Re: [Flashcoders] compare Objects

2007-04-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
It is more reasonable to include a method in the class to compare itself to another instance of itself. x= new myObj(1,2,3) y=new MyObj(1,2,4) trace (x.isequal(y)) Ron Gilles Roquefeuil wrote: Hello, seems trivialo, but is there a simpler way to compare two identically formed objects than r

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: OOP: design patterns: multiple MVCs?

2007-04-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
ea_02.png State machines are quite interesting, and I think I'll use that form of logic with switch->case statements inside of the PageBuilder class. Thanks for the reference! The program I am using for the charts is OmniGraffle, which I think is Mac only. :P With kind, Sebastian.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: OOP: design patterns: multiple MVCs?

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Nice diagram ;-) "could be designed with several Model->View->Controller rings in it" Without getting too deep into your application, it looks like might want to think about a Controller with set of nested state machines inside. From what you wrote, it seems that this is where you are headed wi

Re: [Flashcoders] flowcharting

2007-04-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Free at last, free at last! No more MS-Office. Ron nik crosina wrote: Looked at openoffice and fell in love! Thanks, Ron!! Have a nice weekend, Nik On 4/27/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OpenOffice has a nice drawing tool with all of the flowcharting symbols d

Re: [Flashcoders] flowcharting

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
OpenOffice has a nice drawing tool with all of the flowcharting symbols defined. www.openoffice.org You can colour and shade them to your hearts content. I built a flowcharting add-on to Compendium www.compendiuminstitute.org http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/community/bpa.html is a link to a

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2.0 Question - passing data between classes

2007-04-24 Thread Ron Wheeler
I do not think that this passes any data but it does let you grab an instance (usually of a singleton) so that you can use setters and getters to pass the data. If the object is not a Singleton, I am not sure which instance you get so it is only part of the solution. Look at the book "Head Fir

Re: [Flashcoders] AS2.0 Question - passing data between classes

2007-04-23 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might want to read "Head First Design Patterns" for some good ideas about how to write good code. Lots of practical ideas about many of te situations that you need to resolve. Ron Andrew wrote: Hi I'm new to OOP programming in AS2. I'm writing two classes right now. One which creates/ma

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Simulation freezing Problem

2007-04-23 Thread Ron Wheeler
Have you checked the Event Viewer on that machine to see if Windows is logging anything. If there are any firewall or security logs maintained by the anti-virus software, you may want to look there. Ron Holth, Daniel C. wrote: Ritesh, Its difficult to debug without any code samples. If you

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
This is not a bad comment. What I gather that he is saying is that we are perhaps looking for a technical solution when we should be looking at the source of the need. If you believe that your customers will steal from you and try to make money from redistributing your product behind your back

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
Dongles would be pretty hard to control in a classroom. 1)They would disappear (practical jokes or wanting to run the software on different machines and not returning them, etc.). 2)The administration of many sets of dongles required to support different applications would make the Tech support

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] XPath expressions

2007-04-11 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might try asking this in a forum dedicated to XPATH and XSLT. (Perhaps on Apache) http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ They recommend http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/index.html I suspect you will find some real XPATH gurus who can fix you up in a hurry . Ron Hairy Dog Digital wrote: H

Re: [Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
se editors. Though, now I'm getting into more Flex 2 work, I have a feeling I might be making a switch (but will keep to subetha for collab. editing with coworkers). On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Revised List of editors FlashDevelop Flexbuilder SciTe Flash Eclips

Re: [Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
ding, etc. jazz offered by many of these editors. Though, now I'm getting into more Flex 2 work, I have a feeling I might be making a switch (but will keep to subetha for collab. editing with coworkers). On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Revised List of editors FlashDevel

Re: [Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
keep to subetha for collab. editing with coworkers). On Apr 8, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: Revised List of editors FlashDevelop Flexbuilder SciTe Flash Eclipse with Flex SDK Eclipse with ASDT Eclipse with FDT Eclipse with HXDT Eclipse with EHX SEPY Actionscript editor Flash 9 IDE Fla

