of their lifestyles, as they would work the morning, take a couple of hours off mid-afternoon to surf or snowboard, have a nice barbeque for dinner (provided it was surfing weather of course;), do a couple more hours of work, drink some good, cheap wine...repeat until bored... Pete This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. This email was sent by a company within the corporate group owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, registered in England and Wales with company number 53723 and VAT number GB 278 5371 21. ___ 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 -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.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] Extending buttons interface
What are you talking about? This is straight from AS 2.0 Language Reference: News Flash - the current version of Actionscript is 3.0, not 2.0. :) Also, see my follow-up e-mail. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Eeermmm.. the question was about flash 6, and someone said that using prototype is bad practice. On 3/9/07, strk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to attach a method to all existing button instances ? It seems that button instances are NOT instaceof Button ... At least NOT for SWF6 . --strk; Inheritance. Well, I guess prototype may not exactly depreciated per se, but inheritance is prefered - prototype is an alternative, supporting previous versions of actionscript. http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/as3preview/langref/Object.html Note: In ActionScript 3.0, prototype inheritance is not the primary mechanism for inheritance. Class inheritance, which drives the inheritance of fixed properties in class definitions, is the primary inheritance mechanism in ActionScript 3.0. ___ 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] deleting a progress bar after loading
You can't tell an object to delete itself from within its own thread. When you delete an object outside of its own thread, you need to first delete any functions assigned to that object and remove it from any event listeners of other objects or you will end up with memory waste. ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Eeermmm.. the question was about flash 6, and someone said that using prototype is bad practice. I was responding to the blanket statement about prototypes - I didn't know the thread was still focusing on Flash 6... even still, I have never found much value in using prototypes - I wouldn't say it's been bad practice, but I have always found some other way to do it with composition and/or inheritance. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
On 3/12/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you talking about? This is straight from AS 2.0 Language Reference: News Flash - the current version of Actionscript is 3.0, not 2.0. :) Depends on whether you're using Flex or Flash. Flash 9 hasn't been released, after all, even if the player and Flex Builder 2 have. Regardless, though, using prototype even in AS2.0 is generally not a great idea. I just recently had a conflict between a package that used an ad hoc field on MovieClip.prototype and a class extending MovieClip which used a private variable of the same name. If that package had used proper class conventions, I could have saved myself about 40 minutes spent tracking down the conflict. -- 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] fauxpenGL library for AS2
Are there similar projects out there? Papervision? http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/flash_examples/another_pv3d_material_dem o_fla_1.html (Watch the link wrapping) ___ 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] deleting a progress bar after loading
any about doing this good I'd like to don't see the progress bar once the loader has finished. regards gustavo duenas On Mar 12, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: You can't tell an object to delete itself from within its own thread. When you delete an object outside of its own thread, you need to first delete any functions assigned to that object and remove it from any event listeners of other objects or you will end up with memory waste. ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
Depends on whether you're using Flex or Flash. Flash 9 hasn't been released, after all, even if the player and Flex Builder 2 have. No it doesn't, any owner of Flash 8 can use the Flash 9 AS3 preview to compile projects - not just test projects, real projects which are legal, and target the Flash 9 player. You're right in that Flash 9 has not been released yet, but the Flash 9 AS3 Preview has, so the current version of AS is indeed 3.0 as any owner of Flash 8 can download F9 Preview and write content in AS 3 and compile their projects. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] deleting a progress bar after loading
actually I'm trying to set the _visible of the progress bar to false
in the same place where I was trying to use the other instructions.
like this.
var myloadListen = this.myloader
mypb.source= myLoader;
myloadListen.complete = function(evt_obj:Object){
mypb._visible= false;
}
myloader.addEventListener(complete,myloadListen);
but so far...the same bad result...nothing.
regards
Gustavo Duenas
On Mar 12, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
You can't tell an object to delete itself from within its own thread.
