I believe this point is important to emphasize:
This is autonomous behavior. Again, we shouldn't hate the Help Vampire. Or
stake them. They know not what they do, only that they are driven to do it,
and I believe they can be saved.
Well said!
I've been a member of a group , more strict than
I've been a member of a group , more strict than any other groups. It's
a place for C/C++ programmers where Help Vampires more than often get
these replies :
Heh, that's old school. Back in the day, when all this kind of
discussion took place on newsgroups, that was standard fare. Except
Thanks. Excellent advice. However, the very simple Flash movie was
just for illustration: my real problem is that I'm dealing with a legacy
project that worked fine in Flash 6, but no longer works now that I've
updated it to Flash 8. Changing all the TextFields to TextInputs may
involve rather
I've found the solution.
Just set focusManager.enabled = false
Andy
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Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Problem with TextField.tabIndex
I have a very simple
Jim Tann ?:
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#handling_scope_in_event_handlers
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Sent: 26 April 2006 23:53
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Are you a help
Is a colour stated as 0xFF00FF an object?
I am getting a colour from an xml attribute with XPath
(colour=0xFF00FF), and then trying to use that colour with the mc
tween class - my_mc.colorTo(bgColour, 1). But it always changes to
black.
If I trace() the bgColour, it has the correct
Hi peeps,
I downloaded luminicbox in addition to Xray, which I have been using already
for some time, but I thought it would be nice to just use m both, Xray for
the introspection and luminicbox for the logging. I think I heard John
mention at one point he was going to try to incorporate luminic
Shh back off man he's got it under control.
On 4/27/06, ? ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Tann ?:
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#handling_scope_in_event_handlers
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Trying to create a List Class instance and having trouble. The list shows up
on the stage, but the variable returned from createClassObject is null, so I
cannot change the format or reposition it.
This code is based on an example in the Mook Essential ActionScript book.
The List composnent is in
slaps forehead of course...
so the return from XPath is an object/array containing a string, and
I need it as a number.
trace(bgColour[0]) returns the correct value, but
trace(Number(bgColour[0])) returns NaN - so how do I make it a real
number?
The help docs say that a string that
On 4/27/06, August Gresens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to create a List Class instance and having trouble. The list shows up
on the stage, but the variable returned from createClassObject is null, so I
cannot change the format or reposition it.
This code is based on an example in the Mook
On 27 Apr 2006, at 15:00, Zeh Fernando wrote:
trace(bgColour[0]) returns the correct value, but
trace(Number(bgColour[0])) returns NaN - so how do I make it a
real number?
The help docs say that a string that starts with 0x will be
treated as hexadecimal.
Use parseInt() to convert a
That is exactly what it does, eg 0x73 becomes 7558485, but that's not
what I need. I need it to stay hexadecimal, but to be recognised as a
number type. It shouldn't be converted, its type needs to be changed.
Well, a number is a number - 0xff *is* 255. If you need it to be hexadecimal
I've created a textfield with embedded fonts. The Character 'À' doesn't appear.
The font Frutiger is in my library.
When I put a textfield on my stage, embed fonts, and add 'À', then in this
textfield the À does appear, but still not in my code-created textfield. I've
also put a
I found the anser through the docs and some blog posts
http://blogs.katapultmedia.com/jb2/flash/
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004file=2401.html
Hope this helps someone else from suffering through this!
Mani
Hi guys,
I am getting memory problems when I remove and recreate all my objects
several times (the flash player eats up RAM, and I have to minimize it
and maximize to force the garbage collector).There must be something
wrong in the way I destroy my objects :-(
So I am wondering what is the
Cool, thanks for that. It's strange the holes you find in your AS
knowledge sometimes...
On 27 Apr 2006, at 15:29, Zeh Fernando wrote:
That is exactly what it does, eg 0x73 becomes 7558485, but
that's not what I need. I need it to stay hexadecimal, but to be
recognised as a number
On 4/27/06, August Gresens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, that didn't work. Actually, I'm doing this within a non-movieclip
extended class, so the syntax is like this:
clip_mc.createClassObject(List, listText_lst, clip.getNextHighestDepth()
);
clip_mc.listText_lst.setSize(550, 150);
Here's an example I came across this morning that has helped me to cut back
on my ram waste
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004file=2401.html
On 4/27/06, Julien Vignali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys,
I am
Is there a work around that will let me get rid of the settings choice in
the contextMenu for example when I right click on a particular movie clip.