Re: [Flashcoders] basic flash games development issues

2007-04-08 Thread Ron Wheeler
Visit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action for some books on Game development Flash can write to the local hard drive but only in a very controlled way. Zinc probably has more capabilities but you need to read their documentation. In a Windows environment, opening a PDF is p

[Flashcoders] Poll on Operating System

2007-04-08 Thread Ron Wheeler
Not many votes in yet but the Windows and Mac are tied . http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action/surveys?id=2477469 Ron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf

[Flashcoders] Editors in use by Actionscript Programmers

2007-04-08 Thread Ron Wheeler
Revised List of editors FlashDevelop Flexbuilder SciTe Flash Eclipse with Flex SDK Eclipse with ASDT Eclipse with FDT Eclipse with HXDT Eclipse with EHX SEPY Actionscript editor Flash 9 IDE Flash 8 IDE Vim Notepad++ EditPlus with ActionScript profile TextMate jEdit BBedit

Re: [Flashcoders] poll on editors/IDe

2007-04-08 Thread Ron Wheeler
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:31 PM To: Flashcoders Mailing List Subject: [Flashcoders] poll on editors/IDe I would like to put up a poll on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action/

Re: [Flashcoders] Poll on operating system

2007-04-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
AIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:29 PM To: Flashcoders Mailing List Subject: [Flashcoders] Poll on operating system I have just created a poll on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action/ to find out what operating system flashcoder members use

[Flashcoders] poll on editors/IDe

2007-04-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
I would like to put up a poll on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action/ to find out what editors and IDEs are being used by flashcoder members to code actionScript applications. Can you tell me what programs should be included in the available choices? Starting list from what I

[Flashcoders] Poll on operating system

2007-04-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
I have just created a poll on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Script_in_Action/ to find out what operating system flashcoder members use to develop their ActionScript applications. Please go and vote for your choice. Ron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfi

Re: [Flashcoders] games dev books

2007-04-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
think it has an updated version for Flash 8. On 4/5/07, nik crosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ron, Could you post a link to that forum as I don't know it. Thanks! Nik On 4/5/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added it to the list of books on Fl

Re: [Flashcoders] games dev books

2007-04-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
I have added it to the list of books on Flash Game development at the Yahoo Script_in_Action forum. If there are any other suggestions please add them there. Anggie Bratadinata wrote: 'Flash 8 Professional Game Development' by Glenn Rhodes, Charles River Media. -- Anggie Bratadinata www.maspu

[Flashcoders] Re: [Flash_ActionScript] Digest Number 1512

2007-04-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
You should probably try to post this in the flashcoders forum. A lot more help available there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is 1 message in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1a. Re: Set Visibility For Next/Prev Buttons From: Bad Aegis Message ___

[Flashcoders] Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ: Assessing the Survivors of the Java IDE Wars

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/34009/ An interesting evaluation of where the IDE wars have gone. Ron ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashc

Re: [Flashcoders] audio library

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
You can only write so much code before you want it to make a little noise. OK so it is a little OT, but less OT than many things that show up. If we do not discuss how OT it is we will not waste too many e-mails. Ron Lars Schwarz wrote: sorry, but ain't this OT and has nothing to do with codi

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3.0 help w/ simple HelloWorld

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Wheeler
s Dog implements Animal{ private name:String public function Dog(name){this.name=name;} } I hope that this helps. package MyPackage thanks for ideas, Rob On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:26:10 -0400, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something to try change import MyPackage.

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript 3.0 help w/ simple HelloWorld

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Wheeler
Something to try change import MyPackage.*; to import myPackage.HelloWorld import myPackage.MyClass See if the errors change. Ron Merrill, Jason wrote: I dunno, that's how I have it set up and it works fine for me - Perhaps your Flash 9 Preview Alpha is messed up. I assume your publish s

Re: [Flashcoders] Compiling with self-reference

2007-03-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
Danny Kodicek wrote: Slightly complicated and not terribly important but annoying: It's possible for a class to compile while self-referring: class Clarss { var pParent:Clarss; function Clarss(tParent:Clarss) { if (tParent != undefined) {

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Sandy: Camera Flythrough

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Wheeler
You can move the objects, move the world or move the camera - your choice. The last 2 are easier. You only need to move the objects if you want tem to move with respect to each other not te viewer. Have you done all of the tutorials including the ones linked to from the Sandy site? Ron eric

Re: [Flashcoders] problem with sandy.

