Re: [Flashcoders] FW: Green Keyline

2006-04-30 Thread JesterXL
random guess is that it is the focusRect or border_mc (depending on the type of component). Have you tried using _lockroot on the SWF you are loading it into? - Original Message - From: Drew Foehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:56

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash Player 6 on PSP

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
Responding to your points. 1. They do. Granted, minor inconsistencies such as device fonts below 11 pointsize but those are minor and do not affect this perception. 2. They player and API does within reason, but you cannot possibly expect your Flash content that runs on a Pentium 4 3

Re: [Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing with LaserScanners ...

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/entry_blog-155.php http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/08/player_card_rea.cfm - Original Message - From: Ing. Mario Falomir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:12

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 15, Issue 93

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
-like settings. - Original Message - From: Ryan Creighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:39 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 15, Issue 93 JesterXL, To clarify: i don't expect portable devices to run the same

Re: [Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing withLaserScanners ...

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
http://www.barcoder.nu/ - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Question about FLEX2 - AS3 interactiing withLaserScanners ... http

Re: [Flashcoders] using both flash 8 -and- flash mx 2004 pro/flash 7player

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
Here's what I did: - installed Flash 8 That's it. MX 2004 and Flash 8 work fine; both are installed on my machine, and I swap to the other one when necessarey. Granted, I could do everything in 8 and save as MX 2004, but sometimes, there is a specific extension or something I only had in MX

Re: [Flashcoders] using both flash 8 -and- flash mx 2004 pro/flash 7player

2006-04-28 Thread JesterXL
mx 2004 pro/flash 7player Thanks. Very helpful info! Did you have to buy the full install package - or were you able to buy the upgrade and install it alongside mx 1004? -Original Message- From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:53 PM To: Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Flash Player 6 on PSP

2006-04-27 Thread JesterXL
Most of the performance problems I've found with content is that people expect too much per frame. If you spread the damage, such as attaching 15 movieclips over 15 frames vs. 1, you'd be surprised how forgiving the player will be. I've been pretty impressed with Flash Lite 2 on my Nokia

Re: [Flashcoders] [POLL] getters setters preference

2006-04-26 Thread JesterXL
The only time built-in getter/setters really shine is with binding in Flex. You can bind to methods, but the runtime binding triggers change events for properties, and this allows you to all sorts of neat stuff under the hood to your GUI when a property changes. While you could bind to a

Re: [Flashcoders] Reverting flash 7 code to Flash 6

2006-04-26 Thread JesterXL
It depends. If you are using components, you just need to ensure all of them work. Some don't and some do. Some methods are also masked; for example, getNextHighestDepth is actually overwritten so it'll work in 6 vs. the native Flash Player 7 method. Everything else is extremely small since

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection from SWF - Visual Basic?

2006-04-26 Thread JesterXL
Have one SWF embedded in the VB app that exposes the LocalConnection. Hey can talk to VB via ExternalInterface. Every other SWF can talk to the VB app via that LocalConnection proxy SWF embedded in VB. - Original Message - From: Rifled Cloaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection from SWF - Visual Basic?

2006-04-26 Thread JesterXL
? Yeah, that was plan B. I was curious, though, if it were possible without embedding a proxy SWF. Thanks! On 4/26/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have one SWF embedded in the VB app that exposes the LocalConnection. Hey can talk to VB via ExternalInterface. Every other SWF can talk

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection from SWF - Visual Basic?

2006-04-26 Thread JesterXL
, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm... I think SharedObject LocalConnection both write to a file that you could check, but not really sure. I think that's how mProjector managed to get syncronous code, not sure. Darron might have something here: http://www.darronschall.com/weblog

Re: [Flashcoders] Deep Linking and the Back button.

2006-04-25 Thread JesterXL
I am hoping Beta 3 of Flex 2 will provide the source for HistoryManager. He handles both state and back/forward buttons. - Original Message - From: Wade Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Deep

Re: [Flashcoders] Masking a custom component causes my streamied invideo to stop playing.

