RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-21 Thread Rick
Kirupa forums were the place to go a few years ago and luckiky are still maintained. The community was incredible. Forums: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/ Here are some tutorials from the site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/ Good luck Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread Rick
, but I'd have to imagine the pool is getting smaller. On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: That's really encouraging. Great! Thanks On 07/09/2014 02:13, Rick wrote: AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-06 Thread Rick
AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers almost a hundred thousand unique applications on desktops and mobile devices. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app-installs-cross-a-billion.html It's such a great platform still - I've been using it to make ios apps with

RE: [Flashcoders] Video on IOS

2014-03-12 Thread Rick
Yup, video plays behind the display list only, under the stage, because that is where the gpu can process it rather than the cpu. So, I think the workaround is to have the background graphic as a frame, which is in actuality above the video with a transparent center, but at least preserves the

RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...

2013-08-27 Thread Rick Hassen
I think you are quite right that this is a problematic api. While I can't address your specific question, I had tons of problems with TLF in the past. It caused strange bugs that would break my movies(this was in CS5) At the time, there were a lot of complaints on the forums with TLF with the

RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...

2013-08-27 Thread Rick Hassen
I bet all my TLF code that Flash CC 8 will come with a simple timeline to draw things on … remember Flash 3 ? Not far :) 'splain please! I started with Director 1 then went away till CS3, so I missed a bit there, so missing the joke.

RE: [Flashcoders] TLFTextField drowning me ...

2013-08-27 Thread Rick Hassen
On Aug 27, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Rick Hassen rickhas...@hotmail.com wrote: 'splain please! I started with Director 1 then went away till CS3, so I missed a bit there, so missing the joke. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally..

2013-05-27 Thread Rick Hassen
Thats a good question and well phrased. And I wish I could give you as good an answer, however, Collin Moocks Lost Weekend videos, which can be accessed through Safari Books, goes into why and when you'd use them, quite nicely with examples and a qa. Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:05:44 +0100

RE: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools

2013-05-23 Thread Rick Hassen
if you really like Webstorm, some understand it to be a stripped down version of phpStorm (both by JetBrains): http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ From: kennethkawam...@gmail.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Mailing Lists and Tools Date: Thu, 23 May 2013

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally..

2013-05-20 Thread Rick Hassen
an api. Hope that helps. I don't know where you are getting your information, but you may want to consider getting a good AS3 book. Rick Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 finally.. From: k...@designdrumm.com Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:41 -0500 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Quick

RE: [Flashcoders] AS2: SWF Decompiler Recommendations

2013-05-17 Thread Rick Hassen
I used Trillix a few years ago with AS3 and was impressed with it. Everything was there just like a normal flash file. http://www.flash-decompiler.com/ From: ross.sclaf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS2: SWF Decompiler Recommendations Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:23 -0400 To:

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Flashcoders Digest, Vol 68, Issue 2

2013-05-08 Thread Rick Hassen
We've used flash to develop apps for both ipad and android and it was a much better experience than using phonegap with html5 or cordova. wondering what you people think about flash cc being rebuilt from the ground up with 64 bit architecture. To me, it seems that adobe sees a future here as

[Flashcoders] Flash 8 accessibility, need some help

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Schmitty
So, I cant for the life of me, figure out how to setup tab indexing accessibility with Flash 8. Problem is, we have some movie clips that have onpress/release functions to act like a button and (do a bunch of animation bells and whistles on rollover etc) I need to figure out how I can tab to

[Flashcoders] Re: Flash 8 accessibility, need some help

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Schmitty
ARGH! lol I forgot to actually set the tab index its working fine, please ignore me making a fool of myself :) What law states that just as you have given up all hope and have to plead for help that only then you find your solution? On 8/24/07, Rick Schmitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I

[Flashcoders] Version control and Flash

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Schmitty
We are starting to add our flash projects to SVN but by large every project has all of the AS code inside the actual movie leaving us with just fla's in the repo We are working on getting everyone to develop with .as files they include in the fla, but is there a limit as to how far that should

[Flashcoders] Q: Including class at compile w/o explicitly instantiating it

2007-08-10 Thread Rick Terrill
. Is there any way to do this with Run-Time libraries, or some directive or metadata or something? Or is there something really obvious that I'm missing? t.i.a! -- Rick Terrill - www.rickterrill.com - www.linkedin.com/in/rickterrill ___ Flashcoders

[Flashcoders] How can you measure performance of your movie?