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Wheeler
I am not sure where you have gone wrong. I can show you what I did. It is a bit more structured than the Sandy examples It declares a World3D and a movie clip and then builds a scene that can be rotated. Then it creates and adds a camera This is the main flow. It sets up a Movie Clip to draw t

Re: [Flashcoders] project

2007-03-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
Look at Sandy 3D http://www.flashsandy.org/ Gustavo Duenas wrote: hi I have this in mind, a 3d figure, a cube , ok this cube has a diferent image and a button in every one of its faces, so the button should trigger a particular code, but how can I handle this is 3d? and how can tell actionscrip

Re: [Flashcoders] Create an object by name

2007-03-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
Might be interesting to know why you need to do this at all. I'm using an XML document to create a file. Without going into details, each node of the XML is to be turned into an object, based on the kind of node. So for example: This would become two objects, one an instance of MyBigC

Re: [Flashcoders] Super and this

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Wheeler
I was simply suggesting that using the right words would make things clearer. Danny is right in a sense. Ron Karina Steffens wrote: Danny, I think what Ron means is, you don't instantiate the class _and_ the super class, as you would with Director. As you know (and for anyone that isn't famili

Re: [Flashcoders] Super and this

2007-03-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
Just to make your life simpler. You do not instantiate a class; you instantiate an instance(object) of a class. A class is only a definition and is stored in Flash as a definition which can be instantiated as many times as required. The definition refers to the definitions of the classes that

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
t you will get this figured out but I am afraid that we have lost sight of your original need. Ron Thank you, Melih On 3/13/07, *Ron Wheeler* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: elibol wrote: > Your example uses a machine which solves to a work

Re: [Flashcoders] practical limits to size of XML files?

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Wheeler
We do the same thing. Once you get the hang of the XML classes it is not too bad and you can really tune your access. If you are doing your own tree climbing it gets easier to deal with a multi-file XML structure that can help reduce the amount of XML that you have to parse in any given opera

Re: [Flashcoders] practical limits to size of XML files?

2007-03-11 Thread Ron Wheeler
I would not worry about this. You are on the right track and in the worst case you can break the XML file into a set of xml files referenced by the top level which then acts as a Table of Contents. It is hard to build an XML file that is as big as an sound file. 5000 records of 50 characters

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
rseFloat(n2Split[0])*Math.pow(10, parseInt(n2Split[1])); > > > > trace(n1);//6.30e+51 > > trace(n2);//6.3e+51 > > trace(6.30e+51 == 6.3e+51);//true > > trace(n1 == n2);//false > > trace(n1 == 6.3e+51);//false > > trace(n2 == 6.3e+5

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
eFloat(n2Split[0])*Math.pow(10, parseInt(n2Split[1])); trace(n1);//6.30e+51 trace(n2);//6.3e+51 trace(6.30e+51 == 6.3e+51);//true trace(n1 == n2);//false trace(n1 == 6.3e+51);//false trace(n2 == 6.3e+51);//true trace(n1-6.3e+51);//1.32922799578491e+36 trace(n2-6.3e+51);//0

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash training suggestions

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
ively I can apply the experience I have from other work I've done. -Andy On 3/9/07, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are looking to improve your application development skills, invest in this book. I have been heavily involved in ActionScript for the last 6 years and progra

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you really have a number with 52 decimal digits of precision required, you can not store it in a double. I believe that a double is only good for about 16-17 digits. What is the origin of such a number and what do you want to do with it? You will have to write all of your own arithmetic or f

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash training suggestions

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you are looking to improve your application development skills, invest in this book. I have been heavily involved in ActionScript for the last 6 years and programming for more than 30. This showed me a lot of really useful ways to improve the way applications are constructed. Much more import

[Flashcoders] List removal

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Wheeler
Because you are sending this to the list not the moderator. We can only help you with a Flash problem, we are not list managers. Read the instructions BTW Start your own thread. Carter, Dan wrote: WHY OH WHY AM I STILL RECEIVING MESSAGES FROM THIS LIST!! I UNSUBSCRIBED SEVERAL TIMES AND S

Re: [Flashcoders] How to read variables from file into an array.

