Re: [Flashcoders] Rotation
Beno - I would suggest going to Adobe.com - Communities - Forums - Flash - ActionScript... that is a more appropriate place to ask newbie questions, and there are a lot of helpful people on there. This list is quite advanced... I'd venture to say that most folks on here don't even use the Flash IDE. Dave - www.offroadfire.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] Matrix + BitmapData - what exactly happens?
Jared, the 1x1 trick doesn't really work that well in Flash as you may have
already found out. I was using that myself for a project until I learned
that for some images it was pretty far off. So, I went to a more traditional
method - getting the average color of each pixel in the image, which
actually is faster than you might think. Here's the method I am using:
private function averageRGB( source:BitmapData ):uint
{
var red:Number = 0;
var green:Number = 0;
var blue:Number = 0;
var count:int = 0;
var pixel:Number;
for (var x:int = 0; x source.width; x++)
{
for (var y:int = 0; y source.height; y++)
{
pixel = source.getPixel(x, y);
red += pixel 16 0xFF;
green += pixel 8 0xFF;
blue += pixel 0xFF;
count++;
}
}
red /= count;
green /= count;
blue /= count;
return red 16 | green 8 | blue;
}
HTH
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Re: [Flashcoders] I am stuck
1000.00? I'd have asked five times that minimum for 50 hours of work or I wouldn't have done it - especially in a rush and working in the evenings. You're getting like $20 an hour... and you still have to pay taxes on it. Not that I haven't done stuff on the cheap before, but it's been a while. If you're learning as you go, then certainly cheaper is ok, but I'd still not go below $75 an hour. FWIW, I use AMFPHP / remoting to load data from a DB. It's fast and you get native data types. PS - I think Glen had good stuff to say. Dave - www.offroadfire.com 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
[Flashcoders] WTH am I doing wrong - LoadVars - PHP
OK, I cannot see the issue, and have Googled what I can, but have not found the answer. I have a URL like so: http://1.2.3.4/~theredm1/cms/images/getfolders_rec2.php It's a php script that returns some XML. Works fine in the browser (of course I changed the IP). But in Flash, using a LoadVars.sendAndLoad() I am getting an 'Error opening URL'. The only thing I can even begin to think it is, is the ~, but I can't remove it... Otherwise, this file worked fine on another server from Flash. Dave - www.offroadfire.com 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] WTH am I doing wrong - LoadVars - PHP
I had to add a: System.security.allowDomain(http://1.2.3.4/~theredm1/;); to my code... This isn't something I normally have to do, and am not entirely sure why I need to with this new server. Anyone care to expound? Dave - www.offroadfire.com 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] Overlay problem
To disable all underlying links, you can stick a large movie clip on a
layer, make it invisible, or semi-transparent like in the example, and give
it an empty onRelease:
blockerClip.onRelease = function(){}
You can do: delete blockerClip.onRelease;
to allow underlying links to function again.
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[Flashcoders] Web Cam question
Thought someone here may have some experience with this - my client has a Canon VB-C10 web cam. It's an older model not for sale anymore far as I can tell. From Flash, we'll just be opening a window to display the Java applet the camera uses. That is fine. However - what I'm trying to do is be able to get a current still image from the camera, as a jpeg, to use inside Flash as a thumbnail. They supply a 'Glimpse' application that is somewhat what I need, but I can't see how to get an actual image format out of it. Anyone have any experience with this camera or can maybe point me in the right direction? Dave - www.offroadfire.com 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] Web Cam question
PS - given the camera is old, can anyone recommend a good web cam that can stream video, as well as post still images in modern file formats that Flash could grab? The camera(s) will be placed at various construction sites, so must have their own server, and be weather proof and such... thanks Dave - www.offroadfire.com 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
[Flashcoders] Remove Flash on a page?
Does anyone know an easy way to remove a Flash object from a page? It's embedded using SWFObject, so within a Div tag. I'm calling a JS on the page through ExternalInterface and have not had any luck thus far... it's for an ad's close button. 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] Tweening Engines for AS3
I prefer Tweener, and if you've ever used Fuse you'll like it's syntax. It's also quite small - adds about 8K. 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] clean scripting
So yea...WTF? I can't believe after my years of AS2 coding that it would have taken me this long to notice. I think I muttered those exact words. Bizzare behavior. Though I don't think I have ever run into it. Someone taught me long ago not to initialize class variables in their definitions. So I just never have done that. Really good to know though. 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] When is 1 not 1?
When 1 had line feeds... Well, I'm not quite sure how yet but somehow I'm getting a couple of line feeds in my def variable when it comes back to the LoadVars.onLoad. I do: $defUser = 1; echo(im=.$fName.def=.$defUser); But I found I get 1 plus a couple of line feeds... I sure like AMFPHP a whole lot better. 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
[Flashcoders] When is 1 not 1?
