[Flashcoders] Congratulations America.

2008-11-05 Thread John McCormack
It's off topic, but it is a very special day. You give us hope. Hope that we can help each other. This forum is also proof of that. John ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] AS2 - Code not working in FP10

2008-11-05 Thread FlashDev
Hi guys, ive got a bit fo code that works fine in flash player 9 but in 10 it completely messes up! Its suppose to centre an image, any ideas why it no longer works? center_content.onEnterFrame = function() { // CENTER Y contentYTarg = Math.round((Stage.height - center_content._height)/2);

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:13 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children snip The problem I have

Re: [Flashcoders] Congratulations America.

2008-11-05 Thread Dave Watts
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[Flashcoders] Shell loaders

2008-11-05 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Does anyone have any experience with creating shell loaders? I would like to create a standalone application - for PDA Flash 7 - that will try to load a SWF from a remote location - in order to centralise the application updates. Because of network connectivity issues, I would

Re: [Flashcoders] Congratulations America.

2008-11-05 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea ... now we can all look forward to a re-incarnation of the Welfare State. Yay. :P - jon On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:57 AM, John McCormack wrote: It's off topic, but it is a very special day. You give us hope. Hope that we can help each other. This forum is also proof of that. John

[Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
I'm going to throw a question out there to see if anyone has experienced something similar to this. Didn't get any responses on Flash_Tiger. If you have ever outsourced some Actionscript work to an outside vendor, have you ever struggled with how to spec out how you want them to code it?

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Joel Stransky
It really depends on what level of design patterns were used. The best way to prepare for making changes is to provide the API you expect to be able to use. Possibly created with something like gModelerhttp://www.gskinner.com/gmodeler/app/run.html(although there may be a better option for as3). In

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
Did you have check ins with them, or did they just deliver the final thing? Check ins might allow you to see how they are architecting things and you'd be able to ask questions, or suggest different ways to code something, etc. I've seen some projects where custom events are passed from one class

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Mathews
It sounds like this was a situation where you just passed off a project and got the result in the end. My experiences have taught me to make sure to do reviews often and recommend changes early. I think there are several issues that cause these kinds of problems (language, education and styles to

RE: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, checking in would have been good - but I was only asked to design the specs, and then the project was handed off to some others. Then the project came back to me later.. but yeah, totally agree on that point. Thanks great responses everyone. I haven't outsourced much work - only a

Re: [Flashcoders] Shell loaders

2008-11-05 Thread Anthony Pace
Hi Glen, So to get this straight: How do you intend to store the file data... Shared objects, or as an actual file? Only if the connection is available, and only if the user would not rather keep their old version? What type of PDA? Will it actually be flash 7 or flashlight? By shell do you

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread Dave Watts
If you have ever outsourced some Actionscript work to an outside vendor, have you ever struggled with how to spec out how you want them to code it? I haven't done this, but have worked as a consultant to offshore vendors before - they offshore their own consulting! - and would make these

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 - Code not working in FP10

2008-11-05 Thread sebastian
Hi, I'm sure someone else can give a reason, cause I wouldn't know; but short of that, you could use a tween engine to center it. AS2 has several good tween engines available. Seb. FlashDev wrote: Hi guys, ive got a bit fo code that works fine in flash player 9 but in 10 it completely

Re: [Flashcoders] FW: [Flash_Tiger] Outsourcing and Actionscript specs

2008-11-05 Thread sebastian
Open the discussion with them, tell them where you are confused and have them explain things to you. If they can't explain it to you in a quick conversation; have them document it. gModeler seems good [first time I saw it was 5 seconds ago!], or any other UML-esque program that can build

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-05 Thread sebastian
oh very sorry, my misunderstanding. :) jonathan howe wrote: I don't think this is really Glen's problem. You should not have to addChild() an object placed on the stage via the authoring environment. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:27 PM, sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't do

Re: [Flashcoders] Shell loaders

2008-11-05 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, By local file - I mean a SWF file in the same directory as the shell. The user would be given the option to load remotely or locally - this choice would be stored as an LSO. PDA's are iPaq Pocket PC's running FP7 - not Flash Lite. Shell - hopefully a SWF, but from a dirty spike

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-05 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, I found my problem... I had created classes that extended my AppScreen class public class ShowControlScreen extends AppScreen public class RobotDiagnosticsScreen extends AppScreen etc. But the Flash IDE would not let me use the AppScreen as the Base Class for my

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Authortime vs Runtime children

2008-11-05 Thread Todd Kerpelman
Okay, I'll admit I'm only getting a vague sense of your problem, so forgive me if I'm totally off base, but I think the proper workflow is this... 1. Uncheck the Automatically declare stage instances checkbox. (In File... Publish Settings, go to the Flash tab, and click the Settings button next