[Flashcoders] Flash player 8 vs. 9 spanish characters

2006-10-20 Thread Howard Nager
Hey there - I have a site which was recently translated in to spanish and now I am having odd character display issues. Accented vowels are showing up (in some cases) as a string of garbage but only in flash player 9, it looks fine when viewed in 8. Before I go nuts trying to debug it - I'm

RE: [Flashcoders] png load queue

2006-08-09 Thread Howard Nager
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Nager Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 6:02 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list; Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] png load queue I'm having a weird issue where my flash player is performing very very slowly wile loading a queue of png files. Everything is smooth

[Flashcoders] png load queue

2006-08-08 Thread Howard Nager
I'm having a weird issue where my flash player is performing very very slowly wile loading a queue of png files. Everything is smooth before and after, but during the load it is super choppy (especially on a mac). I am loading in sequence up to 100 png files - if that makes a difference. Any

[Flashcoders] Multiple pngs

2006-08-05 Thread Howard Nager
Hey there - I am working on a project which requires that I load five 600x500 png layers inorder to make up a single frame of a 360 spin of a product. There are 24 total frames. My approach has been to load the current visible frame first then sequentially the rest of the frames until

RE: [Flashcoders] Custom cacheAsBitmap with scale and rotate

2006-07-31 Thread Howard Nager
Have you tried drawing the movieclip to a bitmap using the BitmapData draw() methos? You could display (scale/rotate) the bitmap instead of the cacheAsBitmap movieclip. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of eric dolecki Sent: Mon 7/31/2006 8:20 AM To: Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] Flash laser light show

2006-07-02 Thread Howard Nager
I am looking for any kind of laser light, dark side of the moon, lense flare, bright lights effect. Flash 8 preferred. Something like this: http://www.laserspectacles.com/bigimage/big06.jpg - AWESOME~! Any ideas on how to achieve something like that? My hope is for something which is

RE: [Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Nager
image.. - Original Message - From: Howard Nager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 4:30 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] XML diff I have an upcoming project and am trying to figure out how to do what would best

[Flashcoders] Accordian class

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Nager
After what's felt like years of having :Accordian show up in code hinting I decided to see what it was. No surprise there, it's an accordian menu. Luck has it that I am working on a project which needs an Accrodian menu...but it seems as if I can only use it if I use the component? Correct me

[Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-10 Thread Howard Nager
I have an upcoming project and am trying to figure out how to do what would best be described as a diff on a xml file. For example, here would be the initital xml: root optionsA group option ... / option ... / /group groupB option ... / option ... / option ... /

RE: [Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-10 Thread Howard Nager
=not pretty... / /group /options... recurse through children. You Not terribly difficult once you think of the tree structure and once you think about what kind of changes you are prepared to handle. Ron Howard Nager wrote: I have an upcoming project and am trying to figure out how to do what

RE: [Flashcoders] XML diff

2006-06-10 Thread Howard Nager
I will check it out - I had thought that was for regular expression support? Do you have an example of how that would diff two xml files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steven Sacks Sent: Sat 6/10/2006 7:37 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE:

RE: [Flashcoders] XPath Problem

2006-04-30 Thread Howard Nager
Any chance you can show an example of what your xml file looks like? I was goign to suggest that you try: countryName = XPath.selectNodes(country, ./name); or countryName = XPath.selectNodes(country, ./country/name); But I can't be sure without looking at the xml structure.

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:Add tracking to dynamic text

2006-03-01 Thread Howard Nager
My guess is the space between the letters? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Britton Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:36 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Q:Add tracking to dynamic text What do you mean by

RE: [Flashcoders] Class Error Message

2006-01-16 Thread Howard Nager
When are you looking for this to happen: now = new Date(); trace (The Time is + formatTime(now)); If you want that to happen when you create a new instance of the class then slap it in the constructor. Also - you have an extra '}' in there at the end. -Original Message- From:

RE: [Flashcoders] Text not showing up in Flash Player 7 with Flash 8SWF

2006-01-11 Thread Howard Nager
Are you trying to publish a somewhat backwards compatible flash movie? All the bells and whistles when viewed in f8 but stilla cceptable in f7? I ran in to the same issue when trying to do the same. The swf runs fine in the 7 player but the text doesnt show. -Original Message- From:

RE: [Flashcoders] Running Locally vs on a Server - Testing

2005-12-19 Thread Howard Nager
I can't find what I've used in the past - but if you: trace (_url); You'll see that it begins with 'file' when run locally - check for that (substring(_url,0,4)) and you should be good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kevin Cannon Sent: Mon 12/19/2005 6:22 AM

RE: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions

2005-12-18 Thread Howard Nager
be grabbing the channel value? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alan MacDougall Sent: Sat 12/17/2005 11:08 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions Howard Nager wrote: Thanks - the buttons are rectangular

RE: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions

2005-12-18 Thread Howard Nager
conversion helpers function HexToR(h) {return parseInt(h.substring(0,2),16)} function HexToG(h) {return parseInt(h.substring(2,4),16)} function HexToB(h) {return parseInt(h.substring(4,6),16)} -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Howard Nager Sent: Sun 12/18/2005 1:17 PM

RE: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions

2005-12-17 Thread Howard Nager
doesn't follow. Is there any way to offset the hitarea according to the visual distortion? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Howard Nager Sent: Sat 12/17/2005 4:11 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list; Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders] BitmapData.draw

RE: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions

2005-12-17 Thread Howard Nager
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Displacement Maps, and Button actions Howard Nager wrote: Mini update - I've simplified and am loading an image in to a movieclip and applying the distortion filter to the movieclip. Much easier...anyhow, before applying the distortion i am creating a button

RE: [Flashcoders] How do I tell a movieclip to play insync with theloading percentage.

2005-12-11 Thread Howard Nager
Have you looked at getBytesTotal() and getBytesLoaded()? You can pretty easily calculate percentage loaded from those - in your case my guess would be that you are looking for something like: var percentage = (_root.getBytesLoaded()/root.getBytesTotal()) * 100; -Original Message-