Re: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Compiler For MAC OS X

it was worth pointing out (if only for the archives) that advice above is out of date. You can download the cross-platform Flex 2 SDK from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/sdk/ Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster http://dynamicflash.com ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Delegate and [self] Argument

Hi Jeff, In the delegate class from Steve Webster, there is this line: var fullArgs:Array = arguments.concat(self.extraArgs, [self]); I was wondering if anyone knows why there is a reference to self passed to the handler function. Or how might this be useful? This extra argument could cause

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - why no properties in interfaces?

know there is some workaround by using inheritance but that is rather sub-optimal in my opinion. Does somebody know an answer for this and maybe has a good solution? While you can't specify properties in an interface, you can specify getter/setter functions. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster http

Re: [Flashcoders] FlashVars + OOP, Best Practices?

since this isn't an 'is a' relationship. It's also worth noting that the Flex 2 framework has a nice method of abstracting FlashVars via the Application.application.parameters array. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard

Re: [Flashcoders] Encryption Packages

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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Multiplayer System

/ There is also unity from Colin Moock: http://www.moock.org/unity/ -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change

Re: [Flashcoders] PHP :: Dimensions of a SWF file?

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Re: [Flashcoders] Fitting squares into an area

width x height = height x width, why not just: // Calculate max area of each square var area:Number = Math.floor((x * y) / n); // Calculate side length from area var sideLength:Number = Math.sqrt(area); PS. It is Monday, so forgive me if the above doesn't work. -- Steve Webster Head

Re: [Flashcoders] XML-PHP-FLASH

something like AMFPHP to pass a native PHP object structure back to Flash. Otherwise, you're loosing all the meaning inherent in the XML hierarchy. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] offline SWF generation from XML

field with markup, I'd like to generate a SWF with a text field in it, that has the markup offline using the tool rather rather than doing this on the fly at runtime. From this description, swfmill (http://osflash.org/swfmill) is definitely what you need. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster

Re: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string

the value of _global.org.foo.Bar. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string

Hi Chris, var qname:String = org.foo.Bar; var x = new qname (); That won't work. Did you mean: var qname:String = org.foo.Bar; var x = new eval(qname)(); -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string

contain the package names. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] Instantiate a class by string - SOLVED

here: http://dynamicflash.com/classes/ClassFinder.as Regards, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath, apostrophe, XPath's escape chars?

attribute values so that they contain apos; instead of apostrophe characters. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] dumb xml question

... if (child.nodeType == 3) { nodeValue += child.nodeValue; } ...to... nodeValue += child.toString(); Hope this helps! Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] Object path to string

you're looking for. Having said that, of course objects exist only as references, so there might be more than one 'path' to your object. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] PrintJob causes Abort Script error message.

their print settings. Since I very much doubt that this was intended behaviour, I would class this as a bug. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] Inconsistent Constant

beside the point. We define constants in this way... class Test { public static function get SOME_CONSTANT():String { return value; } } ...which works perfectly. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street

Fwd: [Flashcoders] Inconsistent Constant

relevant smilies :o) -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http

Re: [Flashcoders] DataGrid Component Performance

and then responses to the headerRelease event to sort the data. At least that's what we're doing. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] DataGrid Component Performance

that fetching those same records again from the server whenever you needed to sort them would be even less desirable. Never mind - I see now you weren't advocating getting all the rows back, just some magic information that helps you manually sort the array. -- Steve Webster Head

Re: [Flashcoders] crosspost: update your flash-players immediately

seems to be down for me. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] Help with Tree Component

hacking, which I had to do with the Tree component to prevent nodes being closed depending on certain conditions. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. http://www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] Help with Tree Component

On 15 Mar 2006, at 17:38, Steve Webster wrote: James, Thanks for the reply. I was about to have a hernia. I've snooped through as much of this component as I'm willing to bare. If you mean this: tree.addEventListener('itemRollOver', treeListener); tree.addEventListener('itemRollOut

Re: [Flashcoders] Ensuring commercial is played before the video while keeping .FLV external

. Unfortunately, you either have to get used to this kind of situation, or get a big bucket of sand to hide your head in. :o) Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] no method with name 'createClassObject'.

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Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications?

of advice of my own... 6) Use subversion or some other form on source code control Saved my bacon on more than a few occasions! Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] interfaces and objects

IWorldPart (i.e. of a class implementing the IWorldPart interface) cannot be stored in a variable of type Object. I don't have time to test this, but if this really is the case then it's a compiler bug. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street

Re: [Flashcoders] Enhanced stroke is not supported in this player

. Revert to using basic strokes and publish again; that should fix your problem. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] printJob movieclip positioning

that can save you is masking. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http

Re: [Flashcoders] Obfuscation

download accelerator program for Windows will also be able to download the file. Obfuscation is the only way to protect your code, and even then I wouldn't consider it 'almost unbeatable'. -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol

Re: [Flashcoders] Obfuscation

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Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe settings manager usable ?

the next generation, but I don't yet know how these discussions may manifest in new UIs. I'm glad to hear that this is being looked at and discussed. Just knowing that this is happening has reassured me that the current situation will not persist forever. Many thanks, Steve -- Steve Webster

Re: [Flashcoders] Is Adobe settings manager usable ?

thought it was an image, part of a page instructing you on how to open the settings manager on your own computer. I'd be interested to know what the reasons were for the settings manager being on a macromedia web page rather than in a local dialogue box. -- Steve Webster Head of Development

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag Drop Windows - Flash

if screenweaver [1] did/does this, but I know that Zinc [2] does. [1] http://osflash.org/screenweaver [2] http://www.multidmedia.com/ -- Steve Webster Head of Development Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047

Re: [Flashcoders] Bokel's LoaderClass cache issue with Firefox - HELP !

headaches with swf preloading. Check the relevant settings in about:config, quit and restart the browser. Hope this helps! Cheers, Steve -- Steve Webster Interactive Developer Featurecreep Ltd. www.featurecreep.com 14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH 0117 905 5047