When you delete an object outside of its own thread, you need to first
delete any functions assigned to that object and remove it from any
event listeners of other objects or you will end up with memory waste.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface
I disagree. 'Current' infers 'final release', not preview beta's. For me (and many of my peers) Current AS version is 2 for Flash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 12 March 2007 17:41 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface Depends on whether you're using Flex or Flash. Flash 9 hasn't been released, after all, even if the player and Flex Builder 2 have. No it doesn't, any owner of Flash 8 can use the Flash 9 AS3 preview to compile projects - not just test projects, real projects which are legal, and target the Flash 9 player. You're right in that Flash 9 has not been released yet, but the Flash 9 AS3 Preview has, so the current version of AS is indeed 3.0 as any owner of Flash 8 can download F9 Preview and write content in AS 3 and compile their projects. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] Extending buttons interface
On 3/12/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it doesn't, any owner of Flash 8 can use the Flash 9 AS3 preview to compile projects - not just test projects, real projects which are legal, and target the Flash 9 player. You're right in that Flash 9 has not been released yet, but the Flash 9 AS3 Preview has, so the current version of AS is indeed 3.0 as any owner of Flash 8 can download F9 Preview and write content in AS 3 and compile their projects. Semantics. I wouldn't call something current unless it had been released. It certainly is current as far as the player and Flex Builder go, though. -- Mike 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] Extending buttons interface
I disagree. 'Current' infers 'final release', not preview beta's. For me (and many of my peers) Current AS version is 2 for Flash. Well, I still disagree. You're talking about the authoring tool, not the language, which is what I thought we were talking about. There is no beta or preview AS3 - only Flash 9 beta/preview which allows you create projects in AS3. Flex 2 is also a tool (that is not in beta btw) which uses AS 3.0. So I guess it's just perspective, but to me the current version of Actionscript is 3.0, no matter what beta tool I use to compile it. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] correct way to set onRease of an arbitrary button
(Putting aside whether or not this is best practice design, as I'm just
trying to get my head around this.)
I've put three buttons in _root.questionInterface called button_1,
button_2, etc. Elsewhere I have defined a class Question. When an
instance of Question is displayed, it needs to modify the onRelease of
the three buttons so that the Question gets notified when each button
gets released.
Within the Display method of the Question, I want to do something like
for (var aNum=1; aNum=5; aNum++) {
var answerButton = _root.questionInterface[button_+aNum];
// pseudo code:
make the onRelease of answerButton make a call to the function
AnswerSelected(aNum) inside of this
//
// I have tried the following, but it's not right
answerButton.onRelease = function() { this.GiveAnswer(aNum);};
}
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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[Flashcoders] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
Hi all, I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it. I have a movieclip that the user can rotate . When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing. It's goes off the stage and simply stops. the speed is fixed. there is no gravity. How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage? I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search for. thank you! Kurt ___ 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] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
If I understand this correctly the movie clip will point in some direction and when it is clicked the clip moves off in that direction. If this is correct there are several ways to handle this. First I will assume you want the clip to move off in a straight line, curves can be done as well but require a bit more calculations. The easiest way is to pick several off screen points that the clip will move to. Say the clip can point in 8 different directions then select the end points of each of those directions and use the following formula to calculate intermediate points _y - yendpoint = (_ystartpoint - _yendpoint)/(_xstartpoint - _xendpoint)(_x - _xendpoint) Where you simply loop through a for loop that starts at _xstartpoint and ends at _xendpoint. If I knew what you were using to rotate the clip I could suggest alternate methods that would use the current position of the clip to calculate the motion in question. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Dommermuth Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:30 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] trig? calculus? put me out my misery Hi all, I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it. I have a movieclip that the user can rotate . When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing. It's goes off the stage and simply stops. the speed is fixed. there is no gravity. How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage? I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search for. thank you! Kurt ___ 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] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
Its trig, no calculus. Basically you want a point off stage that the clip would pass through because it's pointing in that direction right? Are you using the tween classes? If so you'll probably need a X,Y coordinate. If not, you could simply move your MC at the correct angle and use the X, Y values to test if its offstage. So, launching it at the right angle. If you think of things as a right-angled triangle, the flat bottom part of the triangle would be your X axis, while the straight side would be the Y axis. What you want is to find how much X would be given Y, or vice versa. In trig, the tangent of an angle is the opposite side of the angle divided by the adjacent side of the angle. Or.. Math.tan(myAngle) = myclip._y / myclip._x; So if you knew you wanted to move it 2 pixels in the X axis each time then you'd replace with this Math.tan(myAngle) = myclip._y / 2 Then get the unknown quantity of y on one side so we can solve for it: Math.tan(myAngle) * 2 = myclip._y; The tricky part is