[Flashcoders] ForceSmoothing a movie clip in ActionScript 2
Hi all,
Is there any script for ForceSmoothing a movie clip in ActionScript 2
I am using given below script for smothing a movie clip but it is not
working properly
import flash.display.BitmapData;
function smooth(bt_mc:MovieClip)
{
var bitmap:BitmapData = new BitmapData(bt_mc._width, bt_mc._height, true,
0x00);
bt_mc.attachBitmap(bitmap, 80, auto, true);
bitmap.draw(bt_mc);
}
smooth(bt_mc);
bt_mc.forceSmoothing = true;
Regards
amol
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Re: [Flashcoders] GPU, Direct or Normal?
Please do not blindly enable either new mode (gpu or direct) in your content. Creating a GPU based context in the browser is very expensive and will drain memory and CPU resources to the point where the browser will become unresponsive. It is usually best practice to limit yourself to one SWF per HTML page using these modes. The target should be content taking over most of the page and doing full frame changes like video. Never ever, ever enable this for banners. Plain Flex applications should not use these modes either if they are not doing full screen refreshes. On 29 May 2010 03:23, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: Is that information still current? I was under the impression that much of that was dropped from release players (can the Flash Player make a Direct3D/OpenGL surface from within a browser plugin?). The post also says that content should be specifically designed for GPU if you set wmode to GPU, but doesn't really say very much more, which is the important part. Exactly what considerations should we take when designing for GPU compositing? Kevin N. On 5/28/10 5:23 AM, tom rhodes wrote: http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html google has a lot more too. On 28 May 2010 07:35, Fahim Akhterakhter.fa...@gmail.com wrote: That makes two of us brother. Fahim Akhter Game Developer | White Rabbit Studios | http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/ On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Kevin Newmancapta...@unfocus.com wrote: I'd like a lot more info on this subject as well - general info - when is which mode better, what happens if the GPU isn't supported on the particular hardware, how can I take better advantage of GPU, etc. Kevin N. On 5/24/10 8:28 AM, Fahim Akhter wrote: Hi, In a event driven game with lots of graphics (static essentially ) which mode would you suggest ? Direct/GPU or normal? Fahim Akhter Game Developer | White Rabbit Studios | http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] File Downloads
Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Limited edition releases. Because people obviously can't copy files once they are downloaded. There is no reason to not allow someone who has been granted a copy to get another copy. Unless they do something naughty like violating copyright laws. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] GPU, Direct or Normal?
I think turning on GPU specially for something that would go to a million users would be a bad idea. If its something specific, a video player or say a game with hardcore followers then its a good idea. Fahim Akhter Game Developer | White Rabbit Studios | http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/ On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:27 PM, tom rhodes tom.rho...@gmail.com wrote: Please do not blindly enable either new mode (gpu or direct) in your content. Creating a GPU based context in the browser is very expensive and will drain memory and CPU resources to the point where the browser will become unresponsive. It is usually best practice to limit yourself to one SWF per HTML page using these modes. The target should be content taking over most of the page and doing full frame changes like video. Never ever, ever enable this for banners. Plain Flex applications should not use these modes either if they are not doing full screen refreshes. On 29 May 2010 03:23, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: Is that information still current? I was under the impression that much of that was dropped from release players (can the Flash Player make a Direct3D/OpenGL surface from within a browser plugin?). The post also says that content should be specifically designed for GPU if you set wmode to GPU, but doesn't really say very much more, which is the important part. Exactly what considerations should we take when designing for GPU compositing? Kevin N. On 5/28/10 5:23 AM, tom rhodes wrote: http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html google has a lot more too. On 28 May 2010 07:35, Fahim Akhterakhter.fa...@gmail.com wrote: That makes two of us brother. Fahim Akhter Game Developer | White Rabbit Studios | http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/ On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Kevin Newmancapta...@unfocus.com wrote: I'd like a lot more info on this subject as well - general info - when is which mode better, what happens if the GPU isn't supported on the particular hardware, how can I take better advantage of GPU, etc. Kevin N. On 5/24/10 8:28 AM, Fahim Akhter wrote: Hi, In a event driven game with lots of graphics (static essentially ) which mode would you suggest ? Direct/GPU or normal? Fahim Akhter Game Developer | White Rabbit Studios | http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Font embedding with Regular Bold versions
Thanks mate, but kind of defeats the purpose of choosing a different font than a system standard, need the embedding for correct display. Problem did rear it's ugle head again in another section, despit auto kerning turned off ... working around it for now, it is a wierd one. Cor wrote: It's very simpel. :-) Select the dynamic textfield, click Character Embedding and click don't embed. In AS if you like, set testField.embedFonts = false; -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of dopeco...@hotmail.com Sent: vrijdag 28 mei 2010 2:55 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Font embedding with Regular Bold versions Hi all, I have searched far and wide for the solution on this one, but to no avail. The old chestnut of font issue rears it's head again (reminds me of good old Flash 4 days), the basic scenario is this, and a link to a sample file is below: Two textfields on stage, the first, a static text field using a regular weighting of a font, for example Arial Regular. The second, a dynamic text field, using a bold weighting of the same font, e.g. Arial Bold. The dynamic field has its character embedding set appropriately, but here is the kicker. If I manually type something into this field and publish, all is well in font land .. however if I set it's .text property in AS, the bold text field will not render while the static field is using the regular version of the font. To add more fun and games, if I set the static field to the italic or anything else version of the same font, the dynamic bold field shows fine ... this happens on multiple fonts, the test file below uses Arial in an attempt to have something most people will have on their system. Any ideas at all? .. Even embedding the entire bold font as a library item doesn't work (and is not practical for what it is for), so any help would be most appreciated. Sample file: http://singlenotion.com/tmp/fontTest.zip Cheers Adam ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2892 - datum van uitgifte: 05/23/10 20:26:00 ___ 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
[Flashcoders] Time To Notify Adobe Of a Bug? Please Comment...
Hi;
I sent the following email to this list a couple days ago and nobody commented,
which makes me think that nobody saw a problem/solution, which makes me think
that Adobe's latest Flash CS5 has a bug. So, please consider reviewing the
below and, if necessary, informing me how to inform Adobe of their failure.
TIA,
John
Ok, I've nailed down where the problem is as to why my silly little *.as file
that worked so well before won't work with minor changes in my
latest *.as file. The problem appears to be that Flash freaks out over
different image files! Here's the code, simplified:
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import
flash.text.TextLineMetrics;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextFormatAlign;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import
flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.events.Event;
import
flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
[SWF(backgroundColor=0x565656)]
public class
DeJonghPreloader extends MovieClip
{
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
private var myTextField:TextField = new
TextField();
var imgFlag1:Boolean = new Boolean(false);
public function DeJonghPreloader()
{
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init, false, 0, true);
}
private function init(e:Event)
{
var clientName:TextField = new TextField();
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font =
'Arial';
format.size = 35;
clientName.textColor = 0x023048;
clientName.text = 'Delta Electric';
clientName.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
clientName.setTextFormat(format);
var
nameSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();
nameSprite.x =
stage.stageWidth/2 - 70;
nameSprite.y =
stage.stageHeight/2 - 40;
nameSprite.alpha = 0;
TweenLite.to(nameSprite, 2, {alpha:1});
addChild(nameSprite);
nameSprite.addChild(clientName);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoaded);
loader.load(new URLRequest(images/charles.jpg));
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
loop);
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
addChild(myTextField);
myTextField.width =
250;
myTextField.x = stage.stageWidth/2;
myTextField.y = stage.stageHeight/2;
myTextField.selectable = false;
myTextField.border =
false;
myTextField.borderColor = 0xAA;
myTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
var
myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.color =
0x023048;
myFormat.size = 24;
myFormat.italic = true;
myTextField.defaultTextFormat =
myFormat;
}
private function
imageLoaded(event:Event):void
{
imgFlag1 =
true;
completePreloader();
}
function completePreloader()
{
var
req:URLRequest = new URLRequest('index.py');
navigateToURL(req, '_self');
}
function loop(e:ProgressEvent):void
{
var
perc:Number = e.bytesLoaded/e.bytesTotal;
myTextField.text = Math.ceil(perc*100).toString() + %;
}
}
}
Now, that code works just fine. However, if I change
the image from charles.jpg to left1.png it doesn't work. What
breaks? Who knows? If I put a trace in completePreloader(), it traces,
so one would thing that the URLRequest works, right? Wrong. The page is
never sought, witnessed by the fact that, if charles.jpg is in, an
error is traced on my Mac when trying to find the relative address, but
if left1.png is in, no error. Now, it doesn't matter if it's a png or a jpg,
because the original file that works has a couple pngs as well.
