Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex
On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Mike Britton wrote: That makes sense Robert. In the same line of thinking, as the Flex stuff evolves, I see the Flash IDE turning into a sort of Photoshop for Flash where graphical assets are designed/maintained, and FlexBuilder 2 (eclipse) becoming the programming environment. I don't think that's likely to happen at all. I suspect a vast majority of users will continue to use the IDE. This is just a prediction on my part: the number of people who use the IDE or a combination of the IDE and a text editor will probably outnumber the FlexBuilder/Eclipse platform users 3:1, or even much more (10:1?). So FlexBuilder 2 will be for development, period, rapid or otherwise, and Flash or the Flash IDE will be a designer's tool. Both sit on top of the Flash Platform and are the foundation for implementing the technology. Still doubt that a lot. FlexBuilder 2 will probably used for development of _enterprise_applications_. I don't think Macromedia will be able to push it's use too much further outside those limits. Don't get me wrong, I love the metaphor and what it could possibly do for my Flash development. But, the random project that comes along which could benefit from that environment doesn't nearly justify the resources and time I'd need to devote to really knowing the platform. In the Flash community, we've got designers, designer/developers (design with some programming) and serious developers (strictly programming). I'd say the former two in that list far outnumber the latter. Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Another random number generator
I saw a post on a forum recently about random number generators and the ability to create on that could be seeded. So, I took up the challenge and converted the Mersenne Twister algorithm to AS2 (probably one of the best, and fastest, pseudo-random number generators out there). Code is available of course. Not that any of you need something like this, but ya never know: http://magicsnacks.com/shiftedpixels/?p=8 One thing I found out is that Flash chokes on a 32-bit and a 53-bit hex number. Flash should represent 0x1 as 2^32 or 4294967296. The same goes for a 53-bit hex, say 0x20, which is 2^53 or 9007199254740992. Anyone know why that is - aside from the fact that the number type is 32-bit in Flash (AS2)? I'd love to work that out but have a feeling that until I get this to AS3, there won't be any chance of that. cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question
On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Shaw, Matt wrote:
Assuming the Game class is your root/stage class:
Public class Game extends MovieClip {
public function Game(){
var gameworld:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); //new GameWorld()?
this.addChild( gameworld );
var game_bg:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
gameworld.addChild( game_bg );
}
What I don't get is why it needs this.addChild instead of just
addChild. I've been sick of the keyword this for a long time and
have since avoided it in AS2.
Any reason that it needs to be back in for AS3?
- Jon
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[Flashcoders] Player 8.5 standalone on OSX?
No answer from MM on their labs forums, or anywhere else for that matter. Anyone locate the standalone player for OS X yet? It aint in the FlexBuilder2 installer or in the plug-in installer. Only the PC exe files are standalone. ?? thanks... Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as
On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:22 AM, cornel wrote: hi maybe a silly question, but here i go anyway: how would you write something like this in actionscript: int matrix[3][3]; for(i=0;i3;i++) for(j=0;j3;j++) matrix[i][j]=0; i've done something like this in my code, mtasc doesnt complained, but the program doesnt work, and i have a feeling that something wrong. i would appreciate any help cornel Unlike C, Actionscript can't create a two-dimensional array like that. var matrix = []; for (;i3;i++) matrix[i] = [0]; That's the super shorthand way of doing it. cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Newbie AS3 question
Ok. Since I was the 'ass' that started this junk by asking why this was needed, maybe I can be the 'ass' that will end it. This thread started with Andreas asking about addChild. Fair enough. I asked about a specific example that used this on a method which was a member of the same class and was invoked by using this.member. I was curious why that was there, nothing more, as I haven't explored AS3 too much. Is it too hard to just answer the question at hand without providing more information than is really necessary and making some of us think we're being patronized? Can we move on to some more high-level stuff already? cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as
On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Gregory wrote:
You must create empty arrays first, like this:
// bidimensional array in AS
var matrix2:Array = [];
for(i=0;i3;i++){
matrix2[i] = [];
for(j=0;j3;j++){
matrix2[i][j]=0;
}
}
trace(matrix2);
Yea, I'm a dufus. I think I was in AS3 mode when i posted that - then
again, I didn't test it either...
i'll be quiet now. :)
Jon
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Re: [Flashcoders] Math.random()
On Nov 17, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: If the game is for money and the client side code can be hacked for profit, you need to move more of the game engine onto the server and only present results and table state on the client side. Dice rolls can not be generated by the client in that case. Your client could be easily replaced by a version of your client that lets the player chose his own rolls which makes Backgammon not fun for the opponent but a really lucrative way to pass an afternoon for the guy choosing his rolls. You probably only need to chose 3 or 4 rolls during a game to win almost every time. (An interesting test on a real board for someone with time to kill and a friend who does not mind losing.) Ron Actually, part of the roll work can be done client-side. The issue is with the seed to any particular random number generator. One needs a secure hash of two generated keys from the server, then using a client-side random number algorithm with this key as the state input, this is completely possible. Check out my conversion of the mersenne twister algorithm for things like this (minus the crypto part with a server). The secure hash part is fairly easy to implement. Aside to this thread - never use Math.random() because it's inherently insecure. http://magicsnacks.com/shiftedpixels/?p=8 Jon Bradley Visual Effects / Interactive / Animation Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Qauternions for avoiding gimbal-lock in 3D?
On Nov 27, 2005, at 6:39 PM, keith wrote: I read all over the internet about Quaternions are the solution for avoiding Gimbal-lock,but I dont understand the math enough to use them for rotating 3D points. I've looked at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/3d_classes_03.html. Its a nice tutorial, however I need more examples to study with Quaternions used in Actionscript. Please post links or tutorials with Actionscript using Quaternions. Thanks, -- Keith H -- Quats are not the 'solution' for avoiding gimbal lock. Gimbal lock happens because euler rotations are expressed relative to a global coordinate system and need to be performed in a certain order to achieve a certain rotation. You get gimbal lock when you try to perform a local rotation of an object and then apply global transformations on top of that, which easily results in an improper rotation of an object if you don't code it properly. Quats are primarily used for camera animation in 3d applications because they are higher order and include transformations and rotations in the same matrix set. They are great for path animation in 3d space because of the capability of using smooth interpolation. A quick overview and simple description: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1199.asp Not to convince you otherwise, but there really isn't a reason to use quaternions. Use axis/angle representation instead of quaternions for 3d rotations, unless you really really need to do a lot of spherical linear interpolation (unlikely). Jon Bradley Visual Effects / Interactive / Animation Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] RE: 3D in Flash
On Dec 14, 2005, at 10:37 AM, nik crosina wrote: This IKEA thingy is just brilliant! But I think it is a bit out of our reach time-wise and buclient budget wise. Techniology wise I wanted to get an idea from you guys as to whcih solution you would gravitate towards to. My gut feeling would be to use Shockwave because of its 3D features, but install wise flash is more wide spread and would cause less hassle for our clients. I guess it depends on how easy and painless we make the process for the site visitors, and how good lokonig / easy to use we make it Thanks!!! Nik C Not necessarily. The flash portion of this work isn't the real budget-breaker or time element in a project like this. This is all about studio setup and setting up camera rigs with a flash controller and a lot of cameras at that - at least 30-40 with remote capabilities. There are studios that do this as a service, and you may be suprised at what you find. The compositing system used for something like this is typically a flame or inferno (autodesk/discreet) seat which can then motion blend between the still sequences. There are also some cheaper plugins for AfterEffects and Shake that will do this, albeit not nearly as good, which is why this doesn't look perfect in some regards. RE-Flex Morph which comes with Autodesk Combustion 4 will also do this (with a decent amount of hand massaging). Full 3d rendering is also an option if your environments are available for use in some 3d package. good luck! Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. 170 Linden Oaks, Suite B Rochester, NY 14625 585.385.1530 x273 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Elastic ribbon
On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:58 AM, franto wrote: i just have this, but it's implemented in AS3 http://www.franto.com/blog2/as3-cloth-simulation-verlet-algorithm That's interesting. Only thing is that cloth doesn't stretch (unless it's spandex or something). :) Aside: a particle spring system is better for cloth simulation than verlet integration. Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flash.geom.* and drawing API
On Jan 14, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Benjamin Dobler wrote: So my question is anything like that out there already? What would bet he best way to do it (e.g. moveTo2(p:Point)). Do i have to expect performance decrease? I'm not aware of anything currently.. and don't know if this is implemented yet in AS3 (anyone?). I would definitely expect a performance decrease. It all depends on what you do - whether it will be noticeable or not. Anytime you add in a separate scope, it'll slow things down. Plus, the Point class (and matrix and other geom classes) are implemented in AS, not in C, so they really aren't that fast in the first place. Those classes are more of a timesaver than anything else. cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Doh! Converting a floating point string to numberloses precision
On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:13 AM, JesterXL wrote: Something about how certain numbers are only so big in Flash Player, and there was talk of porting BigInt from Java. Far as I know, number accuracy in Flash is +/- 1e16 and no better. I believe that's 32-bit precision. On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: You could also implement a decimalNumber Class that does its arithmetic in decimal. You need to carry guard digits through calculations to ensure that rounding is done properly. You can make the numbers as large as you want with whatever precision you want. Not in Flash. Flash is limited in it's numeric accuracy, either with decimal or integers. That was one of the winning technology bits that IBM had in the 1960s and on. Their mainframe processors (1400,360,370 series) actually supported decimal number format with arithmetic operations that made financial applications easier to deal with and made the COBOL decimal structures work well. This is one of the ways that they dominated the financial world. Back in the 60s maybe. There wasn't anything else at the time that could do it. Now, it's not really an issue as numeric accuracy is fairly easy to deal with and there are many different ways to do it in a variety of languages. Flash just isn't suited for it. - Jon ___ 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] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player
