[Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Since this list has gotten rather quite, where are people going to discuss topics and problems. Or ask for help… Thanks and H:)ppy Thanksgiving to everyone, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169

Re: [Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread tom rhodes
I reckon either on a javascript forum or the haxe mailing list :) On 27 November 2014 at 19:10, John R. Sweeney Jr. jr.swee...@comcast.net wrote: Since this list has gotten rather quite, where are people going to discuss topics and problems. Or ask for help… Thanks and H:)ppy Thanksgiving

Re: [Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread erik mattheis
I've done no complex Flash for a couple years and also can find answers to my problems on stackexchange and blogs much easier than a few years ago. On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:10 PM, John R. Sweeney Jr. jr.swee...@comcast.net wrote: Since this list has gotten rather quite, where are people

Re: [Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread Kurt Dommermuth
Hi John, I have no idea where everyone goes to discus flash topics, but I know for me, I depend on StackOverflow.com. A question for you though since you wrote and I know you do a lot AIR. I took it upon myself to leverage WordPress as a CMS platform and use AIR for the mobile front end. AIR

Re: [Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Hi, I’m afraid I won’t be much help to you. I really don’t do any web development anymore. I think the last time was 2013 (maybe). I build pure applications that run on PC/MAC/IOS/ANDROID. They are only use net connections to pull data, but minimally. My games are self-contained, tracking and

Re: [Flashcoders] IOS 8 and Air

2014-11-27 Thread Paul A.
On 19/09/2014 20:11, Paul A. wrote: On 19/09/2014 14:01, Mike Duguid wrote: I have some apps built with air 14 for ios8, initial testing seems to be ok, the only glitch being they now pop up a message about allowing notifications on the first launch (even though the apps don't use

RE: [Flashcoders] Where is everyone

2014-11-27 Thread Cor van Dooren
Due to problems with flashplayer on several devices, I completely switched to HTML5/Javascript/PHP/etc. Goodbye Flash. :-( -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of John R. Sweeney Jr. Sent: donderdag

[Flashcoders] Re: unsubscribe

2014-09-24 Thread Kurt Griffin
Thanks man, that was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. - Kurt Griffin Software Development and Consulting 617.347.7681 http://www.squidfight.com On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:00 PM, flashcoders-requ...@chattyfig.figleaf.com wrote: unsubscribe

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2014-09-24 Thread Jens Struwe
haha!! :five On 24.09.2014 18:10, Kurt Griffin wrote: Thanks man, that was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. - Kurt Griffin Software Development and Consulting 617.347.7681 http://www.squidfight.com On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:00 PM,

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2014-09-23 Thread William Chadwick
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2014-09-23 Thread Kerry Thompson
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Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-21 Thread Dave Watts
I think this question may be in the archives. Have you checked there? Not positive how to get there, just know one exists. Might post your question again as many flash devs are not paying attention to the list as much anymore, but peek in from time to time. They probably just missed it or

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Well, that was unexpected. Then I would say Adobe forums are your best bet Bill. Unless there is still someone here that can help? I wish I knew more or I would. Sry. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Sep 21, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote:

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-21 Thread Rick
Kirupa forums were the place to go a few years ago and luckiky are still maintained. The community was incredible. Forums: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/ Here are some tutorials from the site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/ Good luck Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-21 Thread Bill
Thanks Everyone ~Bill On 9/21/2014 10:26 PM, Rick wrote: Kirupa forums were the place to go a few years ago and luckiky are still maintained. The community was incredible. Forums: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/ Here are some tutorials from the site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/

[Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-20 Thread Bill
So -- what other ActionScript/AS3 lists are still running? Anything else out there? On 9/12/2014 7:26 AM, Bill wrote: I would like to try my question again; FlashPro CS6, using pure .as3 code; I have a 6 column DataGrid. 4 of the columns use the normal TextField, and they work fine. On 2

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-20 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I think this question may be in the archives. Have you checked there? Not positive how to get there, just know one exists. Might post your question again as many flash devs are not paying attention to the list as much anymore, but peek in from time to time. They probably just missed it or

Re: [Flashcoders] IOS 8 and Air

2014-09-19 Thread Paul A.
Well, with IOS 8 released, I tried out those apps I built with CS6 and Air for IOS 3.4. All broken.. :-( Client informed that they better not upgrade to IOS8 and will they require all the apps to be rebuilt for IOS8.. Paul On 14/09/2014 21:31, Paul A. wrote: Any Flash developers

Re: [Flashcoders] IOS 8 and Air

2014-09-19 Thread Mike Duguid
I have some apps built with air 14 for ios8, initial testing seems to be ok, the only glitch being they now pop up a message about allowing notifications on the first launch (even though the apps don't use notifications). What's broken in yours specifically? On 19 September 2014 13:50, Paul A.

Re: [Flashcoders] IOS 8 and Air

2014-09-19 Thread Paul A.
On 19/09/2014 14:01, Mike Duguid wrote: I have some apps built with air 14 for ios8, initial testing seems to be ok, the only glitch being they now pop up a message about allowing notifications on the first launch (even though the apps don't use notifications). What's broken in yours

[Flashcoders] IOS 8 and Air

2014-09-14 Thread Paul A.
Any Flash developers targetting Air on IOS, tested their apps on IOS8? It seems some changes in IOS 8 have upset some native apps. Will I get a stream of phone calls very soon or will everything I've made so far continue to work? I would try it myself but I'd rather wait until the official

Re: [Flashcoders] 1086 syntax error expecting semicolon before leftbrace

2014-09-13 Thread Paul A.
I managed to isolate a small part of the project and copied it to a new project - just to experiment. Running as AS2 lost the problematic error completely. Running again as AS3 saw it restored. Despite the compiler saying that it ignores actionscript attached to symbols, that seems to be the

[Flashcoders] 1086 syntax error expecting semicolon before leftbrace

2014-09-12 Thread Paul A.
On the face of it this is a simple thing to solve, but it's driving me nuts. I am trying to update an AS2 project for a client to AS3. The code naturally contains code all over the place, attached to buttons and on the timeline. The problem for me is that there is a LOT of code disributed

[Flashcoders] Datagrid cell focus

2014-09-12 Thread Bill
I would like to try my question again too; FlashPro CS6, using pure .as3 code; I have a 6 column DataGrid. 4 of the columns use the normal TextField, and they work fine. On 2 of the columns I have set up a custom cell renderer, using the normal *public class MyCellRenderer extends

Re: [Flashcoders] 1086 syntax error expecting semicolon before leftbrace

2014-09-12 Thread Mike Duguid
Saving as .xfl might allow you to search (and possibly replace) through the associated xml files more efficiently than working through a complex .fla On 12 September 2014 12:10, Paul A. p...@ipauland.com wrote: On the face of it this is a simple thing to solve, but it's driving me nuts. I am

Re: [Flashcoders] 1086 syntax error expecting semicolon before leftbrace

2014-09-12 Thread Paul A.
On 12/09/2014 14:30, Mike Duguid wrote: Saving as .xfl might allow you to search (and possibly replace) through the associated xml files more efficiently than working through a complex .fla Good suggestion. I've currently managed to extract all of the actionscript using the MovieExplorer, but

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread John McCormack
I shall attempt a Dr. Who re-juvination (re-incarnation) into a multi-brained octopus! Although I am familiar with how PHP/HTML/JS/CSS work together, its amazing that all these other elements can also work together and that Phonegap can wrap your code the way it does. Thanks very much for

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread John McCormack
Phonegap: Well, I am amazed. Thanks to all. John On 08/09/2014 20:39, James Merrill wrote: Oh it is a spaghetti mix of code. But that's not necessarily evil. Think about it this way, you're not really supposed to be mixing them, they are supposed to be complimenting each other. Your HTML

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread Rick
Phonegap is great until you want to do something out of its parameters. Also, my experience has been: build once, debug everywhere Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:13:40 +0100 From: j...@easypeasy.co.uk To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread tom rhodes
At the end of the day it's still a JS app being run on the device, native will always be faster/more performant. On 9 September 2014 14:34, Rick rickhas...@hotmail.com wrote: Phonegap is great until you want to do something out of its parameters. Also, my experience has been: build once,

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Flash CS6 and/or FlashCC and AIR and they both work great on PC/MAC/IOS/Android. Later, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Sep 9, 2014, at 7:34 AM, Rick rickhas...@hotmail.com wrote: Phonegap is