I would like to right click on an mc and be able to have complete control
of what it says in the contextMenu. I have used hideBuiltInItems, but I
Thanks, Jim, but you didn't read my e-mail.
On 4/27/06, Jim Tann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.osflash.org/flashcoders/as2#handling_scope_in_event_handlers
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To change your subscription options or search the
i work on the support site for a kids' TV station, and am watching Flash
development on portable devices very, very closely. We put one of our
most simple games from our site on the PSP yesterday and it was DOG
slow. And the edges of the swf weren't masked, so you got to see all of
the
Most of the performance problems I've found with content is that people
expect too much per frame. If you spread the damage, such as attaching 15
movieclips over 15 frames vs. 1, you'd be surprised how forgiving the player
will be. I've been pretty impressed with Flash Lite 2 on my Nokia
I believe I read somewhere, but can't locate it, where you can add a
feature that allows the properties of custom created classes to show in
Flash when you are developing. I'd like to add some frequently used
classes so that when I type the class out: myClass.myMethod, that the
methods for the
Mine never show up unless someone replies...so, do you see it now?
Cheers
On 4/27/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Test - ignore
my messages don't seem to be getting through.
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | ICF International
Most of the fonts that I use are not free or come from Adobe Font Folio
OpenType edition. It doesn't happen with all fonts, but it is definitely
a problem with the Macromedia programs (I think this is a problem in
Freehand and Fireworks also, though I haven't tested that in a while)
since this
hi.
i'm building a scheduler app for people who need infusions over a 1 year
period. a user selects the following info to begin:
1. a starting date for first infusion - day, month, and year
2. number of infusions - 1-4
3. frequency of infusions - every 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks.
i have to come up
No. You can't.
On 4/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a work around that will let me get rid of the settings choice in
the contextMenu for example when I right click on a particular movie clip.
I would like to right click on an mc and be able to have complete control
I have been testing side by side performance of SWF content on a pocket pc
(Asus 636) versus PSP and the difference is stunning. Surprisingly the
performance of the Flash 6 player on the PPC is much, much better than on
the PSP.
Not what I expected, comparing a device running the Windows PPC
On 27-apr-2006, at 18:59, Kevin Newman wrote:
Most of the fonts that I use are not free or come from Adobe Font
Folio OpenType edition. It doesn't happen with all fonts, but it is
definitely a problem with the Macromedia programs (I think this is
a problem in Freehand and Fireworks also,
Hello again everyone,
Does anyone know of any documentation or explanation about some of the
variables in the Flash HTML template files?
For example, the actual name of the file is sent through a variable named
$PO, but I seem to be unable to find anything regarding how to break this
down
I have a project where I need to perform a file upload. The file is
displayed online for viewing. When an order happens I need to know the
original file path of the file that was uploaded. This will all in an admin
section so I can assume that the file exists on the clients computer.
I can get
Hi Matt,
If what you're looking for is a way to subtract two dates, then it's your
lucky day...
I just wrote an Age Counter component that displays how long it's been since
a specific date (years, months, hours, minutes, and seconds). It's for a
client who wants to show how long his pediatric
I have a project where I need to perform a file upload. The
file is displayed online for viewing. When an order happens I
need to know the original file path of the file that was
uploaded. This will all in an admin section so I can assume
that the file exists on the clients computer.
I
this page has a list of all the stuff:
http://www.123flashchat.com/flash/20_publish16.html
On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Alejandro Diaz wrote:
Hello again everyone,
Does anyone know of any documentation or explanation about some of the
variables in the Flash HTML template files?
For
Thanks for the link Manuel!
I guess I will have to create a reference to the delegated function for
each of my events... I'll try to do it and see if my objects are now
well destroyed in the memory.
By the way I found this article about the scope chain and persistent
activation of objects,
Hi group,
AS2 newbie question here...
I've been going round and round in circles trying to work out the best
way of doing this, so maybe someone can help me.
Let's say I have a movieclip on the main timeline of my fla called
acrobat_mc which is an animation of a little man doing a
Thanks! the explanation of some of those variables and a bit of thinking got
me to do exactly what I wanted.
In case anyone is interested, what I ended up doing is just doing away with
using $PO and $PE and building the file name using $TI and adding .swf? plus
the variables I am trying to pass.
Disappointing. I was eagerly awaiting for this to add to my reasons
for getting a PSP, but it seems that either it simply can't handle it
(which I find hard to believe, after seeing the games it runs), or
Sony is intentionally crippling things.
The PSP seems to be the poster child of missed
you should use flashvars instead of the .swf? - that way your swf
will be cached properly and you don't have any limits (or at least
much higher limits) than the query string.
On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Alejandro Diaz wrote:
Thanks! the explanation of some of those variables and a bit
This information is in the help files, but pretty hidden:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=0824.html
On a similar note I've got a flashObject template that I use:
http://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=111
But I'd like
hi karina.
that looks very useful. yes, please post it on your blog. i'm not sure it's
an exact fit for my problem but i'm making some progess here.
for example, i have a starting date as a date object and based upon what the
user
selects, i can calculate an increment. the only remaining
Unfortunatelly, I am sort of forced to use .swf? as it is one of the
requirements for the delivery of the flash movies I am working on (I
deliver them using a couple of different values only, it always remain
very short). But I will certainly take your advice when I am doing
similar projects not
oh and you should use swfobject to embed your stuff anyway :)
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Alejandro Diaz wrote:
y, it always remain
very short). But I will certainly take your advice
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Here is a SuperDate class I wrote if it's of use to you. You can get a
future date and also get the elapsed number of days since a date, get
the ordinal date etc.
/*
Name: SuperDate Class
Author: Jason Merrill
Date: 1/10/2006
Description: Some
Mine never show up unless someone replies...so, do you see it now?
Yeah, I saw your reply, but not my post. In my list subscription
options on chattyfig.figleaf.com, I have Receive your own posts to the
list? set to be Yes but I still don't see my own posts. Anyone know
how to fix this?
Jason
Yeah, I saw your reply, but not my post. In my list
subscription options on chattyfig.figleaf.com, I have
Receive your own posts to the list? set to be Yes but I
still don't see my own posts. Anyone know how to fix this?
I suspect this may be a configuration issue with your mail server.
Forgot to add that one of the reasons I am really surprised at the
difference in performance of the same SWF content on PPC versus PSP is
because I believe the PPC I am using has a very similar processor to the PSP
(312MHz vs 333MHz).
Then I found out the PSP processor is itself neutered to help
very nice. thank you very much.
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From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] calculating dates based on a starting date.
Here is a SuperDate
Ryan Creighton wrote:
i work on the support site for a kids' TV station, and am watching Flash
development on portable devices very, very closely. We put one of our
most simple games from our site on the PSP yesterday and it was DOG
slow. And the edges of the swf weren't masked, so you got to
Hmm - yeah, well nothing I can do about that I guess. I've never had
this problem before, but we recently changed our name to ICF
International and our e-mail addresses changed as well. Now
everything's wonky. Oh well, thanks.
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | ICF International
You would expect the player is damn Flash, if you at games such as GTA.
High-quality 3d gaming, I can't believe you can misuse the GPU of th
device for the heavy lifting.
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ASBroadcaster.initialize(acrobat_mc);
I think you could add a method on your audience object that does
acrobat_mc.addListener( this);
and a method
onTrickCompleted=function(){
applaud();
}
from the acrobat_mc you would call a broadcastMessage(onTrickCompleted);
The best explanation that I
mx.core.ext.UIObjectExtensions class, which is initialized in the
UIComponent symbol, do that.
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Jim Armstrong wrote:
If memory serves, MovieClip is a dynamic class and createClassObject()
is added to the MovieClip prototype by the V2 framework at runtime.
class
My client wants a list style menu with a transparent background - this
doesn't seem possible with the (clunky looking) List component (right?).
The TextField Class supports scrolling, and determining the mouse location
within it's region. Is there any way to determine which line was clicked,
and
If you use HTML text, you can use a href='asfunction:... etc. to
create hyperlinks that call an asfunction defined elsewhere,
including one argument being passed (actually you can have multiple
arguments but must use some delimiting character to split them
apart). This might be easier than
Is there a document/web site that outlines specific issues revolving around
Xray? I have encountered a project where the primary Flash file was
developed by someone else. After adding the Xray component I am unable to
get Xray to connect. I have gone through all of the code in this primary
file
Hello,
I have built an application that uses extended Macromedia components
(buttons), this application is loaded inside of another swf. In order to
make sure that the _root targets are correct for the app I've used
_lockroot (I know, it's a bad idea). The problem I am having is when the
labs.blitzagency.com - that's the official home / information source for
xray
Let me know if I can help out,
JG
On 4/27/06, Charles Parcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a document/web site that outlines specific issues revolving
around
Xray? I have encountered a project where the
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