[Flashcoders] user guide type help

2007-03-15 Thread white song
Do you have a model or any sugestions for writing a help file for one product? Thanks, Bianca ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Carl Welch
Nevermind. I found this in one of my many flash books: myAttributes = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].attributes; for(attributes in myAttributes){ trace(attributes+ : +myAttributes[attributes]); } On 3/14/07, Carl Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if I don't know what the

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Carl Welch
What if I don't know what the names are going to be? How can I check how many attributes are in a node? is there anything like XMLNode.attributes.length (I know that's wrong...) so I can loop through and find out their names? -- Carl Welch http://www.carlwelch.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/14/07,

Re: [Flashcoders] ISOMETRIC GAME ENGINE

2007-03-15 Thread Sherif Elshazly
Hi there, I developed an isometric engine, it's currently used on www.faceparty.com chat client. To have a look, you need to log in sherif791:123456 , then click on party chat, when the client loads, goto the rooms tab, and then 3D rooms tab, then choose one of the realms.. there's different

[Flashcoders] remoting question

2007-03-15 Thread Kerem İŞERİ
hi, I am using flash remoting and amfphp in a site, and fetching the content from database.. does anybody know how can I monitor the data sent from the server in a preloader?? or is it impossible?? because Im fetching mixed data like texts and pictures and some swf's sometimes, I think to

[Flashcoders] non-Unicode cont.

2007-03-15 Thread Danny Kodicek
Ha - answered my own question partially. System.useCodePage is obviously what I need, but unfortunately I really need to be able to mix and match the two, so I don't think it'll help. What I need is a 'codepage to unicode' function. Danny ___

[Flashcoders] Playing big FLV files (locally) - where's the problem ?

2007-03-15 Thread Cedric Muller
Hello, I have FLV files that are being downloaded by a java client from the web to a local disk. On my local machine, I have a SWF loading that local downloaded FLV. It works great ... but here comes that awful heartbeat again: How can I handle 2 gig FLV files ? Is there a way ?? Must I use

Re: [Flashcoders] ISOMETRIC GAME ENGINE

2007-03-15 Thread matt zb
From: Gustavo Duenas man that is awesome congratulations!!! if you are developing game for flash with that quality and textures...it is going to be nice. Maybe in future I'd tell you some of my ideas about create a particular game for the internet with that engine. Thanks Gustavo,

[Flashcoders] JSON issues with Flash Lite 2.1

2007-03-15 Thread Pete Thomas
Hi Guys Has anyone out there managed to successfully implement a JSON interface with Flash Lite 2.1 using AS2 I got both AS1 and AS2 versions from json.org but I get Bad String failure when publishing Flash Lite player (fine in player 7). I'm thinking this is either a glitch or something in the

Re: [Flashcoders] checking .flv encoding settings

2007-03-15 Thread Kurt Griffin
You can get some basic info from the meta data in Flash. From the help: - var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc); ns.onMetaData = function(infoObject:Object) { for (var propName:String in infoObject) {

[Flashcoders] FAMES and flashout

2007-03-15 Thread quinrou .
Hi, I am having a problem with the open sources fames I followed this tutorial http://osflash.org/getting_started_with_fames to install all the open sources and did this tuotrial http://theresidentalien.typepad.com/fames/part1.htm http://theresidentalien.typepad.com/fames/part2.htm everything

[Flashcoders] Export a bitmapData to a PDF on server

2007-03-15 Thread Flap Flap
Hi there, Do you people knows a way to export a bitmapData to a pdf on server ? I assume its possible as we can do it for a jpg. I just looking for ready to use script if some of yours know some or just some clue to go. Its for Flash 8 by the way -- Flapflap http://www.kilooctet.net (Dev Blog

[Flashcoders] flash media server hosting providers

2007-03-15 Thread james o
can anyone recommend a flash media server hosting provider that they're really happy with based on performance, reliability and cost? a LAMP solution would be ideal but not necessary. necessary technologies would be Flash Media Server, MySQL, PHP and FFMpeg or another video coding

[Flashcoders] We are hiring (NYC candidates only)

2007-03-15 Thread Oscar Trelles
Domani Studios is looking for a Sr. Flash developer to join our team either on a Fulltime or Freelance basis. This position will involve creating games, animations, sites, integrating video content, and tons of other interactive components. You will be a crucial part of a growing team of

[Flashcoders] [OT] JOB OFFER

2007-03-15 Thread Pedro Furtado
Hello boys and girls, Once again YDreams is recruiting a flash programmer :-) You can submit your resume trough the website or if you prefer directly to me, although the first option is preferred. We’re an emerging company very loose and mostly like a very big family, check us out at

