Re: [Flashcoders] Rates of pay in Europe...
Actually it's more us Brits. 'Europe' or 'The continent' is the name we use for the big landmass the other side of the channel... On 12/3/07 14:26, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My girlfriend and i are looking at getting out of the UK for a bit - and moving to live and work in Europe. Darn those French, do they still consider the UK to be not part of Europe? ;) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:input textfield woes setting maximum lines
That's generally how I deal with text fields that have to be centered with localisable text. Attach a dummy textfield, enter the text, see how big it is then apply the positioning information to the real field and remove the dummy one. Adding/removing a field and getting the values out within 3 lines is quick enough that you don't see it drawing. It's a bit awkward, but it works! On 11/3/07 14:56, Latcho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anoyher fix might be overlaying the displaying field, you don't want to have overflowed your max lines with an input field that has _alpha 100, and has an embed font. Use the later as input, ans if maxscroll 2 after onKeyup, feed it to the underlaying visible textfield. Otherwise ,restore its content with the previous buffered text and don't feed it to the visible field. Dirty but worling I guess. Latcho. ___ 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] flv playback stalling
Hi All, I have an flv loading into an instance of flvPlayback, all of a sudden it has started freezing about 2 seconds into the playback, and just stalls. The rest of the ui is still interactive, and I can use buttons to jump to other sections of the site etc. so it's not that flash is freezing up. I can also open the flv in quicktime and it plays through fine, so the video appears to be ok. The video is playing locally (it will be running from a cd) and is not the largest video we're using, so it doesn't seem to be any obvious issue. Anyone got any clues to help me out? Thanks a lot Sam ___ 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 Don't reply to an old thread when you're creating a new thread!
Hi All, Just a suggestion, but perhaps people posting new threads could do so using a new email rather than a reply to an old thread and changing the subject. I don't know about you, but for me replying to an old thread and changing the subject results in broken message threading when I'm reading through the list. Message threading works on email id's, not on subject contents, so you end up with several totally different topics grouped into the same thread the way we're currently going. Just click the flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com link at the bottom of an email instead of the reply button. (Don't meant to piss anyone off, just thought it might be helpful :)) Cheers, Sam ___ 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: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed
I've already contacted Flickr about it, and got this response, so we shouldn't get any more bounces: Hello, Flickr allows its users to upload photos via email to a secret email address tied to their account. These can be uploads from a cameraphone or other device, or a script, or a regular ol' email client. When we encounter problems with the upload, we respond back to the email address that the upload was sent from to let them know. In this case, the email appeared to be from a mailing list you are a member of, so the error response got sent there. I've added the address of your mailing list to our block list to make sure this doesn't happen again, and gotten in touch with the user involved to try and figure out if these upload attempts were done on purpose or not. Thanks for your report. Cheers, Myles Not so secret anymore then... On 28 Nov 2006, at 01:23, Dave Watts wrote: This happens whenever anyone posts to the list. Unfortunately, there is no flickr.com address or any address containing effective53person on Flashcoders, so I don't know which address to unsubscribe. I also don't have an easy way to see what addresses have been added to the list in the last few days, so I'm kind of in the dark about what address it might be. I've sent a request to Flickr, to see if I can find out what they're receiving. In the meantime, if you think your address might be causing this, please send me an email directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] components are Evil?
