SV: [Flashcoders] scrollPane :: issues

2006-10-27 Thread Johnny Michaelsen
Use the System.security.allowDomain(www.loadfromthis.com); inside your swf at the top in frame 1. And have the crossdomain.xml file in the root of the domain your are trying to load from. // ?xml version=1.0? cross-domain-policy allow-access-from domain=www.allowloadfromthis.com /

[Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Johan Nyberg
Hi, I'm looking for an easy to learn and use 3d program to create content for Flash. What are your suggestions? I want to do fairly simple animations, but I need something that are a bit more complex than say, Xara3d. -- Varmfrontsgatan 1 128 34 Skarpnäck 070 - 407 83 00 08 – 37 16 73

RE: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Mountain
Cinema 4D by Maxon is both simple to use and very powerful M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johan Nyberg Sent: 27 October 2006 08:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d

Re: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Mick G
swift3D - used in many design agencies I've worked for, not for it's features - just easy to use and create simple flash 3D content. On 10/27/06, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cinema 4D by Maxon is both simple to use and very powerful M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Matthias Dittgen
I do prefer something like: modelling: Blender or the like for modelling, and export to 3ds file format or the like rendering: Swift3D (IMHO: good for rendering, only) Have fun, Matthias 2006/10/27, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cinema 4D by Maxon is both simple to use and very powerful

Re: [Flashcoders] There is no method with the name 'super'

2006-10-27 Thread Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ]
The reason why your error goes away is because the movieclip on the stage is not extended by 'RectangleExt' and the class is never loaded. So there is no error. Some findings: - the only way to get rid off the error is to completely remove all the actionscript on the frames. - Compiling in

[Flashcoders] very special Problem : set style and combobox

2006-10-27 Thread Laurent CUCHET
I meet a special problem with set style and attached movie. I apply a font size to 9 and when I open it the label inside get bigger You can see it there : http://www.laurentcuchet.fr/flash/combobox I done this script : // var maxfields=2; sp.contentPath = mc; for (var i = 1; i=maxfields; i++) {

RE: Re: [Flashcoders] HELP! Zinc projector saving to xml file - 50klimit?

2006-10-27 Thread Derek Stottlemyer
I'm afraid I don't remember how I did it, but I managed to save 600k + files where I used to work. I think you had to do it ASYNC, which also speeded things up. I don't think I had to append to the file, though I can't remember for sure. http://www.mdmforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13697

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Julien V.
Bill, Take a look at kirupa's XML guide here: http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/XMLwayAround2.htm I also came across the same problem some time ago. I decided not to play with siblings because our xml schema (especially the order of the sibling nodes) couldn't be predictable. So I went to a custom

[Flashcoders] debugger works in flash

2006-10-27 Thread ~ *** $UHASINI *** ~
Hi all Can everyone can help to solve my problem... Please explain how the debugger works in flash Thanx in advance Suhasini Ms. Suhasini Salunkhe. Web Developer Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - 400 076 - Do you

Re: [Flashcoders] debugger works in flash

2006-10-27 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, sure, press F1 and look up the chapter 'debugging in Flash' kind regards, JC On 10/27/06, ~ *** $UHASINI *** ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Can everyone can help to solve my problem... Please explain how the debugger works in flash Thanx in advance Suhasini Ms. Suhasini

[Flashcoders] Check visible characters in textfield

2006-10-27 Thread Ellen Sundh
Hi! I wonder if there is a way to count characters visible in a textfield? I have a text where not all characters are embeded in the textfield and I want to check how many that are.. So it would be great if there was I way to check the length of the text in the textfield and not the original

Re: [Flashcoders] Check visible characters in textfield

2006-10-27 Thread Miguel Angel Sánchez
You can check txt_tf.textWidth before and after adding a character to the textfield, if it doesn't change, the character is not embedded. Something like this: //Your textfield in stage with some characters embedded var tf:TextField; //The characters you want to test var chars:String =

Re: [Flashcoders] SharedObject and Load Balanced Server (Local SharedObjects)

2006-10-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i thought about this last night and I believe this is more of a question about how the load balancing server would work - what the URLs would look like. If the load balanced server ends up generating alternate domains, like www2.domain.com, www3.domain.com, etc. I am thinking I might be able

[Flashcoders] OT - Flash Player run on the Blackberry?

2006-10-27 Thread Miles Thompson
A couple of clients, not technically minded, have said that Flash now runs on the Blackberry. I checked the Adobe Flash Lite pages and see Pocket PC and Sony clie. Asked at Blackberry tech support (they shoud know, right?) and the kindest way to describe the response would be obtuse. The

Re: [Flashcoders] Check visible characters in textfield

2006-10-27 Thread Ellen Sundh
Thanks for the fast reply! It works perfectly! Ellen Miguel Angel Sánchez wrote: You can check txt_tf.textWidth before and after adding a character to the textfield, if it doesn't change, the character is not embedded. Something like this: //Your textfield in stage with some characters

[Flashcoders] AS2 Timer Class with multiple Events

2006-10-27 Thread eric dolecki
Hey all, I am looking for a pretty light-weight AS2 Timer class that I can assign multiple events to... such as fire an event at 15 seconds, then finally at the end (30 secs). Something with clean API. I'm googling now. - e. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] There is no method with the name 'super'

2006-10-27 Thread Muzak
No MovieClip is attached to the RectangleExt class and doesn't need to be. It's used by Tester class (which is attached to a MovieClip). I can clearly see the trace in the constructor of RectangleExt, so the class is loaded. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Quinten [ ::

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 Timer Class with multiple Events

2006-10-27 Thread JOR
I wrote an AS2 Timer class that mimics the AS3 timer class: http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/18/as2-timer-class/ You can also use it as a starting point and tweak it for you needs. James James O'Reilly — Consultant Adobe Certified Flash Expert http://www.jamesor.com Design • Code • Train

Re: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread JOR
Grimm posted a link to Google's SketchUp yesterday and I checked that out. It's pretty sweet. I normally do all my stuff in 3D Studio but I might use this for some rapid model building to import into Max for rendering. http://sketchup.google.com/download.html The tutorials are worth the

Re: [Flashcoders] debugger works in flash

2006-10-27 Thread John Grden
Get Xray and save your hair: www.osflash.org/xray On 10/27/06, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sure, press F1 and look up the chapter 'debugging in Flash' kind regards, JC On 10/27/06, ~ *** $UHASINI *** ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Can everyone can help to solve my

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Doyle
You might want to try using my XMLParser class. It translates the XML into ActionScript-friendly arrays/objects. http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/XMLParser.zip Jack Doyle -Original Message- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:13:50 -0400 From: Bill Pelon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] IDE Question / annoyance

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
I always figure sharing assets across movies is just asking for trouble, so in cases like that I load them from the filesystem at runtime. That's what I do anyway, doesn't mean you can't make it work. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions

RE: [Flashcoders] Easy to learn and use 3d program

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Blender - very Powerful tool, not too bad to learn (though takes time reading the tutorials) - and Opensource (free!). Would recommend you check out Blender (or also Wings 3d, though I haven't tried that yet). However downside is no .swf output - though you could bring the model into

Re: Re: [Flashcoders] Book recommendation for multiuser games / apps

2006-10-27 Thread Ing. Mario Falomir
Hi Jobe, I also have the mx 2004, which I liked very much btw, of the Flash Game Demisifyed , are you planning an AS3 version of the book ?? :) On 10/26/06, Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have people had any experience with the Red5

[Flashcoders] Flash Switcher extension for Firefox!

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Neave
Just thought I'd post this in case anyone missed it: http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2006/10/flash_switcher_for_firefox.php A very awesome extension indeed for any Flash developer, it allows you to switch versions of the Flash Player with two clicks. And another reason why Firefox is so

Re: [Flashcoders] very special Problem : set style and combobox

2006-10-27 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, The problem is happening because you are scaling your movie clip. The scale does not seem to get passed down to the components - the problem does not happen if you use the code below, but on your site the scale of the uc movie is set to 70. You may need to style the List Component

[Flashcoders] swf and domains, what domain made the call?

2006-10-27 Thread Diversity
With flash and its cross domain security is there anyway for me to read what the calling domain is of the swf? Example swf located on my server, being called from domain.com. How can I see that its domain.com calling the swf and not myserver.com making the call? _url gives me the swf

[Flashcoders] swf and domains, what domain made the call?

2006-10-27 Thread Diversity
With flash and its cross domain security is there anyway for me to read what the calling domain is of the swf? Example swf located on my server, being called from domain.com. How can I see that its domain.com calling the swf and not myserver.com making the call? _url gives me the swf

[Flashcoders] Scale Stage but not a Movieclip?

2006-10-27 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
Hi All, I suck at math and I need help. I have a swf that is set to scale to the full size of the browser. But I don't want some move clips to scale. I think I need to get the proportions of the stage and somehow tell the movie clip that I don't want to scale to do the opposite. Am I being

Re: [Flashcoders] Scale Stage but not a Movieclip?

2006-10-27 Thread slangeberg
Check out brother James: http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-1/ Scott On 10/27/06, Kurt Dommermuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I suck at math and I need help. I have a swf that is set to scale to the full size of the browser. But I don't want some

[Flashcoders] Q:Shared Object and image data

2006-10-27 Thread bitstreams
Hi Has anyone used shared objects to store actual image data? I am guessing that it would be necessary to first serialize the data but haven't done any tests yet. [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation

Re: [Flashcoders] Grownups w/ flash

2006-10-27 Thread Count Schemula
The New York Times and Washington Post have been using flash for a while, for photo galleries, and pictures with audio commentary and maybe some interactive maps. On 10/26/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies if this doesn't belong on the list, but I just get excited to see a

Re: [Flashcoders] Scale Stage but not a Movieclip?

2006-10-27 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
That's the ticket! thanks! At 02:34 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: Check out brother James: http://www.jamesor.com/2006/10/12/creating-liquid-guis-with-flash-part-1/ Scott On 10/27/06, Kurt Dommermuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I suck at math and I need help. I have a swf that is set

[Flashcoders] FlashComm not recording streams...

2006-10-27 Thread ryanm
I have a 1.5 comm server and I added in some code to record streams, and when the record method is called, it creates the idx file but no flv. Any idea why? ryanm ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Or you could use XML2AS. // XML2AS - DO NOT AUTO FORMAT! _global.XML2AS = function(n, r) { var a, d, k; if (r[k=n.nodeName] == null) r = ((a=r[k]=[{}]))[d=0]; else r = (a=r[k])[d=r[k].push({})-1]; if (n.hasChildNodes()) { if ((k=n.firstChild.nodeType) == 1) {

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Jim Kremens
Steven, It would be cool if you made a version of that that was mtasc compatible... Jim Kremens On 10/27/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you could use XML2AS. // XML2AS - DO NOT AUTO FORMAT! _global.XML2AS = function(n, r) { var a, d, k; if (r[k=n.nodeName] ==

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parsing problem

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Can you provide some usage instructions (i.e. what the arguments n and r are for)? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven

[Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex I click download and it hangs for about 15 seconds before it reloads the page. No download occurs in either IE or Firefox. I downloaded this just fine from home last night. Anyone else not able to download Flex Builder 2?

Re: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Bbt Lists
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex I click download and it hangs for about 15 seconds before it reloads the page. No download occurs in either IE or Firefox. I downloaded this just fine from home last night. Anyone else not able to download

RE: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Can you link me to your forum post? BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bbt Lists Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:17 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Can

RE: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Adobe's site is having issues. I.e. The Flex homepage loaded for me, but it took forever. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Bbt Lists
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: Can you link me to your forum post? BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 Looking for it, however as Jason mentioned the adobe site is having issues - I still can't even get the page to load to get the link. -- dnk

RE: [Flashcoders] Can anyone download Flex Builder 2?

2006-10-27 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
ColdFusion FTL. :( ___ 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 Consulting and

[Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread Dave Wood
Hi Have downloaded Flex Builder for mac, installed it and launched the app. It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6 text links that lead nowhere. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know how to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread Bbt Lists
Dave Wood wrote: Hi Have downloaded Flex Builder for mac, installed it and launched the app. It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6 text links that lead nowhere. Anyone else have this problem?

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread John Dowdell
It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6 text links that lead nowhere. Works for me! They link to internal help docs with a URL like:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread Bbt Lists
John Dowdell wrote: It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6 text links that lead nowhere. Works for me! They link to internal help docs with a URL like:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Builder 2 for Mac - 6 things you need to know

2006-10-27 Thread Dave Wood
It opens revealing a Flex Start Page panel which has a heading How Flex Works, a sub-heading 6 things you need to know followed by 6 text links that lead nowhere. Works for me! They link to internal help docs with a URL like: http://127.0.0.1:58332/help/index.jsp?topic=%

[Flashcoders] Flash Position

2006-10-27 Thread Victor Gaudioso
Hey all, is there anyone interested in a contract to hire position for a Flash Engineer in Culver City, CA? Must be AS2, Class/OOP proficient. The company is young, fun and funded. If interested send me a resume. Thanks, Victor ___

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection and Media Components?

2006-10-27 Thread Ray Chuan
Hi, in your receiving LocalConnection object add allowDomain: this.receiving_lc.allowDomain = function():Boolean { return true; } Also, use an underscore at the front of your connection name: _MyConnections. See the docs for more info:

[Flashcoders] AS 3 - event args

2006-10-27 Thread dnk
Hi there. I am just beginning my adventure into AS 3, and came upon something. In AS 2 I used to use a custom delegate class to deal with scope issues, but also be able to pass args (in an array, single string, etc) to my event functions. So for example, I might have something in AS 2: //

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection and Media Components?

2006-10-27 Thread Ray Chuan
Hi, setMedia should be defined on the LocalConnection instance: receiving_lc.setMedia = function(file:String, type:String):Void { //do stuff }; On 10/28/06, Martin Scott Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ray, that didn't work either. Changed the code to reflect those help pages as well,

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection and Media Components?

2006-10-27 Thread Ray Chuan
I forgot to mention that there is a risk that your variables can go out of scope, especially for your receiver. Might want to consider this is it still doesn't work. On 10/28/06, Ray Chuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, setMedia should be defined on the LocalConnection instance:

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection and Media Components?

2006-10-27 Thread Muzak
If both swf's are on the same domain, you don't need to do anything special to get things working. Have you tried simplifying things, like sending a simple text message from one swf to the other? // sender swf import mx.utils.Delegate; function sendMessage() { trace(Sender :::