[Flashcoders] Datagrid sorting

2007-03-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Need some help on sorting a datagrid by a particular collumn. Right now, it's sorting alphabetically by data in the second collumn instead of the first. I tried sorting the dataprovider first with the array sort methods, but they didn't work and the help docs indicate those array sorting methods

[Flashcoders] Text blurry when behind a mask

2007-03-15 Thread Johan Nyberg
Anybody know how to solve this annoying problem? Whenever I put text behind a mask, and then move the text - like for example if you want to make a simple scroller - the text gets blurry. Even when I use bitmap text. On the odd pixel the text is blurry, on the other sharp. -- Johan Nyberg

RE: [Flashcoders] Order of events for function call

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Steven
Thanks Paul Kind of similar to what I have but with this method there is a delay if balls are falling from high up. Ideally I would like there to be no delay but guess that could make things too complex. if (this.List_Of_Falling_Ball_Objects.length == 0 this.List_Of_Sliding_Ball_Objects.length

RE: [Flashcoders] Site Check

2007-03-15 Thread Parvaiz Patel
It's working here... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of promo+biboune.net Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:21 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Site Check works for me too.. Le 07-03-14, à 12:23, Chris

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: checking .flv encoding settings

2007-03-15 Thread undersound
Thanx guys, I managed to see the metadata in flv-knife which outputted the nice xml beneath: After that I searched for the encode list: Video: 2 is Sorenson H.263 3 is Screen Video 4 is On2 VP6 Audio: 0 is Uncompressed 1 is ADPCM 2 is MP3 5 is Nellymoser 8 kHz mono 6 is Nellymoser

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player and pop-up blockers

2007-03-15 Thread Gregory N
So far the only reliable way I've found is to avoid pop-ups in favor of hidden DIVs containing IFRAME. Then, instead of opening a pop-up, you just change the *display* property by Javascript. On 3/14/07, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perdue, Blake wrote: We've gotten a lot of

[Flashcoders] TextField variable and arrays - please help!

2007-03-15 Thread Johan Nyberg
I tried to get help here a couple of days ago, but alas to no avail. Please give me a hand with this if you can: How do I make a connection between a TextField and an array with the variable property when creating TextFields dynamically? Now I'm doing a work around where I create a variables

[Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Hi All, I was just wondering what the best way to activate the browser's back button for a Flash(8) app?... are there any up to date resources / tutorial about this?... Kind regards Karim -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus

[Flashcoders] RE: Datagrid sorting

2007-03-15 Thread Merrill, Jason
Nevermind - I found there are sorting methods for dataproviders. This works: lobAdmins_dg.dataProvider.sortItemsBy(lob, ASC); Of course, seems that this list is down AGAIN, so I'm probably talking to myself. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning

Re: [Flashcoders] ISOMETRIC GAME ENGINE

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin Cannon
Some of the other posts might be more related, but there's an excellent tutorial on tilebased games that leads into isometric games on this site: http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/start.html ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Geoff Stearns
all the attributes are in the attributes object, so you can just do a for...in loop and grab them all. example: for(a in xObj.attributes) { obj[a] = xObj.attributes[a]; } On Mar 15, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Carl Welch wrote: What if I don't know what the names are going to be? How can

[Flashcoders] Urgent: flash detection error with swf object and query string

2007-03-15 Thread moveup
Came across something that has me baffled. When appending a query string to a URL, certain query string values give me an arror, ie , i'm prompted for a plugin download. for instance ?ecard=21key=a9a08 gives me an error but if I change the last 8 to any other number, or the previous '0' to

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Here's XML2AS as an AS2 static class for her pleasure. class com.stevensacks.data.XML2AS { public static function parse(n, r) { var a, d, k; if (r[k=n.nodeName] == null) r = ((a=r[k]=[{}]))[d=0]; else r =

[Flashcoders] Can Flash or Director open a browser window with limited chrome

2007-03-15 Thread redknot
I'm working on a CD-ROM deployment of the content in a website. I'd like to create a standalone projector (Flash or Director) and use it to navigate to parts of the main HTML content. Does anybody know what tools or code I can use to: 1- open an HTML page in a browser window, and at the

[Flashcoders] Flash Project in 8 Languages - Approaches in Production

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Harrington
We've been asked to bid on a project documenting how to fill out forms - in 8 languages including Chinese and Russian with streaming audio and video. I've suggested that we brute-force it and produce all the content similarly with HTML text areas. I assume we'll be given PDF's of each of the 8

