Re: [Flashcoders] iOS picker component for AIR
Hi Ivan, Thanks for your reply, but i actually meant an different kind of picker. More along the lines of iOS native date picker component: http://www.techotopia.com/images/8/88/Ios_4_date_picker.jpg Thoughts anyone? Best, Sid -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Tuesday 19 June 2012 Week 25 at 20:11, Ivan Dembicki wrote: Hi, http://code.google.com/p/as3colorpicker/ -- Ivan Dembicki http://realaxy.com ___ 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] iOS picker component for AIR
Hi James, Native Extensions are a good option. Thing is i don't write obj-c or Java yet, so i either need to find a download somewhere or hire someone that can make me one for android and ios. Anyone willing to this? I've got some budget for this to spare. Best, Sidney -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Tuesday 19 June 2012 Week 25 at 21:38, James Merrill wrote: Sid, you might be able to use Native Extensions to pull up the iOS picker. I also tried to replicate the native picker with little success. I would find it very hard to believe that a AS3 based alternative will work smoothly, given the performance issues apparent in much simpler things in Flash iOS. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nl (mailto:sid...@funky-monkey.nl)wrote: Hi Ivan, Thanks for your reply, but i actually meant an different kind of picker. More along the lines of iOS native date picker component: http://www.techotopia.com/images/8/88/Ios_4_date_picker.jpg Thoughts anyone? Best, Sid -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/ ) On Tuesday 19 June 2012 Week 25 at 20:11, Ivan Dembicki wrote: Hi, http://code.google.com/p/as3colorpicker/ -- Ivan Dembicki http://realaxy.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com (mailto:Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com) (mailto: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com (mailto:Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com)) http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com (mailto:Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com) http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- James Merrill ___ 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] iOS picker component for AIR
Hi, I've looked around the net for a picker component to use in an Air 3.2 project for iOS. I've found custard belly's set and the one hosted on google code. Both have really slow performance when working with large data sets (250 records) or don't work at all. What are you using when you need need a picker component? And what are your thoughts on this? Best, Sidney -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting a flash game to facebook app
Hi Paul, The process is't that complex, the api's are pretty strait forward. You can check out: http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/ From here you also have some links to the dev center from adobe, they dedicated an whole section to Facebook. The docs and tuts will get you up to speed in no time. Last week i implemented Facebook oAuth in a mobile AIR app with this API and it cost me about 3 hours to go from start to finish. (Up until last week i was also a dinosaur in the Facebook arena ;-) ) Hope this helps you :) Sidney -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Wednesday 30 May 2012 Week 22 at 18:17, Paul Steven wrote: I am a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to facebook and have been asked to turn a flash game into a facebook app. Before I make a decision on whether I can take on this job I wanted a quick heads up on how complex a process is to do this? Thanks in advance. ___ 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] AIR Screensaver?
Hi David, What you can do is create and run an AIR app on startup of the users machine, respond to the idleTime property and show some media or text accordingly. The only thing is that it won't show up in the screeensavers list on the appropriate OS. I think the SPF app has something similar: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/samples_actionscript.html Also look at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/NativeApplication.html#idleThreshold As for OS agnostic software to create screensavers, take a look at http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/ i used that in the past an has a lot of extra API's you can use and well documented. It is also a bit pricy... but if you are creating this for a client maybe you can try to put this on their invoice as expenses (of make a deal with the client so they pay for it). Hope this steers you in a good direction, Best, Sidney -- Sidney de Koning - Be a geek, rockstar style! Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Monday 12 March 2012 Week 11 at 23:58, David Hunter wrote: Hi All, Anyone have any advice on making screensavers from Flash? I have seen some decent looking software http://www.screentime.com/software/flash-screensaverto convert an swf into a screensaver but it is quite pricey, I didn't have any luck with a mac open source alternatives, so I was wondering if it was possible with AIR? I would need it to function fully as a screensaver eg. be activated by user idle timeouts / hot corners etc... Thanks, David -- David Hunter www.davidhunterdesign.com (http://www.davidhunterdesign.com) +44 (0) 7869 104 906 ___ 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 Platform roadmap released - time to start learning HTML 5 unless you make games.
Why don't you write a ANE for it? :) That's what they are for :) -- Sidney de Koning | Funky Monkey Studio Who am I and what do I do? http://about.me/sidneydekoning Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Kevin Newman wrote: Oh! That's right, I would totally love game controller support! I wonder if it has something to do with a lack of system APIs on certain systems, to put an abstraction around (OSX, iOS, Android, etc.). Kevin N. On 2/22/12 3:50 PM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Oh and, there is a curious lack of support for game controllers. I don't get it, why would they even make that an AIR exclusive feature? And for TVs only? WTF? ___ 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] Spotify AS3 lib?
Hi Eric, I've had contact with spotify about this; the wont release anything because it exposes their databases and it all comes down to copyright issues. I have also created a Spotify AS3 Wrapper API for the search and lookup, its not done, but usable for (commercial) projects. If you like i can put it up at Github? Let me know, Sidney de Koning -- *Sidney de Koning* - *If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original* *Who am I? http://about.me/sidneydekoning* *Just Funky Mobile Apps: http://www.justfunky.com/*** Beyond just the search but playback as well. The search is only mildly interesting. Google Voice: (508) 656-0622 Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com nat...@mynarcik.comwrote: Are you looking to read the Metadata? Or develop a full 3rd party program? I can across this http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ Perhaps it could help? Unfortunately it only allows search and lookup... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing listFlashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.comhttp://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Spotify AS3 lib?
Will be somewhere tomorrow, long day and i'm off to bed :) I'm here in C.E.T. :) Will let you know when its online, Sid Sure that would be cool :) Thanks. Google Voice: (508) 656-0622 Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Sidney de Koning | Funky Monkey Studio sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote: Hi Eric, I've had contact with spotify about this; the wont release anything because it exposes their databases and it all comes down to copyright issues. I have also created a Spotify AS3 Wrapper API for the search and lookup, its not done, but usable for (commercial) projects. If you like i can put it up at Github? Let me know, Sidney de Koning -- **Sidney de Koning** - *If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original* **Who am I? http://about.me/sidneydekoning** *Just Funky Mobile Apps: http://www.justfunky.com/*** Beyond just the search but playback as well. The search is only mildly interesting. Google Voice: (508) 656-0622Twitter: eric_dolecki XBoxLive: edolecki PSN: eric_dolecki http://blog.ericd.net On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Mynarcik nat...@mynarcik.com nat...@mynarcik.com nat...@mynarcik.com nat...@mynarcik.comwrote: Are you looking to read the Metadata? Or develop a full 3rd party program? I can across this http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ Perhaps it could help? Unfortunately it only allows search and lookup... ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing listFlashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.comhttp:// chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing listFlashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.comhttp://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- *Sidney de Koning* - *If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original* *Who am I? http://about.me/sidneydekoning* *Just Funky Mobile Apps: http://www.justfunky.com/* *My OpenSource projects: http://helloworld.im/funky-monkey* *3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out* https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzkhttps://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Calling an element in an Array as an Class
Hi List,
I want to load some bitmap images, so i have created a class with embed
meta data in it, and i wrote a function to get them out and use them. But
it does not seem to work.
Can you use the 'new' keyword for an element in an Array?
Code below:
public class CarAssets {
[Embed(source=img/pro_car.png)]
private static const PRO_CAR : Class;
public static const ALL_CARS:Array = [PRO_CAR];
public static function getAsset( index:uint ):Bitmap {
return Bitmap( new ALL_CARS[index]() as Class );
}
}
}
I need some help (the code rather than me) because when i do: var
carImage:Bitmap = CarAssets.getAsset( _index );
it fails.
Or does anybody know a better method?
Cheers,
Sidney
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RE: [Flashcoders] Calling an element in an Array as an Class
Hi Michael, Thanks for the tip, normaly i would to, its just that this particular project has already set its course on using the EMBED method. Stubborn as i am, i still want to crack this nut :) So does anybody know how to accomplish this? Greets, Sid Or does anybody know a better method? I recently started using LoaderMax for loading assets. I will never ever look back to manually loading my assets. :-) http://blog.greensock.com/loadermax/ - Michael M. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Sidney de Koning - If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Actionscript 3 Teacher @ www.sae.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com Blogger @ www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/ 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Calling an element in an Array as an Class
Thanks!
The double cast was causing the problems. By removing the 'as Class' you
can actually make a new instance of what ever in in the array at element
n.
It works super smooth now :)
function getAsset( index:uint ):Bitmap {
return Bitmap( new ALL_CARS[index]() as Class );
}
Good weekend all!
Sidney
Version 1:
public class EmbedTest extends Sprite {
[Embed(source=clear.png)]
private static const PRO_CAR : Class;
public static const ALL_CARS:Array = [PRO_CAR];
public static function getAsset( index:uint ) : Bitmap {
return new ALL_CARS[index]();
}
public function EmbedTest() {
addChild(getAsset(0));
}
}
Version 2:
public class EmbedTest2 extends Sprite {
[Embed(source=clear.png)]
private static const PRO_CAR : Class;
public static function getAsset(name : String) : Bitmap {
try {
return new EmbedTest2[name]();
} catch (e:Error) {
trace (ERROR asset is not accessible + name);
}
return new Bitmap();
}
public function EmbedTest2() {
addChild(getAsset(PRO_CAR));
addChild(getAsset(PRO_CAR2));
}
}
Am 11.02.2011 15:30, schrieb Sidney de Koning - Funky Monkey Studios:
public static function getAsset( index:uint ):Bitmap {
return Bitmap( new ALL_CARS[index]() as Class );
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] getPixel32 - get alpha value
Hi Karim, Something along the lines of this: var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(80, 40, true, 0xFF44AACC); var pixelValue:uint = bmd.getPixel32(0, 0); var alphaValue:uint = pixelValue 24 0xFF; var red:uint = pixelValue 16 0xFF; var green:uint = pixelValue 8 0xFF; var blue:uint = pixelValue 0xFF; trace(alphaValue.toString(16)); // ff trace(red.toString(16)); // 44 trace(green.toString(16)); // aa trace(blue.toString(16)); // cc Also check http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/BitmapData.html#getPixel32%28%29 Cheers, Sidney Hello All - anyone can point me in the right direction to get the alpha component of getPixel32 ? Thanks Karim ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Sidney de Koning - If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Actionscript 3 Teacher @ www.sae.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com Blogger @ www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/ 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Detect iPhone version
Hi Kevin, I think its Capabilities.os (http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/system/Capabilities.html#os) And the properties you were taling about; Capabilities.touchscreenType are only available in AIR 2.5 for Android prerelease but this is going live tomorrow ;) Have fun! Sidney No way to tell? Kevin N. On 10/2/10 3:06 AM, Kevin Newman wrote: Hi, Anyone know how to detect the iPhone version a Flash CS5 iPhone app is running on? I have a game that runs at 59.1 FPS on a 3GS or ~45FPS on an older iPod touch. I'd like to be able to detect which device the app is running on, so I can throttle back the FPS, to 30 or 40 on slower hardware (30 for iPhone 3G which is slightly less powerful on paper, than iPod touch 2g). BTW, the frameskip feature isn't very smooth (I'm using the ENTER_FRAME/stage.invalidate()/RENDER method). Thanks, Kevin N. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Sidney de Koning - If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Actionscript 3 Teacher @ www.sae.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com Blogger @ www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/ 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
Hi Thomas,
In the nav item objects you are creating you can override the width
and height functions, like so;
override public function get width( ):Number {
// The plus 4 makes it look better, change this if you like
return _myTextfield.textWidth + 4;
}
Then it will all have a different width.
Oh i just see that you have to use width since navItem is not a
textfield, but uses a textfield so it does not have the textWidth
funtion. Try that :)
runningX += navItem.width + 20;
Oh and just a (real important) note, it is very good practice to
always create classes with a capital letter, so it then becomes
NavItem instead of navItem.
Cheers,
Sid
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:28 AM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi Sid many thanks for the demo, have managed to incorporate this
successfully into what I was doing, and evenly space the items, but
am
struggling to space the items,
as per line;
runningX += textheader.textwidth + 20; //20 is the offset or padding
between the items, however for some reason there is no gap and all
the items
are butted up to one another?
many thanks, in advance , Thomas
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
textfields
He Thomas,
This stuff can be a bit difficult when making the transition.
Textfield has a really cool property called textWidth and
textHeight, that
retruns only the width and height of the actual height :)
I have put comment in the code that explain it. Here is an example
to demo:
var runningX:Number = 0;
// This is basically your data comming from XML
var itemsArr:Array = new Array(one, different length, piece of
text,
last bit, evently spaced);
// It does not really matter what kind of loop you do, it is the way
of
spacing them thst matters, so you can do your loop like you normally
would,
// here i'm just using an array to demonstrate
for (var index:int = 0; index itemsArr.length ; index++) {
// You create items of any kind you like...
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = itemsArr[index];
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
// You say that runningX is some value. since it was zero in the
beginning we are adding the value ontop of its current value (see line
below)
_textheader.x = runningX;
// ... And then you space them. You can use textWidth if using text
width
or plain width for object that extend from DisplayObjects or Sprites
etc...
runningX += _textheader.textWidth + 20; // +10 is the offset between
the
items you want ot use. Can be any number.
// And then you add the child to the display list so it becomes
visible.
addChild(_textheader);
}
Any questions, just ask :)
Cheers, Sid
im using it with in the gaia framework do you know it? below is my
loop
and
'navbut.x' is what im trying to find, i need to add all the widths
of all
the dynamic textfields sequentially and then space them out evenly
horizontally ,
im just totally stuck!
for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section) {
navbut = new navItem();
navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
//Insert the menu text (li...@name reads the
link's name attribute)
navbut.label.text=secti...@name;
//Assign an url to a menu item
navbut.linkto=secti...@src;
navbut.keepopen=secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=secti...@highlight;
//Insert the menu button to stage
navbut.y=0;
trace(total);
navbut.x= ?;
nav1.addChild(navbut);
//Make the button look like a button (hand
cursor)
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
//Add event handlers (used for animating the
buttons)
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);
//trace(navbut.x);
//Increment the menu button counter, so we
know how many buttons there are
i
Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
Hi Thomas,
Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;
// When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
the height of an item.