2006-04-25 Thread JesterXL
You'll need to set the header fonts. They header's by default use a Label I think. Label by default uses _sans of 12. _sans is a device font, not a font you can embed; it's an implict way of saying do not embed fonts, but use the Arial/Verdana equivalent on this machine. Since the header's

Re: [Flashcoders] Deep Linking and the Back button.

2006-04-25 Thread JesterXL
if they intend to change it though. Kevin N. JesterXL wrote: I am hoping Beta 3 of Flex 2 will provide the source for HistoryManager. He handles both state and back/forward buttons. - Original Message - From: Wade Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] getBytesTotal getBytesLoade, are they working for flash 8 and above????

2006-04-25 Thread JesterXL
Where is your SWF and where is the Sound it's loading located? - Original Message - From: Martin Weiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] getBytesTotal getBytesLoade,are they

Re: [Flashcoders] getBytesTotal getBytesLoade, are they working for flash 8 and above????

2006-04-25 Thread JesterXL
25, 2006 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] getBytesTotal getBytesLoade,are they working for flash 8 and above bpth local from IDE and standalone, and from web, not working now whe loading sound as stream it works M - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: FlexBuilder for AS development

2006-04-24 Thread JesterXL
If you are doing AS3 development, it rocks. Having an IDE give you code import hints for your own classes is great. This thing was built for ActionScript development. Combined with ANT, you can do some really cool automated stuff. Definately a must have for any AS developer (or must try

Re: [Flashcoders] Project 3:16

2006-04-24 Thread JesterXL
Amen. Bring forth the apocolyspe; I didn't want to work today anyway. - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:27 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Project 3:16 Project 3:16 - For

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Playback Issue From Network Path

2006-04-24 Thread JesterXL
Regarding Flash 8, I'm sure you've followed the awesome suggestion here on creating a .cfg file: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=1611.html Since the global security settings won't really mean anything in this case

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV Playback Issue From Network Path

2006-04-24 Thread JesterXL
) or over http. We have been researching and experimenting with this problem for a long time and I don't think there is an answer. Macromedia has screwed us again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 3:08 PM

Re: [Flashcoders] Components do not behave

2006-04-23 Thread JesterXL
If you don't extend UIObject, then what is your sizing implementation. UIObject handles that for you. Furthermore, you can compile mx components with MTASC if you don't want to have to write that stuff by yourself, or use another open source component set. UIComponent actually has it's own

Re: [Flashcoders] shared objects wrong needed size

2006-04-23 Thread JesterXL
Nope. Just because it asks for a meg doesn't mean it'll use a meg. - Original Message - From: Christian Giordano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 7:53 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] shared objects wrong needed size Hi guys, in

Re: [Flashcoders] this.selected

2006-04-22 Thread JesterXL
Buttons are hardwired bro, gotta use a MovieClip. Granted, there might be a way to hack it so you tell it to go frame like _over or _down; but it's not worth the voodoo. - Original Message - From: Simon Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobes ActiveX fix breaking js communication infirefox?

2006-04-22 Thread JesterXL
If you are publishing for ActionScript 2, LoadMovie is indeed not a function. It's case sensitive: loadMovie not: LoadMovie - Original Message - From: Calv J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:18 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Adobes

Re: [Flashcoders] Adobes ActiveX fix breaking js communication infirefox?

2006-04-22 Thread JesterXL
Doh... just read the thread, sorry ignore my last post. - Original Message - From: Calv J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:18 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Adobes ActiveX fix breaking js communication infirefox? Hi, I've just had a

Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.