This one is tough. I'm trying to have Flash (version 8) call a javascript function that will write a quicktime object to the page and open this quicktime in the QT player, not in the page. I've got the usage of QT write object javascript functions (from Apple) that will write out an embed or object tag to put a quicktime in a page. Problem is that we're running a Flash 8 site that needs to target this qt object to open up in the Quicktime Player, not into an embedded movie on the page. Popup windows are a no go, so I need to figure out a way for Flash to communicate with the page to tell it to write an embed to the page and load up the QT player, without changing the current window. Unfortunately, any getURL call I make always changes the location of the page - and I can't even figure out how to keep it from changing the page location. Is this possible with an FSCommand? Has anyone ever done anything like this? Many many many thanks if anyone can help out. I've got a site I need to make live today and I have everything working fine except this (major) part. thanks, Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.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] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player
On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Jim Kremens wrote: Could you do something with javascript and css and ExternalInterface? Something where a div of the QT player is hidden, and a javascript call would supply the embed src param and turn the visibility of the div on or something? You can definitely do that (I've done it) but I don't think that's what he wants. He wants the file to open in the standalone Quicktime Player (right?). I can't think of how to do that... sorry. Jim Kremens I definitely want it to open in standalone QT Player, not the plugin. I think that solution could work, provided I can figure out how to call getURL without my page changing it's window location. I've not done much javascript - flash communication so, I have no idea why calling getURL(javascript:something) changes the browser location. So odd. I think I'll have to have the div there anyway, because the Player is opened through the target tag in the embed object. So, it's as if the quicktime movie is there, just not used inside the page. Argh. Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.com On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Jim Kremens wrote: Could you do something with javascript and css and ExternalInterface? Something where a div of the QT player is hidden, and a javascript call would supply the embed src param and turn the visibility of the div on or something? You can definitely do that (I've done it) but I don't think that's what he wants. He wants the file to open in the standalone Quicktime Player (right?). I can't think of how to do that... sorry. Jim Kremens On 4/17/06, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you do something with javascript and css and ExternalInterface? Something where a div of the QT player is hidden, and a javascript call would supply the embed src param and turn the visibility of the div on or something? On 4/17/06, Jon Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one is tough. I'm trying to have Flash (version 8) call a javascript function that will write a quicktime object to the page and open this quicktime in the QT player, not in the page. I've got the usage of QT write object javascript functions (from Apple) that will write out an embed or object tag to put a quicktime in a page. Problem is that we're running a Flash 8 site that needs to target this qt object to open up in the Quicktime Player, not into an embedded movie on the page. Popup windows are a no go, so I need to figure out a way for Flash to communicate with the page to tell it to write an embed to the page and load up the QT player, without changing the current window. Unfortunately, any getURL call I make always changes the location of the page - and I can't even figure out how to keep it from changing the page location. Is this possible with an FSCommand? Has anyone ever done anything like this? Many many many thanks if anyone can help out. I've got a site I need to make live today and I have everything working fine except this (major) part. thanks, Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.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 -- Jim Kremens ___ 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] Flash targeting Quicktime to open in QT Player
On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:05 PM, John Dowdell wrote: Does this become How does Apple recommend showing a QuickTime video in the standalone QuickTime Player (if available), rather than a new browser window?? or...? Not quite. It's pretty straight forward to do that. Apple has a set of javascript QT object functions that will write an XHTML or HTML tag to your page with the proper information in the embed and object params. One of the properties is target, which when set to Quicktime Video Player will automatically launch the Quicktime application to play the URL provided in the embed tag. The problem is two-fold here, and neither of which I can figure out: 1. Use a getURL call to call a javascript function without loading up a new page. For some reason, no matter what I do, getURL will always change the browser page (ie, it changes to a blank page removing the content you were looking at). I have no idea why it does this. 2. Call the javascript function to actually write the XHTML/HTML object immediately after the flash embed, so that this will work properly. With the javascript function call on a button in an HTML/XHTML page, this is no problem - as the script for the button is replaced with the embed tag. Not so with Flash. Delivering the video as Flash is not really an option, because it's no where near as good a the H.264 encoded QT video that I want to provide. I just wish there were an easier solution. cheers, jon Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:05 PM, John Dowdell wrote: [I missed this new thread at first, because it was listed as part of the Talking to Flash from JavaScript thread. Using New for a new message keeps new topics from being hidden within old topics, as occurs when using Reply-To in the emailer.) Does this become How does Apple recommend showing a QuickTime video in the standalone QuickTime Player (if available), rather than a new browser window?? or...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ 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] Shared font questions
I've seen sharedfonts.com and checked it out. I've also checked out some archived pages on shared fonts, how they load, etc. and a few other thoughts. What's the difference between the SFM component and the methods described in the archives to share fonts with a library and a movie clip so that dynamic and static fields will work (and TextFormat). It seems that the SFM component, which costs money, is literally just a tad of code to load up the fonts into an array in the global space, and it uses what seems to be the same process as described in the Flashcoders archives. Does anyone know what the benefits are of just following the examples used in the archives, or using the sharedfonts.com code? Has anyone come up with a snippet of AS that will take a loaded shared font(s), parse out the name(s) and push it into a global array so that it's accessible by name throughout your loaded file? It seems to me that this is all the sharedfonts extension does, so I'm trying to figure out what the benefit of it is over the known processes. I'm not at all knocking the work Ivan did, just trying to get all the info to do what I need to do. I need to ensure that the method I'm using will work with getTextExtent method, because I need to get the metrics from the font in a field that has a text format applied. Does anyone have any other examples or info? It seems all I can find is from back in late 2003 or early 2004, old information, apparently still applicable to Flash 8. cheers, jon ___ 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: Shared font questions
Brody - Thanks for that bit. Very good info to have. I decided to bite the bullet and write my own approach, which has all of the functionality as shared fonts manager and the added ability to load in a set of configuration files - and doesn't cost anything. I was actually surprised how easy it ended up being. I think I'll keep with the two-file approach because there's an .mxp to build the sources automatically. Plus, the two file approach seems to avoid the problems pointed out in that article. Finally, shared fonts. Somewhere around 10 hours of research and only 2 hours of actual programming to make an AS2 class for this. I guess 5 times as much research time to figure it out wasn't too bad. heh. cheers, Jon On May 1, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Brody Welch wrote: http://tinyurl.com/fufs4 Here is another possible solution. It is translated from Spanish to English so it may take some piecing together. What I have found in researching these two solutions is that one not need to create an .fla and .swf file for the fonts and then via shared library add the shared fonts to each new .fla that requires these fonts. Basically a two step process. As well the sharedFont.swf can be stored in a directory outside of the directory containging the .swf's that share the font. One concern I encountered using Macromedia's approach which has worked fine, is that if I moved the sharedFont.swf to another directory the fonts would no longer load. Obviously this makes since. But if I changed the path within the .fla's that were sharing the font to say ../../sharedFont.swf the fonts would load in BUT they would reload into every new .swf that used them bascially making the SHARED part pointless and quickly wasting bandwidth. This is a big advantage to me as from my understanding it lets one change the directory of the sharedFont.swf if needed without having to go into say 150 .fla's and make changes to the linkage/properties etc. broD ___ 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] Shared font questions
On May 2, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Brody Welch wrote: Glad to hear you worked it out. Would you be willing to share your solution? Once finished, I'm definitely considering it. There's only one downside - it might not be good news for sharedfonts.com. Although everything their extension does is based on prior art, I'm still hesitant because I do have some semblance of a conscience. :) cheers, jon ___ 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] Shared font questions
On May 2, 2006, at 6:38 PM, erixtekila wrote: Hep, there is no magic at all. Zarate also found a solution. Of course - that's the solution Brody pointed out. The problem is that solution has problems that the shared fonts manager and a few other solutions do not. I published also a solution that IMO easier with swfmill. http://www.v-i-a.net/blog/archives/43.html That's pretty straightforward... nice. But, this also has same problems as the solution Zarate published. You can't give the average designer swfmill to deal with, or command-line (or XCode as I use) compilation of SWF files. It has to be an FLA format, IDE solution only. Look in archive for translation. The trick is not so hard. So come on. No, it's not that hard, it only took a couple hours to program with the added benefit that I can load any number of fonts, with events to notify anything listening (not just fields) and have parsed formats that are available for specific uses. - jon ___ 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:Convolution filter and Zoom blur effect
On May 3, 2006, at 10:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Anyone been able to use the convolution filter to create realistic
motion blur effects?
I do not believe a convolution operation cannot perform a zoom and
spin blur alone. Those need to be performed separately on every
single pixel in an image. You can get a similar result from
transforming the bitmap using a transformation matrix that's offset
from the center of the zoom or spin, rotating or scaling the copied
bitmap and overlaying the pixels onto the original.
Motion blur can be done to an extent. The problem that you will find
is that it doesn't work for fast curved motion. Slower curved motion
it works fine.
The code below is what I posted on my now-defunct site shiftedPixels.
It's a simplified method to do motion blur by using sampled locations
and linearly interpolating filter-applied copies of the source.
A better choice would be to use a spline-based sampling system on
your object and motion blur along points of the spline using a surve
or slerp method. Of course, doing so will be much slower due to point-
on-curve routines.
cheers,
Jon
//
// Temporal Anti-aliasing (motion blur)
// jon bradley, 2005
//
// Create a movie clip on your stage named src.
// Copy the following code in the first frame.
// Set the frame rate of your file high, like 120.
