Re: [Flashcoders] digest
On Oct 20, 2007, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Password mailing reminder seems to be broken as well, I put in two requests so that I could change to digest, and have received neither one. Well, in general it seems like my posts are taking about a day to show up. So maybe everything is just insanely slow. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Short syntax for accessing nested display objects? (AS3)
On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:35 PM, keith wrote: Is there a reason you can't access the Sprite with the variable you first created? cont.visible=false; I think the OP was using the code as an example, but that creation and modification would take place at two different times in actual practice. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Short syntax for accessing nested display objects? (AS3)
On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Alistair Colling wrote: var cont:Sprite = new Sprite(); this.addChild(cont); var cont1:Sprite = new Sprite(); cont.addChild(cont1); var child1:Sprite = new H1(); var target =cont.getChildByName(cont1); var targ2 = target.getChildByName(child1); targ2._visible = false; Well, if you _really_ want to, you can do it with 1... // // This code will run in a frame script import flash.display.*; var cont:Sprite = new Sprite(); cont.name = cont this.addChild(cont); var cont1:Sprite = new Sprite(); cont1.name = cont1 var child1:Sprite = new Sprite(); child1.name = child1 cont1.addChild(child1); cont.addChild(cont1); var childTest:Sprite = Sprite(cont.getChildByName (cont1)).getChildByName(child1) as Sprite; childTest.visible = true; trace(childTest.name + + childTest); stop(); /// Of course, I effectively casted twice in one line, but hey... ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Welcome Back
On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Kerry Thompson wrote: Please come and join us on Flash_Tiger--but please, please don't leave Flashcoders. This is such a great list, and we truly don't want to see it diminished in any way. Again, our aim is to expand the Flash list environment and complement the existing lists. In that case, maybe it would make sense to migrate Flashcoders to being AS3 specific at this point. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Function call from a function
On Sep 7, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote: I never felt out of place, and, once I felt I had a good enough handle on Flash's way of doing things, I signed up for Flashcoders. Liar. ;-) You went the other way. We kicked you up to FlashCoders. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Intro to OOP using ActionScript
On Aug 21, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Lesson 2 How do you set/change a cats name? How do you create 2 cats with different names? Now they know about setters and getters and methods with parameters. Now you are *really* talking about encapsulation... since everyone knows that cats don't know their own names. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Real Player 11 messing up Flash application UI
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Andy Herrman wrote: I haven't been able to find any documentation about how they're detecting it. Anyone played around with this yet? Are there any known methods to prevent that toolbar from appearing? This is hideously bad news. Adobe should fire up the legal department and chase Real off the planet. I'm sure they could come up with some kind of grounds. Or maybe we could start a class action suit for breaking our content. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: AS3/Flex: F8 swf / flv Performance Issues
On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Jer Brand wrote: Uploaded a sample to http://aut0poietic.us/index.html. I should mention that this is happening in IE and FF. Test computer spec is a AMD 64 X2 3400+ / 2G Ram. Has anyone else seen this? Take heart - on my Mac G5x4 it is only using about 15%. ;-) A couple of things to consider trying: 1) I notice this is the debug version of the movie. Perhaps check the standard version to see if there is a difference. 2) Republish the swf to Flash 9 AVM2 3) Perform the masking in Flex rather than in the swf. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Prevent flash from caching the loaded assets
On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Karina Steffens wrote: It's really easy to fix - have a look at this article on my blog: http://blog.neo-archaic.net/2006/08/02/nocache-for-javascript-and- flash.htm As I mentioned earlier in the thread, and Muzak just mentioned also, calling that technique NoCache is not at all accurate, and it in no way prevents the browser from caching content. It only prevents the browser from handing that content to Flash the next time Flash requests it. The cache can still be reviewed outside of Flash, which is what the OP was trying to prevent. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Prevent flash from caching the loaded assets
On Aug 6, 2007, at 2:50 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote: http://foo.domain.com/images/imageContainer.swf?e=; + getDate() all images could be in 1 swf and called out. Of course, that doesn't really prevent caching as much as it prevents the broswer from handing Flash a cached copy the next time it is loaded. Jack's concept of a swf with a black foreground is a good one tho'. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Integrating Flash SWFs with Flex