// And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
//See comments in code for further explanation.
var runningY:Number = 0;
var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;
for (var index:int = 0; index 4 ; index++) {
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = Text;
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
// First iteration runningY = 0;
// Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Third iteration runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
// Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Fifth iteration runningY = 86
_textheader.y = runningY;
runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
}
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
loop
from my external xml,
i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
different sizes.
i have run a trace on the loop as follows;
trace(navbut.label.width);
which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of the
widths from the loop? to then space them.
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Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.
Good luck!
Sid
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
textFields,
i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
width as
opposed to the height then?
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
textfields
Hi Thomas,
Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;
// When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
the height of an item.
// And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
//See comments in code for further explanation.
var runningY:Number = 0;
var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;
for (var index:int = 0; index 4 ; index++) {
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = Text;
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
// First iteration runningY = 0;
// Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Third iteration runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
// Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Fifth iteration runningY = 86
_textheader.y = runningY;
runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
}
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
loop
from my external xml,
i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
different sizes.
i have run a trace on the loop as follows;
trace(navbut.label.width);
which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of
the
widths from the loop? to then space them.
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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
No problem :)
This is using AS3. Where do you have problem with?
Sid
is this using as2 as im trying to do it in as3 so am a bit confused
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.
Good luck!
Sid
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
textFields,
i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
width as
opposed to the height then?
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
textfields
Hi Thomas,
Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;
// When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
the height of an item.
// And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
//See comments in code for further explanation.
var runningY:Number = 0;
var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;
for (var index:int = 0; index 4 ; index++) {
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = Text;
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
// First iteration runningY = 0;
// Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Third iteration runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
// Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Fifth iteration runningY = 86
_textheader.y = runningY;
runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
}
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
loop
from my external xml,
i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
different sizes.
i have run a trace on the loop as follows;
trace(navbut.label.width);
which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of
the
widths from the loop? to then space them.
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RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
He Thomas,
This stuff can be a bit difficult when making the transition.
Textfield has a really cool property called textWidth and textHeight, that
retruns only the width and height of the actual height :)
I have put comment in the code that explain it. Here is an example to demo:
var runningX:Number = 0;
// This is basically your data comming from XML
var itemsArr:Array = new Array(one, different length, piece of text,
last bit, evently spaced);
// It does not really matter what kind of loop you do, it is the way of
spacing them thst matters, so you can do your loop like you normally
would,
// here i'm just using an array to demonstrate
for (var index:int = 0; index itemsArr.length ; index++) {
// You create items of any kind you like...
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = itemsArr[index];
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
// You say that runningX is some value. since it was zero in the
beginning we are adding the value ontop of its current value (see line
below)
_textheader.x = runningX;
// ... And then you space them. You can use textWidth if using text
width
or plain width for object that extend from DisplayObjects or Sprites
etc...
runningX += _textheader.textWidth + 20; // +10 is the offset between the
items you want ot use. Can be any number.
// And then you add the child to the display list so it becomes visible.
addChild(_textheader);
}
Any questions, just ask :)
Cheers, Sid
im using it with in the gaia framework do you know it? below is my loop
and
'navbut.x' is what im trying to find, i need to add all the widths of all
the dynamic textfields sequentially and then space them out evenly
horizontally ,
im just totally stuck!
for each (var section:XML in siteNav.section) {
navbut = new navItem();
navbut.label.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
//Insert the menu text (li...@name reads the
link's name attribute)
navbut.label.text=secti...@name;
//Assign an url to a menu item
navbut.linkto=secti...@src;
navbut.keepopen=secti...@keep;
navbut.isclicked=secti...@highlight;
//Insert the menu button to stage
navbut.y=0;
trace(total);
navbut.x= ?;
nav1.addChild(navbut);
//Make the button look like a button (hand
cursor)
navbut.buttonMode=true;
navbut.mouseChildren=false;
navbut.alpha=0;
navbut.name=secti...@url;
TweenMax.to(navbut, 0.5, {alpha:1});
//Add event handlers (used for animating the
buttons)
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
navbut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
mouseClickHandler);
//trace(navbut.x);
//Increment the menu button counter, so we
know how many buttons there are
i++;
}
}
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields
No problem :)
This is using AS3. Where do you have problem with?
Sid
is this using as2 as im trying to do it in as3 so am a bit confused
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textfields
Yup that is correct. X and width, Y and height.
Good luck!
Sid
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:36 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical
textFields,
i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the
width as
opposed to the height then?
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu
textfields
Hi Thomas,
Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;
// When you
Re: [Flashcoders] Duplicate multiple lines in FlashDevelop?
Yeah it is, they call it copy-pasting ;-) The key command is CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste... Think it even works on a mac too... One extra key command, but still incredibly usefull! ;-) Sorry couldn't help it ... :-) On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: Seems like it'd be an incredibly useful feature. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Pedro Taranto ptara...@gmail.com wrote: don't know about multiple lines, but to duplicate a simple line just use CTRL+D -- Pedro Taranto Joel Stransky wrote: Anyone know how? Like if I want to dupe an entire function sig. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Duplicate multiple lines in FlashDevelop?
Oh shiite ... on a mac its CMD :-) On Aug 18, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: No, it won't work on Macs ;) Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Sidney de Koning wrote: Yeah it is, they call it copy-pasting ;-) The key command is CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste... Think it even works on a mac too... One extra key command, but still incredibly usefull! ;-) Sorry couldn't help it ... :-) On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: Seems like it'd be an incredibly useful feature. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Pedro Taranto ptara...@gmail.com wrote: don't know about multiple lines, but to duplicate a simple line just use CTRL+D -- Pedro Taranto Joel Stransky wrote: Anyone know how? Like if I want to dupe an entire function sig. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] bookmarking a dynamic flash page
Hi Andrew, You might want to check out SWFAdress ( http://www.asual.com/ swfaddress/ ) It work rather well and handles also opening other external pages and sending mail. We actually base all of our projects on it. HTH, Sid On Aug 6, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: How could I let the user bookmark the current state of a dynamic flash page? I know how to save the current state of the movie and then just load that as the default, but what if the user should be able to bookmark multiple states, each with its own address? Can javascript tell the browser to change the address in the address bar without actually loading a new page, so that if the user creates a bookmark there is a reliable address? Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com 3GB free storage you can sync with your mobile device or Mac or PC. Check out https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1MjcxMzk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Playing an encrypted f4v
Hi Carl, What i think i hear is that your client want their video only to be shown to certain people. If that is the case, you can check out this article by ted patrick: http://onflash.org/ted/2006/03/licensing-drm-and-flash-player.php Some other good info comes from here: http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/9/7/vcsacp I think, but i'm not 100% sure you can also find this feature in Red5 an OS alternative to Flash Media Server (http://code.google.com/p/red5/) Good luck! Sid On Jul 14, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Carl Welch wrote: Hi guys, My client asked if I could load an encrypted f4v, decrypt it and then play it. I found the as3Crypto libraries, so I have that part covered. Now I'm wondering if its even possible to load the f4v as a binary file or something, decrypt and then play it. I've tried a couple of tests with an unencrypted file but I can't figure out how to get around not using the netstream function. So basically my question is if this is even possible or am I headed down a dead end street? Thoughts, comments, suggestions? Thanks. -- Carl Welch http://www.carlwelch.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] understanding a simpe statement 2
Hi Isaac, This will help you: http://snipplr.com/view/15019/shorthand-code-for-assigning-a-value/ Cheers, Sidney de Koning On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Isaac Alves wrote: I would like to understand that one too: maxH = maxH == 0 ? maxW : maxH; Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Error #1009 shows randomly
Hi Isaac, As far as i can see it that you took off the P when going through the code, since it gives an error that it canot find local.display:rimaryButton on frame 7. Try looking there, maybee you changed the linkage identifier or the classname. HTH, Sidney de Koning On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Isaac Alves wrote: Hello fellows, I've bought at Flash Den a code of an Infinite Level Menu (from MBMedia) and I'm pulling my hair out. It throws that well known error as the text of the button doesn't show when it should: “TypeError: Error #1009: cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at local.display:rimaryButton/frame7()” That without touching the code or elements on the stage. Actually, if inside the main.fla file, I go inside the Expanding Menu and then inside the Primary Button MovieClip and select the text field and at that point I test the movie, it works correctly. As long as I leave the Primary Button movieclip and test the movie, it throws that error again! Obs: It is not actually randomly that it throws that error. I've tried a thousand times to test the movie within a certain state , that means,foe example, when I'm iinside a certain movieclip with the textfield selected. and in that specific situation it always throws (or not) the error. You know, I select a movieclip , test Movie and it works. I deselect it, test movie and it doesn't . Its seems like a bug... that's very bizarre. Please help !!! Thanks a lot, Isaac ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Audio Player play/pause state: PLEASE HELP
Hi Rajiv, Take a close look at the SharedObject, this is basicaaly a Flash cookie written on the users side and you can read it out when ever you need. Hope this helps, Sid On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Rajiv Seth (Pixeldust) wrote: Hi, I need to create a simple flash audio player with play, pause (and/ or volume control). It will be added to a web page. Now the problem is if a user pauses the player, I need to retain its paused state between web pages untill he decides to play it again. And if he plays it and navigates to some other page using simple anchor (non flash), then audio should automatically play untill he pauses it. My idea is to store play/pause state in some variable (or XML), so that state can be maintained. BUT I do not know how to do it. CAN ANYONE HELP? Rajiv ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Need beta testers!
No one is interested? That really breaks my heart ;) You dont have to check it out in SVN, just browse the source and give me feedback, code wise, structure wise, best way/different way to parse files, comments, suggestions etc I want to learn dammit ;) Greets Sid On May 27, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Sidney de Koning wrote: Hi List, I have created a very simple PLS parser (playlist file, used in Winamp and other programs) for AIR. And would like to invite people to use it and give me feedback, code wise, structure wise, best way/different way to parse files, comments, suggestions etc What can you do with this? You can listen to radio streams in AIR. So if there is somebody who would like to test this, check out the source at http://code.google.com/p/as3plsreader Hoping for some reactions, both bad and good, Sid Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Need beta testers!
Hi List, I have created a very simple PLS parser (playlist file, used in Winamp and other programs) for AIR. And would like to invite people to use it and give me feedback, code wise, structure wise, best way/different way to parse files, comments, suggestions etc What can you do with this? You can listen to radio streams in AIR. So if there is somebody who would like to test this, check out the source at http://code.google.com/p/as3plsreader Hoping for some reactions, both bad and good, Sid Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] regex in switch statement
Hi MM, I think its better practice to define that regex in a variable and switch on that variable. HTH, Sidney de Koning On May 15, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi list... Is it possible to use a regular expression as a case in a switch statement? I've been searching around and haven't found anything specifically for actionscript. Thanks, - MM ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] PSD Parser thumbs and metadata; who asked?
Hi List, Cant remember who asked but last week orso somebody about a PSD Parser and metadata getting thumbs out. Been looking around the libspark project: http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/PSDParser/ They have a plethora of fantastic projects, worth taking a look. Have fun! Sid Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] File access
Hi Karl, I think Adobe has their own project of getting meta data out of file, especially for their 'own' file formats, i'm guessing PSD aswell I have not looked in to this but maybe it can help you; its called XMP. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/xmplibrary/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/ http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ Hope this helps you, Sid On May 7, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Glen Pike wrote: Hi, The open-file dialog is an OS thing - the thumbs come from the OS rather than the image. PSD's are an exception - the thumbnail appears in the Adobe style dialogue for these... I am guessing AS3 + AIR may allow a bit more flexibility with opening and accessing file data in the way you would like, but as you are using AS2, you are probably restricted to uploading a file, making a thumbnail then displaying it... Be aware that if you are thinking of doing something like this, image uploading, even with phpThumb, is often exploited by hackers - read the doc's / fix list if you are thinking of using ready made scripts and weigh up pros/ cons. Glen Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Thanks Glen, I will look that up. I kind of figured I would need some kind of script help in the process, but was just wondering if Flash had the capabilities. Like when your in the open file dialog window. The thumbnail you see. Retrieving that somehow in flash. No SystemCapabilities function for something like that? Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On May 7, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Glen Pike wrote: Hi, Don't think you could do this in Flash without loading the whole image file, even if it did have a thumbnail - not sure if this is a feature of the JPEG / PNG spec or not? If you are loading images from the server, you could run a script that generates thumbnails on the fly, (hopefully caching them for further browser requests). There are loads of free scripts - phpThumb is one I have seen that may do the caching too. HTH Glen Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Is there a way to display the thumbnail of a file? Like a .PSD (Photoshop file). They sometimes come with an embedded thumbnail. I wanted to know if you can access this and use it to display. I am working in AS2. Would it take a code to do that, or no way to do that in flash? Any thoughts would help. Thanks, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ 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 Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] What's the dollar symbol for?
Hi Steve,
It is just a way of naming variables. The Adobe docs say this about it:
Variable names can only contain letters, numbers, and dollar signs
($). Do not begin variable names with numbers. Variables must be
unique and they are case-sensitive in Flash Player 7 and later.
If you look further in his code you see he also uses it for the
comments:
_data.gd$comments
_data.gd$comments.gd$feedLink
_data.gd$comments.gd$feedLink.countHint
Hope this helps you,
Sid
On May 5, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Stephen Matthews wrote:
Hi, I am working with Martin Legris's great Youtube API class and
wondered what this was
( _data.gd$rating )
What does the dollar symbol do?
Here is a link to the particular class-
http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ca/newcommerce/youtube/data/VideoData.as
This is the getter-
public function get rating():RatingData
{
return new RatingData(_data.gd$rating);
}
PS I looked at Adobe's online help but could not find a reference to
it.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Conditional statement in [Embed(source=... tag
Hi Jiri,
Why do you want to do that conditional there? Cant you call a var?
Then in your main entry class you set that var depending on the lang
you get in.
Idea?
