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2006-10-30 Thread Adam Raft
I have been watching this list for a while before this my first post. I have taken a copy of a project to my computer from the server to allow me to developer further and to let others continue build the project. So all classes has the same relative path to each other. The strange thing is that

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Combobox ...

2006-10-30 Thread Stephen Ford
Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I should have added that I am entering the labels and data in the Parameters panel inside the Flash IDE. If anyone knows a way around this it would be great, but I might have to populate the Comboboxes dynamically with code.

[Flashcoders] AS 3.0 | Flash 9 Alpha - rollOvers inconsistent

2006-10-30 Thread James Marsden
Hi all, I'm having a strange time with Flash 9 Alpha. My 'slightly' moving clips aren't responding to their MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER events consistently. Has anyone else found this? If I remove any updates to the clips, and have them completely static, the rollOvers work fine... TIA, James

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread Frank Baumgartner
Hello Nicolas! thanks for the hint! - i have had a look at SWHX already, however i really need a native c++ solution. I have been googling my fingers wound, but i haven't found a flash integration example for mac/XCode. It's crazy. - As you can find many examples for windows. kind

[Flashcoders] multiple video streams ... slow down solution

2006-10-30 Thread Jason Ross
Just wanted to follow up on my findings regarding multiple video streams (progressive streams). I had 2 issues: 1) I was noticing that having more than 3-4 videos on the stage at once, greatly slowed down the Flash movie performance i.e. other vector animations on the stage (even if the

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

2006-10-30 Thread Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ]
Hi Muzak, i tried your approach without succes. My version is here: http://stuff.mediamonks.net/quinten/SuperError02.rar -- regards, Quinten ==\\ Quinten Beek ; Game Monk MediaMonks BV ; Interactive Art Schapenkamp 2 | 1211 PA, Hilversum The Netherlands |

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread Alisdair Mills
Hi Frank, I've done a few things that connect flash and cocoa, basically you load your flash into a webview and use javascript from both cocoa and flash as the bridge between the two. there isn't a lot of info out there and I can do a full step by step tutorial later but for now I've uploaded

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread Jiro Harada
Hello, I created a Flash viewer using Flash Player 9 for Mac OS (Intel and PPC). In my application a custom control written in C is used to display flash movies. To create the custom control I referred to following web pages and the source code: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/

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

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
Delete mcLinker from library and recreate it. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] There is no method

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

2006-10-30 Thread Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ]
If you delete the mcLinker from the library, there is no more actionscript on a timeline. And the actionscript was causing the problem for some reason: .Everything works fine until i put actionscript on a frame. (just a simple stop(); on the first frame) Muzak wrote: Delete

[Flashcoders] OT: eLearning - Spanish and English grade school tools?

2006-10-30 Thread dave matthews
Seeking links, My daughter teaches first and second graders in a public school where one of her students only speaks Spanish. Luckily, many of the kids (60%) are bilingual and help translate. Turns out, the kids love the computers they have access to only twice a week for forty minutes a

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

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
Yeah, seems to popup again after I delete ASO files. Have you reported this already? regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:51 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed?

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
I am trying to capture control+S in a Windows file running in the Flash 8/9 player (IE 6). This is because I have a save feature in my RIA. I can capture S being down, I can capture Ctrl being down, I can capture ctrl+7 being down, but not ctrl+s? I even tried capturing ctrl+g (g is keycode

RE: [Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed?

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wait, I just realized why this is probably failing - ctrl+s is an IE shortcut... is there any way to get around that? I tried fscommand(trapallkeys, true); but no luck. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original

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

2006-10-30 Thread Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ]
Hi Again, I never reported anything before, but i just reported this 'bug' on this url: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishformproduct=15 I'll hope thats the correct place to report bugs. In ieder geval bedankt voor je hulp Muzak :) ; Muzak wrote: Yeah, seems to popup

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Tony Trapp
Hey guys need help with something. I am trying to play a .flv file with the built in component that comes with flash MX 2004 pro. When testing it works great. When I try to play it from my web site nothing happens. Here is the page: http://www.dbtweb.com/test_video2.asp The player is in a

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: CSS locks input text?

2006-10-30 Thread Jim Kremens
Hey, This can be done. But one of the issues is conceptual - how do you wrap style tags around text as someone's typing it? You kind of have to choose one style for the whole input field, unless you're building a text editor... This should work, although I can't test it right now... var

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread John VanHorn
the request for the flv is 404 On 10/30/06, Tony Trapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys need help with something. I am trying to play a .flv file with the built in component that comes with flash MX 2004 pro. When testing it works great. When I try to play it from my web site nothing

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 3.0 | Flash 9 Alpha - rollOvers inconsistent

2006-10-30 Thread James Marsden
apologies for the thread bump, but has nobody come across this? :'( Thanks, James James Marsden wrote: Hi all, I'm having a strange time with Flash 9 Alpha. My 'slightly' moving clips aren't responding to their MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER events consistently. Has anyone else found this? If

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Ian Thomas
Alternatively, the server may not have the MIME-type set for .flv. On Apache etc. you tend to be fine, but IIS is a pain - it just won't serve things that you haven't set up a MIME-type for. I had this issue last week; once set up, it's fine. One way to test that - if you try browsing,

RE: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also if you are running a newer version of Windows Server (like Windows Server 2003), you'll need to add .flv as a mime type. There's an Adobe technote about it. Some other servers may require it as well. If it's UNIX, then case-sensitivity should be checked as well.

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list

2006-10-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: I'm sorry. My Rules in outlook moved the post into my flexcoders folder and i thought the post was sent to the Flexcoders mailing list. Go Flexcoders :) No problem Bjorn. Actually I was serious. I found the FlexCoders list via

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Ian Thomas
Sounds like the MIME-type is definitely the culprit - given that you're using ASP and getting a 404... This technote from Adobe will probably help you out: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439 Ian On 10/30/06, John VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the request for

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Tony Trapp
Ian I think your right. MIME types setting up is easy I can do that in two shakes. I tried going to it and said 404 error IIS will do that because of MIME type. Thanks or pointing that out. Tony... - Original Message - From: Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

RE: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Toby
Yes this will most likely be the case, Gotta love M$ windo Put the request below through to your host :¬) T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 30 October 2006 16:28 To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with flash 7 flv player

2006-10-30 Thread Tony Trapp
Yep that was it, MIME type by the way Ian and everyone else the type for .flv is: video/x-flv and instructions on how to do it. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/c/engineering/archives/adding-flv-mime-type-in-iis-4198 If anyone else needs to set it up. Thanks Ian. Tony... - Original Message

[Flashcoders] Q:register a movieclip with a class dynamically

2006-10-30 Thread bitstreams
Hi I have a pretty basic question concerning registering Movieclips that are created dynamically. //CODE START import com.mydomain.util.MyClass; var holder=this.createEmptyMovieClip(_mcRef+_xPos,this.getNextHighestDepth()); //CODE END How do I register 'holder' with MyClass? Thanks in advance

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:register a movieclip with a class dynamically

2006-10-30 Thread John Axel Eriksson
It is possible but I don't know if it is supported by Adobe... You can do this: dynamic class TestClass{ public static var __symbolName:String = __Packages.TestClass; public static var __symbolLinked:Boolean = Object.registerClass (__symbolName, TestClass); public static function create

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:register a movieclip with a class dynamically

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Bedar
I forget who posted this originally, but here's how to create a class that extends MovieClip without a symbol in the library. Then you can use attachMovie to create an instance. class net.something.MyButton extends MovieClip { public static var symbolName:String

RE: [Flashcoders] Key combination Ctrl+S not allowed?