I've gone so far as to copy and rename the working files in the same
directory as the originals, prove they work, copy over my images and
change them and watch this code break. So it _is_ the images that are
causing the problem. But why, o why???
John
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Re: [Flashcoders] Time To Notify Adobe Of a Bug? Please Comment...
On 29/05/2010 14:30, John Singleton wrote: Hi; I sent the following email to this list a couple days ago and nobody commented, which makes me think that nobody saw a problem/solution, which makes me think that Adobe's latest Flash CS5 has a bug. So, please consider reviewing the below and, if necessary, informing me how to inform Adobe of their failure. TIA, John Ok, I've nailed down where the problem is as to why my silly little *.as file that worked so well before won't work with minor changes in my latest *.as file. The problem appears to be that Flash freaks out over different image files! Here's the code, simplified: If you are going to provide a simplified example, you can simplify it a LOT more than you have done. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Font embedding with Regular Bold versions
You could try adding your fonts in the library: Right click in library, add New Font, set your settings and load it like a normal Class HTH cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of dopeco...@hotmail.com Sent: zaterdag 29 mei 2010 15:25 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Font embedding with Regular Bold versions Thanks mate, but kind of defeats the purpose of choosing a different font than a system standard, need the embedding for correct display. Problem did rear it's ugle head again in another section, despit auto kerning turned off ... working around it for now, it is a wierd one. Cor wrote: It's very simpel. :-) Select the dynamic textfield, click Character Embedding and click don't embed. In AS if you like, set testField.embedFonts = false; -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of dopeco...@hotmail.com Sent: vrijdag 28 mei 2010 2:55 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Font embedding with Regular Bold versions Hi all, I have searched far and wide for the solution on this one, but to no avail. The old chestnut of font issue rears it's head again (reminds me of good old Flash 4 days), the basic scenario is this, and a link to a sample file is below: Two textfields on stage, the first, a static text field using a regular weighting of a font, for example Arial Regular. The second, a dynamic text field, using a bold weighting of the same font, e.g. Arial Bold. The dynamic field has its character embedding set appropriately, but here is the kicker. If I manually type something into this field and publish, all is well in font land .. however if I set it's .text property in AS, the bold text field will not render while the static field is using the regular version of the font. To add more fun and games, if I set the static field to the italic or anything else version of the same font, the dynamic bold field shows fine ... this happens on multiple fonts, the test file below uses Arial in an attempt to have something most people will have on their system. Any ideas at all? .. Even embedding the entire bold font as a library item doesn't work (and is not practical for what it is for), so any help would be most appreciated. Sample file: http://singlenotion.com/tmp/fontTest.zip Cheers Adam ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2892 - datum van uitgifte: 05/23/10 20:26:00 ___ 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 Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2900 - datum van uitgifte: 05/27/10 20:30:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Time To Notify Adobe Of a Bug? Please Comment...
Like Paul said, I'm not going to read all that code - but do you have different file permissions on the files? Are your PNGs encoded in an odd way? Are they corrupt? Etc. On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote: On 29/05/2010 14:30, John Singleton wrote: Hi; I sent the following email to this list a couple days ago and nobody commented, which makes me think that nobody saw a problem/solution, which makes me think that Adobe's latest Flash CS5 has a bug. So, please consider reviewing the below and, if necessary, informing me how to inform Adobe of their failure. TIA, John Ok, I've nailed down where the problem is as to why my silly little *.as file that worked so well before won't work with minor changes in my latest *.as file. The problem appears to be that Flash freaks out over different image files! Here's the code, simplified: If you are going to provide a simplified example, you can simplify it a LOT more than you have done. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Hi List, I'm working on a flash dropdown menu for an html site (AS3 FP10). After a wasted Friday and Saturday morning I finally figured out how to get the menus appear above html items in Firefox without obscuring mouse input on items below them (in case anyone's interested, using ExternalIntertface to change the height of the menu bar Object with JavaScript seems to be the only way). (And yes, it would have been better to use a CSS menu, or even dhtml for the animation, but my client insisted on Flash). But now I'm having another Firefox related issue - sometimes interacting with other page elements, or even scrolling the page, seems to lose the focus on the Flash object, and the rollovers stop working until the swf receives a click. It only seems to happen in Firefox, so far - IE8 behaves as expected, and I've yet to test on other browsers (oh joy...). So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? Thanks, Karina ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] File Downloads
Limited edition releases. If it can be represented by a sequence of zeroes and ones, I submit to you that it's not a limited edition. That only really makes sense for physical objects. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] File Downloads
Yes the users will have gone through a registration and login to get to the downloads. The files will be served from MySQL and output to HTML of Flash. This is for a small project of limited edition audio or pictures or scripts, etc. Hens, I'd like to limit each user in the allotted 150 to be able to download (whatever it is) only once. But up to 150 users can get in on it kind of thing. I think you'd be better off simply allowing the logged-in users access to the download for a fairly short period of time - a week, or maybe just a couple of days. Downloads can fail, after all. This is the approach that some epublishers use. For example, I buy a decent number of books from Manning. When I buy them, or later when they've been updated, I get an email with a link good for a week. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ForceSmoothing a movie clip in ActionScript 2
Hi,
You might wanna try it without a recursive loop. bitmap is now attached to
bt_mc, and then you are drawing bt_mc into bitmap...
In addition although it's as2, it's only player 9 and up.
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Amol a...@yonearth.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any script for ForceSmoothing a movie clip in
ActionScript 2
I am using given below script for smothing a movie clip but it is
not working properly
import flash.display.BitmapData;
function smooth(bt_mc:MovieClip)
{
var bitmap:BitmapData = new BitmapData(bt_mc._width, bt_mc._height, true,
0x00);
bt_mc.attachBitmap(bitmap, 80, auto, true);
bitmap.draw(bt_mc);
}
smooth(bt_mc);
bt_mc.forceSmoothing = true;
Regards
amol
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Re: [Flashcoders] ticker
Not sure what your ticker looks like, but a very simply solution I sometimes use is to place 2 copies of the complete ticker with all elements in a row, and then I simply update those two while modding the x positions of the ticker, instead of modding x's of every item in the ticker separately. Might be completely different from what you are doing, but it reduces the wrapping code for the items in a ticker to about 1 line ;). On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM, John R. Sweeney Jr jr.swee...@comcast.net wrote: Like breadcrumbs. :) on 5/28/10 10:14 AM, Glen Pike at g...@engineeredarts.co.uk wrote: If you then get stuck trying to do stuff, we help a bit more ;) John R. Sweeney Jr. Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc 945 Washington Blvd. Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 Office/Fax: 847.310.5959 Cellular: 847.651.4469 www.ondemandinteractive.com ___ 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] Regain stage focus
