[Flashcoders] Hide scrollbar until enough text to require it (UIScrollbar)

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Steven
When I include the UIScrollbar in my flash movie, the bar element appears even when there is no text yet in the input text area and unfortunately it isn't that pretty on its own. So I would like this not to appear until there is enough text to justify its appearance. The arrows do not appear

[Flashcoders] I get a mcl onLoadError, server log claims file got server...

2005-12-02 Thread Sander
Hi there, I've got a Player preloading a large SWF, with a movieClipLoader. When an onLoadError is received, an e-mail is send to me through an ASP page, with all the details of the platform. I get mails where onLoadError was called, but the file exists when I click the link. Moreover:

RE: [Flashcoders] Firefox flash plugin problem?

2005-12-02 Thread Jose / DY
Hi, It's the wmode=transparent on the embed tag. Remove it and you're done. Jose M. Rubio Dept. Interactivos DoubleYou www.doubleyou.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +34 93 292 31 10 Fax. +34 93 292 21 97 La

RE: [Flashcoders] CORRECTION: Firefox flash plugin problem?

2005-12-02 Thread Jeroen Janssen
Have you got your flash background set to transparent? -Original Message- From: Van De Velde Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 1 december 2005 18:36 To: Van De Velde Hans; 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com' Subject: [Flashcoders] CORRECTION: Firefox flash plugin problem?

[Flashcoders] text effects similar to fonttwister product

2005-12-02 Thread rishi
Hi I want to make shape text effects similar to fonttwister product. I want to cover all categories Arc,Upward Arc, Downward Arc, Bulge, Bridge, inner Bend, Outer bend. Anyone knows some logic to do this. I need to apply this to a multiline text. Regards Rishi

Re: [Flashcoders] Hide scrollbar until enough text to require it (UIScrollbar)

2005-12-02 Thread Devendran I
Hi, After assigning text to the Text box check this if(myText_txt.maxscroll1){ myScrollBar._visible = true; }else{ myScrollBar._visible = false; } i hope this will help u. Regards Devendran Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I include the

[Flashcoders] Degrade AS2 code to AS1 - how to?

2005-12-02 Thread Gregory Nikolaev
Hello Flashcoders, I have a client who wants to make significant improvements to their flash site (quite big). However, as site currently uses Flash 6 (or even 5) style programming, even (!) with NO external files, they insist that all should be done in the same manner. Mean no

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane in the arse - Solution

2005-12-02 Thread Devendran I
Hi , there is a way to Attch Dynamic movie into Scroll Pane Try this a way to attach Movie First Provide any Empty Or some movieName to the Scrollpane ContentPath. Now try This

RE: [Flashcoders] Degrade AS2 code to AS1 - how to?

2005-12-02 Thread Pete Hotchkiss
Why would using external files make any difference to the performance. The As is added to the swf at compile time so the client would never need know ? Other way to address this is to provide two costs. One for the way you wish to do it, and one for his way which should be 2-3 times more

Re: [Flashcoders] Recursive Loop showing all items

2005-12-02 Thread John Grden
I would suggest trying Xray as well ;) all the headache you guys are working through right here has already been done with Xray Features: http://www.osflash.org/xray#features Downloads: http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=45 Video tutorials:

Re: [Flashcoders] Recursive Loop showing all items

2005-12-02 Thread John Grden
OH, and I forgot to mention: Xray's open source ;) You can look through the recursion method it uses if you REALLY want to. It's not perfect (yet), but it definately works, and any and all suggestions/help are welcome.

RE: [Flashcoders] Hide scrollbar until enough text to require it(UIScrollbar)

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Steven
Thanks Devendran Is there a way to get this to work with input text so when they type into the text area, when there is sufficient text to require a scrollbar it appears. Also if they remove text so there is no longer a need for it, it then disappears again? Thanks Paul -Original

Re: [Flashcoders] Degrade AS2 code to AS1 - how to?

2005-12-02 Thread erixtekila
Le 2 déc. 05, à 12:45, Gregory Nikolaev a écrit : Hello Flashcoders, Question: Is there a way to automatically (or semi-automatically) convert AS2 code (with or w/o external classes) to AS1-styled code w/o ext. files? Yes there are. But 1st, FYI, AS2 is compiled in AS1. So why not

RE: [Flashcoders] Hide scrollbar until enough text to requireit(UIScrollbar)

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Robertson
Just run that same code each time new content is entered in the text field using the TextField.onChanged function. A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: 02 December 2005 12:18 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE:

RE: [Flashcoders] text effects similar to fonttwister product

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Mountain
Hi Rishi You've posted on this several times now with the same question and have been given good advice - ie. Check out the displacement map filter option. Your only other option is to get the array of pixels for an offstage text box and work out the transformations yourself and apply them to an

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 security settings tool

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Mountain
I may have been dreaming but I'm sure someone posted a link for a tool to disable the sandbox for flash 8 swfs running in embedded apps. Anyone repost? I know about the activeX settings, http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security_08.htm l but if we had a tool which

[Flashcoders] iRiver U10

2005-12-02 Thread eric dolecki
Has anyone developed anything for the U10 yet? What I am wondering about is how the default functionality is playing audio/etc. Is the Flash OS wrapped in something with makes calls to the default music player/video player, etc? Does the Flash OS get the list of available tracks/videos/etc from

[Flashcoders] How to use XPATH in a Class?