I think the other important point about components is the usability factor. It's about having a consistent user experience across different Flash applications, which can only really happen we use the same components. Otherwise behaviours change from application to application and the user has no real idea how applications are going to behave. This already causes problems with Flash, so the fact that there is a standard component library is at least attempting to address it is a very good thing in my opinion. Perhaps that framework needs refining over time, but the more people use the same components with the same behaviours the better; it's not just about using them because they're quick or easy. Sam On 25 Nov 2006, at 22:45, Michael Bedar wrote: Using a component someone else made to suit a general audience is almost always going to be less good than creating a custom component for a specific task/project, given a sufficiently skilled developer, no matter how good the general component is. So if you use a 3rd party component, it should be because you lack the time, skill and/or desire to create it yourself. Using a set of components extends this idea, where now the set is even less likely to perfectly suit the task at hand, but also the work required and skill needed to instead create manually all components needed increases as well. I have never personally used any component sets, but that is only about 90% practicality, and 10% stubbornness in my own partial estimation. There are certainly a few sets out there that seem eminently usable, and now the Flex 2 framework presents us with a very tempting basis for development, but I am very uncomfortable with the idea of using code in my projects that I have not written, since it seems like a somewhat slippery slope. I am getting to the point where I am contemplating using 3rd party libraries, which is less invasive than components, but still something that did not exist a few years ago.. but if one looks at the wonderful 3D Flash libraries coming out now; they have gained a level of complexity where I have to admit that I am not interested in trying to produce a functional equivalent on my own. Mike ___ 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] Re: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed
Hi, I just replied to a mailing list i'm subscribed to and got this message from Flickr. I don't have a Flickr account and my email had no images and was addressed to flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com, so I'm not sure what's happened. Seems someone may have subscribed your upload address to the mailing list, but I can't find an '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on Flickr. Sam On 27 Nov 2006, at 10:04, Flickr Mail wrote: Your photo upload has failed with the following message: no images were found attached to the email If you think you shouldn't be getting this error, please send us an email - help [at] flickr.com - and we'll do our best to help! Thanks, The Flickr Team www.flickr.com - This information might be of use to us when diagnosing what went wrong: To Address: Cc Address: From Address: Parsed Addresses: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handling Server: www1 Handler Version: 1.166 Transaction Log: www1-1164621863.email Logged Date: 27-11-2006 User NSID: Blog Id: ___ 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: [Flickr] Your Photo Upload Failed
Sorry list. (Though maybe someone can claim ownership? I keep getting these flickr bounces) On 27 Nov 2006, at 10:15, Sam Thorne wrote: Hi, I just replied to a mailing list i'm subscribed to and got this message from Flickr. I don't have a Flickr account and my email had no images and was addressed to flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com, so I'm not sure what's happened. Seems someone may have subscribed your upload address to the mailing list, but I can't find an '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on Flickr. Sam ___ 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] Command line compile
Hi List, I'm working on a project where we're looking at switching to nightly builds for the development process, building on MS Windows. At the moment a cron job attempts to run the compile and gets stuck on our Flash compilation. This is probably because the build machine isn't running as a logged in user, but as a system process. This means when Flash tries to throw up a splash screen etc. it is probably falling over. We can't run it as a logged in user (and thus get the windowing environment), as it breaches company security to have a dummy user logged in all the time and the machine will auto logout after a couple of minutes. We can't use mtasc, because of issues with using an unsupported compiler for production code. Is there any way to do a command line compile with pure actionscript 2.0 .as and .fla based source files without a windowing environment? Is this something that Flex can do for us, or would we have to rewrite into mxml? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Command line compile
Hi Scott, Yeah, I've seen this, but the problem isn't making the compile call, it's running Flash while not in a windowing environment. All Mike's script really does is build a custom jsfl script on the fly, open Flash and run the script. It's the 'Open Flash' bit that we're stuck with, as we have no logged in user. On 14 Jun 2006, at 14:29PM, Scott Hyndman wrote: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2003/11/ flashcommand_fl.html On 14/06/06, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do your command line from a .bat wrapped with a SU command (substitut user with the password). I don't have an example with me but will try to get one from home. I've used that trick a lot but it was over 6 years ago. A+ Sam Thorne a écrit : Hi List, I'm working on a project where we're looking at switching to nightly builds for the development process, building on MS Windows. At the moment a cron job attempts to run the compile and gets stuck on our Flash compilation. This is probably because the build machine isn't running as a logged in user, but as a system process. This means when Flash tries to throw up a splash screen etc. it is probably falling over. We can't run it as a logged in user (and thus get the windowing environment), as it breaches company security to have a dummy user logged in all the time and the machine will auto logout after a couple of minutes. We can't use mtasc, because of issues with using an unsupported compiler for production code. Is there any way to do a command line compile with pure actionscript 2.0 .as and .fla based source files without a windowing environment? Is this something that Flex can do for us, or would we have to rewrite into mxml? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971___ 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] Command line compile
Scott Stacey: Yeah, seems crazy not to use mtasc, but unfortunately that's not my decision to make. In the timeline we have it seems very unlikely that we'll change compiler in the middle of a release schedule. Éric: With the su batch script, I've not seen an su for windows before, is that a third party app or running through cygwin? A quick look on google brings up runas as a possible command, or is the su you're referring to a throw back from win 98 or so? To be honest, i'm more a unix/os x person than windows, so I'm not up to date with any of this. Thanks all! On 14 Jun 2006, at 15:51PM, Scott Hyndman wrote: Oh, sorry about that. Didn't read carefully enough. I don't think there is a solution given your contraints...but I'm going to offer my two cents. Forget MM's compiler. It might as well be unsupported. Tech support will cost a fortune to speak to and I'm pretty sure they wouldn''t be able to fix your problems anyway. Switch to MTASC. Convince whoever you're working for that it's a good idea. Your life will be easier and consequently, so will everyone elses. I've been using it for more than a year building major libraries (ActionStep -- http://tinyurl.com/lupmv) and at this point there is absolutely nothing to worry about. A large and well-versed user base will be right at your fingertips. Lots of coders were fed up with MMC a long time ago, and are now happily enjoying Flash development again. Hope you didn't mind the rant, good luck, Scott On 14/06/06, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do your command line from a .bat wrapped with a SU command (substitut user with the password). I don't have an example with me but will try to get one from home. I've used that trick a lot but it was over 6 years ago. A+ Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Large video and the Camera class
Hi List, We're trying to integrate large amounts of video (hi def) through a Flash UI to control the streams. We can't encode to flv because of other constraints, and using C# to composite knockout areas in flash is causing a lot of flicker. Has anyone tried using the Camera object to deal with large amounts of video, are there any limitations on the Camera object that might stop this? Could we fool flash into thinking the video stream it's getting is from a web cam? This seems like a possible work around, it'd be great if anyone could confirm it, thanks! Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Duplicating a MovieClip that contains Sub-Clips
Yes, duplicateMovieClip duplicates the clip and all it's subclips. On 13 Apr 2006, at 09:20AM, Mike Anderson wrote: Hello All, If you duplicate a MovieClip that happens to contain children sub- clips, does the newly created MovieClip also contain all the identical sub-clips? If this is not the case, how would one go about doing that? Duplicate the MovieClip, but then loop through all the sub-clips that the original MovieClip originally contained? If any of you could clarify this topic, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Mike ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Duplicate Class errors
Hi List,
We've been developing an application over here and sending updates to
a colleague, all has been fine until he started getting compilation
errors.
The odd thing is, the class that is supposed to be conflicting, is in
fact conflicting with itself.
: Line 6: The name of this class,
'com.native.components.ScreenElement',
conflicts with the name of another class that was loaded,
'com.native.components.ScreenElement'.
class com.native.components.ScreenElement {
Previously clearing ASO cache files worked fine, but it seems it's
this isn't working now either.
Unzipping a different copy somewhere else on his machine has also
failed with the same error.
Anyone got any idea what might be happening here?
