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From: SJF sjf...@gmail.com
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 5:04 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Flex UI ...
I'm using Flex 3 when working on pure actionscript projects.
I often have issues with numerous dialog boxes and parts of the
I am developing a word based game and need a dictionary of all the words in
the English language to create the data for the game. Can anyone point me in
the direction of where to acquire an electronic version of the English
dictionary that is easily incorporated into my game?
Thanks
Paul
Hi Paul,
Check out Grant Skinner's Spelling Plus library:
http://www.gskinner.com/products/spl/about.php
HTH,
Ian
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.com wrote:
I am developing a word based game and need a dictionary of all the words in
the English
welcome to the list
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote:
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...
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.com wrote:
Can anyone point me in
the direction of where to acquire an electronic version of the English
dictionary that is easily incorporated into my game?
Sure: http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/
It's under
Also check Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Search dictionary in the title, several potential candidates will
come up. They probably require some parsing, and will also lack modern
words, but they're Free.
Mark
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Mark Winterhalder mar...@gmail.com
Hi list...
I'm passing a var to this signature:
private function assignContent(Content:*):void
// example
assignContent(msg.ONE);
How can I get the ONE part of it, so I can correlate with another
object like info.ONE, or if it is passed msg.TWO, I can cross reference
info.TWO?
There must be an
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
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden
Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau
(p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil (han...@masterkitchen.de).
Vielen Dank
Johannes Killinger
Master Kitchen GmbH
Hi Paul;
I was intrigued by what you are doing and also by the Grant Skinner spell
checker and started to look around the web. I came up with this, which may be
just what you're looking for:
http://www.net-comber.com/wordurls.html
Ed
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So I'm applying a blur to a bitmap via the code below (a little clunky
perhaps, this is for testing only), and it's accomplishing my goal,
which is to blur a bitmap WITHOUT the annoying fuzzing out and fading
away of the edges. I just want a uniform blur across the whole image.
The tricky part,
Do you just need a list of words or do you need their definitions too?
Mark Winterhalder wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Steven paul_ste...@btinternet.com wrote:
Can anyone point me in
the direction of where to acquire an electronic version of the English
dictionary that is
You can try the ENABLE word list. It's open source, made for Scrabble-like
word games and therefore doesn't contain a lot of proper nouns or other
illegal words.
There's a link to it here... http://www.crosswordman.com/wordlist.html
--Todd, who still thinks that zen should be a legal word
On
private function assignContent( parentObject: *, memberName: String ): void
is what your function needs to take, and you would call it like:
assignContent( msg, ONE );
With assignContent( msg.ONE ) as you have it, the reference to the object
stored in msg.ONE is read
from msg before and only
Just a list of words
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Pace
Sent: 09 January 2009 17:27
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Dictionary resource for word based games
Do
I'm a little confused about what you are trying to do exactly, but using
flash.utils.Proxy might be able to help solve your problem.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael
michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote:
Hi list...
I'm passing a var to this signature:
private function
Would you please BAN this guy!? Sheesh.
2009/1/9 j...@masterkitchen.de
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden
Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Herrn Peer Schmidt-Soltau (
p...@masterkitchen.de) oder Frau Hannah Witopil
Thanks Ed - that is really useful!!
And thanks for all the other replies so far - I will follow up all the
links.
Paul
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Edward Kelly
Sent: 09 January 2009
Thanks David and Nate.
David, I was realizing what you basically said in your answer, so now
I'm convinced. That's what I'm doing now.
Nate, thanks for enlightening me on the Proxy class. I'm still new to
AS3, and that seems like a pretty cool feature.
Regards,
- MM
I hate when people have auto responders.
I am for banning him.
Nate Beck wrote:
Second that.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Joel Stransky stranskydes...@gmail.comwrote:
Would you please BAN this guy!? Sheesh.
2009/1/9 j...@masterkitchen.de
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Ich
No problem. Proxies are way cool.. I gave a presentation about them last
night at the Seattle Flex User Group. I tell you this because I want to
show off this photo.
http://natebeck.net/images/superprox.jpg
Shirts coming soon :D
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael
Second that.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Joel Stransky stranskydes...@gmail.comwrote:
Would you please BAN this guy!? Sheesh.
2009/1/9 j...@masterkitchen.de
Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
Ich bin bis einschließlich 9. Januar 2009 nicht erreichbar. In dringenden
Fällen wenden Sie
Maybe just set his receive messages to disabled and give him a
gentle reminder to be more considerate next time he goes on holiday...
... at least it's not social networking invite spam...
Anthony Pace wrote:
I hate when people have auto responders.
I am for banning him.
Nate Beck wrote:
... at least it's not social networking invite spam...
Here here!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Glen Pike postmas...@glenpike.co.ukwrote:
Maybe just set his receive messages to disabled and give him a gentle
reminder to be more considerate next time he goes on holiday...
... at least
Maybe just set his receive messages to disabled and give him a gentle
reminder to be more considerate next time he goes on holiday...
Done. I hadn't received his messages, because they weren't in English
apparently.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software
Hi,
how about setting up a couple properties, and tween them using TweenLite,
calling your apply method using TweenLite's onUpdate method?
greetz
JC
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Matt S. mattsp...@gmail.com wrote:
So I'm applying a blur to a bitmap via the code below (a little clunky
Hey Patrick,
I've run into the exact same issue that you have. Actionscript doesn't
support overloaded methods or constructors at this time, although there is
talk that they are going to add that support at some point in the future.
I have not to this day, found a way to use the apply method on
Nate, have you got any speaker notes posted from your talk?
- Mike
No problem. Proxies are way cool.. I gave a presentation about them
last
night at the Seattle Flex User Group
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The presentation is at: http://talks.natebeck.net
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Mendelsohn, Michael
michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com wrote:
Nate, have you got any speaker notes posted from your talk?
- Mike
No problem. Proxies are way cool.. I gave a presentation about them
last
Cool, Nate! And...I love the stylin' t-shirt!
The presentation is at: http://talks.natebeck.net
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I see, thanks for your answer, I also feel dirty doing that! But at least it
works, it could have been worse...
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Nate Beck
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009
Hi all,
I wanted to ask if there is a way to let two AIR applications connect to
each other through a home network (the same AIR application running on
different computers) by using sockets or any other method.
Thanks.
--
Omar M. Fouad - www.omar-fouad.net
Cellular: (+20) 1011.88.534
Mail:
Yes, should be possible. As long you use something like Merapi or some
other solution to open a server socket connection. Basically, you want a
simple http/socket server running which controllable from AIR
application and maybe some nice use of zeroconf or Bonjour to
broadcast/publish/account
If so, the code should be available on Google Code somewhere.
Hi all,
I wanted to ask if there is a way to let two AIR applications connect to
each other through a home network (the same AIR application running on
different computers) by using sockets or any other method.
Thanks.
Ok but I don't know Java...
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote:
If so, the code should be available on Google Code somewhere.
Hi all,
I wanted to ask if there is a way to let two AIR applications connect to
each other through a home network (the same
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208
Enjoy!
:)
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Ok but I don't know Java...
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Weyert de Boer w...@innerfuse.biz wrote:
If so, the code should be available on
that is mean but funny... What languages do you know?
Nate Beck wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208
Enjoy!
:)
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Ok but I don't know Java...
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Weyert
Yes, similar is easily done using Cocoa or Ruby or Python. Python might
be nice because you have python2exe. And python itself is included
out-of-the-box with OSX (Leopard, Tiger). Meaning easy to use.
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Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf
Hmm, I should try to rewrite it into some examples using Python or
Cocoa. Nice pet project for me.
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it is not a matter of languages... I could achieve the same usiing C# .NET
but the idea is that I wanna achieve it with actionscript... In .NET I can
connect to any application that listen to socket connections attempt from
another application anywhere on a network or internet.
All I want to do
Nice. May I ask you how you did the project shown at your blog? In the
blog post Touchscreen Jukebox you are talking about touchscreens. Only
how is this working exactly. Really touch screen? Sounds like, a nice
way to do gesture-based interaction.
You need to have a server to connect to, and, from what I know (only
what I have read), is that adobe purposefully decided to block this and
other media related capabilities. they don't want us creating streaming
server capability that avoids the use of their com server.
if you want these
You can't listen to sockets in ActionScript or Flash... No server
sockets. Sadly enough, meaning a no go. You can use the client sockets,
of course. But you would still need some helper application to create
server sockets like AIR HELPER AIR
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If I didn't make myself clear, the only way to do this is with an
intermediary server running on the system being connected to.
Anthony Pace wrote:
You need to have a server to connect to, and, from what I know (only
what I have read), is that adobe purposefully decided to block this
and
hello Weyert,
The screen is not really touch screen. It is an acrylic surface, with a
camera behind it. This camera sees the fingers, and this image is processed
by flash, using the code I published in the blog. Of course, the light must
be carefully done, so you can get the fingers with a good
Can you be more clear please? :)
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.cawrote:
If I didn't make myself clear, the only way to do this is with an
intermediary server running on the system being connected to.
Anthony Pace wrote:
You need to have a server to
Hello guys,
I'm struggling with my rotating menu and
have prepared a short test case - please see
http://pastebin.com/m40cf66ec and I'll also
paste the code at the bottom of this mail.
In my rotating menu I'd like to rotate
button like objects in an ellipse.
1) I'd like to stop rotating if the
Yep, JC's idea seems very doable. Or look into the upcoming version of
TweenLite/Max which uses a plugin architecture, so you could write your own
little plugin that would accomplish it. http://blog.greensock.com
Jack
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From: Hans Wichman
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/clientServer.html
Omar Fouad wrote:
Can you be more clear please? :)
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.cawrote:
If I didn't make myself clear, the only way to do this is with an
intermediary
I meant it to be funny, not mean.
