Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Sound = wtf
Nice defeatism Arul. My overall point was i'm shocked at the apparent community apathy regarding this topic, and thanks for confirming that apathy. If i can't rant to fellow developers, who can i rant to? I wanted a discussion on this, not an RTFM n00b wankfest. Considering there is no AS3 sound book, should i not be surprised to find so little mention of a topic so important in a book supposedly covering the essentials of the language? 3 books on AS3 covering different topics all paying the same amount of attention to the topic is an eyebrow raiser. I wasn't expecting making things move to have a chapter on sound or anything. I wasn't expecting it and a book on design patterns having more information on sound than an Essential AS3 book though. This isn't meant as a rail on Moock, but rather an open question: Does sound really matter that little? - A - Original Message - From: Arul Prasad M L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:04:55 PM (GMT+0100) Europe/Berlin Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Sound = wtf Why don't you: 1. List down your queries, and ask for suggestions / help from the community here 2. Write to adobe's feature request list about the features you think are missing, but essential 3. Stop ranting on the list, and go use ur personal blog for this crap. Btw, Stop looking for detailed examples for sound APIs inside a design patterns book or a 'Making things move' book. ~Arul Prasad. On 9/12/07, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So i got my AS3 books finally. Essential AS3 by Moock, AS3 animation/making things move and AS3 design patterns. Of these 3, none give particular interest in the sound API. Making things move takes a fleeting glance at AS3 sound, limited to a = new Sound(); a.play();, and Design Patterns makes an equally simple example. The AS3 docs (F1 in the IDE) suggests a hack of a class to encapsulate Sound handling and otherwise assures us that the AS3 api is powerful. I still fail to see why. When Andre Michelle makes an AS3 303 emulator we're all impressed, but we somehow fail to realize he made it with *hacks*. Advanced AS3 sound manipulation is effectively barred to those not of his calibre. For the rest of us, we're stuck waiting for someone to build a robust sound control API wrapper for AS3's frankensteinian mess. In my opinion, AS3 sound is only as strong as you're willing to take punishment. Things were rough in AS2, but we could work it. In AS3 it's equally rough, with added edges. Considering the *vast* improvements AS3 and the new VM gave us, i find it bewildering how something so core to the multimedia experience has been either ignored completely or thrown in as an afterthought. I'm told by peers that oh you know, Sound is weak in Flash. Like a dogma. Which makes me think engineers threw a roundtable to somehow assure that in their shiny new VM, Sound remained weak. I have never seen an AS topic so skirted. It's like a dark secret nobody really wants to discuss. Like pooping. Either people out there *don't care about sound* which blows my mind, or Adobe didn't give a shit. I'm trying to port my AS2 3d sound positioning and effects control library to AS3 and, right now, it's disillusioning and sometimes infuriating. Dual stop methods for streaming and preloaded audio, the contextually wrong of which doesn't generate exceptions, but sound glitches. Soundchannels allow for quick and easy orphaning of sound. Go orphans! Soundmixer only really stopping sound and giving an *incomplete* spectrum, ignoring Microphone. There's parts of AS3 that force us to get stricter, and this is fine. The sound library forces us to either wrap or get sloppy. So am i right about this? Do Flash developers really care this little about audio? Positive sides? Loading sound resources externally and SoundTransform. And still being able to actually play audio. I don't know of a fix for this beyond doing the sound API over with a little more consideration. But i'd love to hear some best practises and experiences from other developers. Anything to learn more about this POWERFUL NEW API. Yeah. - Andreas SJ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Arul Prasad http://arulprasad.blogspot.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] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work
You're right, of course. I wasn't thinking correctly. The MovieClip object has a toString() method which should return the name of the MovieClip Object. I guess I was specifically thinking about the v2 Components, which return [object Object] unless you also include the ._name property. Sorry for the confusion. Hal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Herrman Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:31 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work You say [object Object] is the correct output if the object is a movie clip. This isn't the behavior I see. Any time I trace a movie clip I get the clip's name (level0.foo.bar.whatever), not the generic object results. -Andy On 9/11/07, Hal Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try toString(aArray[i]._name) instead I'm not 100% sure what you're storing in your array, but it sounds like you're storing movieClip objects in there, in which case the result [object Object] would be the correct output. Hal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:30 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work Quick question, can I toString an array element. ie: var myStr:String = toString(aArray[i]);// where 'i' is the increment. I am having an issue with this. when I trace myStr it traces [object object] instead of what I intended/expected mcMovieClipName14 as a string. Any insite would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Paul V. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] increasing real memory use
Get rid of the nested functions in loadNewImage()
Assign the enterframe event to a method of the class, using Delegate and make
sure to keep a reference to the handler so it can be
removed.
Make the class itself the MovieClipLoader listener, rather than creating a
seperate listener.
// pseudo code
import mx.utils.Delegate;
class classes.Twee {
private var movieLoader:MovieClipLoader;
private var enterframeDelegate:Function;
function Twee() {
movieLoader = new MovieClipLoader()
movieLoader.addListener(this);
enterframeDelegate = Delegate.create(this, this.enterframeHandler);
}
function loadNewImage() {
var image_p:MovieClip = root_p.attachMovie(void, image_mc, 0);
movieLoader.loadClip(2246.jpg, image_p)
}
function onLoadInit(target_mc:MovieClip) {
root_p.onEnterFrame = enterframeDelegate;
}
function enterframeHandler() {
// do stuff...
//and eventually remove handler
root_p.onEnterFrame = null;
}
}
I'm not very fond (mildly put) of the usage of _root and the movieclip chaining
going on.
