Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agr eement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhon e Compiler
Here's an interesting point I forgot about (not the timing but these specific repercussions): But they announced it within 3 days (!!!) of the Adobe CS5 release. Meaning Adobe has no chance to do anything about it - information about Flash on iPhone is all over CS5 boxes, webpages, press releases, manuals... everywhere Ouch! On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) wrote: Thanks for the Theory, Carl - I'd elevate it to a Law: It's about harnessing the iPhone/iPad momentum at any cost - forwarded your insight to my coworkers. But I wonder how much of this is based on the old MS vs Apple war - calculated on the fact there's probably more C++ than ActionScript developers out there. I've been an Apple devotee since the IIc and will probably continue to buy Macs for my home computer. Own stock too ... I've a dumb Sanyo phone I'm upgrading one of these months, and even before this news, it was obvious I should get an Android device. Apple has always been both a hardware *and* software giant despite its small market share, unique. But they seem to be gambling that on a gambit that they can leverage their present advantage in mobile market to finally be the king. I'm thinking and hoping this hubris will bite them back, or at least not succeed. As a developer, I've tried to wrap my mind around Objective C, and that effort made my brain hurt. AS2 to AS3 pleasantly stretched it. Dunno, I've a .NET colleague and if you asked him, he'd say he'd rather approach developing an iPhone app in C than ActionScript. Thus, repeating, maybe Apple is trying to burn Microsoft by harnessing the power of the developers they've cultivated through .NET. From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com ] On Behalf Of Mark Winterhalder [mar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:45 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Carl Welch carlwelchdes...@gmail.com wrote: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/ iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler I can't even explain how frustrated I am about apple. I just feel that Mr Job's is just giving the finger to so many people that have supported and promoted his company since day one. ugh. Frustrated doesn't even begin to describe it. My theory is that it's about vendor lock-in. Cross platform development offers a way around it -- if the exact same apps you payed for and, maybe more importantly, got used to, are available for Android, then you can switch away from iPhone OS. Mobile devices always are a compromise. You weight CPU performance against battery life, make a decision about screen size, and so on. Apple has a two-sizes-fit-all product line, while a number of manufacturers produce a growing variety of Android devices. ___ 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] Known memory leaks in FP10
Using an anvil to place a thumbtack approach, you could use flash player 10.1 and it's new 'unloadAndStop' method http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/Loader.html#unloadAndStop%28%29 Also i've also had instances where the memory profiler crashes the SWF once it's loaded. What I had to do was divert any loading of content, asset heavy classes till a few seconds after the initial startup Mario Gonzalez, http://onedayitwillmake.com On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jer Brand wrote: I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not just listeners. It's references to objects in the swf you want to unload. So say if your code creates a reference to a movieClip in that swf, you have to clear that reference or the GC won't reclaim the memory. I was also under the impression that any timeline animations would continue to run unless stopped, until the GC removed them. This might be especially problematic if said timeline animation has frame script. I'd guess you've seen this before, but if not: http://www.gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/ has some good info. I know he's got other articles on his site on this topic, but my google skills are failing me at the moment. Hope this helps. Jer On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote: Hmm, I am reading 8 XML files every 30 seconds using XMLList and XML objects. Are you saying that AS3 XML objects have a big memory leak? Hopefully, the profiler will work tomorrow so I can try to hunt down some issues. If I remember correctly, I don't need to release timeline animations/movieclips manually when removing the SWF, right? As long I haven't attached any event handlers to it? Correct? ___ 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
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[Flashcoders] re: gotoStopAndWait
(I think there was a problem when i sent my initial email so resending)
Hey list,
Here's a problem i've had to lesser or greater degrees for pretty much
ever. I'm sure everyone's come across it.
Depending on what's going on, on the site, or especially if it's during
the application initialization.
Here's an example scenario,
You have 10 different illustrated pants for a character in a MovieClip,
each mapped to a different label.
Based on the database information, you load the proper 'pants' swf, then
switch to the variation of it based on the frame label using gotoAndStop.
However when you try to access, pants.getChildByName('thing') you
receive null.
Sometimes the assets are just not ready yet, period case closed.
I've tried different solutions to this problem on different projects,
ranging from
-moving asset initialization function (sometimes just not an option)
-creating a FrameDelay class,
-creating enterframe listener checking then killing itself once the
asset is accessible,
- and shamefully even sometimes having to use setTimeout with 250 ms
when the site was live and there was no time for elegant work arounds
--
I'm aware of how the flash player works, that it needs a step sometimes
to process the assets in the frame.
Does anyone have a kind of magic bullet solution or workaround for this
or in general i'm interested in hearing how you guys have dealt with
this problem.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Just a stupid question (hope you can help me)
I'm not familiar with the Gaia framework, so I'm not sure what some of
those function calls (alignSite()) or properties are (__WIDTH).
However all you need to do, is call this on onResize
--
x = int(stage.stageWidth/2 - width/2);
y = int(stage.stageHeight/2 - height/2);
-
Another thing to note, is that width and height will change depending on
whats on the stage.