//
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.filters.*;
import flash.geom.*;
_quality = medium;
src.startDrag(true);
Mouse.hide();
src._visible = false;
// set up the filters:
colorM = new ColorMatrixFilter
([1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0.4,0]);
blurFilter = new BlurFilter(5, 5, 1);
src.cacheAsBitmap = true;
var blurImg:BitmapData = new BitmapData(550, 400, true, 0xFF);
blurImg.transparent = false;
var blurClip:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip(blurClip, 99947);
blurClip.attachBitmap(blurImg, 0);
blurClip.cacheAsBitmap = true;
var rect = new flash.geom.Rectangle(0,0,Stage.width, Stage.height);
var pt = new flash.geom.Point(0,0);
// Linear interpolation to get points between object position points
// A more accurate choice would be to use spline interpolation based on
// a motion path of the object - of course this will run much slower.
function lerp(t,a,b)
{
return a+t*(b-a);
}
var x = _xmouse;
var y = _ymouse;
function updateBlur()
{
var m = src.transform.matrix;
var xa = _xmouse;
var dx = Math.sqrt(Math.abs(xa*xa - x*x));
var ya = _ymouse;
var dy = Math.sqrt(Math.abs(ya*ya - y*y));
blurFilter.blurX = dx/20;
blurFilter.blurY = dy/20;
var i = 15;
var t = 1/i;
while (i--)
{
m.tx = lerp( (i+1)*t, xa, x);
m.ty = lerp( (i+1)*t, ya, y);
blurImg.draw(src,m);
}
blurImg.applyFilter(blurImg, rect, pt, colorM);
blurImg.draw(src,m);
blurImg.applyFilter(blurImg, rect, pt, blurFilter);
x = _xmouse;
y = _ymouse;
}
// Pprocessor intensive - stick with onEnterFrame
// blurInterval = setInterval(updateBlur,0);
onEnterFrame = function()
{
src._x = _xmouse;
src._y = _ymouse;
updateBlur();
}
// END CODE
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Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Convolution filter and Zoom blur effect
Since I didn't post a solution for zoom or spin blur, here's a method you can try out. A way to account for zoom or spin blur is to do the following: Perform a polar transform on the bitmap. Horizontal blur (or vertical blur) the transformed image Reverse polar transform Result is a spin blur (or zoom blur if vertical blur is used) The problem there is that a polar transformation on a bitmap requires a loop over every pixel. No bueno for real-time effects. cheers, Jon ___ 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] Anti-aliasing distorted bitmapData?
On May 7, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Sander wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to do some 3Dish distortions on bitmapData instances, using loops to copy colons or rows of pixels. It's fast enough for real-time. But the result is an aliased picture. I thought I could use the Convolution filter to influence each pixel by its neighbors, basically anti-aliasing. Does anyons have experience with this? Would a slight blur be faster to compute? A blur is usually a 3x3 convolution matrix. So, no, it's not 'faster' than a convolution because it is implemented as a convolution anyway (and if it isn't, a 3x3 convolution should be identical in speed). You could feasibly try a 3x3 triangle or a 4x4 mitchell filter instead (you can find the convolution matrix for these online pretty easily). Remember, bitmap distortions only respect 256 levels. You could also perform a scaling matrix into a temporary bitmap, then copy those results with a reverse scale into the final display matrix with smoothing turned on. That may work well enough to smooth out any artifacts you're seeing. good luck, jon ___ 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] MPG1 video compression: Best settings? CD playback?
On May 15, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Hi all, Anyone ever encode their video files with MPG1 for use on an interactive CD? If so, what kind of settings do you use? It depends on what you term as a good quality. What's the dimensions, how will it be played (Quicktime, Windows Media)? For CD use, just keep your data rate low enough so that the CD isn't going to choke trying to play the file. Jon ___ 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] Encryption Packages
http://actioncrypt.sourceforge.net/ Beware though. Even using the same keys, mcrypt and actioncrypt end up returning differing results. There's something wonkey with the algorithm. Also... http://www.meychi.com/archive/31.php This one has the Rijndael algorithm implemented apparently. I haven't had much time to test. good luck. Jon On Jun 1, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Paul Chang wrote: I'm looking for an encryption package for Flash, particularly one that uses the Blowfish algorithm. Does anyone have knowledge if such a package exists? Thanks, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Chang, Ph.D. PCD. 2412 Harrison Street, #103 San Francisco, CA 94110 415-550-7230 415-358-5614 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] Whats the deal with AS3 Math.random?
And yet another random number generator library (was posted at were-
here.com a long long time ago). All open source, credit for use is
nice though. :)
This one is a linear congruential generator. I've never tested the
output against anything, so at best, this may or may not work
properly for your needs.
cheers,
jon
Jon Bradley
VFX Artist / Animator
Post Central, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cherrycrushthemovie.com
/** BEGIN LCG.as */
/**
* Class com.jbradley.math.LCG
* AuthorJon Bradley
* Version 1.0
* Description Implementation of 48-bit Linear Congruential Pseudo-
Random Number Generator
*
---
* Last update: November 3, 2005 - Converted to AS 2.0
*
---
* 48-bit Linear Congruential Algorithm
* Produces pseudo-random number which can be seeded manually or by a
default time variable.
*
* Source: Computational Nuclear Physics Group, United States Government
* RNG - Random Number Generator algorithms
*
* This implementation is limited to the 48-bit version, which is
still computationally
* inaccurate in Flash due to a 32-bit limitation. It is also not
statistically a sound
* random number generator due to patterns in the low order sequences
and is not a
* cryptographically secure algorithm. It can be made secure by using
a cryptographic hash
* function to generate an initial random number state from a pair of
integers (keys).
*
* The algorithm implementation is as described in the RNG library
published by the
* Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - http://nuclear.llnl.gov/
CNP/rng/rngman/
*
* Converted to Actionscript by Jon Bradley, 2003
*
---
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
*
* - Redistributions of source code must retain the above
copyright notice,
* this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
*
* - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
*
* - Neither the name of this software nor the names of its
contributors
* may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
software
* without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
AS IS AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
* DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS
BE LIABLE FOR
* ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
* (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES;
* LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON
* ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT
* (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
USE OF THIS
* SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*
---
*
* Usage:
*
*Default:
*rGen = new LCG();
*
*Specific seed - may use new Date.getTime() ):
*rGen = new LCG( 1 );
*
* Methods:
*
*init(t:Number)
*Initializes LCG with a time seed. If t is not supplied or
*is NaN, default is used.
*
*getSeed():Number
*Returns initial time seed used to start the system. Recall
that the actual seed
*used in the algorithm is timeM, where M is 2.8^14. The
returned number maybe
*be passed back in to init to restart the random sequence:
*
*rGen.init( rgen.getSeed() )// Will restart system
with original seed
*rGen.init()// Will restart system
with new seed
*
*random()
*Shortcut method to randomReal48()
*
*randomReal48()
*Returns a random 48-bit floating point number on interval
[0,1).
*Note that this currently will not work properly in Flash due
to the limitations
*of the number type. Results are with only 32-bit precision.
(verify this?)
*
**/
class com.jbradley.math.LCG {
/* Period parameters */
static var M = Math.pow(2.8, 14); /* Period of LCG */
static var A = 2862933555777941757; /* 48-bit Mersenne Prime */
static var C = 3037000493; /* 16-bit prime? */
var time:Number = 0;
var seed:Number = 0
[Flashcoders] Loading SWF and FLV in sync?
Haven't really done much work with cue points and FLV files lately, and I did some serious searching of the archives but came up blank. Any help is appreciated. I've got a 7 min. FLV file (one single file) which may or may not get broken up into separate FLVs for better interaction with the video online. I also will have an SWF file that will contain a variety of 'screens', or labeled frames, that will need to get triggered as the FLV plays back. No streaming server will be used - this is all progressive playback. I'm relying on the FLV playback for Flash 8 to control buffering/ loading, but need to also guarantee that the SWF file is loaded up to the proper point so that the cue points will be triggered properly and won't stall during playback. Has anyone done anything like this recently and would be able to offer any knowledge? Specifically, is there any way to check as the FLV and SWF are loading at the same time that it's safe to start playback? I've also read of issues with loading multiple FLVs in at the same time (ie, it breaks), so separating this long FLV and SWF into multiple scenes may not work properly. thanks in advance ... Jon ___ 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 send Audio objects as MP3 via XML-RPC?
