Re: [Flashcoders] How to use media server alongwith webserver for video streaming

2007-07-25 Thread creativity
Hi, thanks for the tips. You have made my certain doubts clear about the subject, rest i will explore. if u find any further such inputs let me know. As i understood requests are directly handled by FMS on request from swf files. I was just trying to work out on a news based site kind of scenario

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
On 7/25/07, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, alot depends on the context of the whole thing (the bigger picture). If contextInfo isn't used/part of class A or B, it shouldn't even be there. But since you said: object B wraps it and wants to do something context specific once A has

[Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Omar Fouad
I am doing some application on flash that uses an XML file to store data... This application has a search form. I understand how to get through the xml by loops but i can't figure out how to get flash to know if this word is included within the xml nodes or not... Any simple idea? Regards --

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Muzak
Hi Ian, Been thinking about this a bit more and you're correct, contextInfo doesn't belong in class A and I'd go for storing a list of contextInfos in class B. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent:

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Sunil Jolly
Hi Ian, back at the start of this you asked: - Why, in AS3, is my equivalent of using Delegate Not The Done Thing? (Someone mentioned type-safety; and yes, at compile time, you'll lose type safety) Does anyone know why Delegate is frowned upon? Seems like a simple and elegant solution to the

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
On 7/25/07, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, Been thinking about this a bit more and you're correct, contextInfo doesn't belong in class A and I'd go for storing a list of contextInfos in class B. Hiya Muzak, Yes, just been trying that one out. But (sadly!) again it doesn't hold

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
On 7/25/07, Sunil Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Delegate is frowned upon? Seems like a simple and elegant solution to the problem to me! Sunil, Yeah, that was my initial question. When I posted an AS3 version of Delegate (to deal with this problem) a few months back,

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Oh - and off the top of my head I can think of two fairly obvious objections/complications: i) Not type safe at compile time (but should(?) complain at runtime if the wrong argument types are sent, at least in the debug player) ii) Potential memory leakage with creating a closure - you'll have to

[Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Omar Fouad
I am doing some application on flash that uses an XML file to store data... This application has a search form. I understand how to get through the xml by loops but i can't figure out how to get flash to know if this word is included within the xml nodes or not... Any simple idea? Regards --

[Flashcoders] Adobe trial download links screwed up??

2007-07-25 Thread Digg Yeah
Good evening, Looks like all trial download links are broken at: www.adobe.com/downloads/ This doesnt seem to be a browser issue .Can someone at Adobe please take a look at this issue? Thanks in advance. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

RE: [Flashcoders] Returning a String fails

2007-07-25 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi folks, thanks for all the responses! They are greatly appreciated. - MM ___ 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

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Sunil Jolly
Hi Ian, It seems like the proper way would be to create the extra functions/classes to handle this. That would solve those two issues which aren't major, but would make your code cleaner. Its more effort/work I guess but it might pay off in the long run! (Which is what clean code is all about

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
On 7/25/07, Sunil Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, It seems like the proper way would be to create the extra functions/classes to handle this. That would solve those two issues which aren't major, but would make your code cleaner. Thanks, Sunil; but for clarity, _which_ extra

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Oh, and reading the link you supplied, the only concrete suggestion is from Aral Balkan, who suggests (as someone did in an earlier thread) that you subclass the Event class. How would that help in my case? Any suggestions? To go back to my original example, if you assume class A is a black box

Re: [Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Alan MacDougall
Omar Fouad wrote: I am doing some application on flash that uses an XML file to store data... This application has a search form. I understand how to get through the xml by loops but i can't figure out how to get flash to know if this word is included within the xml nodes or not... Any simple

[Flashcoders] RESOLVED: Flash 8 exception handling

2007-07-25 Thread Alan MacDougall
Alan MacDougall wrote: This looks completely straightforward and identical to Java... but when I do it, it catches the generic error. Now, obviously an Error instance is getting caught, which means one is getting thrown, which means my InvalidPathFormatException IS being recognized as a

Re: [Flashcoders] Displacement Map with mcs

2007-07-25 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, cant you just attach the dispmap to the parent mc holding the children? greetz JC ps to get the placement correctly you might need to set the mask through setMask() On 7/24/07, eric e. dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started coding up a little sniper scope thing. bmp on the stage of

Re: [Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Ron Wheeler
It is hardy much more work to parse the XML manually. We did a complex search (find me all the things that a fireman might use for personal protection during an earthquake or what respirators are used by first responders or what headgear does the police marine unit wear) without XPath. Just

