Re: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
Its a known issue, which is fixed in the CVS build. unfortunately if you point the current version at an existing directory for a new project, it decides to forcibly delete the contents. sounds like you discovered that bug. the fix has been in cvs for a while now, so its probably time we got

[Flashcoders] Click HTML page through floating Flash movie?

2005-11-01 Thread Gregory_GOusable
Hello flashcoders, I'm working on a floating Flash ad which will be placed over a HTML page (DIV layer, wmode of movie set to transparent). But I'd like user to be able to click links through Flash movie (as just about a half is really covered by flash symbols etc). I've tested it on the

Re: [Flashcoders] Right-Click Pauses Movie

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Villarosa
On a Mac it will always pause. On a PC, though, do what you like. You'll have to change the structure of your code to work around this, I guess. Sorry. And why is it so? Well, I'm not totally sure, but I'd assume it has something to do with how the security context menu is prompted on a Mac (e.g.

RE: [Flashcoders] How to get value of passed array element SOLVED!!!!

2005-11-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Chris, Thank you - that worked. I also deserve a boot in the nether regions -- I've done loops where the array index has been accessed by a variable scores of times. This time? Absolutely blind - convinced I had to create the var, then evaluate the contents. Again, thanks for removing the

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
i'll combine my answer to jesse with a response to this as well, because they cover some of the same ground..hope you dont mind. why choose open source vs flexbuilder 2 ? because A: its open source, if it doesnt do what i want, there is always the possibility to change that B: it would

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Spike
Here's a use case that I see all the time and it fully justifies the use of open source. User A would really love to see company X would add feature Y to product Z. User A posts to mailing lists and forums and wish forms until, with some luck, enough requests come in to justify the development

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Ron Wheeler
MTASC also gets you into a powerful IDE with lots of tools built in that can be used for all of your programming activities - client (Flash Java), server (all languages) and scripting(Ant/Maven) and documenation (Xdocs, Javadocs) and www development. You only have to get good at one IDE to be

Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

2005-11-01 Thread Judah Frangipane
I'm not sure how your site is built but the purpose of the HTML Overlay (HO for short) is to get HTML from a database (using ASP, PHP, etc) and update the div that is displayed transparently over your flash document. The html content can come from an html element on the page or be set in flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Britton
Learning FlexBuilder 2 can coincide with your FAMES learning because it all happens in the same IDE (Eclipse). There is really no difference between FAMES and FlexBuilder 2 in terms of IDE. That's why I said it was probably a good idea for Brent to continue using FAME, but not consider doing so

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Newbie AS3 question

2005-11-01 Thread Spike
Yes indeed! You can usually find an alternative approach to solving the problem than using the singleton pattern, but it is distinctly different to using static methods. Glad to hear it works the way it does in other languages at least. Spike On 10/29/05, A.Cicak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

2005-11-01 Thread JOR
Amanda Kuek wrote: Thanks James. It's a good idea, but I think for this project I'll go with the Javascript sets hidden form fields idea. But thanks for adding this idea to my spongey brain! Yeah I like the JavaScript method too. One thing you might might to do is have a message for people

Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

2005-11-01 Thread Andy Weisner
Heres a HO like ,similar seamless HTML layer - over flash interface example I implemented 2 years ago: http://www.wsw-online.de/verkehr/index.html (its in a popup ,so wont work with popup, click wsw-mobicenter link) Its working quite good on most browsers but probably not all..but was a pain

RE: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Hyndman
This just gave me a great idea on how to battle those Flash popup ads in layers. What if Firefox was to place all of the contents of a body tag within a layer positioned at (0,0) at the highest z-depth it could. The Flash ad would then be covered. I wonder if a Firefox plugin could do this

[Flashcoders] SWF's loaded during runtime do not showup

2005-11-01 Thread Evan
Hey All, I'm building a little project using MTASC SWFMILL that loads a compiled SWF into a container MovieClip when an event is fired but the loaded SWF is not showing up after it loads. Using the LuminicBox.Log packages I have confirmed that the SWF is indeed being loaded into the

Re: [Flashcoders] OT:Converting shapefile (.shp) SVG SWF

2005-11-01 Thread Johan Lopes
Hi Eric, Yeah that Mapserver looks interesting. Thanks, /Johan On 11/1/05, Eric Mauvière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Johan, 1) http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html ogr2ogr will let your shape file into GML, an XML format you'll probably be able to read in Flash (not so easy though to

Re: [Flashcoders] Click HTML page through floating Flash movie?

2005-11-01 Thread Brian Mays
Gregory, I'm on a Mac and have tried to do just what you're trying. I've had no luck with it on the Mac at all. Had the same results in the other browsers as well. We never found a way to get it to work. Sorry! Brian Mays On 10/31/05, Gregory_GOusable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on

[Flashcoders] Expert-Level ActionScripters for hire (BOSTON)

2005-11-01 Thread Noyes, Jeff
Position is in and around Boston. Requirements: - must have JPS or ASP integration experience - must have experience building business-to-business applications Please send resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Getting a video frame as a bitmap

2005-11-01 Thread Joe Cutting
Does anyone know how to get a single frame of a video as a bitmap in Flash 8? I thought it would be pretty straightforward but maybe I'm missing something. Cheers Joe ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
ok, i was wrong, looks like you dont even need the quadrant checks...thats my memory for you :) i made a little movie with a circular movie clip, the reg point was in the middle, and another movieclip called pointer, which is just a line going up from the reg point, then this code did the

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Helen Triolo
Assuming your circle has a center registration point: import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; function rotation(dx:Number, dy:Number):Number { return Math.atan2(dy, dx) * 180/Math.PI; } circle.onRelease = function() { new Tween(this, _rotation, Strong.easeOut,

RE: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
Nice, I'm going to save that code snippet. Eric, for visual effect, you also might want to tween animate the transition to the angle instead of snapping directly to it. To add to Martin's code, something like this: circle.onRelease = function(){ var x = this._xmouse; var y =

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread eric dolecki
Its that last part frying me - sometimes it works as expected, other times, it decides to rotate the long way around :/ thanks all. On 11/1/05, Helen Triolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming your circle has a center registration point: import mx.transitions.Tween; import

RE: [Flashcoders] blog presentation flash

2005-11-01 Thread dc
Judah hi - I started a Flash UI for drupal project a while ago. After my research I figured you could do a Flash front end to display data but it would be difficult to do the data entry. So the option would be a mixed site with Flash to display content and HTML to create it. I came to

[Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager

2005-11-01 Thread grant
I appear to be in focus manager hell. I have an application with many forms each form is extended from movie clip and based on what menu option you have selected the form may or may not be visible. For example I have create user and update user, if you have selected create user, then update

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Hmm yes. Looks like the regular Tween stuff won't work. Looks like a rotation easing class might be in order. And it decides whether or not to rotate + or - to get to the destination. Its a bit of work to do, but it would really be worth it. The Tween class seems to only want to += until

[Flashcoders] Flash FileReference and Firefox 1.0.7

2005-11-01 Thread Sullivan, Sean C - MWT
I am having a problem with the FileReference class in Flash Player 8 and Firefox 1.0.7 This is my system configuration: Microsoft Windows XP IBM Websphere 4.0.7 Firefox 1.0.7 Flash Player version 8,0,22,0 On the server-side, my Java application server

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Wood
actually the solution was simpler than i first thought, if you take advantage of the fact that _rotation can go above 360 and below 0 then all you need to do is this : import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; function rotation(dx:Number, dy:Number):Number { return

Re: [Flashcoders] Circle, rotation to ?

2005-11-01 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
thats perfect ;) On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Martin Wood wrote: actually the solution was simpler than i first thought, if you take advantage of the fact that _rotation can go above 360 and below 0 then all you need to do is this : import mx.transitions.Tween; import

[Flashcoders] Flash 8.5 on OSX

2005-11-01 Thread Simon Lord
Just updated to OSX 10.4.3 and nothing published to Flash 8.5 appears in the browser (yes, I installed the 8.5 plugin). Can't revert the OS install and so can't determine if it's the upgrade that prevents the plugin from displaying 8.5 content. Everything published for 8 works fine,

Re: [Flashcoders] Does FP8 upgrade require admin privileges?

2005-11-01 Thread JesterXL
Wrong; to correct that, Express Install requires admin privaledges. Don't know about plain install from Macromedia's site via IE, but I would assume yes. - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8.5 on OSX

2005-11-01 Thread Joshua Buhler
Actually, I've had this problem in 10.4.2. The few things I published for 8.5 worked, but most of the examples I've found online don't work at all. Stuff like the PerlinForce from andre-michelle.com for example. - Josh On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Simon Lord wrote: Just updated to OSX

Re: [Flashcoders] Using the FocusManager

2005-11-01 Thread grant
I missed out the () sorry.. I have it working somewhat how I want, when a form is hidden I set focusEnabled to false and set the default push button to null and the new form activates it enables itself as focusEnabled and sets its own default push button. This has stopped my hidden forms

RE: [Flashcoders] Click HTML page through floating Flash movie

2005-11-01 Thread Gregory_GOusable
So, have anyone tried it with IE for Mac? Peter said i think it's development might have been discontinued... don't think anyone uses it either Is he right? Thanks a lot to all of you for help. frcfc Message: 12 frcfc Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:41:50 -0500 frcfc From: Burns, John D [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] OT:Converting shapefile (.shp) SVG SWF

2005-11-01 Thread Claus Wahlers
I found the ogis2svg command line tool quite straightforward but now am stuck trying to convert the SVG output to SWF using the svg2swf tool mentioned above. I've googled it and haven't found many respectable tools for this purpose. Have you tried Adobe Illustrator for SVG to SWF conversion?

[Flashcoders] Flash project FLP files are useless

2005-11-01 Thread Gregory_GOusable
Hello Flashcoders, From time to time I'm trying to find improvements for work process ;-) So, I tried Flash Projects feature/panel of MX 2004 Pro. And... found it useless: - to use version-control, one need MS Visual SourceSafe Client version 6 installed. Besides, it doesn't make

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash project FLP files are useless

2005-11-01 Thread JesterXL
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/09/gproject_for_fl.html - Original Message - From: Gregory_GOusable [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:46 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash project FLP files are

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash project FLP files are useless

2005-11-01 Thread Muzak
Use it all the time. Gives me a quick overview of all classes and how things are structured, which is handy when opening a project after a few months. Allows me to have access to files easily, without having to browse for them. That includes classes (as), coldfusion components (cfc), xml,