if your angle is in degree or radians. To use sine, cosine, or tangent, it must be in radiansso you gotta convert If I remember correctly your angle in radians is myangle * Math.PI / 180. So on every enter frame you could saymy speed horizontal speed is 2 so myclip._x +=2; My vertical speed is determined by trig, so myclip._y += Math.tan(myangle * Math.PI / 180) * 2; That's the gist. I didn't check ANY of this. So it might be wrong, but it's one of the ways to solve the problem. Kurt Dommermuth wrote: Hi all, I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it. I have a movieclip that the user can rotate . When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing. It's goes off the stage and simply stops. the speed is fixed. there is no gravity. How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage? I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search for. thank you! Kurt ___ 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] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
Thank you all. My assistant actually pointed out a very simple way to accomplish what I wanted to do. He suggested just adding another mc called targ off the stage. targ rotates with the projectile I'm firing. when the user clicks I just tell the projectile to go to the target mc. It works really well. Thank you for your explanation on how this all works. I feel like I can sort out most anything in AS, but when math is involved it's humbling. Take care everyone, Kurt At 04:07 PM 03/12/07, you wrote: Its trig, no calculus. Basically you want a point off stage that the clip would pass through because it's pointing in that direction right? Are you using the tween classes? If so you'll probably need a X,Y coordinate. If not, you could simply move your MC at the correct angle and use the X, Y values to test if its offstage. So, launching it at the right angle. If you think of things as a right-angled triangle, the flat bottom part of the triangle would be your X axis, while the straight side would be the Y axis. What you want is to find how much X would be given Y, or vice versa. In trig, the tangent of an angle is the opposite side of the angle divided by the adjacent side of the angle. Or.. Math.tan(myAngle) = myclip._y / myclip._x; So if you knew you wanted to move it 2 pixels in the X axis each time then you'd replace with this Math.tan(myAngle) = myclip._y / 2 Then get the unknown quantity of y on one side so we can solve for it: Math.tan(myAngle) * 2 = myclip._y; The tricky part is if your angle is in degree or radians. To use sine, cosine, or tangent, it must be in radiansso you gotta convert If I remember correctly your angle in radians is myangle * Math.PI / 180. So on every enter frame you could saymy speed horizontal speed is 2 so myclip._x +=2; My vertical speed is determined by trig, so myclip._y += Math.tan(myangle * Math.PI / 180) * 2; That's the gist. I didn't check ANY of this. So it might be wrong, but it's one of the ways to solve the problem. Kurt Dommermuth wrote: Hi all, I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it. I have a movieclip that the user can rotate . When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing. It's goes off the stage and simply stops. the speed is fixed. there is no gravity. How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage? I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search for. thank you! Kurt ___ 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] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
Some simple Trig actually.
As an example, name a movieClip myClip and rotate it. Then add this code
to the frame.
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
rads = myClip._rotation * (Math.PI/180);
myClip._x += Math.sin(rads);
myClip._y -= Math.cos(rads);
}
That should get you started.
By the way, Danny K's book on Math for Programmers is a good buy.
Charles P.
On 3/12/07, Kurt Dommermuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking
my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it.
I have a movieclip that the user can rotate .
When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing.
It's goes off the stage and simply stops.
the speed is fixed. there is no gravity.
How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage?
I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search
for.
thank you!
Kurt
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[Flashcoders] class files have stopped compiling?
I was working along editing my class files in TextEdit and everything was working just fine, then I read that I could open my class files in Flash. So I closed out TextEdit and opened up my class files. These are in a folder classes in the folder containing my fla. I've defined classes/ in my class path. Weird thing is that now my classes don't seem to be recompiled. I've even quit out of Flash. I can't even get them to give up an error at compile time. Is this a known quirk? I've seen this with component definitions, but this is just a regular class. Other funny thing is that I can't get the compiler to put up an error if I misspell my call to the class as in var obj = new MysSpeltClas; 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] asunit and a class that loads XML
hi.
i have a question on using asunit to test a class that loads XML.
i have a class that accepts a string in its constructor and i want to test if
it'll accept not just an http://myFileLocation.xml but also a file location
such as /data/config.xml.
my question is how can i write my test with a handler for when the xml is
finished loading?
this is what i have right now:
class com.testsource.util.ConfigParserTest extends
com.asunit.framework.TestCase {
private var className:String = com.testsource.util.ConfigParserTest;
private var configParser:ConfigParser;
public function setUp():Void {
trace(setUp: + setUp());
configParser = new ConfigParser(data/config.xml);
configParser.addEventListener(loadSuccess,
Delegate.create(this,testLoadFileLocation));
}
public function tearDown():Void {
trace(tearDown());
delete configParser;
}
public function testLoadFileLocation():Void{
var size:Number = configParser.getLayerSetSize(); // this should return the
number 2.
trace(size: + size);
assertEquals(example test, size, 2);
}
}
the problem here is that my test is run and testLoadFileLocation() is run
before my XML successfully loads. and by the time it does load, the
'configParser object has been deleted by the tearDown() method.
so my traces come out looking like this:
setUp()
size: 0
tearDown()
size: undefined
any tips are greatly appreciated.
thanks. -- matt.
