Re: [Flashcoders] MouseMove - performance issues

2010-02-01 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Glen, are you using the updateAfterEvent method in your mouse move handler? private function mouseMoveHandler(event:MouseEvent):void { trace(mouseMoveHandler); event.updateAfterEvent(); }

[Flashcoders] BUG: channel.position doesn't work with mp3s

2008-08-08 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Steven, this sounds similar to the sample rate bug, this one drove me absolutely bat shit. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-33 someone in the thread provides some files that may be helpful to you, i didn't check them out so i can't verify, we just resampled all the audio files for our

Re: [Flashcoders] BUG: channel.position doesn't work with mp3s

2008-08-08 Thread Duncan Reid
and the Flash Player is exhibiting this abnormal as a result of this. Thanks again for the informative post. Dunc On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Duncan Reid wrote: this sounds similar to the sample rate bug, this one drove me absolutely bat shit

Re: [Flashcoders] Jagged tweening images

2007-09-10 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Sean, If the image is internal to your library you can try setting the smoothing option on the image itself. Right click image in library and check Allow Smoothing. This might help. Dunc On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, but I should have

Re: [Flashcoders] Skewing text

2007-07-02 Thread Duncan Reid
chiming in a little late on this one... i need to preface the fact that i have not tried using these classes YET but this cat: http://lab.mathieu-badimon.com/ seems to have packaged up some nice stuff here: http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/ along with some documentation and a getting

Re: [Flashcoders] Slow Audio on Mac, but not PC??

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Jay, Just trying to help by clearing out the obvious here as i didn't see it stated in your post, but is the audio set to 'stream' or 'event'? I could be wrong but I thought that the player would in fact skip frames in order to keep up with the audio if it was set to 'stream' Other than

Re: [Flashcoders] Slow Audio on Mac, but not PC??

2007-06-18 Thread Duncan Reid
... On Jun 18, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Duncan Reid wrote: Hi Jay, Just trying to help by clearing out the obvious here as i didn't see it stated in your post, but is the audio set to 'stream' or 'event'? I could be wrong but I thought that the player would in fact skip frames in order to keep up

Re: [Flashcoders] IE7 Crashing on FileReference.download()

2007-06-07 Thread Duncan Reid
I guess i'd start with a full uninstall / re-install of the player if you haven't had her try already. I know it's not much but a good starting point. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157 On 6/7/07, Joshua Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 99% of our users,

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Extract flv metadata using php

2007-05-30 Thread Duncan Reid
I found these while searching for a way to insert cuepoint data into FLV via php, never did get very far though, I have not tried them myself, but if your a php guy i'm sure you will be able to get something useful out of them. http://blog.netxus.es/projects/flv4php looks like an flv module for

Re: [Flashcoders] eolas fix for IE7

2007-04-03 Thread Duncan Reid
I noticed that too Matt, works in FF but not IE locally, try putting it on the webserver and testing it again, should work. On 4/3/07, Matthew Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i've tried implementing the eolas fix using the flashobject.js method and swfobject.js method and they both work

Re: [Flashcoders] Take me off your list

2007-03-16 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Blaine, scroll all the way to the bottom of this page, you will see the list owners email address, you can email him directly... http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders regards, Dunc On 3/16/07, Blaine Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to spam the list, but I've

Re: [Flashcoders] how to know that thae video is finished?

2007-01-18 Thread Duncan Reid
I think the onComplete is only available via FMS, i think. There are a bunch of threads in the archives about this scenario but they can be difficult to find. Brian Lesser has some really good information on his site: http://echo.ryerson.ca/textPublisher/index.html /** * This function is

Re: [Flashcoders] history, bookmarks, etc within flash

2007-01-09 Thread Duncan Reid
I have not tried SWFAddress but i've heard good things. A friend of mine, Matthew Tretter, released his StateManager not long ago which i have used however, and it's been working quite well for me in a few different projects. So to give you more choices: http://exanimo.com/as2/StateManager

Re: [Flashcoders] scrollable dynamic text field

2006-10-18 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Doug, I would recommend looking up and using scrollRect especially if there is a chance you will be scrolling through large amounts of text. i recall there being a nice scrolling example on ifbin (free and open now), created by guy watson, if i'm not mistaken. It involved scrollRect and

[Flashcoders] FileReference + upload + larger files

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Reid
Hello all, I'm running into a peculiar problem with the FileReference class and i've seen this problem crop up spurratically in my searches but can't find any definitive information on it. I'm inconsistently getting a script is causing Flash to run slowly dialog, if i choose not to cancel the

Re: [Flashcoders] ::dk:: Best way to check if data is done loading for scroll bars

2006-09-20 Thread Duncan Reid
One thing you can try is to give your image an id so it's seen as a MovieClip within the textfield, then you can run a checker to see when it's loaded then redraw the scrollbar... img id='mcID' src='stuff.jpg' hspace='10' vspace='5' align='left' so to access it you would path:

Re: [Flashcoders] FLVPlayback and SMIL

2006-09-19 Thread Duncan Reid
Apparently there is a bug in the FLVPlayback component when using SMIL files. I will admit i've never used them, but Robert Reinhardt, one of the authors of the Flash 8 Bible, has re-written the component to correct the bug. I saw a working version of it when i attended his session at Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] bandwidth detection...