2006-10-30 Thread Joey Rivera
I haven't tried that combination. But if you can't get that to work, maybe you can start an interval when ctrl is pressed and if s is pressed in the x ms you can run your code. Not sure if this would work but maybe worth a try. Joey Rivera -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashout not working in eclipse 3.2

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
Sorry to take so long to answer this. I wanted to be sure. I had this working on a PC in another part of the world but I had not upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2 on my PC. It works fine with Eclipse3.2. Remember that you have to install asdt first. If you still have trouble ask again. I downloaded

Re: [Flashcoders] Highscore submit security with independent library

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
Not exactly. You would also provide a set of server side routines that allow them to specify the legal transaction flows. I suppose that you also give them the client side routines that facilitated the communications. You might want to look at the open source game servers for Flash to see

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

2006-10-30 Thread AJ Canepa
A third option, which may not work for MySpace, but is worth mentioning for situations like this, is to embed a loader.swf on the 3rd party server. In the loader.swf, you test _url and if it meets your requirements you can then load your primary SWF file from your server. AJ Canepa

Re: [Flashcoders] Highscore submit security with independent library

2006-10-30 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, If you are looking for a nice place to start with how to do a high score system that gives a good example and tips on how to improve it, then Jobe Makar's Flash MX Game Design Demystified has such an example. I am not sure if the book that covers MX2004 has an AS2 version, but the

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Check to see if wmode=transparent in the embed tag of the Flash in the HTML. That may be the cause of your issue, but I'm not sure exactly what your issue is because your description is a bit vague. If removing the wmode=transparent doesn't help, can you please provide more information or

[Flashcoders] Complex data type in webservice call

2006-10-30 Thread Pete Miller
My backend server is changing its web service component from an RPC/encoded binding to document/literal, and Flash is producing an odd result when sending complex objects. The short story is this: the object that I'm sending as a parameter is complex; it contains an array of objects. It

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread John Dowdell
Frank Baumgartner wrote: I've already been Flash Player together with custom C++ solutions under Windows and it's working nicely. However, at the moment i am very interested on cross-plattform development using flash for user interfaces on both windows and OSX, but i've got very little

[Flashcoders] Aliased text

2006-10-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hello. :) I'm having an aliasing problem with a dynamically created Text Field. Here's what I'm doing: 1) Create the Text Field. 2) Create a Text Format object for the Text Field, defining things like the 'font' and 'color'. 3) Put copy into the Text Field. 4) setTextFormat on the

Re: [Flashcoders] How-To access Flash Player from C++ on OSX ?

2006-10-30 Thread Frank Baumgartner
Hello John! thanks very much for your feedback! I have done further investigations today, basically when i am talking about cross-plattform i think of it in a sense that i can implement an active-x host under windows (which i already have got!) and some other solution for OSX. As long as

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Geoff Stearns
i don't understand how this would help. firefox on mac supports transparent wmode perhaps better than any other browser... what we really need to help is a link to the page so we can have a look and see what's going on. On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote: Check to

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
I may be wrong, but I thought IE on Windows is pretty much the only browser that it works absolutely correctly on. AFAIK, other browsers have issues including decreased performance, etc. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: Re: [Flashcoders] Flashout not working in eclipse 3.2

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Allen
If you don't get it running right, you might want to consider just using AS2Ant for compiling your Flash applications. http://osflash.org/ant#as2ant_-_swf_mtasc_and_swfmill_ant_tasks http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=94206package_id=164902 I much prefer this setup to using

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Geoff Stearns
no, it works well enough on firefox + safari*. the decreased performance is true, but i beleive that's across all platforms.. it's just more noticeable on osx because it's already that much slower than PC in some cases. but just using the param by no means would make a movie not show up

RE: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
I thought she said that it was just not working correctly at all, but maybe she was saying it wasn't showing up at all. If she did, then I'm wrong. It's impossible to debug without more details, though. I was just stabbing blindly in the dark. I should have asked for more information before

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath

2006-10-30 Thread slangeberg
Had to setup my site again, but hopefully this is a little more clear: http://criticalpile.com/blog/ -Scott On 10/19/06, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't find the links i've looked at, but here's the code I'm currently using. This example probably shows most of the xml data-access