If you know that going in you will have stuff that might break the frame
(even if masked), you want to use your preset width and height in which
case you just call:
--
x = int(stage.stageWidth/ 2 - 1024/2);
y = int(stage.stageHeight/ 2 - 768/2);
---
You want to make sure you place the center of the stage to the center of
your object (half it's width).
Hope it helps,
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PWMedia | Paul Wolthuis wrote:
Hi there,
I've got a question.
I'm sort of a scriptdummy and having a problem to make a gaia sit
fully scalable.
To make it clear, i want the full site to scale up or down to the
size of the browserwindow and center it horizontal and vertical.
Hope anyone can help me.
Thanks so far!
Paul
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{
import com.gaiaframework.core.GaiaMain;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.events.Event;
public class Main extends GaiaMain
{
public function Main()
{
super();
siteXML = xml/site.xml;
}
override protected function onAddedToStage(event:Event):void
{
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
alignSite(1024, 768);
super.onAddedToStage(event);
}
override protected function onResize(event:Event):void
{
view.x = Math.round((stage.stageWidth - __WIDTH) / 2);
view.y = Math.round((stage.stageHeight - __HEIGHT) / 2);
}
}
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Event.RESIZE
You have to becareful how you call that, because as you're dragging it
out, calling about 3-4 times a second.
That could be related to your problem.
You're correct in that they are actually the same thing.
If you're trying to stretch it to the width of the stage, and it started
out as the width of the stage at creation.
The only thing you need to change is:
clip.scaleX = stage.stageWidth / startWidth; // If it was 1000 at start,
and stretched the window 2.5 times as big as it was originally, the new
width will be 2500.
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Pedro Kostelec wrote:
Hi,
i have a MC (footer background) that is scalled proportionally to the stage
width. I use Event.RESIZE and it works nice if i expand the window from its
borders or corners, but it doesn't work if i click the minimize/maxmize
button.
Aren't the minimize/maximize buttons the same as resizing the window in as3?
How could i make it treatable as a normal resize?
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);
function resizeHandler(e:Event):void {
TweenLite.to(Footer_mc, .5, {alpha:1.0, y:(stage.stageHeight-bottomOffset),
x: stage.stageWidth/2, scaleX:(stage.stageWidth/Footer_mc.width),
ease:Elastic.easeOut, delay:0.2});
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Re: [Flashcoders] ReferenceError: Error #1065 issue
If you override that function like so, does it compile (to make sure the
override is correct) and do you see the trace (to make sure the call is
correct)?
override protected function mthGetPDataTag(stgInput:String) :String
{
trace('call worked')
return '';
}
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Leisle wrote:
Hi list,
This should be simple, but for some reason refuses to cooperate. I'm working
in AS3, CS3.
I've got a super class (HsSegment) and a subclass (HsSegment_qtd1), both are
public. In the super class are the definitions for many methods, including
this definition:
protected function mthGetPDataTag(stgInput:String):String
{
//...Do stuff and return a String...
}
In the subclass I've got the call to this method:
var stgEg:String = mthGetPDataTag(stgInput);
When testing in the IDE this works fine. When testing in the browser I get
a runtime error,
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable
hs.segments.classes:HsSegment_qtd1::mthGetPDataTag is not defined.
I've googled and found plenty of questions around this, but no answers,
other than 'make your classes public', which they are.
The other methods in the super class are defined and called essentially this
same way and work fine in both IDE and browser. What makes this one special?
What am I missing? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
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Re: [Flashcoders] does anyone use MonsterDebugger
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RE: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs
You should look into LoaderContext and ApplicationDomain. I just finished battling a similar problem where flash would tell me at runtime. Cannot convert elements.gamescr...@b785a to elements.GameScreen You can control which class flash uses with the loaded class, by specifying it in the LoaderContext when you create the loader. Mario http://onedayitwillmake.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:37 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs My understanding is that classes are only imported once and have a single instance in the player - so if .swf A loads in .swf B, and both use Class X, then if you change class X and re-publish only .swf A, you will see the change in both .swf and .swf B. I could be wrong, but that is my understanding of how the player handles custom classes. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:28 AM To: Flash Coders Subject: [Flashcoders] unexpected result with linked classes in embedded swfs I'm working in AS2. The skin-swf that I am embedding into my main movie contains symbols that are linked to classes. Objects in my main movie make calls to some of the classes that are defined in the skin. In order to get nice code-hinting in Flash Develop and compile-checking, I import these same classes into some of the objects in my main-movie. If I make change to the AS file for a symbol defined in the skin-swf, but ONLY recompile the main-movie and not the skin-swf, I wouldn't expect the changes made to take effect, but they do. Does this make sense to anyone? For example: if I add a new function to a class that is linked to a symbol in the skin-swf, and I call that function from the main-movie. I would expect to have to recompile both the skin-swf and the main-movie. However, what I've found is that I only have to recompile the main-movie. It seems that if the class is imported into the main-movie, then those instructions override the instructions compiled into the skin-swf. ___ 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 __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4087 (20090519) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4087 (20090519) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Try... catch......
One thing to note, is that try,catch(e:Error) is expensive for the AVM because
it has to Throw an error.
Maybe not for this example or whatever you're creating, but it's something to
keep in mind for later.
