[Flashcoders] v2 Dataset component with Schema and Binding in code, and itemClass

2007-10-24 Thread Kalani Bright
Does any have/know of any tutorials or samples which go over creating datasets, schemas, binding, and itemClasses (itemClassName) completely and entirely in code. The samples Macromedia provides are pretty light and I can't find any serious samples/tutorials online. Does anyone know of any?

RE: [Flashcoders] Cell renderers in AS 3 UI Data Grid

2007-07-26 Thread Kalani Bright
Aloha John, Check this out. It will help you understand cellrenderers. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=B4AED CellRenderers are a bit confusing at first glance but once you understand UI components they get less so. Really you can have anything you want in a cell. Just

RE: [Flashcoders] Actionscript Optimization!

2007-07-16 Thread Kalani Bright
I remember asking something like this before except it was about resource management. Some kind fellow pointed me to Grant Skinner's page about this. http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash CS3 Prof copy: missing Tree component.

2007-06-01 Thread Kalani Bright
Thats funny. Adobe has put the axe to the tree component and many other components requiring you to use Flex if you want to use them. Adobe's reign of terror and the rise of the Anti-Flash...Flex. First they came for the Accordion and I did not speak out because I did not use the Accordion. Then

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3... when to start?

2007-03-04 Thread Kalani Bright
I don't know about FDT or what that was based on. I know Adobe purchased a company which produced Eclipse related plugins such as JSEclipse. Which probably is how they got Flex Builder built so fast. As far as Flex goes verything can be done in Flash. If you have an ounce of artist in you please

RE: [Flashcoders] Is it possible?

2007-03-02 Thread Kalani Bright
It's possible and common. My opinion is use xml/. Why mess with all that other junk (I've never liked AMF)? Database Web Service XML Flash or in reverse for whatever purpose. You can create a node like class that extends movieclip with xml functionality which knows about it's children and

RE: [Flashcoders] OT: Pirated Books

2007-03-02 Thread Kalani Bright
Uhhh. Never pirate books. Software, movies, cd's okay, but never books. And never give candy to strangers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rost, Andrew Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:03 PM To: 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com'

RE: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
ActionScript 3 Design Patterns by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson, Adobe Press :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eric dolecki Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:20 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders]

RE: [Flashcoders] Right Click disabling

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi Andy, This will drive you wild until you're living with the lions in Africa. Save yourself. It's not possible especially in a .swf. They removed that possibility in flash 5 or 6. I even tried putting in in a C# windows application with complicated scripting to toggle a layer above it and

[Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi everyone, Does anyone have some tips or tutorials on how to handle resources and performance issues in flash. I have more of an application than a flash file and things start to slow down after a while. I'm thinking the garbage collection mechanism in flash isn't deleting the objects which

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
I take that back...never use it...you can always use onEnterFrame on the root. -Original Message- From: Kalani Bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:15 PM To: 'flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
/garbage_collect.html http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/understanding_t.html http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_weakly_refe.html -- JOR James O'Reilly - Consultant Adobe Certified Flash Expert http://www.jamesor.com Design . Code . Train Kalani Bright wrote: Hi everyone, Does

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Always a pleasure having intellegent people prove me wrong. I'd rather be proved wrong by a singleton rather than a simpleton. My only comment is that setinterval doesn't fire accurately. If the user is moving the window for example the interval function will never get called. I like your

RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set Interval, and for loop.