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
You should be using XML for this. It will handle larger more complex data structures. Ron Steve Abaffy wrote: Hello, All the information I have found on this seems to indicate that the file is read as one big chunk into variable pairs. So if the file contains &Var1=Something1 and &Var2

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 parseFloat issue?

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
Since the dawn of computing in the 1950s, it has clearly been understood that "Thou shalt not compare floating point numbers for equality" It is not supposed to work. It only rarely does work(every now and again you will get lucky depending on the number that you chose to test). If you change

Re: [Flashcoders] more _lockroot woes

2007-03-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
Back in the late 1940s, the idea of programs using data to modify their behaviour was invented. Prior to that, if you wanted to have a program do something different depending on the situation, you constructed a bunch of programs and selected the one that you wanted to run. You seem to have wa

Re: [Flashcoders] Subscription problems

2007-02-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Put a filter in your e-mail client to dump all of the Flashcoders e-mail into a separate folder and one a month delete the contents until you can unsubscribe. I subscribe to quite a few lists and everything gets sorted on its way in so that I can deal with each list in its turn. If your e-mail

Re: [Flashcoders] XPathAPI recursive XML search

2007-02-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you start at the top of the tree everything that you want is below you. Tom Klepl wrote: Thanks for the reply.. unfortunately this only returns matching nodes below the parent node specified. What I need is to crawl the XML tree and find ALL matching nodes, regardless of where they are in t

Re: [Flashcoders] What do you think are the best Flash projects and RIA's

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Wheeler
I do not know if this is the best but if you are looking for a real application in Flash... We built a database and search engine in Flash to provide Personal Protective Equipment information for First Responders. The database included pictures, technical specifications, administrative inform

Re: [Flashcoders] should this work?

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
It would seem to be alright. If the computer opening the socket is accepting messages from Flash, why would the FlashPlayer care about that. It can not possibly tell if the person who wrote the server application at the other end of the socket has compromised the server The server administrator

Re: [Flashcoders] Array structure problem

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Wheeler
Multidimensional arrays are often a symptom of not enough objects. You might find it easier to write with much clearer code if you have a an array of chapters each one containing an array of text. You can then create the Chapter1 instance by passing the XML node for Chapter 1 to the constructor

Re: [Flashcoders] Changing the computer code of a swf file?

2007-02-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
Can you not just read it in when the program starts? affiliate=acme affiliate_logo = acme.jpg Modifying code to change the values of variables is a pretty roundabout way to write code. A jump back to the 1940s'. Not often seen in these days. Ron Dennis - I Sioux wrote: Hey, Thanks this soun

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Pretty impressive Flash website

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
Neat stuff. They are also in Europe so you do not have to move to New York Michael Ypes wrote: Absolutely... This site was built by FI (http://www.fantasy-interactive.com) and they are a very cool company who do absolutely great work. If I lived in America I would definitely want to work for th

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
You are missing the package level com.3Sixty.BIARegionMap.model.App but that is not the problem What is your classpath? Jon Bennett wrote: Have you defined: class core.Folder1.Folder2.App { // } At that location to import? I would suggest the Java style: com.company_name.project_n

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
See below Ron slangeberg wrote: Have you defined: class core.Folder1.Folder2.App { // } At that location to import? I would suggest the Java style: com.company_name.project_name.package.class Such as: import com.bennett.bennettapp.view.NewView; Exactly right and if you put this unde

Re: [Flashcoders] brain is dead: Syntax Error, why?

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
A "standard" layout would look like project src com company product (in the most general sense) package1 (should at least have model, view, controller as packages) xxx1.as sourcecode2.