On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:56 AM, matt stuehler wrote: Two questions - 1. The client has asked about the feasibility of developing this in Flex instead of Flash. Since I'm only beginning to learn Flex, I can't really answer this. But my simplistic understanding is that, at a high level, Flex is a language for tying together individual Flash components into an overall UI/RIA. So, if you're building a low-level highly customized, unique component - Flash is the right tool for that, not Flex. Is this correct? Basically true, though unique components can be created in Flex/AS3 as well, the process is a bit harder. 2. Assuming 1. is correct, what special considerations are there for developing a Flash movie/widget/component that might be embedded in an HTML page, AND/OR used within a Flex application? Check out the FlexComponentKit, which I think is still on labs.adobe.com as a beta. It allows you to wrap MovieClips into a UIComponent in Flash, export them as an SWC, and reference them in Flex. Works really really well, and takes a lot of the effort out of the process of doing it in other ways. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Couple questions re Zinc and Access
On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:37 PM, John Hattan wrote: FWIW, here's the page for my SQLite glue-DLL for Zinc. The Mac version works with mProjector, which is what I'm using for the Mac games (Zinc for Mac doesn't do universal binaries). Oh cool, I lost touch with mProjector... I hadn't realized they had gotten UB completed, and I see they even have a beta in place for AS3 and FlexBuilder compatibility. Sweet, gotta check that out. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Zárate wrote: If you need to creating PDFs from Flash itself, check out Alive PDF: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=104 Personally, I was more interested in display of PDF content in a manner which is consistent with the rest of my applications. For this, *nothing* currently beats Director with the Impressario xtra. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 style XML in AS2?
On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I understand traversing through XML is more intuitive in AS3 than AS2. I'm wondering if CS3 lets you traverse through XML in AS3 style, but still using AS2 for the project. Flash CS3 does do this (support E4X), however you have to set the project up for AS3 to use it. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air
On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:21 PM, John Dowdell wrote: If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an installed Adobe Reader to display a PDF, This, in itself, let all the air out of AIR for me. When I saw how AIR could do such a great job of fusing SWF and HTML, I guess I thought it would have similar capability with PDF. Instead it seems more like PDF is bolted on to the side. It is always on top, uses the Reader controls, and has very limited connectivity to the rest of the app. Acrobat remains one of the most important file formats, with the least integration functionality or interactive design tools. Ever try making an interactive PDF in Acrobat pro, or that LiveCycle thing? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] View images in local folder
On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Weldon MacDonald wrote: Flash doesn't have access to the local file system. If teh pictures were on a server you could do something with a PHP script to get the file names, but on the client, not. Unless you want to get into the new Adobe Air API, but that's a whole other ball of wax, not to mention a bit of a learning curve Also Zinc, mProjector, swfStudio, etc. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Deploying Standalone Apps with Flex2
On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:04 PM, August Gresens wrote: Does anyone know how one would accomplish the same thing with Flex? Can this be done from the Flex IDE or is there a special tool? Zinc can create executables from Flex swfs. Not sure what other tools do. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 / ActionScript 3.0 Mailing-List
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: Also, a sizeable chunk of the people on Flexcoders are not people who came over from Flash, they're people who have no Flash experience, like Java, PHP, and Python programmers, so there are a lot of novice questions on topics regarding idiosyncracies of Flash mixed in with the MXML questions and idiosyncracies of Flex. Not to mention the fact that it is also a yahoo group, rather than a listserve, and every message is full of extra yahoo crap. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Problems playing FLVs through Director shell
On Dec 12, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: What version of the Flash player is the Director Xtra built on? There is an updated version available for download which supports Flash 8. Out of the package it comes with Flash 7 support. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] how do I type an imported SWF in AS3?