On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Leo Burd wrote: Hello there, I am new to Flash and I am wondering what is the best way to send Audio objects via XML-RPC. More specifically, I wonder if anyone could send me suggestions on: a) How to convert a Sound object to MP3 programatically? You need an MP3 encoding library. If you want a command line solution that you may be able to hack to work in a server environment, I'd look into ffmpeg. b) How to convert the resulting MP3 into a base64 string PHP has a base64 library. Look there for starters. I believe you can pass it an argument to encode a file (which would be the mp3 file on your server). To encode the MP3 into a base64 string dynamically is going to kill your server CPU. You're better off running a chron job on your server to execute PHP code to encode the file when placed in a certain directory. If the base64 version is already encoded, don't do anything, just send the stored encoded version. c) How to send the base64 string to my server via XML-RPC I don't know if XML-RPC is not going to handle that amount of data very effectively. The base64 encoded version of the MP3 file will be huge. BTW, shall I use AS2 or AS3 for this? I don't know if it will matter. Once you have the base64 encoded string in Flash, what do you plan to do with it? I don't see how you'll be able to attach it to a sound object. I never tried this though, so the sound object should be able to take the raw mp3 data and use it, but who know? This whole process may be best done with a socket connection with AS3 and using binary data to send the result directly to a sound object. good luck. jon ___ 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: Performance of AS3 vs Java
Java is still faster than the Flash AVM2. If you really want to get into doing 3d viz work, use Java and OpenGL - and skip Processing unless you just want to jump right in and be able to see your results faster. That said, it really depends on what you want to do with it and how far you plan on taking the results. cheers, jon On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone done a performance comparison between AS3 FP9 and Java/ Processing? I'm interested primarily in the area of 3d data visualisation. [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation is life in search of a style. - Bruce Mau,'LifeStyle' ___ 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] syntax highlighting
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Jason Boyd wrote: I think what I'm getting at is that to really be useful, it ought to scan the document for code elements, then parse the text of these nodes, applying styles (or adding classed span tags or whatever) to the words based on a look-up of keywords, and syntax checking etc. This way, it truly could be used on any page that uses code to show code, and could be easily extended to allow users to specify which language to use (AS, Java, etc). Would make a nifty extension for Mozilla-based browsers, for instance. If you don't have all the skills to put together these pieces, would be a good project for SourceForge or something. Well, if you want to send the whole HTML page to Flash to have it syntax highlighted then sent back to html ... then maybe you could do that. IV's tool works by re-write of a DIV layer that is properly named. It just snags the HTML source, parses it and outputs it back. Simple string parsing actually. It's a neat idea, as an experiment, but not for broad acceptance imho. At that point, might as well just use Flash to display the syntax highlighting itself without using any overflow CSS tags for scrolling and stuff. But that already exists... cheers, jon ___ 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[2]: [Flashcoders] syntax highlighting
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Iv wrote: For example in our field Adobe declaration of AS code html-formatting standard is enougth for start support this standard by big number of developers. Problem 1 is that the tool is re-writing the HTML content of the page, which I don't particularly like. It's a great thought, but Flash projects that take text input and parse and display it with a user-customizable color space are already out there. Problem 2) there are no standards. I don't like the Adobe highlighting standard. Friends of mine that are colorblind have their own issues to deal with when it comes to syntax highlighting. - jon ___ 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] Anyone hate flash 9 already?
Isn't there a flash newbie list? On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Arseniy Shklyaev wrote: Ah Craig List. that u mean about I have no money yet :D lol Yeah. Really. It fits. The only thing could make u think I m not trying to catcha that u can look into a games I made myself. And I will take GFX SFX music part on myself. Could this community help me more than flashkit boards? I even afraid to post anything here really that is question about actionscript itself :\ Every post on flashkit and similar just make me angree... So actually I hate not flash/AS1,2,3 itself but my progress around _ On 2/13/07, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *hangs a large Do Not Feed The Troll sign on this thread.* On 2/13/07, Arseniy Shklyaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I m not easy person but my ideas much better than most of games out there. Also this is good to be offensive for director/producer I guess. ___ 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 -- -Arseniy Shklyaev ___ 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] ru.bezier geom package beta
Not bad Ivan. I created a general polygon clipping library (Weiler-Atherton) a couple years ago that I'm converting to AS3 and adding bezier support for. It's been pretty fun to work on - especially the curve support. Is this a pretext to something larger, or just a demo of bezier intersection testing? cheers, jon On Feb 26, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Iv wrote: Hello, beta version of bezier.ru geom package: http://www.bezier.ru/rus/AS2/sources/ru.bezier.zip (now comments in russian only). please send me private bugs and requests. good luck, iv -- Ivan Dembicki __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http:// www.design.ru ___ 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] OT:How was this done?
On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find most of my inspiration from the world of 3d and broadcast graphics, and, increasingly I think we are going to see more and more 'hybrid' work that is a marriage of broadcast and web based media /techniques. http://www.universaleverything.com/recent_activity/204 Anyone care to shed some light on how this was produced? (software, tools, etc) Truly beautiful and inspiring! Particles in Processing using fields I believe. I definitely think the piece has some sweet particle effects - but I don't really think it's a 'hybrid' work per-se and def. not anything novel. I can't count the number of particle effects I've seen, some even very similar to that done in Processing (just not avoiding a car outline using fields). ... then again my comments may be a bit biased as a 3d vfx artist that does mostly broadcast animation work. :) I'd like to see what 3d board they used to run it and what their definition of HD is. I'm guessing they did it in 720p, but with the right hardware I think 1080p could be remotely possible. cool link. cheers, jon ___ 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 CS3 Announced
On Mar 28, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: but when the Flash CS3 Full version (not update) will be available?? End of April is when it ships I believe, the 20th rings a bell. The Master Collection isn't slated until June I think ... which is quite a while (ugh). - jon ___ 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] The great CS3 Swindle
On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Hairy Dog Digital wrote: I'm surprised that any of the CS3 bundles are available via download. I would think they are only available via physical shipment due to sheer size. Back to the subject at hand, I know that UK and EU pricing typically runs higher on software, but to the extent that it is cheaper to fly to the US, take a mini-holiday, purchase your software, then fly home seems ludicrous. If you're purchasing the Master Collection, the price deviation from USD is somewhere around $1500 (or more). An outright purchase of the Master Collection in US is close the _upgrade_ pricing, depending on what you are upgrading from, for those in the UK after you apply a VAT of 17.5% (if that's applicable?). I think anyone on this list in the UK could fly to the US round trip and crash with a US Flashcoder buddy - and still have some money left over for a hundred pints or so to help you forget how much you spent. You certainly would be getting more for your money that way. cheers, jon ___ 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 CS3 Announced
On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think it's a pretty bogus feature, one of those things that look nice on paper but when you stop to look at it it's far from useful except on extremely specific cases and still far from the magic that will save lives like many people tend to think it is. It's still better to either use direct code tweening where it fits, or use timeline tweening where it fits (animated characters and so on). But it's not out yet, so I don't know if I've missed something. Don't be so sure. I believe there are many more flash designers and casual flash users than there are developers and those familiar enough with actionscript to code tweens. I'd venture that it's easily 10 fold or more on the design side. I worked for a while at an e-learning joint (Element-K) and was developing components for various aspects of some of the learning tools (written in flash, deployed with director at the time). I can't imagine having a load of designers trying to deal with a whole mess of FLA files with re-usable motion tweens. Just trying to get designers to adhere to consistent style guides for color or graphics was hard enough. :) Too many variables. Code is explicit, and as long as all a designer (or programmer short on time) has to do is copy/paste, the better it is. In the case of an XML motion library - it would've been a godsend at the time, and it's one of the things we recommended to MM shortly after v7 was released. cheers, jon ___ 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: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files
I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? We're working within the constraints of a pretty high end post production solution that will end up storing many hours of video content, probably in MXF format in a high-res storage environment. There will be FLV files generated from this original content and stored in alternate locations. Right now as I understand it, FMS requires you to determine virtual directory paths. Unfortunately, these paths will need to be entirely dynamic (edge-type system) and may include both network and local system paths. The web front end will read file information from the CMS and pass a dynamically generated location path to FMS for it to grab the FLV file to stream (the file will not have an flv extension either). Has anyone done anything like this or knows if this is even possible? I can't seem to find any resources that goes into this depth. Bunch of bright people here so I figured I would ask. cheers, Jon ___ 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] simple code- should work but is not.
On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Collins wrote: might anyone know why my wineback_btn is not registering the onPress? i know for sure that my playhead reaches frame 21 where the code is. instance names are specified Are you disabling trace during publishing? That's what I'd check first ... check out your publish settings first. - jon ___ 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: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files
On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:34 PM, john robinson wrote: On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around. Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content? As long as the path exists, then yeah it should be fine. I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly though. Are you saying you'll get a path like below from the CMS? someserver.com/flash/videos/somefolder/somevideo If that path exists on the FMS, then it shouldn't be a problem at all. A bit different actually. The CMS system and application we are building is written with Java running on Apache Tomcat. File system paths will be stored like follows: serverURL/fileServlet/filename.flv?GET_ITEM_ID=347TransformationID=234 Where the item id is a link to the metadata of the asset stored in a database and the transformation id is the transformed file from that asset. Our servers (flip factory, etc) will generate low res previews and a high res FLV from the original asset, which is mpeg-2. I can probably build a direct path on the HD to the file, but from what I gather, you need to edit virtual paths in FMS for it to recognize the location of the files. I can't do this because each 'asset' is a collection of files, including the FLV I want to stream. Each asset is a folder basically and there may be lots of 'em - 10s of thousands. I don't know. Maybe it's server-side AS that grabs the path from the client side application (also flash) and somehow uses it to retrieve and stream the file. This is definitely unchartered AS territory for me. I'm testing the dev edition of FMS to get a grips on whether or not it'll be best for the job. Red5 or some other tomcat-type installation of a streaming server may be a better selection as I look into it more. thanks, jon ___ 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 and video optimisation ....