Karina Steffens wrote: So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? AFAIK, no, it's not possible. It's a security issue--less scrupulous people could wreak havoc by forcing focus on a .swf. Anyway, it rais too much in Dublin ;-) Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect
Hi Andrew, this is a wild guess, but I once had a similar issue, though it's long ago and can't quite remember. The thing was that there was a difference in the ComboBox implementation between Flash MX2004 and Flash 8 I think, although it wasn't documented. You would first have to pinpoint of course if that is indeed the issue. It might also be the issue that some v2 components need to be present in the parent swf in order to be used succesfully in child swf's. If the class difference is the problem, you could try copy and pasting your flash versions combobox.as (with which your application does work) into a combobox class of your own, extending the old one for polymorphism and overriding everything, and then set yourCombo.__proto__ to YourComboBoxClass.prototype. Just a hack to see if that is where the problem lies :). regards, JC On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: We've built an AS2 application that can be embedded into various LMSs, etc. Curiously, when embedded in Adobe Connect (also written in AS2), the ComboBoxes aren't rendered correctly. Rather than dropping down, the menus are displaying above the widget, even though there is plenty of room below. Even worse, only the first two rows are displayed, so to select any other rows you have to use the arrow keys. My guess is that the ComboBox is trying to determine how much room it has to render its menus, and that this is going awry. _lockRoot is set to true I think this might be handled by the PopUpManager, perhaps by its setSize function, but I can't figure out where this is defined. It's simply listed as a property: var setSize:Function; Any ideas? Thanks! ___ 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
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RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
You mean rains, right? :P So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Karina -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 29 May 2010 6:29 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Karina Steffens wrote: So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? AFAIK, no, it's not possible. It's a security issue--less scrupulous people could wreak havoc by forcing focus on a .swf. Anyway, it rais too much in Dublin ;-) Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ 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] Regain stage focus
Karina Steffens wrote: You mean rains, right? :P Darn! My e-mail program drops keystrokes. Don't know why--I'm using the GMail Web interface. I just type too fast. So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? No, not as far as I know. You can set the focus on an input field, of course, but that won't take effect until the user gives your .swf focus. You understand the security issues, so I won't belabor them. I've run into the same problem. I'm writing a math game where the user's response time is important. If they have to click on the browser window before typing the answer, that skews the results. We got around it by having the user log in, so the browser window should have focus when the problem is presented. If the user switches to another program--say, during the intoduction--we have no way of getting focus back until the user clicks on the browser. I'm working with a couple of the best in the business--Mark Jonkman and Raman Pfaf--and they both tell me the same. And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Not much. I assume you've checked the usual culprits--the URL is formed correctly, your .swf isn't busy in a loop, no security issues involved, etc. I'd use the debug Flash player and FlashDevelop to trace out what happens when the button is clicked. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ForceSmoothing a movie clip in ActionScript 2
Hi
I have used martijndevisser ImageLoader.as and it has smoothing and
it works with FP 7 8.
Google martijndevisser ImageLoader.as
I believe there is even a AS3 version now.
He has an interesting way about getting the image smoothed.
The originally loaded image by the end is removed and a bitmap is
copied into a blank MC.
I have used it on a few of my projects and they date back to FP 7, I
think even FP 6. Been a minute.
He doesn't use a directive forceSmooth, that may be FP 9.
HTH
Karl
On May 29, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Hans Wichman wrote:
Hi,
You might wanna try it without a recursive loop. bitmap is now
attached to
bt_mc, and then you are drawing bt_mc into bitmap...
In addition although it's as2, it's only player 9 and up.