I see a lot of code we receive riddled with that as a way of hiding run-time
errors AVM1 style.
Just something to note,
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From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews
[p...@ipauland.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:27 AM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Try... catch..
I regret my one word answer because while it answers the question, there's a
question of good practice to consider.
Putting return ball; as the last line doesn't really help the casual code
reader, because I need to really look hard at the code to realise that if
ball is not explicitly set elsewhere the return value will be null.
However,
catch (e:TypeError ){ return null; }
explicitly shows that if the exception occurs the function will return null.
There's even a good argument for having return null at the end of the code
too, since only one exception will explicitly return null...
It's always better to have explicit code rather than try and save a
statement or two. We've all been down the smart code route though. Guilty
as charged.
Paul
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Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Try... catch..
Yes.
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From: ACE Flash acefl...@gmail.com
To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Try... catch..
Hi Hans,
Thanks for the code :) I have one more question for the script below
1. if catch the TypeError, does the last line = return ball will
execute?
Thanks a lot
public function myBall( value:int ):Ball
{
var ball:Ball = null;
try{
//my code goes here.
} catch (e:TypeError ){
}
return ball;
}
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Hans Wichman
j.c.wich...@objectpainters.com
wrote:
Hi,
yup
either
public function myBall( value:int ):Ball
{
var ball:Ball
try{
//my code goes here.
return ball;
} catch (e:TypeError ){
trace(Whoops);
}
return null;
}
or
public function myBall( value:int ):Ball
{
var ball:Ball = null;
try{
//my code goes here.
} catch (e:TypeError ){
}
return ball;
}
There are more possibilities, some of which are better practice than
others,
but in such a small method, I wouldn't make to much of a fuss about it.
regards,
JC
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:22 AM, ACE Flash acefl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I am trying to add try block in my code, how can I deal it with return
function?
If the code without any problems, I'd like to return ball ,
otherwise
I'd
like to EXIT or return null.
Thanks
-
public function myBall( value:int ):Ball
{
var ball:Ball
try{
//my code goes here.
return ball;
} catch (e:TypeError ){
}
// shall I add = return null here?
}
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player crashes
I have that happen to me too ALL the time, once it starts on a project it's very very hard to track down. Usually related to garbage collection it only crashes in the IDE right? I wish i had better advice, but one thing you can do is when you test your movie, test using the debugger (control debug movie (off my head) ) instead... that way when it crashes it doesn't crash the whole flash IDE, just the debugger projector.. Ashim D'Silva wrote: Hey, I'm using the Flash IDE CS3 to produce a project in AS3, and Flash is continually crashing erratically. Is there a way for me to figure out what's causing it? I can't seem to tie it to any action or recreate it, but it happens often enough to be a large problem. I would normally think there isn't much I can do with AS to actually crash the player, but it seems I have... Please help! Cheers, Ashim -- Random Lines 3D My online portfolio www.therandomlines.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
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Re: [Flashcoders] movement
Make sure you set the window mode to opaque OR transparent... not default. That seems to make a huge difference: wmode not set: http://hugo.wddg.com/blogfiles/wmode/wmodedefault.html wmode set to opaque: http://hugo.wddg.com/blogfiles/wmode/wmodeopaque.html Both are using the same swf only difference between the two is the tag as you can see in the source. Hope this helps, cus it sure has helped me a ton. Mario Gonzalez. Cory Petosky wrote: My buddy and I were playing with some performance benchmarks we wrote (put 100 bitmaps on the screen by manual blits to a backing BitmapData). We weren't surprised that it ran stably at 120 FPS in the Flash IDE. We were alarmed to discover, however, that the same SWF ran at a mere 80 FPS in the Flash standalone player and was just under 60 FPS when viewed in the browser. Windows XP, Flash CS3 Professional, IE7. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:20 PM, David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are on a mac, try enabling or disabling rosetta in the info panel of the application icon On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Lehr, Theodore M (N-SGIS) wrote: I have a mc I am moving via AS - it moves at a fine pace in the player inside flash - but when I view it via the browser, it really slows down... why would this happen? ted ___ 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 -- Cory Petosky : Lead Developer : PUNY 1618 Central Ave NE Suite 130 Minneapolis, MN 55413 Office: 612.216.3924 Mobile: 240.422.9652 Fax: 612.605.9216 http://www.punyentertainment.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] possible reasons for crash on compile in flashcs3?
No sir, I'm on good ole' windows xp. I know one of the ideas about packages is that you can have 2 classes that are named the same, as long as they're in different packages. However at this point, where i have ruled out everything that it could be it's time to start ruling out 'that should never happen's so I might try renaming all classes that have the same name as one another even if they're in different packages. Forrest Maready wrote: Hi Mario- Are you on a Mac? or Leopard 10.5.2? I know the brand new Mac Book Pro's have been having some weird issues: http://www.rockonflash.com/blog/?p=109 On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:29 PM, mario gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What might be some possible reasons why the flash IDE crashes on compile? The problem is that it doesn't crash EACH time, just once in a blue. This just started though recently when i took an item that was a class (the path was: landingpage.modules.browser.BrowserContainer), and broke it into a subclass of a GenericBrowser class (the path was: utils.browser.GenericBrowserContainer)... Suddenly it crashes, usually on the second compile, it's pretty frustrating even though i save often so i have no lost any data. What might be some possible things that could be causing this crash? Maybe something to do with variable names? The subclass has to do it's own imports even if the super class imports those same classes right? (I'm just trying to rule out EVERYTHING since its kind of becoming annoying at this point). Anyone have any ideas? ___ 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] possible reasons for crash on compile in flashcs3?
What might be some possible reasons why the flash IDE crashes on compile? The problem is that it doesn't crash EACH time, just once in a blue. This just started though recently when i took an item that was a class (the path was: landingpage.modules.browser.BrowserContainer), and broke it into a subclass of a GenericBrowser class (the path was: utils.browser.GenericBrowserContainer)... Suddenly it crashes, usually on the second compile, it's pretty frustrating even though i save often so i have no lost any data. What might be some possible things that could be causing this crash? Maybe something to do with variable names? The subclass has to do it's own imports even if the super class imports those same classes right? (I'm just trying to rule out EVERYTHING since its kind of becoming annoying at this point). Anyone have any ideas? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Why would this happen?
Well I'm calling getObjectsUnderPoint from the TileEngine. I could see if i was calling it from the parent, or the document class, because TileEngine would be a child of it. However calling getObjectsUnderPoint, shouldn't return the calling object since that object is not a child of itself. Anyone have any idea why this is? ___ 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] Why would this happen?
Well I'm calling getObjectsUnderPoint from the TileEngine. I could see if i was calling it from the parent, or the document class, because TileEngine would be a child of it. However calling getObjectsUnderPoint, shouldn't return the calling object since that object is not a child of itself. Anyone have any idea why this is? Mario Gonzalez wrote: Why might this happen. I'm calling getObjectsUnderPoint, and it's returning the calling object as part of the array. --- this.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(10, 10)); --- called from the TileEngine instance returns this array: -- [object TileEngine],[object Tile] -- checking to see if it's infact the same, -- trace(this.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(10, 10))[0] === this); -- returns true!? Documentation states: /Returns an array of objects that lie under the specified point and are *children *(or grandchildren, and so on) of *this *DisplayObjectContainer instance/ anyone know why i might be getting this strange behavior? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Why would this happen?
My TileEngine class does extend the display list, which is how I'm calling 'getObjectsUnderPoint' as a method of TileEngine (by extension if sprite). The documentation states that, that method will return an array with all the (and only) CHILDREN of the display object that calls it. So if i call TileEngine.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(x, y)) - it should not return itself as part of the list of children it contains. There's only one instance of TileEngine, as tested with trace(this.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(10, 10))[0] === this) //returns true -- Any other ideas? Rich Shupe wrote: Probably your tile engine have extended Sprite or MovieClip and you added it to the display list. Therefore, the tile engine as a whole is the parent sprite/mc and the tile is a child of the tile engine. Could that be it? Rich ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Why would this happen?
Why might this happen. I'm calling getObjectsUnderPoint, and it's returning the calling object as part of the array. --- this.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(10, 10)); --- called from the TileEngine instance returns this array: -- [object TileEngine],[object Tile] -- checking to see if it's infact the same, -- trace(this.getObjectsUnderPoint(new Point(10, 10))[0] === this); -- returns true!? Documentation states: /Returns an array of objects that lie under the specified point and are *children *(or grandchildren, and so on) of *this *DisplayObjectContainer instance/ anyone know why i might be getting this strange behavior? ___ 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: [OT] Improve my design skills
Developer is definitely the BEST term to describe that. I also gave up :) You say coder, to most people they already automatically think c++... which makes them intern assume you can't think with the left side of your brain. Graphic designer, from my experience people then assume you know don't know a variable from a zebra. You say developer, and they don't really even know what that actually entails, at which point they can ask you what that means and you can tell them: I use code to make things work, during that process I figure out what works best / doesn't work / looks nicest and make changes to it. mario http://www.onedayitwillmake.com Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey guys, How would we call someone who likes both coding and graphics (design) ? A Graphics Coder ? I love programming but I also love graphics design - I can see art in code and logic in design! I like mixing both worlds and creating amazing things (that's why I love the flash platform, it makes it easy and obvious this aspect of design and code being inter-mixed). I've gave up on finding a definition. Developer is a better term. :) Zeh ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] stage.stageWidth annoyance
Anyone??? Is using timeout for this just standard practice? mario gonzalez wrote: When I compile the SWF (flash 9 / as3.0) I have a function which uses stage.stageWidth to create a grid. For the children of any object, I of course use Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE to avoid getting a null reference to stage. However this is for my document class. The hacky work around that I have is to put the function on a timeout. I feel like this shouldn't have to be done, and there must be some way of getting the right dimensions of the stage from flash on creation. Does this happen to other people? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] stage.stageWidth annoyance
When I compile the SWF (flash 9 / as3.0) I have a function which uses stage.stageWidth to create a grid. For the children of any object, I of course use Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE to avoid getting a null reference to stage. However this is for my document class. The hacky work around that I have is to put the function on a timeout. I feel like this shouldn't have to be done, and there must be some way of getting the right dimensions of the stage from flash on creation. Does this happen to other people? ___ 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] just a site
Thanks dude! I know it's a bit annoying in a sense, but the main reason i do that is so that whatever flash experiment you're looking at has isn't sharing the cpu with the main page. If you're like me, you would a bunch of them in tabs and view them one by one that way, so i just basically wanted to let each have the browsers full focus as much as possible. Hans Wichman wrote: Hi Mario, pretty cool! Only thing is that its taking me to long to navigate. I always like to have list that i can click 1,2,3. On your site the menu moves in, i click something and the whole page disappears, no matter if I hold down shift or not. Could you open all the links in a new window? Besides that, cool stuff on there:)) greetz JC On 7/11/07, mario gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been wanting to put my site together in some form, something simple that just parsed my directory and spit out some xml of stuff i randomly make usually to test out something... so finally i put it together, and here's what i got... of the stuff i have on the site, since it is what it is... stuff i've made for no reason and usually not finished it's not always awesome but there is some cool stuff on there. http://onedayitwillmake.com/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] just a site
Oh yeah, one neat thing to do is if you leave the mouse over the logo, they'll fly to it until you take your mouse off. http://onedayitwillmake.com/ mario gonzalez wrote: Thanks dude! I know it's a bit annoying in a sense, but the main reason i do that is so that whatever flash experiment you're looking at has isn't sharing the cpu with the main page. If you're like me, you would a bunch of them in tabs and view them one by one that way, so i just basically wanted to let each have the browsers full focus as much as possible. Hans Wichman wrote: Hi Mario, pretty cool! Only thing is that its taking me to long to navigate. I always like to have list that i can click 1,2,3. On your site the menu moves in, i click something and the whole page disappears, no matter if I hold down shift or not. Could you open all the links in a new window? Besides that, cool stuff on there:)) greetz JC On 7/11/07, mario gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been wanting to put my site together in some form, something simple that just parsed my directory and spit out some xml of stuff i randomly make usually to test out something... so finally i put it together, and here's what i got... of the stuff i have on the site, since it is what it is... stuff i've made for no reason and usually not finished it's not always awesome but there is some cool stuff on there. http://onedayitwillmake.com/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] just a site
Lol, you got it dude. Muzak wrote: http://osflash.org/flashcoders/etiquette ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] just a site
I been wanting to put my site together in some form, something simple that just parsed my directory and spit out some xml of stuff i randomly make usually to test out something... so finally i put it together, and here's what i got... of the stuff i have on the site, since it is what it is... stuff i've made for no reason and usually not finished it's not always awesome but there is some cool stuff on there. http://onedayitwillmake.com/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Tweener as3 garbage collection
Hey dudes,
We're working on a as3 project here using Tweener as our animation
package, and i thought i'd pass along a tip that was driving me mad.
Anyone who's used as3 knows the steep learning curve that is taming the
memory usuage. Making sure nothing references an object, takes some
serious foresight and lots guess and check when trying to track down the
left over references.
One of my favorite features in tweener is being able to pass in a in a
function, or even create small anon-function the fact I can refer to
'this' within it.
Well the problem is that in as3, if you pass the function like that when
you go to clear all the objects, you'll notice that the
memory usage does not go down. For whatever reason in tweener, at least
for now... something is still holding on to it. (even if you call remove
all tweens)
The solution is ugly but simple, don't make anonymous functions in the
function that calls tweener, OR write a anon function as the call back
(onUpdate: function(){}.
Write a function in your class and pass the object in as a param
onUpdate: classFunction, onUpdateParams: [obj]
Once you do that the problem just goes away, and when you remove the
object the memory will be released.
