Just curious if many of you have done performance test on the Flash 8
filters and if they're much of a hit on the CPU or strain on rendering in
anyway...
eg.
- A MC doing _x++; with and without a blur filter (much difference in
performance?)
- 50 instances of above?
- FIlter values changing
I agree with Mark,
CSS Mastery is one of the best CSS books out there, written by a
well-known CSS guru.
I also read:
- Professional CSS (Wrox)*
- CSS: The Designer's Edge (Sybex)
- Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders)*
- CSS Anthology (Sitepoint)
- The Zen of CSS Design (Peachpit Press)*
*my
Kevin Newman wrote:
I had a problem recently embedding ComicSans MS (it was a comic app, so
it was ok ;-) ). The problem turned out to be related to my use of Faux
Bold. Just unchecking the Faux Bold box fixed it up. So maybe it's a
formatting problem?
OK, I'll look into that.
In the code
On 2 Jun 2006, at 02:57, Jon Bradley wrote:
http://www.meychi.com/archive/31.php
This one has the Rijndael algorithm implemented apparently. I
haven't had much time to test.
We use this library extensively. It seems to agree at least with
PHP's crypto functions.
Cheers,
Steve
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Hello all,
I need to create an installer for flash player 8.
Is there a tutorial or a full script for this?
It has to be NSIS installer.
Unfortunately I have no experience with NSIS or installers in general
and I am lost.
Thanks!
Dimitrios
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Yes I looked at oregano a while back, and was planning on using it but it
falls into the same category as the other open source projects as having no
financial obligation to support with problems that we may encounter. If i
was going to develop a project for personal use I would probably use
Hi there,
I got a nasty things with security maybe something I didnt understand...
My app load an xml.
So I publish my file to local security.
If I publish in F7 format and launch the swf, the loading fail.
If I publish in F8 format and launch the swf, the loading success.
And if I publish to a
On 2 Jun 2006, at 09:43, mike cann wrote:
Yes I looked at oregano a while back, and was planning on using it
but it
falls into the same category as the other open source projects as
having no
financial obligation to support with problems that we may
encounter. If i
was going to develop a
Very simple little problem probably and hopefully:
When adding items to a ComboBox using addItem() and setting its rowCount to
anything less than the number of added items, the ComboBox renders empty
completely and shows no scrollbar or items at all.
I cannot find any method of property that
Some really interesting and valuable stuff here. Adam, that link is really
useful - I like using formulas to make me feel confident about my
guestimates
One thing about clients who balk at your (perfectly reasonable) rates, plead
poverty and squeeze you for everything - in my experience it is
Yes I looked at oregano a while back, and was planning on using it but
it
falls into the same category as the other open source projects as
having no
financial obligation to support with problems that we may encounter.
If i
was going to develop a project for personal use I would probably use
Hi everyone,
I have a very strange problem with playing video/audio through
NetConnection.
Here is the code:
==
loadAudioFile();
function loadAudioFile(){
trace(inside)
var connection_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
I've done a bit of research and found a couple of questions about this but
no answers. If I'm using a linked font in Flash, how can I get it to
correctly assign bold/italic info? That is, I embed Arial four times:
Plain/Bold/Italic/Bold Italic. Each one has to be brought in as a separate
font,
Hi,
The company I work for is currently recruiting one more actionscript
programmer, if your interested check the website below and search for job
application :-).
Pedro Furtado | Software Engineer | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +351 938303212
YDreams - Informática S.A. |
Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets - The Definitive Guide. By O'Reilly. I
basically started from scratch a few months ago. This book tells and shows
you how css rules work. Definitive is pretty accurate.
I agree with Mark,
CSS Mastery is one of the best CSS books out there, written by a
I also believe that Responsibility plays a big part in pricing.
When I started freelance my prices were lead by skill level, the
harder the skill, the more unique and therefore the more expensive
(Charging more for Advanced Flash than simple CSS), basic supply and
demand. But now I'm
I am trying to get a browser window to quit upon completion of a Flash
based Assessment.
It is running on a touch screen till using the html file generated when
the fla file is published. Everything works fine until the assessment
is required to quit - but the current coding i am using will
Hello,
client want banner with sliding form for user to fill in some data and send
them,
problem flash shoyld be transparent and we are in czech so special font
characters are needed, is there any aolution, at least helping in this
issue
JS communication fro hideng/showng layers???
Martin
Olá Pedro. Vi o teu mail e fiquei curioso. Tenho alguma experiencia com
actionscript e adoro jogos de computador.
Tive no site e nao vi la nenhum job relacionado com programador
actionscript. De qualquer maneira eu vou enviar o cv.
José Maria
On 6/2/06, Pedro Furtado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look at ExternalInterface for easy Browser-Flash communication
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Hi everyone,
In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of
the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data
inline in your object tag. The original page has since been removed, and
the only evidence I can now find of this is at
Continuing this point...
I've done a bit of research and found a couple of questions about this but
no answers. If I'm using a linked font in Flash, how can I get it to
correctly assign bold/italic info? That is, I embed Arial four times:
Plain/Bold/Italic/Bold Italic. Each one has to be
I'm a little confused as to what your exact question is... Are you having
trouble getting the bold and italic styles to display properly, or is it an
issue of trying to achieve a preferred methodology?
-tom
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Glad to hear you got it working!
-tom
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Jason
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:32 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] .NET and XML Web services - WORKS - thanks
This is an old
I'm a little confused as to what your exact question is... Are you having
trouble getting the bold and italic styles to display properly, or is it
an
issue of trying to achieve a preferred methodology?
No, I'm really having trouble with the whole shared font, actually. I've
never managed
Danny,
I hope that I don't insult your intelligence by referring you to a TechNote.
But, by following the steps as shown at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14786 I was able
to use a shared font successfully in Flash 8. It sounds as if you may be
taking some unnecessary
You're FScommand is wrong... I'm pretty sure you need the blank
argument as well.
Try:
on (release, releaseOutside ) {
this.gotoAndStop ('buttonUp');
getURL(javascript:window.close(this));
fscommand(quit,);
}
(Extra blank argument to the end of the quit)
Dan
On 2 Jun 2006, at
I hope that I don't insult your intelligence by referring you to a
TechNote.
Not at all - I've tried a fair few places all with different advice, but
this one might be the one that works :)
But, by following the steps as shown at
The second parameter is optional and can be left out.
Check the docs:
Availability:
- None of the commands described in the table are available in web
players.
- All of the commands are available in stand-alone applications, such as
projectors.
- Only allowscale and exec are available in
I can't reproduce your problem here (Flash 8, Win2k). With a combobox
cb and two clips, add3 and add4, on stage, the combobox displays and
works fine when add4 is clicked (no matter the order or number of times
either button is clicked):
var a:Array = [a, b, c];
cb.dataProvider = a;
I hope that I don't insult your intelligence by referring you to a
TechNote.
But, by following the steps as shown at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14786 I was
able
to use a shared font successfully in Flash 8. It sounds as if you may be
taking some unnecessary
I am making a kiosk app this pretty simple, but needs to have a movie play
if there is no interaction within 10 minutes or so. Essentially a screen
saver, my problem is that when i try using an interval it works fine for the
first 2 times there is no interaction after that the interval doesn't
Hi all,
Im kinda new to the whole event dispatching and listening way of doing
things that the v2 components have introduced me to and would like some
advice on how to go about coding this situation:
Suppose i have a game which is represented by a class cMyGame and within
there i have have my
Thanks Helen,
I managed to trace the problem to a custom scrollbar that is being used
elsewhere in the swf, which - to make things even more complex - had broken
assets.
After fixing those custom scrollbar assets, the comboBox now does show all
items and the scrolling works - only there is no
Interval should work - sounds like you have something changing it. How do
you set your interval time, what does it do when it fires, and does anything
change it?
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If you want to do run-time embed rather than author-time embed, you follow
the exact same procedure, except that the linkage for your font library
would be Export for runtime sharing instead of Export for ActionScript.
I tried it with a really complex font called JokerMan and my resulting
heres' my code
import mx.video.*;
movie.onRelease = function(){
clearInterval( 1 );
goMovie();
}
//intervalID = setInterval(test,1);//5 seconds
function test(){
clearInterval( 1 );
goMovie();
}
function goMovie(){
var myTween:Tween = new Tween(blankie, _alpha,
I know the filters are built in to the player, but does this mean there
really isn't much performance issues at all? Has anyone seen any online
test
results from such things?
I don't have numbers because I haven't done tests for performance with
the objective of getting numbers, but the
I'm starting a new project that seems very Flex-worthy (yes, it's forms
based). According to the FAQ from Adobe, Flex 2 is coming out in the first
half of '06. There's less than a month left.
I won't be able to sell my client on building the project with a beta
product. Should I have faith or
Use Flash 8 instead :) That's what I had to do for a client when they
wouldn't buy Flex 1.5.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Technology Solutions
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Sent:
Would it be an option to design/build with beta 2 (or at the very least
prototype), then recompile and deliver to client with the release
version of Flex 2? Im guessing there wont be significant differences
between the two (other than bug fixes).
Adam Pasztory wrote:
I'm starting a new
Re: Nick's suggestion, that's what I'm doing for a client right now. And
it's coming down to the wire because I need to deliver the solution...but
the client knew this going in, and beta 3 is still pretty solid. Depending
on the development time, this seems to be a great way to do it.
Cheers
Taking this back to the original point, did you ever get one font embedded
that has plain, bold, italic bold italic symbols so if you have a html
text field with all of those styles inside it will display correctly?
I have never managed to do this would like to know if its possible. I have
no
I guess the real question is when is Flash 9 player coming out?
I could convince the client to work with the beta IDE, but if in 2 months
we're getting ready to launch and it's still not out, we're screwed.
