Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-04-03 Thread Grant Cox
Well, I was probably being too harsh with "major bugs", as I can't remember exactly what they were now (it was about 6 months ago I used it). I believe we had the same issue with building - having to reload SW first, but often when reloading it would fail because the process was still running

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-04-03 Thread Darren Cook
> I always had this feeling Flash is not meant to be run for a long period > of time - no one will interact with your Flash movie on browser for 24 > hours continuously, so that's absolutely fine. But can anyone tell me if > you have successfully developed 24/7 app using Flash wrapped in > Zinc/SWF

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-04-03 Thread Darren Cook
Grant Cox wrote: > We just did our first application with a projector app ... Thanks for the interesting real-world comparison of the various projectors. > First I gave Screenweaver OS a go, but it has some major bugs, and > almost no development (well, not on the version 3, apparently they are >

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Geurts
h buy some $700 duct tape (zinc) but don't be surprised when the bugs start rolling in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Cox Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:48 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc,

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread André Goliath
Kenneth, the "News Publisher" (the 24/7 App) acts only as News reader, parser and server. Using SS´s TCP Socket it sends out News feeds in a propitary format to Clients on the Dev. Boxes (also SS Apps) The Server itself does not have any heavy user interaction going on, it only has a Fullscreen Int

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
I have never really seen any memory leak issues, but then I never really built any Flash exe apps until recently. I export to version 8 with this app (why not?) and use Fluorine for the messaging, and all seems hunky dory :) I was using the External API, but I run the same Flash layer as a web ve

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
-Sylvester Sent: 29 March 2006 13:21 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what? I use Flash with a C# backend for a kiosk system. It enables me to provide card scanning, coin mech, note reader, printer and database support. This system is run 24/7 and the onl

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
I use Flash with a C# backend for a kiosk system. It enables me to provide card scanning, coin mech, note reader, printer and database support. This system is run 24/7 and the only issues I get is to do with my C# coding relative to the odd network glitch... Other than that, it stands up to an

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
Have you used Zinc? How do you compare the two? Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Goliath Sent: 29 March 2006 12:46 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what? I´m using an SWF

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-29 Thread André Goliath
I´m using an SWF Studio App 24/7 here at work (kind of XML news ticker/reader) and it works just fine. Regarding the whole discussion, I would recommend SWF Studio. It is realy stable and the developers are allways fast with their responds. They even did a custom implementation of a feature set fr

RE: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Burrer
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 3:10 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what? SWF Studio all the way. The customer support is amazing and the people who

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread André Nachtigall Tessmann
Hello, I`ll start with the development of a big application next week, and we need to use these projectors. I`ll be a commercial product, so i think that it`s very important that i take the right way on the beginning. What you thing guys, should i develop it that i can easily change between proje

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread John Grden
Yeah I have to say, I've been using zinc for xray's wrapper and they were always very responsive to my requests on the forums. But admittedly, even I don't use the EXE version of Xray because of the memory and CPU issues. That being said, I felt like their support was very good and they seem like

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread stacey
SWF Studio all the way. The customer support is amazing and the people who work there are both knowledgable and helpful- rare indeed. > On 3/29/06, Gene Jannece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been reading pros and cons of using Zinc, I started to wonder >> what are the pros and cons of other p

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread Grant Cox
We just did our first application with a projector app like this. Thankfully the target was only for Windows 2000 and XP, but it needed to support nice transparency with non-rectangular windows. First I gave Screenweaver OS a go, but it has some major bugs, and almost no development (well, no

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:32 PM, John Grden wrote: Screenweaver by far IMHO is the best wrapper around. It's now open source and Version4 will be cross platform. It probably IS the best, but if cross-platform is important, then it isn't in the competition yet. Will be great when it is. --

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread John Grden
Screenweaver by far IMHO is the best wrapper around. It's now open source and Version4 will be cross platform. http://www.osflash.org/screenweaver On 3/28/06, Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 28, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Gene Jannece wrote: > > > I've been reading pros and cons of u

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 28, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Gene Jannece wrote: I've been reading pros and cons of using Zinc, I started to wonder what are the pros and cons of other projectors? Cross-platform? Zinc is pretty much the most powerful wrapper for Windows. The problem with Zinc is mostly the Mac version, wh

Re: [Flashcoders] If not Zinc, then what?

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Velevitch
On 3/29/06, Gene Jannece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been reading pros and cons of using Zinc, I started to wonder what are > the pros and cons of other projectors? Flash Magazine did a comparison of projectors. http://www.flashmagazine.com/1095 http://www.flashmagazine.com/1097 It's a li