OK, it's late and I must be an idiot because I am not figuring this out.
This is from an old project - where I used _global and frames.. hey it's
like three years ago. :)
relevant PHP called with LoadVars:
$defUser = 1;
echo(im=.$fName.def=.$defUser);
And in Flash on frame A:
rv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean){
if (success) {
_global.userData.isDefault = this[def];
trace(isDefault: +this[def]);
It traces isDefault: 1 as I expect it should...
Next Frame - frame B I go:
trace(_global.userData.isDefault: +_global.userData.isDefault);
if(_global.userData.isDefault == 1){
trace(_global.userData.isDefault == 1: true);
}else{
trace(_global.userData.isDefault == 1: false);
}
It traces _global.userData.isDefault: 1
and: _global.userData.isDefault == 1: false
I cannot figure out why it isn't true. I have tried in my LoadVars doing:
_global.userData.isDefault = String(this[def]); to make sure it's 1, and
I've tried testing for the number 1, but it's still false.
Service Capture shows the 1 being returned properly from PHP... maybe I
should not use 1...
WTH?
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[Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem
I let users download an image - using FileRef.download - it works fine, except that some users are not getting the .jpg appended to the file name. I've tried using issuing a default file name, and just letting FileRef make the name from the download URL and just the image name appears - minus the extension. I tested here (XP - IE and FireFox) and I see the .jpg on both browsers. My client does not see the extension - XP, IE - same version I have (she says). Odd. Anyone else seen this? I'm not sure what to tell her... published from CS3 as AS2/Player 8 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] FileReference.download problem
Has she turned Hide extensions for known file types on? - Windows Explorer-Tools-FolderOptions [View] tab - in the list??? I feel silly. That almost has to be it... I didn't even think of that. Thank 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] How did they do it?? A particular flash site.
I remember someone saying that the developper told him that: *Scenes were rendered using Maya* That was me. I emailed them and asked. Yeah it's very well done, no doubt. 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] MS Access?
Thanks guys, much appreciated. I will tell them that they need to use a real database. They currently don't even have a site and were asking about hosting too. All the top hosts I looked at (IX, Lunar, BlueHost, HostMonster, etc) don't even offer Access as an option - which makes telling them they can't use it even easier. 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
[Flashcoders] MS Access?
Sorry for that title... I didn't mean to do that. I have a client who wants to use Access for their database - yeesh... Is it possible to use AMFPHP (Flash8) with MS Access? Is Access SQL capable? Any decent hosts that offer PHP and Access? Seems unlikely... Should I just tell them to man-up and use MySQL? 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] Scott A Mowry is out of the office.
I have a client who wants to use Access for their database - yeesh... Is it possible to use AMFPHP (Flash8) with MS Access? Is Access SQL capable? 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] Simple compression algo?
Hi Juan - I don't think it's assigning the string that's slow. It's calling sendAndLoad that is slow, because I think when you make the call the data is urlencoded or something. I've already found that, and am not calling it. I was simply outputting the before and after string lengths to see how Base64 and LZW worked. Could be the class I was using, but either way it was way too slow to be useful to me. My simple array compressor is nearly instant and on some images it's getting me an 80%+ reduction in the array size, which is more than enough for my needs. On average it's only around a 20% or so reduction, but that's still good enough as my images are not very big. I think you're idea is great, and for AS3 a definite, but in AS2 I fear it's just going to be too slow. Plus, I've already spent far too long on this little aside and should be moving on, though I do enjoy these kinds of things. If you want to see some of my test results, I posted a little article on my blog: www.dmennenoh.blogspot.com Thanks much! 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] Simple compression algo?
Sounds a bit like Run Length Encoding Right, I mentioned that. :) I kept it simple to be able to reconstruct the image from it more easily in PHP. Gotta try the base64 thing next. 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] Save MC as JPG
Nobody? I am still not figuring this out. Using getPixel() on certain clips is returning #FF when it's cleary not a white pixel. But it makes no sense. On one clip it works, on another it doesn't. Both are just movie clips containing imported bitmap images. I've searched for problems with getPixel() but haven't found anything regarding returning white when it shouldn't. This is frustrating. 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] Save MC as JPG
OK -it seems to be the BitmapData.draw() method that is failing. On just certain images (though all are jpeg's imported into Flash and turned into MC's) draw() is copying an all white image, and on some it works. It doesn't seem to be a size issue since some rather large images are working. 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] Save MC as JPG
Sorry... I have it figured out now. Some of the clips I was given had their registration points at bottom left, instead of top left. Changing them all to top-left cured the issue. Funny how those little things can trip you up for a day! 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
[Flashcoders] Simple compression algo?