I'd probably go for event dispatching from each class (Een, Twee, Drie) when
they're done with whatever they're supposed to do, to
which the Application listens. So the Application takes care of the chain,
rather than each seperate class.
regards,
Muzak
- Original Message -
From: Tom Huynen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] increasing real memory use
Hi list,
I created a kioks application that needs to display data (text and images)
24/7. The flash projector file however uses more and more real memory from
the start on.
I therefore created a simple version of it as can be seen in the code below.
It contains four classes: Application.as, Een.as, Twee.as and Three.as.
When this simplified version runs the task manager (windows) or activity
monitor (mac) reveals a data leak even though I clear up vars and listeners.
The code is pretty simple, still I can't find out for quite a while now what
the problem can be.
Regards,
Tom
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 Sound.stop()
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 Sound.stop()
Hello :)
I use in my opensource framework a model to register all sounds in my
application and manipulate all sounds.
The SoundLibrary class :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS2/trunk/src/andromeda/media/SoundLibrary.as
See the example of the class :
import andromeda.events.SoundModelEvent ;
import andromeda.media.SoundLibrary ;
import vegas.events.Delegate ;
var debug:Function = function ( e:SoundModelEvent ):Void
{
var type:String = e.getType() ;
var id:String = e.getID() ;
var library:SoundLibrary = SoundLibrary(e.getModel()) ;
var sound:Sound = e.getSound() ;
var message:String = + library ;
message += + type ;
if (id != null)
{
message += , id: + id ;
}
if (sound != null)
{
message += , sound: + sound ;
}
trace( message ) ;
}
var lib:SoundLibrary = new SoundLibrary() ;
lib.addGlobalEventListener( new Delegate(this, debug) ) ;
lib.addSound( sound_1 ) ; // sound_1 is the link name of the sound
in the library
lib.addSound( sound_2 ) ;
// lib.addSounds( [sound_1, sound_2] ) ; // use this method to
register a array collection of sounds ids.
trace( + lib + size : + lib.size()) ;
Key.addListener(this) ;
var onKeyDown:Function = function()
{
var code:Number = Key.getCode() ;
switch ( code )
{
case Key.UP :
{
lib.getSound( sound_1 ).start() ;
break ;
}
case Key.DOWN :
{
lib.getSound( sound_2 ).start() ;
break ;
}
case Key.SPACE :
{
lib.toggle() ; // enable/disable all sounds
break ;
}
}
}
trace( Press Key.SPACE to disable/enable the library.) ;
trace( Press Key.UP to start the sound_1 sound.) ;
trace( Press Key.DOWN to start the sound_2 sound.) ;
See the online documentation :
http://vegas.ekameleon.net/docs/andromeda/media/SoundLibrary.html
Page project : http://code.google.com/p/vegas/
Install VEGAS with this SVN repository in osFlash :
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/wiki/InstallVEGASwithSVN
EKA+ :)
2007/9/12, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Each Sound() object is attached to a particular timeline.
So if you do :
(new Sound(_root)).stop()
everything from _root downwards should stop.
HTH,
Ian
On 9/11/07, Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't understand the docs for the AS2 Sound.stop command.
my_sound.stop([idName:String]) : Void
I can't find any documentation about sounds having an idName.
Method; stops all sounds currently playing if no parameter is
specified, or just the sound specified in the idName parameter.
But my_sound is an instance of the Sound class, so why would I need to
specify an id? This seem to imply that I could use
Sound.stop();
to stop all sounds currently playing. But it won't compile. I get
Sound has no static field stop.
So, how do you stop all currently playing sounds?
Thanks!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Reliable way to split a string into an array of lines?
The fastest (execution, not writing) way would probably be to do your own loop over the string and find all the positions of line breaks (either \r or \n) and use just use substring to pull out the individual lines. If you do end up trying RegExes I'd be very interested in how you do it. The only regex library I've found for AS2 doesn't compile with MTASC (looking at the code I don't know why anything would compile it), which is causing me significant annoyance. If you find one that works with MTASC I'd love to know about it. :) -Andy On 9/12/07, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a simple, reliable method for splitting a string into its constituent lines (at the hard line breaks - this isn't a text wrapping thing). The problem is that line breaks could be Chr(10) or Chr(13), or indeed both. I've done this: myArr = myStr.split(String.fromCharCode(10)).join(String.fromCharCode(13)).split(Str ing.fromCharCode(13)) I'm guessing I'm better off going the RegEx route, but I was wondering if there's a quicker, simpler way. Danny ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] Traversing through Object goes backwards
Thanks for the response Andy. I just ended up doing this:
public function reverseObject(objToReverse:Object):Object {
// reverses the object again after built, meaning it's now in
the right order
var alteredObj:Object = new Object();
for (var i in objToReverse) {
alteredObj[i] = objToReverse[i];
}
return alteredObj;
}
Objects work pretty much like hashtables (from my understanding).
Hashtables generally don't guarantee any kind of ordering. Flash may
enforce some kind of ordering (y seems to be going in reverse order of
when things were added) but I don't know of any ordering and generally
treat it as arbitrary.
Now, if you were using Arrays then your ordering would be guaranteed
(for-in loops go backwards through the array I believe).
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RE: [Flashcoders] Text Editor Undo/Redo Stack
Apparently that works in IE 5 and 6. IE 7 and Firefox throws an alert
requesting permission for clipboard access; who'd what a website accessing
the clipboard without permission?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James
Marsden
Sent: 12 September 2007 11:46
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Text Editor Undo/Redo Stack
skillz, thanks :)
Muzak wrote:
Use javascript:
//HTML
script language=javascript
function getClipBoardText() {
var t = window.clipboardData.getData(TEXT);
return t;
}
/script
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Re: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth managing for multiple movablecharacters
kirupa.com has a ton of tutorials on Isometric stuff
that I've found very useful.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm#Isometry
--- Jobe Makar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jiri,
I've pasted below the isometric class that I wrote
for one of my game books.
