Re: [Flashcoders] Switching to HaXe?

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Sinning
; shims it contains (event normalization). > > Kevin N. > > > > On 12/2/11 8:10 AM, Andrew Sinning wrote: >> >> What I don't like about the haXe-jQuery API is that every object has >> type "JQuery".  It seems to be it would be much programmer-friendly if

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching to HaXe?

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Sinning
classes for the individual elements. Imagine if in AS3 you could never specify any display object to be anything more specific than a Sprite or an Object. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:32 AM, tom rhodes wrote: > @Andrew: as Kevin said, jQuery is in there as standard (i posted an example > of so

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching to HaXe?

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'd be very interested in haXe if it included a set of interface classes for jquery widgets. I.e. a way to build HTML5 applications in AS3 (if that is the proper name for the language of haXe) without having to reference javascript classes and the DOM via an object-blind IDE. When you create an o

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching to HaXe?

2011-11-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
ng anywhere. > > Kevin N. > > > On 11/30/11 11:43 AM, Andrew Sinning wrote: > >> Jumping into this discussion. >> >> Is anybody concerned that HaXe will die or languish, that features will be >> unsupported or broken on customer platforms? I don't see

Re: [Flashcoders] Switching to HaXe?

2011-11-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
Jumping into this discussion. Is anybody concerned that HaXe will die or languish, that features will be unsupported or broken on customer platforms? I don't see any major players on the list of HaXe projects (http://haxe.org/com/projects). GWT on the other hand. You get the full faith and cred

Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
to clarify: I think the reason that the "bold" setting got us is that the CS5 authoring environment does not seem to indicate how text is styled. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Sinning wrote: > Hi John, > > We've been confronting similar issues the last few

Re: [Flashcoders] CS5 text problem

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
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[Flashcoders] interesting AS2 SharedObject bug

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using an AS2 SharedObject along with Red5 to synchronize a group of user in a real-time game. I found an interesting bug. I have an array: var someArray:Array = [1,2,3]; I have a dataObject that contains someArray and some other properties: dataObject = { someProperty: 1, som

[Flashcoders] in AS2, what is the correct way to update a DataGrid's dataProvider

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a screen with a DataGrid that displays "live" data, that is, data which is constantly changing. It's not a very large amount of data, so I just make a query to the server every 2 seconds to get the new data. When the new data comes in, the easiest thing to do would be to simply set the dat

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem embedding and using a font variant

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Sinning
he last time I tried to use TLF my FLA wouldn't compile because > of some error with my assets SWC and the TLF SWC. So I'd rather not go > there. > > Maybe I can fake it by tweaking the scaleX property. > > Thanks, > Matt > ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Emanuele Canavesi invited you to Dropbox

2011-03-30 Thread Andrew Sinning
ailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- Andrew Sinning LearningWare Engineer Desk: 651-289-7373 Cell: 612-296-3646 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Reusing an Image

2011-03-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
able to load the image if you skip setting the Loader's context and setting up the cross domain policy, but when you try to access it's bitmap data you'll get a Security error. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370

RE: [Flashcoders] flash.filesystem not in Flash?

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hi. :) For security purposes Flash does not have the ability to writing data on the user's hard drive, except to the Local Shared-Object. AIR runs on the user's OS as an application, so it has been given more access. ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Deve

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop vs Flash Builder 4

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've been using FD2 for a long time. I especially like the code-injection feature. I'm working with a lot of legacy Flash work that includes lots of symbols and time-lining. Compiling with FD2 and injecting into an existing swf containing the already compiled symbols is dramatically faster.