Hi all, I've been working on allowing users to dowload a jpeg from a movieClip in AS2 and came up with a simple, yet novel compression idea, that's a bit like RLE but not quite. Basically it is this - analyze the image pixel by pixel to get the hex color codes into an array. Then, make a new array the same length as the colors array, but filled with - so it's full of nulls. I then iterate the colors array and if the current color is the same as the previous color, I don't add it to the new array - otherwise I do. So if I have: [ff, ff, ff, aa, ff, aa, aa, aa, aa] the new array would be [ff, , , aa, ff, aa, , , ] It makes it easy to reconstruct too, and it's taken about 7 seconds off in my tests. Saving a 300x320 image went from about 26sec to now 19sec. It's not huge, but everything is something... 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
[Flashcoders] Save MC as JPG
Does this make sense to anyone - I have a jpeg outputter working for the most part. However, I just swapped out my test clip, for a different image and it seems any other image (MC) I try to use just shows up as solid white - with the correct dimensions though. I tried a couple different ones same thing... drop back in my original test and it works. Anyone seen something like this? 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] LoadVars and SQL Query issue
You can escape() the string in Flash, then use urldecode() on it in PHP. 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
[Flashcoders] LoadVars maximum?
I've been looking and looking and cannot find the info... I am trying to send an array containing many thousands of entries to a php page for db storage. However when I get too much info into a loadvars property, it just stops working and sits there. What's the max I can send in one LV property? I am doing toString() on the array, but I guess I need to break the array into multiple arrays - just wondering what granularity if best for speed and such. 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] LoadVars maximum?
Are you sending GET or POST ? I _just_ realize about 1/2 sec before reading your reply that since I'm testing from the IDE, I'm using GET regardless, and that I must test this from a browser... sometimes... 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] LoadVars maximum?
OK, I got it working. It was because I was testing from the IDE. Thanks! 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
[Flashcoders] Gateway URL to AMFPHP generating error...
No clue here, this just started happening - it's been working. From Flash, when I try and call a AMFPHP service I get an error opening URL message - pointing to my gateway url. If I go to the gateway URL in FireFox I get the message: amfphp and this gateway are installed correctly. You may now connect to this gateway from Flash. The function I am trying to call is a simple test at the moment, that does nothing but return true. Anyone know why calling the service would generate the url error, but going to the url works? This is the first time I've really ever had any problems with amfphp, and like I said it was working just a couple hours ago. I'm perplexed. 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] Gateway URL to AMFPHP generating error...
Try to get hold of Charles the proxy debugger, it is really good for watching comms between Flash the server and you can see all your NetDebug messages. Have you tried using the AMFPHP service browser to call the commands to see what happens. Are you calling a gateway on http://www.domain.com/gateway.php from http://domain.com/flash.swf Thanks much Glen. I use ServiceCapture instead of Charles... is Charles better? The service browser was working. I am doing this from the IDE right now... And for whatever reason it has just started working again. I'm not sure... I rebooted. Still no go but still fine if I went right to the URL of the gateway though... so I started up ServiceCapture and it just started working. And continues to. I got nothing... 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] MultiLanguage
Thanks much for the great advice. I'm getting there... However, soon as I include the Chinese glyphs my swf gets to near 5MB. Is there an easy way to embed only the chinese glyphs in a separate swf and load them only if needed? AS2... With Cryllic, Hangul, and everything else I get a respectable 300K, but the chinese adds too much to just leave it in. 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] MultiLanguage
One solution would be to avoid embeding the chinese fonts if you could - depends on what you want for your project Except I am embedding, so I can anti-alias. I'm not sure how I could embed all the other glyphs and have the chinese still render at all. 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] MultiLanguage
Can you get by with just the Level 1 characters? I'm guessing you probably can. Those 5,000+ characters are probably enough, unless you're doing something really specialized. I'd think so, but it doesn't seem to be the case. In my interface for example, I need to support Chinese simplified and traditional - and in my tests some characters are not appearing if I just choose the traditional level 1 support. So I need to include support for both which is like 18,000 glyphs. For some reason traditional is 5609 glyphs and 'simplified' is 13000+. Simple my ass. Hmmm - a thought... maybe I can just do the 5609 and then add in missing characters as needed. So far, there only a couple that are not showing if I use only the level 1 support. 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] MultiLanguage
Little update - I guess it is the font. I tried Lucida Sans Unicode and now the Chinese displays OK. However the Korean still shows boxes... Geez. I was hoping to not have to buy the Arial Unicode font, it's not on my system... 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] MultiLanguage