2005-12-02 Thread Sajid Saiyed
Hi, I am trying to create a Class which will take a XML file path as input and then using XPath, return required results. Does anyone know any documentation of example where I can see how this can be achieved? thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-12-02 Thread eric dolecki
http://www.ericd.net/new_css/tooltips/ You can see what I am doing at the above destination. Works pretty well - ExternalInterface call to the javascript which pops the tooltips with the text sent out of Flash. The hide tooltip is another call made from Flash to javascript as well. The example

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-12-02 Thread Éric Thibault
Very intersting. Can you send me off-list an example of a call from flash? I'm curious about the encoding of the strings passed to the ddrivetip function (line breaks, special caracters,...) Thanks a million! eric dolecki wrote: http://www.ericd.net/new_css/tooltips/ You can see what I

Re: [Flashcoders] flash - css tooltip

2005-12-02 Thread eric dolecki
http://www.ericd.net/2005/11/externalinterface-css-tooltips-oh-my.inc strings that come from MXNA RSS are html encoded - I just sent it straight through... On 12/2/05, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very intersting. Can you send me off-list an example of a call from flash? I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] zooming application

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Britton
If it were me, rather than reinvent the wheel (this is a common need) and if I had a budget, I'd go for Zoomify Enterprise: http://www.zoomify.com/enterprise/ Mike ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Firefox flash plugin problem?

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Britton
Flash has had this problem for years. I wish MM would either fix it or do away with the idea. It's definitely cost me time and caused my users headaches. Mike ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] the bitmap shift bug

2005-12-02 Thread Matt Ganz
SOLVED: yes, i'm publishing to fp7. when i view it in fp7 i see the 1px shift, but when i view it in fp8, it doesn't happen. voila, the problem is solved. but my question now becomes why doesn't this shift happen with all my flvs that have bitmaps composited in them? why only some? thanks for

RE: [Flashcoders] zooming application

2005-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Or, if you want a free one: http://www.marcosweskamp.com/components/tokcomponents/zoompane_demo.html Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Britton

[Flashcoders] Bitmap Class and FileReference.upload

2005-12-02 Thread Adrian Parr
Hi All, Happy Friday afternoon!! I am doing some research for an upcoming project ... With the new Bitmap Class and FileReference.upload functionality in Flash 8, is it possible to create a drawing app that can grab what the user has drawn (using the Bitmap Class) and then upload it to a server

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading Different Size MovieClips depending on theResolution.

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Chyko
Without double checking... I believe System.capabilities returns the maximum resolution the machine is capable of displaying, not necessarily the resolution that is currently being used. Your best bet would probably be going with a JavaScript resolution detection script and then basing your code

RE: [Flashcoders] Bitmap Class and FileReference.upload

2005-12-02 Thread Adrian Parr
Sorry folks, Should that be FileReference.download ? Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Parr Sent: 02 December 2005 16:22 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Bitmap Class and FileReference.upload Hi All,

RE: [Flashcoders] Tile Bitmap

2005-12-02 Thread Frédéric v . Bochmann
Another way you can do this is by using a combination of the BitmapData.draw method and the Rectangle object. Technically you could draw a part of an image delimited in coordinates by the Rectangle object directly in another bitmap. This might be a bit faster than coming pixel per pixel your

[Flashcoders] Can Flash auto update the player itself?

2005-12-02 Thread inbox.flash
Can flash detect a previous plugin version and auto update without the user doing anything? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Changing a textfield on a dynamically addedmovieClip

2005-12-02 Thread Azinger, Richard
Radley, Thanks for the response but I can't do that because at that point the movieclip hasn't been initiated yet. I'm using a listener to tell when the movieClip is initiated. 'labelText' is just a variable attached to the movieClip so I can grab it later. I'm looking for the code that

Re: [Flashcoders] How to use XPATH in a Class?

2005-12-02 Thread Sajid Saiyed
Hi, Thanks for your help. Now I get a better picture. Taking your suggestion, I tried this: //-- // My Class //-- import mx.xpath.XPathAPI;

Re: [Flashcoders] Can Flash auto update the player itself?