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread John McCormack
John Is Flash Builder Enterprise kept up to date, as the CC version is? The Flash Builder for CS6 doesn't change. John On 09/09/2014 15:30, John R. Sweeney Jr. wrote: Flash CS6 and/or FlashCC and AIR and they both work great on PC/MAC/IOS/Android. Later, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-09 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Sorry, I do not know. I use the Flash Pro IDE. John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:40 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: Is Flash Builder Enterprise kept up to date,

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-08 Thread James Merrill
I was one of those Flash evangelists that fought the good fight against HTML/JS/CSS for years And I can remember when the iPhone was launched almost 8 years ago and everyone called it the death of Flash. You can debate the merits of Steve Jobs' comments on Flash all day, but the damage was

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-08 Thread John McCormack
James, I would prefer to avoid learning a handful of applications, if possible, though I did follow your link and subscribe to the channel. Thank you. It sounds such a spaghetti mix one has to learn before even attempting to write the app: JS + CSS + HTML5 +Angular +Reactjs +Cordova Flash

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-08 Thread James Merrill
Oh it is a spaghetti mix of code. But that's not necessarily evil. Think about it this way, you're not really supposed to be mixing them, they are supposed to be complimenting each other. Your HTML defines your content, and that's it. Your CSS adds fonts, colors, positioning, and simple

[Flashcoders] AS3 Datagrid question

2014-09-08 Thread Bill
Are folks still using this list? The archives look to end in 2007. Anyone for a Flash Datagrid *DataGridEvent.ITEM_EDIT_BEGIN * not seeming to fire on a Custom cellrendered cell? Thanks Bill ___ Flashcoders mailing list

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-07 Thread John McCormack
That's really encouraging. Great! Thanks On 07/09/2014 02:13, Rick wrote: AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers almost a hundred thousand unique applications on desktops and mobile devices. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app-installs-cross-a-billion.html

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-06 Thread John McCormack
Good point. Thanks John On 05/09/2014 21:43, Henrik Andersson wrote: The problem here is developers not stating what runtime they use for their apps. What can be done is checking existing apps for obvious signs of the runtime. Shouldn't take long for someone to crawl the appstore and check all

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-06 Thread Rick
AIR app installs cross a billion - April 2014 now powers almost a hundred thousand unique applications on desktops and mobile devices. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app-installs-cross-a-billion.html It's such a great platform still - I've been using it to make ios apps with

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread John McCormack
Very comprehensive! I suppose these are the hooks that Microsoft uses when a program crashes. Henrik, I noticed that your subject has AIR native extension. Are you of the opinion that AIR still has a long life ahead of it? I ask because I like AS3 and would like to write some app's for delivery

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread Henrik Andersson
The rumors of Flash dying are overblown. The Flash and AIR runtimes are still great at what they do. Apple pulled a stunt to shame Flash, but the truth is that they just wanted to protect their appstore. They didn't want to kill Flash. They wanted to kill Flash apps in the browser. They have

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
I just have to add, the rumors of Flash dying are overblown, is correct. Flash isn't dying, its already dead. Doesn't matter how good the runtime is, it's hardly used much anymore compared to what it used to be. Sorry, I don't mean to be snarky, but I just don't agree with the Flash isn't dead

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
I never really used Flash much for the WWW. I build applications and Flash is doing great for me. I have over a dozen apps in the iTunes store and 6 of them are now going over to the Android store and dozens, upon dozens are available for PC/MAC. Touchscreens for trade shows, corporate and

RE: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
Well that's great it's going well for you. I personally don't see a lot of Flash-based jobs out there anymore though. But great it's not dead to you. I do miss it. Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect II Bank of America  Global Learning 703.302.9265 -Original

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread John McCormack
There may have been some merit in Apple's battery argument since greater cpu activity, for Flash's vector format, might incur a greater energy cost. Although Flash is having a hard time I was thinking more of using AIR, which I think has more life left in it. The thing is, I have no idea how

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread Henrik Andersson
The problem here is developers not stating what runtime they use for their apps. What can be done is checking existing apps for obvious signs of the runtime. Shouldn't take long for someone to crawl the appstore and check all the apps for the fingerprint of the runtime. John McCormack skriver:

Re: [Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-09-05 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I still get banner jobs believe it or not. Working on one currently. But has become a lot more sparse then before the S. Jobs bandwagon started rolling. Best, Karl Sent from losPhone On Sep 5, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Well that's great

[Flashcoders] Flash FireBug

2014-08-30 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hi All, Don't know how many of you have already seen this but thought it was worth the share. Might help someone down the road. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashfirebug/?src=cb-dl-popular Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash FireBug

2014-08-30 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Thanks Karl. Handy information to keep on file… :) Have a great weekend, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Aug 30, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Hi All, Don't know

[Flashcoders] AIR native extension - Windows debugging

2014-08-28 Thread Henrik Andersson
Ever wanted to play with classics like ReadProcessMemory in Actionscript? Now you can! I have written an ANE that exposes the Windows debugging API for use in ActionScript. It comes with a asdoc reference manual for easy API learning. It allows access to everything you'd expect from a basic

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-27 Thread James Merrill
Instagram uses JSON formatting for their API too. Depending on the data you want to retrieve, you may need to use OAuth. Fortunately they make it pretty easy. Have you considered using PHP to fetch the data you need, and then convert it from JSON to XML? It may be easier to deal with.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-27 Thread Peter Ginneberge
Have you considered using PHP to fetch the data you need, and then convert it from JSON to XML? It may be easier to deal with. Not really, JSON support is built into the Flash player, so can you convert from JSON to AS and back. var data:Object = JSON.parse(jsonData); where

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-27 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
I’m sorry I didn’t state my need better. I know that is what I’ll have to do with Twitter, but I’m not find how to access Pinterest and Instagram to pull the followers of a specific person on each site. I really appreciate your comments… Thanks, John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-27 Thread Peter Ginneberge
Both have API's, so should be documented how to get the data you're after. http://instagram.com/developer/ https://developers.pinterest.com/ On 27/08/2014 22:15, John R. Sweeney Jr. wrote: I’m sorry I didn’t state my need better. I know that is what I’ll have to do with Twitter, but I’m not

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-27 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
I will look into both and thank you so much. Have a good evening, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Peter Ginneberge p.ginnebe...@telenet.be wrote: Both have API's, so should

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hi John, Well, googling twitter api for flash as3 yielded some good results for me. There was this link that looks promising. https://blog.twitter.com/2006/twitter-api-flash-developers Also found this package example.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Hi Karl, Thank you for your links, but unfortunately, I saw all of these and they are dated 2009, 2010 and/or 2012 and use the API v1. That API was retired in May of 2013. I found this from the Twitter Developers pages: We've chosen to throw our support behind the JSON format shared across

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Ah ok. I see. In that case, here you go. Next best thing. http://snipplr.com/view/56283/as3-load-and-access-json-data-example/ Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:51 AM, John R. Sweeney Jr. jr.swee...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Karl, Thank you

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Sorry, I'm not more help. If I didn't have to get this project out by the morning I would. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Aug 26, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Ah ok. I see. In that case, here you go. Next best thing.

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Its cool that we both keep looking at the same links. Started reading that one, when I found out the JSON requirement. The other two are really making me scratch my head. Thanks and good luck on your project, John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive

Re: [Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-26 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Hi, So one else has any experience with Pinterest or Instagram? Thanks, John John R. Sweeney Jr. Senior Interactive Multimedia Developer OnDemand Interactive Inc Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 ___ Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] Pulling data from social media

2014-08-25 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr.
Howdy all, Well my client wants to pull 20 latest feeds from their Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. I’ve already found out that Twitter stopped supporting RSS feeds and retired the REST api v1 and now have the Twitter API v1.1 that is JSON only. Does anyone access Twitter feeds some other

[Flashcoders] Giving dynamic object a custom variable

2014-08-15 Thread Ted Lehr
How can I create a variable in a dynamic object? For example, if I had a movie clip in the library, I could open it up and on the first frame I could give it: var velocityX:Number = Math.random()*10-10; I could then refer to mc.velocityX; How can I create that variable on an object create in

RE: [Flashcoders] Giving dynamic object a custom variable

2014-08-15 Thread Ted Lehr
ugh never mind... sorry -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com on behalf of Ted Lehr Sent: Fri 8/15/2014 2:23 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Giving dynamic object a custom variable How can I create a variable in a dynamic object?

Re: [Flashcoders] Giving dynamic object a custom variable

2014-08-15 Thread Kerry Thompson
It's not that difficult if you do it right. First, I'm not a fan of timeline code except for defining sections, such as stop on a keyframe, and minor control commands like gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay. The rest I like to do in an external ActionScript file. I haven't used the Flash IDE in 3-4

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 =

[Flashcoders] getting data from outside servers

2014-08-11 Thread Ted Lehr
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 = new URLRequest(http://www.thissite.com/data.xml;); Is there anyway around this? T

Re: [Flashcoders] getting data from outside servers

2014-08-11 Thread Mike Starr
enforce coerce (null)var xmlLoader:URLRequest = new URLRequest( http://www.thissite.com/data.xml;); On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:54 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

Re: [Flashcoders] getting data from outside servers

2014-08-11 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Edit the swf to look for a relative path to find its XML. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:54 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

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to HTML

2014-08-08 Thread Cédric Muller
I second the GSAP proposal, and regarding point 3) I never had Haxe rebuild my HTML file, so I am wondering how this happened. Since I told you I would show my tests with HTML5 vs Flash, here they are: FLASH http://www.benga.li/mcd/versailles/banner_de_chili_1600x490.html HTML

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to HTML

2014-08-08 Thread David Cohn
Hmmm... that's very strange re: the HTML file-- but it's definitely getting rebuilt during the build process. Are you modifying the index.html file in the Export/html5/bin directory? Anyway, as I said, this is the least important gripe... I'll take a further look at greensock-- it look

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to HTML

2014-08-07 Thread David Cohn
Hey all, I've been looking a bit at CreateJS and Haxe/OpenFL, and since the question was asked a while ago, and the list is rather slow, I thought I'd share some further thoughts... I've decided to go with CreateJS for now. I was very excited about Haxe, especially from the point of view of

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash to HTML

2014-08-07 Thread Cor van Dooren
I did not follow the entire treat, but maybe you want to look at GSAP from www.greensock.com HTH Cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Cohn Sent: vrijdag 8 augustus 2014 1:46 To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash to HTML

2014-07-31 Thread David Cohn
@Cedric, Finally got a chance to play around a bit with Haxe-- really looks promising! I'm wondering how you approach combining HTML with the more complex Flash-style content-- do you compile your Haxe files and then add the appropriate div's etc into a separate HTML file? I.e. it looks like

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

2014-07-29 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Unfortunately that new code still does not show video on iPad. * I noticed that / is missed in source tag for video and added it but that does not help.* source src=jack_giant_video.mp4 type=video/mp4 */*\n'+ 2014-07-28 21:40 GMT+04:00 Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com: Hi Natalia, Here

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

2014-07-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
That is a relative url. So the videos need to be in the same directory as the javascript file or you need to give it the correct path. Was it my url that didn't work? It worked on my iPhone. I do not have an iPad to test with. Contact me off list and we will finish discussing it. I only posted

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

2014-07-28 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hi Natalia, Here you go. This works for me on my iPhone. I did notice in your code on the link you sent me, there was a number of extra lines and white space. If this happens again from copying from your email, view the source on the live example link provided and copy from there. Live

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

2014-07-27 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Here is the code that I use (thank you Karl) and it works. Maybe it will be useful for somebody. I try now to find way to change look of a controls panel so the panel don't cover bottom of the video and text. If anybody solved this task please give me advice. Thank you for all your help.