Regards,
Sam Thorne
Interaction Design
Web: http://www.native.com/
Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970
Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971
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Re: [Flashcoders] large projects
Using some sort of versioning system is an absolute must. Subversion is great, handles fla/ai/etc files as binary properly and deals with Mac resource forks and so on. Pretty easy to set up, and with a couple of nice GUI apps on both platforms (svnX for mac, tortoise for Win). http://subversion.tigris.org/ On 5 Apr 2006, at 13:44PM, Mark Lorah wrote: This is a general question about workflow. For a long time I have been working on Flash projects independently. Over time everything has gotten bigger. Projects are now at a scale where I must collaborate with other Flash programmers. I am looking for suggestions about best practices for organizing and dividing up work on large Flash projects. What are problems and solutions that people have encountered when sharing work? ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] MTASC and spaces in classpath
Thanks guys, the flashout spaces issue was the problem. Right now I've abandoned eclipse/mtasc anyway, deadlines and all. But now I know how to get it working, I'll look into using it properly after this project, and explore Ant a bit more too. On 2 Apr 2006, at 03:06AM, Chris Allen wrote: Oh yes, the old Flashout on Macintosh problem; sorry that I didn't realize that was what you were referring to. I haven't been using Flashout; I find that Ant just works better for my work flow. Many others seem to agree. Anyway, if you are interested there are some excellent Ant utilities for building Flash from as2lib called as2ant that might be of interest. You can find more information on that here: http://osflash.org/ant -Chris On 4/1/06, Alain Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Escaping spaces is fine in the Terminal, but not in Eclipse using Flashout. That's the issue here, how to define the Class Path in Eclipse. I've read a post about it at http://www.pixelmotive.de/blog/archives/2005/06/fame_on_mac.php Basically what it says is to create a shell script that catches the call to mtasc then echoes the full mtasc command line into a seperate shell scripts and returns mtasc's output. Here is a shell script that works for me, you can save it anywhere and give it a name with the .sh extension make it executable like this chmod a+x locmtasc.sh and here is the shell script itself #!/bin/sh echo #!/bin/sh subc.sh echo /usr/local/bin/mtasc $@ subc.sh chmod a+x subc.sh ./subc.sh exit $? note that the shell will create a shell file for you, you don't need to create an empty one yourself. once this is done go in the Eclipse Preferences - Flashout in the Location of mtasc.exe enter the path to your locmtasc.sh : /Users/username/Documents/workspace/locmtasc.sh and voilà you sould be able to make Flashout work with mtasc The thing is that Eclipse adds quotes around the Macromedia Class Path, but it fails to parse correctly through Flashout. With this shell script the problem is solved. Alain Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] MTASC and spaces in classpath
Hi all, I'm getting the error Class not found Support.Macromedia.Flash when my classpath is /Users/sam/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/Flash 8/en/ Configuration/Classes Seems Mtasc doesn't like classpaths which have spaces in them on OS X, it tries to interpret the a directory name (such as Application Support, where the core classes are) as separate classes. I can't symlink because Eclipse sees a symlink as a file, and I can't use an alias because it isn't recognised as a folder even though I can browse into it. Any ideas? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Sparx Enterprise Architecht generatingActionscript
A bit more OT than the original. Does anyone know of an equivalent application for Mac OS X? I've come across Visual Paradigm for UML and MagicDraw UML, both Java apps which would be great as we're a mixed platform outfit. The thing that's missing is code generation for Actionscript, a feature of EA that I can't seem to find anywhere else. On 23 Mar 2006, at 13:03PM, Yehia Shouman wrote: To get an import statement in your generated code, Create a diagram, on which you will draw the relationships between classes Use the Aggregate or compose under Class Section in the Toolbox on the left. When you describe a compose or aggregate relationship between 2 classes, the one that is aggregating the other will get an import statement in its generated code. - Original Message - From: David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] Sparx Enterprise Architecht generatingActionscript On 3/22/06, jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I started playing with EA getting it to generate Actionscript. I need to know how to place an import statement into a class like: import com.something.MyClass; I see it can handle doing this as I have reverse engineered one of my projects and on regenerating the code the import statements are still there but I cannot see where it is in EA. Any help would be great. Jim Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Protecting Shared Objects
Just as long as you document it somewhere or off the option to uninstall, so that when someone actually is deleting things for a good reason, they can be sure they really are removing the whole application, including the archiver and it's backup. John Mark Hawley schrieb: I'm working on a CD product that needs to store a lot of data locally for easy lookup. Before your eyes glaze over and you point me at Zinc, know that this poor little product needs to run on OS 9, OSX, and Windows. Zinc doesn't do OS 9. But, aha, local shared objects! We can use them! Sure we can, but then there's a problem that some wiseguy could wipeout our entire database by clicking around in the Flash plugin settings for a good long time. So: the tentative plan says we could run a little executable via an fscommand at startup that checks to see if the LSO's are in good order, and archives them elsewhere if so. If they've been hosed, the little executable would un-archive the last backup and put them back in the right location. This sounds a little a rinky-dink, but it seems a heck of a lot easier than wrestling with a custom director wrapper and a real database. Just how icky does this sound to everyone? Anyone ever attempt something similar? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Un-HQX, Burn in Mac, make ISO in PC, and make copies in PC