2005-12-02 Thread Wade Arnold
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/#download The user has to make a couple clicks but this 1000% better than anything else. wade On Dec 2, 2005, at 10:38 AM, inbox.flash wrote: Can flash detect a previous plugin version and auto update without the user doing anything?

RE: [Flashcoders] Can Flash auto update the player itself?

2005-12-02 Thread Adrian Parr
The FlashObject also supports the Flash Player Express Install process as well now. http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/08/13/using-flash-player-express-install- with-flashobject/ Adrian Parr -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wade Arnold

Re: [Flashcoders] Degrade AS2 code to AS1 - how to?

2005-12-02 Thread Gregory Nikolaev
== Pete Hotchkiss wrote: Why would using external files make any difference to the performance. The As is added to the swf at compile time so the client would never need know ? Other way to address this is to provide two costs. One for the way you wish to do it, and one for his

[Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Brooks Andrus
Does anyone know if its possible to do screen capture with a Flash Application? If so any pointers on where to get started? Thanks, Brooks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
Hi, You can do this if you use a wrapper to make a projector (exe) file out of your .swf file. I use Zinc and I think it's absolutely great! www.multidmedia.com There are other products available but I haven't tried them. SWF studio pro is one of them I think Regards, Dimitrios -

[Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Anyone know anything about this? See the report below. This would effectively bring our Flash work with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corp to a screeching halt. The NMCI gold disk is the standard install of software for all computers in the Navy and Marines. Flash 7 was previously approved - now it

Re: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Brooks Andrus
I'm actually looking at creating a small web based screen capture app with the Flash client doing the client-side capture, so the exe wrapper approach wouldn't work in my case. I know Macromedia Breeze does this and I've seen other Breeze Style apps, but I haven't been able to guess at how they do

RE: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Jim Phelan
Breeze installs an executable (presenter plugin), it just happens to be an downloaded via Flash Player (something only macromedia can do). Flash Player can't access the screen, and it wouldn't have the processing power to do the encoding. Unfortunately, your only option is to wrap the SWF in an

Re: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Brooks Andrus
So how are the camera and microphone streams handled? The player isn't doing any encoding, it just pushes raw uncompressed streams around? On 12/2/05, Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Breeze installs an executable (presenter plugin), it just happens to be an downloaded via Flash Player

[Flashcoders] Currency Formating Class

2005-12-02 Thread Adrian Showater
Does anyone know of any currency formating AS2 classes for Flash? Specifically I am looking for a class that will convert numbers to dollars for diaplay, then back again to save them back to the database. I have been looking but can't seem to find a premade utility for what I presume is a common

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Wilson
The vulnerabilities were reported on Bugtraq (http://search.securityfocus.com/swsearch?query=macromediasbm=%2Fsubmit=Se arch%21metaname=alldocsort=swishlastmodified) a couple weeks ago. The vulnerabilities involve an attacker creating a malicious .swf file and tricking a user into downloading it,

Re: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Brooks Andrus
Also, doesn't the FileReference class allow you to download a fileare you saying that macromedia is actually altering the player with their download? On 12/2/05, Brooks Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how are the camera and microphone streams handled? The player isn't doing any

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread John Dowdell
Merrill, Jason wrote: Anyone know anything about this? See the report below. It sounds like they're talking about the security advisory released last month, which is addressed by either (a) on modern operating systems using the current Macromedia Flash Player, 8.0 generation; or (b) on

[Flashcoders] Dynamically Resizable Objects

2005-12-02 Thread Robert Sandie
Anyone seen any examples/tutorials/components of dragable content: For example: === | | | | * could be resized to: = |

[Flashcoders] Variable scope issue

2005-12-02 Thread Bo Parker
I have a combox instance that is being populated with the data below. In the oListener.change function, I am defining a variable that is getting a value for the variable mItemLabel. I want that value to be available to the next function, setShirtSize below and have tried a million different

RE: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Jim Phelan
Camera is encoded in the player using the Spark codec and Microphone is encoded using the NellyMoser codec. You can encode the screen with Flash Player's video encoding, but first you have to make the screen available as a wdm video source. You can do this, but you'll have to use an installable

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Nevermind (unless you happen to know more about what the Navy/Marines are going to do about it - that would be good to know.) I referenced this in my own post: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com

[Flashcoders] Q: Converting from base 10 to hex?