Hope this helps someone, cus i was going mad
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[Flashcoders] Embedding fonts from library AS3
What do you guys find the best way to embed fonts is? I tried embedding a font using the [embedd] metatag in the class, that was no go. Then I said, ah screw it, ill just create an empty dynamic textbox, and embed the font that way... that worked however I could not get the font to appear as bitmap text, if i set the dynamic textbox to 'bitmap text', the font no longer got imported. What I ended up doing was embedding the font from the library, and now i say font = new whateverFont.fontName that works great, but i can't control what characters get embedded and basically it embeds the whole thing. What method do you guys normally use? ___ 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] stage resize question
Hi all, i need some orientation :) Does any body know any documentation around the internet or anywhere else, or can put me on track on how to resize the stage of a movie (and rearreange the objects ) according to the user screen resolution ? Im trying to hide the browser scroll bars all the time so I can use my own within my swf movie, but obviously when I change my screen resolution ( from w 1024 to w 800 ) all gets messed up. Something like www.pierinc.com. Thanks in advanced! Cheers ___ 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] stage resize question
perfect, thanks a lot Bob. On 5/25/07, Bob Wohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use the Stage object and listeners. Set the embed and object's height width to 100%, reposition via a stage listener. hth. B. On 5/25/07, Ing. Mario Falomir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i need some orientation :) Does any body know any documentation around the internet or anywhere else, or can put me on track on how to resize the stage of a movie (and rearreange the objects ) according to the user screen resolution ? Im trying to hide the browser scroll bars all the time so I can use my own within my swf movie, but obviously when I change my screen resolution ( from w 1024 to w 800 ) all gets messed up. Something like www.pierinc.com. Thanks in advanced! Cheers ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] Fonts on a Mac not working in Flash
just for fun some of the fonts get named differently when in the dropdown where for instance a bold version of a font would be named 'B Fontname' this happens to about 10% of my fonts, good thing is that they always are named that way so it isn't random. Flash is probably picking up on the internal naming of the font I guess. When using CSS or font on OSX you will have to use the name as in the dropdown. e.g. happy hunting cheers, mario On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Chris W. Paterson wrote: So, I copied them to the system library and even enable them in font book but the font will now show up in my font drop down... It works fine in photoshop. I tried restarting the flash IDE over and over and even rebooting my Mac like 6 times! it's an open type font (.otf). Has anyone ever had this problem? Thanks in advance! Chris __ __ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: Re: [Flashcoders] Book recommendation for multiuser games / apps
Hi Jobe, I also have the mx 2004, which I liked very much btw, of the Flash Game Demisifyed , are you planning an AS3 version of the book ?? :) On 10/26/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have people had any experience with the Red5 server ( http://osflash.org/red5)? If so, how does it compare to other products such as ElectroServer? I've downloaded Red5, but haven't had time to try it out. Hi Scott, I have experience with it as I'm part of the Red5 team developing the product. The main difference between Red5 and a server like Electro server is that Red5 supports many types of protocols (RTMP, AMF, XML-RPC, XMLSocket (soon to come)), where as ElectroServer only uses the XMLSocket connection built into Flash. RTMP allows you to steam video and audio to and from the Flash player making video chat applications possible. You can't do that with XMLSocket. The other nice thing about Red5 is its ability to tap into other server-side APIs very easily, so one example might be an existing MMO game server engine could be used with Flash using Red5 as a sort of proxy. At any rate I'm not too familiar with ElectroServer, so I'm not comfortable comparing them feature by feature. ElectroServer certainly looks like it has a nice client side API though (just based on what I saw on their website). Something like that for Red5 doesn't exists at the moment, but there's no reason why someone couldn't easily create one and wrap the NetConnection stuff like they have with XMLSocket. I hope that helps a little. If you have more questions please ask and I suggest that you sign up on the Red5 mailing list as there are many more experienced people that will help you there. -Chris ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Center align multiline textfield?
Call me silly (not to my face) but as far as I know autoSize works
perfectly well on multiline textfields, the only caveat is that you
actually have to write it properly
'autoSize' instead of 'autosize' (notice the capital 'S')
Keep in mind that with centered text the textfield will only size in
the vertical not in the horizontal.
cheers,
mario
Quoting Jake Prime [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Autosize doesn't work in multiline textfields. If you think about it,
when you set autosize to true (or right or center) you are asking
Flash to shrink the textfield to the smallest size possible to fit the
text. This is fine in a single line textfield, but with a mulitline
field Flash won't know whether to make the field shorter, narrower or
a combination.
As Giles has mentioned, use TextFormat.align:
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.align = center;
subhead.setTextFormat( format );
Jake
On 10/10/06, Keith Reinfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blake,
Use the paragraph tag's align attribute:
htmlText='p align=centerfont face=KnockoutHTF51Middleweight size=16
color=#ffSI.com\'s Peter King says T.O. is going to explode
before long, but Dallas is tough enough to survive./font/p';
-Keith
http://home.mn.rr.com/keithreinfeld
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Center align multiline textfield?
I'm trying to get a multiline textfield to be center aligned. Here's the
code:
this.createTextField('subhead',20,1,435,434,200);
with (this.subhead) {
html=true;
embedFonts=true;
selectable=false;
wordWrap=true;
multiline=true;
autosize='center';
htmlText='font face=KnockoutHTF51Middleweight size=16
color=#ffSI.com\'s Peter King says T.O. is going to explode
before long, but Dallas is tough enough to survive./font';
}
The autosize seems to only work for single line textfields, not
multiline. Anyone know how to accomplish this? Thanks.
Blake Perdue | 212.522.1292 | AIM: blakepCNN
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Re: [Flashcoders] Q: slightly OT, SWFObject, UFO and Full Browser Flash
Both the latest version of 'ufo' (Unobtrusive Flash Object) and SWFObject (was Flash Object) fully support fullbrowser flash on IE and Firefox. The stage listener object correctly 'hears' onResize events from the browser and content is dynamically centered. However in both browsers(in my test version using the latest UFO with default settings) the content gets cropped on the top if the browser window is shortened below a minumum height. As well, in IE, there is a small background bar visible at the top of the page. Could you post the url to your example so we can have a look? The correct implementation UFO can be seen at our site http://www.refunk.com/. cheers, mario ___ 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 you manage your classes?
Hi, the current setup we use in our company is that we have a core library that holds all of our core-code we reuse all the time, this core is stored and maintained in SVN. This library is imported as a linked library in Eclipse (e.g. its more like an alias/shortcut to the core). Other project specific code gets developed on project level on their respective package level. If for some reason we need to enhance some of the core-code we do this on the project level (your settings should _ALWAYS_ first look in your local project before looking in the core). This way you can test the enhancements against other older projects or unittests you might have written before committing them back into the core. The last important step we take is to make a copy of the core into the project folder when we complete developement, this is to make sure that when the core gets updated later on we have a working copy of the core just in case (backward compatibility breaking in an upgrade). Hope this helps. cheers, mario Quoting Dan Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Flashcoders, I've been wondering how other flash developers deal with AS2/AS3 class management on both a project-based and common library level, while addressing the need to package up source code for a given project to deliver to a team member or client. I've used version control before, as well as doing the common classpath thing for shared classes... but when it's time to deliver the source code to someone, I would have to go in and hunt for all the classes I used on a project and copy them to the FLA directory (and recreate the com.package... structure as well). Sometimes it seems faster to simply create the AS files along with the FLA (in a single package), and copy over utility files as needed. But then you get into duplicate classes scattered over multiple projects. Can anyone provide any insight to a system that works well for them? For example, does anyone run custom shell scripts (such as rsync) that sync the current project with the main classpath directory? Thanks, -Danro ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Net Debugger not working
I have that problem too, so I use the Log instead :) On 8/16/06, Elena Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone -- I am building a Flash Web application that uses Flash Remoting. I've been using the net debugger before with no problems whatsoever. Now though, the debugger no longer works -- the debugger window opens, but it now has no content whatsoever. The application works fine, flash remoting is working great with the app server, but I no longer receive ANY trace statements, or other messages within the debugger. I'm still calling the NetDebug.initialize() method to initialize the net debugger -- call is made when the form first loads. Anybody else have this problem? If so, do you know how to fix it? (I am using Flash Professional 8) Thank you for the help, Elena ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing with Laser Scanners ...
I dont know if this make sense, I need to develop an application that captures data read by a Laser Scanner, however before getting into the process (trying to avoid Delphi) I was wondering if this kind of functionality could be accomplish with AS3 and FLEX2 ? Thanks in advanced ___ 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] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing withLaserScanners ...
Thanks for all your comments and suggestions :) Amazingly it worked, the scanner works like any input device ( such keyboard ) and I just drag an input text field to stage , run the test and scan a bar code and its value was entered in the input field :) Great! Thanks! On 4/28/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.barcoder.nu/ - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing withLaserScanners ... http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/entry_blog-155.php http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/08/player_card_rea.cfm - Original Message - From: Ing. Mario Falomir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:12 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing with LaserScanners ... I dont know if this make sense, I need to develop an application that captures data read by a Laser Scanner, however before getting into the process (trying to avoid Delphi) I was wondering if this kind of functionality could be accomplish with AS3 and FLEX2 ? Thanks in advanced ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Split Pane component??
here is a good one: http://www.joangarnet.com/blog/archives/2005/07/release_v2_fram_1.php On 4/5/06, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am trying like crazy, to find a Split Pane Component that works as well as Flex's version. I found one (and only ONE) somewhere on the Flash Exchange, but the docs are mostly in another language, and it's really buggy. The one I found is actually free, and has a high rating level - but I am just not having good luck with it. Thanks for all your help on this, Mike ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@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] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop
Hi Alex, here is an example that could help you and illustrate how to
accomplish what you want
var totalMovieClips:Number = 3;
for ( var i = 0; i totalMovieClips; i ++ )
{
_root['mc' + i].indexPos = i;
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRelease = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRelease' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOver = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOver' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOut = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOut' );
}
}
On 3/30/06, Alejandro Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heya guys,
I am assigning the button behaviors to a set of movieclips through a
for loop, however, I am coming up against something where I know what
is happening, but don't know how to fix it.
Basically, inside that for loop I assign each of the button behaviors
as a function but I don't know how to evaluate the counter in the
function, rather than having it just literally written into it.
instead of section_+ _root.i being section_1, section_2, etc...it
is literally written in each of the buttons as section_+_root.i and
so each button has exactly the same code and all go to the last
section (last value of i) when clicked.
How can I have it so that each function has the proper code it in? is
this even the proper way to go about this? Is there a way to 'force'
the evaluation of that counter in that function when it is being
assigned to the MC?
code:
function buttonBehavior ():Void {
for (_root.i=1;_root.i8;_root.i++) {
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay(over);
}
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay(out);
}
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRelease = function() {
_root.gotoAndPlay(display_frame);
loadMovie(section_+_root.i+.swf, load_target);
}
}
}
(btw, I added the _root. to each of the i's so that the function could
'see' it.
thanks in advance!
-Alex
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Re: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop
oops I missed paste it complete...
var totalMovieClips:Number = 3;
for ( var i = 0; i totalMovieClips; i ++ )
{
_root['mc' + i].indexPos = i;
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRelease = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRelease' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOver = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOver' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOut = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOut' );
}
}
On 3/30/06, Ing. Mario Falomir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Alex, here is an example that could help you and illustrate how to
accomplish what you want
var totalMovieClips:Number = 3;
for ( var i = 0; i totalMovieClips; i ++ )
{
_root['mc' + i].indexPos = i;
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRelease = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRelease' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOver = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOver' );
}
_root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOut = function()
{
trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRollOut' );
}
}
On 3/30/06, Alejandro Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heya guys,
I am assigning the button behaviors to a set of movieclips through a
for loop, however, I am coming up against something where I know what
is happening, but don't know how to fix it.
Basically, inside that for loop I assign each of the button behaviors
as a function but I don't know how to evaluate the counter in the
function, rather than having it just literally written into it.
instead of section_+ _root.i being section_1, section_2, etc...it
is literally written in each of the buttons as section_+_root.i and
so each button has exactly the same code and all go to the last
section (last value of i) when clicked.
How can I have it so that each function has the proper code it in? is
this even the proper way to go about this? Is there a way to 'force'
the evaluation of that counter in that function when it is being
assigned to the MC?
code:
function buttonBehavior ():Void {
for (_root.i=1;_root.i8;_root.i++) {
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay(over);
}
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay(out);
}
_root[mb_+_root.i].onRelease = function() {
_root.gotoAndPlay(display_frame);
loadMovie(section_+_root.i+.swf, load_target);
}
}
}
(btw, I added the _root. to each of the i's so that the function could
'see' it.
thanks in advance!
-Alex
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Re: [FlashCoders] BitmapData.dispose()
Yes, BMP Obj remains in memory, you need to have a reference to that Object
so you can dispose it later.
import flash.display.BitmapData;
var bitmap:BitmapData;
function createBitmap():Void {
bitmap = new BitmapData(500, 500, false, 0xFF);
_root.attachBitmap(bitmap, 0);
}
clickObj = {};
clickObj.onMouseDown = function()
{
_root.bitmap.dispose();
}
Mouse.addListener( clickObj );
createBitmap();
On 3/24/06, Dimitrios Bendilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Quick question.
private function createBitmap():Void {
var bitmap:BitmapData = new Bitmap(200, 200, false, 0xFF);
clip.attachBitmap(bitmap, 0);
}
If I never execute .dispose() on the bitmap, does it remain in memory?
It seems logical to me that it remains there only until the function is
finished. It's a local variable so I would expect the memory gets freed
as soon as the local variable dies.
Thanks!
Regards,
Dimtirios Bendilas
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Re: [Flashcoders] MD5 Class in AS2.0?
Here is a prototype :), it could be useful and you could make a class out of it :) http://www.sephiroth.it/proto_detail.php?id=51 Cheers On 3/2/06, jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out http://www.meychi.com/ they have one. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: 02 March 2006 16:53 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] MD5 Class in AS2.0? I see a couple older MD5 classes in 1.0. Is there a 2.0 version floating around somewhere? Thanks Chris ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ 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] XML Driven Application Driving me crazy :)
Yep, the main part of the problem is the huge amount of data that it is handling, I guess... It doesnt query a DB , we generate all the needed info, such as catalogs for example, in the form of XML files. We did it this way because since its an app its going to be in CDs we did not want to force the end user to install MySQL (or whatever DBManager) and the required DB data in order to run the application, not to mention that the people that is going to use the app it's mainly politicians (PC = solitarie, word ) so installing extra stuff was not an option at all :) Anyway, phase 1 was completed , sometimes get a little slow, because all of the parsing, iterations, filling grids and charting upon the XML data, but the reason why I was looking for some suggestions it's because phase 2 of the project will involve more data :S and I have to follow the same XML approach, but i wanted to know how do you guys do to smooth things a little bit and make things more solid. Thanks for all your comments :) Mario ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] XML Driven Application Driving me crazy :)
Hi, I need some advice from you guys :) I have an XML Driven FLash APP, basically it's a tool that displays charts and data in grids, containers, etc...that my client will handout in CDs. So at the beginning of the development process I thought XML would suit perfectly in the purpose of this app. But it happened that the DB used to generate the apporpiate XML files that my app consume had grown amazingly so eventually my app (exclusively the part that searches for an specific registry entry) turns very slow and sometimes (rarely but happens) it crashes due to the exhaustive loops and interations i do in order to the search/display data of an specific registry and filtering functions. So i thouhgt, upon your experience, to ask how would you do to optimize this thing or what its the best way to do the queries to an XML in order smooth things a little bit more :) Or what approaches (or guidelines ) do you use when you have to develop an app. that will have XML to serve as its DB. Do you load everysingle XML at once ? on demand ? etc ? Thanks in advanced! Mario ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] XML Driven Application Driving me crazy :)
well, I will definetely take a look at it , thanks! On 1/31/06, Daniel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/31/06, Ing. Mario Falomir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some advice from you guys :) I have an XML Driven FLash APP, Would it be possible to format the data as JSON on the server side? It'd be much lighter weight ... http://www.crockford.com/JSON/ specifically: http://www.crockford.com/JSON/JSON.as Daniel -- Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, CA dls [at] daniel [dot] org - AIM: SonomaDaniel http://daniel.org/blog- http://resume.daniel.org FlexiPhoto is in Alpha! - http://FlexiPhoto.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
