[Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
Hello, I'm programming a small card game, where most of the objects are packed as custom v2 components: playing cards, playing table, user avatars. And I have a very frustrating issue with the graphical resources. For example the Card component has a folder in its library, holding the card images (J,Q,K,A). When I generate the Card.swc and then create a new AS2 flash document and drag the Card from Components - Standard Components on to the stage, then while the live preview is working ok, the published movie will lack the J, Q, K, A images. Only after I copy the folder from the library to the new movie, the images will (sometimes!) appear :-( Aren't .swc files meant to be self-contained files, containing the graphical, sound, etc. resources? Or am I missing something in my component developing process? Thank you Alex -- http://preferans.de ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
To include assets when compiling a component to swc, you have to make sure the assets are on the stage (inside the movieclip that is linked to the class). I'm sure this is in the docs somewhere.. Here it is.. read the Editing the movie clip part: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/2489.html regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:43 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible Hello, I'm programming a small card game, where most of the objects are packed as custom v2 components: playing cards, playing table, user avatars. And I have a very frustrating issue with the graphical resources. For example the Card component has a folder in its library, holding the card images (J,Q,K,A). When I generate the Card.swc and then create a new AS2 flash document and drag the Card from Components - Standard Components on to the stage, then while the live preview is working ok, the published movie will lack the J, Q, K, A images. Only after I copy the folder from the library to the new movie, the images will (sometimes!) appear :-( Aren't .swc files meant to be self-contained files, containing the graphical, sound, etc. resources? Or am I missing something in my component developing process? Thank you Alex -- ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
Hello Muzak, On Jan 7, 2008 10:13 AM, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is.. read the Editing the movie clip part: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/2489.html actually I do that already (sorry, should have mentioned it originally): I have an Assets layer and my graphical assets placed on the 2 frame. Still a frustrating on/off story: the assets aren't visible I also tried setting/removing the checkbox export in 1st frame on the assets, as you suggested in an archived reply... Does anybody know if the checkbox should be set or cleared? Regards Alex - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:43 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible I'm programming a small card game, where most of the objects are packed as custom v2 components: playing cards, playing table, user avatars. And I have a very frustrating issue with the graphical resources. For example the Card component has a folder in its library, holding the card images (J,Q,K,A). When I generate the Card.swc and then create a new AS2 flash document and drag the Card from Components - Standard Components on to the stage, then while the live preview is working ok, the published movie will lack the J, Q, K, A images. Only after I copy the folder from the library to the new movie, the images will (sometimes!) appear :-( Aren't .swc files meant to be self-contained files, containing the graphical, sound, etc. resources? Or am I missing something in my component developing process? -- http://preferans.de ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How do you tell if an Object is dynamic?
Have you got an example Jamie? Sunil -Original Message- From: Jamie S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 January 2008 01:51 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] How do you tell if an Object is dynamic? I ran into a particular situation where i had a function that took an Object as a parameter. I needed that Object to be an actual Object i.e. dynamic because the function was going to add properties to it. But since everything in ActionScript is an Object I had trouble enforcing this. Is there a way to check to see if an Object is dynamic? Or is there a way to enforce something as an Object rather than a subclass of in Object (which is everthing else)? Jamie ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Extending Flash IDE, from 8 to 9
Hey, I was trying some of my flash IDE panels i made for Flash 8 in Flash 9. Everything seems to work alright, with one exception.. The JSFL functions of flash seem to be run twice. For example fl.getDocumentDOM().open(); will open the windows file select popup.. after selecting the file.. the popup will be opened again. Has anyone got experience with this and/or has a solution? :) With kind regards, Dennis I Sioux ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
Flash 8 or 9 IDE? Haven't done much with Flash 9 really. With the Flash 8 IDE this should just work.. Do you have a sample fla (with just the component) we can have a look at? regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible Hello Muzak, On Jan 7, 2008 10:13 AM, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is.. read the Editing the movie clip part: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/2489.html actually I do that already (sorry, should have mentioned it originally): I have an Assets layer and my graphical assets placed on the 2 frame. Still a frustrating on/off story: the assets aren't visible I also tried setting/removing the checkbox export in 1st frame on the assets, as you suggested in an archived reply... Does anybody know if the checkbox should be set or cleared? Regards Alex ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ScrollPane object questions
invalidate()! That's the ticket I needed. Thanks Christopher! Here is an example, it shows how to set the contentPath as a movieClip. http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/scrollpane_dynamic_mc.htm ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
Hello Muzak, On Jan 7, 2008 3:56 PM, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a sample fla (with just the component) we can have a look at? thank you! It is Flash 9. Sorry, don't have a simple sample case yet. I have now reverted back to a backup copy of my movie which works and reinserted my code changes. It seems to me that Adobe doc is wrong in saying: In most cases, you should deselect Export in First Frame (it is selected by default). - because if you don't select the checkbox, the assets won't be included in the .swc file at all Regards Alex - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible Hello Muzak, On Jan 7, 2008 10:13 AM, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here it is.. read the Editing the movie clip part: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/2489.html actually I do that already (sorry, should have mentioned it originally): I have an Assets layer and my graphical assets placed on the 2 frame. Still a frustrating on/off story: the assets aren't visible I also tried setting/removing the checkbox export in 1st frame on the assets, as you suggested in an archived reply... Does anybody know if the checkbox should be set or cleared? Regards Alex ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- http://preferans.de ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you tell if an Object is dynamic?