It is a handy class that allows for easy translation
between screen coords,
and iso coords. In addition, it handles tile-based
dept calculations as
well. You asked how do you handle multiple per tile
- check out the leeway
variable in this class. If leeway is set to 5, and
calculateDepth returns
1230, then you can place your item anywhere from
1230 to 1235. You just have
to keep track of which depth is being used.
You don't have to swap depths of every item every
frame. You just have to
swap depths on any items that has just changed
tiles.
There are two limitations with this technique:
1) It does the depth calculations based on the size
of the map. For most
uses this is fine. But if your map is like 5000 X
5000 tiles, then this
depth calculation can probably quickly get too high
for Flash to handle
without further modifications.
2) A sortable item needs to be no bigger than a
tile. If the base of this
item takes up multiple tiles (like a couch, or
bench, etc) then you need to
either slice it up into tile-sized pieces, or change
the depth approach. The
approach that you use if you are not slicing it up
does require resorting
lots of item depths frequently rather than using
just using unique depths
per tile.
//Isometric CLASS
class com.electrotank.world.Isometric {
private var maxx:Number;
private var maxz:Number;
private var theta:Number;
private var alpha:Number;
private var sinTheta:Number;
private var cosTheta:Number;
private var sinAlpha:Number;
private var cosAlpha:Number;
var leeway:Number;
public function Isometric(x:Number, z:Number) {
maxx = x;
maxz = z;
theta = 30;
alpha = 45;
theta *= Math.PI/180;
alpha *= Math.PI/180;
sinTheta = Math.sin(theta);
cosTheta = Math.cos(theta);
sinAlpha = Math.sin(alpha);
cosAlpha = Math.cos(alpha);
leeway = 5;
}
public function mapToScreen(xpp:Number, ypp:Number,
zpp:Number):Array {
var yp:Number = ypp;
var xp:Number = xpp*cosAlpha+zpp*sinAlpha;
var zp:Number = zpp*cosAlpha-xpp*sinAlpha;
var x:Number = xp;
var y:Number = yp*cosTheta-zp*sinTheta;
return [x, y];
}
public function mapToIsoWorld(screenX:Number,
screenY:Number):Array {
var z:Number =
(screenX/cosAlpha-screenY/(sinAlpha*sinTheta))*(1/(cosAlpha/sinAlpha+sinAlpha/cosAlpha));
var x:Number = (1/cosAlpha)*(screenX-z*sinAlpha);
return [x, z];
}
public function setLeeway(value:Number) {
leeway = value;
}
public function calculateDepth(x:Number, y:Number,
z:Number):Number {
var x:Number = Math.abs(x)*leeway;
var y:Number = Math.abs(y);
var z:Number = Math.abs(z)*leeway;
var a:Number = maxx;
var b:Number = maxz;
var floor:Number = a*(b-1)+x;
var depth:Number = a*(z-1)+x+floor*y;
return depth;
}
}
Jobe Makar
http://www.electrotank.com
http://www.electro-server.com
phone: 252-627-8026
mobile: 919-609-0408
fax: 919-882-1121
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From: Jiri Heitlager
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To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth
managing for multiple
movablecharacters
He guys (and maybe girls),
I have a question that is related to z-depth
managing in an isometric
game, that needs to be made in AS2.
In the game I basically use one abstract layer
that holds all the tiles
and their information wheter or not a movable
object is allowed to 'walk'
over the tile. Then there is another layer that
holds all the objects, so
that includes a player, a computer controlled
player and enviormental
objects that players cannot walk through being the
visualization of the
first layer.
Every object gets a z-depth assigned. For the
players the zdpeth need to
be set based on the tile they are at. This way the
players can walk
'around' the enviorment objects. For the z-depth
calculation I use the
tile grid x and y plus the width of the row, this
generates an unique
z-depth number and makes sure that the higher the
y, the bigger the
z-depth , thus objects appear infront of objects
with a lower y index.
Here is the problem I am trying to figure out. If
two movable objects, or
even three of them are at the same time on the
same tile, then the above
described z-depth managing will fail. How do I
deal with that?
Then another question I have is this. Does every
movable object needs to
check/swap z-depth on every frame. Wouldn't that
be to CPU intensive?
I really hope someone can clear this up for me.
thank you in advance,
Jiri
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RE: [Flashcoders] Multilingual video with Flash
I've used separate audio / video once and had syncing problems. To correct it, I set the video time to match the audio time at a fixed interval. It was a talking head type video, and the results were satisfactory, although there's a little jump in the video sometimes. -Original Message- From: Volker Scarpatetti - Advertis Interactiva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:27 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Multilingual video with Flash Hi, What would be the best way to a flash video project with multilingual audio? - A copy of the video for each language (means several video files) ? or - One video and different audiotraks ? As I am not streaming from a server but from a CD, I have a limited space condition. The video is about 5 minutes long, and I remeber, in earlier versions, separated audio didn´t syncronize to good in longer videos. Any suggestions ? Thanks ! -- Volker Scarpatetti Dirección Interactiva - Advertis Interactiva ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Traversing through Object goes backwards
Hello :)
Use my framework and this ADT package based on the JAVA collections
framework :
The Map and the SortedArrayMap tutorial :
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/wiki/VegasTutorials_collection_map
My SortedArrayMap can help you :)
You can use my vegas.data package in AS2/AS3 and SSAS :)
Page project :
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/
Installation :
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/wiki/InstallVEGASwithSVN
EKA+ :)
2007/9/12, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Objects work pretty much like hashtables (from my understanding).