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Sunil Jolly
Hi Ian, I didn't fully understand your reply to Muzak's suggestion, but this is based on that and seems to fit the bill. Sorry it's a bit messy but you get the idea... Are there still issues with this one? --- //call class b passing extra param var b:B = new B();

Re: [Flashcoders] Displacement Map with mcs

2007-07-25 Thread eric e. dolecki
I figured out a decent work around for what I am doing - thanks for your reply ;) - eric On 7/25/07, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, cant you just attach the dispmap to the parent mc holding the children? greetz JC ps to get the placement correctly you might need to set the mask

Re: [Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Alan MacDougall
Omar Fouad wrote: com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath??? where can i get it??? Well, XPath is just one way of searching through an XML document to get specific nodes. As you might guess from the package name, this particular implementation can be found at www.xfactorstudio.com . You can learn more

[Flashcoders] Team Foundation Server

2007-07-25 Thread Doug Coning
Greetings All, Is anyone using Flash with Team Foundation Server for source control? If so, do you mind sharing the steps it took to setup the connection to TFS? Thanks, Doug Coning Senior Web Development Programmer FORUM Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail and any attachment(s) are

Re: [Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Ron Wheeler
Google??? or try guessing from the name. Omar Fouad wrote: com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath??? where can i get it??? On 7/25/07, Alan MacDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Omar Fouad wrote: I am doing some application on flash that uses an XML file to store data... This application has a search

Re: [Flashcoders] Searching within XML

2007-07-25 Thread Matthias Dittgen
I think, it is not available at the moment. I'll send you the AS2 sources offlist. hth, Matthias 2007/7/25, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath??? where can i get it??? On 7/25/07, Alan MacDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Omar Fouad wrote: I am doing some application

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Pepermans
How about using a wrapper class? package { import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.IEventDispatcher; public final class Wrapper { private var _contextInfo:Object; private var _a:IEventDispatcher;

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Sunil, That won't work if multiple requests are filtering through the same B - which is where the whole problem starts from. :-) Because request 2 overwrites the contextInfo written by request 1 - which is why both Muzak (and I) suggested B has an internal list of contextInfos. But that gets

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Frank, That's got potential, thanks - I'll go away and have a think about it (and try a few things out). Cheers, Ian On 7/25/07, Frank Pepermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about using a wrapper class? package { import flash.events.Event; import

[Flashcoders] bitmapData copypixels()

2007-07-25 Thread ilteris kaplan
Hey Flashcoders, I am creating an empty movieclip and loading an image to it. Then I am basically copying this movieclip into a bitmap. The reason I am doing this is, in the next step I am slicing up the bitmap into different pieces. I think my question is, am I doing an additional step

[Flashcoders] Re: [announce]Another png encoder which support 8-bit indexed color

2007-07-25 Thread iiley
1.0 released today, see http://www.aswing.org/?page_id=163 Regards~~ -- iiley AsWing http://www.aswing.org Personal http://www.iiley.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-25 Thread Sunil Jolly
Hi Ian, Sorry, it's not very clear in all that garbled code. If you make a new instance of B each time then only 1 request would be made to each instance. The event could then be sent to the same listener for each instance but with the appropriate parameter as part of the (custom) event. If you

RE: [Flashcoders] Drawing API

2007-07-25 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
They don't give code, but you may want to check out: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/gallery/swf/index.html#u_sContent=odop od Daniel Holth I.S. Programmer x5217 || J401 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karim Beyrouti Sent:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 style XML in AS2?

2007-07-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: I understand traversing through XML is more intuitive in AS3 than AS2. I'm wondering if CS3 lets you traverse through XML in AS3 style, but still using AS2 for the project. Flash CS3 does do this (support E4X), however you have to set

[Flashcoders] Drawing API

2007-07-25 Thread Karim Beyrouti
Hi There, Just on the off chance any of you can help - Does anyone have any resources, or knows a good example online to simulate slightly blotchy ink using the drawing API? Regards Karim No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:21 PM, John Dowdell wrote: If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an installed Adobe Reader to display a PDF, This, in itself, let all the air out of AIR for me. When I saw how AIR could do such a great job of fusing SWF and HTML, I guess I

Re: [Flashcoders] Team Foundation Server

2007-07-25 Thread Muzak
AFAIK, Flash source control only works with VSS 6. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Doug Coning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:12 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Team Foundation Server Greetings All,