2006-04-21 Thread JesterXL
Subversion. http://subversion.tigris.org/ A Windows client: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ You can install yourself on your own server, or hosted. I use these guys: http://avlux.net/subversion/host.php You will not be able to do a compare for binary files beyond Is this an exact match or

Re: [Flashcoders] Managing Components and external .as files

2006-04-21 Thread JesterXL
An SWC. Just make sure all of your components force the class into the SWF: import YourClass; var dependYourClass:YourClass; And then compile an SWC that merely does the above. Put the SWC into your library, and viola! ...it'll be hard to do syntax checking in AS only, or in MTASC without at

Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.

2006-04-21 Thread JesterXL
The comments about AlienBrain have a good point. AlienBrian was originally marketed as a gaming industry source control system since creating games consisted of thousands of media assets. Subversion on the other hand was created out of a need to have something better than VSS and CVS that was

Re: [Flashcoders] SourceSafe??? Recommendations needed.

2006-04-21 Thread JesterXL
They can: Is this file the same as this file or not? While that is helpful in knowing if the file I am checking in is newer than yours, it doesn't tell me if my Symbol in the library is different, if something has changed on frame 2, etc. - Original Message - From: Kevin Cannon [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread JesterXL
JSFL if you have the patience: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2004/09/jsfl_jxlwithrow.html - Original Message - From: Ettwein, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: [Flashcoders]

Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...

2006-04-20 Thread JesterXL
Who put acid into Elibol's tea? - Original Message - From: elibol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... How about we come up with a way to

Re: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation

2006-04-20 Thread JesterXL
:00 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Swish-type text animation Ahhh, that's pretty slick, Jesse. Nice. Like you said though - it's time-consuming to say the least. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 10

Re: [Flashcoders] anyone know mProjector?

2006-04-20 Thread JesterXL
I'm familiar with it; what's up? - Original Message - From: Rich Rodecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:03 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] anyone know mProjector? i have someone looking for a quick fix to an

Re: [Flashcoders] loader component - scaleContent does not always work

2006-04-20 Thread JesterXL
Turn it invisible while it's loading: loaderRef.visible = false; loaderRef.load(); When your complete event fires, try: doLater ( this, laterStuff ); function laterStuff() { loaderRef.scaleContent = true; loaderRef.visible = true; } - Original Message - From: Robin Burrer

Re: [Flashcoders] Tools to create flv with screen recording codec

2006-04-19 Thread JesterXL
That doesn't have the screen recording codec, just Spark On2. - Original Message - From: Lee McColl-Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:30 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Tools to create flv with

Re: [Flashcoders] Tools to create flv with screen recording codec

2006-04-19 Thread JesterXL
: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Tools to create flv with screen recording codec Le 19 avr. 06, à 15:25, JesterXL a écrit : That doesn't have the screen recording codec, just Spark On2. The reason of my question. Nothing else ? --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net

Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...

2006-04-19 Thread JesterXL
How else do you turn a million dollar loss from a lawsuit into a positive via a compeitive advantage? Smart move on their part, although I really dislike how they broke the interweb. - Original Message - From: Chad Mefferd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...

2006-04-19 Thread JesterXL
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:51 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue... How else do you turn a million dollar loss from a lawsuit into a positive via a compeitive

Re: [Flashcoders] New wrinkle in IE activation issue...

2006-04-19 Thread JesterXL
The whole point of this ordeal was to get Microsoft to pay them bling so that first paragraph is just a regurgatation of the obvious. The 2nd paragraph was already known, too; Microsoft publicly stated they were going to implement it irregardless of how the court case went. Not sure why the

Re: [Flashcoders] offline SWF generation from XML

2006-04-18 Thread JesterXL
Check out SWFMill: http://www.osflash.org/swfmill Might do what you want. - Original Message - From: August Gresens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] offline SWF generation from

Re: [Flashcoders] Batch export SWCs

2006-04-18 Thread JesterXL
Look in the manual in Flash 8 under Extending Flash. You can loop through your Library and find the symbols and call exportSWC. fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0].exportSWC(file:///c|/tests/my.swc); - Original Message - From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: User Group Meeting Notices Are AllowedonThisList

