Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2005-11-30 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi Lieven, I know u understand the difference but just to recall: setTextFormat applies a textformat to part or whole of the already EXISTING text in a textfield setNewFormat sets the default format to be applied to all text that is ADDED to the text in a textfield So getTextFormat return the

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 - upload/download - authentication problem

2005-11-30 Thread Varun Shetty
Hi, I am using the Flash 8 filereference API for an administrator module of a web application. The Server Side Script is done in DotNet The script on Oinam was of great help to understand the upload functionality... http://blog.oinam.com/archives/2005/08/flash-8-file-upload-download/ I've

Re: [Flashcoders] Load/export Symbol in ActionScript

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Thomas
I couldn't remember - but having had a trawl it seems it was Peter Hall (see http://www.peterjoel.com/blog) - but I've been unable to find the original article. Basically as each class is loaded it gets assigned a symbol name __Packages.class path. Ian On 11/30/05, de-hack SWF [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] Disable TAB key ?

2005-11-30 Thread CARABUS mobile+
Hi ` I done a movie where different text field are I put some tabindex to move between on to another When I press tab it move but textfield isnt active yet, the selection is ok one second and disappeared. I try to click in the textfield but it is impossible to write inside. Must I desable the

Re: [Flashcoders] warp dynamic text in flash 8 with filters or script

2005-11-30 Thread Mattias Johansson
Check out the DisplacementMapFilter. With that you can make som warping 2005/11/30, rishi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I want to warp dynamic text in flash 8 with filters or script Regards Rishi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon

Re: [Flashcoders] lil OOP question

2005-11-30 Thread Janis Radins
Explination to why I need this is very simple. The actual class I have looks like this: class foo { function foo(initObject:Object){ for(var i:String in initObject){ if(setter named same as i exists){ this[i] =

Re: [Flashcoders] warp dynamic text in flash 8 with filters or script

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Wood
maybe a good idea to say what you currently know how to do, and if you are after a specific technique or just a general guide to manipulating bitmaps. generally I think you would probably take the route of creating a bitmap from a dynamic textfield and then processing and filtering the bitmap

Re: [Flashcoders] lil OOP question

2005-11-30 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
Ok. The only thing I can think of is to have an array like this: private var properties:Array = [prop1, prop2, prop3, etc]; and check according to that. It's not very easy to maintain and not so clean probably, but it works. You probably have thought of this anyway. Regards, Dimitrios -

[Flashcoders] Someone knows about strange behaviour of window component on internet explorer?

2005-11-30 Thread eugen pflüger
Hi list, could this be a flash bug on internet explorer? I have a movieclip with a lot of buttons that create different windows with different content. The swfs loaded into the windows have an onLoad method where more components are initialized. The problem is as follows: When loading

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-11-30 Thread Janis Radins
youre talking about CSS tooltip using browser propertys or tooltip created in flash envoirment? 2005/11/30, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Im working on something where I would like to generate css tooltips out of above a flash container... does anyone have a working example or code of some

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-11-30 Thread eric dolecki
Flash ExternalInterface HTML CSS Tooltip edolecki On 11/30/05, Janis Radins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: youre talking about CSS tooltip using browser propertys or tooltip created in flash envoirment? 2005/11/30, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Im working on something where I would like to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex 1.5 costs

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
$15k per CPU with a 2 CPU minimum for 1 year. Double-check that with Macromedia sales, but I'm pretty sure that's fairly accurate. - Original Message - From: Bruno Mosconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30,

RE: [Flashcoders] AI Personalities...

2005-11-30 Thread Karim Beyrouti
should have mentioned that this is for a simple Chat Bot -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek Sent: 30 November 2005 16:08 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AI Personalities... Anyone got any good

RE: [Flashcoders] AI Personalities...

2005-11-30 Thread Jim Armstrong
At 04:18 PM 11/30/2005 +, you wrote: should have mentioned that this is for a simple Chat Bot I had a client experiment with this one and he was pretty pleased. Don't have any personal experience with the product, though. http://www.personalityforge.com/ good luck! - jim

Re: [Flashcoders] AI Personalities...

2005-11-30 Thread Danny Kodicek
should have mentioned that this is for a simple Chat Bot Try googling for 'chatbot tutorial'. This one brought up a Perl example that might be a good starting point: it uses regular expressions to parse the input

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-11-30 Thread eric dolecki
wow - i got it working ;) if anyone is interested in seeing this let me know... On 11/30/05, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am doing so far... I have some javascript that calls up a css tooltip removes them. using wmode=transparent I can ensure the DHTML will appear above

Re: [Flashcoders] AI Personalities...