2007-07-20 Thread Rick Schmitty
I've been tasked with optimizing/tuning a flash movie to try and get it to run better on low end machines (100% cpu spikes, large memory, etc) I see many areas that I can improve the swf, but how do I quantify what I have improved to my boss? Is there any standard practice for measuring how

[Flashcoders] Any experience getting print materials to SWF files?

2007-05-02 Thread Rick Schmitty
Has anyone done anything with print designs (inDesign, Quark, PDF) being exported to SWF? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought

[Flashcoders] Transform tool help - without the matrix

2007-01-03 Thread Rick Schmitty
Is there a tool that lets you strectch and rotate movie clip objects? (not skew, I believe that requires the transform matrix math) Similar to this guy, but only using width height and rotation modifications

[Flashcoders] Swf to image java library?

2006-10-19 Thread Rick Schmitty
Does anyone know of or how to implement a java library that can create an image from a frame in your flash movie (for thumbnails and such) http://www.bytescout.com/swftoimage.html Thanks! ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Copy Paste into Firefox

2006-07-12 Thread Rick Lecoat
of sight. Don't know why this would be different in IE and FF though, so maybe it's not that, unless IE treats pasted carriage returns differently. It's a long shot, I agree, but a quick thing to check before delving deeper. HTH -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field

2006-07-05 Thread Rick Lecoat
not big enough to hold the string); it is as if Flash is just choosing a few letters and ignoring the rest. Can anybody shed any light on this? I'm new to Actionscript and every (probably simple) stumbling block like this throws me completely out of the ring. Many thanks. -- Rick Lecoat

Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field

2006-07-05 Thread Rick Lecoat
answer, is a bit cryptic to me. Could you maybe flesh out your reply with a bit of 'idiot guide' stuff so that I can take it and run with it? Many many thanks. -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Chris Velevitch on 5/7/06 at 08:45 Sounds like restrict is not null. Chris

Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field

2006-07-05 Thread Rick Lecoat
questions *very* soon... -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Adrian Park on 5/7/06 at 09:24 This sounds to me like what happens if you embed a certain set of characters in the field but then pass it a String including characters you haven't explicitly embedded. I'm guessing you may have

Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field

2006-07-05 Thread Rick Lecoat
and lower case, numerals, and punctuation. These choices are appropriate to the text that the button clicks will enter. So, why will it work in test but not online? Hlp! -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Adrian Park on 5/7/06 at 10:54 Glad to be of help Rick. On the font

Re: [Flashcoders] weirdness passing string to text field

2006-07-05 Thread Rick Lecoat
to _parent.variable it was all working as planned again. Odd that the Test Movie behaved differently though. -- Rick Lecoat -- Original message: Received from Rick Lecoat on 5/7/06 at 13:23 Back again. Well, I *thought* it was working... What do you guys make of a situation where a movie works in Test

[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader vs component

2006-06-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
in advance; -- Rick Lecoat ___ 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] Flash and Javascript Interaction

2006-06-12 Thread Rick Root
authoring classpath. But I don't have a clue as to where that is. W:\public_html\cfopenchat\demo\flashjs\FlashJavascriptGateway\docs\readme.html Where should I put those files? Where is my class path? Rick On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:55p, Rick Root wrote: I posted this to cf-talk but decided

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction

2006-06-12 Thread Rick Root
Oh I figured it out (I guess).. I added an import statement and it works now. http://www.opensourcecf.com/cfopenchat/demo/sounds.html Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction

2006-06-12 Thread Rick Root
Dave Mennenoh wrote: Where should I put those files? Where is my class path? Edit Preferences Click the ActionScript 2.0 Settings... button Thanks, I'll put that somewhere for future reference =) Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] Flash and Javascript Interaction

2006-06-09 Thread Rick Root
of a door opening (if you have flash and sound enabled). When you click Play Door Sound the javascript should replay the flash movie, but it doesn't and I can't figure out why. Rick ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription