Re: [Flashcoders] unsubscribe

2014-09-23 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 23, 2014, at 2:47 PM, William Chadwick wchadw...@gmail.com wrote: To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [Flashcoders] getting data from outside servers

2014-08-11 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
google crossdomain.xml On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Ted Lehr t...@qvine.com wrote: So it seems Flash by default does not allow a movie to get data (say xml) from another server. So if I have a movie on http://www.thissite.com/movie.swf and in that movie I have: var xmlLoader:URLRequest =

Re: [Flashcoders] Html coding: video for iPad and Flash on one page

2014-07-21 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
I have done this for a video player i build that does hundreds of millions of streams / year across platforms and devices. I use SWFObject to attempt to write the flash SWF, and put our html5 rendering code into the callback after the attempt, if the flash failed to write. On Jul 21, 2014,

Re: [Flashcoders] Html coding: video for iPad and Flash on one page

2014-07-20 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
You don't embed QuickTime for iOS, you use the html5 video tag. Whatever solution you use should do that when flash isn't detected. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:36 AM, natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am trying to find a simple way to show video file for

Re: [Flashcoders] static const singleton GC?

2013-09-20 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
Singletons are a horrible design pattern and the fact that they're poorly implemented in as3 should steer you away from using them there. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Paul A. p...@ipauland.com wrote: What if you make the const a var? I don't build my singletons with an

Re: [Flashcoders] (no subject)

2013-05-15 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
is the whitelist still in play? On May 15, 2013, at 3:59 PM, natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi To all problems that Flash has I found new. I tested some flash sites in Windows 8 Metro and found that some pages with flash sites does not play. Adobe.com plays well. What

Re: [Flashcoders] making as3 movie scorm compl

2013-01-15 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
are you actually talking to the mailing list as if it can understand your complaint? or are you talking to its members as if we are sending you the mails ourselves? take this up with the list administrators and refrain from spamming the members that use the list. On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:13 PM,

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3

2012-10-25 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
or you can just turn it into an advanced language. https://github.com/neuromantic/CodeJS/blob/master/doc/README.markdown On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: I'm about to start my first HTML5/CSS3/Javascript job - wish me luck! :) Going

Re: [Flashcoders] PSA: Monocle in open beta

2012-10-25 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
On Oct 25, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Oren B. orensometh...@gmail.com wrote: HOW CAN I UN SUBSCRIBE ALREADY _ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3

2012-10-24 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
anon functions benefit from coding speed and lose all benefits of static typing, this is why they are perfectly suited to javascript and poor tools in as3.0, although i try to avoid them in js also because i prefer code organization over script size -- i let uglify.js take care of that part.

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3

2012-10-24 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
if you were writing as2 without extending classes etc, why arent you just working in JS, its the new hot chick on the block, afterall... On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Your not the only one who has said that about AS2.. lol I know nothing about any

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3

2012-10-24 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
. Karl On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Ross P. Sclafani wrote: if you were writing as2 without extending classes etc, why arent you just working in JS, its the new hot chick on the block, afterall... On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Your

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
i think battery life is paramount to data consumption in mobile, and the bits saved by vector formats have a very high cost in cpu cycles. this is why AIR for iOS tends towards starling / spritesheet methodologies. On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote:

Re: [Flashcoders] Actionscript lives on.

2012-09-17 Thread Ross P. Sclafani
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/optimizing-mobile-performance.html On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net wrote: Jon Bradley skriver: Of static art and of limiting complexity. The moment complex vectors are used, the data requirements balloon and once