Re: [Flashcoders] View images in local folder

2007-07-25 Thread Weldon MacDonald
Flash doesn't have access to the local file system. If teh pictures were on a server you could do something with a PHP script to get the file names, but on the client, not. Unless you want to get into the new Adobe Air API, but that's a whole other ball of wax, not to mention a bit of a learning

Re: [Flashcoders] View images in local folder

2007-07-25 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Weldon MacDonald wrote: Flash doesn't have access to the local file system. If teh pictures were on a server you could do something with a PHP script to get the file names, but on the client, not. Unless you want to get into the new Adobe Air API, but that's a

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread John Dowdell
Curious, does anyone know anything about the capabilities of fscommand in AIR applications? FSCommand was originally for the plugin to communicate with its host browser. Then later it was extended a bit to control properties of Projectors. The current externalInterface communicates with the

Re: [Flashcoders] Audio Stuttering on CD

2007-07-25 Thread Marc Hoffman
Have you tested on different computers? Was it the same computer that worked last year? At 11:36 AM 7/25/2007, you wrote: I have some audio slide presentations that I've created in Flash for the web that I need to put on CD. I am using autorun to execute an index.html page and then from

[Flashcoders] ExternalInterface fails when accessed from vm1 and vm2

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Carolin
Hi, Has anyone heard of the ExternalInterface Class failing in an AS3 file after an AS2 file has loaded into it and also uses this object? Cheers, Mark ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-25 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Hi I need an advice how to send information from html to swf. I have list of links and want to send mp3 names to flash player that I created on the page. Is that possible? If yes maybe somebody have examples that explains how. Thank for any help. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Hebrew input

2007-07-25 Thread Pieter Michels
So I gather I first need to embed my font (let's Verdana) and implement some sort of RTL script. Ok, thanks for your input. Pieter On 7/23/07, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm building an application that requires users to be abe to type in almost any language. It has

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread elibol
Something along the lines of fscommand(exec, pdfOutput.exe source.html target.pdf); Or any other extension that might be useful for producing report documents for our ROI/Value Calculator desktop products. We are currently able to produce html reports for the desktop, but we cannot produce pdf

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-25 Thread John Dowdell
ah, so is this Does anyone know how I can produce PDF files locally with the Adobe Integrated Runtime? If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an installed Adobe Reader to display a PDF, but I don't recall anyone seeing a way to produce PDFs locally. If you can handle a

[Flashcoders] Couple questions re Zinc and Access

2007-07-25 Thread Dave Burnett
Hi all; I'm looking to connect a projector to an Access db, both on CD. Looks like Zinc will do this, but I'm curious if any folks with experience in the area could enlighten me: 1. Are there any client requirements? MDAC version? Do I have to make an ODBC connection? 2. What does Zinc

[Flashcoders] View images in local folder

2007-07-25 Thread Norman Cousineau
Is it possible to use Flash to make an image browser...without an XML file. In other words, just view the images in any given local folder. Regards, Norm C ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] Audio Stuttering on CD

2007-07-25 Thread Richard Mueller
I have some audio slide presentations that I've created in Flash for the web that I need to put on CD. I am using autorun to execute an index.html page and then from there, the user can select the various presentations. But from CD, when I open the presentation, the audio stutters(loops

Re: [Flashcoders] Audio Stuttering on CD

2007-07-25 Thread Richard Mueller
Yes, the problem is happening on all computers. And yes, I'm working with same pc as last year. At 7/25/2007 Wednesday 02:09 PM, you wrote: Have you tested on different computers? Was it the same computer that worked last year? At 11:36 AM 7/25/2007, you wrote: I have some audio slide

Re: [Flashcoders] bitmapData copypixels()

2007-07-25 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, in general: * follow the KISS principle * optimize l8r * measure if you really want to know and base your decision on that greetz JC On 7/25/07, ilteris kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Flashcoders, I am creating an empty movieclip and loading an image to it. Then I am basically

[Flashcoders] Displaying Chinese character set via XML

2007-07-25 Thread Marc Hoffman
I cannot get a dynamic text field to display Chinese characters from XML. Results vary from question marks in the field, to undefined, to blank. What should happen is that Flash derives elements from the XML and displays them in the textfield. I'm using XMLSA to parse the xml. Another

Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-25 Thread Helmut Granda
search on javascript + actionscript. That is one way. ...helmut On 7/26/07, natalia Vikhtinskaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need an advice how to send information from html to swf. I have list of links and want to send mp3 names to flash player that I created on the page. Is that