It's essential that you use a Unicode font--I use Arial Unicode for Asian languages, because it has all the languages I typically need. Embed the font, of course. Gotcha. This is fairly new to me so I've been reading as much as I can. I found that true type fonts, like regular Arial, adhere to Unicode standards. In Flash, if I use Arial I can embed Korean (Hangul), and a few different Chinese glyphs. However, I cannot see the incoming UTF-8 encoded chinese text from my XML. Russian and all my other languages are working fine. But I get squares when trying to display Chinese or Korean, even though the glyphs are embedded for both. Hmmm... do I need a different font (Arial 'Unicode') or am I doing something wrong? Thanks much. 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] MultiLanguage
Thanks again for all the advice. Pete, I definitely like that shared fonts tip. I have one more question - Chinese and Korean seem to be the only stickers on this one. However I installed the east asian language support for XP. I then went to BabelFish and translated Hello into Chinese simp, and then copy/pasted into Flash. Worked a treat - where before I installed support it just pasted rubbish. The swf shows the chinese properly on another machine in the office as well - a Vista machine. Haven't tried it elsewhere but so far so good. Any tips here are most appreciated. 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
[Flashcoders] MultiLanguage
I may be doing an app that has to be deployed in various languages, and I'm trying to find a good method of doing it. I guess my main issue is that the interface is Flash, and would be created by a designer. Content is pretty much all external, but things like button text, tool tip text, etc. are put in place by the designer. I'd thought of just making different interface 'shells' for the various languages, but that'd be more difficult to maintain. What'd be perfect is language plugins but then I'm not quite sure on how to handle sizing problems - especially with certain languages like chinese. Just looking for some guidance. 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] MultiLanguage
Right, thanks. I realize that, my concern is still sizing issues though. This will be an app that is 'pretty' it has nice looking buttons and such. If everything could be scrollable text fields I would have no problem. Consider something as something as simple as 'stop', which is something like 'anschlag' in german. Doubling the character count in a field can make a big diff for formatting... 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] MultiLanguage
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have thought of Flex, but have not used before, so I wouldn't feel comfortable. I like the idea of just leaving room in the design. Some testing will be required, but this may work. Anyone recommend a good translation service? It may be upwards of eight languages - but it's not a lot of text... I think the Help will be the most - much of it will be single words used for buttons. 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
[Flashcoders] FlashVar question
This is one of those that I feel I should know, or be able to figure out - but I'm on a deadline, it's late, and I'm sick of Googling. So here goes... On our server, sometimes when I go to a url, the www is removed. Normally this is not an issue, but on this particular project it seems to hose my query parameters, that are injected into the Flash with SWFObject. Example: This url doesn't work properly: http://blurredistinction.com/test/albany/?door=ultrasecurefeature=6 However, this one does - only diff being the www: http://www.blurredistinction.com/test/albany/?door=ultrasecurefeature=6 Also, if I just type the following url into the browser: www.blurredistinction.com/test/albany It goes to the page, but becomes: http://blurredistinction.com/test/albany/ The www is removed... This hasn't been an issue until now. I've noticed the www being removed but have never taken the time to figure out why. Now, it seems I need to. Clues for the clueless? 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] FlashVar question
Thanks. Odd... I was just talking with tech support, and they told me they had to investigate further. But I just tried the top link again, and indeed the video opens. It wasn't working, I swear. I didn't have an .htaccess in place, so I am not sure what they did - they told me they did nothing. The only stuff I've ever put in any .htaccess anyway was to block minijegos. What would pull off the www? 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] 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] Software Patent Question
Thanks, for the opinions. I have to agree with Charles on this - the patent is bunk. I just wanted to hear it from someone else. Makes me want to make an open-source makeover engine. It might be something to do in all my free-time. Heh 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
[Flashcoders] Software Patent Question
Question - as a software developer, are we free to create anything we want if we use our own, from scratch, code? For instance, we created a Flash based Virtual Makeover application a couple years back. We may make a new one for a new client but our old client has issue. Evidently they invented this makeover system, and even have a patent: http://tinyurl.com/2yxj8v But there are other examples of such systems. Maybe they're not identical, but the good ones work much the same. To me, it's utterly ridiculos that I could be stopped from writing any kind of software. I could make a Riven clone called Raven if I wanted, couldn't I? Anyone have any input? 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] Site effect
I emailed the guy at Sennep who did those effects and he said they are pre-rendered in Maya and then shaded frame by frame in Flash - very time consuming, and I agree - beautiful. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Take movieclips from one mc and attach to another
I don't think having the class extend MovieClip is the right way to do this.
I'd just create a class and pass it an array of linkage names in which to
attach. Try this:
class Ellipse
{
function Ellipse(attachTo:MovieClip, linkageArray:Array)
{
var N:Number = linkageArray.length;
var A:Number = 150;
var B:Number = 50;
var X:Number = 200;
var Y:Number = 150;
var GR:Number = Math.PI / 180;
var ref:MovieClip;
for (var i:Number = 0; i N; i++) {
ref = attachTo.attachMovie(linkageArray[i], linkageArray[i], i);
ref.alpha = 0+i*(360/N);
ref.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.alpha += (_root._xmouse - X) / 100;
this._x = X + A * Math.cos(this.alpha * GR);
this._y = this._xscale = this._yscale = Y + B * Math.sin(this.alpha *
GR);
this.swapDepths(this._y);
};
}
}
}
Then in Flash pass the constructor an attach to clip, and an array with
linkage names.
var e:Ellipse = new Ellipse(this,
[sym_1,sym_2,sym_3,sym_4,sym_5,sym_6,sym_7]);
PS - this way you can use a variable number of clips also - you don't need
to use seven.
HTH
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Re: [Flashcoders] Big size Image and Thumbnail
To avoid loading twice times the image (first in 100% and second in thumbnail navigation image) ... how could i copy content of first movieclip to second one with fixed size? You can't really, but since the image is cached once it's downloaded the first time, loading it again into the thumbnail will be nearly instant. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Intro to OOP using ActionScript: patterns derail!
How do you handle onLoad's famous scope? ... It is not magic or advanced. If a pattern was shown to a new programmer without giving it a fancy name, they would just accept it as the best way to do the task and would never give it moment's thought. Right. Delegate - ie Proxy. I agree. I wasn't saying patterns shouldn't be taught, or used - I doubt you could teach a Flash class these days without teaching Observer, but you might not ever call it that. In fact, I wonder who does call it that in a class? Actually, the more I think about it, I think for students it might be best not to call these patterns and just teach them. Then, once they know how to use them, tell them what they are. It's a bit like teaching encapsulation I think - if you just show your students how to write classes, and they see how classes work for organizing code, they will likely just use them. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Intro to OOP using ActionScript
.I do not believe that starting people out doing things the wrong way is ever a good start. Teach OOP from the day one. Not as a name or a theory but as a normal way to program. Right on Ron. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Intro to OOP using ActionScript
Of course inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, etc. come much later, and design patterns even later. No one would dispute that, I think. I'd disagree a little. Encapsulation especially, is a really simple concept. It's about organization and teaching students to stay organize - ie to keep cats in one class and dogs in another is not advanced - no more so than having them build a function that can be reused. Lots of programmers never need design patterns as they don't help much unless your architecting large apps, and lots of Flash programmers aren't developing those kinds of apps. Keeping your code organized however should be taught from day one and certain oop concepts are perfect for that. It's pretty awesome to show students something like a utility class that might store a url for a php script - and use that script in a bunch of movies... then show them how one simple change in the class affects every movie. This is the kind of thing they will appreciate and make use of. Newbies figure out templates in Dreamweaver... sticking code in a class is about the same. I typically use a combination of OOP and procedural - keeping code pertinent to a given movie in that movie if it makes sense, while using classes to store code I use in multiple movies. I usually find it pretty awkward to try and objectify an entire project - it just doesn't help. I find the combo works quite well for me - and besides, it's still all oop if you think about it... Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Dang IE...
It's a problem with External Interface under IE. Actually it was not. ExternalInterface works fine... It was a problem with SWFObject - in that I had the name of the object's ID set to that of the div. IE didn't like that I guess. All fixed now, but thanks. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Dang IE...
Anyone seen this? In IE I am getting this error: Line: 1, Char: 86, Object doesn't support this property or method, Code:0 Page validates with the W3 school's validator service. Works without error in FF. Works fine in IE, but generates this error that I cannot figure out, and my client is not liking it... The URL: http://65.211.160.184 Still in testing...but almost ready to launch... Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Backend compiled Java or scripted PHP?