On Apr 3, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Kerem İşeri wrote: I couldnt find any software directly converts avi to flv better then flash. I am open for other ideas : ) FFmpeg is free and it also will do it just as well as Flash. It's just tricky to use and get running, more so if you're on a windows platform. OSX setup is a breeze I found. cheers, jon___ 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: FMS 2 and CMS managed FLV files
On Apr 4, 2007, at 2:54 PM, john robinson wrote: So the Flash front-end gets this path from the CMS, correct? If that's the case, then in your Java application, you you then copy the actual flv somewhere like so: FMS/applications/myApplication/streams/347/filename.flv That's one problem I have to overcome. The files that FMS would read (or any streaming solution that can run alongside Tomcat) cannot be copied to some 'streaming' directory. We're talking about hundreds of hours of broadcast footage that need to be organized in a specific way. The paths would need to be dynamically generated by the CMS and those paths fed to the streaming server. With the path you provided, you should be able to rip it apart in Flash and build the correct FMS path from there. Does that help at all? You shouldn't need to setup virtual paths at all. If you do need to setup virtual paths, I believe the FMS has an admin service that you could call from your Server-side AS to add those virtual paths dynamically as needed. I thought of doing some server-side AS but then I run into the problem that each separate asset is contained in a separate folder along with all it's transformations - thumbnails, 00:00:10 FLV previews, storyboard jpg sequences, etc. I'd hate to have to add virtual paths all over the place. Anyhow, I think my question at this point is probably well OT for the list so I'll see if I can find a FMS list or something where I can pose the question. I've never used FMS (from an administrative standpoint) so it'll be an interesting learning experience. thanks for the help john. jon ___ 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] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers
Another: Subethaedit for mac Just the fact that it's collaborative editing makes it worthwhile. I've yet to get into all the code-hinting/folding, etc. jazz offered by many of these editors. Though, now I'm getting into more Flex 2 work, I have a feeling I might be making a switch (but will keep to subetha for collab. editing with coworkers). On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Revised List of editors FlashDevelop Flexbuilder SciTe Flash Eclipse with Flex SDK Eclipse with ASDT Eclipse with FDT Eclipse with HXDT Eclipse with EHX SEPY Actionscript editor Flash 9 IDE Flash 8 IDE Vim Notepad++ EditPlus with ActionScript profile TextMate jEdit BBedit ___ 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] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:09 PM, thotskee wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on what the Adobe Media Player means for Youtube/Brightcove/Veoh/Google Video/etc. ? My guess is ... not too much. My take on it: It's just a glorified FLV player that talks to various video services and can be branded. It obviously can only deal with services that share up FLV files. If it were a full Media Player in the sense of being platform and format agnostic, then Adobe would have something to shake a stick at. I'm not quite sure what the big deal is really supposed to be. Maybe there's more going on behind the scenes, but it looks to me like something a few advanced flex/flash developers could knock out in a couple weeks, or less. my 0.02. jon ___ 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] Adobe Media Player vs. the competition..??
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote: I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML pages with plugins (except for Flash) at launch, but it would be in their best interest to render webpages as they appear in your browser, which means bringing in Quicktime support and others. Just speculation though! Initially there is not going to be any support for any motion video format other than FLV. In the 1.0 release, Adobe 'might' include the ability to run external applications to handle a file of a certain type, but it definitely won't be integrated into the application any time soon. Although WebKit includes support for plugin libraries, Adobe might be getting itself into a legal quagmire if it tried to 'pipe' the video data through any other player plugin (WMP, Quicktime, Real) into it's own interface. That remains to be seen though. All they'd really need to do to kill other media players would be to add support for the libavec libraries (FFMpeg and MPlayer) and they'd be able to playback a few hundred different formats. Definitely going to be interesting though ... - jon ___ 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] On2VP6 hardware acceleration
On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Randy Tinfow wrote: We have not had much luck deploying video that is more demanding than the following: 720x540 pixels, at 15fps, 1.2mbps. If we do larger than that, we get stuttering video. Even jacking up the frame rate to 29.97 causes hesitation problems. Are there ways to hook into video board acceleration to run On2VP6? We've used PowerDVD Deluxe to playback H264 at 1080-24p via an Nvidia board acceleration. Hoping there is a way to do this with On2. Otherwise, I don't get the point to Adobe's announced Flash Video Player. On2 VP6 is a software decoded format, it's not supported in any hardware decoding systems that I am aware of. You shouldn't need hardware acceleration for H.264. If you need hardware acceleration, then your system is too slow (honestly). I can play back 1080p, 4:2:0 in realtime, 24/30 fps no problem. Playback of H.264 is dependent on the data rate you're working with, which, unless you're a broadcast firm is most likely to be well under 20 MB/s. Encode a 1080p H.264 Quicktime file (mid-profile is all it supports for now) and play that back. At best quality you shouldn't have any problem if you have a fast enough system. H.264 is way more demanding than the OnVP6 codec. It's also quite a bit higher quality and can handle much higher data rates. I'm not sure what your system specs are but I've got HD FLV files that playback quite nicely, from 720p up to1080p. cheers, Jon Jon Bradley Animation / Interactive / Visual FX Post Central, Inc. 170 Linden Oaks, Suite B Rochester, NY 14625 585.385.1530 x273 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cherrycrushthemovie.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] seek() in VideoPlayer class
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Ash Warren wrote: Why do I feel like it's a constant 1 step forward 2 steps back with these new releases??? Well.. you are running Vista ... :) - jon ___ 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] Matrix Building
On Apr 26, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Jiri Heitlager | dadata.org wrote:
Can somebody help me out with dynamically building a matrix of clips.
Well it is not really a matrix, see example:
1 2 3 4
12 5
11 6
10 9 8 7
Here's a solution for a square spiral matrix. Never converted it to
NxM format ... if you do that, please send me the adjusted code.
I'll let you figure out only using the values you want (full outer
ring on matrix).
cheers,
Jon
Jon Bradley
VFX Artist / Animator
Post Central, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cherrycrushthemovie.com
/**
* SpiralMatrix class
*/
class com.jbradley.geom.SpiralMatrix {
private var size:Number;
private var mat:Array;
private var isInnerSpiral:Boolean;
function SpiralMatrix(s) {
size = s;
mat = [];
calcMatrix();
}
/**
* calcMatrix loops over the matrix and calculates the final
* value based on the base and delta values.
*
* If inner is set to true, values increase from the
* center. Otherwise, they increase toward the center
* starting from the [0][0] position in matrix
*/
private function calcMatrix() {
var offset = isInnerSpiral ? 0:size*size;
for (var i=0; isize; i++)
{
mat[i] = [];
for (var j=1; jsize+1; j++)
{
mat[i][j-1] = Math.abs( Math.pow(base(i,j),2) + delta
(i,j) - offset);
}
}
}
/**
* Base returns a ring position in the matrix
*/
private function base(x:Number,y:Number):Number
{
return size - 2*Math.min(Math.min(x,y),Math.min(size-x,size-
y));
}
/**
* Delta returns an offset used to determine the final value
* added to the current position in the matrix
*/
private function delta(x:Number,y:Number):Number
{
var d = Math.min(x,y);
if (x + y size ) { d = size - Math.max(x,y); }
if (y x) { return -1 * (x + y - 2*d); }
return x + y - 2*d;
}
public function setSize(s:Number) {
size = s;
mat = [];
calcMatrix();
}
public function toString():String {
var str = ;
for (var i = 0; i size; i++)
{
str += mat[i] + newline;
}
return str;
}
public function get matrix():Array { return mat; }
public function set inner(b:Boolean) { isInnerSpiral = b;
calcMatrix(); }
public function get inner():Boolean { return isInnerSpiral; }
}
/**
* SpiralMatrix usage
*/
import com.jbradley.geom.SpiralMatrix;
var spiral = new SpiralMatrix(5);
trace(spiral);
spiral.inner = true;
trace(spiral);
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Re: [Flashcoders] jpeg 2000 compression
On May 3, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Marc furman wrote: Hi can anyone tell me if there is a way to use jpeg 2000 compression in flash mx 2004 or flash 8 also if it is used in a movie can jpeg 2000 compression be viewed in flash player 7 Thank you marc The IDE does support JPG2k though I do not know how to explicitly force it to do so though. When you export the SWF I believe it converts it internally to a PNG format so that the alpha channel is retained. Don't take my word for this tough ... I might be off base. An application from Strata (Strata Video?) exported animation sequences into Flash as JPG2k and retained the alpha channel, which Flash would use. I did some experimentation with that a while back, so if I can dig up any info I'll post it here. I vaguely recall that there's no easy way to bring in a JPG2k image directly into Flash. good luck, jon ___ 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] toronto flash developer
On May 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Tim Arney wrote: Dashboard is seeking a fulltime flash developer to join our growing team For details - Ah... I'd love to move to Toronto. It's quite nice this time of year. Alas, I'm stuck across the pond in Rochester ... loving the lake effect snow I get every year. :) ___ 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] FLV CuePoints - discrepancies between CuePoint time and actual time
How are you inserting the cue points? If you are not embedding the cue points directly into the file, then your callback will only happen on the previous, closest key frame. Also, Sorenson has had issues in the past with mis-aligned cue points and keyframes. I stopped using it altogether a while back, so I'm not sure what the options are but you should be able to force a keyframe at all cue points if you are embedding it into the actual video. I didn't think Sorenson could embed cue points into the FLV (at least in one of the older versions). When all else fails, use the Flash Video Encoder. cheers, jon On May 17, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Martin Tremblay wrote: Video newbie! I inserted multiple CuePoint into a flv. The problem is when onCuePoint is call on the netstream, is it not being called directly on time, but almost a full seconds before the actual cuepoint time. ___ 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] Cairngorm without remoting?
Has anyone here approached Cairngorm development without remoting services? I'm developing in Flash 8 still - no case to go to Flash 9 yet since the penetration is way less than the business requirements. I've got a prototype I'm putting together and am using Delegates that return stub data right now to my Commands. In the end, the data will be loaded from a .NET application in the form of XML, not using Remoting objects. What I'd like to know is if anyone has implemented other service types, and how, with Cairngorm in Flash (0.99 at the moment). The Responder framework is just not going to work, obviously, so I'd rather use XML calls that have their onResult and onFault events returned to the Delegate that is making the request. Also, if any of the cairngorm team is still listening on the Flashcoders list, is there a newer package available with the org.osflash project structure? I'm still using the nevis formatting. From what I gather the only change is to the package formatting ... nothing else. Any takers? thanks for any input. best, jon ___ 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] Cairngorm without remoting?
