Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Checking if a Function Exists

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Steven, Thanks for the explanation. If you mean Moock's Essential Actionscript, I've had a read of that section and AFAICS it doesn't mention a bug. The only real issue I know of in try/catch do with return is that you shouldn't put a return in a finally clause, because finally gets

Re: [Flashcoders] FocusManager in External SWF

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Thomas
Never encountered it; but try compiling a reference to FocusManager into swf A. This sometimes solves that sort of odd problem with Adobe code. i.e. in SWF A, something like: import fl.managers.FocusManager; : // in class def private static var _dummy:FocusManager; On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at

Re: [Flashcoders] Rotating device text in AS3 for Flash 10

2008-10-30 Thread Leandro Ferreira
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7d29a.html#WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7d1ea For static text, font outlines are exported in a published SWF file. For horizontal static text, you can use device fonts instead of exporting font outlines.

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap distorting during pan

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Muller
What do you mean copy the bitmapdata to another movieclip? do you mean create a new bitmap using the bitmapdata, set smoothing to true and add that to a displayobject? cheers, MaTT On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Fabio Pinatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: copy the loaded image content with

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap distorting during pan

2008-10-30 Thread Fabio Pinatti
I mean use bitmapdata's draw method , with last parameter (smoothing) setted to true. mc1 = original image mc2 = target empty bitmap mc2.draw(mc1,null,null,null,null,true); It's just a pseudo-code, but it may works well with dynamic loaded bitmaps. Best, Pinatti On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:21

[Flashcoders] Getting a compiler error

2008-10-30 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
if( Number(loc[0]) == NaN || Number(loc[1] == NaN )return; Warning: 1098: Illogical comparison with NaN. This statement always evaluates to false. Okay, so I have also tried if( loc[0] == NaN || loc[1] == NaN ) return; I get the same error. loc[0] 99.9% of the time is a string value

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting a compiler error

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Thomas
Try the isNaN() method: if (isNaN(Number(loc[0]))) however, shouldn't you be using parseInt() or parseFloat() instead of Number()? Casting a String as a Number is a risky thing to do at the best of times! So try: if ((isNaN(parseInt(loc[0]))||(isNaN(parseInt(loc[1]))) return; HTH, Ian

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting a compiler error

2008-10-30 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
Use isNaN instead. For some reason I don't really get, this evaluates to false in AS 3.0. trace( (NaN == NaN) ); Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2008/10/30, Eric E. Dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if( Number(loc[0]) == NaN || Number(loc[1] == NaN )return; Warning: 1098: Illogical comparison with

[Flashcoders] XML optimization

2008-10-30 Thread Matt S.
So I know this is kind of a mammoth XML file to load all at once, but it doesnt seem THAT big, but its taking longer than expected. Can anyone look at this XML and suggest any ways to optimize it, that dont involve breaking it up into multiple files?

Re: [Flashcoders] Getting a compiler error

2008-10-30 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Thanks Juan ;) On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Juan Pablo Califano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use isNaN instead. For some reason I don't really get, this evaluates to false in AS 3.0. trace( (NaN == NaN) ); Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2008/10/30, Eric E. Dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [Flashcoders] XML optimization

2008-10-30 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, its only 60kb? That shouldn't take too long. Can you see what is taking up the time? Might be parsing instead of loading. regards, JC On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I know this is kind of a mammoth XML file to load all at once, but it doesnt seem

Re: [Flashcoders] XML optimization

2008-10-30 Thread Matt S.
No, its definitely in the loading, i've got it tracing out in the flash and all the delay is happening during the initial load of the XML, not during the parsing. But the actual live load is from php, eg ../tommunro_v2_xml.php so it may be when the php is parsing the XML and generating it. .m On

Re: [Flashcoders] XML optimization

2008-10-30 Thread Gregory Boland
Are you allowed to put html tags in an attribute? Like a br tag? I would think that in the attribute would screw it up. Why not just taking some of those longer string attributes and make them nodes and wrap them in CDATA? Just a thought greg On 10/30/08 11:42 AM, Matt S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flashcoders] TextInput highlight color when set to blend layer mode

2008-10-30 Thread Preston Parris
I have a MovieClip with a text input component on top of a white box with grey border. In order to get the text inside of the Text Input component to be able to fade in and out I had to set the entire movie clip to blend mode layer. After doing this, when I click on the text input field the text

Re: [Flashcoders] back in job hell

2008-10-30 Thread Anthony Pace
Hi again, My client is saying his client is going to back out of the deal now if he doesn't get all of his revisions to the interface by the weekend; not a difficult request, but I will never work for my client again. You need paper between you and your client, and if you don't get that

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 - Checking if a Function Exists

2008-10-30 Thread Schmidtke, Ben
Regarding using a try/catch for this, in your catch you can check the errorID, if it's 1006, it's a method not found. You can catch all the run-time errors listed in the appendixes of the flash help. Not knowing everything going on in your code, you might want to check it in case something else

Re: [Flashcoders] back in job hell

2008-10-30 Thread dr.ache
Like everytime - a communication problem. Sometimes a developer is not capable of explaining all that stuff to a client because he stucks in details a client should not be confronted with - then he needs a middle man. Sometimes the middle man itself has to less ideas what development means so

Re: [Flashcoders] TextInput highlight color when set to blend layer mode

2008-10-30 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Embed fonts. Or if you set the blendMode of the TextInput and fade the TextInput itself instead of container MovieClip, you shouldn't get those side effects. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ Preston Parris wrote: I have a MovieClip with a text input component on top of a