Or if you work with some sort of MVC ( Model View Controller )
architecture you could do that conditional in your Model and in your
Emdbed tag just query MainModel.getUnicodeRange() which returns a
string of all appropriate unicode chars.
Let me know if this works,
Sid
On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Jiri wrote:
Hello list,
i was wondering if it is possible to set a conditional statement in
the EMBED tag. I would like to set the unicode range based on an id.
Here is the class i have now:
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class ArialRoundedBoldFont extends Sprite {
[Embed(source=Arial-Rounded-MT-Bold.ttf,
fontFamily=ArialRoundedBold, fontWeight=bold,
mimeType=application/x-font-truetype, unicodeRange=U+0020-U+017E,U
+20A0-U+20CF)]
public static var font:Class;
}
}
I would like to achive that the var unicodeRange=U+0020-U+017E,U
+20A0-U+20CF
is something like
unicodeRange=((lang==id)? U+0020-U+017E,U+20A0-U+20CF : U+0020-U
+017E)
Is this possible, or do I need to write a pre parser, generating
the .as file with the correct unicodeRange for a specific language.
Then compile all the .as files for each individual country?
Many thanks,
Jiri
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
No i cant use XML since eventually it will be a PLS file (Winamp Shoutcast), I wrote a library that parses a PLS file (Playlist file from Winamp Shoutcast server) (http://code.google.com/p/as3plsreader/) this all works fine from with AIR, IF I have the file already saved to local disk. So my final test is to directly load the PLS from the shoutcast server. That why i need to convert the event.target.data to a File... Cant i do: var f:File = new File(event.target.data) ? Do you have any other suggestion on how to do this? Greets Sid On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Muzak wrote: And when you trace out you do get the contents of the file? Yup, I saw file content in debug window. If it does work, my question becomes something different; How do i convert the loaded in data (one big string) to a File object ? Use xml instead of text? - Can i add data to a File Object? - Can i create a new temporary File Object and and string data to it? Nope and nope. The data property of a File object is read only. Check the docs. You typically use a File object in combination with a FileStream instance to read/write to disk. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/filesystem/File.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/filesystem/FileStream.html I save it in memory and pass it through to the rest. Depends on what the rest is, but you can pass a File object around, just like any other object. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nl To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server Hi Muzak, And when you trace out you do get the contents of the file? Sid ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Thanks for the tip, i'll try this out. Thanks, Sid On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Just a thought, but if it works when saved locally, could you maybe save it as a cookie on the users computer? That may be a nice shortcut, since its just a playlist. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Sidney de Koning wrote: No i cant use XML since eventually it will be a PLS file (Winamp Shoutcast), I wrote a library that parses a PLS file (Playlist file from Winamp Shoutcast server) (http://code.google.com/p/ as3plsreader/) this all works fine from with AIR, IF I have the file already saved to local disk. So my final test is to directly load the PLS from the shoutcast server. That why i need to convert the event.target.data to a File... Cant i do: var f:File = new File(event.target.data) ? Do you have any other suggestion on how to do this? Greets Sid On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Muzak wrote: And when you trace out you do get the contents of the file? Yup, I saw file content in debug window. If it does work, my question becomes something different; How do i convert the loaded in data (one big string) to a File object ? Use xml instead of text? - Can i add data to a File Object? - Can i create a new temporary File Object and and string data to it? Nope and nope. The data property of a File object is read only. Check the docs. You typically use a File object in combination with a FileStream instance to read/write to disk. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/filesystem/File.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/filesystem/FileStream.html I save it in memory and pass it through to the rest. Depends on what the rest is, but you can pass a File object around, just like any other object. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nl To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server Hi Muzak, And when you trace out you do get the contents of the file? Sid ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Hi Muzak,
This is not exactly what i want to do but it comes close (and i cant
test right now since i'm at work)
The whole 'prompt user for saving a file' i want to avoid, but the
below code looks like what i wan to do:
var f:File = evt.currentTarget as File;
trace(- nativePath: , f.nativePath);
// create filestream, open it and write data to file
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
fs.open(f, FileMode.WRITE);
fs.writeUTFBytes(plsData);
fs.close();
Thanks for the help, will let you know if it worked.
Sid
On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Muzak wrote:
Well it depends on what you're trying to do with the loaded data.
If all you want is to load it and write to disk, then the format
doesn't really matter.
As mentioned earlier, to write the loaded data to disk you use a
combination of a File instance and a FileStream instance.
Should be examples of that in the docs.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e4a.html
The following will load the data, when loaded, ask where to save it,
and then write that data to the file you selected.
private var plsData:String;
private function appInit():void {
trace(Application ::: appInit);
var plsURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var plsReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( plsURL );
var plsLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( plsReq );
plsLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , plsLoaded );
}
private function plsLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace(Application ::: plsLoaded);
var value:String = plsData = evt.currentTarget.data;
trace(value);
var f:File = new File();
f.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileSelectHandler);
f.browseForSave(Save Data);
}
private function fileSelectHandler(evt:Event):void {
trace(Application ::: fileSelectHandler);
var f:File = evt.currentTarget as File;
trace(- nativePath: , f.nativePath);
// create filestream, open it and write data to file
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
fs.open(f, FileMode.WRITE);
fs.writeUTFBytes(plsData);
fs.close();
}
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To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
No i cant use XML since eventually it will be a PLS file (Winamp
Shoutcast), I wrote a library that parses a PLS file (Playlist
file from Winamp Shoutcast server) (http://code.google.com/p/as3plsreader/
) this all works fine from with AIR, IF I have the file already
saved to local disk.
So my final test is to directly load the PLS from the shoutcast
server.
That why i need to convert the event.target.data to a File... Cant
i do:
var f:File = new File(event.target.data) ?
Do you have any other suggestion on how to do this?
Greets Sid
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Then 'f' is the reference to the playlist.pls right? That one i can
than pass through to my PLS reader?
This really helped me alot!
May I refer you to this image:
http://www.aperturaphoto.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/you-rock-you-rule.bmp
Thanks!
Sid
On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Muzak wrote:
Well that was just an example :)
Here's how to do it without the save file dialog:
private function plsLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace(Application ::: plsLoaded);
var value:String = evt.currentTarget.data;
trace(value);
var f:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
f.url += /playlist.pls;
trace(- url: , f.url);
trace(- nativePath: , f.nativePath);
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
fs.open(f, FileMode.WRITE);
fs.writeUTFBytes(plsData);
fs.close();
}
The above will create a file called playlist.pls on your desktop.
Some stuff on security:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e5b.html
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e59.html
From the above:
quote
AIR applications cannot modify content using the app: URL scheme.
Also, the application directory may be read only because of
administrator settings.
Unless there are administrator restrictions to the user's computer,
AIR applications are privileged to write to any location on the
user's hard drive.
Developers are advised to use the app-storage:/ path for local
storage related to their application.
/quote
To get to the application storage directory rather than the desktop,
in the above example, use:
var f:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
regards,
Muzak
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Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Hi Muzak,
This is not exactly what i want to do but it comes close (and i
cant test right now since i'm at work)
The whole 'prompt user for saving a file' i want to avoid, but the
below code looks like what i wan to do:
var f:File = evt.currentTarget as File;
trace(- nativePath: , f.nativePath);
// create filestream, open it and write data to file
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
fs.open(f, FileMode.WRITE);
fs.writeUTFBytes(plsData);
fs.close();
Thanks for the help, will let you know if it worked.
Sid
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Anybody?
I just want to know how to load an file from a server that holds
string data (xml or txt file) without getting the 2032 error.
Please help,
Sid
On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote:
Hi List,
I want to load textfile from my own server from an AIR app but i
keep getting a 2032 Error, a Stream Error. Event though when i load
this from the browser it works.
The docs about this on the net are very limited. This is what i
thought of so far:
- It could be a crossdomain error?
- I do handle all events?
- I tried a loading in a PHP file that uses fopen to serve me the file
Do anyone have any ideas? I just want to read in this text file ( or
any other file with string data from my server ) or should i use
FileStream to read in the file? Eventually the contents of the file
i load in will will need to be a File Object ().
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Below is my code:
var xmlURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( xmlURL );
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( xmlReq );
//listen for error events
xmlLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , onIOError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR ,
onSecurityError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , xmlLoaded );
function xmlLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace( evt.target.data)
}
function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text)
}
function onSecurityError(evt:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text )
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Hi Muzak,
And when you trace out you do get the contents of the file?
Sid
On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Muzak wrote:
Works fine here (Flex+Air).
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Anybody?
I just want to know how to load an file from a server that holds
string data (xml or txt file) without getting the 2032 error.
Please help,
Sid
On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote:
Hi List,
I want to load textfile from my own server from an AIR app but i
keep getting a 2032 Error, a Stream Error. Event though when i
load this from the browser it works.
The docs about this on the net are very limited. This is what i
thought of so far:
- It could be a crossdomain error?
- I do handle all events?
- I tried a loading in a PHP file that uses fopen to serve me the
file
Do anyone have any ideas? I just want to read in this text file
( or any other file with string data from my server ) or should i
use FileStream to read in the file? Eventually the contents of
the file i load in will will need to be a File Object ().
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Below is my code:
var xmlURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( xmlURL );
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( xmlReq );
//listen for error events
xmlLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , onIOError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR ,
onSecurityError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , xmlLoaded );
function xmlLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace( evt.target.data)
}
function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text)
}
function onSecurityError(evt:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text )
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
If it does work, my question becomes something different;
How do i convert the loaded in data (one big string) to a File object ?
Greet Sidney
On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Muzak wrote:
Works fine here (Flex+Air).
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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Anybody?
I just want to know how to load an file from a server that holds
string data (xml or txt file) without getting the 2032 error.
Please help,
Sid
On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote:
Hi List,
I want to load textfile from my own server from an AIR app but i
keep getting a 2032 Error, a Stream Error. Event though when i
load this from the browser it works.
The docs about this on the net are very limited. This is what i
thought of so far:
- It could be a crossdomain error?
- I do handle all events?
- I tried a loading in a PHP file that uses fopen to serve me the
file
Do anyone have any ideas? I just want to read in this text file
( or any other file with string data from my server ) or should i
use FileStream to read in the file? Eventually the contents of
the file i load in will will need to be a File Object ().
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Below is my code:
var xmlURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( xmlURL );
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( xmlReq );
//listen for error events
xmlLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , onIOError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR ,
onSecurityError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , xmlLoaded );
function xmlLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace( evt.target.data)
}
function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text)
}
function onSecurityError(evt:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text )
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Some things that pop to mind;
- Can i add data to a File Object?
- Can i create a new temporary File Object and and string data to it?
I save it in memory and pass it through to the rest.
Hope you can hel me with this,
Greets,
Sid
On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Muzak wrote:
Works fine here (Flex+Air).
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To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Anybody?
I just want to know how to load an file from a server that holds
string data (xml or txt file) without getting the 2032 error.
Please help,
Sid
On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote:
Hi List,
I want to load textfile from my own server from an AIR app but i
keep getting a 2032 Error, a Stream Error. Event though when i
load this from the browser it works.
The docs about this on the net are very limited. This is what i
thought of so far:
- It could be a crossdomain error?
- I do handle all events?
- I tried a loading in a PHP file that uses fopen to serve me the
file
Do anyone have any ideas? I just want to read in this text file
( or any other file with string data from my server ) or should i
use FileStream to read in the file? Eventually the contents of
the file i load in will will need to be a File Object ().
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Below is my code:
var xmlURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( xmlURL );
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( xmlReq );
//listen for error events
xmlLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , onIOError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR ,
onSecurityError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , xmlLoaded );
function xmlLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace( evt.target.data)
}
function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text)
}
function onSecurityError(evt:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text )
}
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[Flashcoders] Loading string data in a file from a server
Hi List,
I want to load textfile from my own server from an AIR app but i keep
getting a 2032 Error, a Stream Error. Event though when i load this
from the browser it works.
The docs about this on the net are very limited. This is what i
thought of so far:
- It could be a crossdomain error?
- I do handle all events?
- I tried a loading in a PHP file that uses fopen to serve me the file
Do anyone have any ideas? I just want to read in this text file ( or
any other file with string data from my server ) or should i use
FileStream to read in the file? Eventually the contents of the file i
load in will will need to be a File Object ().
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Below is my code:
var xmlURL:String = http://www.funky-monkey.nl/air/stringtest/serveFile.php
;
var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest( xmlURL );
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( xmlReq );
//listen for error events
xmlLoader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , onIOError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR ,
onSecurityError );
xmlLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE , xmlLoaded );
function xmlLoaded(evt:Event):void {
trace( evt.target.data)
}
function onIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text)
}
function onSecurityError(evt:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
trace( evt.text )
}
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[Flashcoders] Best data type for Zend AMF
Hi List, I'm using Zend AMF, and i'd like to know what is the best way and fastest to transfer data. For instance; do i create an array from database data in PHP and send it to flash? Or do i formatted array data from a database to xml and send that to flash? Which is the fastest? And more specifically; what datatype is the fastest. Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Best data type for Zend AMF
Nice one guys, thanks for the response. Since i'm not at all into Flex, in the video he talks about binding (and mapping them to ValueObjects). My question is can i do this with pure AS3? Cheers, Sid On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Glen Pike wrote: AMFPHP did this really well with result sets too - straight out of the box like CF. Muzak wrote: For database type data, Array of Objects. Forget about XML. With Coldfusion (and remoting) you can grab a database query result and just send that straight to Flash/Flex and it will be transformed into an Array of Objects automatically. In CF it's as simple as: cfset var rsResult= / cfquery name=rsResult other stuff.. SELECT * FROM table_name /cfquery cfreturn rsResult / Seems they're still working on mapping PHP to AS objects: http://wadearnold.com/blog/?p=54 Allthough, the article is from sept 2008, so it may have been implemented by now. So if class mappings are implemented (still have to take Zend AMF for a spin) then that's the *best* option, but probably not the *fastest*. At least in Coldfusion transforming plain vanilla objects into typed objects slows things down (especially with lots of data). regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nl To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:05 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Best data type for Zend AMF Hi List, I'm using Zend AMF, and i'd like to know what is the best way and fastest to transfer data. For instance; do i create an array from database data in PHP and send it to flash? Or do i formatted array data from a database to xml and send that to flash? Which is the fastest? And more specifically; what datatype is the fastest. Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Best data type for Zend AMF
Hi Jason, Yes i know :) maybe my question was a bit unclear; is there a way I can accomplish the same thing in pure AS3 without using the data binding? Sid On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Since i'm not at all into Flex, in the video he talks about binding (and mapping them to ValueObjects). My question is can i do this with pure AS3? You can certainly do Value Objects (which are simply just simple classes with properties you set and get - anyone can write one), but databinding is a Flex framework only feature. Jason Merrill Bank of America | Learning Performance Solutions Instructional Technology Media Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Converting hex colour numbers back and forth
= URLRequestMethod.POST;
request.data = variables;
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
try
{
loader.load(request);
}
catch (error:Error)
{
trace(Unable to load URL);
}
}
/ viewer class
// 5)
public function colorIn(o:Object):void
{
var colA:Array = o.Colors.split(,);
colA.splice(0,1);
for ( var i:uint=1; i=totSprites; i++ ) {
//calls the method in the coloured button class
mainImage[s+i].colorThis(colA[i]).toString(16);
};
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[RESOLVED] : [Flashcoders] Re: Flash CS3 DataGrid wordWraping in a cell
Hi Craig,
That fixed it, thanks!
Sid
On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Craig Bowman wrote:
Sid:
Make a class that extends the CellRenderer class and.
..ack its quicker to show you the code. See below. This will do it
for you.
package {
import fl.controls.listClasses.CellRenderer;
// make a cell renderer class that allow wrapping of text
public class MultiLineCell extends CellRenderer
{
public function MultiLineCell()
{
// constructor
textField.wordWrap = true;
textField.multiline = true;
textField.autoSize = left;
}
override protected function drawLayout():void
{
// allow text to flow according to column width
textField.width = this.width;
super.drawLayout();
}
} // end of class
} // end of package
Now just assign it to the required column. Ie:
myDataGrid.getColumnAt(5).cellRenderer=MultiLineCell;
Cheers,
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[Flashcoders] Flash CS3 DataGrid wordWraping in a cell
Hi List, Is it possible to have a the DataGrid component in Flash CS3 wrap its text in a cell? So i have one block of text in stead of one long sentence that falls out of screen? I saw some references online that with Flex it is possible, by using the wordWrap property (but im not using Flex). If it is possible, can sombody please tell me how... Thanks in advance, Sid Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl
He wrote the link wrong, it is: http://wonderfl.kayac.com/ Its pretty f* awesome! And most def the coolest i've seen in along time! Sid On Feb 2, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Is this spam? Or did that site not pay their ISP dues? This (http://wonderfl.kayack.com/ ) seems to be a web site circa 1998 - what does this have to do with Flash? Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology Media · Learning Performance Solutions LLD Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com ] On Behalf Of Steve Mathews Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:58 AM To: azf...@googlegroups.com; flexcod...@yahoogroups.com; Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl Spotted a post over at Techcrunch about wonderfl.kayack.com . Looks like a pretty cool project. And if the creator(s) happen to see this, a big thumbs up! Steve ___ 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 Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Components for Touchscreen
Hi Glen, You can check out eyePoke, a multitouch api: http://touchevent.riaforge.org/ This is from their docs: -EyePoke provides access to the display list and calls up the callibrator when touched. -TouchEvent extends MouseEvent and is designed to simultaneously support mice, pens, and multitouch displays. -TouchListener attaches to the camera and is added to the display list. When it detects user input, it dispatches a TouchEvent. -TouchFunctions contains static functions to implement things like startDrag in a multitouch-aware environment. Some other stuff about multitouch and Flash: http://wiki.nuigroup.com/Applications_and_libraries -- Libs in AS3 http://www.multitouching.nl/page.asp?page=148 -- Downloads and general info Hope this helps you, Sid On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Glen Pike wrote: Hi, Whilst I am Googling, does anyone know of any Flash components that are specifically for touchscreen type applications? Features I am looking for. rollover / rollout are not very useful as you tend to be pressing a control when you rollover... A bigger hit area for controls as my fingertips are bigger than my cursor. Different component types - drag / throw type components, etc. Thanks Glen ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula
Hi Jim, In the Number class there is are a couple of functions to help you. You want a function called toFixed(). so if you do Number(total).toFixed(2); You get the result you want :) This is pure AS3 though, Hope this helps, Sid On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, jimmi wrote: Goodmorning, i am trying to make a formula that makes for example 30.60 of 30.6. So I need it to add a 0. This is the formula I am using now. total = Number(Number(600) / 100 * Number(5.1)) I have tried all sorts of additions to the formula to try to get it to make 30.60 of 30.6. But no luck Anyone here who knows how to make the formula add a 0? Best regards, Jim ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning - be a geek, in rockstar style! Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula
Hi Jimmi,
Look at this then,
To truncate Numbers in Actionscript:
Three decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *1000)/1000;
// Outputs 23.263
Two decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *100)/100;
// Outputs 23.26
One decimal:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *10)/10;
// Outputs 23.2
and if you want to do it even nicer you do it like this:
function round(number:Number, precision:Number):Number
{
var decimalPlaces:Number = Math.pow(10, precision);
trace(Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces)
return Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces;
}
round(2.5678, 2);
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:05 AM, jimmi wrote:
Ah snap, i need it for AS2, is there any alternative for that?
Best regards,
Jim
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote:
Hi Jim,
In the Number class there is are a couple of functions to help you.
You want
a function called toFixed().
so if you do Number(total).toFixed(2); You get the result you want :)
This is pure AS3 though,
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, jimmi wrote:
Goodmorning, i am trying to make a formula that makes for example
30.60 of
30.6. So I need it to add a 0.
This is the formula I am using now.
total = Number(Number(600) / 100 * Number(5.1))
I have tried all sorts of additions to the formula to try to get
it to
make 30.60 of 30.6. But no luck
Anyone here who knows how to make the formula add a 0?
Best regards,
Jim
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Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula
Oh Allandt i misread, sorry.
Yes flash does remove the zero at the end of decimal values.
But then you only want to use this function to display (in a textfield
or something) and not to calcualte with it,
because calculating with double zeroes is the same calucalting with a
zero :) ie 4 * 2.0 == 4 *2.
To fix it do this (AS3 code):
function round(pValue:Number, precision:int):String {
var intVal:Number = Math.floor(pValue);
var finalLength : int = intVal.toString().length + 1 + precision;
var baseString : String = pValue.toString().substr(0, finalLength);
if(baseString.length == intVal.toString().length) {
baseString += .;
}
while(baseString.length finalLength) {
baseString += 0;
}
return baseString;
}
If there is someone on this list who would like to convert this
function to AS2 to help Jimmi that would be awesome :)
Cheers,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:26 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
wrote:
would that work for the number 2:20 tho?
doesn't flash remove zeros at the end of decimal values?
a
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nlwrote:
Hi Jimmi,
Look at this then,
To truncate Numbers in Actionscript:
Three decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *1000)/1000;
// Outputs 23.263
Two decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *100)/100;
// Outputs 23.26
One decimal:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *10)/10;
// Outputs 23.2
and if you want to do it even nicer you do it like this:
function round(number:Number, precision:Number):Number
{
var decimalPlaces:Number = Math.pow(10, precision);
trace(Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces)
return Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces;
}
round(2.5678, 2);
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:05 AM, jimmi wrote:
Ah snap, i need it for AS2, is there any alternative for that?
Best regards,
Jim
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote:
Hi Jim,
In the Number class there is are a couple of functions to help
you. You
want
a function called toFixed().
so if you do Number(total).toFixed(2); You get the result you
want :)
This is pure AS3 though,
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, jimmi wrote:
Goodmorning, i am trying to make a formula that makes for example
30.60
of
30.6. So I need it to add a 0.
This is the formula I am using now.
total = Number(Number(600) / 100 * Number(5.1))
I have tried all sorts of additions to the formula to try to get
it to
make 30.60 of 30.6. But no luck
Anyone here who knows how to make the formula add a 0?
Best regards,
Jim
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Re: [Flashcoders] [AS in general] Question corcerning a math formula
If it works, it works :)
Try converting it to a function so you can reuse it later.
Happy coding :)
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:29 PM, jimmi wrote:
I now have this :
total= String(Number(600) / 100 * Number(5.1));
cash = newArray;
cash = total.split(.);
if (cash.length == 1)
{
total+= .00;
}
else if (cash[cash.length - 1].length == 1)
{
total+= 0;
}
It's doing the job.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote:
Oh Allandt i misread, sorry.
Yes flash does remove the zero at the end of decimal values.
But then you only want to use this function to display (in a
textfield or
something) and not to calcualte with it,
because calculating with double zeroes is the same calucalting with
a zero
:) ie 4 * 2.0 == 4 *2.
To fix it do this (AS3 code):
function round(pValue:Number, precision:int):String {
var intVal:Number = Math.floor(pValue);
var finalLength : int = intVal.toString().length + 1 +
precision;
var baseString : String = pValue.toString().substr(0,
finalLength);
if(baseString.length == intVal.toString().length) {
baseString += .;
}
while(baseString.length finalLength) {
baseString += 0;
}
return baseString;
}
If there is someone on this list who would like to convert this
function to
AS2 to help Jimmi that would be awesome :)
Cheers,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:26 AM, allandt bik-elliott
(thefieldcomic.com) wrote:
would that work for the number 2:20 tho?
doesn't flash remove zeros at the end of decimal values?
a
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nlwrote:
Hi Jimmi,
Look at this then,
To truncate Numbers in Actionscript:
Three decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *1000)/1000;
// Outputs 23.263
Two decimals:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *100)/100;
// Outputs 23.26
One decimal:
var yourNumber:Number = 23.263636453737383838383838;
yourNumber = Math.round(yourNumber *10)/10;
// Outputs 23.2
and if you want to do it even nicer you do it like this:
function round(number:Number, precision:Number):Number
{
var decimalPlaces:Number = Math.pow(10, precision);
trace(Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces)
return Math.round(decimalPlaces * number) / decimalPlaces;
}
round(2.5678, 2);
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:05 AM, jimmi wrote:
Ah snap, i need it for AS2, is there any alternative for that?
Best regards,
Jim
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sidney de Koning
sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote:
Hi Jim,
In the Number class there is are a couple of functions to help
you. You
want
a function called toFixed().
so if you do Number(total).toFixed(2); You get the result you
want :)
This is pure AS3 though,
Hope this helps,
Sid
On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, jimmi wrote:
Goodmorning, i am trying to make a formula that makes for
example 30.60
of
30.6. So I need it to add a 0.
This is the formula I am using now.
total = Number(Number(600) / 100 * Number(5.1))
I have tried all sorts of additions to the formula to try to
get it to
make 30.60 of 30.6. But no luck
Anyone here who knows how to make the formula add a 0?
Best regards,
Jim
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Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)
Hi Zeh, Maybe these resources can help you? http://livedocs.adobe.com/air/1/devappsflex/dev_guide_flex.pdf “Using multi-platform key equivalent menu commands” in the PDF on page 57 (64 in PDF) http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41615 This one is for JS but it can help you Hope this helps you, Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey list, Do people here work with AIR? Or is there any better-aligned mailing list? Anyway. I'm using AIR 1.5's NativeMenuItem's .keyEquivalent and .keyEquivalentModifier. That feature is pretty cool and works like this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = d; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; Then when the user presses CTRL+D, the menu item is executed. (More information at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Menus_2.html) I'm having a problem setting the .keyEquivalent, though. It accepts strings, so you can't set them to things like Enter, Tab, Del, F1, etc. You can try doing this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = F1; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; And then, funny enough, the menu item will display CTRL+F1 as the shortcut; but it won't work. The actual shortcut will be CTRL+F - that is, it only takes the first character of the string as the activation key (!). The documentation seems to completely ignore the problem, very briefly mentioning that .keyEquivalent accepts a string. In fact, you can write *anything* as the .keyEquivalent and it'll be shown there on the menu, but only the first char matters. I tried a lot of different things, like adding Keyboard.F1 to the keyEquivalentModifiers array, using Keyboard.F1's key code as a keyEquivalent char, using AIR's new .STRING_F1 or KEYNAME_F1 constants, and things like that. Nothing seems to work though. Has somebody ran into that and found a solution that works? Or am I imagining things? It seems odd to me that I'm able to create a menu in Flash which responds to F1 while I can't do that in AIR using its (great) native menus. Of course I can always add the shortcuts as some keyboard event listener hidden somewhere, but it'd be less than optimal (and wouldn't display the shortcut on the menu). Thanks, Zeh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)
Oh one more link for you: Function key can't be used as keyEquivalents http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17901 Good luck, Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey list, Do people here work with AIR? Or is there any better-aligned mailing list? Anyway. I'm using AIR 1.5's NativeMenuItem's .keyEquivalent and .keyEquivalentModifier. That feature is pretty cool and works like this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = d; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; Then when the user presses CTRL+D, the menu item is executed. (More information at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Menus_2.html) I'm having a problem setting the .keyEquivalent, though. It accepts strings, so you can't set them to things like Enter, Tab, Del, F1, etc. You can try doing this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = F1; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; And then, funny enough, the menu item will display CTRL+F1 as the shortcut; but it won't work. The actual shortcut will be CTRL+F - that is, it only takes the first character of the string as the activation key (!). The documentation seems to completely ignore the problem, very briefly mentioning that .keyEquivalent accepts a string. In fact, you can write *anything* as the .keyEquivalent and it'll be shown there on the menu, but only the first char matters. I tried a lot of different things, like adding Keyboard.F1 to the keyEquivalentModifiers array, using Keyboard.F1's key code as a keyEquivalent char, using AIR's new .STRING_F1 or KEYNAME_F1 constants, and things like that. Nothing seems to work though. Has somebody ran into that and found a solution that works? Or am I imagining things? It seems odd to me that I'm able to create a menu in Flash which responds to F1 while I can't do that in AIR using its (great) native menus. Of course I can always add the shortcuts as some keyboard event listener hidden somewhere, but it'd be less than optimal (and wouldn't display the shortcut on the menu). Thanks, Zeh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)
No problem :) Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey Sydney, Thanks for the links. The first two didn't do anything for me - they basically repeat what's in the documentation and provide no information about the advanced keys - but the last one stating it is a bug is at least a relief as it means it's known and should (hopefully) be fixed soon. Thanks again, Zeh On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Sidney de Koning sid...@funky-monkey.nl wrote: Oh one more link for you: Function key can't be used as keyEquivalents http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17901 Good luck, Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey list, Do people here work with AIR? Or is there any better-aligned mailing list? Anyway. I'm using AIR 1.5's NativeMenuItem's .keyEquivalent and .keyEquivalentModifier. That feature is pretty cool and works like this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = d; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; Then when the user presses CTRL+D, the menu item is executed. (More information at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html? content=Menus_2.html) I'm having a problem setting the .keyEquivalent, though. It accepts strings, so you can't set them to things like Enter, Tab, Del, F1, etc. You can try doing this: var item:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem(Do Whatever); item.keyEquivalent = F1; item.keyEquivalentModifiers = [Keyboard.CONTROL]; And then, funny enough, the menu item will display CTRL+F1 as the shortcut; but it won't work. The actual shortcut will be CTRL+F - that is, it only takes the first character of the string as the activation key (!). The documentation seems to completely ignore the problem, very briefly mentioning that .keyEquivalent accepts a string. In fact, you can write *anything* as the .keyEquivalent and it'll be shown there on the menu, but only the first char matters. I tried a lot of different things, like adding Keyboard.F1 to the keyEquivalentModifiers array, using Keyboard.F1's key code as a keyEquivalent char, using AIR's new .STRING_F1 or KEYNAME_F1 constants, and things like that. Nothing seems to work though. Has somebody ran into that and found a solution that works? Or am I imagining things? It seems odd to me that I'm able to create a menu in Flash which responds to F1 while I can't do that in AIR using its (great) native menus. Of course I can always add the shortcuts as some keyboard event listener hidden somewhere, but it'd be less than optimal (and wouldn't display the shortcut on the menu). Thanks, Zeh ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Probably a simple answer...
