Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Cedric Muller
Don't bother :) Apple is doing its own playground in its own special island + walled gardens how could they develop a flash concurrent that would sit on the 'ubiquitous' side of things ?? The same ubiquity than with Quicktime Player or Safari ? :D (sorry, but ... these only work on

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Re: Producing a random list with no repeats

2010-05-10 Thread Henrik Andersson
Alan Neilsen wrote: Thanks to all the suggestions re my random list problem. Particular thanks to Gerry Beauregard for this suggestion: It's probably best just to create an Array or Vector containing numbers 1 to 40. (Vectors are only available in AS3, not sure about Array). Shuffle the

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
one of the best comments on digg: [quote] iTunes and Quicktime are absolute piles of shit. People talk about Flash crashing a browser? Quicktime is just as bad. Complete shit. iTunes is just as bad as Outlook when it comes to bloatware. Not to mention a horrible to use piece of software.

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
ah just re-read the article - this is a javascript framework so nothing to see i guess? a On 10 May 2010 10:19, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) alla...@gmail.com wrote: one of the best comments on digg: [quote] iTunes and Quicktime are absolute piles of shit. People talk about

Re: [Flashcoders] debugging Flash apps

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i use flashdevelop, the debugger plugin for firefox and a console logging class that i wrote which i pick up using firebug in firefox a On 8 May 2010 09:01, Jim Andrews j...@vispo.com wrote: I tend to use MonsterDebugger a lot. It is easy to debug stuff in almost any setting outside of

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Cedric Muller
Yes, this blog post http://www.uza.lt/blog/2010/05/gianduia-vs-flash/ gives two examples: http://concierge.apple.com/reservations/R002 http://iphone-reserve.apple.com/WebObjects/RPRCustomer.woa/wo/0. beware, these are extremely horrible proof of concept. The static forms loading is way

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
nice find cedric On 10 May 2010 10:58, Cedric Muller flashco...@benga.li wrote: Yes, this blog post http://www.uza.lt/blog/2010/05/gianduia-vs-flash/ gives two examples: http://concierge.apple.com/reservations/R002 http://iphone-reserve.apple.com/WebObjects/RPRCustomer.woa/wo/0. beware,

RE: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
I can understand the Quicktime complaints, but what are the common complaints about iTunes? - MM one of the best comments on digg: [quote] iTunes is just as bad as Outlook when it comes to bloatware. Not to mention a horrible to use piece of software. [/quote] amazingly true

[Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Lehr, Theodore
Say I have a sound that lasts 1.7 seconds. Is there a way to control what plays - for example. if I want to start it .4 seconds in and stop it .2 seconds before the end ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Glen Pike
On 10/05/2010 15:24, Lehr, Theodore wrote: Say I have a sound that lasts 1.7 seconds. Is there a way to control what plays - for example. if I want to start it .4 seconds in and stop it .2 seconds before the end ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Jer Brand
Don't remember seeing this linked up this weekend. Not a flash replacement, just another JS lib with cocoa-like syntax: http://ajaxian.com/archives/gianduia Jer ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] Slightly OT: Xpath select a section of nodes from a list with offset - e.g paging

2010-05-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Am doing some PHP work using the DOM XML and I want to be able to pull a chunk of nodes out of a list a section at a time using some kind of offset amount thing. Does anyone have any pointers / ideas about this. Thanks Glen

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
i find that (even on a mac) iTunes slowly drains the machine of clocks and memory (i don't use it on the pc - if only i could avoid quicktime in the same way) A On 10 May 2010 13:08, Mendelsohn, Michael michael.mendels...@fmglobal.comwrote: I can understand the Quicktime complaints, but what

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Dave Watts
I can understand the Quicktime complaints, but what are the common complaints about iTunes? I've been using iTunes for years (on a PC) and without a doubt I have more problems with it than anything else I use. Actually, I'm not sure it's all iTunes' fault - every so often my iPod locks up

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread Glen Pike
- but iTunes itself is slow, bloated, unresponsive, and ignores every UI convention on Windows. I'm half convinced it's intentionally so bad to convince people to get a Mac to run it. Oh, the irony :-D ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Apple developing flash-like alternative

2010-05-10 Thread bill
And, if you have to happen to use it for any serious email contact or content synching with sayoutlook, watch out! ~b -Original Message- From: Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com Sent: May 10, 2010 11:31 AM To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Jim Andrews
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Sound.html The above URL is the main page to acquaint yourself with concerning the Sound class in ActionScript 3.0, apparently. If you scroll through it, you'll see some example code. You'll also see the 'play'

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, The Sound play method returns a SoundChannel instance, which you can call stop() on to stop the sound. Glen Jim Andrews wrote: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Sound.html The above URL is the main page to acquaint yourself with

Re: [Flashcoders] Sound

2010-05-10 Thread Gerry Beauregard
Calling play() with a startPosition, and then calling stop() on the SoundChannel instance will work fine as long as the timing doesn't need to be too precise, and you don't mind slight glitches (pops or clicks) at the start and end. If you want sample accurate start/end times, you can use a

[Flashcoders] Random Sort of Array

2010-05-10 Thread Donald Talcott
Last year I created a small timeline based intro of products for a client that used Math.random to produce a random start of the animation sequence. This year they would like two specific product animations to always start in the #1 and #2 position and the remaining 7 products to play in a

[Flashcoders] A query into advanced printing

2010-05-10 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
Hi all, Other than the building of a MC and then printing that is there a way to make a more sophisticated looking, formatted printing? With indenting, bold/stylizing/etc. Similar (to those that have done Director stuff) to Print-o-matic. Where you can literally build your pages line by line with