2006-04-17 Thread JesterXL
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:26 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT: User Group Meeting Notices Are Allowed onThisList You'd score a lot more points if you attached a Breeze URL

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Sorting objects within an Array

2006-04-15 Thread JesterXL
Late to the thread. Doesn't Flash 7 have Array.sortOn built in? - Original Message - From: Michael Bedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Sorting objects within an Array

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Flash Object vs UFO for flash detection and aseolas workaround

2006-04-14 Thread JesterXL
No one cares, Jim, if their Flash works. Just because we're coder geeks doesn't mean we're JavaScript coder geeks, hah! - Original Message - From: Jim Kremens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 5:05 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] XMLSocket hosting

2006-04-13 Thread JesterXL
Anyone know of any web hosts providing XMLSocket server hosting? Doing a google search yeilds a lot of outdated links to services that no longer exist. I do not want to host it myself, but would rather pay a hosting provider, like I pay Influxis.com for Flashcom hosting. --JesterXL

Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket hosting

2006-04-13 Thread JesterXL
flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket hosting Hi JesterXL Flashtampa.com does a very good job at hosting ElectroServer and Unity at reasonable costs. There is also webgamehost.com , but I've heard mixed things about them. Other than

Re: [Flashcoders] Retrieving Link Text in a Text Field

2006-04-13 Thread JesterXL
Assuming Highlander TextField: function init() { my_txt.htmlText = Hello a href='http://www.jessewarden.com'Jesse/a, how are you?; var str = my_txt.htmlText; var start = str.indexOf(a href); if(start == -1) { start = str.indexOf(A HREF); } var startBracket = str.indexOf(, start); var

Re: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string - SOLVED

2006-04-12 Thread JesterXL
To force a class to be imported even if no one uses it: import com.company.project.YourClass; static private var depend:YourClass; - Original Message - From: Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: [Flashcoders] Quick setSize() question

2006-04-12 Thread JesterXL
yourDataGrid.setSize ( yourDataGrid.width, 400); - Original Message - From: Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:07 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Quick setSize() question Hello all, If I am

Re: [Flashcoders] Will this Microsoft ActiveX update affect Flash?

2006-04-07 Thread JesterXL
Yes. Here is an email from Ted Patrick on Flexcoders FLASHOBJECT FIXES EOLAS http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/ - Player Detection - XHTML Compliant - Simple and easy to use It just works and this is all you need to know!

Re: [Flashcoders] Audio Analyzer

2006-04-07 Thread JesterXL
http://blog.andre-michelle.com/2006/soundmixercomputespectrum/ - Original Message - From: Christian Pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Audio Analyzer How could i get the input volume from the

Re: [Flashcoders] large projects

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
- think of using Flex instead of Flash - get a competent and accountable architect to enforce best coding practices - define standards of coding up front, and enforce those standards - use source control (Subversion, CVS, Source Safe) - use develoment servers, staging servers, and production

Re: Re: [Flashcoders] large projects

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
in the same places.) From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/05 Wed AM 09:32:28 CDT To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] large projects - think of using Flex instead of Flash - get a competent and accountable architect to enforce best

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Apps versus Flash Projector apps

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
Nope. http://dev.jessewarden.com/captivate/flexonthedesktop/ The only reason Flex 2 isn't realistic for creating desktop applications currently is: - it's in beta - mProjector, SWFStudio, Zinc, and Screenweaver haven't made a wrapper for Flash Player 8.5 yet Keep in mind, Flex 2 will create

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Apps versus Flash Projector apps

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:05 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Apps versus Flash Projector apps Nope. http://dev.jessewarden.com/captivate/flexonthedesktop/ The only reason Flex 2 isn't realistic for creating desktop applications currently

Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Apps versus Flash Projector apps

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
2.0 - I just hope it all stays reasonable. Thanks again!! Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:23 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flex Apps versus Flash Projector apps

Re: [Flashcoders] large projects

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
These are my opinions, but 2 main things: - only check in code that works. If a developer checks in code that doesn't compile or work, he needs to fix it. - I'll write test cases, which are really not as formal as real test cases. Basically, it's a test FLA or a test MXML application that

Re: [Flashcoders] What's different between _alpha=0 and _visible =flase;

2006-04-05 Thread JesterXL
MovieClip's have security sandboxes. As such, you are allowed to do certain commands and access on MovieClip's only if that MovieClip's contents reside in your approved security sandbox. SWF's, JPEG's, FLV's, and now PNG's and GIF's all have abide by these rules. My guess is, _alpha actually

Re: [Flashcoders] Alert window layering issue

2006-04-03 Thread JesterXL
It may be too late, but typically Alert's are created on _root. This is also how ComboBox's and other popups in the PopUpManager are created. If you put 1 movieclip on _root, and put you're entire app in it, you should have no problems. If you creating your own custom movieclips on _root,

Re: [Flashcoders] createEmptyMovieClip for flash player 7

2006-03-31 Thread JesterXL
createEmptyMovieClip returns a reference to the movieclip it created, yes, just like attachMovie does. It did this in Flash 6, too. - Original Message - From: Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006

Re: [Flashcoders] MovieClip.loadMovie(), accessing assets in another Library.

2006-03-31 Thread JesterXL
In Flash Player 8 and below, you cannot attach assets from one SWF to another. The documentation about _lockroot is referring to the scope in which _root calls. For example, ComboBox when clicked creates a List control via PopUpManager. This basically goes _root.attachMovie(List, etc).

Re: [Flashcoders] Some Computers Won't Stream MP3 in Flash/I.E.

2006-03-19 Thread JesterXL
Maybe it's missing it's MIME type? This would bite a lot of the Flashcomerz, maybe related? http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439 - Original Message - From: Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] loading XML as string via parseXml: how to avoidundefined? (onParseComplete??!)

2006-03-17 Thread JesterXL
getBytesTotal is only used for tracking the downloading of a large amount of XML. You aren't downloading anything. You are building the XML object by hand in Flash. Therefore, since you never loaded anything, you never started a download. Since you never started a download, you'll never get

Re: [Flashcoders] updating the ide-players

2006-03-16 Thread JesterXL
Late in the thread, but to update the IDE players you need to: - go to C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Players\Debug - copy SAFlashPlayer.data, SAFlashPlayer.exe, and SAFlashPlayer.rsrc - paste over files in C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Players - reboot Flash 8

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: PSP getting the Flash Player this spring!

2006-03-16 Thread JesterXL
Hey, at least we get AS2 with 6. That's better than friggin Flash Lite 1.1 with Flash 4 syntax. - Original Message - From: John Giotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OT:

Re: [Flashcoders] Advice on how to make a copy of an object

2006-03-15 Thread JesterXL
To make a true clone, it's about the same in AS2 AS3: class YourModel { public var prop:String; public var data_array:Array; function YourModel ( p_prop:String ) { prop = p_prop; data_array = [1, 2, 3, 4]; } public function clone():YourModel {

Re: [Flashcoders] OT time investment in learning V2 Components

2006-03-14 Thread JesterXL
Yes. ActionScript is the same in Flash and Flex. Flex MX 2004 8 use AS2, and Flex 1.5 uses AS. Both use a similiar API for components, and everything in MXML can be done in ActionScript since MXML is compiled down to ActionScript before being compiled to SWF. Both use EventDispatcher, and

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2.0 mingles well AS1.0?