Hi Ross,
when you create your variables, you forgot to set the identifier,
public , private etc.
Because else it scopes it default to , if i'm not mistaken.
So now change that to (and its good practice to use an underscore for
member variables);
private var _mainBrowser: BasicBrowserWindow; (not htmlLoader)
Also change the mainBrowser everywhere to _mainBrowser, now also do
the same trick for the htmlLoader.
(set it to private and rename to_htmLoader).
That should fix it.
Hope this helps you on your way,
Sid
On Dec 11, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Lehr, Ross (N-SGIS) wrote:
This is probably too simple of a question to ask here, but I'm
trying to
get my head around this AS3 OOP thing. I'm playing with a simple AIR
(built in Flash) web browser and I've hit a snag right off the bat. I
have a document class that calls a class to build the HTMLLoader
window.
If I comment out the code in the onGoEvent function it works fine.
When
I uncomment the code and compile, I get a 1061: Call to a possibly
undefined method urlToLoad through a reference with static type I
know
urlToLoad is there, I use it to load the default page, but for some
reason it gets lost along the way... With my limited knowledge of AS3
and OOP I just can't find the problem. Thanks for any advice and
help.
urlInput = the text entry field a user would typ the URL address to a
web page.
PS. I've removed some of the code like the import statements to keep
the email as small as possible.
DOCUMENT CLASS
package {
public class MyBrowser extends MovieClip {
var mainBrowserWindow:HTMLLoader;
public function MyBrowser()
{
mainBrowserWindow = new
BasicBrowserWindow(this,10,45,stage.stageHeight -
100,900,http://www.yahoo.com;);
//goButton
goButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onGoEvent);
}
public function onGoEvent(e:MouseEvent):void
{
mainBrowserWindow.urlToLoad( urlInput.text );
}
}
}
BasicBrowserWindow CLASS
package {
public class BasicBrowserWindow extends HTMLLoader {
var htmlLoader:HTMLLoader = new HTMLLoader();
public function BasicBrowserWindow(mC:MovieClip,
xPos:int,
yPos:int,
browserH:int,
browserW:int,
defaultURL:String)
{
htmlLoader.x = xPos;
htmlLoader.y = yPos;
htmlLoader.width = browserW;
htmlLoader.height = browserH;
mC.addChild(htmlLoader);
urlToLoad(defaultURL);
}
public function urlToLoad(uTL:String):void
{
htmlLoader.load(new URLRequest( uTL ));
}
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Probably a simple answer...
No problem, thats why we are here :)
Happy coding,
Sid
On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Lehr, Ross (N-SGIS) wrote:
Thanks Sid, it does help... Thanks for the additional advice as well.
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Probably a simple answer...
Hi Ross,
when you create your variables, you forgot to set the identifier,
public , private etc.
Because else it scopes it default to , if i'm not mistaken.
So now change that to (and its good practice to use an underscore for
member variables);
private var _mainBrowser: BasicBrowserWindow; (not htmlLoader)
Also change the mainBrowser everywhere to _mainBrowser, now also do
the same trick for the htmlLoader.
(set it to private and rename to_htmLoader).
That should fix it.
Hope this helps you on your way,
Sid
On Dec 11, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Lehr, Ross (N-SGIS) wrote:
This is probably too simple of a question to ask here, but I'm
trying to
get my head around this AS3 OOP thing. I'm playing with a simple AIR
(built in Flash) web browser and I've hit a snag right off the
bat. I
have a document class that calls a class to build the HTMLLoader
window.
If I comment out the code in the onGoEvent function it works fine.
When
I uncomment the code and compile, I get a 1061: Call to a possibly
undefined method urlToLoad through a reference with static type I
know
urlToLoad is there, I use it to load the default page, but for some
reason it gets lost along the way... With my limited knowledge of
AS3
and OOP I just can't find the problem. Thanks for any advice and
help.
urlInput = the text entry field a user would typ the URL address to a
web page.
PS. I've removed some of the code like the import statements to
keep
the email as small as possible.
DOCUMENT CLASS
package {
public class MyBrowser extends MovieClip {
var mainBrowserWindow:HTMLLoader;
public function MyBrowser()
{
mainBrowserWindow = new
BasicBrowserWindow(this,10,45,stage.stageHeight -
100,900,http://www.yahoo.com;);
//goButton
goButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onGoEvent);
}
public function onGoEvent(e:MouseEvent):void
{
mainBrowserWindow.urlToLoad( urlInput.text );
}
}
}
BasicBrowserWindow CLASS
package {
public class BasicBrowserWindow extends HTMLLoader {
var htmlLoader:HTMLLoader = new HTMLLoader();
public function BasicBrowserWindow(mC:MovieClip,
xPos:int,
yPos:int,
browserH:int,
browserW:int,
defaultURL:String)
{
htmlLoader.x = xPos;
htmlLoader.y = yPos;
htmlLoader.width = browserW;
htmlLoader.height = browserH;
mC.addChild(htmlLoader);
urlToLoad(defaultURL);
}
public function urlToLoad(uTL:String):void
{
htmlLoader.load(new URLRequest( uTL ));
}
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] flash player detection
Is this a question or an announcement? Sid On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: I have a client with a flash site - targets FP 8, and works fine. I have FP10 installed. If I make a copy of the html wrapper and then try and access the site using the copy, the detection of the player fails. The html uses swfobject for player detection. Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flash player detection
Oke :) If you need documentation make FP 10 work with detection by swfobject, then this is good read: http://onflash.org/ted/2008/10/flash-player-10-update-your-detection.php Good luck paul, Greets, Sid On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: - Original Message - From: Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash player detection Is this a question or an announcement? LOL, both. I'm wondering why the flash player detection is baulking if I just copy the html wrapper (content untouched), but working fine in the original html file. Paul Sid On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: I have a client with a flash site - targets FP 8, and works fine. I have FP10 installed. If I make a copy of the html wrapper and then try and access the site using the copy, the detection of the player fails. The html uses swfobject for player detection. Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] My rights - site not paid for.
Hi Stephen, Here in Holland we have something called 'terms and conditions' for freelancers, which you have to make legal with an notary. This is a document which basically protects you from this kind of stuff, and this document can be taken to court if it ever comes to this. If you don't have this, it is a good thing to have, you probably have the same thing in the UK, and its well worth the money. (converted it costs about 300 pounds) If you made a contract with this person, and you both singed it, by law he is bound by it. (And legal steps can be under taken when broken). If you don't have a contract, your basically fucked. Plain and simple. Even though a verbal agreement is also legal binding it is very hard to prove. first thing you can do is send another invoice after about 4 weeks, if he doesn't respond to it, call him and say you will place and 'under construction' banner on the site, and that you will change the ftp password ( but dont do this just jet), if he still doesn't respond use an agency to collect the outstanding invoice (don't know what they are called in engish) if he still doesn't respond, place that 'underconstruction banner' online. Hope this helps, Good luck with it! Sid On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Stephen Matthews wrote: What are my rights ( in the UK ) for taking down a site which has not been paid for? The owner of the company is happy with his site, but is not coughing up. I still have FTP access. He says the site took too long, and makes lots of excuses for not paying - which do not tally. He changed the site drastically at least three times - I think it took too long too, due to this. He is updating the news section and other sections whenever he has new material. I would be interested in your thoughts. This person won an award for being a top business man this year - is this what you have to do to be a top business man - screw people? I am not the kind of person to take this action really, but I may consider it. Thanks S ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Audio lag on KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN
Hi Jonathan, You say: The sounds are MP3s which are load()ed into Sound objects on init(). Does this mean you preload the sounds? If so; If you press a key before the whole sound is loaded in it takes some time to play it, because it is still loading. You can make sure of this by showing the application AFTER all the sounds are loaded in, this can be done by creating a loader que (place items in an array after they are loaded and check if the total amount of items loaded in is equal to the array length). This way you always know that nothing shows up before all the sounds are loaded. Hope this helps you, Sid On Dec 8, 2008, at 4:31 PM, jonathan howe wrote: I'm very interested in the solution to this. I notice it on certain machines and not others... it does not seem to have anything to do with the input part, and in some cases can stutter the display updating. For example, if you were to have a timer trigger the sound and print something at the screen, they would both 'appear' at the same time but if you also measured the time difference between the trigger's execution and after the sound call, there would be latency. The superstitious/uneducated part of me supposes that Flash is establishing a modal call to the sound card, and some perform cards respond faster than others. -jonathan On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:37 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you use updateAfterEvent() to force it to play immediately? if not, it might be waiting for the next frame to process the event On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm dipping my toe into AS3 and thought I'd play around with sound by making a little piano keyboard which is played by pressing keys on the computer keyboard. It works - the appropriate sounds play on KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN - however, I've noticed that there is often a lag between the keyboard event and the actual sound playing. The occurrence of the lag seems pretty random. The sounds are MP3s which are load()ed into Sound objects on init(). On KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, the appropriate Sound is play()ed. I've checked all the MP3s, and they don't have extra silence at the beginning. I don't think it has to do with the number of MP3s involved (14), because I noticed the lag even when I was testing it out with 2 sounds. Has anyone dealt with this before, and know what the problem might be? You can see (or rather, hear) the lag for yourself here: http://snipurl.com/7ndr2-meep Thanks! In hope, CB. ___ 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 -- -jonathan howe ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] display trace() in text field
Hi Mike, I'm working on a similair project, check it out here: http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/2008/05/13/air-logger-v100/ Right now i'm working on a version that from any swf traces to my air app, traces to the debug panel in Flex and traces out to FireBug plugin in Firefox, (will be online after the weekend) Is this what you are looking for? Sidney On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Michael Stocke wrote: Good morning everyone. Is it possible to display trace actions in a text field? I realize there are numerous other troubleshooting tools similar to trace, but I specifically want to display trace actions without any additional coding required in the target file. I want to create a debugging tool in AIR that will allow me to display trace actions from currently running swfs. I suspect this isn't feasible, but any tips or ideas would be appreciated, Thanks. Mike Stocke Interface Engineer Organic, Inc. | Detroit 2600 S. Telegraph Road -- Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 t: 248.454.4015 | f: 248.454.3370 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://Threeminds.Organic.com http://threeminds.organic.com/ Website: www.Organic.com http://www.organic.com/ This email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this email or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify us by calling our Help Desk at (415) 581-5552 or by e-mailing us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] display trace() in text field
or you can override trace like so:
override public function trace(...args) : void {
super();
textFieldYouWantToTraceIn.appendText(args.toString());
}
This is from the top of my head, so the code could have errors in it.
Test it to see.
Cheers,
Sid
PS. You can ony do this from a class file. I don't think the Flash IDE
lets you override functions directly.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:03 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
wrote:
function debug(s:String):Void
{
_root.pathToTextField.myText.text += /n+s;
}
then instead of trace(someString);
you use
debug(someString);
a
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Merrill, Jason
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Trace only sends strings to the Flash or Flexbuilder output window,
so no.
However, all you have to do is set the variable you want to see to
the text
property of the textfield:
myTextField.text = myVariableIdLikeToSee
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Good morning everyone.
