Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Pace
Hi Karl, Kind of tired, so the easiest way I can think of to do this is to evaluate and convert each pixel's RGB values to HSB and then average your found values for all the pixels in the region the loader is to be displayed within. Hue, Saturation, Brightness. if the brightness is less

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Your not alone burning the late night pixels. Thanks for your response, this is a good idea. Then you can get some kind of value that will translate to a function. H.. very interesting. Thanks for the links too. gnight Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 29,

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Pace
I just realized the link I have you with the java doesn't really show you anything other than how to use java's Color.RGBtoHSB function... yikes, I told you I was tired This might be a little more helpful. http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATHH=20#text20 Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Your not

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Yeh I was going to see if I could adopt the theory into as Sent from losPhone On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: I just realized the link I have you with the java doesn't really show you anything other than how to use java's Color.RGBtoHSB

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Pace
just noticed that wikipedia has some decent info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Yeh I was going to see if I could adopt the theory into as Sent from losPhone On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Anthony Pace anthony.p...@utoronto.ca wrote: I just realized the

RE: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Cor
Just interested. Is all this worth the hassle? I mean instead using a TextArea, I would go for a normal TextField and a custom scrollbar all in 1 movieclip. And set the needs. Cor. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Pace
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=1955.html Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Here is my other question. How to identify a pixel in as2. I haven't google'd it yet so that answer my be already out there, but I thought I'd ask.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Wow, Thank you oo so much. I hope it hasn't been too much trouble, but I really appreciate the help. Best Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Mar 29, 2009, at 6:21 AM, Anthony Pace wrote: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/

Re: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Anthony Pace
In this situation I agree with you, that rolling your own would be pretty easy and could prove to be less of a hassle; however, he does present a nice solution to the problem at hand. Cor wrote: Just interested. Is all this worth the hassle? I mean instead using a TextArea, I would go for a

RE: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Cor
Absolutely, I was following this along but at some given point I thought maybe they overlook the most simple way. Which is always good, otherwise we would maybe have square wheels... -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Cor, Well, I did suggest the TextField/Scrollbar thing before. Then I followed up with my extend TextArea thing (then Muzak one-upped me.) In terms of reusability I think it is a greater hassle to have to configure a TextField/Scrollbar solution than to go the extended TextArea route. The code

RE: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Cor
Keith, OK, I missed something in the beginning then. I was nearly suggesting not to lose sanity over a text area. And, yes, I love it when smart coders get triggered and show marvelous solutions. Even if it is a hassle. LOL. I love this list Kind regards Cor -Original Message-

Re: [Flashcoders] ?: how to prevent users to copy text from aTextArea?

2009-03-29 Thread Muzak
That depends.. If you have a component-heavy application with your own custom styles for instance, it might be better to use a TextArea. Or you could take it a step further and make this into a new component (and even make it an mxp for distribution). Then again, if all you need is one (and

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
As it's been said already, you could try converting to HLS and the get the average luminance (brigthness). Here's a handy class to convert from RGB to HSL and viceversa. http://www.dreaminginflash.com/2007/11/19/hls-to-rgb-rgb-to-hls/ Another approach, which might be faster (but you'd have to

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Ian Thomas
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Juan Pablo Califano califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com wrote: As it's been said already, you could try converting to HLS and the get the average luminance (brigthness). Here's a handy class to convert from RGB to HSL and viceversa.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
It's indeed much faster (five times faster than transforming to grey scale), though the results I'm getting are incorrect (the other 2 methods seems to return consistently similar results, though trasnforming to HLS takes about 3200 ms for a 1152 x 864 image, and transform to grey scale takes

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
I'm not sure, but maybe it is. Your approach seemed the easiest and fastest, so I gave it a try. I'm getting very different results compared to the other 2 methods, but I'm not really sure if I'm scaled the image properly, that's why I posted the code. Anyway, since I already have the code for

Re: [Flashcoders] Full screen mode and KeyboardEvents

2009-03-29 Thread Fabio Pinatti
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_03.html#head5 On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Carl Welch carlwelchdes...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I've built an app uses KeyboardEvents. All works fine until I go into FULLSCREEN Mode, the KeyboardEvents seem to stop

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I actially wanted to get the density. How dark and how light. Not necessarily black and white. Dark color or light color. I also don't want to convert any images. Now if it takes converting the image to calculate, then the user can never see this conversion of the photo. Just the

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm following you at this point... However, I was not talking about *displaying* a grey-scaled image. Just using it as way to calculate each pixel's luminance / brightness. Which in this case will give you the same results as transforming to HLS and reading the L value.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Wordpress has the monotone theme which sets your CSS colours based on the image colouring. I am not sure if this is done in Flash or not, but I am guessing there will be some code in there somewhere to work out the colour or the image which you might be able to adapt...

Re: [Flashcoders] Full screen mode and KeyboardEvents

2009-03-29 Thread jonathan howe
The reasoning behind disabling all/most (9/10 respectively) keyboard input in fullscreen is because someone could easily make a fake login screen that looks like the OS. Carl, I hope that you don't have too much riding on it being able to do that because I don't know of a workaround (maybe use the

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
Check this out for a nice way to extract color from an image. http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/flash/actionscript-3/colourutils-bitmapdata-extract-colour-palette/ Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/3/29 Glen Pike postmas...@glenpike.co.uk Hi, Wordpress has the monotone theme which sets your CSS

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Ashim D'Silva
If all you want is a visible loader, you might even try a blend mode, like difference. Which you would then have to deal with stylistically, but that would make the code required null. If not, I have done this before to place text on an image and I used the scaledBitmap system. The inaccuracies

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Well being a photo gallery loader, I don't want to convert the image to grayscale. I do however Like an idea that Anthony had mentioned with getting the pixels opposite. Imagine being able to (just for the sake of conversation) drag that loader around the photo and the loader changes color

Re: [Flashcoders] Full screen mode and KeyboardEvents

2009-03-29 Thread Carl Welch
sheesh. Instead of removing features, I wish they would have built in a warning message telling people to be aware of such activities. Oh well : / Thanks for the info! -- Carl Welch http://www.carlwelch.com http://blog.jointjam.com carlwelchdes...@gmail.com 805.403.4819 On Mar 29, 2009,

Re: [Flashcoders] Full screen mode and KeyboardEvents

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
You could maybe build a virtual keyboard in flash that interacts with key commands. Just a thought. Sent from losPhone On Mar 29, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Carl Welch carlwelchdes...@gmail.com wrote: sheesh. Instead of removing features, I wish they would have built in a warning message telling

Re: [Flashcoders] Pixel recognition?

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Simplicity is so beautiful sometimes. I think your right, that will get the effect I am looking for. I still like what was given for the reading of pixels and the HSB conversion though. I am going to try and implement that on another idea I got while trying to figure this out. Thank you all

Re: [Flashcoders] Full screen mode and KeyboardEvents

2009-03-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Sorry I think I just told you to do what you have already done. Didn't see earlier message. Sent from losPhone On Mar 29, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: You could maybe build a virtual keyboard in flash that interacts with key commands. Just a thought.