Re: [Flashcoders] swf2jpg conversion

2007-02-06 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
is there any chance you could put it somewhere publicly accessible? im sure there are quite a few people who would like to use it (myself included) thanks, Martin Firstpixel wrote: There is some PHP that does it. email me and I will send you the php Classes. Gil Beyruth Criação e Desenv.

Re: [Flashcoders] sort 2d array

2007-02-02 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
I think its wise to be careful how you approach this as although quicksort is 'quick' you could actually be using it inefficiently (or rather in a situation that isnt appropriate) If your list is almost sorted then quicksort can be inefficient, (depending on how you choose your pivot,

Re: [Flashcoders] Need a volunteer Flash Programmer

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Is it that I cant read, or is it hiding somewhere on the page. Or is this just some inside knowledge about swivelgames that I am not privy to. Because I dont see anything on the swivelgames.com page about asking for volunteer work. its just from the email address of the dude who sent the

Re: [Flashcoders] Flair Pattern?

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Im not normally one to comment on personal behaviour but that post really does leave a bitter taste, which is sad as you are sometimes helpful. If you are going to pass judgements on other peoples work which may prove helpful in the situation facing the OP then at least qualify them or you

Re: [Flashcoders] Invisible re-draw

2007-01-26 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
eric dolecki wrote: The player draws constantly what is on stage. Vector takes more horses than bitmap (in fact unless a bitmap moves or changes, its static (won't be redrawn - hence the cacheAsBitmap option). I would have thought the rasterizer has at least some kind of dirty rectangle

Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Approaches to integrating existing class libraries with frameworks

2007-01-26 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm very much interested in exploring several popular flash frameworks, especially PixLib, but am wondering if there is a way to adopt and integrate legacy class code with these new frameworks. absolutely. i've been doing exactly that with pixlib and documenting

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash wish: Omit comments on publish

2007-01-25 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
comments arent compiled. dont worry about it. :) Mick G wrote: Am I wrong in thinking that comments are included in a SWF when it's published? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] External libraries

2007-01-23 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
there's a -mx switch specifically for that, in fact I think it just ignores the mx.* classes so they dont even get compiled. you can also patch your mx.* classes using a patch from osflash.org which is what I do, then I dont need the -mx switch. n.b. I patched a copy of the mx classes, not

Re: [Flashcoders] External libraries

2007-01-23 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
like i said in the other mail, -mx prevents mtasc compiling the mx.* classes so you will want to generate the swf in MMC and then inject the new code when you compile (or patch the mx classes) also, you might like this delegate implementation :

Re: [Flashcoders] External libraries

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
you cant attach symbols from a loaded swf to a different parent, you *must* attach them somewhere in the tree where their library exists. you have to do uiResources.attachMovie instead of _root.attachMovie its a nasty limitation of flash (pre v9, in v9 you can manipulate the display heirarchy

Re: [Flashcoders] Datatypes that are complex/composite ...

2007-01-15 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
) as complex or composite.I'm finding references that use both terms.Not a biggie, but would like to hear opinions.___ -- Martin Wood-Mitrovski http://relivethefuture.com/choronzon ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Merrill, Jason wrote: You can project a perpendicular line from the mouse to the target line and then find the intersection. uh huh. Still waiting for someone to explain how to do the constrain part. Mike did say, Using this basic principle you could limit an MC to a slope based on the

Re: [Flashcoders] Senior Developer Posisition

2006-12-20 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Reverse the math from London at $80K. NYC: $69K, SF: $52K Both of which are far less than what a senior level flash dev should be making in this market. thats why i dont live in london anymore :) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] How to send Audio objects as MP3 via XML-RPC?

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Leo Burd wrote: - thanks so much for all the feedback provided! I believe now I've collected all (or most) of the pieces that I needed for my little system! As for the sorenson format issue, I believe ffmpeg can take care of that... (hopefully) the video is sorenson, but the audio is

Re: [Flashcoders] migrating to Flex

2006-11-26 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Millie Niss wrote: Am I the only one on this list who (still) uses the Flash IDE (Flash 8 Pro) and hasn't migrated to AS 3.0 or any version of Flex? haha, no, all my paid work is still still targeting the v7 player. I dont think i'll be using AS3 commercially for at least a year. What is

Re: [Flashcoders] Tween color of dynamic text

2006-11-22 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
eric dolecki wrote: Thats cool - i hooked the class up, but i get an array with values like this: 4951245,6133970,7316439,8499164,9681633,10864358,12046827,13229552,14412021,15594746 from going from a blue to white: [0x4B8CCD,0xFF] ?? looks right to me 0x4B8CCD = 4951245 im

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection breaks object types?

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
did you use Object.registerClass ? you have to register your types for them to serialize / de-serialize with their type information intact. PR Durand wrote: Hi there! using localConnection seems to totally untype an object, right? ___

Re: [Flashcoders] LocalConnection breaks object types?

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Object.registerClass is used to register types for a variety of purposes, shared objects, local connections and remoting apart from the MC / class link usage. Did you register the class at both ends? and are you sure its compiled into both movies? check this post from the archive

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] Flash player on the PS3?

2006-11-13 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Zárate wrote: Good news about the Wii! There is no FP9 for PPC Linux yet PPC? As far as I know* Pocket PC is Microsoft exclusive. What I would expect in the future is player 9 (Linux version), but it will probably need to get out of beta first. :) PowerPC, like Macs used to be

Re: [Flashcoders] Music visualisation in Flash 9

2006-11-02 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Jake Prime wrote: Hi I have just been asked about the possibility of making an app which will play MP3s, and display visual effect to match it. Does this sound like something that is possible in AS3? Its easy in AS3, just look up Sound.computeSpectrum in the reference. you'll also find

Re: [Flashcoders] Music visualisation in Flash 9

2006-11-02 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Paul Steven wrote: Haven't looked into AS3 yet but seeing this thread I wonder if it is possible to change the pitch of dynamically loaded mp3 files in real time? im 99% certain the answer is no. if there is a way i would love to know how. :) ___

Re: [Flashcoders] setVolume has a greater range than documented?

2006-10-25 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
if you have no other sound objects then setting the volume to 100 should be full volume. if you create sound objects using a heirarchy of mc's then the final volume is a combination of the volumes of each sound object within the heirarchy. if its not that then i dont know...what version of