RE: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-23 Thread Nick Weekes
Nik, 1) No, you can't store images in Excel cells. You can store the path to an image though, which could reference an Images folder somewhere on your CD. 2) If the Excel files are saved as .xls then you will need to use something like zinc or swfstudio, as mentioned by Derek. If your excel

Re: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-23 Thread nik crosina
Thanks Byron, funnily enough after having a first look at your site, it looks like this would satisfy another need of my boss, that of displaying financial information in a 'dashboard', easy-to-read-and-understand way. So might get back to you on that one anyways. The free trial is fully

Re: [Flashcoders] changing a MovieClip instance class at runtime inAS2 ?

2006-11-23 Thread eka
Hello :) You must use the __proto__ reference to change the inherit of yours movieclips :) example 1 : you create an empty movieclip and you want attach a new class who extends MovieClip ! import myPackage.MyClass ; var mc = createEmptyMovieClip(mc, 1) ; mc.__proto__ = MyClass.prototype ; //

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashpaper - removing a flashpaper mc properly seems impossible

2006-11-23 Thread Tom Shaw
I have altered my code but I dont seem to be having much luck. Would you care to share some code for your loading process? Do you just loadclip over the old flashpaper mc and the rest as per the help files? Cheers, Tom On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:08:27 -0500, you wrote: I'm facing exactly the

[Flashcoders] Clickable v2 component

2006-11-23 Thread Ben Smeets
Not having used the v2 components many times before, I mightbe asking the obvious question, but I can't seem to find any answer. I have a Loader component on-stage. Which is fed by url's to jpeg images. Showing this all works fine. The problem is, I would like to let the user be able to click the

Re: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-23 Thread nik crosina
Had a look at this, Shang Liang, and it definitely looks like I am going to get a coder in now to set up a template with all the necessary code for us. It doesn't seem like a big job, but we are probably too full up with project at the moment to spend the time necessary to get us up to speed on

Re: [Flashcoders] connecting excel spread sheet to Flash

2006-11-23 Thread nik crosina
Thanks Nick, From a usability point of view I can go as far as getting our marketing people to save the excel files once in its native xls format and once in xml format, that is no problem. Anyting more complex than that can't be used (like editing the xml). This is because I am setting this

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8: Code editors

2006-11-23 Thread Richard Helgor
Hi, First post, excuse me if it's too much of a noob question... I'd really like to use TextMate in place of the Flash IDE editor for my actionscript, but I'm not a hardcore, OOP coder - I'm using objects in the library and a more linear structure. I've searched for tutorials on the

[Flashcoders] swf2Video

2006-11-23 Thread Seb L
Anyone know if this software is still being updated/supported? I've tried mailing them but no response. I need to get an upgrade that works with FP8. cheers Seb Lee-Delisle sebleedelisle.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

[Flashcoders] access included .as of parent movie

2006-11-23 Thread Kent Humphrey
Hi there, I haven't been around for a while, but I'm getting to do some fun flash stuff again - so I need some help : I find myself using the excellent mc_tween2.as quite abit, and on the current project I have a parent movie that loads 2 sub movies, and I'd like to use the methods in the

Re: [Flashcoders] access included .as of parent movie

2006-11-23 Thread Ian Thomas
Have a hunt for the word 'intrinsic' - either in this list archives or on the Adobe site. HTH, Ian (Sorry, too busy to write more detail. :-) It comes up fairly often.) On 11/23/06, Kent Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I haven't been around for a while, but I'm getting to do some

[Flashcoders] AS 3.0 loading SWF's problems

2006-11-23 Thread James Marsden
[apologies for cross posting with FCB] Hey all, I'm having problems loading swfs into a parent movie. It has to be a Loader object used to load in content right? So do any dynamic holders have to be of type Loader throughout the application? Does a page of thumbnail images prepared for

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashpaper - removing a flashpaper mc, properly seems impossible

2006-11-23 Thread Eric_Tibo
I'm using this component with no problems... http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2006/07/flashpaper_comp_3.php I've set all the possible listeners as in the help doc and unloading any FP before loading a new one and everything is fine... Tell me if it works for you... A+

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashpaper - removing a flashpaper mc properly seems impossible

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Fung
that's correct - i simply loadclip using the old mc. same code as adobe's tutorial. but i reiterate - never tried it on a large document so i dont know if it'll work in your case On 11/23/06, Tom Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have altered my code but I dont seem to be having much luck.

[Flashcoders] listing children?

2006-11-23 Thread Wendy Richardson
If I have a mc with some mc's attached, is there a quick way to list/access/manipulate the attached mc's without using their explicit names? Some kind of children thingy? Thanks Wendy ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashpaper - removing a flashpaper mc, properly seems impossible

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Fung
well darn... i'll make sure i give that a try on monday for my project as well... On 11/23/06, Eric_Tibo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using this component with no problems... http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2006/07/flashpaper_comp_3.php I've set all the possible listeners as in the

[Flashcoders] Q:JSON vs XML advantages

2006-11-23 Thread moveup
I know one of the advantages of the JSON format is easier to maintain code, ie your config files can be essentially actionscript. But are there any oither advantages over XML? What about performance? Does it 'parse' faster? Jim Bachalo [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w]

Re: [Flashcoders] listing children?

2006-11-23 Thread Julien Vignali
A quick way: // this = the parent MC for (var child:String in this){ if (child instanceof MovieClip) { // do your children mc manipulations... } } 2006/11/23, Wendy Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I have a mc with some mc's attached, is there a quick way to list/access/manipulate the

Re: [Flashcoders] listing children?

2006-11-23 Thread Julien Vignali
Another way (maybe a smarter and cleaner one): create an array of children and fill it when you attach the children mc. var children:Array = []; function addChild(link:String, name:String, depth:Number){ var child:MovieClip = this.attachMovie(link, name, depth); children.push(child); } and

Re: [Flashcoders] listing children?

2006-11-23 Thread el oskitar
try for (var i in my_mc){ if (typeof(my_mc[i]) == movieclip)){ my_mc[i].foo(); } } 2006/11/23, Wendy Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I have a mc with some mc's attached, is there a quick way to list/access/manipulate the attached mc's without using their explicit names? Some

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:JSON vs XML advantages

2006-11-23 Thread eka
Hello :) JSON is speed !! the xml parser is slow ! With JSON your objects are typed.. in XML all properties, attributes, are String values only. You can try to compare 2 big files in XML and JSON to see the difference :) For me JSON is good but EDEN is better ;) Eden is like JSON but you can

Re: [Flashcoders] access included .as of parent movie

2006-11-23 Thread Kent Humphrey
Thanks for that, knowing what to look for makes a big difference. In case someone else needs it later, there's a good link about having an external class swf on the adobe forum here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?

Re[2]: [Flashcoders] Q:JSON vs XML advantages

2006-11-23 Thread R�kos Attila
e With JSON your objects are typed.. in XML all properties, attributes, are e String values only. AFAIK this typing is limited, since the objects (structures) are not typed and JSON doesn't store class information (I know that class hints are used sometimes, but this is a kind of hack only). On

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashpaper - removing a flashpaper mc properly seems impossible

2006-11-23 Thread Tom Shaw
This does make a small difference but with the larger documents the increase in witing time still exists after you first load in a flash paper document. I did try to get two flash paper documents on screen at the same time using different movieclips. The result was interesting...the first clip

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:JSON vs XML advantages

2006-11-23 Thread Ben Smeets
JSON Speed? I haven't used it before so can only judge it by what I read on the web :) http://blogs.adobe.com/mikepotter/2006/07/php_and_flex_js.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eka Sent: donderdag 23 november 2006 15:10 To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:JSON vs XML advantages

2006-11-23 Thread eka
Hello :) in AS2 ... isn't the same bench in AS3 with E4X ! With my library and my custom JSON class... in AS2, SSAS, etc.. JSON is speed... very speed :) I don't use for my test the JSON library of adobe ? Now ... AMFPHP XML ??? if you use class mapping in AMFPHP ... i think AMF protocol is

[Flashcoders] Q:Class scope issues and Gotchas

2006-11-23 Thread moveup
There a re a few scope related issues that every developer stumbles across once they start writing their own classes. The first is accessing the class scope from within a xml object , solved by defining a local variable withing the constructor before your XML object. var parent:ClassName=

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Class scope issues and Gotchas

2006-11-23 Thread R�kos Attila
mmc The first is accessing the class scope from within a xml object , mmc solved by defining a local variable withing the constructor mmc before your XML object. mmc mmc var parent:ClassName= this; mmc _xmlData.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) { mmcif(success)

[Flashcoders] Saving an image from a webcam?

2006-11-23 Thread Josh Santangelo
I'm working on a digital photo booth. The idea is that with a webcam and a touch screen, I can save a still image from the camera back to a server and then do other fun things with it from there. I thought FMS2 could save images from webcams, but now I'm finding that it's only video. Great. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Saving an image from a webcam?

2006-11-23 Thread Eric Kersten
As already stated, Flash (since player 8) allows you to manipulate bitmaps via it's BitmapData Class. You can process each pixel of a MovieClip (containing the video symbol with the webcam video attached) and then send it to a server side script like PHP to save the image file. An example of

[Flashcoders] Q:Inheritance and Dynamically assign methods using static vars

2006-11-23 Thread moveup
Hi I want to be able to dynamically assign handlers by passing static string variables to the superclass. Shouldn't this work?? In my 'Super' class: private static var classgroup:String; private static var cmd_evtPress:String;//defined in subclass private static var

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Inheritance and Dynamically assign methods using static vars

2006-11-23 Thread T. Michael Keesey
Why wouldn't the events just be press, rollOver, and rollOut? The listener could tell the dispatchers apart using event.target, if necessary. Usually that's not even necessary, since different listener functions can listen to the press events of different dispatchers. At any rate, wherever you

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Class scope issues and Gotchas

2006-11-23 Thread T. Michael Keesey
On 11/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But one issue that sometimes puzzles me is how to accurately reference the class anywhere in a class. If you are sub-classing a Movieclip, then technically speaking, using 'this' references the MovieClip, not the class, am I correct?

[Flashcoders] TextInput receive focus with flashing cursor?

2006-11-23 Thread {reduxdj}
How do I make the cursor flash inside a textbox and receive input. Selection.setFocus is a scam. Anybody? Happy thanxgivin' to and yours! Thanks, Patrick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the