Hashtables generally don't guarantee any kind of ordering. Flash may
enforce some kind of ordering (y seems to be going in reverse order of
when things were added) but I don't know of any ordering and generally
treat it as arbitrary.
Now, if you were using Arrays then your ordering would be guaranteed
(for-in loops go backwards through the array I believe).
-Andy
On 9/11/07, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list...
I want object y, below, to output in the same order as x. Is it
possible?
Thanks,
- Michael M.
x = {a:first, b:second, c:third};
for (i in x) {
trace(i + : + x[i]);
}
/*
output:
a: first
b: second
c: third
*/
y = new Object();
y[a] = first;
y[b] = second;
y[c] = third;
for (i in y) {
trace(i + : + y[i]);
}
/*
output:
c: third
b: second
a: first
*/
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[Flashcoders] exit screen button script
Hello all,
Quick and albeit silly question.
I have a presentation and I am building it for both online and an autorun cd
in fullscreen. My question is what AS should I put on the button so it will
do both functions.
Here is something I found.
on (release) {
getURL('javascript:closeWin()');
}
What do I add to the above?
Thnx,
Edub9
www.HollywoodFineART.com
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help with listener for custom class (AS3)
Hi Dane,
Here are some thoughts for you to try. First off since you are not
actually working with a display object you don't need this class to extend
sprite. The easiest way to give the class the ability to send out events
is to have it extend EventDispatcher and then you can have it dispatch
events as required... here is you sample pared down a bit, just dealing
with xml
package {
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.*;
public class fileImports extends EventDispatcher {
public var newStyleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
public var newXML:XML = new XML();
public function fileImports(xmlFile:String):void {
var xmlToLoad:URLRequest=new URLRequest(xmlFile);
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader;
xmlLoader.load(xmlToLoad);
//event listeners
xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,xmlLoaded);
}
public function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void {
newXML = XML(event.target.data);
dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.COMPLETE));
}
}
}
then in the movie calling the class
var tFile = new fileImports(data/xml/presenter1.xml);
tFile.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlDone);
function xmlDone(e:Event){
trace(done);
}
hth,
Rob
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:25:05 -0400, Dane Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My problem is I don't know how to listen to the class
from the main timeline to find out if the class is finished processing
the
XML. Right now if I try to use fileForThis.newXML I get a value of
null.
But if I put a trace on newXML in the class, it shows the content of my
XML
file.
I have gotten this to work on other projects because I haven't tried to
use
the data immediately - so the data has time to process before it's put
into a text field, etc.
I appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth managing for multiple movablecharacters
First off, thanks that you people took the time to help me out and thank you Jobe for sending me your class. I appreciate that, but would really like to program the game myself from scratch to get a full understanding on how games like this are made. I am reading all the replies and trying to see if I am understand them correctly. Basically I have two options. Give every movable object the depth of the screen _y value and make sure that objects can never be on the same _y position. Second option. If the movable objects only move one tile at a time, meaning that their screen _y position could sometimes be the same, I need to assign for every tile a range of n numbers of depth that can be taken. Then check for an available depth within each tiles indivudual range of depth , when a movable objects is on a tile. @Danny, could please explain your comment on subsorting a bit more. I am not quit sure if I understand it. However, you can optimise quite a bit by sub-sorting - if you know that object 1 is in the rear 16 tiles and object 2 is in the front 16 tiles, no need to check the z-order. Jiri Danny Kodicek wrote: Every object gets a z-depth assigned. For the players the zdpeth need to be set based on the tile they are at. This way the players can walk 'around' the enviorment objects. For the z-depth calculation I use the tile grid x and y plus the width of the row, this generates an unique z-depth number and makes sure that the higher the y, the bigger the z-depth , thus objects appear infront of objects with a lower y index. Here is the problem I am trying to figure out. If two movable objects, or even three of them are at the same time on the same tile, then the above described z-depth managing will fail. How do I deal with that? If this is possible in your game then you'll need to either store sub-tile positions and z-sort further on those (you could, for example, assign ten z-slots per tile to ensure that you have more space) or randomly choose one to be in front of the other (if there's only one position per tile, then it doesn't matter which one gets drawn in front). Then another question I have is this. Does every movable object needs to check/swap z-depth on every frame. Wouldn't that be to CPU intensive? Depends how you do it. If there's only a few movable objects, this shouldn't be particularly hard on the machine - Flash isn't the fastest thing in the world, but it's fast enough for that. However, you can optimise quite a bit by sub-sorting - if you know that object 1 is in the rear 16 tiles and object 2 is in the front 16 tiles, no need to check the z-order. Danny ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] fileReference and proxy
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Re: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth managing for multiple movablecharacters
Thanks Joshua, I allready went through some of their stuff. I posted
exactly those things that weren't adressed in the articles I wrote on
Kirupa.
J
Joshua Sera wrote:
kirupa.com has a ton of tutorials on Isometric stuff
that I've found very useful.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm#Isometry
--- Jobe Makar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jiri,
I've pasted below the isometric class that I wrote
for one of my game books.
It is a handy class that allows for easy translation
between screen coords,
and iso coords. In addition, it handles tile-based
dept calculations as
well. You asked how do you handle multiple per tile
- check out the leeway
variable in this class. If leeway is set to 5, and
calculateDepth returns
1230, then you can place your item anywhere from
1230 to 1235. You just have
to keep track of which depth is being used.
You don't have to swap depths of every item every
frame. You just have to
swap depths on any items that has just changed
tiles.
There are two limitations with this technique:
1) It does the depth calculations based on the size
of the map. For most
uses this is fine. But if your map is like 5000 X
5000 tiles, then this
depth calculation can probably quickly get too high
for Flash to handle
without further modifications.
2) A sortable item needs to be no bigger than a
tile. If the base of this
item takes up multiple tiles (like a couch, or
bench, etc) then you need to
either slice it up into tile-sized pieces, or change
the depth approach. The
approach that you use if you are not slicing it up
does require resorting
lots of item depths frequently rather than using
just using unique depths
per tile.
//Isometric CLASS
class com.electrotank.world.Isometric {
private var maxx:Number;
private var maxz:Number;
private var theta:Number;
private var alpha:Number;
private var sinTheta:Number;
private var cosTheta:Number;
private var sinAlpha:Number;
private var cosAlpha:Number;
var leeway:Number;
public function Isometric(x:Number, z:Number) {
maxx = x;
maxz = z;
theta = 30;
alpha = 45;
theta *= Math.PI/180;
alpha *= Math.PI/180;
sinTheta = Math.sin(theta);
cosTheta = Math.cos(theta);
sinAlpha = Math.sin(alpha);
cosAlpha = Math.cos(alpha);
leeway = 5;
}
public function mapToScreen(xpp:Number, ypp:Number,
zpp:Number):Array {
var yp:Number = ypp;
var xp:Number = xpp*cosAlpha+zpp*sinAlpha;
var zp:Number = zpp*cosAlpha-xpp*sinAlpha;
var x:Number = xp;
var y:Number = yp*cosTheta-zp*sinTheta;
return [x, y];
}
public function mapToIsoWorld(screenX:Number,
screenY:Number):Array {
var z:Number =
(screenX/cosAlpha-screenY/(sinAlpha*sinTheta))*(1/(cosAlpha/sinAlpha+sinAlpha/cosAlpha));
var x:Number = (1/cosAlpha)*(screenX-z*sinAlpha);
return [x, z];
}
public function setLeeway(value:Number) {
leeway = value;
}
public function calculateDepth(x:Number, y:Number,
z:Number):Number {
var x:Number = Math.abs(x)*leeway;
var y:Number = Math.abs(y);
var z:Number = Math.abs(z)*leeway;
var a:Number = maxx;
var b:Number = maxz;
var floor:Number = a*(b-1)+x;
var depth:Number = a*(z-1)+x+floor*y;
return depth;
}
}
Jobe Makar
http://www.electrotank.com
http://www.electro-server.com
phone: 252-627-8026
mobile: 919-609-0408
fax: 919-882-1121
- Original Message -
From: Jiri Heitlager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth
managing for multiple
movablecharacters
He guys (and maybe girls),
I have a question that is related to z-depth
managing in an isometric
game, that needs to be made in AS2.
In the game I basically use one abstract layer
that holds all the tiles
and their information wheter or not a movable
object is allowed to 'walk'
over the tile. Then there is another layer that
holds all the objects, so
that includes a player, a computer controlled
player and enviormental
objects that players cannot walk through being the
visualization of the
first layer.
Every object gets a z-depth assigned. For the
players the zdpeth need to
be set based on the tile they are at. This way the
players can walk
'around' the enviorment objects. For the z-depth
calculation I use the
tile grid x and y plus the width of the row, this
generates an unique
z-depth number and makes sure that the higher the
y, the bigger the
z-depth , thus objects appear infront of objects
with a lower y index.
Here is the problem I am trying to figure out. If
two movable objects, or
even three of them are at the same time on the
same tile, then the above
described z-depth managing will fail. How do I
deal with that?
Then another question I have is this. Does every
movable object needs to
check/swap z-depth on every frame. Wouldn't that
be to CPU intensive?
I really hope someone can clear this up for me.
thank you in advance,
Jiri
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RE: [Flashcoders] Isometic game - zdepth managing formultiple movablecharacters
I am reading all the replies and trying to see if I am understand them correctly. Basically I have two options. Give every movable object the depth of the screen _y value and make sure that objects can never be on the same _y position. Second option. If the movable objects only move one tile at a time, meaning that their screen _y position could sometimes be the same, I need to assign for every tile a range of n numbers of depth that can be taken. Then check for an available depth within each tiles indivudual range of depth , when a movable objects is on a tile. @Danny, could please explain your comment on subsorting a bit more. I am not quit sure if I understand it. However, you can optimise quite a bit by sub-sorting - if you know that object 1 is in the rear 16 tiles and object 2 is in the front 16 tiles, no need to check the z-order. The best thing would be to look up binary sorting trees, quadtrees and so on (a quick search on Wikipedia should take you to most of the interesting stuff. Essentially, the trick is an extension of what I was describing before: if you know which tile each object is on, then you can sort first by tile, then by sub-tile position. In the same way, you can divide your tiles into groups (usually you'd use a quadtree for this, it's probably the most efficient in this instance) and keep track of which tile group each object is on. If they haven't changed groups, you only need to sort within their current group. The logic should be fairly clear - getting it efficient is a little more complicated, but you should be able to find examples. Whether it's necessary in your case, I can't say. As a general rule, I find these things are less useful than they seem - in the most complicated case, you always have to perform all your checks anyway, so your efficient calculation is going to break down (especially as you've added a big pre-calculation step drilling down through your search tree). If you're relying on your optimizations to keep the game running at speed, it's going to slow down when you hit the most difficult cases. Danny ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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PHP or CGI? -Gerry I have a flash contact form, and I'm struggling to implement a proper backend code to be able to send it to an email recipient. Could anyone help with an example, many thanks, Robert _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] What would cause this...
if this was AS2.. i would suggest appending a 'PreventCache= Math.random(1000)' in the swf address as init won't fire cause of browser cache issues. but i am not too sure if issues like this were cleared in AS3 now -Dino On 9/13/07, Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as a sanity check, are you sure your handlers for those other events are set up properly? Could you post the code? It might be easier to tell what's wrong if we can see it. -Andy On 9/12/07, Max Kaufmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading a SWF using the Loader class. It dispatches open and progress events, and gets to a point where the bytesTotal == bytesLoaded, however it never actually gets gets the content and it never dispatches complete, init, or any of the error events. Anyone else encountered this problem? max ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] flash contact form backend
Hi Robert, You'll need to post your form data to a URL which contains a script which will grab the posted variables and then will email out the information. If you're using PHP it's quite simple and there are lots of scripts. This is the first Google result for php emailer. I haven't tried it but it sounds like what you need. http://www.bellonline.co.uk/web-services/free/scripts/php-mailer-script/ Your server will need to be configured to send out emails, but I believe this is a pretty basic function that most should have enabled. Hope that helps. Sunil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of robert nikolic Sent: 13 September 2007 14:01 To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] flash contact form backend I have a flash contact form, and I'm struggling to implement a proper backend code to be able to send it to an email recipient. Could anyone help with an example, many thanks, Robert ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] flash contact form backend
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_email.htm On 9/13/07, robert nikolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a flash contact form, and I'm struggling to implement a proper backend code to be able to send it to an email recipient. Could anyone help with an example, many thanks, Robert _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Isometic game - zdepth managing for multiple movablecharacters
A quick clarification on using _y value to control z depth: You don't need to make sure no two objects share the same _y value. Every object should have some sort of unique ID between 0 and whatever you're multiplying the Y value by. In the example, an ID between 0 and 99. EX: var limit:Number = 100; this.swapdepths(this._y * limit + this.id); This means two objects can have the same _y value without overwriting each other, depth-wise. --- Jiri Heitlager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, thanks that you people took the time to help me out and thank you Jobe for sending me your class. I appreciate that, but would really like to program the game myself from scratch to get a full understanding on how games like this are made. I am reading all the replies and trying to see if I am understand them correctly. Basically I have two options. Give every movable object the depth of the screen _y value and make sure that objects can never be on the same _y position. Second option. If the movable objects only move one tile at a time, meaning that their screen _y position could sometimes be the same, I need to assign for every tile a range of n numbers of depth that can be taken. Then check for an available depth within each tiles indivudual range of depth , when a movable objects is on a tile. @Danny, could please explain your comment on subsorting a bit more. I am not quit sure if I understand it. However, you can optimise quite a bit by sub-sorting - if you know that object 1 is in the rear 16 tiles and object 2 is in the front 16 tiles, no need to check the z-order. Jiri Danny Kodicek wrote: Every object gets a z-depth assigned. For the players the zdpeth need to be set based on the tile they are at. This way the players can walk 'around' the enviorment objects. For the z-depth calculation I use the tile grid x and y plus the width of the row, this generates an unique z-depth number and makes sure that the higher the y, the bigger the z-depth , thus objects appear infront of objects with a lower y index. Here is the problem I am trying to figure out. If two movable objects, or even three of them are at the same time on the same tile, then the above described z-depth managing will fail. How do I deal with that? If this is possible in your game then you'll need to either store sub-tile positions and z-sort further on those (you could, for example, assign ten z-slots per tile to ensure that you have more space) or randomly choose one to be in front of the other (if there's only one position per tile, then it doesn't matter which one gets drawn in front). Then another question I have is this. Does every movable object needs to check/swap z-depth on every frame. Wouldn't that be to CPU intensive? Depends how you do it. If there's only a few movable objects, this shouldn't be particularly hard on the machine - Flash isn't the fastest thing in the world, but it's fast enough for that. However, you can optimise quite a bit by sub-sorting - if you know that object 1 is in the rear 16 tiles and object 2 is in the front 16 tiles, no need to check the z-order. Danny ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Isometic game - zdepth managing for multiple movablecharacters
Yep, that's pretty much what I was saying in my example. No real need for sorting, either - or subsorting for that matter. Ian On 9/13/07, Joshua Sera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick clarification on using _y value to control z depth: You don't need to make sure no two objects share the same _y value. Every object should have some sort of unique ID between 0 and whatever you're multiplying the Y value by. In the example, an ID between 0 and 99. EX: var limit:Number = 100; this.swapdepths(this._y * limit + this.id); This means two objects can have the same _y value without overwriting each other, depth-wise. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] onIOError downloading with filereference class in AS2
Hi all, Got a really annoying prob, i've got flash sending bitmapData to php, php makes a jpeg, saves it on the server and returns the unique filename to flash. all of this works perfectly. then the system dialogue box opens, you select where you want to save the file and onIOError is called. i can't find any good info as to why it gets called. can someone help please? tia, tom. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] TWeener custom class property tweening
I tried to use the Tweener class to 'animate' a property of a class,
but it doenst seem to work. Can somebody point me out, what it is I am
doing wrong.
Here is my code
/**
* ...
* @author Default
* @version 0.1
*/
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
import org.dadata.utils.Proxy;
class Test.test{
private var x:Number = 0;
public function test() {
Tweener.registerSpecialProperty(_xpos, Proxy.create(this ,
_xpos_get), Proxy.create(this ,_xpos_set));
Tweener.addTween(this, {_xpos:10, time:.5});
}
public function _xpos_get(p_obj:Object) : Number
{
trace('getting x' + this.x)
return p_obj.x
}
public function _xpos_set(p_obj:Object, p_value:Number):Void
{
p_obj.x = p_value
trace('this x :: '+p_value)
trace('this x :: '+p_obj.x)
}
}
Thank you.
Jiri
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[Flashcoders] Radial Gradient Programmatic Masks in AS3.0
Hi, I was trying to script a spotlight effect in AS3... I didn't have any luck, apparently, it's pretty common to do this and come up with a rectangle. Does anyone have a working example of this? This is probably something I am going to do over and over again so help is really appreciated. 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] Google Maps or Yahoo maps
you can also give a look at http://www.afcomponents.com/components/g_map/. I had to use it, because Google has better maps of brazilian cities than YahooMaps. []'s andrei On 9/13/07, Randy Troppmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have little experience with the Google API but AFAIK the API is strickly AJAX based. Yahoo! maps on the other hand, has an AS2 based component that you can hack and extend in Flash. They do not have an AS3 based component at this time but released an AS3 communication kit that facilitates direct API calls within Flex to the AS2 map though ExternalInterface. Google is the leader with maps. But IMHO Flash/flex is a better performer when layering interactivity on a map and a better development platform. Randy Troppmann http://www.runningmap.com On 9/12/07, Cédric PASCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, i have a choice very important, i have to use map and interact with them (put a flag and see the nearest flag for exemple, search the road or the distance between two flag). I have to work in flex and i would like your point of view, its better to use google map or yahoo maps in flex ? I think flex and AS API of yahoo are better for the moment but i need senior programmers point of view please. Thanks ! -- PASCAL Cédric IT french student PS : if someone have another solution he could propose it , and some examples too ! I'am not an expert in fact ;) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work SOLVED
Thanks, Thanks all who answered this post I ended up using var varName:String = this._name; var varNumber:Stirng = substr(2); var varNum:Number = parseInt(varNumber); trace(varNum); //traces 1,2,3 etc. as type -Number. Thanks again, Paul V. - Original Message - From: Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work You say [object Object] is the correct output if the object is a movie clip. This isn't the behavior I see. Any time I trace a movie clip I get the clip's name (level0.foo.bar.whatever), not the generic object results. -Andy On 9/11/07, Hal Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try toString(aArray[i]._name) instead I'm not 100% sure what you're storing in your array, but it sounds like you're storing movieClip objects in there, in which case the result [object Object] would be the correct output. Hal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:30 PM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] toString(aArray[i]) ?? does this work Quick question, can I toString an array element. ie: var myStr:String = toString(aArray[i]);// where 'i' is the increment. I am having an issue with this. when I trace myStr it traces [object object] instead of what I intended/expected mcMovieClipName14 as a string. Any insite would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Paul V. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Google Maps or Yahoo maps
But my problem would be now to combine AS2 file in flex. In fact i dont understand why no solution for Flex and AS3 exist :( Its strange Thanks I will do my best ! PS : :) I will promise you French wine for someone who can find a solution ! lol Ruse Cédric I 'am ! 2007/9/13, Andrei Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you can also give a look at http://www.afcomponents.com/components/g_map/. I had to use it, because Google has better maps of brazilian cities than YahooMaps. []'s andrei On 9/13/07, Randy Troppmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have little experience with the Google API but AFAIK the API is strickly AJAX based. Yahoo! maps on the other hand, has an AS2 based component that you can hack and extend in Flash. They do not have an AS3 based component at this time but released an AS3 communication kit that facilitates direct API calls within Flex to the AS2 map though ExternalInterface. Google is the leader with maps. But IMHO Flash/flex is a better performer when layering interactivity on a map and a better development platform. Randy Troppmann http://www.runningmap.com On 9/12/07, Cédric PASCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, i have a choice very important, i have to use map and interact with them (put a flag and see the nearest flag for exemple, search the road or the distance between two flag). I have to work in flex and i would like your point of view, its better to use google map or yahoo maps in flex ? I think flex and AS API of yahoo are better for the moment but i need senior programmers point of view please. Thanks ! -- PASCAL Cédric IT french student PS : if someone have another solution he could propose it , and some examples too ! I'am not an expert in fact ;) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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 -- PASCAL Cédric étudiant en Master 1 Produits et Services Multimédia Université Technologique du Pays de Montbéliard ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Radial Gradient Programmatic Masks in AS3.0
What have you tried? I don't think you can do this via the timeline you need to do it programatically by setting the mask of a clip to another clip which has it's bitmap caching set to true. hth, Rob On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:19:42 -0400, Patrick Lemiuex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to script a spotlight effect in AS3... I didn't have any luck, apparently, it's pretty common to do this and come up with a rectangle. Does anyone have a working example of this? This is probably something I am going to do over and over again so help is really appreciated. 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] Radial Gradient Programmatic Masks in AS3.0
Yeah, that didn't work, i am not using the timeline, very rarely do i use the timeline these days. I need a working example to understand the exact process Thanks, Patrick On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Rob Romanek wrote: What have you tried? I don't think you can do this via the timeline you need to do it programatically by setting the mask of a clip to another clip which has it's bitmap caching set to true. hth, Rob On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:19:42 -0400, Patrick Lemiuex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to script a spotlight effect in AS3... I didn't have any luck, apparently, it's pretty common to do this and come up with a rectangle. Does anyone have a working example of this? This is probably something I am going to do over and over again so help is really appreciated. 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 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] TWeener custom class property tweening
Hey Jiri,
I'm not sure if I'm getting it right; but if you want to animate a
property of a class, you don't need to register anything. The special
properties are meant only to wrap around features that aren't directly
acessible (like data that is only acessible through methods and
functions.. gotoAndStop() to change a Movieclip's _currentFrame for
example).