2005-11-30 Thread franto
www.pandorabots.com On 11/30/05, Jos Yule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to check out ALICE too: http://www.alicebot.org/ They have a language for creating your own 'chat' responses (AIML). I can't remember what it runs on anymore, but i played with it for a while and thought it

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex 1.5 costs

2005-11-30 Thread danno
That is very steep and I suspect that at this pricing level that the marketplace for this product would be limited to the Fortune 500 enterprises. That's unfortunate because I'm sure that there are a lot of small to medium-size companies that would love to use it (like my current client) but won't

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-11-30 Thread Johan Lopes
Hi Eric, I don't have an immediate need for this feature but I'm always eager to learn something new :) Please email me offlist on how you did it! Cheers, /Johan On 11/30/05, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow - i got it working ;) if anyone is interested in seeing this let me know...

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex 1.5 costs

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
Flex 2's pricing solves this: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/08/will_zorn_requi.cfm Macromedia hasn't publicy announced pricing, but they did mention priced as a tool, and $600-$1000 for FlexBuilder 2's pricing. As far as Central, no clue. Hints have been made about it's

[Flashcoders] Q: Advanced math book for designers?

2005-11-30 Thread bitstreams
Hi Just finishing the excellent Head First Design Patterns book. I was wondering if anyone might recommend something similar that focused on advanced math concepts, like matrix math, bezier curves, etc, and whose target audience might be designers? Thanks in advance. Jim Bachalo [e] jbach at

[Flashcoders] Q: dedicated UML tool for Actionscript 2?

2005-11-30 Thread bitstreams
Hi I've been using dedicated UML tools to create class diagrams from Java code and output stub code from diagrams. Outside of Eclipse and the the online gModeler, does anything similar exist yet for actionscript development? Thanks in advance Jim Bachalo [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c]

[Flashcoders] Weird image problem

2005-11-30 Thread Wouter Steidl
Hey list, Maybe someone on this list knows I have a really nasty problem: I load a jpg, dynamicly and I rotate it a bit, so far so good. When my movie is 1 frame long the photo looks really good, but as soon as I extend my timeline by adding some frames, all straight lines in the photo

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Advanced math book for designers?

2005-11-30 Thread Danny Kodicek
Hi Just finishing the excellent Head First Design Patterns book. I was wondering if anyone might recommend something similar that focused on advanced math concepts, like matrix math, bezier curves, etc, and whose target audience might be designers? I think my book might be worth looking at

Re: [Flashcoders] Weird image problem

2005-11-30 Thread Marc Hoffman
Wouter, Have you tried the suggestions I made less than 1 hour ago when you posted to FlashNewbie? It's considered poor netiquette to cross-post, as you take up the time of people who may not realize you've already gotten a reply elsewhere. -Marc At 09:11 AM 11/30/2005, you wrote: Hey

[Flashcoders] Dumb ComboBox Question

2005-11-30 Thread Bo Parker
I have a combobox on stage at the root level named ccbProducts with values of Small, Medium, Large, X Large and XX Large as labels with no corresponding data. In frame one, I have assigned the following actions: ccbProducts.dataProvider = [Small, Medium, Large, X Large, XX Large]; var

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: dedicated UML tool for Actionscript 2?

2005-11-30 Thread Johan Lopes
I've heard great things about things about this Tool [http://sparxsystems.com.au/products/ea.html] Sorry about the typo :). It's been a long day! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 - upload/download - authentication problem

2005-11-30 Thread Frédéric v . Bochmann
Rephrasing: I personally think you simply can't UPLOAD in secure areas, but I might be quite wrong. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frédéric v. Bochmann Sent: November 30, 2005 1:39 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE:

[Flashcoders] Distance: mouse to MC's edge (not regpoint)

2005-11-30 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I have an odd shaped MC on the stage. I'd like to find the distance between the mouse and the MC, simple enough -- but not to the MC's registration point, but to the *edge* of the MC. And to boot, it's an odd-shaped MC. Can you determine the MC's closest point on its edge to the

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Advanced math book for designers?

2005-11-30 Thread Ralph Caraveo
Danny, You convinced me to order your book about a week ago which I have yet to received and it had better be good!! Here's my 2 favorite: Keith Peter's Making things Move Pros: -Covers a lot of topics including advanced 3d techniques like Backface culling and lighting -Easy to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 - upload/download - authentication problem

2005-11-30 Thread Suketu Vyas
Yes u r right Frédéric Upload will not work on secure areas. Thanks, Suketu Vyas http://www.hotketu.com On 12/1/05, Frédéric v. Bochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rephrasing: I personally think you simply can't UPLOAD in secure areas, but I might be quite wrong. -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Advanced math book for designers?

2005-11-30 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
I just actually purchased it myself! :-) - MM ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Distance: mouse to MC's edge (not regpoint)

2005-11-30 Thread Lanny McNie
look into getBounds() On 11/30/05, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list... I have an odd shaped MC on the stage. I'd like to find the distance between the mouse and the MC, simple enough -- but not to the MC's registration point, but to the *edge* of the MC. And to boot,

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: dedicated UML tool for Actionscript 2?

2005-11-30 Thread erixtekila
Find a tool I made that would import your UML as XMI version 1.0 http://www45.brinkster.com/chaoschaos/xmi2actionscript.asp?page=2 Is there any swf only version instead of the .exe ? Thanks --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net/ ___

[Flashcoders] problem positioning media display

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Ganz
hi. i have a media display component that i'm constantly moving around the stage and loading new flvs into. i do this via: function setMediaDisplayPos( x:Number, y:Number ):Void { _level0..mediaDisplay.move( x, y ); } on my machine, FLV4 is off by a pixel. but on other machines, FLV4

RE: [Flashcoders] Flex 1.5 costs

2005-11-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
I was quoted by a Macromedia rep at $15,132.98. Wish Flex 2 was out for sale and 8.5 was ubiquitous with clients. That will be a great day one day some day. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8 - upload/download - authentication problem

2005-11-30 Thread hank williams
Honestly, I dont think file upload is very useful unless you are writing the server side code to work with the flash uploader. There are too many things it doesnt do. Most all of them can be worked around if you are writing the server side code. If you are not, then its really hard to imagine it

[Flashcoders] Locate the UIComponent symbol

2005-11-30 Thread lists
Hi there - I am following the tutorial located at : http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/footer_component_02.html Now this is targeted towards flash mx 2004 and in the tutorial, there is a reference to: - In the StandardComponents library, navigate to the folder Flash UI

Re: [Flashcoders] Locate the UIComponent symbol

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\ComponentFLA\StandardComponents.fla - Original Message - From: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:04 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Locate the

Re: [Flashcoders] Locate the UIComponent symbol

2005-11-30 Thread lists
Yeah I found that - howeverthe pather they reference within that library does not seem to exist. I am going to double check - I can't be that blind can I? Would it matter if i am on a Mac? :: Dustin :: -- Original Message --- From:

Re: [Flashcoders] Locate the UIComponent symbol

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
It's in there, it's just hard to see at the bottom becuase the FUIComponent Subclasses folder is immediatley opened, and it's long. Look under the TreeDataProvider or just close the FUIComponent Sublcasses folder. - Original Message - From: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Krichten
RTFM :) With the V2 component you use content and contentpath properties, read about those in the docs and you will have your answer. -Steve ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] best place to start building flash 8 components

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Krichten
Flash 8 made no major updates to the components so any tutotials for flash mx 2004 components will be relevant. Ultrashock.com has some prety good ones. -Steve ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
I have tried using both content (which is read-only) and contentPath (which seems to target a enternal source, or a movieclip in the library with a linkage set). The problem is I am dynamically creating the clips first on the stage, then placing them in the scrollpane, so it does not contain

Re: [Flashcoders] best place to start building flash 8 components

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
Yes I have done quite a bit of testing and searching different web sites including all the standard goto sites like actionscript.org / ultrashock.com etc... It seems like I should be able to use scrollpane.contentPath = _root.productHolder; but this doesnt work. Steve Krichten wrote: Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
In short, the old ScrollPane masked content. The new one loads content into itself, and masks it. So, instead of attaching clips to the stage like you used to, attach a scrollpane, and then load the clip in the scrollpane. - Original Message - From: Mike Boutin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
So I should be able to do something like this rather than putting all the clips in a empty_mc first: myScrollpane.attachMovie(productDisplay, product_+i, i, {_x:700, _y:pro_startY}); ? Steve Krichten wrote: Sorry, you can't do that with the V2 component. However I don't see why you

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
Close! Do what Derek said: myScrollpane.contentPath = productDisplay; myScrollpane.move(700, pro_startY); - Original Message - From: Mike Boutin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
Derek Vadneau wrote: _root.productPane.contentPath = productHolder; The contentPath code will do the attachMovie for you. You either have to specify a symbol name from the library or a URL. Derek Vadneau - Original Message - From: Mike Boutin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
All that does is move the movieclip inside the pane around. I want to Duplicate that movieclip a bunch of times, not move it. This must be possible as it works fine with the old component. var pro_startY:Number = 0; for (i=0;i10;i++){ //Create movieclip object

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread JesterXL
Or, if you want 10 productDisplays in 1 scrollpane, you can create a class that loads in productDisplays, and then load that class into 1 ScrollPane. ...or, just make a blank movieclip called Blank, and then do: scrollPane.cotentPath = Blank; var pro_startY:Number = 0; for (i=0;i10;i++){

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
Thanks for the example, except I need 10 productDisplay clips in 1 scrollpane. JesterXL wrote: Then try: var pro_startY= 0; for(i=0; i10; i++) { var ref:ScrollPane = ScrollPane(attachMovie(ScrollPane, pane + i, i)); ref.move(0, pro_startY); ref.contentPath = productDisplay;

[Flashcoders] PDF forced to download

2005-11-30 Thread Sebastián Sirvent
Hi, How can a PDF be forced to download instead of opening in the browser? It can't be zipped... Thanks Sebastián Sirvent http://www.e-foco.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Mike Boutin
Perfect! thanks it works great! Mike Boutin wrote: Thanks for the example, except I need 10 productDisplay clips in 1 scrollpane. JesterXL wrote: Then try: var pro_startY= 0; for(i=0; i10; i++) { var ref:ScrollPane = ScrollPane(attachMovie(ScrollPane, pane + i, i)); ref.move(0,

Re: [Flashcoders] Global Security Settings Panel

2005-11-30 Thread John Dowdell
Cosmin Cimpoi wrote: Is there a way to avoid the trip to the Global Security Settings Panel on macromedia.com for a local swf? There might be... I'm guessing that you're playing back in a browser, and are mixing local and remote content, and are using the current Macromedia Flash Player

[Flashcoders] Preloading sound on the timeline without exporting to first frame! Problems...

2005-11-30 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
Hey guys, I've got a preloader which has thh following code over three frames (it is inside a movie clip, located on the first frame): Frame 1: _parent.stop(); Frame 2: kBytesLoaded = _parent.getBytesLoaded()/1024; kBytesTotal = _parent.getBytesTotal()/1024; kBytesRemaining = kBytesTotal

[Flashcoders] proximity grid of scaling images

2005-11-30 Thread Mick Gow
I recall seeing a flash piece in the past that was a grid of images. It had some interaction where your mouse is over a select image it would scale it up to say 150%, nearest neighbor images are then scaled to 120%, next neighbors are 80%, etc. Does anyone have an example of this type of thing -

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading Variables from a button into Flash from a text file!

2005-11-30 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Without looking further, I don't know why you are using _parent here at all... edolecki On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Nicholas Chhabra wrote: Hey Guys, I'm sure there must be some simple fix to this problem but here goes anyway - I've got a flash document that is loading content form an

[Flashcoders] osflash restyled again?

2005-11-30 Thread old9
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Re: [Flashcoders] Loading Variables from a button into Flash from a text file!

2005-11-30 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
Ok, this is what it looks like now, but I get the same error. // Loading the Dynamic Text File var PortTxt = new LoadVars(); //PortTxt._parent = this; PortTxt.onLoad = function(success){ if(success){ portContent_txt.htmlText = this.welcome; } } PortTxt.load(portfolio.txt); //Menu -

[Flashcoders] iFrame javascript Question

2005-11-30 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
yes, this is related to flash, mainly the css tooltips/flash thing i did earlier today. If I have a page in an iFrame, I'd like flash in that page call out to the main HTML (parent of the iframe I guess), and have that produce the tooltip over top of everything... how would I target an

Re: [Flashcoders] PDF forced to download

2005-11-30 Thread Éric Thibault
I used to create PDF from php and used this for the header... //attachment : promt to save to disk //inline : open in browser ?php header( 'Content-type: application/pdf' ); header( 'Content-disposition: attachment; filename='mypdf.pdf' ); ? Éric Thibault RVE Sebastián Sirvent wrote: Hi,

[Flashcoders] Resolved: Loading Variables from a button into Flash from a text file!

2005-11-30 Thread Nicholas Chhabra
I got a response from B2L - inside the button onRelease function, when using this it refers to the button itself. u need to use _root.PortTxt Code: btnG1Design.onRelease = function() { portContent_txt.htmlText = _root.PortTxt.txt_design; } Thanks for the parent comments though!

[Flashcoders] Dynamically adding swf files at runtime

2005-11-30 Thread Azinger, Richard
Hello Flashcoders, I'm trying to make a game that reads a XML file to build the interface. The game play will be the same every time but the look will be different. I get the swf files to load using MovieClipLoader and createEmptyMovieClip but now I'm trying to change the text that's on the

RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamically adding swf files at runtime

2005-11-30 Thread Azinger, Richard
I understand setting the text directly. I don't understand the emptyMCInstance and how it fits into my code. Thanks for the reply, Rich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric E. Dolecki Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:09 PM To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse

2005-11-30 Thread Steven Sacks
Why not make an empty movieclip in your library ahead of time, set its linkage identifier to something like SYM_SPContent, and then mysp.contentPath = SYM_SPContent; var mc = mysp.content; mc.attachMovie(...); Sometimes the most straightforward solution eludes the best of us. -Steven