[Flashcoders] Test

2006-03-31 Thread Dave Watts
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[Flashcoders] Good Math script for sheet movement when draged on table

2006-03-31 Thread INK .
Hi, List? Anyone seen subj? Something real-life and natural motion? 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

[Flashcoders] Good Math script for sheet movement when draged on table

2006-03-31 Thread INK .
Hi, List? Anyone seen subj? Something real-life and natural motion? 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

RE: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop

2006-03-31 Thread Ryan Potter
You could also set a var on the button that tracks it's own content. function buttonBehavior():Void { for (var i=1; i 8; i++) { //do tmpMC = _root[mb_+i]; just once per loop //to save processing var tmpMC:MovieClip = _root[mb_+i];

[Flashcoders] cellEdit not persistent

2006-03-31 Thread Manuel Saint-Victor
I'm using the dataBinding code that Hank posted here a few monthshttp://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-July/144233.htmlago and am having a problem getting the cellEdit to be bound to the dataset. When I change the contents of my dataGrid as soon as a cell loses focus the

[Flashcoders] allowing users to call custom method in a component

2006-03-31 Thread Manuel Saint-Victor
I have a component that has a collection property that holds some events. My goal is for the user to be able to fill out the panel with two params for each event: eventTime and method to call. I've gotten to that part but what I'm trying to do now is convert these user entered stings into

[Flashcoders] testing

2006-03-31 Thread Christian
testing... coming through? ___ 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

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
no,createEmptyMovieClip has always returned a reference to the newly created clip. createTextField didn't, and it confused a lot of people, maybe thats where you are getting caught up? On 3/30/06, Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: createEmptyMovieClip shouldn't return a mc for Flash

[Flashcoders] Re: allowing users to call custom method in a component

2006-03-31 Thread Manuel Saint-Victor
I actually just figured out a possible solution. Jsut thoguht I'd share it . By having the component just dispatch events with the entered names then I don't have to worry about all the converting to functions etc just use: private function checkForEvents(){ trace(checking);

Re: [Flashcoders] converting/printing swf to eps

2006-03-31 Thread David Rorex
Without know exactly what you want to do, you might be able to rig something up using a swf wrapper of some sort (like zinc) which will load the swf, then trigger a print, then use one of the many free printer drivers which output .ps files -David R On 3/30/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Test

2006-03-31 Thread Dave Watts
Out of curiosity Dave, do you know why the list(s) seems to go down so often? Seems like every 2-3 months now. Not complaining, just curious if you could fill us in. Thanks. The server is reaching its end of life. I plan to purchase a new server by the end of Q2. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread JesterXL
createEmptyMovieClip returns a reference to the movieclip it created, yes, just like attachMovie does. It did this in Flash 6, too. - Original Message - From: Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006

[Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Krichten
What do you mean by a .NET database ? .NET can use a number of databases, but probably the most common is MS SQL Server. If you are using SQL Server, you can request XML directly from the database...

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClip.loadMovie(), accessing assets in another Library.

2006-03-31 Thread JesterXL
In Flash Player 8 and below, you cannot attach assets from one SWF to another. The documentation about _lockroot is referring to the scope in which _root calls. For example, ComboBox when clicked creates a List control via PopUpManager. This basically goes _root.attachMovie(List, etc).

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV and DRM

2006-03-31 Thread Yotam Laufer
My VLC 0.84a played FLVs. Not sure about newly encoded one with F8, I didn't try. The ones done with F7 played, I tried twice, I couldn't believe my eyes too. On 30/03/06, erixtekila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've discovered the VLC player plays FLVs very well they don't seem so

Re: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop

2006-03-31 Thread Ing. Mario Falomir
Hi Alex, here is an example that could help you and illustrate how to accomplish what you want var totalMovieClips:Number = 3; for ( var i = 0; i totalMovieClips; i ++ ) { _root['mc' + i].indexPos = i; _root[ 'mc' + i ].onRelease = function() { trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos +

Re: [Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-03-31 Thread Peter Hall
For the record, WebOrb Standard is free. On 3/30/06, Lee McColl-Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's expensive though... Use Fluorine... It really kicks the lama's ass (to put it the way WinAmp does). Plus, it works for .NET web apps and desktop apps with direct assembly access WITH

RE: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop

2006-03-31 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Ryan, Absolutely. That's how I've handled things on my homepage. The answer I suggested to Alex was an effort to stay on point with regard to his question. I would also recommend that he set up named functions outside his buttonBehavior function. It may not be necessary for his current

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
by the way: Peviously in flash7 i used to always attachMovie with an empty mc in the library, which i'll continue to do, thats the same exact result as creating an empty movie clip on stage with createEmptyMovieClipexcpet with attach movie you have to make sure that you have the symbol in

Re: [Flashcoders] MTASC and spaces in classpath

2006-03-31 Thread erixtekila
Le 30 mars 06, à 16:26, Sam Thorne a écrit : I'm getting the error Class not found Support.Macromedia.Flash when my classpath is /Users/sam/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/Flash 8/en/Configuration/Classes Seems Mtasc doesn't like classpaths which have spaces in them on OS X, it tries

RE: [Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-03-31 Thread Merrill, Jason
I don't think I would trust a product that says Flash AJAX client on its webpage. I saw that too and was wondering what they could possibly mean by that since it sounded like a direct oxymoron. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com -Original Message-

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to excel?

2006-03-31 Thread Yehia Shouman
You can use flash to collect your data into a CSV string, then you can pass this (in a web scenario) to a server side script to write it, or if you are using a projector like SWF Studio you can use its FileSys plugin. On 3/31/06, Flash guru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible for a flash

Re: [Flashcoders] converting/printing swf to eps

2006-03-31 Thread Gabriel
I save a swf to the server, and I need to retrieve an eps from it...any idea? Ron Wheeler wrote: What exactly do you want to do? Ron Gabriel wrote: Hi everybody... anybody knows a solution to convert/print from the server side a swf to eps?. cheers, GaB

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to excel?

2006-03-31 Thread August Gresens
I do this with Director all the time - you should be able to do it with a Flash Projector and something like Zinc to write the file. I create a tab delimited file with an xls extension - on Windows this will show up in the OS as an excel file. Double clicking it will launch Excel. I've also done

Re: [Flashcoders] MTASC and spaces in classpath

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Allen
Erixtekila is right. you need to escape those spaces. A quick way to get your paths written correctly is to open up the directory that you are targeting in the Finder, then open Terminal. Next drag the folder in the Finder into the Terminal window and you will see how the path should be written

RE: [Flashcoders] Help with Flash Environment / Processes

2006-03-31 Thread Kevin Mulvihill
2. Is there a build tool I can use to setup a centralized, automated build process? Java has JAnt, .NET has NAnt, etc. Is there one for Flash? Per the e-mail below it looks like there is. yes, you can use ant, it works very well with mtasc as a compiler. look at these tools for more

[Flashcoders] BitmapData, threshold and copyChannel bug (black pixels)! Help?

2006-03-31 Thread Jack Doyle
I'm applying a threshold() to a BitmapData instance and then using copyChannel() to copy it's red channel to the alpha channel of a different BitmapData instance. This is part of a technique I'm using to animate simulated brush strokes without any kind of tweens (just gradations). Much easier on

[Flashcoders] TextField._yscale bug?

2006-03-31 Thread Pieter Snoeck
Hi, I have 2 textfields at the same _x position under each other. Both have the font embedded. Now I load the same text in both textfields. Then I change the the _yscale of the bottom one to -100, to create a mirror effect. The problem: the text is not anymore aligned. copy_txt.text = something;

Re: [Flashcoders] looking for some .NET to Flash tools

2006-03-31 Thread Peter Hall
I can't speak for their diagram. But, when it was just FlashOrb, it was so far ahead of Macromedia Remoting it wasn't even funny. You asked for easy, and we really found that it was. We tried Macromedia Remoting for a while, and found that all of our problems went away when we switched. I've heard

[Flashcoders] Unresponsive buttons

2006-03-31 Thread Buck Ruckman
Hi all! This may sound like a newbie problem, but i'm an experienced actionscript programmer! As you know, every once in a while, you get bit by the little things. i've built an app, and the buttons act strangely. When i click them, they don't respond reliably. When i roll over them, i

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash to excel?