If you want to tween a numeric property that's already acessible, you
can tween it directly, with no special property, wrapping function, or
anything. Ie:
Tweener.addTween(this, {x:10, time:.5});
Zeh
Jiri Heitlager wrote:
I tried to use the Tweener class to 'animate' a property of a class,
but it doenst seem to work. Can somebody point me out, what it is I am
doing wrong.
Here is my code
/**
* ...
* @author Default
* @version 0.1
*/
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;
import org.dadata.utils.Proxy;
class Test.test{
private var x:Number = 0;
public function test() {
Tweener.registerSpecialProperty(_xpos, Proxy.create(this ,
_xpos_get), Proxy.create(this ,_xpos_set));
Tweener.addTween(this, {_xpos:10, time:.5});
}
public function _xpos_get(p_obj:Object) : Number
{
trace('getting x' + this.x)
return p_obj.x
}
public function _xpos_set(p_obj:Object, p_value:Number):Void
{
p_obj.x = p_value
trace('this x :: '+p_value)
trace('this x :: '+p_obj.x)
}
}
Thank you.
Jiri
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[Flashcoders] Prevent Enter Key Playback?
I have a flash swf that plays to a certain frame and then stops. Then with JavaScript, I have HTML tell the flash player to play a demo later on. However, if the swf file has the focus in the browser and the user presses enter, it begins to play. I've tried capturing the enter key unsuccessfully to prevent it from playing. Is there a way to prevent Enter Key from playing the movie when the swf has the focus? Thanks, Doug Coning Senior Web Development Programmer FORUM Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended for the specified recipient(s) only and are legally protected. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to sender's e-mail address with notification of the error and then destroy this message in all electronic and physical forms. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Radial Gradient Programmatic Masks in AS3.0
This should work for you... http://www.manibus.com/codeSamples/maskTest.fla Rob On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:41:46 -0400, Patrick Lemiuex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that didn't work, i am not using the timeline, very rarely do i use the timeline these days. I need a working example to understand the exact process Thanks, Patrick On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Rob Romanek wrote: What have you tried? I don't think you can do this via the timeline you need to do it programatically by setting the mask of a clip to another clip which has it's bitmap caching set to true. hth, Rob ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Developers wanted.
We are looking for quality flash developers for contract and full-time positions. Telecommute is ok. Please email me offlist with your resume and availability. Must be based in US, sorry. Thanks, Chris ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] AS3 TextFields with filters - game performance?
I do not know what the performance inpact is of TextFields with filters. If the performance it too great you could take a snapshot of the text using a BitmapData instance. Then draw that BitmapData to a Shape or Bitmap and apply the filters there. As I said, I dont know about the difference in performance, but you could try it :) Greetz Erik On 9/13/07, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if any of you have any feedback to share concerning the extensive use of textfields with filters in games made with Flash 9 and ActionScript 3. We are developing a desktop casual game, let's say of the scale of Diner Dash (http://www.playfirst.com/game/dinerdashfloonthego). I am building a new Game Framework in AS3, Flash 9 and I was thinking of using the native TextField objects for displaying text of all kind. I want to use textfields with embeded fonts and various styles like Glow and DropShadow at will. The game will have text displayed on game panels, score, animated score, game messages and everything a middle-scale game contains. My major concern is performance, because of the use of filters. By the way, I want to use the filters so that I won't have to make a new Raster Font Engine in Flash (I've already done one for AS2.0) Any insight would be great. Thanks, Dimitrios ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Google Maps or Yahoo maps
A few weeks ago I had to create some map application in Flex 2 aswell. I went out and started looking for a solution and came across a Flash Player 9 application that could connect with all types of map services including google. But the source for that application was not available anymore (apparently ordered by google or something). I tried to figure it out myself by going over the JavaScript files. This however would have taken ages as it's quite a complex process that google uses. You can not just get the images directly, you need to send somesort of header I guess. Eventualy I used Yahoo, dug through the scripts and figured out how to load the images. I did not come across the G_map component in my search though, I'm not quite sure how it works but my guess is that you could find out. However this is on the google API's Terms of Use: Your use of this photographic imagery is limited to displaying it to end users within the Service itself, and in the same manner, form, format, and appearance as it is provided by the Service. You may not, nor may you allow others to, copy, distribute, display, alter, or otherwise use, this photographic imagery except as it is provided to you through the Service. This also the reason that I stopped persuing the better images of Google maps. Greetz Erik On 9/13/07, Cédric PASCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But my problem would be now to combine AS2 file in flex. In fact i dont understand why no solution for Flex and AS3 exist :( Its strange Thanks I will do my best ! PS : :) I will promise you French wine for someone who can find a solution ! lol Ruse Cédric I 'am ! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] AS3 Sound = wtf
Maybe this is a project you would like to check out? http://code.google.com/p/popforge/ Greetz Erik On 9/13/07, Andreas Rønning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't mean hacking was wrong by any stretch, but i am not a hacker. I simply don't have the time / budget to get in-depth on that level. Imagine what these hacker types (Andrè Michelle in particular) could do if the API natively supported the things they now hack to do? I don't really think the things Michelle does is special in terms of audio programming, but it IS special in a Flash context because of how limited the API is. It's a moan about how truly awesome Flash audio could've been with some direct way to affect audio and an orderly way to manage it i suppose? I'll write up a feature request myself. Good to hear more people want the same :) - A ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