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

2014-07-27 Thread Henrik Andersson
This assumes that all mobile devices are incapable of Flash. That's patently false. It also ignores the issue of non-mobile devices that doesn't support Flash. natalia Vikhtinskaya skriver: Here is the code that I use (thank you Karl) and it works. Maybe it will be useful for somebody. I try

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

2014-07-27 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
This one should do the trick. It's device independent. Even checks to see if h.264 video is supported. HTH, !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; head meta

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

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hi Natalia, Looks like this is your best solution and doesn't involve any javascript. video width=100% height=100% controls source src=jack_giant.mp4 type=video/mp4 source src=jack_giant.ogg type=video/ogg source src=jack_giant.webm type=video/webm object data=jack_giant.mp4 width=100%

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

2014-07-25 Thread Henrik Andersson
You got the priorities wrong. He wants to use Flash if possible, with the video as the fallback. Karl DeSaulniers skriver: Hi Natalia, Looks like this is your best solution and doesn't involve any javascript. video width=100% height=100% controls source src=jack_giant.mp4 type=video/mp4

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

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Ah, in that case switch it. video width=100% height=100% controls object data=jack_giant.mp4 width=100% height=100% embed src=jack_giant.swf width=100% height=100% /object source src=jack_giant.mp4 type=video/mp4 source src=jack_giant.ogg type=video/ogg source src=jack_giant.webm

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

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Actually, if you want just flash to play first, then I think it would be set like this. video width=100% height=100% controls object data=jack_giant.swf width=100% height=100% embed src=jack_giant.swf width=100% height=100% /object source src=jack_giant.mp4 type=video/mp4 source

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

2014-07-25 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Yes, Flash is priority. So I use what Karl offer with JavaScript. Solution without JavaScript unfortunately does not work. It would be nice because it is shorter way. 2014-07-25 14:06 GMT+04:00 Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net: You got the priorities wrong. He wants to use Flash if

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

2014-07-22 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you very much for the help. As I understand I use correct code. I don't use different pages for video and flash. I did two blocks on the page. div id=video style=display:none video id=video width=100% height=100% poster=screenshot.png controls=controls preload=none source

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

2014-07-22 Thread James Merrill
Do not sniff for user agents! What will your code do when someone uses the next iPhone? Or if they have opera installed on their amazon fire? You can not predict what user agent strings will look like in the future, and are bound to serve up the wrong content to the wrong people. This problem has

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

2014-07-22 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you for this information. What if I need if support flash{ //code for flash } else { //code for video } How to solve that? 2014-07-22 17:34 GMT+04:00 James Merrill jmerri...@gmail.com: Do not sniff for user agents! What will your code do when someone uses the next iPhone? Or if they

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

2014-07-22 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Well, it may not be the best solution, but technically my code is not sniffing the userAgent the way your implying, it's sniffing for a device name in the userAgent string. Doesn't matter what version of iPhone you have because the name iPhone will always be in the userAgent string for a web

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

2014-07-21 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you very much for this link. But I need a bit different. If browser support HTML5 and Flash it should play Flash. Only platforms that does not support Flash should play video. 2014-07-20 21:55 GMT+04:00 Ruben Quintana ruben.quint...@gmail.com:

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

2014-07-21 Thread Mike Starr
So this looks complicated. A few resources I recommend: Adobe GoLive ActiveX On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ross P. Sclafani ross.sclaf...@gmail.com wrote: I have done this for a video player i build that does hundreds of millions of streams / year across platforms and devices. I use

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

2014-07-21 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Here is what I use, it's simple and works like a charm for me. script type=text/javascript var nAgt = navigator.userAgent; var isMobile = { Android: function() { return nAgt.match(/Android/i) ? true : false; }, BlackBerry: function() { return nAgt.match(/BlackBerry/i)

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

2014-07-20 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Hi I am trying to find a simple way to show video file for devices that don't have Flash Here is the code div id=video style=display:none OBJECT CLASSID=clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B CODEBASE=http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab; WIDTH=900 HEIGHT=575 PARAM NAME=src

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

2014-07-20 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
ok. I use now div id=video style=display:none video id=example_video_1 class=video-js width=900 height=575 controls preload=auto poster=video.png/video /div I tested on Windows - just blank page. It seems does not like style=display:none but I don't know another solition. 2014-07-20 18:42

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

2014-07-20 Thread Micky Hulse
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:41 AM, natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com wrote: I tested on Windows - just blank page. It seems does not like style=display:none but I don't know another solition. I typically use: video poster=foo.jpg width=480 height=360 preload=none controls source

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

2014-07-20 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
I need play video only for iPad and other devices that does not support Flash. Does this code do that? 2014-07-20 19:51 GMT+04:00 Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:41 AM, natalia Vikhtinskaya natavi.m...@gmail.com wrote: I tested on Windows - just blank page.

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