But picking up a book is my solution those kinds of situations. That one I
linked in particular is sitting on my desk right now as I'm learning Java so
I can work on BlazeDS, and understand it better.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Anthony Pace
Should be the same. Is MainModel in ca.bentonconsulting.ca or is it in the
model package? Seems you put it in the former.
Also, classes need to be declared public:
package myPackage
{
public class MainModel
{
public function MainModel()
{
If you want to open server sockets with AIR. You need an extra
application alongside your AIR application. This application then opens
the listening or server socket and then acts as some sort of middleman
or proxy for your AIR application by redirecting the traffic back and
forth of the
Good to hear Omar! I hate nagging bosses.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Guys when there are deadlines and a Boss bugging you 24/7 there is no time
to pick a book and learn a language definitely different from the language
you are being writing for
Guys when there are deadlines and a Boss bugging you 24/7 there is no time
to pick a book and learn a language definitely different from the language
you are being writing for years.
I've found another way to share information between two applications by the
way. It is not a new way, it is the
SQLite won't connect to another computer on the lan though...
Since you know c#, just replace where it says java with c# that is
somewhat similar; however, I do completely understand this is sometimes
easier said than done.
Antony I have already 3 computers connected to the Same SQLite shared file
on the network and it works like a charm. :)
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.cawrote:
SQLite won't connect to another computer on the lan though...
Since you know c#, just replace
I used c# years ago very briefly... and I just realized that
actionscript has a resemblance... I might want to start looking into
.net again
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/dottys/SocketProgDTRP11222005023030AM/SocketProgDTRP.aspx
the above is a nifty barebones tutorial to get you
Weyert, the SQLite file is stored somewhere in a full access shared folder.
Each AIR application connects to it, and performs sql statements without any
problem, as long as the computer is connected to the same network.
Yours
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com
You could consider looking at CommandProxy by Mike Chambers.
http://code.google.com/p/commandproxy/
If you want I can port my book example to C#. Tomorrow. If you like?
Yours,
Weyert de Boer
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That is definitely a nifty way to avoid writing a server. If it works
that's cool; yet, what happens when they request or write to the file at
the same time?
I don't see this working with multiple connections trying to write to
the same file at once; considering there is no server handling
I'm curious to hear a little more about what you guys are trying to do.
Nate, I noticed in your class file that there is a space between ... and
args. I think it's supposed to be ...args
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Patrick Matte | BLITZ
pma...@blitzagency.com wrote:
I see, thanks for your
Of course! Dumb me. Thanks.
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I know Anthony, but the application is already an AIR application. I just
can't start over the application using a different technology like C#. Plus
I like Actionscript more than any other language in the world, even if Adobe
makes lots of restrictions, (because they wanna keep a good reputation
...args and ... args are both acceptable, it's simply a style of
preference.
What I'm doing is writing a DateTime class that you can use in place of
any Date class. The reason I'm writing the DateTime class is to add
additional functionality that is not currently in the Date class, like
support
The problem... is that once you start introducing OS, Direct device driver
control, Direct X, etc... You lose almost all of your cross-platform
status. It's the same thing that Java has been trying to do for years.
I think what the other guys are trying to say... is write a C# socket server
that
Anthony,
File locking would be an issue i know but there are two ways to connect to a
SQLite file, one is with open() and the other is with openAsync() -
Basically a SQLite file is locked only within the execution of a SQL
statement and not while connected. The openAsync connection allows putting
PS: loved this thread :D
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony,
File locking would be an issue i know but there are two ways to connect to
a SQLite file, one is with open() and the other is with openAsync() -
Basically a SQLite file is locked
Yeah I got it, it is just like bridging them to each other. Good idea I
know, but I find the SQLite a more Native approach. As I said, there is a
boss involved :D. But yes I will do it for personal projects. I also think I
might create a custom library using C#/AIR bridging, that would be cool,
I might be wrong, but I don't think that would be a problem, since he's not
reading and writing to the file directly. Locking is managed by the SQLite
engine, which is perhaps not the best option to handle heavy concurrency (I
think it performs a database lock -- i.e, the file -- as opposed to a
That would be really cool Omar.
Be sure to keep us posted!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I got it, it is just like bridging them to each other. Good idea I
know, but I find the SQLite a more Native approach. As I said, there is a
boss involved
Sure.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote:
That would be really cool Omar.
Be sure to keep us posted!
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah I got it, it is just like bridging them to each other. Good idea I
know,
Well I've beening talking about a similar application in my blog
http://omar-fouad.net/blog/?p=95
That is using the SQLite approach...
cheers.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Omar Fouad omarfouad@gmail.com wrote:
Sure.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com
Thanks for the advice. I'll update the display drivers and see how that
goes.
Cheers.
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If you have ever run into problems when writing a file on the network
when someone else is trying you will know what I mean, and now just
imagine that you have an app requesting a write multiple times per
second... there is no reliance.
Nifty solution for the short term; yet, not something
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