Re: [Flashcoders] Doxygen support for Actionscript

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
, I thought maybe someone here could enlightent me as to how to tweak some things. Best Regards, Fotis On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 17:03 -0500, Ron Wheeler wrote: It should produce UML diagrams. Have you checked the box in the setup to have them made. It may be off by default. Ron Forums @ Existan

Re: [Flashcoders] Doxygen support for Actionscript

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
It should produce UML diagrams. Have you checked the box in the setup to have them made. It may be off by default. Ron Forums @ Existanze wrote: Hello all, I recently found out about using doxygen for documenting Actionscript, the discovery came by googling "uml reverser engineer actionscrip

Re: [Flashcoders] Stop Flash caching classes

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
Make sure that you have recompiled ALL of your classes and rebuilt ALL of your swf files. Assume the offending class is called MyFunnyObject If an old version of the class MyFunnyObject is in an swf that has not been recreated, then this happens. It is not unusual and show up here once or twice

Re: [Flashcoders] Finding our way within Flash Architecture

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
Actionstep and Haxe address your concerns and are probably more like Delphi as development environments with the higher level functions that ActionScript does not provide. Ron Mike and Stephie wrote: HI People ! Great list and we've seen a lot of incredibly useful stuff go past. We're conside

Re: [Flashcoders] hooking up GUI in pure OO code...

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might want to consider using the ActionStep framework which deals with the MVC model. You could also look at past discussions on "delegate" in this forum. (google it) Everyone has to deal with this. Ron Jason Boyd wrote: OK this is making me nuts. It seems to be an impossible scope prob

Re: [Flashcoders] import package

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
If it works without it, it is not required. Import is a compiler directive. It does not result in any code being generated. It merely tells the compiler that "If I mention some function or class/object/datatype that I do not define, you should also look here to see if this code has a definition

Re: [Flashcoders] Launch an application from CDROM based projector

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you are just trying to run a Flash application and get it to read parameters from a file, you can use the projector that comes with flash and have it read an XML file or a text file from the CD or hard disk or a server. Sometimes we have a small text file that tells our projector applicatio

Re: [Flashcoders] math simple operation

2007-01-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
expert (never told i was one), and what i'm developping right now is just for my personnal stuff. It is how I learn about new stuff. So thx again for your advices N. - Original Message - From: "Ron Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list"

Re: [Flashcoders] math simple operation

2007-01-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
Knowledge of arithmetic would seem to be the sort of thing one would expect in a financial "expert". :-) Although to be fair, this does crop up about once a quarter in the forum as a new person discovers one of the hidden joys of using a computer that does not have 10 fingers to work with. R

Re: [Flashcoders] Multi-dimensional array problems in classes

2007-01-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
BTW, Classes love Objects of all types regardless of the arrays. Just a hint. Often multi-dimensional arrays are just crying out to be single arrays of objects and if their wish is granted, your code becomes amazingly small and elegant as your reward for granting their wish. Help make an arra

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2007-01-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
My guess would be that memory in excess of 1 GB would be almost useless in a dedicated application. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize if this does not relate directly to an AS issue. I'm building a flash application that is going to sit on the desktop and act as a glorified screensaver w

Re: [Flashcoders] Do you have software which can convert as package to UML?

2007-01-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
Doxygen will do a good job for free. Ron Zikey Han wrote: Hi,all: If a project is not yours.Now you may want to improve it,but so many packages and class.How to find out the flow chart clearly?Do you have software which can convert as package to UML? _

Re: [Flashcoders] limits to AS2 levels of OOP class inheritance?

2007-01-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might want to post some code. At least from the start of the class with the imports to the constructor and the method. The code that calls the shows the error would help. Ron Newsdee wrote: Hi all, A quick OOP question... is there a limit in AS2.0 on how many levels of inheritance can be

Re: [Flashcoders] Multidimensional Object/Array Question

2006-12-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Why would you not put this into an object and make your life simple? The list object has a single property - an array of cats. (list probably should be called cats but that is just a naming thing.) Each cat object seems to have a name property and a note property and an array of medium objects.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Game - Post Encrypted Score toserver sidescript

2006-12-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
I still think that more server side logging will stop hackers more effectively than any thing you can do on the client side if you are going to have to give them the client code. Some server side logic will add to the difficulty without increasing your code very much. A small script that takes t

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Game - Post Encrypted Score to server sidescript

2006-12-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
There was a long discussion about this a while ago. You might try searching the archives or using Google. One of the suggestions was to track the progress of the game rather than just the final score. If you build a small Finite State Machine on the server side and have the client report the

Re: [Flashcoders] Subversion Client on Mac?