I guess it depends on what you know and what you need. PHP is no more harder to maintain than ActionScript - it all depends on who's coding it. Personally, I really like PHP - the syntax is similar enough to ActionScript that development in it is quite straightforward for an AS person. If you're making executables then Java of course would be better, but if you're creating server-side stuff for Flash movies then I'd recommend PHP... I think it's a bit like mac's vs pc's - they both work fine - use what works for you. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Firefox disappearing act
What exactly is the issue? I see no diff in IE or FF. Maybe your player for FF is old? Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] RE: SEO Question
Don't remember where it was posted, but there is a serious problem with DIV layers holding transparent Flash - Google considers it cloaking/spam. I can see that. We have no transparency though - ie wmode is not set. We're just using the div to hold plain html content that matches the Flash content - minus the pretty graphics and images. From my research thus far, this technique has been fine by Google on thousands of sites, and is recommended by Geoff Stearns -creator of SWFObject. Since it allows for accessibility as well, I can't see why it would be an issue. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] MC height/width with mask problem
Why not use the height of the mask? Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SEO Question
do not use the div section of the page to put links there and content, we did it and google banned us for like three weeks... Well, you must've done something wrong as that is the accepted way to do it. Just using metatags are decidedly not the right way. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SEO Question
We're developing a site in Flash - it's all Flash - one page, and I'm now tasked with doing some SEO work for it. I'm doing the 'standard' way of creating the HTML portion, for the spiders, with a div that is overwritten by SWFObject. Mostly all is well, ad much of my content is database driven. My question is in regards to the fact the Flash is all on one page - index.php. However, I need multiple pages in the HTML version... what's the best way to do this? Embed the Flash on all pages as well? Not care and just have multiple php/html pages? My feeling is I should have the Flash on all pages too, and just use a url var to bring up the correct content, if Flash is viewable... Just want to be sure the best route here. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Using BitmapData for alpha masking
You can use threshold to do that. var bitmap:BitmapData = BitmapData.loadBitmap(myPNG); bitmap.threshold(bitmap, bitmap.rectangle, bitmap.rectangle.topLeft, '', 0x, 0x); maskClip.attachBitmap(bitmap, 1); That will turn all pixels with some alpha to red and full alpha. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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 projector sending xml to php (sendAndLoad) orphp variables...
What doesn't work? Either method should work fine - but remember you'll need to use $_REQUEST, or $_GET on the PHP page, since $_POST will only work when sent from the browser. I'd also suggest looking into AMFPHP, as it just makes communicating with the server a whole lot easier. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] AS2 - erase bitmap?
Hi guys - I have a small bitmap (a stain) on stage that needs to be erased by dragging an eraser over it. It's easy ennough to reveal it, by drawing into a dynamic mask, but I'm having trouble going the other way. I can, of course, use the mask method and just reveal a chunk of background above the stain, but I need to remove the alpha too, as the clip will be placed randomly on a page, so I need to be able to see whatever page is behind the stain when it's gone. Lastly, I also need a way of determining if the stain has been fully 'erased' - or close enough... Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] AS2 - erase bitmap?
I don't quite understand the bulk of what you wrote - but for the last bit: Nice. Thanks for that tip. I'll try to explain more clearly. I have an 'eraser' that can be dragged over a 'stain' image. When the user clicks I need to have the eraser remove bits of the stain image. The trouble I'm having with it is that I need the actual alpha of the stain to be removed as well, so that the user can see a varying background image underneath. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] AS2 - erase bitmap?
If your background image is static, that should do what you want it to. It isn't... I got it working the way I wanted though. I made a transparent 'brush' bitmap, then copypixeled that into my stain bitmap... works perfectly and affects the alpha like I need. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Slow-Running Script alert
I've had this happen when styling a bunch of components all at one time. Usually it's some kind of loop, since you need to be stuck in the same code for 15 secs, as other have mentioned. In my case, I was calling an init function within a series of loaded movies. Each movies init styled its components. The outer loop going through the clip array and calling init() was taking more than 15 secs to finish and I'd get that dialog. Now I call init as each clip is loaded, and not all at once. Works - except it is noticeably slower. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Random Error
Once in a while, when compiling, I get an error from one of my classes. The
error is something like: 'property System not found', and it is thrown from
this function:
public static function getPlayerVersion()
{
return(System.capabilities.version);
}
I only see the error once out of 20 compiles or so... thoughts?
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Re: [Flashcoders] How is it done? coca-cola creator
Real nice. It didn't quite work for me though - the jpg I downloaded had a grayscale background image... Otherwise it was ok. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Little OT - USB drive autorun?
Does this help? No. Like I said - I was looking for something that did not require first installing software on the target machine. Anybody else, or I guess the answer is just 'no'. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Make page ads refresh on Flash click events
Using the ExternalInterface class you can call JavaScript on the page easily enough. From there you should be able to replace the content of a div with something like: document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML = newContent I'm sure there are other/better ways, but that's where I'd start anyway. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Little OT - USB drive autorun?
Anyone know if a USB pen drive can be made to autorun without first installing something on the users machine? Looks to me like the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here. I did find some info on U3 smart drives (I think that's what they were called) but those are special drives and my client already has the drives they want to use. Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] scale 9?
Hi Steven - I'm using a vector - a simple rectangle. Paul - thanks for the insight. I've tried a few things now and nothing I do gets the clip to be at the proper size. I'm giving up on it and may use Patrick's suggestion of the Bevel filter. Patrick - I did originally try using bevel, but it never gives me a really clean line even with Blur at 0 and quality at High. But, I think it may be good enough. FWIW - I also had a embosser class I wrote, to extend MC. But then I had issues with my drawn lines appearing over things since I couldn't draw into the clip itself - as it was scaled. I think Bevel is going to be the least hassle, even though it's not exactly what I wanted. Thanks! Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] scale 9?