I realized the moment i encountered the problem that dynamically
adding a property to an argument was bad form so I went another
direction with it (thanks to all who suggested creating a subclass),
but I asked the question because I thought it was an interesting
problem.
The original function was used to add a unique token to an Object
containing a set of arbitrary parameters. ( here's a simplified
version )
function (theObject:Object) {
theObject.__token = Math.random();
sendVarsToServer(theObject);
}
In the above function, you get an error if a non-dynamic subclass of
Object is passed in.
I think the suggestion to use flash.utils.describeType() was probably
what I was looking for.
Jamie
On Jan 7, 2008 1:59 AM, Sunil Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you got an example Jamie?
Sunil
-Original Message-
From: Jamie S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 January 2008 01:51
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: [Flashcoders] How do you tell if an Object is dynamic?
I ran into a particular situation where i had a function that took an
Object as a parameter. I needed that Object to be an actual Object
i.e. dynamic because the function was going to add properties to it.
But since everything in ActionScript is an Object I had trouble
enforcing this.
Is there a way to check to see if an Object is dynamic? Or is there a
way to enforce something as an Object rather than a subclass of in
Object (which is everthing else)?
Jamie
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Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible
Ah, in that case, the assets are compiled into the swc. The problem is that at the time you're attaching one of the assets, they're not yet available. You'd need to have an instance of the component on stage somewhere, and that frame needs to be (pre)loaded. What they describe (poorly) in the docs is when you deselect the Export.. option, is mainly for preloading purposes. When Export in first frame.. is selected, it is actually loaded before the first frame, breaking any preloader (in case you have one). Using a seperate (external) preloader swf (my preference) fixes that and you can keep using the Export in first frame.. option. With the option unselected you have to jump through a few hoops to make things work properly, including preloading (not worth it IMO). regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Graphical resources in a v2 component - not visible Hello Muzak, On Jan 7, 2008 3:56 PM, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a sample fla (with just the component) we can have a look at? thank you! It is Flash 9. Sorry, don't have a simple sample case yet. I have now reverted back to a backup copy of my movie which works and reinserted my code changes. It seems to me that Adobe doc is wrong in saying: In most cases, you should deselect Export in First Frame (it is selected by default). - because if you don't select the checkbox, the assets won't be included in the .swc file at all Regards Alex ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Is Key Object Changed With New Plugin Update?
This code has worked fine for some years now, but all of a sudden broken.
// track CTRL+5
if (Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL) Key.getCode() == 53) {trace(yes);}
I guess it has to do with a change in the player plugin?
BTW this is AS2
Elia
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[Flashcoders] Zinc port hell
Hello Sorry for the dramatic title. I've got a finished game that was developed in AS3 for the standalone Flash 9 Player. The publisher now wants to migrate the game to run under to a C++ wrapper product to get rid of the right mouse contextual menu on Windows. Since the only commercial product that seems to do this for Mac and PC is Zinc, I gave this a try and was surprised at the disparity between the way the game runs in Zinc vs. the standalone Flash player. Mostly the issues seem to revolve around how external swfs are loaded and handled. After converting the game to use absolute paths, the external swf files fail to load in some cases and in others they load but show up black with a bizarre echo in the audio. Even if I'm able to work around those issues, I'm afraid of what may lay beyond these initial problems. A few questions for those with zinc experience: * Is this a stable/reliable product for AS3 yet? * How much does the actionscipt code need to be tailored to work around zinc idiosyncrasies? (meaning the actionscript itself and not the mdm commands). * To develop for both mac and pc, what is the additional effort here to make it run on the mac? Does the Mac version of zinc have it's own idiosyncrasies that will have to be dealt with? Thanks, August -- - August Gresens Senior Developer Black Hammer Productions, NYC [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] coder/flash-artist collaborations
I'm looking for both general and specific direction on this problem. In general, are there any good resources out there illustrating case studies on how to structure collaborations between coders and flash artists and flash animators? In specific, I've built an application that is entirely AS driven. The graphics are highly modular so that enabling artists to edit the graphics is not a problem, but at present all of the animation is scripted and not at all inspiring. We'd like to open up the process to get some real talent to amp up the animation, but I'm not sure how get the pieces to fit together. For example, we'd like to have a bunch of buttons that contains some images. The buttons can be in a _variable_ location on the interface. When the user click a button it does some kind of dazzling animation and expands and mutates into some other graphic which then resides at some new _variable_ location. So, how do I get the artist build this without scripting the starting and end points? I have a few ideas, but I'm not interested in reinventing the wheel. Of course, this is just one possible thing we'd like to do. What I really need is some case studies. In the meantime, I'll settle for any advice I can get. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Zinc port hell
This will probably only piss you off green (with envy), but at Max in Chicago this year, Scott Peterson show a C++ port to AS3 using the Quake game sourcecode. So Quake running in a .swf. It was pretty freaking amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TKGNS1N1yo Also see this blog post: http://arcanearcade.blogspot.com/2007/10/c-to-actionscript.html I know that doesn't help, but it may smell of hope for the future. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Is Key Object Changed With New Plugin Update?