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Amol a...@yonearth.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any script for ForceSmoothing a movie clip in
ActionScript 2
I am using given below script for smothing a movie clip
but it is
not working properly
import flash.display.BitmapData;
function smooth(bt_mc:MovieClip)
{
var bitmap:BitmapData = new BitmapData(bt_mc._width,
bt_mc._height, true,
0x00);
bt_mc.attachBitmap(bitmap, 80, auto, true);
bitmap.draw(bt_mc);
}
smooth(bt_mc);
bt_mc.forceSmoothing = true;
Regards
amol
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RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
This is getting weirder by the moment... It's not even a question of regaining focus anymore, but why is it losing it in the first place? When first going to the page, the rollovers work fine with no need to activate. Then if you click somewhere on the page (or even a different window) without scrolling, it's still ok. But after scrolling the page (scrollbar or scroll wheel), the rollovers stop responding until you click somewhere in the movie. More than that, in Safari (Windows) I can't even click anywhere anymore - it becomes completely unresponsive. HOWEVER - I found plenty of examples of flash movies embedded in html that didn't do it, including some of my own. I'm using SwfObject2 to embed the flash (in a CMS Made Simple Framework). Could that have anything to do with it? The generated object looks like this: object style=visibility: visible; data=uploads/theme/menu.swf name=menu id=flash-menu type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=900 align=left height=35param value=true name=playparam value=true name=loopparam value=false name=menuparam value=high name=qualityparam value=showall name=scaleparam value=t name=salignparam value=transparent name=wmodeparam value=#FF name=bgcolorparam value=false name=devicefontparam value=true name=seamlesstabbingparam value=false name=swliveconnectparam value=false name=allowfullscreenparam value=sameDomain name=allowscriptaccessparam value=all name=allownetworking/object script type=text/javascript Karina PS: The links problem is solved. Using an attribute instead of an element in the XML to store the url did it. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 29 May 2010 7:06 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Karina Steffens wrote: You mean rains, right? :P Darn! My e-mail program drops keystrokes. Don't know why--I'm using the GMail Web interface. I just type too fast. So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? No, not as far as I know. You can set the focus on an input field, of course, but that won't take effect until the user gives your .swf focus. You understand the security issues, so I won't belabor them. I've run into the same problem. I'm writing a math game where the user's response time is important. If they have to click on the browser window before typing the answer, that skews the results. We got around it by having the user log in, so the browser window should have focus when the problem is presented. If the user switches to another program--say, during the intoduction--we have no way of getting focus back until the user clicks on the browser. I'm working with a couple of the best in the business--Mark Jonkman and Raman Pfaf--and they both tell me the same. And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Not much. I assume you've checked the usual culprits--the URL is formed correctly, your .swf isn't busy in a loop, no security issues involved, etc. I'd use the debug Flash player and FlashDevelop to trace out what happens when the button is clicked. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ 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] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect
Thanks Hans. So, the problem might be that the ComboBox class that in my movie is never getting loaded because a same-named version is already present in the parent (Adobe Connect). I've seen this before. Question: If I have my own version of the ComboBox, say CB2 and it extends all the usual chain of classes, but those extended classes are already present in the parent, when CB2 gets loaded will it be extending the already loaded classes, or will it bring with it its own chain of classes? Hans Wichman wrote: Hi Andrew, this is a wild guess, but I once had a similar issue, though it's long ago and can't quite remember. The thing was that there was a difference in the ComboBox implementation between Flash MX2004 and Flash 8 I think, although it wasn't documented. You would first have to pinpoint of course if that is indeed the issue. It might also be the issue that some v2 components need to be present in the parent swf in order to be used succesfully in child swf's. If the class difference is the problem, you could try copy and pasting your flash versions combobox.as (with which your application does work) into a combobox class of your own, extending the old one for polymorphism and overriding everything, and then set yourCombo.__proto__ to YourComboBoxClass.prototype. Just a hack to see if that is where the problem lies :). regards, JC On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Sinning and...@learningware.comwrote: We've built an AS2 application that can be embedded into various LMSs, etc. Curiously, when embedded in Adobe Connect (also written in AS2), the ComboBoxes aren't rendered correctly. Rather than dropping down, the menus are displaying above the widget, even though there is plenty of room below. Even worse, only the first two rows are displayed, so to select any other rows you have to use the arrow keys. My guess is that the ComboBox is trying to determine how much room it has to render its menus, and that this is going awry. _lockRoot is set to true I think this might be handled by the PopUpManager, perhaps by its setSize function, but I can't figure out where this is defined. It's simply listed as a property: var setSize:Function; Any ideas? Thanks! ___ 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 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
