Re: [Flashcoders] Fonts taking up too much space
No need to outline in Illustrator. In Flash, select the text, go to Modify/Break Apart. Do this twice, and you will have outline of text. On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Looking at your swf, my suggestion would be to take the copy that is not input fields and turn them to outlines in Illustrator then put them back in the layout. Flash handles vector really well. Not much size increase for mathematical equations. Then only embed the necessary glyphs for the input files. Best, Karl On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Newman wrote: Every static glyph for every font face and weight/style is also embedded. The only way to really reduce the size of those fonts is to embed fewer glyphs. One strategy might be to consolidate the number of fonts you are using. If you are using 4 typefaces, try to reduce it to 3 or even 2. That'll probably have the biggest reduction. I've never really tried it, but you could try editing the font names so that they are shorter in the font embed screen, then make sure all your text fields are set to those new embedded names (such as a, b, c and d). I'm not sure how much space that would save, but it might get you a few bytes. And maybe it's obvous, but make sure you aren't including XMP metadata or debug symbols (uncheck both boxes in the publish settings) - that's a couple of KB. Kevin N. On 6/26/2012 4:59 PM, Tristan wrote: I did not embed any fonts but the numerals and period for the input box. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders DON TALCOTT 316 Greenwood Avenue Decatur, Georgia 30030 404.538.1642 dtalc...@mindspring.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] text input conditionals
I have a form with many fields. Four of the fields are not required, but if any one of the four has text entered, I would like to have a conditional if statement to tell the user to fill out the other three fields. I am struggling with how to check whether any type of character at all is entered into an input field. I know how to check if the field is empty, how do I check if the field contains anything? Thanks in advance for any help with this. DON TALCOTT 316 Greenwood Avenue Decatur, Georgia 30030 404.538.1642 dtalc...@mindspring.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] text input conditionals
Thank you, this worked. Now I have the following;
Six fields:
1. Phone
2. Address
3. City
4. Country
5. State
6. Zip
What I'm trying to do is give the choice of filling out the Phone field OR the
address fields ( 2-6).
If they choose the Phone field, none of the address fields are required.
If they choose one of the address fields, all of the address fields are
required.
I know I'm over-thinking this.
On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Ross Sclafani wrote:
if( field.text != ''){
// field contains anything.
};
Ross P. Sclafani
design / technology / creative
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Cache in IE FF
Chris/Joe, thanks a bunch, but here is my next question (just curious)... Is it the SWF which is not getting reloaded every time the page is viewed and thus my data is not getting reloaded or is it my data file that is cached and therefore the browser just keeps reloading the same old data file, or is it both? One other item I notice is that I entered the url for the actual text file i was attempting to load and when I previewed that file it also contained old content and did not update until I performed a CTRL F5. Even attempting to clear the browser cache didn't seem to help. *Don * Joseph Balderson wrote: You cannot prevent a file from being cached in the browser; what most cache settings are designed to do is prevent session information and cookies from being cached. The best you can do is force the browser to grab the file from the server each and every time it is viewed, which acheives the desired effect. To do that, all you need is to add the following js to your html file: ...Main.swf?nocache=+(new Date()).getTime() I wrote a tutorial on adding this to the flex html template: http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=32F44 This appends a unique number on the end of the file name, tricking the browser into thinking it's getting a new file every time, thus downloading the SWF from the server every time. You can use an equivalent of this technique in ActionScript for loading modules you don't want cached as well. I would not recommend this technique for production, as it will spike your server load something terrible, but for testing it's essential. ___ Joseph Balderson, Flex Flash Platform Developer :: http://joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book Don Schnell - TFE wrote: Thanks William, I am not sure why there was no text in my original post but my issue is how to prevent data from being cached in IE Firefox. My SWFs load in data from a flat text file and I tried using the following No-Cache settings before the head but they don't seem to prevent this issue. // prevent browser cache header(Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT); header(Last-Modified: . gmdate(D, d M Y H:i:s) . GMT); header(Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate); header(Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0, false); header(Pragma: no-cache); William Chadwick wrote: Not sure what you want, as there is no text in your message. But if you want to know about how SharedObject's work, here you go. Local SharedObjects (AKA 'Flash Cookies') are stored in the following path in a directory with a random name: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects There are some really clear articles on them on Adobe's devnet. William Chadwick On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Don Schnell - TFE dschn...@toolsforeducation.com mailto:dschn...@toolsforeducation.com wrote: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com mailto: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] SMS with Flash Web App