Works fine here. How / where is it not working for you? Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Zinc port hell
I've found that Zinc has been pretty stable for what I've used it for in Flash 8 so far (unfortunately the product had some blue screen of death effect that I'm not sure if we can chalk that up to DirectX in Zinc or the DRM system we used). Anyway, using Zinc wasn't hell for me. LEARNING to use Zinc was hell for me. I came across so many inaccuracies in the documentation - like differences in the types of objects you get returned from methods or what types of objects you send in a parameter were just plain marked up in the documentation wrong. So a lot of times, I had to figure this stuff out on my own, or look for use cases in the Multidmedia forums. So if all you're doing is looking at the docs, you may want to get some demos, or look at the forums, because you may be doing something wrong and not know it. Orwho knows, it's not so stable for AS3. ben August Gresens wrote: Hello Sorry for the dramatic title. I've got a finished game that was developed in AS3 for the standalone Flash 9 Player. The publisher now wants to migrate the game to run under to a C++ wrapper product to get rid of the right mouse contextual menu on Windows. Since the only commercial product that seems to do this for Mac and PC is Zinc, I gave this a try and was surprised at the disparity between the way the game runs in Zinc vs. the standalone Flash player. Mostly the issues seem to revolve around how external swfs are loaded and handled. After converting the game to use absolute paths, the external swf files fail to load in some cases and in others they load but show up black with a bizarre echo in the audio. Even if I'm able to work around those issues, I'm afraid of what may lay beyond these initial problems. A few questions for those with zinc experience: * Is this a stable/reliable product for AS3 yet? * How much does the actionscipt code need to be tailored to work around zinc idiosyncrasies? (meaning the actionscript itself and not the mdm commands). * To develop for both mac and pc, what is the additional effort here to make it run on the mac? Does the Mac version of zinc have it's own idiosyncrasies that will have to be dealt with? Thanks, August ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] coder/flash-artist collaborations
Hi, I read this article recently - which is about Flex - but it has some useful general points. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/workflows.html Another maybe useful article: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flex2_flash.html I don't think there is a silver bullet for this, but I have found it useful to give the designer template symbols/movieclips with Linkages defined in the past. For example, I have developed and re-used a simple rollover button class which can be linked against various movieclips. The button has a timeline with 4 frame labels, similar to the old Flash Button symbol, but differs in that you can have tweens between the labels and the code will handle playing forwards backwards depending on the state of the button. The designer is given an FLA with this button symbol in and can do what they like with it as long as they keep the frame labels and animate between them - no code on the timeline. I did a similar thing with an Animation class which wraps up a MovieClip and fires events when it reaches the start or end. This seems to be the way I am heading in my workflow and recently I have been working with AS3 in Flash Develop + Flash 8 to create all my resources and Embed them Flex style like Keith Peters says: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=853 To get specific about your variable positions for buttons, you could have 2 buttons, one which which sits in the start position, one at the end and write a component to handle both of these ( a bit like a toggle button), just an idea. The projects I work on are not huge tend only to have a few people involved, so this may not suit your set-up, but it is always useful to know how other people do stuff, so hopefully will get to read some more useful info. Hope it helps. Glen Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm looking for both general and specific direction on this problem. In general, are there any good resources out there illustrating case studies on how to structure collaborations between coders and flash artists and flash animators? In specific, I've built an application that is entirely AS driven. The graphics are highly modular so that enabling artists to edit the graphics is not a problem, but at present all of the animation is scripted and not at all inspiring. We'd like to open up the process to get some real talent to amp up the animation, but I'm not sure how get the pieces to fit together. For example, we'd like to have a bunch of buttons that contains some images. The buttons can be in a _variable_ location on the interface. When the user click a button it does some kind of dazzling animation and expands and mutates into some other graphic which then resides at some new _variable_ location. So, how do I get the artist build this without scripting the starting and end points? I have a few ideas, but I'm not interested in reinventing the wheel. Of course, this is just one possible thing we'd like to do. What I really need is some case studies. In the meantime, I'll settle for any advice I can get. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Preloading images
What have you guys found is the best way to load images in the bg, for example with an image gallery, where once image 1 loads, the rest start loading up in the bg? I've been using an MCL, which loads in the background and then immediately deletes onComplete and starts the next one, but I'm wondering if theres a better way. Or rather, I'm sure there's a better way and I just havent found it yet... ;) .m ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Preloading images
Hi Another approach (if the number and size of the images isn't too great) is to grab the bitmapdata from each one once it's loaded and store that in an array. David What have you guys found is the best way to load images in the bg, for example with an image gallery, where once image 1 loads, the rest start loading up in the bg? I've been using an MCL, which loads in the background and then immediately deletes onComplete and starts the next one, but I'm wondering if theres a better way. Or rather, I'm sure there's a better way and I just havent found it yet... ;) .m ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