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
the flashnewbie list http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashnewbie regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Kalani Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:15 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Getting frustrated. regarding set

RE: [Flashcoders] as3 book

2007-02-28 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi Gustavo, There are several great changes with AS3. But nothing I can tell so far with Flash 9 IDE except that the Alpha's version is all messed up. I would advise thinking on both ends because an artist/programmer can do anything with flash. If you are looking for more of an art

[Flashcoders] MOUSE_DOWN CLICK are not firing on the first mouse click (Flash 9)

2007-02-23 Thread Kalani Bright
*I Dont need help I was writing this and I figured it out so I'm posting it so that other people don't run into the same issue * The error was caused because I had a bunch of text on the stage evidently causing some sort of memory issue probably due to anti-aliasing or something .. though flash 8

RE: [Flashcoders] var (eventHandler)

2007-02-07 Thread Kalani Bright
you shouldn't var any functions even though technically that is correct. also anything withoug a access keyword is defaulted to private which means you can only access it from the class. so to answer your question public function onEnterFrame():Void { //code here } The void means you are not

RE: [Flashcoders] [ANN] AS3 Effects Framework

2007-02-07 Thread Kalani Bright
I'm not famililar with your project but here are some suggestiosn. Well bubble in bubble out. Imagine bubbles coming in. The most simple and classy is a fade in fade out. Also a brightness in/out. You also might want to allow the coder to specify a movieclip to use as a mask for a transition.

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-07 Thread Kalani Bright
Another post which has the cancelRollover is the best one to use imho. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:54 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o

RE: [Flashcoders] Detecting Rollover w/o onRollOver

2007-02-07 Thread Kalani Bright
You could be right. I'm not sure what the original post mean't I was assuming that they were incorporating some sort of drop down menu not a movieclip under movieclip type of situation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Kodicek Sent:

[Flashcoders] HTML Browser In Flash

2007-02-04 Thread Kalani Bright
Ok, I see by your face you think I'm crazy. But I wandered across this project called DENG today: http://deng.com.br/examples/xhtml/table.php It is able to render all types of content (including tables!) and SVG inside of Flash. I think the SVG rendered came from somewhere else. Anyway.

RE: [Flashcoders] Document Class stopped working

2007-02-03 Thread Kalani Bright
Did you try typing the full path to the document class rather than just the class name. It may have been how you set the classpath. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Muller Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:57 AM To: Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieClip by dragging

2007-02-03 Thread Kalani Bright
Yeah Kudos Jack. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of slangeberg Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 7:14 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Fwd: [Flashcoders] RE: Q:Dynamically Scale a MovieClip by dragging Some indispensable AS code,

RE: [Flashcoders] Q:dynamically change registraion point of MovieClipfor rotation scaling in loaded assets

2007-02-03 Thread Kalani Bright
Hot dog! I needed something like this for changing the area of rotation. Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:32 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders]

[Flashcoders] Sitepal, Security Sandbox, and AS3.0

2007-01-25 Thread Kalani Bright
Aloha Everyone, I'm having problems getting SitePal to work with AS 3.0 code. It works fine in 2.0 code with loadmovie. In 3.0 I used the standard urlRequest and loader and did the security domain stuff like 2.0. However I end up with nothing though I do see its contacting the server. Just

RE: [Flashcoders] getters and setters and the with statement

2007-01-04 Thread Kalani Bright
the with statement...? I'm not sure but I guess the last time I tried to compile an AS2 class with with statements, MTASC didn't like it at all... of course, it doesn't mean I like it less... MMC is awful :) On 1/3/07, Kalani Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi chris, with is used so you don't have

RE: [Flashcoders] getters and setters and the with statement

2007-01-03 Thread Kalani Bright
Hi chris, with is used so you don't have to constantly refer to a object hierarchy or object when you are changing many properties or running many methods. var myObject:CustomObjectType = new CustomObjectType(); //say that custom object has a property named duration and two methods start and

[Flashcoders] FlexBuilder/Actionscript 3 Meta Tags

2007-01-02 Thread Kalani Bright
are removed from 3.0 I had some of this when I was coding in primalscript and there were meta tags when I was working with ActionScript 2.0 and components. Are there any 3.0 meta tags anyone is aware of? Thanks for your help, Kalani Bright kalani at manastudios dot com

RE: [Flashcoders] FlexBuilder/Actionscript 3 Meta Tags

2007-01-02 Thread Kalani Bright
, you might want to look at ASDoc: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ASDoc -Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kalani Bright Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:09 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders