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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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 our
of course :)
thanks Chafic and David..
Chafic Kazoun wrote:
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
iam interested to *load images from databse* using mysql.
Don't keep blob data in a database. Store a reference to it's location
in the file system.
Tony
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if you really want to (or have to) load images from the database then you'll
need to look at the server language you are using and find out how to send the
correct headers then send the image data.
Its probably easiest to get it working by displaying the images in a html page
first, then just
I swear I saw a sortable datagrid on IFBIN - can't check at the mo' as
my work proxy won't allow access - but it is definetely dooable
M
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one thing is sure
you need some language to go from Flash to MySql
and php is one of the most used with it ...
so just googling it -)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1903450160/104-4304575-8058314?v=glancen=283155
http://www.bigwebmaster.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Image_Galleries/
At first I thought you may just want to change the global quality settings,
as I have had to do this on projects before, not a nice thing to have to do
tho... just change the quality before you tween, then change it back once
its finished. This can be noticeable in different ways for text and
Ok,
Let's see if I got this right:
1. In order to use html formatting in author time created dynamic TextFields
I have to force embedding by inserting some text in every style I will need
and then choose the characters to embed in the properties panel;
2. With runtime created TextFields I have
changing _root._quality before and after tweening seems to be the best
solution, I guess.
I'll have a look at _highquality...
Thank you, Toby!
2006/8/22, Toby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At first I thought you may just want to change the global quality settings,
as I have had to do this on projects
3) No. Setting embedFonts property tells the textField to _use_
embedded fonts, it doesn't actually enforce embedding.
4) The simplest way to have multiple fonts in the same dynamic
TextField is to create a bunch of other, offscreen textfields (or
imported in a clip in the library, doesn't
Matti,
I came across the same feeling that I believe you are having when I first
tried it. It's a whole lot and every piece I tugged at seemed to be linked
to another piece of equal importance or at least that could just as
justifiably been a good starting point. In the end I found that if I
Jason,
I've read carefully through your recent flash WYSIWYG editor
thread. Glad you've found an appropriate solution.
Have you used styles in your text?
I faced a task to build flash WYSIWYG editor for CSS-based html.
But TextFormat technology allows to create only standard flash html
(e.g.
Ian,
So, that means that no matter which TextField you embed the fonts into, they
can be used in every TextField. I suppose this should work over a runtime
shared library MovieClip too.
Thanks a lot! This font thing almost got me crazy! You're help has been
invaluable and I cannot thank you
Why would you want to add the extra overhead of a file system? What
about data backup synchronization/integrity issues?
How do you organize the files. What if you get a lot of files and your
filesystem chokes? Put a thousand files in a Windows directory and watch
the fun.
You have more control
Hmmm, I dunno - I'm just using the standard Flash HTML formatting for
this project. The TextFormat class uses font tags.
Jason Merrill
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Hi Rui,
I'm afraid it's a bit more complex than that when using runtime
shared .swfs; loading in clips with fonts embedded into them will not
make those fonts available to the other loaded movies.
Search the Flashcoders list archives - there's plenty of threads about
loading fonts at runtime.
I'm loading several transparent pngs in swfs(flash 7), on top of each
other same xy, using moviecliploader. What seems to happen is i have
image1, image2, and image3 all loading, using the same
moviecliploader, then i reload image2 and image3 and for some reason a
big box of invisibilty comes
Hi there, the only way I could control the volume of a netstream video was
by adding _root as the target for my Sound object.
But I'd prefer to add a MovieClip as a target to the Sound object. Is it
possible to do that ?
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How does one access characters in a font that are beyond the standard ascii 127
characters? I'm about to start working with a custom font that has icons in the
outer reaches of the key map. The icons are in locations 288 - 318.
Any ideas how to get these characters?
Thanks in advance,
Steven
I controlled the sound with a movieclip (soundholder) by using
attachAudio like this:
soundholder.attachAudio(ns);
audio = new Sound(soundholder);
audio.setVolume(0);
(ns = netstream object)
Helen
Patrick Matte wrote:
Hi there, the only way I could control the volume of a
Hi list...
I'm not sure why I can't see my loaded flv on the stage. I can hear
them, I just can't see them. I have a class that runs the show as
follows.
Thanks,
- Michael M.
import flash.external.*;
class welcomeWebpage {
public var nc:NetConnection;
public var ns:NetStream;
[as]
for (i=288; i=318; i++) {
var val = String.fromCharCode(i);
trace(val);
}
[/as]
Any good?
M
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Excellent !
Le 22/08/06 11:44, « Helen Triolo » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I controlled the sound with a movieclip (soundholder) by using
attachAudio like this:
soundholder.attachAudio(ns);
audio = new Sound(soundholder);
audio.setVolume(0);
(ns = netstream object)
Does it work if you put an Embedded Video instance called vid on stage
instead? I don't think you can instantiate one like you're doing (but I
could be wrong).
Helen
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Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Hi list...
I'm not sure why I can't see my
Hi all,
I am having a major pain implementing a multiline textfield in a Tree
component using the Cellrenderer API.
I am using the basic multiline code framework from Macrodobe here:
ttp://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/fl8/samples.html
Make sure your Video Player Component has an instance name and is referenced
properly.
- James
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i have or had a similar problem.
I checked this with FlashPlayer Plugin 7, 8 and 9 on different
browsers and the problem occured only with FlashPlayer 7 Plugin. Can
you approve this for your problem, too?
The project went further and we added more and more layers and we
switched from PNG to GIF
bhasker u 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 thumbnails should able to show the enlarged view in given space
defined
beside the thumbs, loading the images
The other post Word Processor in Flash reminded me of a problem I
had a while back which I'm sure someone on this list would have an
idea how to get round.
I was trying to build a Flash application that behaved much like a
command line OS. So it consisted of an input text field, which
Hey all,
I have a project a that calls for a database to spit out results to a query
and display it in flash. I'm using php and I've gotten to the point where I
have the information I need but I don't know how to get full arrays back
into flash. I've been searching for tutorials with no luck,
I have yet to battle with manifesting something of the sort. I really like your
idea of using a variable watch.
I've had much better luck capturing keys on just pure movie clips. I think you
have greater control over user input if you're using a MovieClip.onKeyDown
instead of capturing input
Flash guru wrote:
Hey all,
I have a project a that calls for a database to spit out results to a query
and display it in flash. I'm using php and I've gotten to the point where I
have the information I need but I don't know how to get full arrays back
into flash. I've been searching for
some basic ideias
a) to return the array as an XML
b) depending on the data nature, return as string with values separeted by
, ; /
João Carlos Santiago
2006/8/22, Flash guru [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hey all,
I have a project a that calls for a database to spit out results to a
query
and
Hi Flash Guru,
Try looking up amfphp/flash remoting.
You could check out www.flashguru.co.uk for some tutorials on that
type of thing.
And maybe change your name to something else...
Cheers,
Alias
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Hey all,
I have a project a that calls for a
Anyone have a function that returns an array of the hex color values for
a particular range (i.e., say the 144 hex colors you see in the Flash
IDE's color picker)? Or know how to write one? I'm not looking for a
complete color picker class or component, I'm creating my own with
specific needs,
Not sure if you have tried this already http://www.amfphp.org/
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Hey
And maybe change your name to something else...
Sorry Flash Guru, but I laughed when I read that.
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function argbToHex(a,r,g,b){
return(a24|r16|g8|b);
}
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I guess I'd say it depends on what you're inputting to get your range.
A hex color value consists of red, green and blue values. It goes
0xRRBBGG and you can probably guess which colors go where. If you don't
know how to count in hex, F is the new 9. So it goes
I find Hungarian Notation to work well in ActionScript 2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
mcScoreboard
txtScore
aPlayers
sName
etc.
-mL
http://knowledge.lapasa.net
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The default Flash IDE palette is 216 colors, which constitute the
web-safe palette. If it's of any help, the web-safe palette assigns
R, G, and B each one of the following decimal values:
0
51
102
153
204
255
Convert each value to hexadecimal and create all the possible
combinations of three
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to make a screenshot of a page in Flash, using the
BitmapData.draw() method. This works fine in most uses, until I tried
doing it when there's an FLV playing in the movie clip I'm trying to
render as a bitmap. It works in the Flash IDE on Mac as a test movie,
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Hello
I am developing a CDROM with videos that use FLVPlayback Component. When I load
a video whith high duration and I want to make a seek advancing a significant
quantity of time, searching delays many seconds, like in an streaming loading.
The fact
CD-ROM are pretty slow to seek.
How does it work off the hard drive?
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Hello
I am developing a CDROM with videos that use FLVPlayback Component. When I load
a video whith high duration and I want to
if its a cdrom then progressive load is used and seek should in theory only
be affected for a very short time. you can consider loading the video
earlier, or using a interval of somekind 'and show a little load screen.
i had this problem for a bit when i used the mediaplayback component, but
My Flash aplication runs in a local machine. I´m debugging in the hard drive
(In CDROM it will be worst...)
The specification of the application is:
Flash 8
SWF compiled with MTASC
FLVPlayback Component wichh manages an external flv video
The video is encoding with On2 VP6
The duration of the
Could you send us the piece of code where you actually call the
bitmap.draw() ?
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Ok, this looked like a fun project so I wrote code to construct an
array of all web-safe colors:
hexColors = new Array(00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF);
webSafePalette = new Array();
// length of webSafePalette will be length of hexColors cubed:
for (i = 0; i Math.pow(hexColors.length, 3); i++) {
Jason,
I've no idea whether you have already considered this but:
function rgbToHex(clr:Number):String{
var clrTrans:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
clrTrans.rgb = clr;
return (0x + clrTrans.rgb.toString(16));
}
I've been told if I load an external .swf via the LoadMovie command, I now
can access the library of the loaded clip.
Is this true? If so, are there any guidelines for doing this? Does the
loaded clip have to remain attached to the project for the library symbols
to be available?
Thanks,
hi
i have a created TextField in a created emptyMovieClip in a MC, and
when i made my MC._alpha = 0, the textField inside still appears !
now, if i run the same script with an attachBitmap instead of
TextField, the bitmap disappears with my MC._alpha = 0.
any ideas ?
thanks
bhir
that lead me down some interesting paths...I didnt know there were 2 versions...
Im still not a fan of that style of Hungarian notation but I can see the
benefits of the 'original' :
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
you learn something new every day :)
Mark Lapasa wrote:
I
Hello :)
use an embed Fonts in your animation :)
var tf:TextField = createTextField(field, 1, 10, 10, 150, 20) ;
tf.setNewTextFormat ( new TextFormat (MyFont, 12) ) ; // MyFont is the
link name in you library
tf.embedFonts = true ;
tf.text = Hello World ;
tf._alpha = 50 ;
NB : Read your
Mike,
Works like a charm. Thank you very much!
-Steven
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for (i=288; i=318; i++) {
var val = String.fromCharCode(i);
trace(val);
}
[/as]
Any good?
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ok, it's working
thank's a lot EKA
bhir
Le 22 août 06 à 22:15, eka a écrit :
Hello :)
use an embed Fonts in your animation :)
var tf:TextField = createTextField(field, 1, 10, 10, 150, 20) ;
tf.setNewTextFormat ( new TextFormat (MyFont, 12) ) ; // MyFont is the
link name in you library
Thanks all - this is great stuff!
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions
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To:
I was told this was possible in AS2, but it doesn't seem to work.
I was under the impression that after loading an external clip via LoadMove,
the current movie had access to the library of the externally loaded clip
(so that clips in that libarary could be attached via attachMovie).
Is this
Heya Steven,
If you can't find one, you might try using Adobe Illustrator's
javascript to create the xml:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/illustrator/sdk/AIJavaScriptReference.pdf
Page 192 has information regarding the swatch accessibility, so it
sounds feasible.
I also
When I dynamically load text into a dynamic textfield using xml the
text does not remain bold. How can I get the dynamic text to be bold?
Thanks in advance,
Aaron
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This typically happens when you have not embedded the bold variant of
the font (assuming your dynamic textfield is using embedded fonts).
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Aaron Roberson wrote:
When I dynamically load text into a dynamic textfield using xml the
text does not remain bold. How can I get the dynamic text to
rw,
I have tried two techniques for embedding my fonts:
1. In the library panel, choosing New Font, and selecting my font
(Arial, bold, 12pt).
2. In the properties panel, selecting my font and choosing embed and
selecing a-zA-Z.
Neither of these methods are working :(
The first method does
Optimized for her pleasure:
hex = [00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF];
wsp = [];
var r, g, b;
r = 6;
var x = 0;
while (--r -(-1)) {
g = 6;
while (--g -(-1)) {
b = 6;
while (--b -(-1)) {
wsp[x++] = 0x + hex[r] + hex[g] + hex[b];
I'd like to ask:
Is a bounding box really necessary? I've read that unless you declare a
bounding box, elements created programmatically will not render correctly.
The reason I ask is because I get a little fed up with the whole tweak
code, adjust bounding box routine.
What do you guys do
Ah never mind. Found an answer:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-March/161517.html
Haikal Saadh wrote:
I'd like to ask:
Is a bounding box really necessary? I've read that unless you declare
a bounding box, elements created programmatically will not render
correctly.
No you can´t unless it´s a RSL and you're using the sharepoint trick (if you
don´t know what it is just do a quick search on google about rsl and
sharepoint). It was one of the things that I found confusing and hard to
understand when I started learning the flash platform. Seems they have fixed
Bbt Lists wrote:
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
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but Simon Wacker wrote a nice article in
April 05, ActionScript 2 Coding Standards: The Method. He also offers a
pdf at the top of the article. Might be of interest.
http://www.simonwacker.com/blog/archives/87.php
Dunc
On 8/22/06, Martin Wood [EMAIL
And maybe change your name to something else...
Stick with what you got. I for one looking forward to see what lame
question you'll ask next, Guru. ;-)
Tony
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Ok! I got it solved!
All I have to say is: BUY SERVICE CAPTURE (not affiliated). That program
saved my life. In the problem area of my movie, I had 3 different called
to classes. I had checked them all in the online service browser
(amfphp's), and all looked ok. Even when I accessed my PHP
Gregory,
Just out of interest have either you or Jason noticed that there's a
problem pasting text into flash on Firefox?
I posted a thread on this recently and found that 6 out of 22 people
with the latest install of FF where experiencing it.
Tony
How do I cast to something that is in the _global tree. by that i mean. cast
referencing like this: _global.com.somepackage.SomeClass( var ) or is the
_prototype chain? I can't remember...
the situation is this, I have a BasicView class. that needs to dynamically
be upcast to other views that
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