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Re: [Flashcoders] trig? calculus? put me out my misery
Here's the vector math solution: Get the vector from the mouse to the MC: var vToMouse:flash.geom.Point = new flash.geom.Point(); vToMouse.x = MC._parent._xmouse - MC._x; vToMouse.y = MC._parent._ymouse - MC._y; Normalize the vector. This means you set the length of the vector to 1. var vectorLength:Number = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(vToMouse.x, 2), Math.pow(vToMouse.y, 2)); vToMouse.x /= vectorLength; vToMouse.y /= vectorLength; Now, since multiplying a vector by a number means that you're multiplying the length of that vector by that number, you can multiply our vector by enough distance to send it off-screen. Let's say 400 pixels. vToMouse.x *= 400; vToMouse.y *= 400; Lastly, add the vector back to the position of the MC to the the offscreen position var vOffScreen:flash.geom.Point = new flash.geom.Point(); vOffScreen.x = MC._x + vToMouse.x; vOffScreen.y = MC._y + vToMouse.y; Now you can use a tween class, or whatever to send the MC off screen. --- Kurt Dommermuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have what I initially thought was simple problem, but I've been racking my brains, searching the web and I just don't get it. I have a movieclip that the user can rotate . When they click the movieclip shoots off in the direction it's pointing. It's goes off the stage and simply stops. the speed is fixed. there is no gravity. How do I determine the _x and _y value somewhere off stage? I'd appreciate any help. even if someone could let me know what to search for. thank you! Kurt ___ 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] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you access an associate array using a variable?
Inside my function popup[text]; won't access the array. I can't
find any information in the books I have Actionsript Cookbook and
Actionscript for Flash MX.
Anyone dealt with this before?
// Define the text and titles for the popups
var myarray = { text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... };
// Testing - this works!
trace(myarray[text]);
// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup[text]; // This doesn't work.
trace(popup[text]);
};
showPopup(myarray);
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Re: [Flashcoders] Extending buttons interface
On 3/12/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I still disagree. You're talking about the authoring tool, not the language, which is what I thought we were talking about. There is no beta or preview AS3 - only Flash 9 beta/preview which allows you create projects in AS3. Flex 2 is also a tool (that is not in beta btw) which uses AS 3.0. So I guess it's just perspective, but to me the current version of Actionscript is 3.0, no matter what beta tool I use to compile it. That is actually a good point. Once the new IDE does come out, the language isn't going to change, so in that sense it is current. Still, for *practical* purposes, AS2 is still the current version for many of us (sad to say). -- Mike 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] fauxpenGL library for AS2
As Michael said - there's Papervision - may I suggest you join the mailing list and try and integrate your OBJ loader - it would be very useful. Cheers M From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Max Kaufmann Sent: Mon 12/03/2007 16:25 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] fauxpenGL library for AS2 I've been tooling around with mimicking openGL in AS2. Here's a demo: http://www.mentalpicture.net/misc/ Currently implemented: 3D Transformation Matrix Stack OBJ File Loader Wireframe renderer Are there similar projects out there? Max Kaufmann Flash Developer SilverTree Media http://www.silvertreemedia.com http://www.silvertreemedia.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://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.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] class files have stopped compiling?
have you tried Control Delete ASO files ? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:40 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] class files have stopped compiling? I was working along editing my class files in TextEdit and everything was working just fine, then I read that I could open my class files in Flash. So I closed out TextEdit and opened up my class files. These are in a folder classes in the folder containing my fla. I've defined classes/ in my class path. Weird thing is that now my classes don't seem to be recompiled. I've even quit out of Flash. I can't even get them to give up an error at compile time. Is this a known quirk? I've seen this with component definitions, but this is just a regular class. Other funny thing is that I can't get the compiler to put up an error if I misspell my call to the class as in var obj = new MysSpeltClas; 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
Re: [Flashcoders] Is it possible to referene a flashvars object in Flash
I use flashvars to pass initialization parameters. These are automagically converted to root variables. Does anyone know of a way to reference a object that holds all the flashvars. I would like to loop over such an object to ensure completeness. I'm passing most of the values back to another server. I do know what I am sending but I'd like to make this more automatic. I found a blog post which provides a round-about way to do it, by using LoadVars to split a ampersand separated list. But this approach is impractical for me because independent folks are producing the flashvars and already have their routine set. http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/blog/archives/000110.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
arr = new Array()
myVar = elem2
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
trace(arr[myVar])
Jason Merrill
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:42 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you access an associate array using a variable?
Inside my function popup[text]; won't access the array. I
can't find any information in the books I have Actionsript
Cookbook and Actionscript for Flash MX.
Anyone dealt with this before?
