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

2007-06-07 Thread Scott Whittaker
Hi guys, I haven't had a chance to delve into using AS3 yet, and I know the AS1 and AS3 runtime engines in the Flash 9 player are totally seperate, but is it not possible for AS2 movies to share data with AS3 at all? Surely an AS3 movie can load an AS2 movie into itself and access it's

[Flashcoders] Launch flash player / web browser from ANT on Mac OS X

2007-06-07 Thread Scott Whittaker
Hi guys, I've sussed a reliable build solution for launching apps from an ANT task. First, declare some variables which hold paths to your app: property name=webBrowser location=/Applications/Firefox.app// property name=flashPlayer location=/Applications/FlashPlayer.app// Then use the

Re: [Flashcoders] [ot-ish] Font customization (will pay $ for help)

2006-12-03 Thread Scott Whittaker
Hi Josh, One thing you could try is to keep your special symbols in a seperate font and use HTML formatted text - I assume you are already using HTML text anyway if you include the fonts in different styles. So when you need to display your special symbol, you simply change the font in the HTML

[Flashcoders] Overridden methods not called - AS2 bug?

2006-11-30 Thread Scott Whittaker
Hi guys, I'm having a curious and somewhat annoying problem using overridden methods in a subclass. What I am trying to do is extend the XML class into a new XMLDocument class and the XMLNode class into a DOMNode class in order to add some useful extra methods such as getElementByID,

[Flashcoders] Re: Overridden methods not called - AS2 bug?

2006-11-30 Thread Scott Whittaker
for future additions to the XMLNode class. The problem was caused by copying function properties as well. Excluding function types fixed the issue. Cheers, Scott On 01/12/06, Scott Whittaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm having a curious and somewhat annoying problem using overridden methods