Hello, looking for some direction, tutorials, examples or otherwise on creating a flash web app which would support SMS text messaging. TIA, -- *Don* ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Flash Cache in IE FF
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Cache in IE FF
Thanks William, I am not sure why there was no text in my original post but my issue is how to prevent data from being cached in IE Firefox. My SWFs load in data from a flat text file and I tried using the following No-Cache settings before the head but they don't seem to prevent this issue. // prevent browser cache header(Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT); header(Last-Modified: . gmdate(D, d M Y H:i:s) . GMT); header(Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate); header(Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0, false); header(Pragma: no-cache); William Chadwick wrote: Not sure what you want, as there is no text in your message. But if you want to know about how SharedObject's work, here you go. Local SharedObjects (AKA 'Flash Cookies') are stored in the following path in a directory with a random name: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects There are some really clear articles on them on Adobe's devnet. William Chadwick On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Don Schnell - TFE dschn...@toolsforeducation.com mailto:dschn...@toolsforeducation.com wrote: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com mailto: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] Flash Cache in IE FF
Thanks Chris, I forgot all about that technique (been away from this for a little bit)! *Don * Chris Foster wrote: Sorry - formatting got screwed up there... one more try... AS3 example of 'anticache' technique. - var l:Loader = new Loader(); var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(your url here); var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; vars.antiCache = Math.round(Math.random()*99); req.data = vars; l.load(req); Regards, C: -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Don Schnell - TFE Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 1:07 PM To: William Chadwick Cc: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Cache in IE FF Thanks William, I am not sure why there was no text in my original post but my issue is how to prevent data from being cached in IE Firefox. My SWFs load in data from a flat text file and I tried using the following No-Cache settings before the head but they don't seem to prevent this issue. // prevent browser cache header(Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT); header(Last-Modified: . gmdate(D, d M Y H:i:s) . GMT); header(Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate); header(Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0, false); header(Pragma: no-cache); William Chadwick wrote: Not sure what you want, as there is no text in your message. But if you want to know about how SharedObject's work, here you go. Local SharedObjects (AKA 'Flash Cookies') are stored in the following path in a directory with a random name: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects There are some really clear articles on them on Adobe's devnet. William Chadwick On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Don Schnell - TFE dschn...@toolsforeducation.com mailto:dschn...@toolsforeducation.com wrote: ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com mailto: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 This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] PLEASE help with advanced dataset issues
Thanks Mate, I'm looking now... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rost, Andrew Sent: 20 April 2007 03:24 PM To: 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] PLEASE help with advanced dataset issues Sorry Don, typo in address... www.radiantmedia.biz/FlashSamples/DatasetFilter.zip Andrew - Don: There are a couple things to check for. Rather than list them all I have a sample of exactly what you're trying to do. Feel free to download the ZIP below and take a look. It's written in MX04 and it's a bare-bones example, but works well. www.radiantmedia.biz/FalshSamples/DatasetFilter.zip HTH, Andrew -Original Message- From: Gaia-Tek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:49 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] PLEASE help with advanced dataset issues Hi Group, I have an XMLconnector, bound to a dataset, bound to a datagrid. Connector connects, fills the dataset, dataset is sorted and filtered, and the datagrid is populated - lovely! Except for the looong freeze while the XMLconnector does it's thing... So I tried to fill the dataset manually, by populating it with an array... This works fine, better in fact because it's faster and there's no freeze, and I can use a progressbar component to show progress. I can sort the datagset, and the results are shown in the datagrid. BUT, as soon as I try and filter the dataset, everything goes pear-shaped!!! As soon as I apply any filter to the dataset, the datagrid goes blank, and if I trace the first record of the dataset, it's undefined... I've been fighting this for 2 days, please help! Thanks Don -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 2007/04/19 05:56 PM ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 2007/04/19 05:56 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 2007/04/19 05:56 PM ___ 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] loadMovie in a duplicated movieclip
Sorry Jason, I was typing from memory, not copy / paste... this[newName]._x = menu_ds.HorizontalPos; Doesn't work for me, and the only reason I ended up using eval() is because it's the only thing that worked! This code doesn't work... duplicateMovieClip(dupButton, newName, i); this[newName]._x = menu_ds.HorizontalPos; this[newName]._y = menu_ds.VerticalPos; I scoured the net and eval() was the only answer I could find... I'm publishing Flash 8, AS2 Thanks... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 16 January 2007 16:49 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] loadMovie in a duplicated movieclip And could anyone explain why this.[newName]._x = menu_ds.HorizontalPos; doesn't work? Improper syntax. Try: this[newName]._x = menu_ds.HorizontalPos; Also, would recommend against using eval() in this case and use the [] operator instead. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/632 - Release Date: 16/01/2007 16:36 ___ 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] loadMovie in a duplicated movieclip
Hi Jason, I've put buttons in the duplicated movieclips, and they always trace back as +level0.button_28 or whatever the button number was when created... I've also traced every variable coming from menu_ds and they all work as they should... The while loop and the hasNext() come right out of the help files when iterating through a dataset, I had never used either before. I think the next step is to look into creating an empty movieclip and attaching from the library... This is just too much headache to be worth it... Thanks for your time... Don -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 17 January 2007 15:17 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] loadMovie in a duplicated movieclip Well, to dig deeper, it's hard to comment because I don't know what _root.menu_ds.hasNext() does, or how _root.menu_ds.Type is set, or how dupButton is determined. There could be any number of things wrong there. Why are you using a while loop out of curiosity? Also, I usually avoid duplicateMovieClip because I always see people complain about it - either buggy or it's limitations. For those situations, I usually create an empty movie clip and attach from the library. Not saying that's the right approach, just what I have found works best for me in most situations. eval() is the old way, Adobe is pushing Actionscript to sctrict ECMA specifications, which means using the [] operator instead. If this[newName] doesn't work, then something is wrong with the scope, and I don't know where your clips are set up relative to that statement. Have you tried sprinkling some traces in your code to find out what's failing and where? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.13/632 - Release Date: 16/01/2007 16:36 ___ 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] Network Tools in Flash
My latest project is to build a network monitor tool to provide data like ping or traceroute. One thing I'd like to do is monitor webservers/sites to keep track of uptime. I've done some searching but haven't found much yet on how to get started. Any advice? Thanks, Don. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Network Tools in Flash
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RE: [Flashcoders] How to Build a Flash Bandwidth Tester?
It's kind of cool... It looks like it calls some server side script that generates a random noisy image, which it then proceeds to download: http://chi.speakeasy.net/speedtest/random350x350.jpg I'm guessing it probably uses MovieClipLoader, which fires off events to give you the progress updates on downloads. That's how they can determine speed on the fly. It kicks off downloading that 350x350 image(around 200k), but then it finishes with an almost 5mb generated image. The upload test posts a pretty sizable amount of random gibberish(200k and then 1mb). I'm not really sure how they track that, is there something akin to MovieClipLoader for uploads with Flash 7? It might just be a timer, where they just take your Total Size / Seconds Taken... Don Petersen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Mastropietro Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:54 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] How to Build a Flash Bandwidth Tester? Does anyone have any ideas how this flash bandwidth tester is working? http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ It must be fetching a file from the server somehow, but how? Also, it must be posting that file or some other file back to the server. We have an application that let's our users upload files to our servers, so we'd like to provide something like this on our website so that our users can test their upload speeds. If anyone knows of an open source one, that would be superb. Thanks, Jeff ___ 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] FP8: file upload and server response
I haven't been able to test this yet, and it's probably a hack, BUT it might allow at least some kind of feedback: LiveDocs says that the onHTTPError event has an argument for the HTTP Error Code. If the language you're using on the server side allows it, maybe you could throw certain error codes for specific issues that might occur on the server side(lack of permissions to write file, file already exists, etc). I'm going to test this out at some point, but I figured I'd throw it out there as a possibility. It's not going to give Claus the information he originally wanted, but it might help get at least some kind of feedback when you are uploading. Don Petersen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Matsikas Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:44 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] FP8: file upload and server response Sorry to tell you Claus.. but the answer is no. There isn't any way currently to get any kind of return from your upload script (other then the events the FileRef object throws) Most implimentations I've seen have a second script that is called when the upload completes (to fetch a file list or whatever) Maybe they'll fix it for 8.5.. Cheers, Ryan Matsikas On 11/22/05, Claus Wahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks, i'm currently playing with the flash player 8 FileReference stuff. i'm uploading a file to a server script (works fine). the server script returns an xml with info about the uploaded file. is there any way i can access the server response? tia, cheers, claus. ___ 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