// Define the text and titles for the popups var myarray = {
text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... };
// Testing - this works!
trace(myarray[text]);
// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup[text]; //
This doesn't work.
trace(popup[text]);
};
showPopup(myarray);
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Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
Variable identifiers are not string constants, so:
showPopup(myarray);
However mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on); has no sense in this case,
since the array notation excepts a string and not an object. Ans also
you don't need to use array notation here at all, the simple dot
syntax is enough: myarray.text and popup.text
Attila
BA How do you access an associate array using a variable?
BA
BA Inside my function popup[text]; won't access the array. I can't
BA find any information in the books I have Actionsript Cookbook and
BA Actionscript for Flash MX.
BA
BA Anyone dealt with this before?
BA
BA // Define the text and titles for the popups
BA var myarray = { text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... };
BA
BA // Testing - this works!
BA trace(myarray[text]);
BA
BA // Show the popup
BA function showPopup(popup) {
BA mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
BA mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup[text]; // This doesn't work.
BA trace(popup[text]);
BA };
BA
BA showPopup(myarray);
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Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
I think this is your problem:
showPopup(myarray);
You're passing showPopup a string with the value myarray, not the
array. Remove the quotes and you should be good.
-Andy
On 3/12/07, Bill Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you access an associate array using a variable?
Inside my function popup[text]; won't access the array. I can't
find any information in the books I have Actionsript Cookbook and
Actionscript for Flash MX.
Anyone dealt with this before?
// Define the text and titles for the popups
var myarray = { text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... };
// Testing - this works!
trace(myarray[text]);
// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup[text]; // This doesn't work.
trace(popup[text]);
};
showPopup(myarray);
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Re: [Flashcoders] class files have stopped compiling?
Merrill, Jason wrote: have you tried Control Delete ASO files ? I'm running MX04 Professonal. I don't see this command. Must be in F8. ___ 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] correct way to set onRease of an arbitrary button
Well, there are several ways to achieve your goal but I think that the
best and most elegant solution is creating a class for your buttons
which implements an event dispatching mechanism (e.g. Macromedia's
EventDispatcher) and dispatches a click event when the button was
pressed by the user. In your Question class simply add listeners to
the click events of the button instances (and use a delegation
implementation, e.g. mx.utils.Delegate).
Attila
AS (Putting aside whether or not this is best practice design, as I'm just
AS trying to get my head around this.)
AS
AS I've put three buttons in _root.questionInterface called button_1,
AS button_2, etc. Elsewhere I have defined a class Question. When an
AS instance of Question is displayed, it needs to modify the onRelease of
AS the three buttons so that the Question gets notified when each button
AS gets released.
AS
AS Within the Display method of the Question, I want to do something like
AS
AS for (var aNum=1; aNum=5; aNum++) {
AS
AS var answerButton = _root.questionInterface[button_+aNum];
AS // pseudo code:
AS make the onRelease of answerButton make a call to the function
AS AnswerSelected(aNum) inside of this
AS //
AS
AS // I have tried the following, but it's not right
AS answerButton.onRelease = function() { this.GiveAnswer(aNum);};
AS
AS
AS }
AS
AS
AS Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: [Flashcoders] deleting a progress bar after loading
I'm on digest, so you may have already heard this a hundred times. In
case not, try instead:
mypb.visible = false;
Like many (most, all?) of the V2 components, there should be no
underscore in the 'visible' property.
Best,
Jim
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:54:07 -0400
From: Gustavo Duenas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] deleting a progress bar after loading
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
actually I'm trying to set the _visible of the progress bar to false
in the same place where I was trying to use the other instructions.
like this.
var myloadListen = this.myloader
mypb.source= myLoader;
myloadListen.complete = function(evt_obj:Object){
mypb._visible= false;
}
myloader.addEventListener(complete,myloadListen);
but so far...the same bad result...nothing.
regards
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Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you do it where myVar is the array? Is this possible? Or do
you always have to specify the array?
arr = new Array()
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
function testArray(myVar) {
trace(myVar[elem2]);
};
testArray(arr);
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
arr = new Array()
myVar = elem2
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
trace(arr[myVar])
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[Flashcoders] What's wrong with my dispatchEvent call? Listener not working
I'm sure this isn't the most elegant code as it's my first time using
classes. My problem is that my my custom 'change' event is not being
dispatched from place but not the other. If anyone has a suggestion on a
more modular way of writing this I'd also appreciate it. Basically, my
sendChange function is being called, and the data is being passed through
dispatch event, but my listener does not trigger. It never get to the event
trigger in my fla, which for the moment is just a trace. Any ideas?
