Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Thomas
I'd second Ron's recommendation there... Ian On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: Head First Design Patterns is very easy to pick up. No typos, lots and lots of pictures, illustrations and code examples.

[Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
I have figured out how to make flash work as a multi-touch system... I am coding it now... it is so darn simple... it just came to me after watching a video on how to make your own multi-touch input device using a webcam a piece of white paper and a box to block most of the light so the cam

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Mario Klingemann demo'd something like this at FlashOnTheBeach 2007 - have a look at quasimondo.com to see the 2D or not 2D lecture - not sure if he released any code though? http://lectures.quasimondo.com/ Glen Anthony Pace wrote: I have figured out how to make flash work as

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Thomas
I was actually thinking of Mario's lecture at FoTB 2008 where he used very similar algorithms to read square barcodes (whatever those things are called) from a webcam. Not multitouch, but there's a lot of similar code (spotting areas of colour, eliminating noise). Worth a look, Anthony. Funnily

Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)

2009-01-08 Thread Sidney de Koning
Hi Zeh, Maybe these resources can help you? http://livedocs.adobe.com/air/1/devappsflex/dev_guide_flex.pdf “Using multi-platform key equivalent menu commands” in the PDF on page 57 (64 in PDF) http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41615 This one is for JS but it can help you Hope this

Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)

2009-01-08 Thread Sidney de Koning
Oh one more link for you: Function key can't be used as keyEquivalents http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17901 Good luck, Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey list, Do people here work with AIR? Or is there any better-aligned mailing list? Anyway. I'm using AIR

Re: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-08 Thread John McCormack
It's a good book. Although I go back and forth between books I own the following books and they have benefited me in this order: 1. ActionScript3 with Design Patterns - isbn: 0-321-42656-8 - Adobe Press Joey Lott and Danny Patterson Joint 2. Head First Design Patterns - O'Reilly - isbn:

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
To my knowledge all flash integration for multi-touch has been made possible by using flosc by ben chun, or with OpenCV and touchLib; however, what I am proposing is that it is possible directly through the use of the flash player and a simple cam rig. I think that it should be possible, and

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Thomas
Yeah, I absolutely get the idea (as I said, we were discussing it yesterday - with reference to an infra-red camera, but same principle). Check out Mario's stuff, there are areas-of-colour recognition algorithms there which will be of help, I think. Cheers, Ian On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM,

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Thomas
That's a great tip. :-) Pocket change? Definitely not... we're not made of money either! Ian On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: thanks for the tip... I think IR is definitely the way to go; yet, you can just open up a web cam, and replace its

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
thanks for the tip... I think IR is definitely the way to go; yet, you can just open up a web cam, and replace its filter with a piece of blank exposed negative... saves you from actually having to buy an IR camera. For me purchasing new equipment is not an option; yet, for you it might be

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Piers Cowburn
There's good stuff by Grant Skinner too: http://incomplet.gskinner.com/index2.html#camwriter Piers On 8 Jan 2009, at 10:35, Ian Thomas wrote: Yeah, I absolutely get the idea (as I said, we were discussing it yesterday - with reference to an infra-red camera, but same principle). Check out

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
I agree along the lines of Mark. From a developer perspective, I'm always cautious of different flavors of languages which require special compilers, or alternative languages and compilers, like haxe. Several reasons: 1. What happens when you leave the project/company and the next developer

RE: [Flashcoders] design pattern diagrams...

2009-01-08 Thread Merrill, Jason
Also, MVC's are made up Observer, Strategy, and Composite patterns. Those need to be understood first. There are many ways to use MVC, and you certainly don't have to understand those other patterns first. Maybe how you use MVC. You can use simpler forms of MVC without those patterns. But

Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)

2009-01-08 Thread Zeh Fernando
Hey Sydney, Thanks for the links. The first two didn't do anything for me - they basically repeat what's in the documentation and provide no information about the advanced keys - but the last one stating it is a bug is at least a relief as it means it's known and should (hopefully) be fixed soon.

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Winterhalder
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: 2. Time it can take to learn something like haxe doesn't seem to give you enough ROI - at least my impression having looked at haxe as an alternative. I have to disagree here -- learning haXe has definitely

Re: [Flashcoders] ActionScript syntax enhancements?

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
The only thing that I would suggest, is that he tighten the compiler code and perhaps expose low level features if it is possible to do so just through an edit of the p code. It is still compiled into pcode right? or am I out of date... Merrill, Jason wrote: I agree along the lines of Mark.

Re: [Flashcoders] NativeMenuItem keyModifier with function key (AIR)

2009-01-08 Thread Sidney de Koning
No problem :) Sid On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote: Hey Sydney, Thanks for the links. The first two didn't do anything for me - they basically repeat what's in the documentation and provide no information about the advanced keys - but the last one stating it is a bug is at

[Flashcoders] Auto Reply: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9

2009-01-08 Thread jk
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Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Andrei Thomaz
hello, I've ported a blob detection Processing library, blobDetection, to AS3. It is slow, but maybe you can optimise it. http://andreithomaz.com/labs/?p=8 Using BitmapData.getBoundsRect(), I started BitmapBlobDetection. It works faster: http://andreithomaz.com/labs/?cat=4 I've also developed a

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Andrei Thomaz
and, of course, don't miss the NUI group forum: http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewforum/33/ and the original version of blobDetection http://v3ga.net/processing/BlobDetection/ best, andrei On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Andrei Thomaz andreitho...@gmail.comwrote: hello, I've ported a blob

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
great info... Before I peruse through your library, I have a few questions. Do you test for the largest circle or rectangle that can fit in the blob? Or for the centre point of the blob? or do you look for a circle or rectangle that encapsulates the blob, and then possibly locate an

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Andrei Thomaz
hello Anthony, you can set some parameters when using the library, to get what you want. For example: - you can set what will be the maximum size of a blob. If the blob is greater than the maximum size, the algorithm checks if there is really a large blob, or several small blobs. If the blob is

Re: [Flashcoders] multi-touch directly in flash...

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony Pace
Thank you very much for the zip... I look forward to nosing through it. Andrei Thomaz wrote: hello Anthony, you can set some parameters when using the library, to get what you want. For example: - you can set what will be the maximum size of a blob. If the blob is greater than the maximum

Re: A message from the list admin: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG (was: Re: [Flashcoders] Hi Flash Coders List, you were invited to join the gamer's social network)

2009-01-08 Thread Steve Mathews
So how about unsubscribing this jk (j...@masterkitchen.d) guy as his auto-reply is quite old already. Thanks, Steve On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Please don't send invitations to these sorts of things to the list. If you can't apply the good sense to do

[Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread FlashDev
Hi Guys, happy new year to you all! I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I want to automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing the first label which is the current default.

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread Eric E. Dolecki
populate with an array, and then go through the array, and use the matching index. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, FlashDev fl...@funkdaweb.com wrote: Hi Guys, happy new year to you all! I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated via Actionscript 2 from an

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you access this mailing list ...

2009-01-08 Thread Bob Wohl
If I remember correctly, we used to have a public archive for this at chattyfigs but people started fishing emails from it(4 years ago maybe) and Dave had some issues and maybe even got fed up with the constant maintenance. This was before the days of google groups. But being a developer my

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you access this mailing list ...

2009-01-08 Thread Joel Stransky
You might find this helpful but it sure isn't as convenient as a forum archive would be... http://www.mail-archive.com/flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com/index.html#45599 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Bob Wohl bob.w...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly, we used to have a public archive

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you access this mailing list ...

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, There is an online website that shows all the threads from the FlashCoders list, but I can't remember it's name. I found it when Googling, so try searching for a specific sentence from one of the list emails that maybe a month or so old - so Google has had time to spider it - the

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread jonathan howe
That sounds like a potential for unneeded redundancy/potential sync errors if things change later.. Better to use the ComboBox.getItemAt() method, right? trace(myBox.getItemAt(4).label); -jonathan On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Eric E. Dolecki edole...@gmail.com wrote: populate with an

Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread FlashDev
Thanks Jonathan, Sorted the problem basically i had to use this code... function setValue (pValue:String):Void { for (var i:Number = 0; i comboBox.length; i++) { if (comboBox.getItemAt(i).data == pValue) {

[Flashcoders] Looking for actionscript video code

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Jones
This my first email here. I hope I am posting this to the right area. My apologies if not. I want to take a QT.mov and create an flv with event cue points that can then be controlled using actionscript to stop the video at a specific time and execute another event, all without end user input. I

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for actionscript video code

2009-01-08 Thread Ruben Quintana
go http://www.gotoandlearn.com see Flash Video Basics 1 to 8 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Bill Jones bjo...@backemarketing.comwrote: This my first email here. I hope I am posting this to the right area. My apologies if not. I want to take a QT.mov and create an flv with event cue

Re: [Flashcoders] Looking for actionscript video code

2009-01-08 Thread Nate Beck
Also, using the Adobe Media Encoder ( http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=77EE2) which installs with CS3 and CS4 is an extremely easy way to work with video files, adding cue points, etc... Cheers, Nate http://blog.natebeck.net

[Flashcoders] create object with getDefinition and pass parameters using apply ?

2009-01-08 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
I need to create objects using getDefinition and pass parameter to the constructor but the problem is that the number of parameters can be different. I tried using apply like this but I can't make it work. var classReference:Object = getDefinitionByName(className); var object:Object = new

RE: [Flashcoders] create object with getDefinition and pass parameters using apply ?

2009-01-08 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
Well for now I've done this which supports up to 5 arguments but if anyone's got a better suggestion please tell me... var classReference:Object = getDefinitionByName(className); var object:Object; switch(array.length) { case 0: object = new classReference();

Re: [Flashcoders] create object with getDefinition and pass parameters using apply ?

2009-01-08 Thread Joel Stransky
Why not predefine the params as null? class myClass{ public function myClass(param1 = null, param2 = null, ... param6 = null){ } } or just use the rest (...) parameter class myClass{ public function myClass(...args){ for(var i:uint = 0; i args.length; i++){ trace(args[i]);

[Flashcoders] Flex UI ...

2009-01-08 Thread SJF
I'm using Flex 3 when working on pure actionscript projects. I often have issues with numerous dialog boxes and parts of the interface within Flex (see images below): http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/512/60793305bx2.gif http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7996/64384807bn2.gif Tabs and controls

RE : [Flashcoders] create object with getDefinition and pass parameters using apply ?

2009-01-08 Thread Patrick Matte | BLITZ
That wouldn't help, I'm writing a class that can create any kind of objects and pass any number of argument to that object at instantiation. De : flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] de la part de Joel