2006-03-14 Thread JesterXL
The point of AS2 is: - packages - strong typing If you are not taking advantage of the first, that is ok. AS1 prototype's are created in the _global scope, so the 2 can co-exist. However, AS1 does not use strong typing; basically everything is uncast so tracking down bugs will be easier in

Re: [Flashcoders] using onLoad() in components

2006-03-14 Thread JesterXL
You cannot lose using onLoad. Even if a component takes 1 frame to initialize because you are dragging it to the stage instead of creating dynamically, onLoad will always fire at the correct time. However, you outta abstract this to an event. As you know, mx.core.View physically calls

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread JesterXL
JesterXL Ninja Turtle - Original Message - From: Kevin Aebig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title? In the past 5 years I've been: Senior Business Systems

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread JesterXL
I have a mullet, rented a truck last week, live in the boondocks of Georgia which is 50th in the state for education, a lot of people lack teeth because we produce the most crystal meth out of all 50 states, and I was the only guy in high school to have a car (the rest had trucks). ...STILL,

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-10 Thread JesterXL
ROFL! Ok that is bar far the best one yet. - Original Message - From: clark slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title? Rich.Internet.Applicator aka

Re: [Flashcoders] image blurred edges

2006-03-09 Thread JesterXL
] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] image blurred edges thanks for the reply, however i need something that is backwards compatible with version 7 players. any suggestions? On 3/8/06, JesterXL [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] stop() an empty movieclip still relevant for FP8?

2006-03-09 Thread JesterXL
That doesn't do anything. If a movieclip is empty, there is nothing to play. - Original Message - From: Peter O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:23 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] stop() an empty

Re: [Flashcoders] Hiding methods from the compiler

2006-03-09 Thread JesterXL
For Zinc, define in main class: var mdm:Function; For mProjector, prefix with _global. Not sure for SWFStudio. - Original Message - From: Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:08 AM Subject:

[Flashcoders] Flash / Flex / ActionScript Podcasts?

2006-03-09 Thread JesterXL
Anyone doing any of these? Which ones do you like and not like, and why? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Web Browser Component

2006-03-08 Thread JesterXL
Yeah, Zinc lets you embed an IE ActiveX control; it basically positions it over top of your Flash. However, that's EXE only. - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:27

Re: [Flashcoders] image blurred edges

2006-03-08 Thread JesterXL
http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/12/dynamically-loading-bitmaps-with.html - Original Message - From: Ralph Guzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:22 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] image blurred edges In Flash 8, Im using loadMovie to

Re: [Flashcoders] components within custom components

2006-03-07 Thread JesterXL
wierd to do that. if I have my components on the stage in the first frame, and all i'm doing is hiding or showing the components, do i still need to put all of the components on an asset layer? On 3/7/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure what the heck the docs are talking about. I use

Re: [Flashcoders] components within custom components

2006-03-07 Thread JesterXL
probably don't need the bounding box mc too then, right? On 3/7/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some background just to give reasoning behind the insanity. Regarding First Frame, the point of bounding box on the first frame is to give the component initial widht and height values

Re: [Flashcoders] Doh! Converting a floating point string to numberloses precision

2006-03-07 Thread JesterXL
Late in the thread, and suck at math, but there was discussion about this on Flexcoders too. Something about how certain numbers are only so big in Flash Player, and there was talk of porting BigInt from Java. Might want to check the archives there, or join, and ask since more Adobe peeps

Re: [Flashcoders] Trying to understandi Live Preview

2006-03-03 Thread JesterXL
There was a good blog entry about this but no clue where it is. Here's the 411: - LivePreview in MX 2004 8 expects components to be used - components defined as something that extends mx.core.UIComponent - LivePreview uses that mm_livepreview.as class you found to compile the SWF when you

Re: [Flashcoders] detect events on an embedded clip

2006-03-03 Thread JesterXL
Bubbling is done with EventDispatcher, not onPress/onRelease. http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/blog/archives/000144.html - Original Message - From: elr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: RE:

Re: [Flashcoders] Scope issues within a class

2006-03-03 Thread JesterXL
Yeah, use Delegate for the onLoad. yourXML.onLoad = Delegate.create(this, yourLoadFunction); - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Scope

Re: [Flashcoders] {Business/Workflow} The use of mock prototypes

2006-03-01 Thread JesterXL
Hrm, opposite for me: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/02/prototype_solut.html In fact, most turn into projects if you aren't careful. I've found, if you have a talented designer, you're best bet is to get them to create mock prototypes to get in front of users quickly before the

Re: [Flashcoders] {Business/Workflow} The use of mock prototypes

2006-03-01 Thread JesterXL
to say how long a job should take. Thats what i develope prototypes for. if anyone know abetter way please tell me. On 3/1/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, opposite for me: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/02/prototype_solut.html In fact, most turn into projects if you aren't

Re: RE: [Flashcoders] RIA patent granted

2006-03-01 Thread JesterXL
He's selling it to me. My master plan is to kill AJAX, and this was the only way... by owning Flash, too. However, you all have nothing to fear since I love Flash so rest easy. - Original Message - From: Kevin Mulvihill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'

Re: [Flashcoders] hidden function: settimeout?

2006-02-27 Thread JesterXL
setTimeout works in Flash 8, but it's not documented. They didn't bother because they deprecated it in Flash Player 8.5. ...I still like setTimeout the best, though, so I still use it. Long live setTimeout! - Original Message - From: lars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing

Re: [Flashcoders] duplicating a movie clip into a new parent

2006-02-25 Thread JesterXL
You can create MovieClip's in any scope/timeline. However, no, you cannot re-parent them in Flash Player 8 and below, only Flash Player 8.5. One alternative if you must use Flash 8 is to: - copy the state - remove the movieclip - attach a new movieclip in the desired scope - update the state of

Re: [Flashcoders] [a little OT] vp6 plugin for squeeze

2006-02-25 Thread JesterXL
When I would encode Sorenson 3 for Quicktime, I'd start it Friday night, and when arriving back from the club at 5am, I'd pop in the office to see how the compression was going on a 40 second clip at 640x480. Compression's just a slow business, bro. Those who do it professionally use hardware

Re: [FlashCoders] scrollRect

2006-02-24 Thread JesterXL
approach. Thanks a lot. Regards, Dimitrios - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [FlashCoders] scrollRect BitmapSprites extend Bitmap. Bitmap is an internal

Re: [Flashcoders] Is there still an AOL /Flash API or was that Centralspecific

2006-02-22 Thread JesterXL
Only Central, and I think you can't get it to work anymore because Yahoo!'s PayPal competition went under, which was the only way to hook up AOLIM. However, here's an alternative: http://lab.zeusdesign.net/?p=6 - Original Message - From: Manuel Saint-Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Podcasts

2006-02-21 Thread JesterXL
http://www.playfool.com/blog/?p=316 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe

Re: [Flashcoders] When singletons go bad

2006-02-20 Thread JesterXL
Only in AS3, not AS2. In AS2: trace ( null == undefined ); // true That's not his problem; that solution works fine. Something else is failing. It's been this way since like Flash 5. - Original Message - From: Morten Barklund TBWA\Play [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] Platform Game Collision Detection

2006-02-20 Thread JesterXL
Meta-tiles help to decrease the amount of collision dectection run per frame. Additionally, bitmap collisions were always fast in Director, and the same holds true for Flash's bitmap stuff: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/02/source_code_gri.html

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: When singletons go bad

2006-02-20 Thread JesterXL
He can, but every other progammer (well, ok, mainly Java developers) are familiar with the getInstance convention. It clearly illustrates that the class is a Singleton. I only use it when my boss says to; otherwise, static all the way baby. - Original Message - From: Judah [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing in landscape

2006-02-19 Thread JesterXL
Get a blog. It's Viagra for tinyurl. - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 11:14 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Printing in landscape I posted a solution to this a few

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2006-02-18 Thread JesterXL
my_lb.addEventListener(itemRollOver, this); function itemRollOver(o) { highlightedIndex = o.index; } - Original Message - From: Mike Boutin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 4:37 AM Subject:

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