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

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
Yeah that's the correct place. And sorry about the confusion I may have caused. Oh en graag gedaan ;-) Muzak - Original Message - From: Quinten [ :: MediaMonks :: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:12 PM

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
Yeah, you'll need a yahoo account in order to sign up for the FlexCoders list. It is the place to be in regards to Flex. There's Adobe people there monitoring the list and answering questions etc.. I've been on yahoo lists for years and have helped moderating a few in the past and never had any

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Firefox on a mac

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
Do you have plugin detection in place? If not, does the user have the required plugin installed for both browsers? regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Q:

[Flashcoders] Comparing HEX

2006-10-30 Thread Aaron Buchanan
Hello all! I am looking for a reference to read up on comparing two or more color values. I have not done a whole lot of work with color math so any foundation articles would be great. What I am trying to accomplish, say I have a var myColor which represents the color I would like to find the

[Flashcoders] swfobject - make it failproof

2006-10-30 Thread Count Schemula
For people publishing to Player 8, what steps are you taking when swfobject + express Install fails? For example, I don't think express install works with Flash Player 6 and some early versions of Player 7, which is causing me problems sometimes. I have text in the div id=flashcontent so, they

Re: [Flashcoders] Comparing HEX

2006-10-30 Thread Aaron Buchanan
Hey all, I found a good article on the devnet that fried my brain, and will need a couple more times over before I get my head around it. In the meantime if anyone has other links that can get me the results I meantioned below, please share. This is the article I found, by grant:

Re: [Flashcoders] Comparing HEX

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Winterhalder
What would be the best way to loop the array and find the best match to myColor? A simple way would be do add up the difference to the red, green and blue values. You get the value for the channels like this: var red = color 16 0xff; var green = color 8 0xff; var blue = color 0xff; Then

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Bedar
I know what you mean.. i recently joined flexcoders, but as far as i can tell, you have to subscribe to a premium service to be able to send messages from your own email program. Mike On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:

[Flashcoders] stylesheets span and p

2006-10-30 Thread grimmwerks
James O'Reilley was kind enough to begin writing a class for me that splits htmlText via '/p' and then, based on stylesheets, if the class for that p has a bottomspacing, it will move the next textfield down. This works perfectly except that the text p class='xxx' also shifts the text down in

RE: [Flashcoders] AS 3 - event args

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Keesey
One way would be to create a subclass of Event that stores the parameters. In this case, though, I wouldn't even do that. You can just use event.target to determine which button was pressed: function onPressed(event:Event):void { var button:Button = Button(event.target); // Do

RE: [Flashcoders] AS 3 - event args

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Keesey
Here's an example: ---mypackage/IndexButton.as--- package mypackage { public class IndexButton extends Button { function IndexButton() { super(); } public function get index():uint { return

RE: [Flashcoders] AS 3 - event args

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Keesey
Err, that last function should probably be called onButtonRelease ... but you get the idea ― Mike Keesey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Keesey Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:04 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing

Re: [Flashcoders] swfobject - make it failproof

2006-10-30 Thread Geoff Stearns
it sounds to me like what is happening is that the user has a version less than flash 8 installed, so they *should* get the expressinstall prompt, but that probably isn't working. mostlikely the code wasn't implemented properly in your swf. for the next release of swfobject i'm fixing this

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for a good FlexCoders list

2006-10-30 Thread Muzak
What premium service? All you need to do is sign up (create a free Yahoo ID account). I'm using Outlook Express for sending/receiving messages from 7 different yahoogroup lists. I don't even have a yahoo email address (it gives you the option to create on or not when you create an account).

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 3 - event args

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Chambers
2 other options: Just have one event handler per button. or use an anonymous function myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(){doSomething (1);}); private function doSomething(index:int):void { trace(index); } (I havent tested the code above, so there might be some

[Flashcoders] flv - avi/mov/mpg ?

2006-10-30 Thread master
You can try Moyea FLV to Video Converter, it can convert all kinds of flv to video. including avi, mov or mpeg. Get it at http://www.flash-video-mx.com/flv_to_video_web/ master 2006-10-31 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your