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you take advantage of Ant and all of the other little freebees to automate your processes for the whole team, you get a lot of value out of Eclipse. It is so easy to work with, we even use it for sales. At least we know that everyone is working on the latest version of each letter or propos

Re: [Flashcoders] Robust server-side PDF creation from Flash RIA

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
uld be better if you could just generate the PDF directly instead of going through a couple layers of applications. -Andy On 12/20/06, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apache's FOP is probably a good candidate. > It takes instructions in XML and converts them to PDF's.

Re: SV: [Flashcoders] UML Diagram generator

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
Second that. I have used Doxygen with Actionscript or a pretty big RIA. It would be nice if someone wrote a Doxygen preprocessor for ActionScript but it works very well without it and the UML part is really not affected by the minor syntax issues that the preprocessor would address. Ron Nik

Re: [Flashcoders] Robust server-side PDF creation from Flash RIA

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
Apache's FOP is probably a good candidate. It takes instructions in XML and converts them to PDF's. Requires a bit of willingness to play with XML and probably XSLT but will make some pretty fancy stuff. It is free. Ron matt stuehler wrote: All, I'm working on an RIA using Flash. One of the

Re: [Flashcoders] polymorphism question (design)

2006-12-18 Thread Ron Wheeler
I hate to encourage sloppy thinking but sometimes you just have to make some decisions and start. Always look for methods that are getting too complicated. If it is more that 10 lines of code excluding trivial repititions, it is a candidate for some sort of investigation. After 25 lines of cod

Re: [Flashcoders] polymorphism question (design)

2006-12-18 Thread Ron Wheeler
Spec, then design and then code. You are skipping the specification step and trying to get into the design too fast. First, figure out what your object should do. What are the things that it knows and what can you ask it to do? This should be a small number of things typically. At high levels

Re: [Flashcoders] Good External Actionscript Editor for Mac?

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
tMate, or SubEthaEdit, or anything from BareBones really On 12/13/06, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you not get Eclipse? > > http://developer.apple.com/tools/eclipse.html > > That is the best cross-platform, cross-language IDE for Actionscript. > You can al

Re: [Flashcoders] Good External Actionscript Editor for Mac?

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
/13/06, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you not get Eclipse? http://developer.apple.com/tools/eclipse.html That is the best cross-platform, cross-language IDE for Actionscript. You can also run the same development tools as the PC guys so that you can share their ideas more

Re: [Flashcoders] Good External Actionscript Editor for Mac?

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
Can you not get Eclipse? http://developer.apple.com/tools/eclipse.html That is the best cross-platform, cross-language IDE for Actionscript. You can also run the same development tools as the PC guys so that you can share their ideas more easily. Get the ActionScript plug-in from osflash. R

Re: [Flashcoders] How to generate AS2 Code with ArgoUML ??

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
I would like to generate all(a lot at least) of my code in Eclipse. The Java guys get a lot of their stuff done for free, why not ActionScript. If you are really OOP, you mostly need getters and setters done automatically. The real business methods are hard to get written through a modelling too

Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Class seemingly left out of compile

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Wheeler
You might clear the cache. You might also check to see if any other swf has the same class. If flash has a copy of a class from any swf it uses it for all instances. Ron Ian Thomas wrote: Hm. Can't think of anything obvious. Worth checking/recompiling all involved movies (shared libraries

Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the deal with AS3 Math.random?

2006-11-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
Math.random generates psuedo-random numbers. If you want to have something that looks more random, try calling Math.random a random number of times before using the numbers. Use a true random number to determine the number of times to call it in the initial run. Suggestion: the modulus 100 of th

Re: [Flashcoders] Model - Visual - Controler Design Software

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
AS2 Code Better!!! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ron Wheeler Sent: Mon 13/11/2006 15:38 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Model - Visual - Controler Design Software There are frameworks and there are modelling tools. Which are you looking for? If you search the ar

Re: [Flashcoders] Model - Visual - Controler Design Software

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
There are frameworks and there are modelling tools. Which are you looking for? If you search the archives you will finds lots of discussions. Try Google as well. You can also look of the osflash.org site. Jorge Antonio Diaz Gutierrez wrote: Hi everyone. I-m looking for some CASE software th

Re: [Flashcoders] off-display mouse listeners still listen in AS3?

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Wheeler
Have you run into any performance problems running your application? Just imagine how many events are being watched in a RPG game running on a PC. The Flash player may not be as efficient as a game engine but PCs perform a lot of instructions(tens of millions and hundreds of millions) each sec

Re: [Flashcoders] Highscore submit security with independent library

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
Ron Wheeler wrote: On-line gambling applications are possible where single transactions are worth significant amounts of money. You need to think very carefully about the design and be sure that the server can validate the score independently of the client. One possible line of thinking is

Re: [Flashcoders] Flashout not working in eclipse 3.2

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Wheeler
Sorry to take so long to answer this. I wanted to be sure. I had this working on a PC in another part of the world but I had not upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2 on my PC. It works fine with Eclipse3.2. Remember that you have to install asdt first. If you still have trouble ask again. I downloaded my

Re: [Flashcoders] Highscore submit security with independent library

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Wheeler
On-line gambling applications are possible where single transactions are worth significant amounts of money. You need to think very carefully about the design and be sure that the server can validate the score independently of the client. One possible line of thinking is to send the server regu

Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
Another approach would be to create an XML file that contains the data that you want formatted, send it to a server, process it into a PDF using FOP from Apache.org. This is a very flexible solution since you separate the data from the formatting and the output can be PDF, HTML, PCL(HP Printer

Re: [Flashcoders] push info from server to flash?

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
I believe that there is a game coders forum where these kinds of problems are very frequently discussed. I have a client that has built a multiplayer gambling game that works like this. I can only say that it is possible and that it involves the Flash client having an outstanding request to the

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-17 Thread Ron Wheeler
ite text) it looks pretty good. -Andy On 10/16/06, Ron Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are a Java programmer, you will probably find the Eclipse IDE the most comfortable place to work.. You might also be able to make some good suggestions about how to add the Java tools that

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternative IDE for Flash Devel

2006-10-16 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you are a Java programmer, you will probably find the Eclipse IDE the most comfortable place to work.. You might also be able to make some good suggestions about how to add the Java tools that are available under Eclipse to the Flash tools. IMHO while it may be true that Flash is the only ID

Re: [Flashcoders] Project documentation... what workflow and file formats?

2006-10-12 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you are using Mindmanager, you will probably like Compendium. It includes support for transclusion which allows a map of multiple dimensions to be created easily. This eliminates the need for all of the arrows in MindManager. It is FREE and easy to install (can use your existing JVM but inc

Re: [Flashcoders] HTTP Statuscode 206 Partial content

2006-10-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
Given that you have 1 server, one communication line and http server knows all of this, there is not much point in trying to get 100 things happening at once. The http server may be the source of your problem since it may have some settings to limit the number of simultaneous requests from brok

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Remoting - formating date

2006-09-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
It might be easy to get the server to format the date for you. Instead of "select *", select the fields that you want and specify the format for the date to be returned instead of asking for the default. "Select *" is hardly ever a good idea since the dba might alter the structure of the table

Re: [Flashcoders] How do you manage your classes?

2006-09-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
From the site http://tmate.org/svn/ Among applications that may benefit from using JavaSVN are: * IDE's Subversion integrations or standalone Subversion clients; * Content management systems that use Subversion repository to store versioned documents; * Applications that use centra

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime Skinning of a flash app.

2006-09-21 Thread Ron Wheeler
We skin by using an XML file to hold the parameters that control the appearance of the GUI. This is read by the application and it draws the on-screen elements using the information in the XML file. The information can set fonts, colors, sizes, indicate images, tell the GUI which movie clips to

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