Is it possible to display trace actions in a text field? I realize
there
are numerous other troubleshooting tools similar to trace, but I
specifically want to display trace actions without any additional
coding
required in the target file. I want to create a debugging tool in AIR
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I suspect this isn't feasible, but any tips or ideas would be
appreciated, Thanks.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Arabic flipping
Here we usually dont embed the text in the textfield, and grab the text from XML or you when you embed the font with code, include all the unicode codes of the arabic chars you need. And do use fonts that support Arabic like Arial, Verdana and i think Times New Roman http://www.google.nl/search?q=embed+unicode+font+as3 On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Mike Grunwald wrote: OK... I think I've reached the end of the internet as well as the end of my patients. I've been trying to figure out a way to take translations that I've received in an Excel spreadsheet and paste them into an XML document. The XML is UTF-8 and it's plain text (of course). No matter what editor (Flex Builder 3, Dreamweaver, Text Edit, WordPad, NotePad, Word, etc.) or OS (OSX 10.4, Windows XP) or combination of the two, it seems that when I try to combine the eastern translation with western markup (XML tags, or even western characters for that matter), as soon as I drop in a single character, if flips the orientation of the translated Arabic text?!? Everything that I find on the internet leads me hopeful down a path of ultimate disappointment. I know that I'm not the only one with this problem and I'm sure one of you has experienced this. Please let me in on you secrets. I beg you... Let me just clarify—My problem is not font related (I've got that all sorted out), and for the most part it's not really Flash related (except for the fact that I'm using this XML content for dynamic text fields). this list is probably not the proper place for this question, but I'm out of options and I thinking that I'm going to have to scrap some of the digging I've done in relation to getting text to display properly and make alterations to my application to load images instead of live type. Somebody... Anybody Help a brotha out! ___ 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] display trace() in text field
Michael,
When you override the exsisting trace function, you can do this. Just
include your own functionality in the overwritten trace function.
Its all because you want to have the same function call to trace() i
presume?
Sid
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote:
or you can override trace like so:
override public function trace(...args) : void {
super();
textFieldYouWantToTraceIn.appendText(args.toString());
}
This is from the top of my head, so the code could have errors in it.
Test it to see.
Cheers,
Sid
PS. You can ony do this from a class file. I don't think the Flash
IDE lets you override functions directly.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:03 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
wrote:
function debug(s:String):Void
{
_root.pathToTextField.myText.text += /n+s;
}
then instead of trace(someString);
you use
debug(someString);
a
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Merrill, Jason
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Trace only sends strings to the Flash or Flexbuilder output
window, so no.
However, all you have to do is set the variable you want to see to
the text
property of the textfield:
myTextField.text = myVariableIdLikeToSee
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Good morning everyone.
Is it possible to display trace actions in a text field? I realize
there
are numerous other troubleshooting tools similar to trace, but I
specifically want to display trace actions without any additional
coding
required in the target file. I want to create a debugging tool in
AIR
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: How to add meta data in image through AIR/ AS3.0?
Hi Deepak, There is a really good AS3 Metadata project on Google called metaphile you can check out, http://code.google.com/p/metaphile/ and for image files i recommend this post as a good starting point: http://blog.modp.com/2007/08/adding-metadata-to-actionscript-3-png.html Happy coding :) Sid On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Juan Delgado wrote: Hi there, Don't think it supports what you need yet, but might be a good starting point: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=90 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just to rephrase my question again. Basically when we resize any image its lost its meta data, so in my case i want to preserver those data even after resizing, and this require extraction of the meta data from original image and writing back these data after resize. But How? Any Help is greatly appreciated. There are way out in JAVA and C# n all for this, But how about Action Script. Thanks, Deepak On Nov 17, 2008 4:24pm, Deepak Sahu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have to add a meta data tag in image after resizing it( Aspect ratio in my case) while uploading. Any idea how to do that ? any workaround? I have some classes by while helps me reading the EXIF tags through the images, but not getting any clue how to add something new. Thanks, Deepak Sahu ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.com http://loqueyosede.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Hiring
You can also try www.riajobs.org, been quite succesfull there, Sid On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: By the way, wouldn't be nice if there was a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list? You said Flex too. Check out: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexjobs/ Jason Merrill Bank of America Enterprise Technology Global Risk LLD Instructional Technology Media Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog subscribe. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
The list of questions i always ask interviewees are the following, and this gives me a pretty good example of what they are like and what their skillset is. Test is always accompanied with a practical test we make up on the spot. The XML in Q16 is made up, you can create your own for this. Feel free to use this, Cheers, Sid 1 - write an event listener (normal and weak referenced) and handling function for a Sprite named 'beginQuestions' and listen for a mouse click. 2 - what does weak referenced mean in regards to event listeners? 3 - what is the difference between an object an an array? 4 - how doe you get cue point from vidio in AS3? And in AS2? 5 - briefly explain the various datatypes for numbers. 6 - how do you load an external file? 7 - draw a 20px by 20px Rectangle using the graphics API. 8 - which of the following cannot contain other display objects? Sprite, Shape, MovieClip, DisplayObjectContainer. 9 - which properties can you use to change the size of DisplayObjects? 10 - ENTER_FRAME is independant of an SWF's frame rate? True or false? 11 - XP is a type of which programming methology? 12 - why would you use a Singleton? 13 - what is the Document Class? 14 - create a new TextField instance, then add text it, then add some more text. 15 - what is the difference between public, private and protected. 16 - look at the piece of XML (see other sheet). How do i: - Get all of the page nodes as an XMLList. - Get node in showcase where the attribute id=1. 17 - listen for when the 'enter key' is pressed and trace out all questions are now done when the event happens. Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
Very true :) A little test i always do is ask people what they think of themself on a scale of 1 to 10. Most good coders with +5 jears experience will give them selfs a 6 or a 7 and are very modest. Coders that think they are good (-3 years experience) will rate themself higher than they really are. This is practice proven. Those people leave during or after their trial period :) Sid On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Romuald Quantin wrote: Why not asking him sources and asks questions about his own sources? Why did you do it that way? Why did you do use that? Etc... You'll see both what is capable of by looking closely at his sources and see his skills by asking right questions about it. I can't think you won't find out that someone is faking sources when you'll ask precise questions about it. Anyway, if the guy does, he's going to lose the job after 2 days right? :) Romu www.soundstep.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sidney de Koning Sent: 30 July 2008 12:04 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee The list of questions i always ask interviewees are the following, and this gives me a pretty good example of what they are like and what their skillset is. Test is always accompanied with a practical test we make up on the spot. The XML in Q16 is made up, you can create your own for this. Feel free to use this, Cheers, Sid 1 - write an event listener (normal and weak referenced) and handling function for a Sprite named 'beginQuestions' and listen for a mouse click. 2 - what does weak referenced mean in regards to event listeners? 3 - what is the difference between an object an an array? 4 - how doe you get cue point from vidio in AS3? And in AS2? 5 - briefly explain the various datatypes for numbers. 6 - how do you load an external file? 7 - draw a 20px by 20px Rectangle using the graphics API. 8 - which of the following cannot contain other display objects? Sprite, Shape, MovieClip, DisplayObjectContainer. 9 - which properties can you use to change the size of DisplayObjects? 10 - ENTER_FRAME is independant of an SWF's frame rate? True or false? 11 - XP is a type of which programming methology? 12 - why would you use a Singleton? 13 - what is the Document Class? 14 - create a new TextField instance, then add text it, then add some more text. 15 - what is the difference between public, private and protected. 16 - look at the piece of XML (see other sheet). How do i: - Get all of the page nodes as an XMLList. - Get node in showcase where the attribute id=1. 17 - listen for when the 'enter key' is pressed and trace out all questions are now done when the event happens. Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
Hi allandt, As agencies we also have a advising role to play towards the customer, so we only do AS3 projects, hardly any AS2 (maybee some banners in FP8). So we try to advice/push the client towards AS3 projects, which, most of the times, is better for all parties invloved. Sid On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:24 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hmmm - i didn't do bad (without looking stuff up) but i must say that i've not been asked to do a single as3 project since i started doing agency work - the only time i've done an as3 project was for an interactive cd so i could set my own target for the projector file. Most of the work i do in digital agencies has been targeted at flash player 8 or (even worse) 6 so AS2 has been more important than AS3. Under what sort of circumstances do you find that AS3 is used? a On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The list of questions i always ask interviewees are the following, and this gives me a pretty good example of what they are like and what their skillset is. Test is always accompanied with a practical test we make up on the spot. The XML in Q16 is made up, you can create your own for this. Feel free to use this, Cheers, Sid 1 - write an event listener (normal and weak referenced) and handling function for a Sprite named 'beginQuestions' and listen for a mouse click. 2 - what does weak referenced mean in regards to event listeners? 3 - what is the difference between an object an an array? 4 - how doe you get cue point from vidio in AS3? And in AS2? 5 - briefly explain the various datatypes for numbers. 6 - how do you load an external file? 7 - draw a 20px by 20px Rectangle using the graphics API. 8 - which of the following cannot contain other display objects? Sprite, Shape, MovieClip, DisplayObjectContainer. 9 - which properties can you use to change the size of DisplayObjects? 10 - ENTER_FRAME is independant of an SWF's frame rate? True or false? 11 - XP is a type of which programming methology? 12 - why would you use a Singleton? 13 - what is the Document Class? 14 - create a new TextField instance, then add text it, then add some more text. 15 - what is the difference between public, private and protected. 16 - look at the piece of XML (see other sheet). How do i: - Get all of the page nodes as an XMLList. - Get node in showcase where the attribute id=1. 17 - listen for when the 'enter key' is pressed and trace out all questions are now done when the event happens. Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] When to use AS3?
Nice one :) As i said earlier; we also have advising roles to play. If a specific project needs specific technology, dont bend or sway for less. Try to convince/explain the client why. Especially if the concept comes from the developing party, they thought about it, they'll also make it. I know sometimes clients can be difficult, what i have noticed, as long as you explain why and show them figures, they'll go for it. Or tell them the competitors ARE using AS3, two seconds ... they'll reconsider ;) Sid On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:48 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: @Sidney: That's really interesting because at all the places I've worked (which isn't many - I've always done coding as a sideline and have only recently gone full-time), they seem to be utterly entrenched in FP8 (i guess using the old 'work to the last player' thinking). I personally would love to move the (non-banner) work to AS3 as it's a far more elegant way of working. I find that the clients tend to dictate it based on whatever plugin their IT department have set them up with. a NOTE: This is taken from the interview thread and I thought it might be worth having it's own one On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi allandt, As agencies we also have a advising role to play towards the customer, so we only do AS3 projects, hardly any AS2 (maybee some banners in FP8). So we try to advice/push the client towards AS3 projects, which, most of the times, is better for all parties invloved. Sid On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:24 PM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: hmmm - i didn't do bad (without looking stuff up) but i must say that i've not been asked to do a single as3 project since i started doing agency work - the only time i've done an as3 project was for an interactive cd so i could set my own target for the projector file. Most of the work i do in digital agencies has been targeted at flash player 8 or (even worse) 6 so AS2 has been more important than AS3. Under what sort of circumstances do you find that AS3 is used? a On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The list of questions i always ask interviewees are the following, and this gives me a pretty good example of what they are like and what their skillset is. Test is always accompanied with a practical test we make up on the spot. The XML in Q16 is made up, you can create your own for this. Feel free to use this, Cheers, Sid 1 - write an event listener (normal and weak referenced) and handling function for a Sprite named 'beginQuestions' and listen for a mouse click. 2 - what does weak referenced mean in regards to event listeners? 3 - what is the difference between an object an an array? 4 - how doe you get cue point from vidio in AS3? And in AS2? 5 - briefly explain the various datatypes for numbers. 6 - how do you load an external file? 7 - draw a 20px by 20px Rectangle using the graphics API. 8 - which of the following cannot contain other display objects? Sprite, Shape, MovieClip, DisplayObjectContainer. 9 - which properties can you use to change the size of DisplayObjects? 10 - ENTER_FRAME is independant of an SWF's frame rate? True or false? 11 - XP is a type of which programming methology? 12 - why would you use a Singleton? 13 - what is the Document Class? 14 - create a new TextField instance, then add text it, then add some more text. 15 - what is the difference between public, private and protected. 16 - look at the piece of XML (see other sheet). How do i: - Get all of the page nodes as an XMLList. - Get node in showcase where the attribute id=1. 17 - listen for when the 'enter key' is pressed and trace out all questions are now done when the event happens. Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
So where it all comes down to is that everybody has its own personal preferences of doing. A personal set of things to do and how to spot a good coder or an opinion on what makes a good flash developer, whether this is by showing code, letting them do some questions, shoing some work or all of the above. If somebody steps into our office and understands the concept of programming, knows its syntax but is not that good in AS coding, i'll give him / her a shot, treat that person as a junior and see what they do in their trial period(mostly it is 1 or 2 months, depending what country you are in). Depending on the questions they ask you kindof know what they are like. If they've proven them selfs usefull and are willing to learn, i'll invest in that person with a contract. Does that still sound sad to you Zeh? Sid On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: I don't know about you guys, but that checklist of skills and the possibility of getting that on an interview make me depressed. Of that list, I'm pretty sure I can do it all, but most of that are not something I do all the time every day so I may have the gist of it, but not know the syntax down to its every comma. I personally use the reference *and* the internet every tie when writing code - for example, I never use cue points, and while I know perfectly well how it works, I'd have to see how the event works and do a few tests before applying it to my code. Nothing huge that takes day of research, but still. That's I think just shooting a lot of questions to the interviewee may help filter out the crap but also won't help you find the best candidates; I honestly think good developers, specially in the Flash world, are the ones who can quickly find the answer to a new question before having to ask around, be it by using the reference, be using by using the internet, or by testing. Remember this technology changes at a fast pace. Having a catalog of techniques in your mind may show experience, but there'll be gaping holes if the guy's work was focused somewhere else or if he's not very formally trained. Personally, on an interview, I'd ask to see the candidate's previous work that's online (doing so next to him). Ask him what kind of techniques were in place on that particular website, question him about interface elements. Give hints on how you'd do something he has done and see his reaction, whether he gets into it and start discussing code with a peer or whether he shows he's full of shit. Ask how long that particular work took, and whether someone helped him, and what external classes or frameworks he used. Ask him what kind of work he liked the most, and why. Which was the most difficult one he did recently, and why. Ask what kind of work he doesn't like doing. Try to get a hang of how he works, and try to understand what motivates and unmotivates him. If possible, ask to see some real-life code he's produced, and then see what kind of techniques he does apply on real code more than just knowing the number of a dozen design patterns. I don't know if you guys get too many interviewees or something that warrants a list like that to make things faster. But for website development in Flash, I think there's so much more that's necessary than just schoolbook knowledge that focusing too much on the checklist really seems counterproductive and sad to me. Zeh Sidney de Koning wrote: The list of questions i always ask interviewees are the following, and this gives me a pretty good example of what they are like and what their skillset is. Test is always accompanied with a practical test we make up on the spot. The XML in Q16 is made up, you can create your own for this. Feel free to use this, Cheers, Sid 1 - write an event listener (normal and weak referenced) and handling function for a Sprite named 'beginQuestions' and listen for a mouse click. 2 - what does weak referenced mean in regards to event listeners? 3 - what is the difference between an object an an array? 4 - how doe you get cue point from vidio in AS3? And in AS2? 5 - briefly explain the various datatypes for numbers. 6 - how do you load an external file? 7 - draw a 20px by 20px Rectangle using the graphics API. 8 - which of the following cannot contain other display objects? Sprite, Shape, MovieClip, DisplayObjectContainer. 9 - which properties can you use to change the size of DisplayObjects? 10 - ENTER_FRAME is independant of an SWF's frame rate? True or false? 11 - XP is a type of which programming methology? 12 - why would you use a Singleton? 13 - what is the Document Class? 14 - create a new TextField instance, then add text it, then add some more text. 15 - what is the difference between public, private and protected. 16 - look at the piece of XML (see other sheet). How do i: - Get all of the page nodes as an XMLList. - Get node
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
Hi Zeh, There's just so much you had to know about an employee on Flash development, that just an interview doesn't cut it; seeing how the person works once he/she settles down is a must. You can't have a guy dragging the office around just because he knew the right answers at one specific time. I totally agree, good point. So no, it does not sound sad to me, sorry if I sounded harsh or anything (that wasn't my intention). No problem :) Discussions can get heated sometimes. Thats normal on lists like this ;) Sid Zeh Sidney de Koning wrote: So where it all comes down to is that everybody has its own personal preferences of doing. A personal set of things to do and how to spot a good coder or an opinion on what makes a good flash developer, whether this is by showing code, letting them do some questions, shoing some work or all of the above. If somebody steps into our office and understands the concept of programming, knows its syntax but is not that good in AS coding, i'll give him / her a shot, treat that person as a junior and see what they do in their trial period(mostly it is 1 or 2 months, depending what country you are in). Depending on the questions they ask you kindof know what they are like. If they've proven them selfs usefull and are willing to learn, i'll invest in that person with a contract. Does that still sound sad to you Zeh? Sid ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Questions to ask an interviewee
And ofcourse we all try to find a answer that is suitable for this specific problem and its good that loads of people have different takes on it. Sid. On Jul 30, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote: Hi Zeh, There's just so much you had to know about an employee on Flash development, that just an interview doesn't cut it; seeing how the person works once he/she settles down is a must. You can't have a guy dragging the office around just because he knew the right answers at one specific time. I totally agree, good point. So no, it does not sound sad to me, sorry if I sounded harsh or anything (that wasn't my intention). No problem :) Discussions can get heated sometimes. Thats normal on lists like this ;) Sid Zeh Sidney de Koning wrote: So where it all comes down to is that everybody has its own personal preferences of doing. A personal set of things to do and how to spot a good coder or an opinion on what makes a good flash developer, whether this is by showing code, letting them do some questions, shoing some work or all of the above. If somebody steps into our office and understands the concept of programming, knows its syntax but is not that good in AS coding, i'll give him / her a shot, treat that person as a junior and see what they do in their trial period(mostly it is 1 or 2 months, depending what country you are in). Depending on the questions they ask you kindof know what they are like. If they've proven them selfs usefull and are willing to learn, i'll invest in that person with a contract. Does that still sound sad to you Zeh? Sid ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] hiring
try http://www.riajobs.org/ Sid On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Romuald Quantin wrote: Hi, I'm not sure it is the right place to do that but people have been friendly on this list, I hope you can help. I'll have to hire a flash/flex developer in London UK for a permanent job. Can anyone tell me some good place to post an ad? I'm not looking for a general IT job site but some sites like the job section in www.thefwa.com http://www.thefwa.com/ where I can find good developers. Maybe another mailing list? Any info? Thanks Romuald ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] hiring
Tell me about it, we are based in Amsterdam and having much difficulty getting freelancers. However we already placed some ads on riajobs.org, and gotten more reactions than using headhunters companies (Monster, ComputerFutures etc). Company blogs and direct mailings are also more effective i think. (This is specific for the dutch users: Have you tried freelance.nl ? ) Good luck! Sid On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Gert-Jan van der Wel wrote: Thanks Sid! We're also looking for an ActionScript/Flash developer to join the Floorplanner team in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It quite difficult to find good people... Gert-Jan Op 16 jul 2008, om 14:39 heeft Sidney de Koning het volgende geschreven: try http://www.riajobs.org/ Sid On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Romuald Quantin wrote: Hi, I'm not sure it is the right place to do that but people have been friendly on this list, I hope you can help. I'll have to hire a flash/flex developer in London UK for a permanent job. Can anyone tell me some good place to post an ad? I'm not looking for a general IT job site but some sites like the job section in www.thefwa.com http://www.thefwa.com/ where I can find good developers. Maybe another mailing list? Any info? Thanks Romuald ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Sidney de Koning Flash / AIR Developer @ www.funky-monkey.nl Technical Writer @ www.insideria.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Game source code / classes? I need to make a game quick!
There is a realy good book called Actionscript 3 Game University by Gary Rosenzweig. (http://flashgameu.com/) It features loads of games, while reading it, you learn from it, so you dont have to grab it off the net ;) I'd say that's a double whammy! Sid On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Ali Drongo wrote: Hiya, I need to make a game quick and wondered if anyone could direct me to some engines, classes or source that I could use. The game can be pretty straight forward, a shoot em up, tetris style game, I've come across loads out there I just wondered if anyone had any recommendations. Cheers! Ali ___ 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] regexp question
Hi Allandt, Have you found this tool already? http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/03/regexr_free_onl.html It allows you to test your regex pattern expecially for AS And you can find a cheatsheat on RegEx on www.ilovejackdaniels.com and there is ofcourse alot on whttp://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html and http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html Hope this will get you started, Sid On Jul 4, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hi again i've been trying different things and it seems that the [^0] or [^ \d] is stopping it working. (I needed to use $1 rather than \1 to reference the first group in the String.replace statement) here is what i've got so far var sYear:String = 1234567; var pattern:RegExp = /(\d\d\d)(?=(?:\d\d\d)*[^\d])/g; sYear = sYear.replace(pattern, ,$1); //traces 1234567 if i drop the NOT part var sYear:String = 1234567; var pattern:RegExp = /(\d\d\d)(?=(?:\d\d\d)*)/g; sYear = sYear.replace(pattern, ,$1); //traces ,123,4567 This stuff is really new to me so i really appreciate the help thanks a On 4 Jul 2008, at 01:09, Claudius Ceteras wrote: Hi, is there a way of counting back from the end of the number and inserting the comma (even without a regular expression)? if i use the g modifier in the regexp (so var pattern:RegExp = /000/g;), it will only pick up the first 000 (and every multiple thereafter) instead of leaving the first 0 (which is expected behaviour but something i'd like to get around) How about positive lookaheads? /(000)(?=(?:000)*[^0])/g If you want this also to work for 1234567 = 1,234,567, you can replace every 0 in the pattern with \d and call the replace function with , \1 instead of ,000 This is untested, but should work... Let me know. regards, Claudius ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Saffron Modeler - what happened to it
there is loads of activity on sam's twitter account http://twitter.com/SamuelAgesilas S. On Jun 30, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Jiri Heitlager wrote: Does somebody know what happend to the saffron UML modelling tool. The site http://www.levelofindustry.com/ is not showing any update anymore. Jiri ___ 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] Calling super.apply
THANK YOU! This was EXACTLY what i was looking for. Sid On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote: Hi, check this out: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=10_Lists_of_data_7.html Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2008/6/26, ekameleon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello :) In AS3 the apply method don't exist over the constructor.. the constructor in AS3 isn't a Function but a Class object and the Class object don't implément the apply or call methods ! It's a big problem for me For the moment the solutions are : 1 - In your case... use composition over your Array, like : http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS3/trunk/src/vegas/data/iterator/ArrayIterator.as(for me the best solution !) 2 - use a constructor with an Array or Object in arguments 3 - in your class you can use the ...args:Array and use it with a for or while loop :) PS : When i wan't create a full object with a custom class reference and a dynamic array of arguments i use my method buildNewInstance : http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS3/trunk/src/vegas/util/ClassUtil.as EKA+ :) 2008/6/26 Morten Barklund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Sidney, You have of course tried the obvious: super.apply(this, args) How did it fail, compiler error or? Regards, Morten Barklund -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sidney de Koning Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:30 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Calling super.apply He Jer, In the docs it says: public dynamic class Array So you can extend it. My problem is that now i have to use push() to get items in and i want to use the constructor to pass through items, like so var blah:ArrayInterator = new ArrayIterator(1, 2,3); My constructor uses ..rest so with apply i pass though all the arguments one, by one instead of as one big array because ...rest is an array itself Does this all makes sense? The problem is that i cant seem to figure out how to call apply on the super. Does any body know? let me know!!! Cheers, Sid On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Jer Brand wrote: I'm probably wrong (and mostly want to know as well), but I didn't think you could extend the Array class. Not that AS won't let you do it, but it doesn't actually work. I know this is the case with AS2, but am only guessing that it's the case with AS3 from the behavior you describe. My suggestion would be to use composition rather than inheritance. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Calling super.apply
Hi List,
I've created a dynamic class that extends Array.
What i want to do is pass through items in the constructor just like i
do with array ( var blah:Array = new Array(one, two, three); )
What happens now; is that every item i have to push in my self, like
so: blah.push(one).
If i push my values; my class returns that current item, if i pass it
through the constructor i get back an array.
I want to be able to do both; push items seperately and pass through
an whole array in its constructor.
Is there something i can like super.apply(this, args) ?
public dynamic class ArrayIterator extends Array
{
//
protected var _index:int;
public function ArrayIterator(...args)
{
super(args);
_index = 0;
}
What am i doing wrong here and what can i do to solve this?
Thanks in advance,
Sidney de Koning
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Re: [Flashcoders] Calling super.apply
He Jer, In the docs it says: public dynamic class Array So you can extend it. My problem is that now i have to use push() to get items in and i want to use the constructor to pass through items, like so var blah:ArrayInterator = new ArrayIterator(1, 2,3); My constructor uses ..rest so with apply i pass though all the arguments one, by one instead of as one big array because ...rest is an array itself Does this all makes sense? The problem is that i cant seem to figure out how to call apply on the super. Does any body know? let me know!!! Cheers, Sid On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Jer Brand wrote: I'm probably wrong (and mostly want to know as well), but I didn't think you could extend the Array class. Not that AS won't let you do it, but it doesn't actually work. I know this is the case with AS2, but am only guessing that it's the case with AS3 from the behavior you describe. My suggestion would be to use composition rather than inheritance. ___ 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] Calling super.apply [SOLVED]
He eKameleon, I used your advise to pass it an array and a extra argument to, when it hits the end of the array it starts at the beginning or just stops at the end. I also used some of your functions which i hadn't thought of, like hasNext and hasPrevious. (and also a rewind and forward function if the loop described above is true/false) Thanks for the information! Sid On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:32 PM, ekameleon wrote: Hello :) In AS3 the apply method don't exist over the constructor.. the constructor in AS3 isn't a Function but a Class object and the Class object don't implément the apply or call methods ! It's a big problem for me For the moment the solutions are : 1 - In your case... use composition over your Array, like : http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS3/trunk/src/vegas/data/iterator/ArrayIterator.as(for me the best solution !) 2 - use a constructor with an Array or Object in arguments 3 - in your class you can use the ...args:Array and use it with a for or while loop :) PS : When i wan't create a full object with a custom class reference and a dynamic array of arguments i use my method buildNewInstance : http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS3/trunk/src/vegas/util/ClassUtil.as EKA+ :) 2008/6/26 Morten Barklund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Sidney, You have of course tried the obvious: super.apply(this, args) How did it fail, compiler error or? Regards, Morten Barklund -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sidney de Koning Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:30 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Calling super.apply He Jer, In the docs it says: public dynamic class Array So you can extend it. My problem is that now i have to use push() to get items in and i want to use the constructor to pass through items, like so var blah:ArrayInterator = new ArrayIterator(1, 2,3); My constructor uses ..rest so with apply i pass though all the arguments one, by one instead of as one big array because ...rest is an array itself Does this all makes sense? The problem is that i cant seem to figure out how to call apply on the super. Does any body know? let me know!!! Cheers, Sid On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Jer Brand wrote: I'm probably wrong (and mostly want to know as well), but I didn't think you could extend the Array class. Not that AS won't let you do it, but it doesn't actually work. I know this is the case with AS2, but am only guessing that it's the case with AS3 from the behavior you describe. My suggestion would be to use composition rather than inheritance. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Exclude classes
Is this what your after? http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=941 http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/2004/enable-disable-_excludexml-files/ Also try this: http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enrlz==q=excluding+classes+as3btnG=Google+Search Sid On Jun 17, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Viktor Hesselbom wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there's a way to exclude certain built-in classes? E.g. if I'm not going to be using the BlurFilter class is there anyway for it not to be compiled with the .swf-file? I'm using Flash CS3+AS3 and the reason for this is that I want to keep the filesize as low as possible for a contest. Every byte is important. Thanks, / Viktor H ___ 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] CLOSING EVENT in Flash
Hi Harris, Welcome :) What do you need to know? How it works? Or how you use it? Or both? Sid On Jun 16, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Haris KRAJINA wrote: Hey to all , I'm new to this so I will try keep it short and informative, I am looking for a way to get CLOSING event in Flash CS3, I know it works with AIR and FLEX it should in Flash too :-). I need it for stand alone player . Thanx ___ 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] Re: Is it possible to display in the xml file
But you have to say your textfield is HtmlText else it wont render and just shows you amp; instead of On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:21 PM, ACE Flash wrote: i got it, uses... = amp; On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, ACE Flash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey there, Is it possible to display in the xml file? I tried to convert it to %26, but it won't display in the flash for example: depFin IT /dep thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Is it possible to display in the xml file
Try doing that with an external file and an exotic font :) To prevent errors from my side i always place my text in a CDATA (where appropriate) and make sure I have the htmlText option on. When working with exotic fonts (not your standard verdana, times or arial) you might get in trouble. Sid On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Kenneth Kawamoto wrote: Are you sure about that? var xml:XML = new XML(depFin amp; IT/dep); var tf:TextField = new TextField(); tf.text = xml; addChild(tf); I get Fin IT in the TextField. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Sidney de Koning wrote: But you have to say your textfield is HtmlText else it wont render and just shows you amp; instead of On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:21 PM, ACE Flash wrote: i got it, uses... = amp; On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, ACE Flash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey there, Is it possible to display in the xml file? I tried to convert it to %26, but it won't display in the flash for example: depFin IT /dep thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flex 3 Event.RESIZE
Hi Patrick, How is your Flash set in your HTML? in pixels or in percent? GReets, Sid On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: Hello Everyone, This is something probably very stupid, but i have an basic problem with my AS code: i got an event Listener added to stage instance in the main class function/constructor stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, initialise); problem is, this event never gets fired, and i simply can't find out why :(, i scale the stage in the browser env, the event is being ignored. I tried Event.INIT and others, they seems to work, but not this one, can someone tell me what the heck do i wrong? P. -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ 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] Letter spacing in input fields, is it possible?
Hi List, Does anyone know if it is possible to have letter spacing in an input field (a field where you type in text) in AS3. I know you can do it on a dynamic or a normal textfield. I also tried in the IDE, but that does not work. (with embedded font) The code i have is this, it all works except the letterSpacing: searchFieldCountry_txt = new TextField( ); searchFieldCountry_txt.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; searchFieldCountry_txt.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED; searchFieldCountry_txt.embedFonts = true; searchFieldCountry_txt.border = false; searchFieldCountry_txt.x = 340; searchFieldCountry_txt.y = 38; searchFieldCountry_txt.width = 175; searchFieldCountry_txt.height = 25; var formatInput:TextFormat = new TextFormat( ); formatInput.font = AvantGardeLight; formatInput.color = 0x00; format.letterSpacing = 1; formatInput.size = 14; searchFieldCountry_txt.defaultTextFormat = formatInput; I hope somebody has experience with this, Thanks in advance, Sidney ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] SOLVED: Letter spacing in input fields, is it possible?
Been working to much and too long! Thanks for the tip, it worked :) Cheers, Sid On May 29, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Matheus Gorino wrote: Maybe a typo error? Check your code: var formatInput:TextFormat = new TextFormat( ); formatInput.font = AvantGardeLight; formatInput.color = 0x00; format.letterSpacing = 1; formatInput.size = 14; searchFieldCountry_txt.defaultTextFormat = formatInput; See that you used format instead of formatInput for letterSpacing. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not 100% on whether letter-spacing works as I have not tried it, but you may have to reapply the format each time the text in the input field is changed. Add a change listener Sidney de Koning wrote: Hi List, Does anyone know if it is possible to have letter spacing in an input field (a field where you type in text) in AS3. I know you can do it on a dynamic or a normal textfield. I also tried in the IDE, but that does not work. (with embedded font) The code i have is this, it all works except the letterSpacing: searchFieldCountry_txt = new TextField( ); searchFieldCountry_txt.type = TextFieldType.INPUT; searchFieldCountry_txt.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED; searchFieldCountry_txt.embedFonts = true; searchFieldCountry_txt.border = false; searchFieldCountry_txt.x = 340; searchFieldCountry_txt.y = 38; searchFieldCountry_txt.width = 175; searchFieldCountry_txt.height = 25; var formatInput:TextFormat = new TextFormat( ); formatInput.font = AvantGardeLight; formatInput.color = 0x00; format.letterSpacing = 1; formatInput.size = 14; searchFieldCountry_txt.defaultTextFormat = formatInput; I hope somebody has experience with this, Thanks in advance, Sidney ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01326 218440 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Rectangle doesnt have scaleX/Y?
Hi Matt,
Try casting it to the XML data to a Number. Because XML data is a
String.
Like so:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle
(0,0,Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]),Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]));
Hope This helps.
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Matt S. wrote:
So I tried to the do the following:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle(0,0,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]);
if(cS.height rectangle.height){
rectangle.height = cS.height;
rectangle.scaleX = rectangle.scaleY;
}
But it gives me the following error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property scaleY through a reference
with static type flash.geom:Rectangle.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Rectangle doesnt have scaleX/Y?
Hi Matt,
For what do you want to use the Rectangle? Normally you would use it
for instance to measure objects on the stage (at least i do )
For what you are doing cant you use a Shape? or a Sprite?
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Matt S. wrote:
Hmm, that didnt help. It seems to be recognizing it as a number, and I
can set the Width and Height of Rectangle, but when I try to set the
scaleX and scaleY is when I get the error message.
.m
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Sidney de Koning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt,
Try casting it to the XML data to a Number. Because XML data is a
String.
Like so:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle
(0,0,Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]),Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]));
Hope This helps.
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Matt S. wrote:
So I tried to the do the following:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle(0,0,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]);
if(cS.height rectangle.height){
rectangle.height = cS.height;
rectangle.scaleX = rectangle.scaleY;
}
But it gives me the following error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property scaleY through a
reference
with static type flash.geom:Rectangle.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Rectangle doesnt have scaleX/Y?
Ofcourse :)
Right now I'm working on a project that does involve a scrollbar.
What i do with the Rectangle class is i measure the handle of the
scrollbar and use it for the bounds to drag it to.
Like so:
_maxScroll = _track.height - _handler.height;
_bounds = new Rectangle( _handler.x, _handler.y, 0, _maxScroll );
And then in my function where i do the actual dragging, i do this:
_handler.startDrag( false, _bounds );
If you look at the documentation for the Rectangle Class it also says
this:
The following methods and properties use Rectangle objects:
* The bounds parameter for the startDrag() method of the Sprite class
Hope this makes sense, to me it does :)
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Helmut Granda wrote:
to add to Sid's comments
From the docs:
*Note:* The Rectangle class does not define a rectangular Shape
display
object. To draw a rectangular Shape object onscreen, use
thedrawRect() method
of the Graphics class.
...Sid... could you elaborate on using the Rectangle class to measure
objects on the stage?
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Sidney de Koning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Matt,
For what do you want to use the Rectangle? Normally you would use
it for
instance to measure objects on the stage (at least i do )
For what you are doing cant you use a Shape? or a Sprite?
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Matt S. wrote:
Hmm, that didnt help. It seems to be recognizing it as a number,
and I
can set the Width and Height of Rectangle, but when I try to set the
scaleX and scaleY is when I get the error message.
.m
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Sidney de Koning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt,
Try casting it to the XML data to a Number. Because XML data is a
String.
Like so:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle
(0,0
,Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]),Number([EMAIL PROTECTED]));
Hope This helps.
Sid
On May 28, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Matt S. wrote:
So I tried to the do the following:
var rectangle:Rectangle = new
Rectangle(0,0,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]);
if(cS.height rectangle.height){
rectangle.height = cS.height;
rectangle.scaleX = rectangle.scaleY;
}
But it gives me the following error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property scaleY through a
reference
with static type flash.geom:Rectangle.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Question about Google Maps Flash APIs
YUP :)
An swc file is notthing more than a zip file. So when you rename it to
zip you can extract it, probably there is a library.swf in there.
This is what you do is this you load it in in Flash like this:
import flash.display.Loader;
//
var ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass:Class;
// Create these for everyclass you want to extract.
//
function loadAssets():void
{
var assetLoader:Loader = new Loader();
assetLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
assetLoaderComplete);
assetLoader.load(new URLRequest(library.swf));
}
When the library.swf is done loading it calls the assetLoaderComplete
handler that handles the
request and utilizes the getDefinition() method to get the class
definition by a string.
function assetLoaderComplete(evt:Event):void
{
// remove your listener
evt.target.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, assetLoaderComplete);
var appDomain:ApplicationDomain = evt.target.applicationDomain;
ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass =
appDomain.getDefinition(com.google.maps.api.Whatever) as Class;
}
Now can create and instance of the MyOwnButton, simply by calling:
var myNewObject:Class = new ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass();
Or call functions on the ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass.
Hope this is what you mean.
Cheers,
Sidney
On May 15, 2008, at 3:41 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote:
They offer up a SWC, any way of using that in the Flash IDE without
using
FlexBuilder?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Question about Google Maps Flash APIs
I know it is a pain, i did the same for the new Yahoo maps API.
It takes a while, but at least you can use it in Flash
And check out this http://www.afcomponents.com/components/g_map/
But i didnt see what AS version it utilizes.
Good luck,
Sid
On May 15, 2008, at 5:20 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote:
Its a monumental pain in the ass to load it and extract the classes
out... I
hope Google just releases the classes for non-Flex stuff... but
maybe they
have all kinds of hidden crap in there they don't want people to see?
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Romuald Quantin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or if you have the SWC downloadable you can just copy the file near
the FLA
file, flash will load it automatically.
Romu
www.soundstep.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sidney de
Koning
Sent: 15 May 2008 15:51
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about Google Maps Flash APIs
YUP :)
An swc file is notthing more than a zip file. So when you rename it
to
zip you can extract it, probably there is a library.swf in there.
This is what you do is this you load it in in Flash like this:
import flash.display.Loader;
//
var ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass:Class;
// Create these for everyclass you want to extract.
//
function loadAssets():void
{
var assetLoader:Loader = new Loader();
assetLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
assetLoaderComplete);
assetLoader.load(new URLRequest(library.swf));
}
When the library.swf is done loading it calls the assetLoaderComplete
handler that handles the
request and utilizes the getDefinition() method to get the class
definition by a string.
function assetLoaderComplete(evt:Event):void
{
// remove your listener
evt.target.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, assetLoaderComplete);
var appDomain:ApplicationDomain = evt.target.applicationDomain;
ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass =
appDomain.getDefinition(com.google.maps.api.Whatever) as Class;
}
Now can create and instance of the MyOwnButton, simply by calling:
var myNewObject:Class = new ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass();
Or call functions on the ClassFileForHoldingGooglesAPIClass.
Hope this is what you mean.
Cheers,
Sidney
On May 15, 2008, at 3:41 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote:
They offer up a SWC, any way of using that in the Flash IDE without
using
FlexBuilder?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Best way...
I just started using LuminicBox (do a search on google for the AS3 version). And i have to say i'm quite impressed. It's a logger nd you can set the importance of messages (log, warn, error etc); You can also use the alpha version of XRAY (but icant get the connector to work in AS3) And today i came across SOS for FDT/ Eclipse, maybe you can also use it with Flash, since it makes use of a socket connection/ localconnection. Are you also using this for AIR or only for AS3? Sid On May 13, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: .. to debug AS3 [NOT AS2!] Is there any other Debugger then one build in Flash IDE? How do you guys Debug your Proejcts? What are the best practices in debugging? What tools should i consider? Greetings, Patrick -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ 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] Best way...
Not thay i know of. I have written a AIR logger, class file an simple front end, so i dont have to call the debugger from flash everytime. It writes to a file on the file system, that you drag and drop in the front end. Give me a couple of hours and i'll put it online for the world to use. (at work now). Sid. On May 13, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: pure as3 as for now :) is there a special air debugger available in the air package? Patrick On May 13, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote: I just started using LuminicBox (do a search on google for the AS3 version). And i have to say i'm quite impressed. It's a logger nd you can set the importance of messages (log, warn, error etc); You can also use the alpha version of XRAY (but icant get the connector to work in AS3) And today i came across SOS for FDT/ Eclipse, maybe you can also use it with Flash, since it makes use of a socket connection/ localconnection. Are you also using this for AIR or only for AS3? Sid On May 13, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: .. to debug AS3 [NOT AS2!] Is there any other Debugger then one build in Flash IDE? How do you guys Debug your Proejcts? What are the best practices in debugging? What tools should i consider? Greetings, Patrick -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ 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 -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ 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] Best way...
Hi Patrick, I have put my logger online at http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/ It is a very simple logger so i dont have to start the debugger in flash to trace out messages. It writes a file to the desktop, which you drag and drop in the AIR front end. Any comments are more than welcome! Sidney Patrick J. Jankun wrote: pure as3 as for now :) is there a special air debugger available in the air package? Patrick On May 13, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Sidney de Koning wrote: I just started using LuminicBox (do a search on google for the AS3 version). And i have to say i'm quite impressed. It's a logger nd you can set the importance of messages (log, warn, error etc); You can also use the alpha version of XRAY (but icant get the connector to work in AS3) And today i came across SOS for FDT/ Eclipse, maybe you can also use it with Flash, since it makes use of a socket connection/localconnection. Are you also using this for AIR or only for AS3? Sid On May 13, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Patrick J. Jankun wrote: .. to debug AS3 [NOT AS2!] Is there any other Debugger then one build in Flash IDE? How do you guys Debug your Proejcts? What are the best practices in debugging? What tools should i consider? Greetings, Patrick -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ 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 -- fancy skills to pay the bills www.jankun.org Phone: +43 660 96 969 - 01 web:jankun.org mail: p[at]jankun.org ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1430 - Release Date: 13/05/2008 07:31 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Setting an AIR applications file types to default
Hi List, I'd like to set my AIR application to handle specific files, and the when i double click these file on my file system i want them to open with my AIR app. What i've done sofar is ajusted the descriptor xml to fit my needs for my files, mp3's in this case and want to use the setAsDefaultApplication() function. I'm using Flash CS3 for this. How ever when i use this function, my app does not behave accordingly. How do i use this function i've tried this: NativeApplication.setAsDefaultApplication(), stage.setAsDefaultApplication(), setAsDefaultApplication(). But notthing works. Please advise, Thanks, Sidney No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.10/1421 - Release Date: 07/05/2008 17:23 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
