Hi,
I've got some best practice questions about the quality settings of MovieClips.
Correct or not - this._quality = "best" in some loaded MovieClip will
effect the whole Application in its quality and because of that in its
performance?
Usually we use quality="best" in our HTML code to embed ou
The problem I am having is tabbing between the textfields within these
movieclips and I don't know what the problem is.
You've looked at tabEnabled, tabOrder, tabChildren?
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I have a number of movieclips in my flash application. Within these movieclips
is one textfield. The movieclips all have an AS2.0 class definition.
The problem I am having is tabbing between the textfields within these
movieclips and I don't know what the problem is.
If I copy a few of the mo
Well, I'll tell ya about a problem I had in a project of mine that
sounded kinda similar. It was similar because we were loading mini
resource intensive games into a main container movie - which in turn was
in Zinc.
Anyway I did end up having memory leaks, but it wasn't Flash's fault. I
mad
Can you test it outside of Director, to start isolating whether it's
a Flash, Director, or the combination of the two? Also, are you
testing on multiple machines, in order to isolate a potential
hardware or driver problem?
- Marc
At 04:52 PM 8/21/2006, you wrote:
Banging my head trying to ge
Banging my head trying to get to the bottom of a bug on a CDROM that should
be going for duplication tomorrow.
It is Flash 8 CDROM (PC Only) with a main container movie and various games
loaded into it. The flash movie is loaded into a Director shell though I
have tried it using Zinc and had the s
You need to include the skin swf to have the controls present in your
new swf.
On Aug 20, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Jonez wrote:
I have a 4 megabyte flv file that loads via attachMovie into my swf
file.
When I run from my computer everything works fine. Once I post the
swf on
the net, the cont
I've used JSON (http://json.org/) before, not for config files, but
for exchanging data between flash, java, and php. It's quite easy to
use for someone with actionscript/javascript experience, and there are
parsing libraries for most other languages as well.
On 8/21/06, R.A. Williamson <[EMAIL P
I wonder if what you all are seeing is a stack issue. Sometimes you
can make what seem like nonesense changes that affect the way clips
load. As I understand it, this has to do with memory allocation and
event-listeners. So the idea is that adding something like a comment
increases the s
I've found XFactor Studio's XPath library to be invaluable:
http://www.xfactorstudio.com/
In a similar vein, does anyone here use a solid alternative to XML
config files, perhaps with server-side object serialization or some such?
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Flash Mel wrote:
Jack - Awesome! I'm off to the store f
The best place to find conventions is in the component framework,
specifically the new flex framework uses upto date best practices.
Otherwise there are AS2 best pratices docs on the adobe site, I think they
were written by jen deHann
Regards,
Bjorn Schultheiss
Senior Flash Developer
QDC Techn
Hi all
The earliest document I could find about coding conventions for flash
and actionscript are from flash 5. Has anyone written up a guide for use
AS2/3?
I prefer to use my java/javascript conventions as a base, but that still
excludes things like:
* Naming symbols/linkages
* Nami
Jack - Awesome! I'm off to the store for a while, soon as I get back
I'll give this a test.
David - Thanks for the link. Looks useful as well. I'll give these a
try and respond in a few thanks peeps.
Cheers,
fM
On 8/21/06, Jack Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wrote a class that might
In what way were they not deleted? How have you assertained this?
Also, what syntax are you using for removeMovieClip? A common mistake
is to pass a reference to the movie you want to delete as a parameter,
like so:
removeMovieClip(myMc)
Whereas actually, removeMovieClip is a member function of
I wrote a class that might be useful to you. Just point it at your XML file
and it'll load it and parse it into Arrays/Objects. See the top of the class
file for some documentation. It can also reverse parse (dump an object back
into XML format).
http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/XMLParser.zip
Curious, what does, "mechanically generated code" mean? Space robots?
...with the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting
and shoving.
ryanm
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Please try to subscribe to Flashnewbie so we no0bs can get good
answers to what are probably easy problems and keep our no0b chocolate
our of your coder peanut butter.
I try to post most of my questions in Flashnewbie and mostly lurk in
Flashcoders, but, it
From what I know (And I am no expert on the Flash Player). The way
the JIT process works, not everything is actually always JITed.
Bytecode that is executed once may not tget JITed at all. But code
that is accessed multiple times or deemed as a performance botleneck
will get JITed. The main
Probably what he said...
On 8/21/06, Bart Wttewaall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wouter, wil je flashcoders uit je auto-respond lijst halen?
2000+ mensen zitten daar niet op te wachten ;)
Groeten, Bart
2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Geachte heer/mevrouw,
>
> Ik ben t/m 25 au
The new xml class in AS3 is really cool too.
David Rorex wrote:
I kinda like XMLShortcuts:
http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/?search=XMLShortcuts
On 8/21/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xpath
On 8/21/06, Flash Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> There has to
Using the same depth is fine -- it completely replaces the original clip at
that depth, eh?
>
> From: "Johannes Nel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2006/08/21 Mon PM 02:05:56 CDT
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list"
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] oop question kind of...
>
> it sounds to me that you ar
I kinda like XMLShortcuts:
http://www.shockwave-india.com/blog/?search=XMLShortcuts
On 8/21/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xpath
On 8/21/06, Flash Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> There has to be a better way to parse XML. Using "for" loops seems
> antiquate
On 8/21/06, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does the compiled code get recompiled during runtime to machine code
>> (like a JIT compiler) or does it get interpreted?
>
> Some Adobe presentation on the subjet was saying that all the code get
> JIT'ed, except the $iinit and $cinit functio
I've also found a few quirks with removeMovieClip... however most of
them seem to be related to depth. I use this class whenever I remove
a clip (dynamically attached or otherwise), and it seems to do the
trick.
/**
The MovieClipRemover class is a static utility class which removes
timel
Rui,
You'll need to embed three versions of Arial (normal, bold, and italic),
for this to work.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:06:13 +0100
From: "Rui Duarte Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Flashcoders] Multiple html formattings in a TextField
To: "FlashCoders Mailing List"
Message-ID: <[
Yes this is easy in Flex 2.
And it's not just the assets that you can use. You can use anything in
the loaded swf as if it was in the main movie.
Sammi
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
Hmmm... it seems that AVM2 has solved the classic problem we had with
Flash
that forced us to use RSL to do
Can things like whitespace produce this kind of result? How about spaces
instead of tabs (code formating)?
Just having a hard time tracking this issue down.
Just to recap, and possibly add more info:
I had a remoting project that just stopped working. I put traces in on
the method that calls
SWFStudio with the SQLite plugin has worked well for me.
Jim
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Accessing DB files from a Flash Projector ?
Hi Al
xpath
On 8/21/06, Flash Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone,
There has to be a better way to parse XML. Using "for" loops seems
antiquated. Could I do a "while" loop and cycle through all the
possible nodes? What else is out there for parsing XML in a cleaner
fashion?
Cheers!
fM
Does the compiled code get recompiled during runtime to machine code
(like a JIT compiler) or does it get interpreted?
Some Adobe presentation on the subjet was saying that all the code get
JIT'ed, except the $iinit and $cinit functions which are the one
defining the classes and initializing t
Hello everyone,
There has to be a better way to parse XML. Using "for" loops seems
antiquated. Could I do a "while" loop and cycle through all the
possible nodes? What else is out there for parsing XML in a cleaner
fashion?
Cheers!
fM
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Yes, this was great Bach.
Going to look at this more.
fM
On 8/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hy
if you want to try with a 3D systeme -> http://www.kirupa.com/
developer/actionscript/3dexplore.htm
l Bach ll www.synchrome.net l
Le 14 ao
Thanks for the valuable information Nicolas. I strongly think you should
write a book on Flash Player internals! This would be the missing piece for
mastering the flash platform... I really miss this kind of information and a
good "dummie" introduction to them (There's isn't such a book available.
it sounds to me that you are using the same depth or instance name for a new
clip before removing the old one.
On 8/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Have you tried using some kind of factory type approach
> to manage your deletion/creation?
yes, i use adts quite often...in f
>Have you tried using some kind of factory type approach
> to manage your deletion/creation?
yes, i use adts quite often...in fact i use the mvc pattern for quite a few
apps i create. So i have views that instantiate whatever movieclips it needs
and deletes them when it doesn't need them. the
Sweet! Thanks for the info.
Kevin N.
Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
Here are some things I've been wondering about Actionscript 3.0s
compiler and runtime engines:
I'm assuming AS 3.0 compiles to a bytecode. What kind of bytecode
does it compile to? Is it more like Java/.NET CLR, or more like
Mozi
Hmmm... it seems that AVM2 has solved the classic problem we had with Flash
that forced us to use RSL to do this kind of thing? I mean, we couldn´t just
load a swf and use it´s assets on the parent context and vice-versa... is it
possible with flex 2?
Marcelo.
On 8/21/06, Samúel Jónasson <[EMAIL
Hi there,
For what it's worth...
Previous to flash 8, the flash player uses both reference counting and
mark/sweep garbage collection, which kicks in every 60 seconds or so,
or when the number of allocated objects is increased by 20%. So the
reference counting takes care of the objects without c
On 8/21/06, [b) a d i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the problem i have is after calling removeMovieClip or delete is that when i
need to re-instantiate the object...it's either corrupt or not created
properly...i was a little upset to find so many dangling pointers after i
went thru so much trouble
> Have you tried mc.removeMovieClip() ?
yes...i should have mentioned it...
a little background...
this is a question i've had for a long time, but didn't have anyone to ask
it to :)...i've been on the macromedia forums, but most of the time i don't
get the answer i need or i get some wise-aker
I recently went through this - and am still building one now for a
project. You can use the TextFormat class - works nicely for the text.
However, it doesn't handle img tags - so it's very difficult to insert
an IMG tag and then manually delete it later because in so doing, it
screws up Flash's i
Hi All,
I would like to be able to access compact database files ( using
a DB format with built-in compression )
from a Flash projector without requiring the user to have a DB app
installed. This should be a stand-alone
runtime solution.
Right now I am thinking of using Zinc with DB DLL l
Why do my links appear on come computers and not on others? I have four
areas that contain links in my swf and some computers don't show them. They
show the animation and images, just not the items I have linked. Upon closer
examination it appears as though the person needs to download the latest
v
I've been looking for a while for a word processor component that would
extend the functionality of the basic rich text editor from Flash but I
couldn't find any. We are in the planning stages for a new project and
one of the key things that we would need is a text editor able to handle
at leas
Hi,
Suppose I have a Dynamic TextField on the stage and I want to:
1. Insert html formatting such as This normal
ArialThis is Arial BoldThis Arial Italic
2. Embed the font (in order to allow it to be masked and to keep
anti-aliasing)
3. Use it under a mask
Is this possible?
Rui Duarte Silva
Sen
Wouter, wil je flashcoders uit je auto-respond lijst halen?
2000+ mensen zitten daar niet op te wachten ;)
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Geachte heer/mevrouw,
Ik ben t/m 25 augustus afwezig. Ik zal uw mail daarna zo snel mogelijk in
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Solved it.
Actually I was complicating things when trying to use the samples in
other articles. Do this if you are interested in checking:
- Create a skin.swf
- Create one symbol and export it as "Button_up"
- Publish to build the swf.
- Use the following to include the skin at runtime.
pack
You must register and create an account. Then you will get email
instructions for access to the sdk.
https://registration.weather.com/ursa/xmloap/step1?
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Have you tried mc.removeMovieClip() ?
On 8/21/06, [b) a d i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
i've noticed that just because you call delete on a movie clip or even an
object doesn't mean that it totally goes away. Does anyone know how to
destroy and object and really have it go away since there a
AS2 uses reference counted garbage collection, so to completely delete
an object, you must delete all other objects that refer to it. Calling
delete on a movie clip only removes the reference to the movieclip
object on the stage.
HTH,
Alias
On 8/21/06, [b) a d i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
i've noticed that just because you call delete on a movie clip or even an
object doesn't mean that it totally goes away. Does anyone know how to
destroy and object and really have it go away since there are no destructors
in as2?
thanks
b
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Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
It always intrigued me how this method worked internally. First, when I
register this (AS2):
Object.registerClass('mylinkageid_or_myobjectname',myclass);
1)How does flash knows that each time I create a new instance of the
object/movieclip symbol it should attac
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thank you for your response.
I had read this article as well but didn't find the solution to my
problem. It is really important for me not to have to compile my app
when the skin changes - so they need to load at runtime. So if I have
two files:
- assets.swf
- app.swf
...the symbols
It always intrigued me how this method worked internally. First, when I
register this (AS2):
Object.registerClass('mylinkageid_or_myobjectname',myclass);
1)How does flash knows that each time I create a new instance of the
object/movieclip symbol it should attach it to the class specified? Is it
hi.
i don't have the answer to your question but i did see this post on keith
peters' blog this morning that may help you out:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=853
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to find out how to use external SWF as a library of assets
that I can instantiate in my as3 projects. I have gone through several
articles that "almost" explain this. One in particular is "Loading Flex
Skins at Runtime" at http://blogs.adobe.com/kiwi/2006/07/
Basica
Haven't used it, but I remembered seeing this before.
I'm assuming it is US only though... So may not be of any help.
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Guess actually sending the link might help
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/
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I disagree. We use them to denote class members, and I've found it
very effective.
Alias
On 8/18/06, Greg Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Using $ in flash is just wierd :). There is no special meaning - I
don't think it should even be valid.
On 8/18/06, Tom Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'
hi,
you should have a look at amfphp (www.amfphp.org)
it's really cool :)
On 8/21/06, bhasker u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HI, all
I was trying to incorporate a small interface in my flash site where I
would
like to load 9 thumbnails(images) in 3*3 grid, when ever the mouse moves
on
to thumbn
Curious, what does, "mechanically generated code" mean? Space robots?
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>>I also
>>recommend downloading an Enterprise Architect trial
>>http://www.sparxsystems.com/ or Poseidon
Hmmm, I think however that software like Enterprise Architect is far too
complex and requires at least minimal UML knowledge for someone just
trying to wrap their head around OOP. It's a grea
At 17:04 19/08/2006, Jamie P wrote:
Cookies are automatically passed by the browser along with your http request
to the server so sessions will work as normal in Flash (when using Flash
embedded in a web page or even when viewing a swf in the browser??).
Sessions seem to work normally (i.e. coo
HI, all
I was trying to incorporate a small interface in my flash site where I would
like to load 9 thumbnails(images) in 3*3 grid, when ever the mouse moves on
to thumbnails should able to show the enlarged view in given space defined
beside the thumbs, loading the images from a folder is quite
Just as I thought.. Whoever thought that up should have a good
spanking! It might be sufficient for small movieclips, but it's quite
noticable with large movieclips such as a page in my application that
measures almost half of the Stage.
Makes me wonder though; how about a line being drawn at suc
-
As I understand it, flash is limited to rotating objects in steps of 0.1
degrees.
Bart Wttewaall wrote:
Hi Flashcoders,
I've been busy recreating the famous PageFlip application and I've
noticed something weird. It seems that movieclips have a limitation to
their rotation. When I turn ov
Hi Flashcoders,
I've been busy recreating the famous PageFlip application and I've
noticed something weird. It seems that movieclips have a limitation to
their rotation. When I turn over a page in the application, there are
visible errors in the shadows and masks that make this page up. They
flic
I´ve made several attempts to reduce my OO blindness but I only could find a
very sound help with
Head First Design Patterns
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007124/104-4304575-8058314?v=glance&n=283155
it is Java based, but it doesn´t matter,
the style, the examples, it makes you laugh
in the last case an eval might take some work out of your hands.
-Meinte
On 8/21/06, Miguel Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is not passing the arguments, but how many arguments pass.
I can't use a text file, there I could only store basic types, but not
complex properties nor o
I battled furiously to get my head around Object-Oriented
Programming with Actionscript
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735711836/sr=8-2/qid=1156121055/ref=sr_1_2/103-4690969-4407040?ie=UTF8
only to find that looking back a lot of the explanations largely
added to my confusion.
IMHO your
The problem is not passing the arguments, but how many arguments pass.
I can't use a text file, there I could only store basic types, but not
complex properties nor objects. I think about a dirty solution:
public class ClassFactory{
public static function createInstance(className:String, arg
Very cool idea Haikal! Certainly seems the best option for text printing,
I'm going to try it one day.
thanks,
-Meinte
On 8/21/06, Haikal Saadh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My approach to printing oodles of multiline text is to let the browser
do it:
* When the print button is pressed, save
Hi Stephen,
Check the linkage properties of the component in the library and uncheck
"export in first frame".
HTH
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I have a preloader class for my app that doesn't appear until more than half
way through the loading of my entire application.
This is because I have a flash v2 combo box further along in my application.
I should know this, but how do I get my preloader (which is a class of it's
own) up and r
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