2006-09-16 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Badi, Have a look at the first example on this page. I have not used this personally, but have looked at some of their other files and they are all well done. At the very least it may get you started. http://www.betriebsraum.de/blog/downloads/ good luck, Dunc On 9/16/06, badi malik

Re: [Flashcoders] Fwd: Application Framework

2006-08-31 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Jeff, I'm not sure how far along you are with the development of your project, but since you are natively more of a PHP guy it might not hurt to have a look at AMFPHP. It would allow you to bypass the XML layer and deal with more complex data types like RecordSets and what not. Just

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash/Actionscript Coding conventions

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan Reid
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but Simon Wacker wrote a nice article in April 05, ActionScript 2 Coding Standards: The Method. He also offers a pdf at the top of the article. Might be of interest. http://www.simonwacker.com/blog/archives/87.php Dunc On 8/22/06, Martin Wood [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Need math help

2006-07-14 Thread Duncan Reid
I'm not going to pretend to know what you guys are talking about, but you may be able to garner some useful info from this Distort Image class... http://sandy.media-box.net/blog/distortimage-20-the-fastest-way-to-freely-distort-image-with-flash-in-actionscript.html dunc On 7/13/06, Danny

Re: [Flashcoders] Creating Custom Documentation MXP

2006-07-10 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Steven, With such a great subject line i think it would benefit the archives to share your results... thanks, Dunc On 7/10/06, Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind, I found it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 Alpha - Components Panel Disabled

2006-06-28 Thread Duncan Reid
Yea i noticed that also. Wierd thing is they are in the directory: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash 9 Public Alpha\en\Configuration\Components same as flash 8: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Components but like you said, they seem to be disabled. Dunc On 6/28/06, Arul

Re: [Flashcoders] problems with dynamic text field autosize property

2006-05-27 Thread Duncan Reid
seems like thickness and sharpness don't effect too much but gridFitType definetely does, i'm glad you jumped into this conversation, never knew about that! dunc On 5/26/06, erixtekila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use question.textHeight not question._height Are textHeight / textWidth

Re: [Flashcoders] problems with dynamic text field autosize property

2006-05-26 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Scott, I think it's one of those wait a frame type deals, either that or try question.textHeight. Dunc On 5/26/06, Scott Brantley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having a problem with the dynamic text field autosize property. The problem I'm having is that I'm not catching

Re: [Flashcoders] Conversion to Flash 8 renders MP3 player useless

2006-05-05 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Jonathan, I plugged this into the F8 IDE and set the publish setting to 7 / as2 and it seemed to work for me. The only thing that i can see in your code that stands out is the space after the url but i don't think that really matters much as it still seems to work...

Re: [Flashcoders] server-side convert to flv

2006-04-11 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Mark, I recently setup ffmpeg on a shared host, i use Dreamhost, i believe it's Debian. It took me a couple days to track down all the information and quite a few compiles, i won't tell you how many, before i got it right. I'm also not really strong in this department either though so that

Re: [Flashcoders] Steps of colors

2006-04-04 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Juan, If i created it i'd be more than happy to try to explain it, but truth be told i can't. This article by Grant Skinner will probably get you where you want to go, unless Andre graces us with his presence :-) http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/bitwise_operators.html Dunc

Re: [Flashcoders] Steps of colors

2006-04-03 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Juan, I had a similar question last year and Andreas Weber provided a perfect solution: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/htdig/flashcoders/2005-February/131505.html Andreas Weber motiondraw.com hope this helps, Dunc ** On 4/3/06, Juan Anzaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing a

Re: [Flashcoders] Browse folders from flash

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan Reid
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this but have you looked at screenweaver? http://osflash.org/screenweaver I have not tried it myself, still using Zinc, maybe someone else has? On 3/21/06, Felipe Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, butI need directories on local machine, not in

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Encoders

2006-01-27 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi, I'm using Flix Pro and have no complaints so far, the interface isn't as pretty as squeeze, it kind of reminds me of cleaner XL. I probably won't go back to Sorenson Squeeze, throughout the dot updates for Squeeze 4 there were still various bugs that were never fixed although identified and

Re: [Flashcoders] xml whitespace problem

2006-01-24 Thread Duncan Reid
you could try setting condenseWhite = true on the textfield that should get rid of the whitespace due to the linebreaks. dunc On 1/24/06, david kraftsow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i thought that could be the case too.. but then i took the CDATA brackets completely out but left the text.. so

Re: [Flashcoders] Documenting my code

2006-01-19 Thread Duncan Reid
Not sure if this has been mentioned but there is also ZenDoc written in php that has multiple output modes based on templates, i've played a little with the demo and it looks promising, plus it's free and open as far as i can tell... http://www.senocular.com/projects/?project=ZenDocpage=demo

Re: [Flashcoders] Job Opportunity in Madrid (Spain)

2006-01-13 Thread Duncan Reid
Kathleen, You might benefit from starting a new thread. There are also some very good NYC developers listed here: http://www.flashcodersny.org/ Good luck, Dunc On 1/13/06, Kathleen E. Vitelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, no, they do need someone on site sorry

Re: [Flashcoders] Scrolling Landscape by Mouse position

2005-12-21 Thread Duncan Reid
Maybe a little late here as your deadline was EOD yesterday but it might help out in the archives for later... It kinda sounds like your looking for a parallax scroller, if so there is a chapter from an FOE book here: http://www.friendsofed.com/books/1590592212/2212.pdf or an old source from

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash buttons in Firefox don't work?

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Sascha, I've heard of things like this happening in FF if your using wmode=transparent in your embed. Dunc On 12/12/05, Sascha Balkau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, are there any known issues with buttons inside a flash movie doesn't work in the newest Firefox and Netscape versions?

Re: [Flashcoders] .flv video problems on a Mac

2005-11-29 Thread Duncan Reid
Hi Alison, Maybe this will help: http://www.macromedia.com/go/3121b301 Dunc On 11/29/05, Woodage, Alison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a file that is loading .flv files dynamically and playing them back via a mediaDisplay component. The swf is packaged for flash player 7.