PS - Bevel works fine actually, it was my clip not being located at an integer pixel value that made the bevel look off. Sometimes... Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Date.getTime rounded in PocketPC player
I don't have any suggestions regarding the less accurate timing mechanism on the PDA, but I'd suggest this: Instead of timing how long it takes to do something - maybe you can do something x times in say 10 seconds. So instead of the speed via time, you get the speed via number of loop iterations. Can you do it that way? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] scale 9?
I have a clip, with a single pixel border to get an embossed effect. I have it set to 9 slice scaling... it works nicely when I simply place the clip on stage and scale it - such as I do for behind my fields. However, I also use it as the background for a dynamically loaded image - and the images are of various sizes. I am setting the width and height of the embosser clip to that of the image, but the clip doesn't quite fit the image like it should. The clip is either not quite wide enough, or not quite tall enough... It must be the 9 slice scaling, since if I use a normal clip, without 9 slice enabled, it sizes it properly. But then my border gets hosed... Thoughts? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] The great CS3 Swindle
it makes sense it would be more expensive over there since products and goods coming from the US usually take longer to get over there, if they want it at the same time as us they have to pay more ! =D No... that does not make sense. Have you looked at UPS shipping costs? Shipping is hardly the reason. I'd go with 'because they can'. Because it's the _only_ reason that makes any sense. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.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] ColorMatrix
I'd check out the Fuse Kit. You can tween color's super easy: import com.mosesSupposes.fuse.*; ZigoEngine.doTween(myMC, _tint ,0xFF, 3); Will tween myMC to red in 3 seconds... Couldn't be much simpler. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] OT - Installing PHP, MySQL?
Thanks everyone, for the advice. They're giving remote desktop access, so I'm going to install and see how it goes... Anyone know a good SQL group? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] OT - Installing PHP, MySQL?
Thanks everyone. Both WAMP and XAMPP say they are for testing only, and should not be used for production - which is of course what I need. This will be on IIS, so hopefully it will be doable. I guess I'll attempt installing first and see how it goes. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] OT - Installing PHP, MySQL?
Anyone have any experience in this area? We're developing a Flash site for a new client, who keeps all their own web servers in-house. They are MS house using .net and such. They are setting up a new server just for their new site, and since they are not familiar with PHP or MySQL (which is what we develop with) they are asking us to install them. They will give us remote access to the server... How hard / not-hard is it to install PHP and MySQL on a remote server? Anything to be weary of? Is it something I should just skip attempting and hire an IT guy to do it? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] OT - Installing PHP MySQL on a remote server
Sorry if this ends up coming through twice, but I sent it 2.5 hours ago and it hasn't reached the list yet. Anyone have any experience in this area? We're developing a Flash site for a new client, who keeps all their own web servers in-house. They are MS house using .net and such. They are setting up a new server just for their new site, and since they are not familiar with PHP or MySQL (which is what we develop with) they are asking us to install them. They will give us remote access to the server... How hard / not-hard is it to install PHP and MySQL on a remote server? Anything to be weary of? Is it something I should just skip attempting and hire an IT guy to do it? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Problems with Key event
Have you disabled shortucts? When you test the SWF - go to control disable... I trap delete and such that way. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Super and this
Isn't that what 'instantiate' means? By 'instantiate' I mean 'make an instance of'. Correct. Instantiate an instance... now that makes no sense. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Remoting - url encoded text
I am using remoting with AMFPHP for a project and, for the most part, it's going great. However, I have one little issue and I'm not quite sure of the best way to solve it. I have a MySQL table I select a bunch of fields from and return the result to Flash - which it is then used as the dataProvider for a grid object. Two of those fields are url encoded - one of which is displayed in the grid - with it's encoding. When I select an item in the grid for display, I unescape it. There's my problem - where to decode? I like being able to use the result directly as the dataProvider, but maybe I need to build and return an array from PHP instead - then decode before setting it as the provider. Any thoughts? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Little Problem with AMFPHP browser
I've started playing with AMFPHP today, and it's pretty darned cool! I have
a little service written, that sends back an SQL query to a datagrid - all
is good. But I can't get the online service browser to work - it's a path
problem I think.
Within the config.inc.php file it has this:
/**
* This is the path to your services folder. It should be fully qualified
* and must include a trailing / If you leave the value blank an attempt
* will be made to search the INCLUDE_PATH for it.