hqx are not macintosh projectors per se, they are the encoded versions of Macintosh (including the rsrc fork) projectors that _can_ be copied around, you would then decode the hqx on a Mac or using something like CDEverywhere on a PC, which decodes the hqx on the fly as it creates a disc image to burn in Nero et al. It's a bit old now, but I wrote the FAQ and tutorial on FlashKit in the Macintosh forum http://flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=396320 On 21 Mar 2006, at 15:31PM, erixtekila wrote: This question is pretty usefull. I presume that the .hqx files that are Mac's flash projector use a ressource fork. Once you copy this on another os, you loose it. Without it the file won't launch again. Zipping it is not a solution as it doesn't preserve ressource forks. You could use .sit, but there are no AFAIK a windows analog. The .iso is a good alternative. BTW, is there a utility to give a broken .hqx is resource again ? Thanks. --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net/ ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Save file from Mac / Pc Projector on CDROM to Hard drive
I wrote an applescript a few years back that does this on Mac, on PC you'll need to use something like a batch script or one of those proxy exes you can call with fscommand. http://flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=396320 (There are lots of free ones which will do just that, rather than something bigger (and more expensive) like Zinc). On 21 Mar 2006, at 16:49PM, Paul Steven wrote: I need to include a button in a cdrom projector that when clicked will copy a particular file from the CDROM to the users hard drive with a dialogue box asking them where to save it to. Any suggestions? It must work on PC and MAC Thanks Paul ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Save file from Mac / Pc Projector on CDROM to Harddrive
Oops, yes sorry. I'd posted a copy script there before, but obviously not put it in the FAQ, here you go: --set the name of the file to copy property fileName : my file.doc --get the path to the containing folder set myPath to (path to me as string) set AppleScript's text item delimiters to : set the parentFolder to ¬ ((text items 1 thru -2 of myPath) ) as string set AppleScript's text item delimiters to -- find the flash file try set targetFile to alias (the parentFolder fileName) on error --ie if there's no file here by this name, it will quit. return quit end try tell application Finder move file targetFile to desktop --If it's a read only volume (like a cd), move will actually copy end tell On 21 Mar 2006, at 17:21PM, Paul Steven wrote: Thanks Sam Looks like you are opening the file tell application Finder open file targetFile end tell Is there an equivalent to just copy / save the file to the users hard drive? Thanks Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Thorne Sent: 21 March 2006 17:14 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Save file from Mac / Pc Projector on CDROM to Harddrive I wrote an applescript a few years back that does this on Mac, on PC you'll need to use something like a batch script or one of those proxy exes you can call with fscommand. http://flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=396320 (There are lots of free ones which will do just that, rather than something bigger (and more expensive) like Zinc). On 21 Mar 2006, at 16:49PM, Paul Steven wrote: I need to include a button in a cdrom projector that when clicked will copy a particular file from the CDROM to the users hard drive with a dialogue box asking them where to save it to. Any suggestions? It must work on PC and MAC Thanks Paul ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] AS IDE for OSX
The XCode posts may be over a year old, but they still work pretty well. svn included in the ide, and you can make nice project templates with auto filling classnames and so on. It's what I use for development, plus Mike Chambers' publish script for Flash or something else to call mtasc. http://blog.pixelconsumption.com/index.php?p=15 On 16 Mar 2006, at 19:10PM, Nik Derewianka wrote: Hey all, Title pretty much says it - what are peoples using for an AS IDE on the mac ? Flash itself is actually worse than director in this regard, SEPY is great on PC, cant even do copy and paste on a mac and last build seems broken, ive seen some blog posts regarding AS integration into Xcode but they are all over a year old. I dont want a text editor (i already have and love TextMate) but an IDE that can organise all my files, syntax highlighting, code completion, jump to handler definitions and compilation, version control integration would be a bonus (pref svn). Does such a beast exist ? Regards, -- :: Nik Derewianka :: ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Timing Tweens Effectively
Check out Fuse: http://www.mosessupposes.com/ On 15 Mar 2006, at 14:11PM, Kevin Cannon wrote: Hi, I'm looking to improve my handling of timed events for the sites I'm building. I'm using a lot of tweens, and stacking them using callbacks, and sometimes setInterval to achieve what I want. It's not particularly clean, so I was wondering if there's any methods or libraries, to code timed events in a more efficient manner. Thanks, - Kevin ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Send to friend....Doesn't make sense.
Even better than Delegate is Proxy, http://www.person13.com/articles/
proxy/Proxy.htm
On 12 Mar 2006, at 05:12AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not going to check your email verification but you could do
somethign
like this for loadvars rather than using loadvariables. Also have
your php
write back a response so that flash knows whether it worked or not.
Some tidbits of advice - your submit mail button should call a
validation
process - it shouldn't hold it in the scope of its onRelease handler -
that might introduce a scoping problem. So create a function that
is like
validateEmail(emailString), and have your button call it.
submit_mail_btn.onRelease=Delegate.create(this,validateEmail).
Delegate in Flash 7 and up is your friend. It fies the scope madness.
Also, test your validation bit outside of the onRelease and determine
where its failing.
import mx.utils.Delegate;
lv:LoadVars=new LoadVars();
var validEmail=isEmail(email_txt.text);
lv.vemail=vemail;
lv.onLoad=Delegate.create(this,onEmailResponse);
lv.sendAndLoad(../mailinglist.php,lv,GET)
function onEmailResponse(success){
if(p_success){
email.text = THANK YOU!;
}else{
email.text = Problem Dude!;
}
}
function isEmail(str:String):Boolean{
// do your email validation here and return true or false
// By creating a function, you can use it again and again -
// so your submit buttons should call a validation process, not
// hold the validation process in the scope of its onRelease.
return(valid)
}
Regards,
Sam Thorne
Interaction Design
Web: http://www.native.com/
Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970
Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Web Browser Component
Depends on the content of the web page of course, but this component does pretty well. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpxhtmlrender On 8 Mar 2006, at 17:56PM, Greg Conover wrote: Does anyone know of a Flash component that allows you to call up a URL and display a Web page? Standard components don't have that capability, it seems. Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] 9-slice bugs
Hi list, I'm trying to get 9-slice scaling to work with several clips at the same time, which seems ridiculously buggy. If I have two instances of the same clip with 9-slice applied on stage, and scale them both with a Tween object, they scale fine. However, if I have two instances of different clips with 9 slice scaling, one of them will stop scaling properly (i.e. revert to the traditional way) and the other will work fine. The only difference between the clips is that the assets have their registration points changed so that they scale in from either sides of the stage. I've tried all sorts of things; originally they were based on the same assets, I've broken the clips apart, and recreated them from shapes. I've tried the hint in LiveDocs that mentions only editing Library assets directly (not instances) to avoid unpredictable behaviour. Seems like the 9-slice implementation is totally messed up, anyone got any hints? Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] Newbiew question AS3
AS3 is not part of Flash 8, which is why you didn't find anything on it in the official documentation. On 6 Mar 2006, at 12:42PM, Forums @ Existanze wrote: Hello all, This is my first post in this mailing list after reading it for about week, just to get the feel of thing. I have seen actionscript v3 being mentioned here. I am a programmer, not so much of a designer, so I would be really interested to find out more about v3, changes and new functionality in the language. I went to the formerly macromedia site to look for changes in flash8 but I saw no mention of as v3? Can anyone point me to a reference to it? Thank you for reading Gyftus ___ 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 Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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] C# and ExternalInterface problems
Hi All, We've been working on integrating Flash with C# through External Interface, but have hit a brick wall with an odd error. We've go ExternalInterface calling C# functions fine, it's the reverse which is not working. C# in .NET throws an Unspecified Error when calling an exposed Actionscript function with both the stuff I've written and another example we've got off the net. However, if we use VB .NET (which apparently should compile to the same thing), the same Flash files work fine (both the in-house things and the examples from the net). Has anyone come across this before and know of a solution? At the moment it looks like we'll have to wrap VB in the C# just to let C# call AS functions, which is pretty irritating. Regards, Sam Thorne Interaction Design Web: http://www.native.com/ Tel: +44 (0)207 588 7970 Fax: +44 (0)207 588 7971 ___ 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