import mx.events.EventDispatcher;
class myComboBox {
//
private var dispatchEvent:Function;
private var dispatchQueue:Function;
public var addEventListener:Function;
public var removeEventListener:Function;
public function myComboBox(m:MovieClip, d:XML, c:Number) {
//(m)movieclip reference, (d)xml data to fill combobox, (c)default category
id to show
mx.events.EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
_cb = m;
_xml = d;
_cat = c;
//Loop through data and make combobox entries
for (var i:Number = 0; i_xml.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++) {
var xn:XMLNode = _xml.firstChild.childNodes[i];
var id:Number = xn.attributes.id;
//defaulting action dispatches change if an id exists that's equal
to the one passed
if (_cat == id) {
trace(matched on +i+ +_cat+ +id);
sendChange(id);
}
}
private function sendChange(id:Number) {
trace(sendChange);
dispatchEvent({target:this, type:change, parameters:id});
}
}
//Code from fla:
var combo:Object = {};
function init() {
my_cmb = new myComboBox(cmb, _xml, 40);
my_cmb.addEventListener(open, combo);
my_cmb.addEventListener(close, combo);
my_cmb.addEventListener(change, combo);
}
combo.change = function(evt:Object) {
trace(changed! idx= +evt.parameters.idx);
}
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RE: [Flashcoders] class files have stopped compiling?
I'm running MX04 Professonal. I don't see this command. Must be in F8. It is. But you can do it manually by locating the ASO files on your hard drive and deleting them - I think an extension was published on the Adobe Exchange which did it also for MX 2004. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] OT: LiveDocs creation
Hi all, I made the mistake of showing off LiveDocs to some upper management folks and now I'm tasked with creating a clone in ASP.Net. So I figured before diving in head first I'd ask if anyone else has done something similar and are willing to share some code, or point to useful websites to make this easier to get done. Thanks, Josh Johnston Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ___ 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] MovieClip Instance _x and _y
Is there a way determine clip position that doesn't presume the location of the registration point relative to clip content, or doesn't care where nested clip content is positioned relative to the registration point? For example, if I need to programmatically position a clip along the left edge of the stage, without a guarantee that all items nested within the clip are registered at positive x and y coordinates, I need to be able to identify the top and leftmost edges of the clip. Apparently, I've taken positioning for granted for a while now, since I always register clip content at 0,0 for the upper left corner. I have a situation now that violates my convention. Thanks. - Jason ___ 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] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you do it where myVar is the array? Is this possible?
Or do you always have to specify the array?
Easy, just keep using the array access operator to evaluate:
myVar = myArray2
myArray1 = new Array()
myArray1[elem1] = hello
myArray1[elem2] = hi
myArray2 = new Array()
myArray2[elem1] = wassup
myArray2[elem2] = yo
trace(this[myVar][elem1]) //traces wassup
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
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Of Bill Abel
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:02 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you do it where myVar is the array? Is this possible?
Or do you always have to specify the array?
arr = new Array()
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
function testArray(myVar) {
trace(myVar[elem2]);
};
testArray(arr);
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
arr = new Array()
myVar = elem2
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
trace(arr[myVar])
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Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
Your right. I am passing a string.
But I'm trying to use that string to access an array by the same name.
someArray = { label: my text };
showPopup(someArray); // send a string which is the name of my array
in the function:
myDynamicText.text = myArray[label]; // try to use the passed
string to access the array.
This won't access some array. How do I convert that string over to
something that will work?
-b
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Andy Herrman wrote:
I think this is your problem:
showPopup(myarray);
You're passing showPopup a string with the value myarray, not the
array. Remove the quotes and you should be good.
-Andy
On 3/12/07, Bill Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you access an associate array using a variable?
Inside my function popup[text]; won't access the array. I can't
find any information in the books I have Actionsript Cookbook and
Actionscript for Flash MX.
Anyone dealt with this before?
// Define the text and titles for the popups
var myarray = { text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ... };
// Testing - this works!
trace(myarray[text]);
// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = popup[text]; // This
doesn't work.
trace(popup[text]);
};
showPopup(myarray);
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Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
Cool. That's it. Thanks so much!
Needed to use the syntax;
this[myStringVariableAndArrayName][myLabelInMyAssociativeArray];
My final code:
// Show the popup
function showPopup(popup) {
trace(popup);
mainMap[popup].gotoAndPlay(on);
mainMap[popup].label_title.text = this[popup][labelText];
trace(this[popup][labelText]);
};
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
How do you do it where myVar is the array? Is this possible?
Or do you always have to specify the array?
Easy, just keep using the array access operator to evaluate:
myVar = myArray2
myArray1 = new Array()
myArray1[elem1] = hello
myArray1[elem2] = hi
myArray2 = new Array()
myArray2[elem1] = wassup
myArray2[elem2] = yo
trace(this[myVar][elem1]) //traces wassup
Jason Merrill
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Learning Leadership Development
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:02 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Accessing an Associative Array
How do you do it where myVar is the array? Is this possible?