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread John laPlante
The xml that you've shown consists of all attributes, that is value pairs inside a tag. Each node has a attributes property. Here is a small snippet that demonstrates accessing attributes. private function loadProblems(xFileName:String):Void { var sLessonPath = this.theLessonPath;

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Rost, Andrew
You might be aware of this, but just an FYI, if you're concerned about attributes being order specific. When you loop through the attributes with a for statement, you'll get the attributes in the reverse order. I personally loop through the attributes and push the attribute name to an array and

RE: [Flashcoders] Non-Unicode

2007-03-15 Thread Hairy Dog Digital
Hi Danny, I think this same thing (or something very similar) came up on the Director DIRECT-L list in the past few months. If you don't have it, here are links for that list: To SUBSCRIBE or to UNSUBSCRIBE go to http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html and click on Join or leave the list

Re: [Flashcoders] JSON issues with Flash Lite 2.1

2007-03-15 Thread eka
Hello :) i don't coding with Flash Lite 2.1 but you can try my JSON implementation in my openSource framework : http://vegas.riaforge.org/ http://svn.riaforge.org/vegas/AS2/trunk/src/vegas/string/JSON.as EKA+ :) 2007/3/15, Pete Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys Has anyone out there managed

Re: [Flashcoders] Export a bitmapData to a PDF on server

2007-03-15 Thread Mick G
ImageMagik supports PDF http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php On 3/15/07, Flap Flap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Do you people knows a way to export a bitmapData to a pdf on server ? I assume its possible as we can do it for a jpg. I just looking for ready to use script if

Re: [Flashcoders] FAMES and flashout

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Herrman
I haven't used FAMES myself, so I can't really give you a whole lot of help, but I do vaguely remember something like this from when I was looking into it. One of the tutorials I saw about getting flashout set up was that the class it generates has problems with the latest version of MTASC.

Re: [Flashcoders] ISOMETRIC GAME ENGINE

2007-03-15 Thread gilles
Thank's for the help i'll be workin g on it in the next week sso i'll probably ask quite a few questions. Gilels Le 15-mars-07 à 09:41, Sherif Elshazly a écrit : Hi there, I developed an isometric engine, it's currently used on www.faceparty.com chat client. To have a look, you need to

Re: [Flashcoders] Export a bitmapData to a PDF on server

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Herrman
Well, if you can already do it to jpg, do you have a way to export the bitmap data to a jpg? Then you can use the process you already have. -Andy On 3/15/07, Flap Flap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Do you people knows a way to export a bitmapData to a pdf on server ? I assume its

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Lords
Carl, That is how you do it. Here's another way. The following will copy the attributes of one node to another, provided they both have exactly the same attributes in the same order, regardless of what the attributes names are. function replaceNode(theNode, withNode):Boolean { for(attr in

RE: [Flashcoders] Datagrid sorting

2007-03-15 Thread Pete Miller
Is dataProvider.sortOn a proper method? Do you want dataProvider.sortItemsBy instead? P. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:16 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Datagrid sorting

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Lords
Can your DataProvider be xml? I'm not sure the Array sort methods do what you want, they might, but they're probably less efficient than an xml transformation anyway. then you might try sorting the dataSource itself beforehand using xsl:sort in an xsl template? When you want to reverse the

Re: [Flashcoders] Datagrid sorting

2007-03-15 Thread Bojil Vassilev
You should add a listener to the DataGrid and then sort the dataprovider. Here is a quick example, also sorting both ways AscDesc (keeping track if a column is sorted one way and sorting it the other way next time) myDataGrid.addColumn(Product); myDataGrid.addColumn(Quality);

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Pedro Taranto
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ --Pedro Taranto Karim Beyrouti escreveu: Hi All, I was just wondering what the best way to activate the browser's back button for a Flash(8) app?... are there any up to date resources / tutorial about this?... Kind regards Karim

Re: [Flashcoders] TextField variable and arrays - please help!

2007-03-15 Thread Pedro Taranto
you have to use the .text propertie mc.txt.text = _root[winner+i+PercentPayout]; --Pedro Taranto Johan Nyberg escreveu: I tried to get help here a couple of days ago, but alas to no avail. Please give me a hand with this if you can: How do I make a connection between a TextField and an

Re: [Flashcoders] Urgent: flash detection error with swf object and query string

2007-03-15 Thread Pedro Taranto
you should use |so.addVariable(variable1, value1); --Pedro Taranto | [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Came across something that has me baffled. When appending a query string to a URL, certain query string values give me an arror, ie , i'm prompted for a plugin download. for instance

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Google SWFAddress -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karim Beyrouti Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:56 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button Hi All, I was just

Re: [Flashcoders] remoting question

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, You cannot use a preloader type mechanism with the remoting, but as a suggestion, maybe you should only use the remoting to obtain the names of your image and swf resources, then load these in the normal manner - with a preloading mechanism. Glen Kerem İŞERİ wrote: hi, I am

Re: [Flashcoders] Resizing sw, dependently on screen resolution

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
First free tutorial. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 Nicola Alexander Schlup - LuniLogic wrote: Hi, I want to extend a gallery slideshow script

Re: [Flashcoders] Urgent: flash detection error with swf object and query string

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Herrman
What is actually being returned by the server you're hitting? Is it possible that that particular combination of query params is causing something unexpected to be returned, and that page requires some plugin you don't have? -Andy On 3/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Came

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Pedro Taranto
use pixlib == http://osflash.org/projects/pixlib and use the Config, ConfigLoader and ConfigLoaderEvent it convert an xml file to a object here is 2 good tutorials about it http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon/2006/11/14/getting-to-know-pixlib/

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Try SWFAddress http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ I have not used it myself, but did find the following useful too: http://www.flash99good.com/?p=37 http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=357 http://blog.jensfranke.com/2006/02/11/orange-project-%e2%80%93-the-technical-view/

RE: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Or you can save yourself the very slow Array.reverse() and just iterate through the array backwards, too. You might be aware of this, but just an FYI, if you're concerned about attributes being order specific. When you loop through the attributes with a for statement, you'll get the

Re: [Flashcoders] Resizing sw, dependently on screen resolution

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
First free tutorial. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 Nicola Alexander Schlup - LuniLogic wrote: Hi, I want to extend a gallery slideshow script

Re: [Flashcoders] Resizing sw, dependently on screen resolution

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
First free tutorial. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=6cid=FD491 Nicola Alexander Schlup - LuniLogic wrote: Hi, I want to extend a gallery slideshow script

Re: [Flashcoders] remoting question

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I don't think you can use a preloader type mechanism with the remoting, but as a suggestion, maybe you should only use the remoting to obtain the names of your image and swf resources, then load these in the normal manner - with a preloading mechanism. Glen Kerem İŞERİ wrote: hi,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Try SWFAddress http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ I have not used it myself, but did find the following useful too: http://www.flash99good.com/?p=37 http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=357 http://blog.jensfranke.com/2006/02/11/orange-project-%e2%80%93-the-technical-view/

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Harris, Mike
Karim, Try http://www.boxofchocolates.nl/log/?p=107 Mike This Message (including attachments) is intended only for the identified Recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential or subject to copyright, trade secret or other restrictions. It may also include attorney

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash - using the back button

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Henry
Hi, I've been using SWFAddress (http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/), no tutorials needed really... Steven Karim Beyrouti wrote: Hi All, I was just wondering what the best way to activate the browser's back button for a Flash(8) app?... are there any up to date resources / tutorial about

[Flashcoders] http error 302 on upload with filereference object

2007-03-15 Thread Josh Ettwein
Anyone get these before? my entire app works to one remote php script on one server and then when moving it to a production app environment (which is Perl) I don't even see a request showing up in the apache access logs. The filereference object is reporting back an http error of type 302.

Re: [Flashcoders] xml parse question

2007-03-15 Thread Muzak
I don't think that's still the case with Flash player 8 (and up). Why one would care about an Object properties order is beyond me in the first place though, but maybe I missed something in one of the thread replies (and this isn't about copying attributess to object properties). regards,

[Flashcoders] Q:remove returns in text string or in text strings in XML

2007-03-15 Thread moveup
Hi I'vm using a utility to convert my flash objects to xml. It works great except if one of my objects happens to be text content with returns the returns are save as part of the xml. Can anyone offer me an easy solution? Would it make more sense to remove the returns in the strings first

Re: [Flashcoders] Controlling flv

2007-03-15 Thread Eric Woods
Maybe a non-technical solution is better than none at all ... You could add a second or two of fade to black video at the end of the flv... Otherwise, the video controller has callbacks you can bind to (probably not called that) including a reached end of video callback. You can then create

Re: [Flashcoders] http error 302 on upload with filereference object

2007-03-15 Thread Muzak
Not sure if this helps: http://www.mail-archive.com/flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com/msg18396.html regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Josh Ettwein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:49 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] http error 302