2006-03-31 Thread
Ive seen it done... Look into the System class and using the clipboard. --- On Fri 03/31, Flash guru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Flash guru [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:40:01 -0500 Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash to excel? Is

Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation on good AS 2.0 framework code?

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
there are a few extensions to arp that make it a little easier, my favortie being Grant Davies system controller/command controller extension: http://theresidentalien.typepad.com/ginormous/2005/10/extending_arp.html also you would probably want to search the archives for 'ModelLocator', which

[Flashcoders] Flash and input type=file....

2006-03-31 Thread Felipe Fernandez
Hi, is it possible show in a flash (Flash 2004 MX) a input type file form in order to catch user file selection? Basically, I need to show an html form inside a flash movie. Is there any flash component to show that? I know Flash 8 has upload files capabilities but Flash Mx 2004 is requiered in

Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation on good AS 2.0 framework code?

2006-03-31 Thread Honeyghan
Rich, Thanks for the link. It's timely. Stay well, Honeyghan On 3/30/06, Rich Rodecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are a few extensions to arp that make it a little easier, my favortie being Grant Davies system controller/command controller extension:

Re: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop

2006-03-31 Thread Alejandro Diaz
Thanks guys! I was cracking my head over this one (lack of sleep didn't help much), and of course, figures that right around the time I send this question I stop receiving all emails from Flashcoders (did it break for anyone else?). Anyways, great help and pointers and I will experiment with

Re: [Flashcoders] Recommendation on good AS 2.0 framework code?

2006-03-31 Thread Rich Rodecker
no problem...also, i had previously uploaded to my site cristophe's ModelLocator samples, so here is a link to those as well: http://www.visible-form.com/arp_extensions.zip On 3/31/06, Honeyghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich, Thanks for the link. It's timely. Stay well, Honeyghan On

Re: [Flashcoders] Counter in function assigned inside a for loop

2006-03-31 Thread Ing. Mario Falomir
oops I missed paste it complete... var totalMovieClips:Number = 3; for ( var i = 0; i totalMovieClips; i ++ ) { _root['mc' + i].indexPos = i; _root[ 'mc' + i ].onRelease = function() { trace( 'mc' + this.indexPos + ' onRelease' ); } _root[ 'mc' + i ].onRollOver =

Re: [Flashcoders] converting/printing swf to eps

2006-03-31 Thread David Rorex
How are the swf's generated in the first place? Instead of doing something-swf-eps you can do: something-swf something-eps -David R On 3/30/06, Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I save a swf to the server, and I need to retrieve an eps from it...any idea? Ron Wheeler wrote: What exactly

Re: [Flashcoders] Convert swf to exe

2006-03-31 Thread David Rorex
On 3/31/06, Lieven Cardoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I compile with flash, the swf has different behaviour than compiled with mtasc. But I need the exe so... You should report this to the author of mtasc, he tries to make his compiler as compatible as possible. Anything that compiles in

Re: [Flashcoders] Convert swf to exe

2006-03-31 Thread Mick G
If you open the SWF in the Flash Player (version on your computer, not browser), just go File Create Projector from the menu in the player. I'm not familiar with MTASC to know what it will effect. On 4/1/06, David Rorex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/31/06, Lieven Cardoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] Help with try..catch and extending Error

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Marcotte
Hi, I created an interface named Exception and an AbstractException class that extends Error and implements Exception. AbstractException has a few private properties that I want to use to determine if the exception was fatal and add a trace stack, debug option, etc. If I import an