*/
$cfg['AmfphpPath'] = realpath(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/amfphp/';
$cfg['ServicesPath'] = $cfg['AmfphpPath'] . 'services/';
$cfg['CodePath'] = str_replace('\\', '/', $cfg['AmfphpPath'] . 'src/');
I've tried a few things and the browser just complains. It's in the default
amfphp install folder - webroot/amfphp/browser:
http://www.blurredistinction.com/amfphp/browser/
But it complains it can't find the ServiceBrowser.php file.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Little Problem with AMFPHP browser
In the error message, it's got amfphp repeated in the path Argh... I never even noticed that, I was looking at the bold text only which didn't show it repeated twice. Removing it from the path line did the trick. Thanks for catching that. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SCORM?
Thanks for all the info on SCORM, it really helped a lot. Carolina mentioned using objectives to record all 21 answers. Nice idea... But I'm not entirely sure about what you mentioned regarding having to initialize them all first. I have an array of 21 values - can I just iterate that and set the objectives at the end, before closing the LMS? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SCORM?
For your FLV, you should load it dynamically and keep it external. We had lots of external assets used by our SWF (MP3, FLV, pictures) and we kept them out of the SCOs and out of the imsmanifest.xml, it was becoming hard to list all those files in there ! But if you only have a few external files, then you should (as it is best practice) keep them listed in the manifest. Great, glad to know this is possible. However, did you have control of the LMS server? Or are the FLV's on a separate server? I as as the whole point of scorm and sco's are to enable them to be deployed by almost any LMS, and the admins of this one seem to think that is important. Thanks for the scoring info. I think we'll just keep the overall score for now as that should work fine. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SCORM?
I did a small quiz for a client and now they've decided to make it integrate into their LMS. I did some looking and it seems using external interface and calling the LMS like so: ExternalInterface.call(LMSInitialize); should work pretty well. However two things are not making sense to me. I see how I can call LMSSetValue to set the users score but I only see min, max, and raw score entries. The quiz has 21 questions, can I not track the response for each question? Finally, this quiz has a bunch of associated FLV's - 50MB worth. Can the video content be kept outside of the SCO package? Does it need to be included in the manifest XML file? I thought I could just place the flvs on their server and reference them from Flash... that's what I was hoping. Thanks for any insight. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] SCORM?
Thanks for the info, but saying I should include the files in the manifest xml file is not saying I should need ti include them within the SCO itself. Do I need to? I can see from the perspective of allowing any LMS to deploy this SCO that the video files should be in the SCO... but is a 50MB SCO a normal thing? Seems to negate the whole point of using streaming files. Also, Alain said - have all 21 questions in one SCO and send the score at the end. This is what I have... they wanted SCORM at the end so it was never developed for scorm compatibility in the first place... From what I see though sending at the end only allows me to send the min,max or core scores... so min at 0 and max at 21 and they got 18 right - so that's the core score... it works OK, but is not the best. Without having separate SCO's for each question, is it possible to record the answers for each question - or is it only possible to record the fact that they got 18 right out of 21...? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Undefined value
You have an incorrect not equal: !== There's just one equal sign: != Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Undefined value
!== is strict inequality, it tests for the exact opposite of the strict equality (===) operator. My bad... I guess I never use the strict operators... Sorry. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] onMouseup bug?
You don't need to use hitTest - you can just assign a function to the
onRelease event within the constructor:
class com.blurredistinction.Mtest extends MovieClip {
function Mtest(){
this.onRelease = function(){
trace(this);
}
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources
63K for that monitor? And it's vector? That's useless. A bitmap would be way smaller... Why are svg's so bloated? And why the heck would you want to use them? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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 SVG embedding resources
Thanks for the additional info. Using the those four example images just threw me off then, as any one of those images done in swf would be tiny compared to the svg counterpart. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] Php Host
Try www.ixwebhosting.com They are inexpensive, offer everything you need and more, and are always in the top 10 on any host ranking site. Number 1 on the hosting chart even. IMO, you can't do much better. Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Public Alpha ...
If you find the speed of technology to be too fast for you, or you find Moore's law inconvenient, perhaps you should get a job working for the government or a bank (I think they're up to the Flash 6 player by now), or choose a different career path, like plumbing, carpentry or anything that doesn't involve computers. I've often thought working in a toll booth would be a nice change. Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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 and Javascript Interaction
Where should I put those files? Where is my class path? Edit Preferences Click the ActionScript 2.0 Settings... button Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] when can you read properties of a loaded swf?
You want onLoadInit instead of onLoadComplete. Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/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] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...
FlashObject seems to work well.. Just downloaded and Installed IE7 - my site still works without having to activate it, which is a relief, but I have to click to activate anything at macromedia.com. The aforemention hgtv.com also works without activation. One odd thing after installing IE7 - my text seems antialiased in outlook express now... definitely different. Have to look into that. Dave - Adobe Community Expert www.blurredistinction.com www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
