[Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?

2010-09-11 Thread Bill S.
I will enjoy every minute of this. I felt like Steve personally kicked me in the heart when he came out against Flash. His stance has definitely had an impact on my work as a flash developer. My work load Hear, hear Carl. This Adobe Great News link looks pretty much just to be an

[Flashcoders] Apple backing off. Why?

2010-09-09 Thread Bill S.
I would like to understand the real reason why Apple is backing off -- as from what I have seen in the past, I can't believe it is for the love of developers.. . Corporate pressure? (which has been hinted at). . Possibility of Federal trade restriction lawsuits? . possibly a lack of new

[Flashcoders] Bounce Backs

2010-09-09 Thread Bill S.
Does anyone else get these every time that they post to the list (as I do)? If so, would it make any sense to remove them? The eBay one feels odd anyway. ~Bill #1 Reporting-MTA: dns; hmc.hanyang.ac.kr Final-Recipient: rfc822;woo...@hmc.hanyang.ac.kr Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 501 error -

Re: [Flashcoders] Bounce Backs

2010-09-09 Thread Bill S.
Mynarcik To: Bill S. ; Flash Coders List Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bounce Backs I have them automatically filtered as Spam and deleted before they hit my inbox. To answer your question, yes, I used to get them every time I posted. Nathan

[Flashcoders] Licence servers

2010-09-09 Thread Bill S.
Hi Nigel: We have a license server that can be used with or without hardware dongles, that might be of interest. http://www.fo.com/getpage.asp?strfile=pda/folicense.htm Email me if interested. Thanks ~Bill Message: 20 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:29:04 +0100 From: Nigel Williams

[Flashcoders] WEBORB, FluroineFX, et al on .NET

2010-07-30 Thread Bill S.
I'm looking for current wisdom on which of these frameworks to use for moving data, on projects using: client side: FLASH AS3 + Flex SDK (not FLEX/FB) backend: ASP.NET (not JAVA or PHP ... knocking out BlazeDS, amfphp, zendphp, etc). AMF3 support is desired, but I am not yet committed

[Flashcoders] (The Answer) Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5?

2010-06-29 Thread Bill S.
Thanks to everyone for the responses. Adding embedAsCFF=false to the font Embed solved it! See the below note. Thanks again. ~Bill - this might be due to a known issue bazarly introduced to the new compiler. They added this option: embedAsCFF which can be true or

[Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5?

2010-06-28 Thread Bill S.
Hi Christoffer, thank you for the answer; but adding fontFamily didn't help. [Embed(arial.ttf, fontName=_Arial, fontFamily=_Arial, mimeType='application/x-font')] John -- I tried messing with the flex swc but that didn't do it either -- although I have a feeling that it is related to

[Flashcoders] Anyone local to Exton, PA?

2010-06-28 Thread Bill S.
Just wondering if anyone on here is near me (Exton, PA)? thanks ~Bill ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5?

2010-06-28 Thread Bill S.
DeSaulniers To: Bill S. ; Flash Coders List Cc: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5? Try removing the underscore in your font name. In my experience, when embeding fonts, the name

[Flashcoders] Embedded Fonts: Works in CS4, Fails in CS5?

2010-06-26 Thread Bill S.
One of the frustrating things with CS3 Flash was (contrary to many blogs -- and I believe the docs) that you could not actually [EMBED] fonts. However this worked wonderfully in CS4. But now, in (a fully updated) CS5 I can't seem to get EMBED to work again. The below code is exactly the same

[Flashcoders] Animation showing through Text

2010-06-23 Thread Bill S.
Kenneth, BlendMode.ALPHA is exactly what I needed. It works great. Thank you!, ~Bill - Original Message - From: kennethkawam...@gmail.com To: Bill S. ; Flash Coders List Cc: Keith Reinfeld Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:45 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Animation

[Flashcoders] Animation showing through Text

2010-06-22 Thread Bill S.
Hello All: I am new to the list. I am looking for a simple example of [or if it is even possible to] having text over an animation in Flash -- showing the animation Only through the text characters themselves? Something very similar to this Photoshop technique:

Re: [Flashcoders] Animation showing through Text

2010-06-22 Thread Bill S.
- From: Keith Reinfeld To: 'Bill S.' ; 'Flash Coders List' Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:37 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Animation showing through Text You will need to 'break apart' the text in order to use it as a mask this way. Select the textfield and use Ctrl+B twice