2005-12-02 Thread bitstreams
In order to use the fillRect method you need to pass in the color as a Hex value. To start I want to fill with a 50% grey, which as an argb number would be 255,128,128,128 I tried using the following function from Guy Watson's tutorial: function argbtohex(a:Number, r:Number, g:Number,

Re: [Flashcoders] Selection.setFocus()

2005-12-02 Thread Judah Frangipane
Hi Manuel, We are needing something like this as well. We set the tab order in code or use the accessability window. When we tab to a v2 button then the tabbing breaks. If it makes you feel any better I could not get this to work either. A thing to note is the help docs have qoutes around

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Converting from base 10 to hex?

2005-12-02 Thread Ryan Matsikas
So... function argbtohex(a:Number, r:Number, g:Number, b:Number) { return (a 24 | r 16 | g 8 | b); } createEmptyMovieClip(clip, 1); with (clip) { beginFill(argbtohex(255,128,128,128)); moveTo(0,0); lineTo(100,0); lineTo(100,100); lineTo(0,100); lineTo(0,0);

[Flashcoders] Any way to detect attempted MC Load wider than 2880 pixels?

2005-12-02 Thread Alan Shaw
MovieClipLoader's onLoadProgress shows the entire file loaded; onLoadInit shows the width silently truncated to 2880. Any ideas? -A ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Thanks John. I know Macromedia has worked wonders with the NMCI folks before, maybe you can do it again. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dowdell Sent: Friday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Converting from base 10 to hex?

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, nothing, google for 2-complement numbers and you'll see why it shows up as a negative number. greetz Hans At 08:45 PM 12/2/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to use the fillRect method you need to pass in the color as a Hex value. To start I want to fill with a 50% grey, which as

[Flashcoders] Flash Developer Position In Toronto

2005-12-02 Thread Brian Lesser
Hi Everyone, I'm doing some consulting for a small company here in Toronto. They are interested in hiring a developer with a Computer Science degree, good ActionScript experience, and a solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and Development. They would really like AS 2 experience,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread John Dowdell
Merrill, Jason wrote: Thanks John. I know Macromedia has worked wonders with the NMCI folks before, maybe you can do it again. ... and thanks for the heads-up, Jason, staffers here are already in touch with their .MIL contacts to resolve it ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash security advisories from U.S. Navy/Marines?

2005-12-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
Fantastic John. I know from my Flex sales rep (Matt Troedson), they are using Flex in a few places in the Navy already... should be resolvable I would think. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Screen Capture with Flash

2005-12-02 Thread Brooks Andrus
Thanks for the info Jim--I was hoping for a different outcome, but its good to know what I'm up against. On 12/2/05, Jim Phelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Camera is encoded in the player using the Spark codec and Microphone is encoded using the NellyMoser codec. You can encode the screen with

[Flashcoders] List Component

2005-12-02 Thread John Giotta
The List Component allows you to set linked symbols as Icons for each list item. I'm looking to use external thumbnails as my icons, but it tends to prove difficult due to the nature of how these symbols are attached. Does anyone know if I'm able to retrieve the 'icon' path and perhaps with some

Re: [Flashcoders] List Component

2005-12-02 Thread Al Veldhuis
Hey John, Just as a suggestion, check out the ghostwire components at http://ghostwire.com They have a list component that I believe is capable of what you are looking to do. I believe you can use either symbols or external files with their list component. Just a possible suggestion.

Re: [Flashcoders] List Component

2005-12-02 Thread Ryan Matsikas
or instead of buying another component set why not just write a more capable row renderer.. there's plenty of tutorials. On 12/2/05, Al Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey John, Just as a suggestion, check out the ghostwire components at http://ghostwire.com They have a list component

[Flashcoders] webservice WSDL.BadType with xsd:array

2005-12-02 Thread Flapflap
Hi there, I try to create a consume a simple webservice and I get this error... WSDL.BadType Type xsd:array not resolvable undefined I don't understand my php service use nusoap and is right... Any idea on why this error ? Thanks -- Ff ___

Re: [Flashcoders] System.product

2005-12-02 Thread David Rorex
On 12/2/05, Antonio Rico Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. Does someone know something about Sytem.Product. As far as I am aware, this function is capable to connect Macromedia server . I wonder if we could use that, to update plash player. code foo = new

Re: [Flashcoders] List Component

2005-12-02 Thread Al Veldhuis
Hey Ryan, I know. I know. Its not a hard thing to write but what I generally work on is an Intranet where bandwidth isn't an issue, but developing speed is. So the components are a simple and quick way to get the job done effectively. And to be honest, as far as components go, Ghostwire

Re: [Flashcoders] Why didn't I listen in maths class...

2005-12-02 Thread David Peek
Hi List, I'm trying to figure out what radius to make n number of circles fit around a circle of radius r. Several diagrams later I'd got it down to: sinA = x / (x + r) Where A is half the angle required by each circle ((360/n)/2), x is the radius we're looking for and r is the radius of