Or do you always have to specify the array?
arr = new Array()
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
function testArray(myVar) {
trace(myVar[elem2]);
};
testArray(arr);
On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
arr = new Array()
myVar = elem2
arr[elem1] = hello
arr[elem2] = hi
trace(arr[myVar])
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Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClip Instance _x and _y
MovieClip.getBounds() Attila ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] AMFPHP and sessions
Hello: I did some digging looking at how to append sessions in AMFPHP... I understand I have to load the sessionID into a flashvars inside my flash. After that, what's next, how do I append my session from my current one without starting a new one. I'm starting my session outside AMFPHP that's all. Thanks, Patrick ___ 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] MovieClip Instance _x and _y
you can build the absolute position adding the _parent nested positions --Pedro Taranto Jason Lutes escreveu: Is there a way determine clip position that doesn't presume the location of the registration point relative to clip content, or doesn't care where nested clip content is positioned relative to the registration point? For example, if I need to programmatically position a clip along the left edge of the stage, without a guarantee that all items nested within the clip are registered at positive x and y coordinates, I need to be able to identify the top and leftmost edges of the clip. Apparently, I've taken positioning for granted for a while now, since I always register clip content at 0,0 for the upper left corner. I have a situation now that violates my convention. Thanks. - Jason ___ 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] class files have stopped compiling?
i think an extenstion was published ... for MX 2004 this is what he speaks of: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?extid=1016963view=sn111 On 3/12/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running MX04 Professonal. I don't see this command. Must be in F8. It is. But you can do it manually by locating the ASO files on your hard drive and deleting them - I think an extension was published on the Adobe Exchange which did it also for MX 2004. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ 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] is flash still alive?
This may sound a stupid question. But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... In next months I will leave italy to go in London searching for a job, and I need to know if being a STRONG actionscript developer is still a good reference. Thanks in advance ___ 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] is flash still alive?
You're joking right? On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:51 PM, ottocid wrote: This may sound a stupid question. But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... In next months I will leave italy to go in London searching for a job, and I need to know if being a STRONG actionscript developer is still a good reference. Thanks in advance ___ 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] is flash still alive?
Absolutely. I can't speak for other markets but I do know that there is a huge demand for ActionScript skills in Australia. I run a small Flash agency and we have plenty of work to keep us busy and struggle to find enough quality resources. It's even to the point where our developers are booked up for a couple of months in advanced. There seems to be a fair amount of novice developers claiming to be skilled which can cause problems... so anyone with STRONG AS skills is highly sought after. Flex 2 and Flash Lite work is much less common though still required enough to warrant internal developer training and research. Regards, Arse www.snepo.com www.arseiam.com On 13/03/2007, at 9:51 AM, ottocid wrote: This may sound a stupid question. But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... In next months I will leave italy to go in London searching for a job, and I need to know if being a STRONG actionscript developer is still a good reference. Thanks in advance ___ 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] is flash still alive?
But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... In next months I will leave italy to go in London searching for a job, and I need to know if being a STRONG actionscript developer is still a good reference. Since Flex relies heavily on ActionScript, I would expect that knowing ActionScript is more important than ever. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.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] is flash still alive?
I've just left contracting in London to take a senior role in New York and I still get loads of calls from London based agencies looking for good AS developers and I can't find enough good AS devs in New York for all the work we have. You'll be in high demand mate. Actionscript is the future. Get used to it. This may sound a stupid question. But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... In next months I will leave italy to go in London searching for a job, and I need to know if being a STRONG actionscript developer is still a good reference. Thanks in advance ___ 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] unchosen ComboBox
Hey all,
I'm trying to get a ComboBox to start out unchosen (e.g. shows
choose one), but not allow the user to select that initial value.
It basically works if I set :
my_cb.dataProvider = { data:1, label:A, data:2, label:B, ... };
my_cb.text = choose one;
my_cb.selectedIndex = null;
The only snag I'm running into with this solution is that keyboard
navigation is off by one letter (e.g. pressing the B key will select
A), and only on the first time the component is used.
Is there a better solution for this?