On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:24 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote: My question, and thanks for giving me a code example to work from, is: Can I type the eventTarget as something more specific than *? Even if eventTarget is a custom class that extends Movieclip or Sprite? Couldn't you import the custom class, and then cast the loaded content as that? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] FlashInterface - Communicating between Flash 8 and Flash 9
On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Robert Taylor wrote: Hey gang, just thought I would let everyone know I built up a couple of classes that allow you to easily communicate between the ActionScript Virtual Machines (AVMs). You can dispatch events, talk to functions and properties synchronously through these class. The API is the same between both AS2.0 and AS 3.0. I needed to have this ability for a project I am currently working on and I am sure there will be many others who need this solution. Anyway check out the links below and have fun with them. Excellent timing. I was just about to do this for my own project. Although I doubt I would have designed a logo for it!! ;-) Why Adobe didn't build in this functionality, I can't imagine. Thanks Rob. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list
On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Muzak wrote: It is the place to be in regards to Flex. There's Adobe people there monitoring the list and answering questions etc.. I've been on yahoo lists for years and have helped moderating a few in the past and never had any issues with yahoogroups. I'm finding the information there useful, however the Yahoo system is extremely annoying. I receive individual emails from the group. It is the *only* group I am on which apple mail does not thread, so every email is its own island. In order to see the list threaded, I have to use the web interface, which is more of a forum than a list. My preference is for lists rather than forums for stuff I work with every day. Without threading, this sort of stuff doesn't make much sense, so I stopped the email service. Now, it is *only* a forum to me. One with ads, and other unrelated junk. IMHO, Yahoo's services only impacts the Flexcoders list negatively, and a regular old mailing list (like this one) would be better. Still open for a *good* Flexcoders *list* ... -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list
On Nov 6, 2006, at 5:19 PM, slangeberg wrote: It's threaded, when you use gmail as your client! Yes, thanks. Can't really change my email client over one list. :-/ -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list
On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Randy Troppmann wrote: You don't need to change your email. I use my gmail account solely for lists like this. I never worry about deleting anything. It works great. OK, good point guys. The google interface is certainly better than using the yahoo forum. Still, lists like this one don't need a separate application, and it works exactly like I (at least) would want. The information is important. I'll set it up through google. Thanks again for the persistence. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list
On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: I'm sorry. My Rules in outlook moved the post into my flexcoders folder and i thought the post was sent to the Flexcoders mailing list. Go Flexcoders :) No problem Bjorn. Actually I was serious. I found the FlexCoders list via Google before asking, but when I saw it was based in Yahoo, I figured I'd ask to make sure it was the right one. I'm not a big fan of Yahoo's services, but if that is the place, it's the place. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list
Recommendations? URL for signup? TIA. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Beta for Mac
On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Michael Bedar wrote: You can download the beta now. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flexbuilder2/ Wa-hoo!! -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Beta for Mac
On Oct 25, 2006, at 2:41 PM, grimmwerks wrote: Huh - just tried on a Quad. I'll try on a macbook... The full version installed and runs without a hitch on my PPC quad. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel
On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: ASDT is dead... :/ I would rather buy FDT or search for alternatives if I were on a mac of linux.. as I'm on windows, there's FlashDevelop, of course! As far as I can tell, there really is only FDT for Mac users. Everything else is either very incomplete, out of date, or broken. I've heard that Sepy works for some Mac users, but it has been very unstable on every system I've tried it with. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Projectors - mProjector vs. Zinc
On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:21 AM, Mike Mountain wrote: The problem I found with Director is you have to go out and buy a bunch of Xtras to really achieve anything notable. Have you considered ScreenweaverHX? Interesting. I hadn't seen that. Is anyone using this? http://haxe.org/swhx -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel
On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: If you're a Mac user you should really check out TextMate. It's by and large the best coding tool out there and until FlashDevelop came out, it was better than any windows text editor. I don't know any coders on the mac who are without it whether they code Java, Rails, PHP, C++, HTML, Javascript, Actionscript what have you. It's quite simply an unbelievable application and worth the paltry $35 or whatever it costs. It has customizable code completion and insanely cool macros you can create that make coding a breeze. On the downside for TextMate, the out-of-the-box experience is not very good. The built-in bundle seems compelling, however its features are broken, and as it is a third-party bundle, it does not appear to be maintained. Sometimes I mess with the bundle to see if I can make it work better, but haven't had much luck. I don't program perl, for one thing. I don't think that should be a requirement for improving AS development workflows. This makes TextMate a better-than-average text editor, but not much to rave over regarding an improved actionscript workflow under OSX. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Victor's PC...OUT
On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Victor Gaudioso wrote: Hey all, I had to do a wipe because my PC crahsed and burned. About a month ago I bought Gproject. I have no idea how to get it again without paying. Any suggestions. Contact support at Grant Skinner's site, I'm sure they'll set you up. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel
On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Kjel Anderson wrote: I don't know if anyone else is using JEdit to do ActionScript, but it has some nice features. I have been using it for about a year to develop application with MTASC. It is very simple to set up. The (good) options for OSX are considerably less. While I haven't used FDT, I've tried others, and they are either unstable, or sadly lacking. The Flash IDE is obviously not that great for coding, but using it alone is better than using TWO things that aren't all that great. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Moving to AS2, array always undefined
On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: If you disagree, what do you think is the opposite of now? It certainly isn't after because after is the opposite of before. !now -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Which object called the function
On Oct 8, 2006, at 1:47 AM, Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote: Yes, that would work, but is there a way to do it automatically and elegantly? Remember to always do it until it becomes second nature? ;-) This is the way I always do it at least. I don't know of any other reliable way. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] 5 Star Rating System
On Jul 28, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Dave Watts wrote: This is not the appropriate place to ask this question. I don't know where the appropriate place would be, but I do know it's not here. However, Steven's was fair. (and pretty funny.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] 5 Star Rating System
On Jul 29, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: However, Steven's was fair. (and pretty funny.) It would not have been fair if he hadn't specified the need for lasers, of course. Such a fine line... ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Mac IDE for AS !
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Juan Carlos Anorga wrote: I use TextMate http://www.macromates.com/ AFAIK, TextMate isn't really kept up-to-date with AS syntax though. Of course, if you don't care about colorization or autocomplete it probably doesn't matter. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 player is public? Where to get Flash 8 codebase?
On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Nick Weekes wrote: More info in case anyone not aware of this url: http://www.flex.org/ Gee. Flex 2 seems to be missing all that... you know... Mac stuff. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Professional AS 3 Preview on labs
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:03 PM, coroner wrote: no, no joke at all... i downloaded this and installed it in the afternoon... it' sflash 9 public alpha ... flash 9, as 3 I guess Mac users will mostly use AS3 in Flash 9. It doesn't appear we're getting Flex Builder 2. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flex vs. Flash IDE
On May 24, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Dan Thatcher wrote: I have long thought that if the purpose of the RIA movement is to create desktop like apps that run in your browser...then the platform used to build those apps would certainly be powerful enough to create e-learning. If Flash can be used for e-learning (as we do), what would make it so incredible to believe that Flex could also? I find e-learning to be well-suited to forms-style development, particularly if you throw in some script-driven animation. Seems to me Flex is probably better suited to this kind of work than Flash is. Now, I'm not sure I'd want to develop a cartoon in Flex... -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q:del.icio.us API
On May 4, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: Also, I am doing this in AS3, not AS2. You wouldn't happen to be doing this in AS3 on a Mac, would you Mike? ;-) (Still waiting for a flex beta for Mac...) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Unity vs Flashcom for chat and messaging
On May 4, 2006, at 4:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Developing an online chat system and am considering using either flashcom or Moock's Unity server. Look at ElectroServer as well. Basically, FCS is a huge media server, and quite expensive. For chat systems, it is not needed. ElectroServer and Unity are XML socket servers, much more appropriate for chat, which is basically just text. There are also free socket servers out there, but for the most part, you get what you pay for. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket and PPC
On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote: Anyone here able to confirm this? Thanks. Yes. FP6+ -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Adobe Licensing - FAO John Dowdell, Mike Chambers et al.
On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:21 AM, Mike Mountain wrote: Well we're getting very despondent now. We really want to use flash on our Win CE device - but it would seem the suits in charge of licensing are far too busy to get in touch with us. We've been in contact with Adobe UK, who said they'd 'ping' America for us - We've been in touch with Adobe US who said they'd 'nudge' the EU licensing peeps. But nothing, we're still waiting to hear. I don't have any problem with you bringing this up here. Seems close enough to On-Topic for me. But, can you tell us what exactly you are trying to negotiate? I'm curious because we have a product in prototype stages which will deliver on PDA as well. Maybe you need the ability to distribute the player... or?? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to prevent cache of flash .swf file in web page?
On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Arthur Debert wrote: AFAICT most browsers won't cache an url with a query string. if this gets nasty write a script (server side or javascript on the client) that appends a random query string at the end. Including - META HTTP-EQUIV=PRAGMA CONTENT=NO-CACHE In the head of your web page also helps a lot. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Making a cd for Pc and Mac (Zinc - Director - SWFStudio - .NET)
On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Flapflap wrote: Maybe look at mProjector mProjector is nice, but it doesn't offer any direct database support on either platform, if that is important to the project. Lieven, you haven't really indicated why Flash itself is key to the project. What functionality is it offering that the only thing in question is which wrapper tool to use? Maybe Flash itself is a poor choice in this case? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] FATAL Zinc issue
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Gene Jannece wrote: I work for a company that is greatly effected by the New Zinc issue that popped up. I was wondering if anybody had found a quick fix or if it's really totally fatal. The Zinc guys never fail to find clever new functionalities. I know I've certainly never been let down, and often been surprised at the depth of their ummm... cleverness. Deleting all user info certainly shows off the unbridled power of their software. Still, it would be a lot better if they would bridle it, I think. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] 2D first person shooter
On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Samuel Santos wrote: 2D First Person Shooter I'm not sure such a thing is possible. FirstPerson != 2D FirstPerson == 3D -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] RIA patent granted
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:58 AM, elibol wrote: Our team has been aware of this situation. It's big trouble if it's to be sold to the highest bidder; ignorantly speaking, Microsoft should appear to outstand the competition in financial strength. Microsoft would probably find it cheaper to support the challenge of the patent. Maybe they'd be willing to donate the lawyer fees, since that seems to be about the only thing stopping this patent from getting blown out of the water. There doesn't seem to be any question that there is prior art, and the patent is bogus. I'm pretty confident Adobe could knock it down as well. I'd like to see a single RIA the patent holder ever made. Software patents really suck. Strictly conceptual ones even more so. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] RIA patent granted
On Mar 2, 2006, at 1:38 PM, matthibcn wrote: what you do oversea...lol...that is definatly your problem...i just dont care Thanks. We appreciate the sympathetic attitude among developers. At least do us a favor, while laughing. Show prior art. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: AfterEffects crashes
On Feb 26, 2006, at 3:26 AM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote: I've done all suggestions from Adobe but still no go. :( How about contacting Adobe tech support directly? They usually take After Effects failures pretty seriously in my experience. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] [a little OT] vp6 plugin for squeeze
On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote: The next morning it's either Christmas bonanzo or a lump of coal :o Exactly. Last week, my compression system worked for 12 hours to compress 8 minutes of video on a quad G5 with 4 gigs of Ram. When it was finished, I found Squeeze had forgotten to insert my cuepoints. Making the whole thing a lump of coal. Only so many times you can waste 12 hours of compression before you decide the tool is a piece of crap. Add to that their ridiculously poor support, and Squeeze is definitely crap. It does not belong in any professional production pipeline. For a while, I thought it did. It used to be OK, but every time they release and upgrade, it just gets worse and worse. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: AfterEffects crashes
On Feb 26, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote: Have you tried reinstalling it? Of course I have. 3 times, clean install. No plugins installed yet, right? Older plugins can goof it up. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] [a little OT] vp6 plugin for squeeze
On Feb 25, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Alfonso Florio wrote: Is this because the trial contains a beta or also the paid version has this compression times? I love the squeeze interface, but if vp6 encoding is so slow this tool is pretty useless. I will have to use the on2 flix pro, the interface is terrible, but encoding is near 1:1 On2 Pro is pretty slow in any place, but Squeeze is a pig. The more you use it, the worse you will realize it is. The fact is, there isn't a decent compression tool available right now for encoding to On2 Pro. Even Flix is rather poorly designed, and doesn't offer the right features (no cuepoints, for instance.) My recent project, I had to revert to the Flash encoder and bump up the bitrate. I'd be happy to pay for a decent compression tool which could make full and proper use of that codec. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] On2 VP6 Pro encoders
Hey all, Sorenson squeeze is making my life hell with the VP6 Pro plugin. I am using it (on OSX) mostly for the capability to insert cue points (and the compression, of course), but squeeze just sucks at the cuepoints part. While the pro plugin is only good for Squeeze, I'd buy another version if I could use it with a better tool that actually was productive. Anyone know if the Pro encoder can be used with the standard Flash video encoder? If not, another good choice for OSX which supports cuepoint insertion? I'm really hating Sorenson right now. Slow AND buggy. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Design patterns
On Feb 22, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Anggie Bratadinata wrote: What is the advantage(s) and disadvantage(s) of design patterns? I've been studying MVC and Singleton patterns but so far I'm not sure how those can make my software better. They don't necessarily make your software any better. They can probably make your software easier to extend and or maintain. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Design patterns
On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:07 AM, Manuel Saint-Victor wrote: Aangie- I'm a noob also and I 've been trying to figure out the role of design pattterns. Not too long ago, I couldn't see it either. But as you go along with a few advanced projects, you begin to realize where they would be useful. I'm only beginning out with them but I'm already seeing improvements in technique... now I KNOW where to place (and later find) various types of functionality. I KNOW that if I want to add additional functionality, I know where to tap in to my code. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Zinc 2.5 making Components slow
On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:37 PM, David Rorex wrote: It's possible the activeX (OCX?) plugin is slightly slower than the standalone/IDE player. I thought Zinc uses the netscape plugin, but maybe that is only on the Mac. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Red5 Flash Server 0.3 Release
On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Chris Allen wrote: We would like to officially announce Red5 Flash Server version 0.3. Bravo! Looks awesome. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] threaded email readers
On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Gerry Creighton wrote: If I hit reply then delete the subject and retype the subject line and delete the body of the message it's going to the list as a new message. Why would it matter if I create a new message or do it the way that I did? Because many threaded mail readers will still group it with the subject you deleted and replaced. For instance, I did that with this one. Apple mail will group it with the Linux 8.5 thread instead of creating a new one. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Does an swf know its own file name?
Can I get the file name of an swf which is loaded? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Does an swf know its own file name?
On Feb 10, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Yehia Shouman wrote: inside it this._url That'll work. Thanks. My mind blanked out on that one since all the files are local I was thinking file rather than url. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] No cue points in On2 pro?
On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Newmediasoup - engaging multimedia wrote: Would this work? http://buraks.com/captionate/ Thanks for the link. It appears that tool accepts pre-encoded FLVs and injects metadata and cue points. Windows-only is a bit of a pain for our production workflow since we encode on Mac, and I'd really like to encode the cue points at the same time as encoding, but it may be a solution if push comes to shove. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] No cue points in On2 pro?
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:06 PM, Newmediasoup - engaging multimedia wrote: The only downside is if you don't own Sorenson squeeze, it's gonna cost ya about $450 for the compression suite, and then you'll have to pay about $150 to get the On2VP6 Pro plugin. Hope this helps... Or am I missing something? Aha. That did help. Yes, I have Squeeze... I hadn't realized they supported cue points at all. They cleverly hid that function behind their clever interface. But it is now revealed. ;-) Thanks Joel, I think I'll try that route. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoders
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:48 AM, John Giotta wrote: Just as a note. I heard from a co-worker yesterday that Sorenson Squeeze's price jumped $100 USD Still kinda buggy for that money. And the interface... I'd much rather have a straightforward HIG compliant kind of thing. Like a real compression utility, not a toy. I realize that many of us on this list specialize in custom interfaces, but I'd prefer standard OS windows and buttons in my compression utility. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Yeah, the sudden shut downs has frustrated me enough times that I just plain stopped using it, even though it's a better editor than SciTe Flash. Same. Sepy will not run on my Macs. Basically crashes on launch. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Understanding dynamic classes
On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: Las week I made a component similar to the radio button component. While I was working on this I requested help understanding the way the component works. Eric (ericCD) suggested making a manager class: In a general sense, the concept is to make a class who's responsibility it is to maintain your buttons. There are a lot of ways to go about this. Usually, the manager is a singleton, and generation of the button instances may or may not be within its responsibility as well. But the gist is this... create the manager. Give it a property which is an array to hold your buttonObjects. When you create a new button, ask the manager to add a reference to it in that array. When you delete a button (probably through a function in the manager), remove it from the array. When you select a button, the manager can cycle through the array as a loop, deselecting all the other buttons. So, the manager might have functions for creating buttons, deleting buttons, selecting or deselecting buttons, returning the current selected button, and so on. One manager instance, many button instances. Once you get going with manager objects, you'll find uses for them almost anytime you have multiple instances of a class. And no, as long as the manager is pre-defined with an array to hold your button references, it does not need to be a dynamic class. The reason that was cited as an alternative to _globals is that dynamic classes can have new properties defined at runtime. HTH. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Understanding dynamic classes
On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: Has anyone come across an essential use for a Dynamic Class while developing an RIA, besides laziness. Not if you go and rule out the number one reason I've done it just like that. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Understanding dynamic classes
On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: For example if I have a property (array) inside a class it must be public so other intances of the object I create can access that property and they can write to it? And if that is true, how would I avoid having the property re-assigned (deleted or set back to its default value)? I guess here is where I have to have an if statement that checks if the property (array) already has values just push the next values into it. Would you say Im in the right track? Mostly. Typically, the manager itself would have a function to instantiate the button. But even if you don't go that route, you would probably use a setter method. Which (from the button's perspective) might look something like: buttonManager.addButton(this); And then the button manager's function would receive that reference, perhaps loop through the array to be sure it isn't already there, and if not, add it with a array.push More clear? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] dynamic html text with xpath and cdata
On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Ryan Luce wrote: For some reason when i load cdata text in using xpath like this thexml.selectNodes(//node/subnode/text()) where there is a br it breaks the line, but leaves the br in the text... anyone know why this is happening? Also my textfield will not align to the right, i have manually set it to align to the right, and i have made a textformat to align it to the right to no avail. The text box is manually drawn onto stage. Dumb question... the field is set to HTML text, right? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Understanding dynamic classes
On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Helmut Granda wrote: Where I get confused is when I have to pass the reference from the button to the manager function. All the methods come from the same class? for a minute I thought I needed 2 classes (1 to initiate the button, 2 to handle the references of the buttons). The point is, you can do it either way (as well as a few others) - but ultimately the manager needs a reference of the button object to work with. You can instantiate the buttons from within the manager, or outside the manager, whichever way your mind, and program design tell you to go. For instance, if you have a class bound to a UI object, and are placing them on stage by drag and drop, you might want the manager to be completely separate... just an object in memory with references and functions designed to keep track of the on stage buttons for you. Later on, you'll get really tricky and have the button create the manager for itself if it doesn't already exist. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Short Key/window focus question
On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Dennis - I Sioux wrote: One of the oldest questions in the book.. : can i catch the keypresses even when focus is set on another program and then back to the browser (but not the flash movie)? I would certainly hope not. That would make Flash the absolute choice for spyware developers. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Slice-9 weirdness
On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Charles Parcell wrote: Is there some magic voodoo mantra that I did not read about?? Is there something that breaks them? Are others having issues with it? Well, it only shows in test movie, you know that right? -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] List Components, matrix data, and object properties
On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Robert Chyko wrote: I don't use the List component that much, but I'd imagine it is the same functionality as the DataGrid... Each row is an object with a bunch of properties, but only the properties that there are columns for get displayed. In fact, you can manually add extra (invisible) data to each row. It makes for an excellent container UI. No need to store the extra information in external parallel arrays or objects. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE on mac documentation
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Søren Christensen wrote: IE is present on both panther(os 10.3.x) and tiger (os 10.4.x) - look in the 'applications' folder. Sounds like maybe you've done an OS upgrade which left IE in place. AFAIK, IE does not ship with those OS's. I haven't had IE for years, and a recent Tiger install sure did not put IE on my system. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Detecting the dominating colour in a rectangle of abitmap
On Jan 7, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Tom Lee wrote: Interesting idea... I don't have a method written, but the first thing I would do is try blurring the image until it is one uniform color (perhaps with a Transform Matrix), and then get the RGB of that color. Well, that would get you the general tone of the image I guess. But I think dominating color would probably be better represented by determining a number of factors. Distinct differences in saturation, or value covering some measurable percentage of the image area perhaps. Interesting concept to try in Flash though. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4
On Jan 3, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Henry @ Tonic wrote: I should add, that if you *really* want to stick with text files, you could replace special characters with URLEncoded entities (like, %26 for ampersand) and it should work. But I wouldn't recommend it ;) How do you then deal with entities that Flash doesn't have support for (like the combined greater-than/equal-to)? Since like Flash 5, we always end up using custom fonts, and some bastardized regEx-like replacement routine, and I've love to be rid of that. Is there a better way? Will CDATA nodes allow me to put stuff like that in directly? I use CDATA nodes in my XML, but have always used them still like plain-text (no funky characters.) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: QuickTime Virtual Tours in FL8 (Mark Ribau)
On Dec 28, 2005, at 1:48 AM, Tamer Qarrain wrote: I tried loading them in Director it worked just fine, but since I started developing the Navigation in Flash 8, when importing swf (v8) into director 2004 it wont work, so I had to publish my flash work in version 7, so loosing some nice effects., Well, as you've found out, Director supports QTVR, and Flash doesn't. There are ways to get a VR effect in Flash, but it won't be with QuickTime VR files. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flex vs OpenLaszo
On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Head on over to http://labs.macromedia.com/ and play around, you might change your mind. Wake me when there is an OSX alpha. ;-) Flex looks great, but not great enough to switch development platforms. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Cache busting
I'd like to do some basic cache busting, like this:
//
if(System.capabilities.playerType == External){
myXML.load(tabs.xm);
} else {
myXML.load(tabs.xml?cachebuster= + getTimer());
}
Can I use something like this with loadMovie, as well as getURL, and
XML.load?
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Troy
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Re: [Flashcoders] Cache busting
On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Ryan Potter wrote: Take a look at this. http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=827EA That's a keeper. Thanks for the link. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.
On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: Ok, I have 4 lines which tween (shape) one after the other to make rectangles, I was wondering how to load 1 frame as the percentage goes up by one and so on. Does anyone know howto do this, help is much appreciated! Take a look at the MovieClipLoader class in the help docs. Or, consider using a loader component which is based on MovieClipLoader. Both of these have techniques for getting a percentage of the load process and reporting it to you. You may need to restructure your movie to be separate from the loader though. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with the loading percentage.
On Dec 11, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: No, this is only useful for Picture files, No, it is also useful for SWF files. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Robin Burrer wrote: I'm sure you can this yourself - that's not rocket science :-) Check out the string class - the rest is just a bit of fiddling around. Of course, you'll thank yourself for using a monospaced font, otherwise you'll probably end up watching your line length jump all around as you add letters. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] build text one char at a time with random
On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Michael Bedar wrote: If the background color is the same under all of the text, you could easily use a little css to tag the areas you want hidden, by making them that color, even with a crazy font. CSS. Good point. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 and duplicateMovieClip
On Dec 7, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Sascha Balkau wrote: I'm not very familiar with AS3 yet but is there no duplicateMovieClip anymore? At least I couldn't find anything about it on the AS3 reference (http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/index.html). Or does some of these methods completely have been replaced by something else? With Flash 8 AS2 nothing has been changed about duplicateMovieClip, so it's still not possible to duplicate a clip from one container into another. I was hoping it will be possible with AS3. Anyone knows more about it? duplicateMovieClip() - flash.display.MovieClip.MovieClip() (Replaced by new MovieClip class constructor function.) Found under the AS2 to AS3 migration section. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
