RE: [Flashcoders] digest

2007-10-25 Thread Ville Walveranta
Will you also set my account to digest? Or better yet, remove my subscription altogether so that I can sign up again as the password that I originally used no longer works (I can't change settings such as the subscription mode). Thanks, Ville Walveranta -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] This is really really really annoying

2007-02-24 Thread Ville Walveranta
I think it takes up to a day to switch from the standard (post-by-post) to the digest mode. Ville ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] Project feedback, anyone?

2006-07-08 Thread Ville Walveranta
Some time ago I took on a project for a client for whom I had previously executed several projects successfully. The Flash project had been attempted by someone else earlier, and abandoned after some 30 lines of actionscript code - it was essentially an animation, nothing more. Their

RE: [Flashcoders] Project feedback, anyone?

2006-07-08 Thread Ville Walveranta
Ryan, Thanks for the response (also, Nik, thanks for your reply)! Looking into this situation after the fact I have found that many companies specifically state that their estimates are really just estimates. They are not basis for final billing unless they spend significant amount of time

RE: [Flashcoders] XPcomponents set

2006-06-28 Thread Ville Walveranta
What is not entirely clear on the website is that the XPComponents are NOT designed to be used as standalone components in YOUR application, but are meant to be used when you build applications using the DEVELOPERS' EXACT framework. We paid for the components but found out very quickly

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3, Flash 9?

2006-06-28 Thread Ville Walveranta
, 2006 20:58 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3, Flash 9? I believe the official word is Sometime in the first half of 2007 -David R On 6/27/06, Ville Walveranta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here know the [tentative] release schedule of Flash 9 Pro (i.e . the IDE

RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-27 Thread Ville Walveranta
Primarily the main formatting characteristics such as font name, size and style if applicable; with embedded/bitmap fonts the style is what it is, of course. Anti aliasing or sharpness likely are not going to make a big difference in the width, and they do not apply anyway with bitmap fonts. You

RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-27 Thread Ville Walveranta
You may be right about sharpness/anti-aliasing :). I only used it with a single font/style, but could see no reason for why I couldn't have defined multiple formats and then pass a format id to the function that 1) populates the metrics field, 2) applies the (appropriate) format, and 3) returns

[Flashcoders] AS3, Flash 9?

2006-06-27 Thread Ville Walveranta
Does anyone here know the [tentative] release schedule of Flash 9 Pro (i.e. the IDE/Studio, not just the plugin) that would take advantage of AS3? Flash Team has been collecting feedback on their wishlist at the below URL..

RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-24 Thread Ville Walveranta
are passed to the auto-sized, off-stage measurement field. Ville -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ville Walveranta Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 13:23 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness I

RE: [Flashcoders] Fjax... does this seem ridiculous to anyone else?

2006-06-23 Thread Ville Walveranta
Yes.. why not use remoting instead? Much cleaner from both the Flash and server perspective. Of course, perhaps with aid of AJAX Flash front-end can be fitted to more back-ends. Ville -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Britton Sent:

[Flashcoders] Numeric Stepper - limiting field length?

2006-06-23 Thread Ville Walveranta
Does anyone here happen to know a way to limit the field length in the V2 numeric stepper component? In TextInput the same can be accomplished fairly easily as every keypress within it broadcasts a change event. Numeric stepper doesn't appear to do so; a change is broadcast only when the focus is

RE: [Flashcoders] Numeric Stepper - limiting field length?

2006-06-23 Thread Ville Walveranta
Never mind.. :) maxChars appears to work for Numeric Stepper the same way it does for TextInput even though it's not in the documentation. Ville -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ville Walveranta Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 22:18

RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-22 Thread Ville Walveranta
I was recently working on a project where .getTextExtent() would have come handy, but like for others, it did not work for me. I dropped the issue at that time, but have been thinking of trying to create an auto-size field off the stage with the same text style parameters as the textInput

[Flashcoders] TextInput text field height

2006-06-21 Thread Ville Walveranta
Hi all, I am having a problem with Flash 8's TextInput component. I have changed the typeface to FFF's Progress bold, a bitmap font. It works fine (sharp and all), except for two issues: 1) letter W is not bold even though all other characters are, and 2) letters with descents such as y or q

[Flashcoders] XP Components gone bad

2006-06-21 Thread Ville Walveranta
I was earlier asking about XP Components. Even though they *seem* very cool, the problem is that programmatic use of them is still a mystery to me. Yes, they can be used with xp.system.Application.Run() as suggested by the documentation. But if you don't want to build the entire app based on XP

RE: [Flashcoders] Good component sets? (was: Re: XP Components gonebad)

2006-06-21 Thread Ville Walveranta
The documenation is detailed, but there is so much stuff in the XP components that the documenation would have to be massive to cover it all. The XP Components documentation is mostly autogenerated (from code) with AS2DOC and while it describes the classes' methods and properties fairly

[Flashcoders] XP Components?

2006-06-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
Arguments aside whether using components is a good idea in the first place :-) I wanted to ask if there are XP Components users in Flashcoders? I'm trying to figure out how they're used from within Actionscript only, and am having trouble in lack of examples. The documentation of XP Components is

RE: [Flashcoders] Eolas fix and backspace key flash bug

2006-06-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
Why do you have to embed Flash applets into pages without help of, say, SWFObject? Ville -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alec Matusis Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 13:49 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Eolas fix and

RE: [Flashcoders] XP Components?

2006-06-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
Yeah, I'm making *slow* progress, partially with help of the examples, partially just trial-and-error. There appears to be a slow-down in responses from ePresenterPlus in recent times. I remember in the past their answers were lightning-fast, but these days it may take a week or two, even with

[Flashcoders] Slowing down the action (problem with a pause)

2006-06-09 Thread Ville Walveranta
I have a piece of code (this is not in a movie but in a class file) that works fine: -- for (var idx = 0; idx graph_coordinates.length; idx++) { if (current_position graph_coordinates[idx][0] graph_coordinates[idx][0] end_point) {

[Flashcoders] Hole-in-a-mask (a reverse mask question)?

2006-06-04 Thread Ville Walveranta
Hello everybody, I've been racking my brain tonight trying to figure out a way to create a reverse mask in Actionscript. I'm working on an application which is entirely object-based; nothing on the stage other than object initialization on the first frame. So everything needs to be programmatic.

[Flashcoders] Re: Hole-in-a-mask (a reverse mask question)?

2006-06-04 Thread Ville Walveranta
Helen, Thanks for that info, it was very helpful! Works perfectly! :) Ville Helen Triolo wrote: If you're using the drawing API to make the mask shape, you can make an inversion of it (to show everything but the mask shape) by giving the commands to draw the overall shape (ie, that