Thanks in advance,
--Dave
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Re: [Flashcoders] is flash still alive?
ottocid wrote: But I've been away from flash developing for one year. And I need to know if there is still the same request of flash actionscript programmers of last year of flash is becoming obsolete, in favour of Flex or simply in favour of classical html/serverside applications, that are google friendly / accessible etc... I can't speak for London, but at least locally here in Denver (Colorado, USAmerica), business is booming here--so much so that we have yet to stop interviewing and hiring strong ActionScript developers. If the market there is similar and you have some mad skills, I don't think you'll be hurting for work. Speaking to the type of candidate that my company looks for (as a shop specializing in bespoke software development of the RIA flavor), I would suggest learning ActionScript 3 and mastering the nuances of the new Flex Framework if you haven't already, especially if you are planning on getting in on RIA development work. That being said though, there's no lack of work in the rich media end of the Flash spectrum either, there's quite a few openings at some of the local design agencies around town, and they're looking for competent ActionScript developers too--there's quite a bit of demand for top talent--these days, you can pretty much choose what kind of Flash platform work you want to do. Taken in summary, I'd venture to say that the market for ActionScript is better now than it has ever been. Jim Cheng effectiveUI ___ 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] I have small doubt
hi toeverybody, this is first time to joining the team.i have small doubt. i have one xml file that file containing two fields,student name and question.how to update the xml file from flash. Is it possible to update the xml node? thanks for ur advacne replay _ Voice your questions and our experts will answer them http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default01.htm ___ 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] is flash still alive?
It sucks though that in a place like the Philippines (where I am), people aren't into this technology so much yet. They almost always think that Flash is for fast computers and high bandwidth. Most likely, even if a team feels they are quite skilled, their skills are not tested or pushed to the limit. To answer your questions, yes it's quite active. Even here, there is some advancement, however small, in embracing the technology, thanks to site like YouTube. -- Ramon Miguel M. Tayag ___ 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] deleting a progress bar after loading
try setting its alpha to 0 as in
myPb._alpha=0;
hope it helps
On 3/13/07, Gustavo Duenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i did and nothing happens...so far I'm clueless.
the component is in the stage. I'm just trying to get of rid of it
onece the entire movie in the loader component has been loaded.
any ideas
this is the whole codemaybe I just did something wronghelp!
gustavo
code:
stop();
import mx.controls.Loader;
import mx.controls.ProgressBar;
var myLoader: Loader = createClassObject(Loader, loader,
nextHighestDepht)
myLoader.contentPath=profiles.swf;
myLoader.setSize(content._width, content._height);
myloader._y=-10;
//comienza el movimiento de la x
//funcion Retirada
_root.logoX._x-=5;
//revisamos la posicion
if(_root.logoX._x=_root.logoX._x-270){
_root.logoX=0;
_root.menu._x-=275;
_root.button1._x-=180;
}
var myloadListen = this.myloader
mypb.source= myLoader;
myloadListen.complete = function(evt_obj:Object){
mypb.visible = false;
}
myloader.addEventListener(complete,myloadListen);
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Jim Duber wrote:
I'm on digest, so you may have already heard this a hundred times.
In case not, try instead:
mypb.visible = false;
Like many (most, all?) of the V2 components, there should be no
underscore in the 'visible' property.
Best,
Jim
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:54:07 -0400
From: Gustavo Duenas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] deleting a progress bar after loading
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
actually I'm trying to set the _visible of the progress bar to false
in the same place where I was trying to use the other instructions.
like this.
var myloadListen = this.myloader
mypb.source= myLoader;
myloadListen.complete = function(evt_obj:Object){
mypb._visible= false;
}
myloader.addEventListener(complete,myloadListen);
but so far...the same bad result...nothing.
regards
Gustavo Duenas
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Re: [Flashcoders] deleting a progress bar after loading
Sorry I just caught this thread, but I notice something that seems
wrong in your code. You have:
if(_root.logoX._x=_root.logoX._x-270)...
Now, why would a value ever be equal to less than itself? If this is
an important part of your code, you need to create another variable
to remember the initial value, and then compare the current value to
it. Something like:
_root.logoX._x=5;
_root.logoXInitX = _root.logoX;
if(_root.logoX._x=_root.logoXInitX-270){
_root.logoX=0;
_root.menu._x-=275;
_root.button1._x-=180;
}
All this is said without figuring out what your code is actually
supposed to do.
- Marc
At 10:23 PM 3/12/2007, you wrote:
_root.logoX._x-=5;
//revisamos la posicion
if(_root.logoX._x=_root.logoX._x-270){
_root.logoX=0;
_root.menu._x-=275;
_root.button1._x-=180;
}
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[Flashcoders] Adjust height of UIScrollBar?
I want to set the UIScrollbar height independent of the height of the textfield being scrolled. I used to be able to do this easily. Is it just me, or did Flash8 do away with that? Now the scrollbar snaps to the height of the textfield no matter what I do. Anyone know how to fix this? I want the scrollbar to fill a vertical space but I want the textfield shorter so it maintains top and bottom margins. Anyone know how to do this? thanks, Marc ___ 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