[Flashcoders] Android development using Flash/Flex

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
A recent comment from Anthony Pace reads "If you would prefer I help kick off the new year by asking some stupid questions, rather than Google the answers, I will gladly accommodate you. " Here's one for you guys. I'm trying to find some good literature on what the options are for developing

[Flashcoders] Detecting if fullscreen is or is not allowed

2010-11-29 Thread Andrew Murphy
I'll feel very stupid for not figuring it out... -.- -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com __

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR HTMLLoader mouse events not working

2010-09-03 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hi. I'm not certain why HTMLLoader's event isn't firing, but you could track if the app is or is not being interacted with via NativeApplication, like this: private const IDLE_TIME:uint = 120; // set us up the user idle detection NativeApplication.nativeApplication.idleThreshold = IDLE_TIME; Na

RE: [Flashcoders] FLV Conversion

2010-09-02 Thread Andrew Murphy
I think that the best method for converting an FLV would depend on what the purpose of the new video file is. However any conversion from one format to another will involve a loss of quality as you recompress video data that's already been though at least one round of compression when it was turne

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew Murphy
I already posted my solution to this list. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew Murphy
Thank you, but I came up with a solution. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-31 Thread Andrew Murphy
n a link is clicked use the "text" property of the TextEvent.LINK event to get at the indices for that link in the array. Thank you for helping. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toron

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
TextField's "htmlText" property, rather than it's "text" property. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
licks on a link the Flash draws a highlight around the link's text and passes the beginning and ending indexes of that text to another function. I really do need the beginning and ending indexes. ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.co

RE: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hello. :) Thank you, but this script doesn't appear to return the beginning and ending indexes of the link. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364

[Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
his case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia

[Flashcoders] OT JOB: RealBasic contract job in Minneapolis

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew Sinning
LearningWare Inc. (www.learningware.com) is looking for a RealBasic programmer for a short-term contract job. The target platform is Mac OS. Local developers only, please. You can work from home, but we would like to meet with you face to face. Thanks! Andrew Sinning LearningWare, Inc

[Flashcoders] AS2 compile problems when variable name is the same as a package name

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I've never noticed this before. I had a variable named "view" referencing a class "view.PlainText". I kept getting compiler errors. Changing the variable name to "currentView" fixed the problem. Can somebody explain? I'm sure I've had conflicts like this before. Maybe the problem is that

[Flashcoders] vmode=exactfit cropping bottom under IE

2010-07-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using the swfobject to display my movie in a stand-alone window with no other html content. I'm using: width = "100%" height = "100%" scale = "exactfit" Under IE on Windows, the movie is properly sized, but there's about 15 pixels of white space added to the top of the window. As a resul

[Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 33, Issue 25

2010-06-23 Thread Andrew Kenward
Also you have missing semicolons ; in your html. var params = { menu : "false", allowfullscreen: "true" }; Also just to make sure download swfobject 2 again. There was a buggy version about. http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ Andrew Kenward 07590 609 554

Re: [Flashcoders] FullScreen - not working

2010-06-23 Thread Andrew Kenward
Hey try changing your html allowFullScreen to allowfullscreen all lower case might fix it? or try using this generator for the correct html. chose dynamic publishing http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/swfobject/generator/index.html Andrew Kenward 07590 609 554 www.milkybrain.co.uk On

RE: [Flashcoders] HTMLLoader and AIR -- always a nice white blank

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Murphy
If you haven't tried this yet: Add event listeners and traces to all of the relevant events that the HTML component throws, and see if that can give you more details on what it's doing.. or not doing. ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@de

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
extends all the usual chain of classes, but those extended classes are already present in the parent, when CB2 gets loaded will it be extending the already loaded classes, or will it bring with it its own chain of classes? Hans Wichman wrote: Hi Andrew, this is a wild guess, but I once had

[Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox only showing 2 rows when embedded in Adobe Connect

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
We've built an AS2 application that can be embedded into various LMSs, etc. Curiously, when embedded in Adobe Connect (also written in AS2), the ComboBoxes aren't rendered correctly. Rather than dropping down, the menus are displaying above the widget, even though there is plenty of room belo

RE: [Flashcoders] Loader.unload not freeing the memory

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Murphy
some of it should apply to Flash coding as well. I think...) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvini

RE: [Flashcoders] SIP library in as3 for player 10.1

2010-05-06 Thread Andrew Murphy
You may want to take a look at red5phone, if you haven't already: http://code.google.com/p/red5phone/ -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext

[Flashcoders] input TextFields in embedded swf stealing focus

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Our project is build in AS2. It's imported into an AS3 console written in Flex. The problem is that the input type TextFields in the embedded movie are stealing focus from the other TFs in the container console. I can tab between the TFs in my movie. If I click inside one of the TFs in the

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: HTML5 capabilitites

2010-04-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
pport them. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com ---

[Flashcoders] OT: HTML5 capabilitites

2010-04-30 Thread Andrew Murphy
5 standard http://www.findmebyip.com/litmus#target-selector Some interesting info about video embedding http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/04/flash-faces-down-threats-on-adobes-big-day/ -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5

RE: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Murphy
mind. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figlea

RE: [Flashcoders] gapless looping of external mp3's

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Murphy
Yep, this looks like it.. though with added code for dealing with silence added to the MP3 during encoding. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455

RE: [Flashcoders] gapless looping of external mp3's

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Murphy
always get a little 'pop' whenever the next loop starts.. possibly because the phase of the end of the previous loop doesn't match the start of the next one. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West,

RE: [Flashcoders] @#$% New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe¹s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Murphy
create content for their devices, Apple makes it more likely that that content will only be available on their devices, making it exclusive. It seems to me that exclusivity is part of their brand identity; "Think different." ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media

Re: [Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
ript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary073.html Slightly different, but hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult to work in? Glen Andrew Sinning wrote: In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a us

[Flashcoders] call AS function from html links

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
In AS2, is there a straightforward way to use the TextFormat.url and TextFormat.target properties to call an AS function when a user clicks on a text fields? This seems like it should be a pretty basic function. I want to have some text with some hyperlinks, but the hyperlinks need to call bac

[Flashcoders] mask anomaly with AS2 loaded into AS3

2010-03-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm developing a project in AS2 that gets loaded into an AS3 parent movie. In my layout, I have an instance of a symbol (it has an identifier and a class). Within the onLoad function of this class, one of the movie clips is defined as the mask of another. For the instance that is initially

Re: [Flashcoders] flv stop loading / close netconnection

2010-03-23 Thread Andrew Kenward
Andrew Kenward a...@milkybrain.co.uk www.milkybrain.co.uk 07590 609 554 On 22 Mar 2010, at 19:59, flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.figleaf.com wrote: > [Flashcoders] flv stop loading / close netconnection ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcod

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
The session id option is great, and more user friendly, too. Mark Winterhalder wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: Since putting the login screen in html isn't an option, then should I just make the user re-enter their password everytime, or would

Re: [Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
rd managers for their browsers that are quite secure. Your password would not be included, and that would make some people very angry (and rightfully so.) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Andrew Sinning wrote: I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about pass

[Flashcoders] proper way for Flash to store user passwords

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Sinning
I use SharedObject.getLocal() to store preferences from Flash, but what about passwords? When I log in to gmail, ebay, etc., my passwords are pulled from a "vault", which I have access to by virtue of being logged in to my computer. I can look these up in my browser. What's an acceptable wa

[Flashcoders] Re: Embedding fonts CS3 vs FD

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Kenward
to access the library item or even use embed font. It didnt seem to work unless i hard coded it to use it. There does seem to be probs with flash cs4 and fonts still. Andrew Kenward a...@milkybrain.co.uk www.milkybrain.co.uk 07590 609 554 On 17 Mar 2010, at 15:00, flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.f

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
as in: _visible = false; Keith Reinfeld wrote: What's odd to me is that all of this CPU is getting used even though these movie clips are completely invisible. Invisible as in visible = false, or alpha = 0? Rendering alpha at anything under 100% is quite cpu intensive. Regards, Keith R

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
ter>[image: Flickr]<http://flickr.com/photos/fahimakhter>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/fahimakhter>[image: devianArt]<http://degothicangel.deviantart.com> Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Andrew Sinni