In my opinion, Flash 8 does not work as an overall solution for the
project. If I had
Try the following, should close the browser window without a prompt:
AS code:
// call javascript function closeWindow in html page
getURL(javascript:closeWindow());
and add this script in the head of the html page created when you publish
your file (same file that loads your swf),
JS code:
No... In fact it seems to fail entirely if you turn on Render Text as Html
for the text field. I'll have to research this more another day.
-tom
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To: 'Flashcoders
It looks like a singleton, all be it a weird way of making one. Usually you
would have the instance variable as private access it with a getter
function like:
class MyTestClass
{
private var _instance: MyTestClass;
public function getInstance():MyTestClass{
Bummer, well if you have any luck let me know.
Jim
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Sent: 02 June 2006 19:19
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Font symbols and bold/italic (cont.)
No... In fact it seems to
Ignore my post below, I am hung over got the wrong end of the stick
entirely.
Sorry
Jim
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Sent: 02 June 2006 19:25
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Weird OOP ability... Need a
Hi
has anyone had experience with the mobile player? I was wondering if
there were some words of wisdom on thatlike what to watch out for
- what really works and what doesnt etc.
Anyone have opinions on it?
regards
Tj
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Your zip was 2.5MB... and includes all kinds of irrelevant stuff, I only
finished the download because I forgot it was coming down.
However, the problem you're looking to solve isn't that simple- you'll need
to figure out a good way to draw dashed curves to get what you're looking
for... there
Ok - i now have this as the coding within the flash file
on (release, releaseOutside ) {
this.gotoAndStop ('buttonUp');
getURL(javascript:window.close(););
fscommand(closeBrowserWindow, );
}
and i have some java in the html page like so ...
script type=text/JavaScript
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I'm looking to examine so good online video player interfaces for a
project I'm working on, and wanted to know if anyone could share some
urls. I'd like to focus more on ad-supported streaming players.
So far I have:
ABC Episode Streming
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
Nike
Try this:
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/
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Regarding - i don't even get a warning dialog box to ask me if i am sure i
want to
close the window --
Don't know if this helps you - it's a way to notify the user that he's
attempting to shut the browser window that is running the Flash app. (I
used this approx 1-1/2 years ago - it still
Tom Lee wrote:
In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of
the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data
inline in your object tag. The original page has since been removed, and
the only evidence I can now find of this is at
Make sure to old instances that aren't visible.
Quick test tells me that you can make addressable clips and attach movies at
depths over 1,000,000 ... make sure to remove your unused clips.
On 6/1/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got an app that's a glorfied slideshow, slowly
It is possible to encode ANY file to base64 and insert it on a page (a
flash file, an image, a sound). The problem is that IE doesn´t support it.
You can do (for example)
img
src=data:image/gif;base64,dSQ84lLQfY5R14wDB5Lyon4ubwS7jx9NcV9/j5+g4JADs=
width=10 height=15 /
And all browsers will
Tom Lee wrote:
In the original Microsoft list of workarounds for the Eolas patch, one of
the possible workarounds was to base64 encode your swf and embed the data
inline in your object tag. The original page has since been removed, and
the only evidence I can now find of this is at
Hey all,
I've got a project that involves an application that contains a browser
control in it (IE) and has specific ActiveX access to allow local file
system access in a secure way. I'm looking to use Flash as my front-end, but
still have access to the file system.
Is there any tools /
Does anyone else find it funny that even though IE doesn't support this,
Outlook does? I've received all kinds of stupid emails with encoded sounds,
images and other objects from relatives...
!k
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Do you mean Flash Lite 1.1? Flash Lite 2.0? The Player for
Windows Mobile (which is pretty much FP6?).
FP 7 for Windows Mobile is now available.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our
Awesome! Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I'll definitely be playing
around with this a bit further.
-tom
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Subject: RE:
I am trying to make some logic that I had in actionscript work in php on the
server before I update flash. Is their an equivalent to loadvars in php that
you can post data and return and object? I know that this is a little off
topic so sorry anyone that currently has the urge to rant.
I'm going to take a stab here and guess that what you're looking for is
SOAP(Simple Object Acess Protocol):
http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/
This allows you to expose functions within php, then you can call the
function and return an object. You can call the function from flash, or
another
Your question is very vague, but you might check out PHPObject.
On 6/2/06, Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to take a stab here and guess that what you're looking for is
SOAP(Simple Object Acess Protocol):
http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/
This allows you to expose functions
Does anyone have any info on a Flash 8 player plugin for Palm OS
Blazer 4.3?
Lane Good
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I have an unusual situation. We have a flash app that displays .flvs via
progressive download (we don't have a streaming solution in place yet). Higher
ups are worried about the possibility of users going into their browser's cache
and saving the downloaded flv files. Is there some way to
On 3 Jun 2006, at 00:00, Spurgeon, Chris wrote:
We have a flash app that displays .flvs via progressive download
(we don't have a streaming solution in place yet). Higher ups are
worried about the possibility of users going into their browser's
cache and saving the downloaded flv files.
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