That's great, Muzak. It's right in line with what I thought needed to be done - import the remoting classes and use them only for what's necessary. It does seem like quite a lot of effort for something that should be pretty simple - since the built in XML loading already has events that could be used. cheers, jon On May 24, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Muzak wrote: I don't know if anything like this exists for Cairgorm, I do know that people have written extensions for ARP. One of them is an XMLService written by Christophe Herreman: http://www.herrodius.com/upload/arp_extensions.zip More custom services here http://www.swapdepths.nl/2006/01/27/customservice-and- sharedobjectservice-for-arp/ If all you need/want is an XMLService, try this one (should be the same is the one in arp_extensions.zip though): http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/arp/labs/cherreman/actionscript/org/ osflash/arp/xml/ regards, Muzak ___ 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] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:51 AM, matt stuehler wrote:
In other words, if you're using a device font, Flash will properly
calculate the height if the font is _sans, _serif, or _typewriter
(which is exactly what you suggested); but not if you use another
font.
This little bit of code properly calculates the height of a text
field in Flash - snagged from one of the components in the V2
framework (DataGrid?)
public function getTextHeight(txtField:TextField):Number {
var oldText = txtField.text;
txtField.text = ^g_p;
var tH = txtField.textHeight + 4;
txtField.text = oldText;
return tH;
}
cheers,
jon
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 over 400 MB! and 25 minutes to install!
On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:31 PM, JulianG wrote: I saw this coming... Once Adobe take over Macromedia, things would start to happen. Bad things, I mean. Still searching to see what can be defined as bad in this thread. How come Flash CS3 Installer is over 400 MB, when Flash 8 was only 110 MB?? While I'm writing this the application in being installed (less than 50% progress). How is it possible that it's taking AGES to do finish! Cause it's a large install and there are a lot of pieces. Hundred thousand or so lines of code just for the class support and thousands of documents for help alone. If it were one large file it'd take only a few minutes to write. Rather, it's thousands upon thousands of files. That is what takes a long time to install - hard drives do not function efficiently with read/write on tons of tiny files. They are efficient on large files. And if your drive is fragmented... oh boy, have fun with that. It almost seems like I was installing... I don't know Photoshop, or some other buggy Adobe software. Oh! s**t I am! I mean honestly, why do I keep reading things about Adobe products being so buggy. Photoshop and Adobe products are some of the least buggy software products around. Consider yourself lucky. I'm scared! I hope they don't screw it with the Flash Player. That'd be quite harmful for us. I think. I don't see people updating Flash Player if it's 30MB or annoying in some other way. That won't happen. There's a very explicit development process when adding features or adjusting the Flash Player. The team has very detailed requirements for coding and there are, I imagine, impact analyses for every addition to the Player. Perhaps you guys had this discussion some time ago. Do you have any URLs I can read about this, so I can find out if it is just me paranoid? Paranoid. Who cares if the installer is big? Honestly. Get a bigger hard drive. 400 MB for an installer is a drop in the bucket. Even a couple gigs is a drop in the bucket with the size of drives today. cheers, jon ___ 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] Flipping Effect...
On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Nick Weekes wrote: In any case, this very useful link was put up and I think its closer to the original request: http://www.reflektions.com/miniml/template_permalink.asp?id=344 This effect would probably be much quicker by performing rectangular region copies from one BitmapData object to another and use a matrix for the transformation - all that's needed is a draw routine and loop that modifies the rect and matrix for the copy. It would definitely be an interesting test... cheers, jon ___ 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[2]: [Flashcoders] obfuscation swf !
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Jim Berkey wrote: Congratulations, I obviously have more holes to plug, my methods are no good. I will continue trying . . . You can't do it Jim - there aren't any holes to plug. It's just technically impossible. cheers, - Jon ___ 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: obfuscation swf !
On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Berkey wrote: I found early on that so many people can tear down a wall and condemn it easily when they see the skeleton, without ever trying to climb the wall, and that is not a good judge of the effectiveness of the wall. But if you do not see the skeleton, it is much harder to climb that wall. All of a sudden instead of multitudes saying how silly, only a few can actually climb the wall . . . maybe one day only one or two will be able to climb the wall. Yesterday Rákos captured the swf, and then others decompiled and re-compiled it. I have slept on the method that I believe Rákos used to capture the swf, and may have an answer for it later today. We all definitely appreciate that you are trying. Just remember there's a huge difference in making it difficult to get the file and making it impossible to get the file (the latter being, literally, impossible). The simple fact is that the SWF needs to be sent to the client, in a form the Flash Player can render. At this point in time, the technology does not exist in the Player or in the communication between the server and the Player (browser/plugin). It is absolutely impossible to keep the end user from gaining access to the SWF content in some manner or another. You can obfuscate, but you cannot hide the content itself. I think what some of us are saying is - there is no way to keep us from getting the file. The most difficult method I am aware of is by using FP9 (AS3) and Loader.loadBytes (combined with ByteArray). You could use a secured socket connection and load binary data, decrypted through ByteArray and a client-server handshake (say Blowfish as the encryption method - it'll just take forever to decrypt the data). That still won't protect you. All one needs is a packet sniffer to get the data (including any keys or other information) and use the SWF that loaded the data in the first place to decrypt it. It'll take a bit longer to get the file (a long time if implemented properly) but you can still get the file. http://www.bytearray.org/?p=32 good luck. - jon ___ 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: obfuscation swf !
Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 - Jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: On 7/18/07, Douglas Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we're talking about obfuscation/encryption does anyone know of a tool that works for AS3 yet? All the standard tools seem to stop with Flash 8/AS2. I don't think there are any decompilers for AS3 yet, but I could be wrong, and it's just a matter of time anyway. If you want to take a shot at adding some obfuscation yourself, you could get Swfmill off svn and hack something together that jumps around in the ABC tags a bit. Ralf just added AVM2 opcode support the other day. Mark ___ 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] drag and drop
Anyone attempt a DragManager class in AS3 for use with Flash CS3 (not the flex sources). Specifically a singleton that takes a proxy (bitmap) and uses that for the dragging, with a method to have acceptable targets. Trying to work that out and would like to know if I'm re-inventing the wheel here. cheers, - jon ___ 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: obfuscation swf !
It's basically a macro process for compiling AS classes. One of the side effects is that it can be to obfuscate SWF files by using your own re-write rules. Hit up the second page of the thread to see a bit more information. Macros are pretty cool stuff. Though the author of the toolset isn't quite accurate in the decompiling aspect of things - basically saying you can munge the intrinsic classes, which isn't possible. Those classes still make calls to Player internals and can be followed backward through the classes to 'fix' any obfuscation. So, maybe half your code in the end will be pretty funked up. That's still probably more than enough to make use of the decompiled code. Bit tricky to setup and use, but it's pretty powerful if you need to do conditional compiling and get some serious speed boosts (similar to flasm hacking). Though, one could just use Haxe instead... cheers, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 ___ 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: obfuscation swf !
A better link for those interested in obfuscation of AS3 code. http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266992 peace, jon On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Latcho wrote: whats this? Jon Bradley wrote: Or, if you're a masochist: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=256400 ___ 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: obfuscation swf !
On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Mark Winterhalder wrote: But I wonder, did anybody compare haXe vs AS3 bytecode yet? A decompiler is likely to assume AS3 has been used, and maybe haXe creates sufficiently different bytecode to confuse it. That doesn't really matter. If it's FP9, it's AS3. The bytecode has to be AVM2 bytecode no matter where it comes from. The general point is - intrinsic methods in the Player are hardcoded and available. References or calls to those methods can be followed, no matter if they're named funky or not. Let's say you call blahblah.mask = something and that gets obfuscated to _3457._3 = _537. Any sufficiently designed decompiler will be able to mark that as _3457.mask = _537. Following those references, a decompiler could then figure out the raw type of _537 and _3457 and mark those as maybe spriteInstance1 or shapeInstance45 or whatever. Then, the decompiler results in spriteInstance1.mask = shapeInstance45. Legible enough to work with. I don't believe that scenario can be avoided, no matter what compiler/obfuscator you use. - jon ___ 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] Splitting TextField into Lines - Simple?
Check out Jack's great Text Metrics class. He just posted this Aug. 7th. http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/TextMetrics/ cheers, Jon On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Dan Efergan wrote: Hello FlashCoders. The seemingly simple task of splitting a Textfield into it's (soft) wrapped lines is alluding me. How can you tell the Text content of a particular line within a Textfield? I'm trying to split out the individual lines to animate them. Thanks, Dan ___ 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:Flash Player update and Impact on 3D in Flash
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering what impact if any this will have on the future of 3d in Flash. Well, all the video updates will have zero effect. Those have nothing to do with 3d. This is basically the inclusion of the MainConcept MPEG4 decoding engine - which is the same code in FlipFactory and almost all other licensed h.264 decoders. The multi-threaded (multi-core CPU) work they are doing will have an effect though. cheers, jon ___ 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 TextFields with filters - game performance?
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Dimitrios Bendilas wrote: My major concern is performance, because of the use of filters. By the way, I want to use the filters so that I won't have to make a new Raster Font Engine in Flash (I've already done one for AS2.0) First thought for performance considerations - don't use embedded fonts. That's a performance hit right there. Flash uses the native system rendering to get the curve information for non-embedded fonts, rather than rendering it itself - that comes with it's own set of problems of course. good luck. jon ___ 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 are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?
It's video. On Sep 15, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Carl Welch wrote: Hi All, Does any one know how this site achieved its card flipping effect? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d? http://www.tripleslanguage.com/?CMP=BAC-1TO1Q3TP7042 Thanks. -- Carl Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.403.4819 ___ 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] how are they doing this? Papervision3d or pre-rendered 3d?
Whether they blit or not, everything is still a pre-rendered sequence, except the text. The clip layout is identical every time. I don't believe any distorian or 3d library API was used (ie PV3D or Sandy). There are a whole bunch of pre-rendered sequences that they are applying color transforms to to get the final cards. Anything to do with the card is pre-rendered. It's a 3MB file - look at the graphics. It's not 'composited' at runtime. Content is placed in a hierarchal layout - ie, old school Flash 6 style mc layout to get the look of perspective on a clip. The clips are separated into center content and bottom content (possibly top). The content is placed inside of that. Doing this through PV3D or Sandy, or any distortion API in actionscript wouldn't be a good approach anyway for something like this - not easily modified. Aside from the content on the card, it's still 'video' in the sense of all the pre-rendered sequences. cheers, jon On Sep 16, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Snepo - Arse wrote: I disagree, IMO tthe only video involved would be the initial sequence of the cards falling though that could easily be an image sequence. It is more likely that just the card turning effect is pre-rendered and the card content is composited at runtime. When the card turns you can see a slight crease in the middle of the content. It appears as though they are blitting the content to two bitmap objects (one left and one right side) then using a distortion technique to make the content conform to the card flipping animation. I would imagine that they have a single pre- rendered animation that they are applying a hue difference to in order to reuse it for all cards. They developers also seem to be doing some clever stuff to make each card unique... so perhaps the static cards are pre-rendered for each and only the flip animation is re-used. ___ 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] New server!
Whoohoo. Good job guys. Glad to see the server up and running again. Looking forward to massive amounts of email in my inbox all day long from all the flash coders out there. cheers, Jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Two Solutions: Flex swcs ( RPC) and or Intrinsic classes within Flash CS3!
On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Sander wrote: Hi FlashCoders!, I’ve been trying to evangelize my solution to the flash community but I don’t think it came through, really... I hope someone on this list will pick it up! Woah. That's pretty freakin cool. This almost seems as though it will let you use the entire Flex 2/3 framework within a Flash IDE developed application - including all UI controls, binding and everything else that goes along with that. Is this true? I would absolutely love to be able to use the Flex containers (boxes, lists, tiles) in all their glory with drag and drop and all that. Add in the ability to load CSS at runtime and have CSS style the application, just as you do with Flex would completely rock. Of course, it doesn't negate the need to have Flex (or another dev environment) to compile these CSS files ... but still. If you ever come up with a demo of using the Flex controls, let us know. I'd be highly interested. Plus, all my Flex work uses either the Cairngorm or PureMVC frameworks, so moving that to a Flash dev process would be mighty cool. peace, - jon___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] 9-section scalable graphic
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: I know there's a term for what I looking for, but I don't know it and my searches are coming up empty. What do you call the technique of dividing a graphic into 9 different areas so that when you scale it the outer borders don't get distorted? And, more germane to this list, can anybody point me to a component related to this subject? It's called Scale-9. It is an option enabled for movie clips in the movie clip properties dialog (*accessed through the library) Check your object in the library and edit the Properties. Enable Scale-9. Edit the graphic asset (it has to be a movie clip). You will be presented with 4 (2 vertical, 2 horizontal) intersecting guides to define the regions that are scaled. You do not need 'divide' up your graphic manually (chop it up, that is). 1. Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right are not scaled. They are chopped up during runtime and moved dynamically. 2. The top and bottom middle portions are scaled horizontally only 3. The left and right are scaled vertically only. 4. The center portion is scaled to fix the size you set your graphic to when you use it (minus the outside portions). Finally, scale 9 properties for any movieclip can be added and defined at runtime through Actionscript. Look it up in the help docs. have fun. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Problems with Gradient Banding
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Ed McManus wrote: Does anyone know what causes this? It's as if for large gradients flash doesn't perform enough steps making the transition from the start to end colors, so on a large scale the color difference between steps is clearly visible. This is just me thinking aloud but, that's a problem with 32-bit color space (only 8 bits per channel, RGBA). Flash does not support anything greater than 32-bit color space (no 10 or 12 bit), so gradient banding will always be there. Do the same in Photoshop. Choose two colors that are relatively close in value and fill a document the same size with any gradient type - banding will occur if you are in an 8-bit color space. The only way to partially alleviate this problem is by adding a slight amount of noise (at least in Photoshop). It can do wonders for larger gradients. In Flash, I don't think this would work out too well (at least not in a performance-wary manner). cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] LoadVars maximum?
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Dave Mennenoh wrote: I've been looking and looking and cannot find the info... I am trying to send an array containing many thousands of entries to a php page for db storage. However when I get too much info into a loadvars property, it just stops working and sits there. What's the max I can send in one LV property? I am doing toString() on the array, but I guess I need to break the array into multiple arrays - just wondering what granularity if best for speed and such. Make sure you are using POST. POST and GET is limited to 2048 characters (in IE) in the request URL. If you are using POST, you need to ensure that the POST data is in the header of the transaction and not in the URL itself. IE, with loadVars, you send the request to a URL. The variables defined in the timeline where the loadVars is occurring is what gets added to the request header (if I understand the process correctly). If you're appending all these variables to the URL, it will not work. cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] multiple TextFormats in one TextField
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: How can I preserve certain substrings of the text to keep their assigned TextFormats? Before you add text to a text field that has a different format than the default that you've specified (with setTextFormat), use setNewTextFormat() on the field and then apply that text. Loop that process (setNewTextFormat ... add text ... setNewTextFormat ...) Try that out. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] wierd easter egg?
On Mar 5, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) wrote: hey this is odd i'm testing my movie at http://qsworld.co.uk/index.php? extcategory=Designextdesigner=Darkest%20Starextproduct=Jacket and when i tried right clicking the top right corner and selecting zoom in, i got linked to http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/ i'm on osx 10.4, firefox 2.0.0.12 Nice. That's a new one. Firefox right-click zoom on OS X is screwed up with Flash Player. It does all sorts of weird crap on different machines. For me, it always jumps to a hotkey to bookmark the current page. Pretty fricking annoying if you ask me. - jb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Source Control [WAS] to mac or not to mac
On Mar 15, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Muzak wrote: There's a new(er) plugin, called subversive that might be worth looking into. I haven't tried it yet, but heard good things about it: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overviewproject=subversive http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink- cid-611.html That's what I use, while running subversion on OS X and a remote linux machine. Before I used Eclipse as my primary IDE, I used TortoiseSVN, but having it all in one IDE makes life easier. SVNx on OS X is pretty good. Eclipse does it fairly well too with the subversive pack, but I still like the GUI tool. Of course, you can't beat the command line (I almost always have it open). Just cd'ing to my source directory and running svn on any google code or sourceforge project is priceless, and way faster than opening an application and filling in all the required params to check out a trunk. I just have to get better at actually using the source control for small projects where I'm pretty much the main person working. :) - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: Tweening a very large vector file causes shaking
On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Matt S. wrote: It seems like the problem started when I added _rotation to the the mix. The file is vector, imported from AI. is anyone familiar with this problem? Any recommendations for handling this sort of basic (or so I thought) effect? There's a bug in Flash on certain operating system configs. I just don't know what it is. I've yet to find an appropriate solution for this myself. The issue is related to the rotation. I've actually resorted to using Combustion to do some of my animation work because of it. I too would 'love' to know if anyone has found the core issue or a work around. thanks! jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]
On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. What am I doing wrong? You can't call new Background_mc() when it's an instance of Class - there's no constructor for it that the compiler recognizes. My suggestion if you don't need to extend UIMovieClip is as follows. In your Library.fla file, check your export for the Background_mc symbol. Give it a class name (com.something.myBackground) and have it extend flash.display.MovieClip. Export an SWC of the Library file and then set your compiler prefs to include that SWC into the project. Then, in your class just do: import com.something.myBackground and the usage is: private var myBG : MovieClip; private var Background_mc:MovieClip; myBG = MovieClip( new Background_mc() ); At least, that's one way of doing it. I do it that way for non- component UI elements that do not need to extend UIMovieClip. Also because I use the same SWC as an SWF file for CSS embedding of graphical elements. good luck, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Help needed AS3 -- [Embed(source='library.swf' symbol='backgroud_mc')]
Oops... my last email was kinda based on the idea that you were running this in Flex. My bad - replying to two lists at once. http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2007/03/associating_cus.php - jb On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Cor wrote: This throws an error: TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. What am I doing wrong? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers
On Mar 26, 2008, at 4:35 PM, artur wrote: is this possible? if so does it HAVE to be on a Flash Communication Server? or can it run on others? any links to sample setups would be great too..thanks ?? Flex compiles to an SWF file. However you'd do what you want to do with Flash, you would do with Flex. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote: the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL. and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant. Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a different application to build an SWF file. It is only the front-end solution. Flex SWF == Flash SWF, plus a whole bunch of code for handling the UI. The Flex SDK is like using a framework (vegas, arp, etc.) for Flash, but on crack. If you're talking about your server solution scaling and being redundant, you need to be way more concerned with other things. You'll most likely need some type of J2EE server. Your best bet is to find a content management system that utilizes JSR-170 (Java Content Repository) and can use MySQL or PostgresSQL (or even oracle) for serious scalability and capability to handle clustering, etc. Check Alfresco.com as a nice, forward looking solution for that (it's open source and free, if you don't need support). You'll still need to write the API on the server with Java to allow the AMF library (GraniteDS or BlazeDS) to speak with the CMS services.Drupal or DSpace might be additional options but I don't know how they scalability and redundancy. There is also an open source project that wasn't started too long ago: Igenko The goal of this project is to act as a JSR-170 (with Apache Jackrabbit) with data services (GraniteDS at the moment). the link is: code.google.com/p/igenko Either way, your issue is server-side, not Flex/Flash. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Image colorization / contrast adjusting
On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Alistair Colling wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for flash to process a regular photograph to produce a pop-arty image like this: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpo7028+pop-art-andy-warhol-1962-che- guevara-poster.jpg A little Warhol-style transformation huh? I am not sure if this is possible or the best way to go about this. If someone could let me know if this would be possible to do and maybe give me some direction as to how to do it that would be great. 100% possible. Check out BitmapData.paletteMap() as one option. Additionally, you could use BitmapData.threshold() to get different value areas, colorize them and recombine them. Lots of options. cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Cutter (FlashRelated) wrote: You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex, plus the scalability of ColdFusion, with it's clustering support, etc. Great addition to the discussion. There are a lot of options out there. cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] PureMVC vs Cairngorm // who's better?
On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if it is a small to medium size app you may want to try EasyMVC from Tom Bray (http://www.tombray.com/2007/10/16/my-easymvc-seminar-wasnt- recorded/). His presentation on 3/28/08 was recorded as an Adobe ondemand seminar and describes how to use EasyMVC and also compares it to Cairngorm. There is also easyMVC from Simeon Bateman but I haven't looked at that one. To add my 2 cents ... by the time a developer has gone through Easy MVC (Clockwork Objects) or something similar, they are already 50% of the way through knowing how Cairngorm works. It really isn't much of a leap. Cairngorm adds in the ServiceLocator and the events, commands, delegate chain. That said, Cairngorm does lack some things for enterprise development and large applications/teams that are pretty needed. Some of these things I've recently run into (better command chaining architecture) and am looking into various solutions for (UM Cairngorm extensions is one). just a thought. jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe fixing this big FP9 problem?
On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Jer Brand wrote: myMovie.iDontCareIfYouHaveListeners_DIE_DAMN_YOU_DIE() ; LOL. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Using FlexBuilder3 profiler with FlashCS3
Good question. I haven't tried that yet. What you could try to do, off the top of my head, is use the SWFLoader and load up the SWF file into a simple Flex application. I believe the profiler will also profile the content loaded through SWFLoader, but I'm not certain of it. good luck! jon On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Martin Tremblay wrote: Hello, Is there a way to use the Flexbuilder3 profiler with a FlashCS3 file? I just want to take a swf and run it through the profiler. Is it possible? Martin t. LVL ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?
On May 7, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Steven Sacks wrote: The fact of the matter is, running at a higher frame rate makes things look smoother. Period, end of statement. That's not an accurate generalization. Higher frame rate != smoother display in all cases. It matters for progressive elements (flash movies, games like Quake) but that statement is not applicable to other forms of media. If you take a time-based animation inside a 30fps movie and a 60 fps movie, the 60 fps version will look a lot smoother. In Flash yes. I just want to say for the record that this argument has absolutely nothing to do with braodcast/animation work. In the context of Flash, sure, it will look smoother. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Fact for a limited set of time-based animation systems - primarily games and content like Flash that display progressive frames without motion blur. - jon Post • Central Visual FX | Animation | Interactive 170 Linden Oaks, Suite B | Rochester, NY | 14625 P: 585.385.1530 x273 | F: 585.218.9219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.postcentral.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FPS limit of flash player inside browser?
On May 8, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: But it's important to remember movies work well at 24fps because they capture slices of time and not static frames. An entire 1/24 of a second is present on each of those frames, while with computer graphics we have a moment frozen in time. You're right on the 'slice of time' aspect, but it is still a static frame (progressive). It's just that it captures motion blur. a good example is some parts of the animated movie Akira and specially Ghost in the Shell, where they created the original cut at 60fps or 120fps (!) and then frame blended back into 24 to give the impression it was a movie. That's because they didn't have the ability to 'render' motion blur. You wouldn't do that today though because there are other efficient ways around that (optical flow is one example). - jon Post • Central Visual FX | Animation | Interactive 170 Linden Oaks, Suite B | Rochester, NY | 14625 P: 585.385.1530 x273 | F: 585.218.9219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.postcentral.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Usage of [Event....]
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: Can you pass custom properties with this kind of event handling? All that this notation allows you to do is to define the event (as a string) and it's handler (the event class handling the event). It doesn't have anything to do with any properties or custom parameters for the instance of the event type (again, it's just the definition). You still have to dispatch the event manually, so if you want to pass your own properties, just set up your custom event class to handle those properties good luck, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Insert breakpoints and run debugger withoutFlashCS3?
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:54 AM, EDELSTAR wrote: Данный почтовый ящик не обрабатывает подгрузки, заявки и прочие сообщения. Вам нужно написать на адрес, присвоенный Вашему СПО. List admin - can you block this? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField
On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but... In my case I can have scaleX 1000, so I loose too much quality with this method. I'm triing to embbed fonts outlines in my TextTield but the result is not very good (bad antialiasing). I guest that I have no other choice :) Thanks again, Don't use scaleX or width/height modifications. Use transformation matrices. I have an application that allows the user to scale, rotate, move (unconstrained and constrained) a TextField (flash and flex) without problems. The only issues are with the fact that there's a bug in the Flash Player with certain settings on the antialiasing - which causes the kerning of the text field to jump around wildly. In my case since this bug rears it's ugly head when text fields are rotated or scaled, I apply the transformations to the type and re- render the result back into a BitmapData object with the new dimensions of the field. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] scaleX on TextField
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Matt S. wrote: Is this online somewhere? Sounds interesting :) var m:Matrix = new Matrix(); m.scale(100,1); myDisplayObject.transform.matrix = m; cheers, jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Maintain position on rotation
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:27 PM, eric e. dolecki wrote: While rotating, I want to place another MC's x,y (each frame) on that rotating MC. However the x,y never updates. I tried localToGlobal, but that doesn't seem to change either during the rotation. Can this be easily done? Give something like this a shot. Note that this is completely untested because I wrote it right here ... this is the general idea though. var m:Matrix = mainMC.transform.matrix; var pt:Point = new Point( mainMC.theChild.x, mainMC.theChild.y); var position:Point = m.transformPoint(pt); // You might need to add in the tx,ty offsets var matchMoveClipX:Number = position.x + m.tx; var matchMoveClipY:Number = position.y + m.ty; That assumes, of course, that you're applying your transformations using matrices. If you use dot notation on the properties (rotate, scale, x y), I'm not 100% certain that those properties are updated in the transformation matrix of the object. good luck. jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to avoid fake data being sent to server?
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Ricky Bacon wrote: Security through obscurity is not a very good idea. You also still have the problem of someone decompiling the swf and modifying it to their needs. If Flash Media Server 3 is being used, for a very nice level of protection it can hash the game SWF engine (just place it in the application directory and turn on the feature in the application .asc file). If the SWF requesting doesn't match the swf in the FMS3 app directory then it won't allow it to run. Still doesn't negate the idea that the game logic should be on the server. :) - jb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Netstream fails to close
On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Jason Van Cleave wrote: I could cast the sound onto a separate object and mute it, so that you don't see or hear any ill effects, but my proxy tells me the flv is still downloading, so if one of my clients users clicks on 10 video clips their connection will crawl to a halt. First tip: use the video and sound classes instead of net stream. Embed an 'empty' video object in your library with a linkage id. When you want to kill the stream, attach this video which will force the player to close any streaming connection. Then do what Steven said - and null out the stream elements. This will force it to close out. I've seen the streams still stick around with 'just' pausing, closing and nulling out the stream connection. The only way I'm pretty sure it will work every time is by attaching this dummy vid. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] flex 3 // Tile Component // Mutliple Drag Selection
On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:39 PM, artur wrote: would it be possible to Extend the Tile Component? instead of making a new one from scratch? Here's how I'd do it... Add a child to the container that's holding the TileList component. On click (mouse event), start drawing a rectangle (mouse move event). Intersect the boundary of this rectangle with the children of the TileList (interesting exercise) and select them if they intersect. Finally clear out the rect on release. interesting challenge. jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Upload PDF into SWF?
On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Dave Watts wrote: It is possible, however, to load the Acrobat ActiveX control into a Flex application, and have it load a PDF. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but the LiveCycle Workspace application does this. That wouldn't really be helpful to the original poster though, I suppose. As an AIR application, right? - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] how many coders here actually have a degree related to computer science?
On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Anthony Pace wrote: Do you have a degree related to computer science? if not, how difficult is it getting jobs programming AS3 without one? I think comp sci is much more geared toward software and computer engineering, as opposed to programming for rich media. Personally, I went to school for optical engineering and physics. I dropped out senior year, second semester, to start my own interactive/ web company. Ten years later and I'm now a 3d vfx artist - certainly a difference from where I started. I definitely believe that my education has had a profound effect in my career choice and overall skill level in my niche. I do wish I completed my degree, at the very least for the feel-good aspect. A degree in some field of new media study and course work that has a fair amount of interactive (programming and design included) may get you further than a comp sci degree. Actionscript development is not just programming. It requires both sides of the brain to do well because much of what you do when programming in Flash has a direct visual effect. just my 0.02. good luck! -jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!
On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Omar Fouad wrote: But what the hell is an interface!!! I've read lots of books and posts without getting the answer. I bought Essential AS3 to read about interfaces and he says that helps for multi inheritance. In other places I read that it is a deal to ensure that a class has some methods and so on. But what is the real benefit that I can come out with using interfaces If you are using a cracked out language like VB, they might be marginally useful in weird circumstances that are, in my opinion, probably poor programming choices in the first place. They serve little purpose in general, and even less in actionscript. My 0.01 is that you certainly need to know them, because you might run into some libraries that use them. My remaining 0.01 is that you need to know them so you can get rid of them from anyone else's code library. :P - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] A Question that I've been asking for years!!
On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote: This strikes me as the typical gratiutous bashing of some product just because it's made by MS. But perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on the idea... Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft. I don't have anything against them personally. I just think VB is weird, and interfaces in VB are even weirder. A coworker in the past did a lot of that stuff and I paid a modicum of attention to the code. I do think VB is slightly cracked out though - but that has nothing to do with MS. :) - jb ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
