And when I mean you cannot get rid of a connection to either one, what I mean is
if you load a swf that opens a connection to Camera or Microphone, YOU CAN NEVER
UNLOAD IT, even with stopAndUnload().
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Is you or ain't you a developer?
If you know AS3, and you found an AS2 solution, why don't you port it to AS3?
If you're making an online shop though, might I recommend Flex, which has lots
of great libraries available for e-commerce. Here's a bonus - it's AS3! :)
Helmut Granda wrote:
The question now is, how do files in the library can become so corrupted?
This would help to avoid it I hope.
Because Flash, like a lot of software, ain't perfect.
There's no reliable way to make an image get corrupted. Sometimes, the
corruption is simple, like it says
Everyone forgets their roots. Nobody remembers what it was like when
they were first learning Flash and learning the basics of programming.
Colin Moock forgot his roots when six months ago he wrote an article
about how easy AS3 was to learn and how n00bs should be learning it
right out the
Ashim D'Silva wrote:
Flash is not a toy. You can't pick it up, with no prior knowledge, and
expect to have a app 2 hours later.
---
This is where we part ways. Flash used to be a toy, and, up until Flash 8, it
still could be. Now, with AS3, Flash has ceased to be a child's toy and is now
Creat a function that does the setting on the TextField and call it from
that frame.
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http://blogs.adobe.com/rgonzalez/2006/06/applicationdomain.html
ApplicationDomain is the solution, but even the designer of the class
acknowledges it's tricky. Each choice has mutually exclusive
consequences. Gaia provides an easy way to manage the domain of loaded
swfs, but I can't make it
Move to AS3. ;)
Alexander, Mary wrote:
Does anyone have a solution for AS2?
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On 30 Jun 2008, at 17:11, Sidney de Koning wrote:
there is loads of activity on sam's twitter account
http://twitter.com/SamuelAgesilas
Ugh. His twitter is the reason I hate twitter.
You know why Saffron isn't getting done? Because Sam's got a twitter
account and he's using it. A LOT.
Barry,
FYI, I didn't just throw out an idea and pull some code out of my ass.
I have tackled this exact issue for a client that needed to stop a
stream from downloading when they closed the stream, and couldn't
actually kill streams when the user interaction resulted in spamming new
And it's worth mentioning this works for AS3 Flash Player 9.0.47 only.
It does not work for AS2.
The first link you provided was from 2004 with Flash Player 7.
The second link didn't look like it had any solution.
The third link shows how bad the bug is, and I'm well aware this was
part of
You have to pause() before you close().
Jason Van Cleave wrote:
sounds like a scope issue where you have multiple netstream objects
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Barry Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to fix a bug in a video player.
Selecting a new video to play from a
The only bug with NetStream that I know of is if you're spamming it with
new streams too quickly. The solution is to throttle the requests.
A safe time to wait between changing the streams is 250ms.
It's really simple to write a queueing system that does this. You just
overwrite the same
Just because you CAN do it (as this document is just that,
documentation), it doesn't mean you SHOULD.
I mean, you CAN put underscores in class names. You CAN start class
names with lower case characters. You can make all your variable names
ALL CAPS even if they're not constants. You can
You might want to try following XML standards and best practices by not
using hyphens in XML node or attribute names.
The only time I've seen hyphens in XML is when salespeople and other
laymen end up writing XML schemas. Why they're ever given authority to
do such things is beyond me.
If
http://flasm.sourceforge.net/
Everything you ever wanted to know about AVM1. Have fun seeing how far
down the rabbit hole goes.
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to XML expecting XML not XHTML.
Rich Shupe wrote:
He may be working with a source he can't change, like your parsing HTML
without using CDATA tags.
On 7/2/08 1:56 PM, Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might want to try following XML standards and best practices by not
using hyphens in XML
My point is that the source (XHTML) was following best practices for
XHTML, including using strict mode.
By contrast, the OP's source was XML, but it was not following best
practices, so Flash had some issues with hyphens, which aren't supposed
to be there.
I guess I was just saying that it
Fair enough, Rich. :)
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Why? You already set buttons to _menuButtons. Now you're going to set
it again?
Besides, that ternary is not DRY because you are setting buttons = twice.
However, it can be compacted even more, and in 2 lines, instead of 3, by
reusing clip and a ternary in the var declaration, like so:
Kerry,
You should turn Strict mode on your FLAs in the publish profile
settings. If you click on the language (the place you set your class
paths and if you want Flash to auto-declare stage instances), you should
see a checkbox for strict mode. Turn it on.
The reason you want strict mode
You see that you're declaring clip (and buttons) twice (causing the
error), and as two different types (not causing the error but will cause
another shortly).
Because you want one variable to act as either a Main or Sub, you need
to either cast clip as an abstract version that both of those
Even better, 3 lines.
var clip:* = e.target;
var buttons:Array = _menuButtons;
if (e.target.buttonType == 1) buttons = _subMenuButtons;
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I disagree that switch statements are more readable than if else
statements, at least if you put your braces on their own lines.
if (true)
{
// something
}
else if (true)
{
// something else
}
else if (true)
{
// yet another outcome
}
I don't think either is more readable than the
One thing that nobody who writes switch statements seemed to know (me
included) is you can (and, apparently, should) write them like this:
switch (n)
{
case 0:
{
foo();
break;
}
case 1:
{
bar();
return;
}
case 2:
{
baz();
Because of the way everything in AS2 is centred around the MovieClip
class, in order to create any kind of MVC architecture, which I gather
you are trying to do, it's all about the MovieClip. You can have your
Model be an Object, but your View and Controller classes, and any
other visual
It's a rare bug that is unacknowledged by Macromedia/Adobe.
If you name the package folder that contains your class the same as your
class name (case doesn't matter), AS2 will behave like a dumbass. It
does randomly buggy behavior, and it's impossible to track down what it
is because there's
Also, I'm not sure what you are trying to do with 'this.clip = clip;',
but you cannot instantiate or associate a MovieClip inside an Object
(which Test is), and have successful access to its properties and
methods.
He's using composition, which is sometimes preferable to extending
MovieClip
class net.stevensacks.utils.XML2AS
{
public static function parse(n:Object, r:Object):Void {
var a:Object, d:Object, k:Object;
if (r[k=n.nodeName] == null) r = ((a=r[k]=[{}]))[d=0];
else r = (a=r[k])[d=r[k].push({})-1];
if (n.hasChildNodes()) {
if
This isn't even open for debate.
If you don't run your logic on the server, you have zero security.
End of story.
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In AS3, there is no exclude.xml. Whether this was an oversight or, for
some reason, not possible, you cannot do this in AS3. You can, however,
use the Bridge pattern.
http://www.stevensacks.net/2008/01/23/update-gaia-bridge-pattern-api/
In a nutshell, you:
1. Make an Interface for the
I'd like to let everyone on the list know about the latest major release
of my free, open-source, front-end Flash framework, Gaia.
http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/forum/index.php/topic,542.0.html
Gaia 2.2.0 is a major release and contains many awesome improvements and
upgrades!
First off,
If you put ampersands in attributes, the XML will not parse correctly in
any browser.
Ampersands (and other special characters) should go inside CDATA tags to
maintain valid XML. :)
Cedric Muller wrote:
or you could set an attribute instead of a node
dep value=Fin IT /
I posted this to Flash_tiger but it seems to be down or something, so
I'm xposting it here.
Am I missing something, or is this a bug with the Flash player (9.0.124)?
If you're loading something and during the load you close the browser,
the Flash player spits out an Error #2044, from either
Maybe this will work?
Make two copies of the original MovieClip (if you're loading an image,
load it once into the first clip, then when it's done loading, load it
into the two others) for a total of three.
Mask the left and right pieces to the width you want to show. Mask the
middle
Your textfield is probably set to multiline or something like that.
Anything like a carriage return will cause parseInt to break.
rlyn ben wrote:
need to display number to the resultTxt but when i press the first number it
displays NaN.. when i enter the second number.. it display the number
You can just cast it as int and it will resolve as 0 if it's empty
string or contains non-numeric characters.
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The Flex 3 Debugger is solid.
Patrick J. Jankun wrote:
.. to debug AS3 [NOT AS2!]
Is there any other Debugger then one build in Flash IDE? How do you
guys Debug your Proejcts?
What are the best practices in debugging? What tools should i consider?
Greetings,
Patrick
Juan Pablo Califano wrote:
By the way, in most cases setting a FPS above 30 doesn't make much sense
(bear in mind that a NTSC video signal runs at 30 FPS, and a PAL one at 25
FPS). And it will only worsen frame-dropping problem, if you already have
one.
I'm awfully tired of hearing this
It's not really important to understand the why behind extending Event
in AS3. The reasons become self-evident over time as you use it.
There's no reason not to, so best to just do so.
The only reason you wouldn't is if you spent considerable time to deeply
understand the event system in AS3
This is the first (and, unfortunately, I doubt the last) installment of
my Recruiters Who Spam series.
Michael Bright is a spammer. If he has spammed you, as well, won't you
share your experience? Here's mine.
Michael Bright emailed me twice, and then posted about his position
twice in
Have you tried setting your individual Flash Vars to null?
root.loaderInfo.parameters.someValue = null;
If you tried that and it didn't work, don't use FlashVars if you need
that kind of security. There are many other options to FlashVars.
Ketan Anjaria wrote:
I am using FlashVars in an
Ben has an open source project on Google code that is the evolution of
his old classes called Metaphile.
http://code.google.com/p/metaphile/
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http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/
http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf
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Just wanted to let everyone know I just launched a major release of my
Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash.
http://www.stevensacks.net/2008/04/16/gaia-flash-framework-21-seo-scaffolding/
Gaia 2.1 contains SEO Scaffolding. To find out more about it, check out
my blog post and the wiki. Gaia 2.1
For the record, I never belittled his English, but rather celebrated his
the internet is serious business approach, which actually had a
greater affect on diffusing my frustration than anything else. :)
http://blog.mediacatalyst.com/images/seriousbusiness.jpg
On the AIR tip, here's the thing. Desktop application development is an
entirely different beast than website application development and Flash
website development. You must be extremely conscientious about your
memory management with desktop applications because they might be
running for
No they are not. In fact, their absolute refusal to fix it is the
reason for Grant's post.
If you want it fixed, you're going to have to put pressure on Adobe,
which they have certainly earned with this. Talk about it on every
online forum and blog. Point to Grant's blog entry. Expose the
And just a note here, but the blogosphere is starting to come alive with
people talking about this issue.
Funny that MXNA has been down for the past couple of days.
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Francis Cheng wrote:
Grant's post is helpful because he discusses the issue in such detail,
but it would be even more helpful to have a concrete test case that
exhibits this problem.
Francis,
With all due respect, the Flash team knows about this, and they don't
need any more concrete test
Correct, Muzak. They are affected. You might remember I posted about
this issue last month. I cannot unload a swf that contains an embedded
video on the timeline. The best I can do is stop it.
Muzak wrote:
My guess is that flv's are not affected..
And guessing some more.. external swf's
Let's get down to brass tax.
Grant's post is not some bug report and everyone at Adobe knows it.
Coming on here and trying to downplay it isn't going to get you very far
because people are going to call bullshit. It's a major problem for
Adobe for this to be made public and one reason it
Thanks for the link to Alex Harui's post, Francis.
It unquestionably supports my stance that only advanced developers
should be using AS3 and everyone else (95% of Flash developers) should
stick with AS1/AS2. This issue of not unloading swfs unless you
explicitly turn everything off inside
Also I want to make clear that I am not putting any words into Grant's
mouth. I have not had any discussion with Grant personally on this topic.
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Ha! I never said I make $300,000 a year. Where did you get such a
crazy idea as that? :)
The Flash player team knew they were in a pickle and instead of
providing a way to punt something or forcibly shut it down, they opted
to not say anything and hope that nobody figured it out. That
Laurent, you're my hero! teh internet is serious business INDEED! :)
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Ha!
Paul Andrews wrote:
You're saving them the job. If I were reading this thread I'd wonder
how anyone had ever done anything with Flash.
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Laurent wrote:
what the f**k is a flash player in the universe god damn it!
By the way, Disney just called me, they don't give a s**t...
Kerry Thompson wrote:
Ouch. Ok, I'm old-fashioned, but, please, Laurent, out of consideration for
the more prudish members of the list like myself,
Hi Dave,
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/04/failure_to_unlo.html
Grant Skinner recently blogged about this. Major issue. What's worse is
Adobe really has no intention of fixing it. I believe Grant's blog post
was an intention to put mucho pressure on Adobe by exposing how bad the
Dave,
One thing, though. The documentation states that you absolutely must
remove ALL references inside the swf, including timers, enter frame
listeners, stop playback of sounds, etc., basically do a complete
cleanup, before you can even remove a loaded swf. The issue that Grant
brings up
Your if statement is pointless because defaultSection is ALWAYS less
than maxSection because you're not altering either of those variables.
That being said, this is much faster:
var defaultSection:int = 3;
var maxSection:int = 6;
var i:int = maxSection + 1;
var j:int = defaultSection;
while
Right. I should have set j inside in the if statement each time.
var defaultSection:int = 3;
var maxSection:int = 6;
var i:int = maxSection + 1;
var j:int;
while (i--)
{
trace( i = + i );
if (defaultSection maxSection)
{
j = defaultSection;
while (j--)
{
If you're not actually accessing any of the properties of the MouseEvent
in your listener function, you could do the following:
(...args)
or you could keep it strict and use
(e:MouseEvent = null)
Either works fine, though the second one is explicitly cleaner.
Omar Fouad wrote:
Hi,
I've
I disagree with this approach. It's unnecessary and makes code less
manageable. It's cleaner to set the argument as optional (event = null)
than write another subroutine.
Matt S. wrote:
You might want to separate the functions, so you would have
myFunction(), which you could call from
You can't do any legwork first? This is a Flash list and you're asking
a non-Flash question.
Guess how easy it is to find numerous examples of this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax+modal+dialog
Done.
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Hi list...
Does anyone have a good example URLs of a div
If the display object is checking itself, all you have to do is check to
see if stage == null.
Otherwise, you can see if its parent contains it.
parentClip.contains(dispObj);
that said, i'd still like to know how to determine if a display object
is in the current display list?
Can't you inject that into your xml string?
myXml = ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? + myXml;
Patrick Matte | BLITZ wrote:
I'm saving an xml file with AIR, it works but how can I add ?xml version=1.0
encoding=UTF-8? at the top of the file?
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myString += ?xml delcaration here?;
save(myString, myString.xml);
An XML file is just a text file with a .xml extension.
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Extending DisplayObject to access some of its native functionality (e.g.
event bubbling) seems fine to me, especially if you look at it from the
perspective of EventDispatcher has events and DisplayObject extends
EventDispatcher and adds bubbling functionality. If you need bubbling,
extend
Interfaces can do much more than just help multiple coders stay on
track. In Actionscript 3, they can be used to mimic multiple
inheritance, decrease file size of loaded swfs, and clarify your own code.
Interfaces are simple, but understanding Interfaces and how and when to
use them takes a
try event.currentTarget
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mc.mouseChildren = false;
or
event.currentTarget
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IMO, explaining Event Bubbling as the reason the TextField is the target
is complicating the immediate solution he needs, which is mouseChildren
= false.
Yes, it's Event Bubbling that's causing the target to be the TextField.
To understand Event Bubbling, read about it in the docs, or better
(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,
pbMouseOverListener, true);
scrollableBase.addChild(pb);
}
thanks for your input so far
a
On 31 Mar 2008, at 22:30, Steven Sacks wrote:
IMO, explaining Event Bubbling as the reason the TextField is the
target is complicating the immediate
Take off the true flag for bubbling and set mouseChildren = true.
This should solve your issue.
Er, I meant set mouseChildren = false.
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You can do anything you want in C++. Read the JSFL docs on how to use
C++ to do more complex JSFL stuff.
Hopefully, the time and cost it takes to research it, write the C++,
debug and deploy your solution will be less than the time and cost
savings of importing a Font into a Flash library.
function doSomething
{
var i:int;
for(i=0;i++;i10)
{
}
}
Is functionally identical to this:
function doSomething
{
for(var i:int =0;i++;i10)
{
}
}
Wrong. It's not.
In the latter example, i is not available after the loop. In the first
example, it is.
var i:int;
for (i = 0;
If you want freelance work, here's how you do it.
Make an account on LinkedIn. Get some recommendations.
I get about 10 job offers each week from just that. Some full-time,
some project-based. You're missing out if you're not making yourself
known. :)
Dwayne Neckles wrote:
My
AMFPHP has been around a long time. It's been optimized and optimized
and optimized. RubyAMF is (relatively) new. However, I have not used
it, so I don't know how it performs, but I'm going to take an educated
guess that AMFPHP is faster, more stable and more flexible only because
of its
Valid where? If that's in a class function and i is not a class
variable, then the compiler will complain that you're using an
undeclared variable.
Cory Petosky wrote:
I guess I should have provided an example when I mentioned no block
level scoping. Try this on for size:
for (i = 0; i 10;
A few years ago, I went to work at a company and a guy had written an
AS2 variable height data grid component. It was over 2000 lines of code
in 3-4 classes. It had bugs and it was slow to render. He had been
working on it for over two months.
I sat down and wrote a variable height data
We are programmers, we can't afford Porsches! Better change that
to bike and skate...
You're joking, right? Talented Flash developers are in extremely high demand
right now. Every day I get 3-5 emails from recruiters or companies. It's a
seller's market and people are paying top dollar for
uh.
mySound.loadSound(url, true);
mySound.stop();
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;) ywc
Andrew Sinning wrote:
Don't you think that a bit too obvious? ;-)
Thanks Steven!
Steven Sacks wrote:
uh.
mySound.loadSound(url, true);
mySound.stop();
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http
Here's the #1 way of knowing what's not possible in JSFL.
Open your History Panel (CTRL+F10).
Do something.
If the something you did has a red X in the lower right corner, you
can't do it in JSFL.
x (Create New Font Symbol)
You can't do this with JSFL, unfortunately.
Beginners should not be coding AS3. It's really that simple. AS3
requires a whole new level of strict coding practices and is not for
beginners. Null pointer exceptions are extremely important to catch
because they can cause a Flash app to crash, and the foresight to know
where and how
Instead of writing var myVar:WhateverClass in FlashDevelop, you can just
say new WhateverClass and it will autocomplete it for you. Less to
type, less to erase.
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won't produce a difference in terms of framerate.
If they do, there's something else wrong.
Still, I think we should be glad there are so many alternatives. :)
Zeh
Steven Sacks wrote:
Tweener is proven to be significantly slower than TweenLite, and it's
almost 300% larger (TweenLite is 3k vs
Dwayne Neckles wrote:
ALso
Tweener allows you to tween frames in movieclips WITH easy...
which is pretty darn useful and amazing if you ask me..
I dunno if tweenlite allows that..
Dwayne
TweenLite:
*Frame tweening* - you can tween to any frame in a MovieClip, like
The issue is that in Flash you are using the terrible awful
why-did-Adobe-put-it-in-there publish option of Automatically Declare
Stage Instances. It's the worst thing in the world and causes many
people headaches.
Turn it off. It's the dumbest thing Adobe could have ever made.
SHIFT+F12,
TweenLite and TweenFilterLite are the undisputed kings of Tween
engines. They're the most efficient, best performing and most
lightweight. I distribute them with my Gaia framework. Jack Doyle is
actually working on an improved version of TweenFilterLite right now
which should be released
Do you want to inherit some or all?
If you want to inherit all, have RegistrationPanel extend APanel.
If you want to inherit some, have RegistrationPanel instantiate APanel
and have proxy methods to just the ones you want.
-Steven
Omar Fouad wrote:
List,
I have a MovieClip in my Flash
What you're experiencing is premature enlightenment. - Tyler Durden
The Gang of Four specifically warns about this, and it's important to
acknowledge that it's happening.
When people first learn about design patterns, they will immediately
begin looking for places to apply them. They will
If you want the best performance you can get:
http://lab.polygonal.de/2007/11/26/data-structures-more-on-linked-lists/
His doubly linked list is insanely fast. What I mean is, I had some code
that moved non-sequential items around a list. Using an Array, I could
easily cause Flash to timeout
You could also google flash frameworks. Google is a great tool.
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It is exceedingly rare that the compiler is telling you something is
wrong that isn't. If you're getting an error thrown, like it or not,
you made a mistake somewhere. Flash does what you tell it to do.
Unfortunately, it's not always easy to figure out where the error is
coming from if you
Which is exactly what I told you to do and you brushed me off. :p
Brilliant minds think alike, Jason.
Omar Fouad wrote:
Wow..
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Merrill, Jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this instead, this is how I would do it (you have a few screwy
things in the code
What is nameTF? I don't see it declared in your class. If you are
using Automatically declare stage instances, turn it off. Adobe put
it in there specifically for newbies to code, it's not meant for proper
developers to use.
Keep in mind you need to declare your stage instances as public
FlashDevelop is not, and probably will never be, since it's made
with .NET framework.
FlashDevelop beats every other editor hands down for Actionscript development.
TextMate is great for other languages, and decent at AS, but FlashDevelop is
truly the finest example of what an Actionscript
You can pass any time to seek, but the NetStream will jump to the
nearest keyframe of the FLV.
If you seek(4) and the nearest keyframe is at 7, it will jump to 7. Go
to YouTube to see this happen as you scrub. Some of their videos have
15 second keyframes.
If you've got control over the
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