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
but not use so much CPU. Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi Andrew... Even though you said it might not be the renderer, I wonder if you set the stage quality to medium, that might make a difference, as the anti-aliasing is processor intensive. If that degrades the text of your textfields, you co

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
g rendered wating to come in? Hope it helps :) regards, Fahim Akhter http://www.behance.net/fahimakhter http://twitter.com/fahimakhter On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael < michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com> wrote: Hi Andrew... Even though you said it might not be

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks! Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Hi Andrew... Even though you said it might not be the renderer, I wonder if you set the stage quality to medium, that might make a difference, as the anti-aliasing is processor intensive. If that degrades the text of your textfields, you could see how the

[Flashcoders] how to reduce CPU usage

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have a Flash movie that is using 50-70% of CPU. I've never thought of this as unusual, but our partner on this project finds this to be very high, so I'm looking into how I can reduce this. I am using AS2 and authoring for Flash Player 8. I'm testing under Windows using Firefox, but I get

[Flashcoders] Local Storage Flash Player Settings alert

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Sinning
On his Mac under Safari, my boss is getting an Adobe Flash Player Settings alert regarding "Local Storage" whenever my application tries to access a SharedObject.getLocal(). I've never seen this in my own testing, and I'm using the same code that I've used in other projects and he's never rep

RE: [Flashcoders] corporate history timeline examples

2010-02-26 Thread Andrew Murphy
Delvinia (the company I work for) built a timeline for the Canadian Opera Company that you might find interesting: http://coc.ca/ExploreAndLearn/NewToOpera/OnlineLearningCentre/HistoricalTime line.aspx -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com

Re: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
nk of America employees only) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Sinning Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:04 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled

[Flashcoders] accessing event dispatchers in a loosely-coupled, modular design

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Sinning
Following the discussion about "root" yesterday, it got me thinking about a constant problem I face. Object-A needs to listen to events coming from objects B, C and D, but only if and when these objects actually exist. There's no guarantee that any of the objects B, C and D will be instantiat

RE: [Flashcoders] Distributable Player Solution (aka: MobilePackager)(yet again)

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Murphy
Ah, I hadn't checked out the link yet. I'm looking at the video now. Thank you. :) ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416

[Flashcoders] Distributable Player Solution (aka: Mobile Packager) (yet again)

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Murphy
probably wouldn't be a sustainable project. Still... AIR Mobile! Woo! :) (ps: Sorry for posting something more Flex related to the Flash Coders list.) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor

[Flashcoders] OT: How good is TCP/IP compression

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Related to another post about php to AS2 compression/decompression: How good is the compression built in to TCP/IP? I'm dealing with a large xml file with a huge amount of redundancy, probably 75% of the values in each data item are identical, and of course all of the node and attribute names

[Flashcoders] php->AS2 compression/decompression

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Sinning
Has anybody successfully compressed text data using php and then decompressed using AS2? I've tried this using a php lzw script by Jakub Vrana and an AS2 lzw script by zeh.com, but the data doesn't seem to decompress all the way. I wonder if it has to do with the way the data is encoded on th

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Murphy
Yes, you do indeed. I'm looking forward to AIR 2.0 and the v10.1 plugin which will support multi-touch and gestures. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Coders Archives..?

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Murphy
Thank you. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com > -Original Message- >

[Flashcoders] Flash Coders Archives..?

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hi. :) Is there an archive of the recent posts to Flash Coders? I've checked on the Figleaf page for the list (http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders) and it leads to an archive site that only has archives from 1998 to 2007. Thank you. -- A

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Murphy
that communicates with that SWF was a bit of a pain, but the SWF itself just loads and runs exactly like it would in any other browser. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V

RE: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Murphy
me). :) (ps: Yes, I know I spell 'shugar' incorrectly.) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvi

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox breaks tabEnabled of TextFields

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
So, I needed to set the tabChildren = true for the container MovieClip, then it worked. question: how far up the parent-chain does the tabChildren property need to be set? All the way up to _root? If a swf is imported into a clip, does it need to get set all the way up to _level1? Andrew

[Flashcoders] AS2 ComboBox breaks tabEnabled of TextFields

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Sinning
In trouble shooting a problem tabbing between TextFields, I pasted my form layout into a simple movie. The tabbing was still broken. I stripped it down to just the TFs, still broken. Finally, I simply removed the ComboBox component from my library and tabbing works just fine. Put the ComboB

Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
I think Wired doesn't like Flash because it's not the next big thing. Their mission is ultimately to promote technical innovations (and to lesser extend openness), and Flash is perceived as entrenched. If the iPad is broadly adopted, content providers like the NYT will move away from Flash co

[Flashcoders] AS2 DataGrid -- disable rollover states

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using a DataGrid to display user answers, and they are color-coded red and green to indicate right and wrong. I want to completely disable the rollover and selection transitions. These should be static, non-selectable items. To change the color of each item I'm using dataGrid.setProp

Re: [Flashcoders] how to refresh AS2 DataGrid

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
Solution: dataGrid.dataProvider = dataGrid.dataProvider Nathan Mynarcik wrote: Try myDataGrid.removeAllColumns(); and reload it. You can maybe set a timer that calls a function to update it. --Original Message-- From: Andrew Sinning Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

[Flashcoders] how to refresh AS2 DataGrid

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Sinning
I want to be able to maintain any user changes to the sorting and column widths of my DataGrid. So, as data changes come in, I changed the properties of existing objects within the dataProvider, as well as adding new items as needed. The problem I can't figure out how to get the display on th

RE: [Flashcoders] Any suggestion for texting

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Murphy
Hi. :) You might want to look at using a PHP script, and then just have your Flash call the script. A quick google for "php send sms message" will turn up a slew of examples you can have a look at, to see if they might be suitable. ------ Andrew Murphy Interac

[Flashcoders] Distributable Player Solution (aka: Mobile Packager)

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Murphy
my Windows Mobile device is created. ------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com <http://www

Re: [Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) whenloading in another swf?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
ale cached version when there was a newer version available. --Original Message------ From: Andrew Sinning Sender: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com To: Flash Coders ReplyTo: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) whenloading in another

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
Typo. I meant AS2! Paul Andrews wrote: Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm using AS3 for FP8. I'll see if I can publish to FP9. Surely that's not possible. AS3 is for FP9 and up. Sounds like you are using AS2, in which case you will still be using AVM1 even with FP9. Paul Merri

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS3 for FP8 FP 8 doesn't support AS3. So if you're using FP8 AS2 and are using v2 components, they above solution applies. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: "Andrew Sinning" To: "Flash Coders List" Sent: Thursday, January 21

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS3 for FP8. I'll see if I can publish to FP9. Merrill, Jason wrote: Ah. What Flash player version and Flash IDE version are you using and targeting? Seems like this used to be a bug with the Flash player and present in AS2 apps. It used to annoy me on sites I would build or sites o

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
From: "Andrew Sinning" To: "Flash Coders" Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:34 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1pixel I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking for a double-clic

Re: [Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
s seems to prevent the onPress. Any clicks that occur before the mouse is moved will then call onRollOver and onRollOut in succession. Andrew Sinning wrote: I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking for a double-click, but rather the second cl

[Flashcoders] 2nd onPress ignored unless mouse moved at least 1 pixel

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I have button that requires two clicks in order to completely select. I'm not looking for a double-click, but rather the second click (onRelease) "confirms" the user response. In the GUI, the first click cause a change in the graphic and there is a prompt "click to confirm". What I'm findin

[Flashcoders] does Flash check for code 304 (not modified) when loading in another swf?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS2 and targeting Flash Player 8. When a movie loads in another swf (or an image for that matter), does it check the server to see if there's a newer version? I will often include a time-stamp as a query-string parameter to prevent loading a cached version, but what if I want do use

[Flashcoders] Adobe cancelled the Distributable Player Solution..?

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Murphy
in Flash to create applications that would install as an application and run directly on my mobile device, rather than in the Flash player, turned me on about as much as when I first learned about "Apollo". Why would they drop such a great idea? :( ------ And

RE: [Flashcoders] What is your policy on loading files?

2010-01-15 Thread Andrew Murphy
ee it. -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com > -Original Message- > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.

Re: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code-injection and Vizzy Flash Tracer

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
); } Then in the code that gets compiled in FD I changed the Object prototype to call _root.traceOut(str): Object.prototype.trace = function (str:String):Boolean { _root.traceOut(str); } Andrew Sinning wrote: I'm using AS2. Does anybody know how to get FlashDevelop to compile a swf

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code-injection and Vizzy Flash Tracer

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
I'm using AS2. Does anybody know how to get FlashDevelop to compile a swf that will trace out to Vizzy Flash Tracer? I had to set the compile option "Use MX classes" to true in order to get my classes to compile, so maybe this is preventing the MX mode to work. I'm able to get it to trace ou

Re: [Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code injection

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Sinning
ed it) to workaround this problem, I think. Checkout the -mx option: http://www.mtasc.org/ Hope it helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2010/1/13 Andrew Sinning I started looking into using FlashDevelop's code injection tonight. I'm using AS2. I don't think trying to use this

[Flashcoders] FlashDevelop code injection

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Sinning
I started looking into using FlashDevelop's code injection tonight. I'm using AS2. I don't think trying to use this is going to be very practical, as the compiler is rather strict in ways that the Flash IDE isn't. In fact, it's so strict that it won't even compile some of the MX classes! I

Re: [Flashcoders] how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
Thanks Jaun Pablo. This is perfect! - Juan Pablo Califano wrote: I never actually tryed it, but I remember I bookmarked a link about this some time ago, maybe you find it useful: http://exanimo.com/actionscript/flash-cs3-and-exclude-xml/ Cheers Juan Pablo Califano

Re: [Flashcoders] archives?

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Sinning
The few I looked at were from Feb, May, June, etc. of 2007. On 1/8/2010 2:43 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: Andrew Sinning wrote: Are there archives of this list since 2007? The only one I can find ends on Dec '07. ___ Flashcoders mailing l

[Flashcoders] archives?

2010-01-08 Thread Andrew Sinning
Are there archives of this list since 2007? The only one I can find ends on Dec '07. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Repost: how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Sinning
Sorry about this. I posted this yesterday, but my inbox has been down for the past 3 days and all of my incoming mail appears to have been black-holed. A swf that I am loading in to a parent movie has symbols that are linked to classes that are already available in the parent movie. This i

[Flashcoders] how to reduce file size caused by redundant classes in loaded-in movies

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Sinning
A swf that I am loading in to a parent movie has symbols that are linked to classes that are already available in the parent movie. This is causing the file size of the loaded-in movie to become much larger than it would otherwise be. The problem is that the symbols import classes which impor

RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamically set Sound's length..?

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew Murphy
Thank you. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Email_logo 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 233 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com > -Original Message- >

RE: [Flashcoders] Dynamically set Sound's length..?

2009-12-16 Thread Andrew Murphy
Thank you. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Email_logo 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 233 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com > -Original Message- >

[Flashcoders] Dynamically set Sound's length..?

2009-12-16 Thread Andrew Murphy
pleDataEvent fires, play for? I've tried checking mySound's "length" property, and it always returns as "0", but I'm pretty sure it only gets set from the ID3 data when loading an MP3 file. Thank you. :) -- Andrew Murphy Interacti

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2 static var persisting when movie unloaded

2009-12-03 Thread Andrew Sinning
emove the old one if it exists. Essentially this is the same as above, but encapsulated as a design pattern. This is a very clean way to make sure everything is correctly dereferenced, but you are probably too far into the project to think about applying a framework. Peace c On Thu, Dec 3, 2009

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