RE: [Flashcoders] simulating narrowband connection

2005-12-09 Thread Alistair Miller
I have been using a product called netlimiter. Which does a very good job! The good thing about this is it also lets you limit the connection speed to files ran of local network servers :o) Gives stats and other info as well, I found using this in conjunction with trace plus is a fantastic way

Re: [Flashcoders] [OT] Color Scheme Websites

2005-12-09 Thread mika
exactly Matt, thanks a lot, thats totally it mika 2005/12/9, Adams, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe this? http://www.colourlovers.com/ - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mika Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:27 AM To:

Re: [Flashcoders] Who wants MIDI in the Flash Player?

2005-12-09 Thread Tyler Wright
I know people who know what they're talking about. ;) I've been fortunate enough to work on a project with some amazing developers and experience the difficulty it is to get Flash to communicate with other applications. Thank you everyone for the great response. I will put together a summary

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-09 Thread grant
I've used the flourine pre-alpha, it works fine.. I used it in a demo of ARP extensions (flash RIA) but you can download the .NET piece to look at how it works, was pretty easy and transparently comparable to MM's .NET remoting framework.

RE: [Flashcoders] Convert .FLV to Quicktime

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Mountain
can you import the flv into the flash timeline and just export as quicktime? M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brumm, Mike Sent: 08 December 2005 23:09 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] Convert .FLV to

Re: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug?

2005-12-09 Thread grant
I'm having the same issue even without XPATH, I have a CDATA section in my XML and the text field renders the text and the HTML tags without rendering HTML, if I cut and paste the HTML to a string and set the text field to that it works as expected. I've done this before and it worked,

[Flashcoders] 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread nik crosina
Hi guys I am trying to find the best way forward here... We have to create a 3D looking hotel lobby from which the suer can move into the kitchen, bar, hotel room, etc. Has anyone of you done something similar in 3D and in FLASH, or is this too much pane. I am thinking about skewing photographs

Re: [Flashcoders] License rules when distributing Flash exe files?

2005-12-09 Thread brian groth
You understood my question right. Thanks for the answer /Brian On 12/7/05, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably haven't found anything because if you mean an .exe created from Flash (not THE Flash.exe), then there are no restrictions (of course, as long as you own a legit

Re: [Flashcoders] HTML text font size issue

2005-12-09 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
It´s a limit of the player. And it´s a weird one. I have to write some custom function to find the maximum font site in a text field, if i found a value 81 (empiric value) use the following function to find the divisor: function calcFSize(pSize:Number, pDiv:Number):Number { if

RE: [Flashcoders] External text from XML file including superscript anditalic

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Hiatt
Paul, Did you receive an answer to this question? I am needing to do the same thing with a service mark Thanks Mike Hiatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:01 AM To:

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-09 Thread grant
between flashorb pro, flashorb standard and weborb and the fact their news doesn't link to the item the news is talking about I was a little confused on what to download, is weborb professional for .net the free thing ? I could find a weborb standard in the downloads section... grant -

[Flashcoders] XML to UI control events

2005-12-09 Thread John Grden
Ok, I've looked everywhere I can think for the events to the controls. I just happened to catch that button uses oncommand and that's the ONLY control/event listed. I guessed on menulist (onchange), but I can't seem to guess what checkbox would be. I've tried: oncommand onchange onchanged

[Flashcoders] button width ?

2005-12-09 Thread grant
I have a button that appears as a highlight behind a text field when the user rolls over the button the highlight appears. I want the highlight width to be a little bigger than the textbox so when I populate the text box I measure it and set the width of the button, however this doesn't work,

[Flashcoders] interfaceof

2005-12-09 Thread erixtekila
Hi folks, Is there a way to know if an object belong to a special interface type ? I assume it's compilie time only ? What I'd like is to get the same behavior than instanceof but with interface. Any idea ? Thanks. --- erixtekila http://blog.v-i-a.net/

RE: [Flashcoders] JM Events Calendar v1.2.0

2005-12-09 Thread Ryan Mayer
Just double checking if anyone knows of a calendar script that'll help me solve my issue? Thanks in advance ¬ r. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Mayer Sent: December 8, 2005 1:12 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'

[Flashcoders] Mimic a GIF for SWF Background

2005-12-09 Thread John Giotta
I have a GIF that I'd like to duplicate as my SWF tiled background. However, I'm not having to much luck with it. Are there any decent tutorials for BitmapData? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating narrowband connection

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Hill
I use Charles every day, its indispensible. You can throttle and debug from within Flash, and a number of other very important things. (shameless self plug) http://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=92 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug?

2005-12-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Don't know if this helps, but for html, you set: textArea.html = true; then: textArea.text = thestring; ,but for textField, you set: textField.html = true; then: textField.htmlText = thestring; But you probably knew that. I think that's really confusing the way Macromedia coded that. Guess

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-09 Thread hank williams
I am not a user so I am not an expert on flashorb. But as I understand it, weborb is just the most recent version that, along with handling flash remoting also does ajaxy stuff. I believe the free version is the standard edition. If you cant find the weborb, I think the flashorb standard edtion

RE: [Flashcoders] targeting duplicateMovieClip

2005-12-09 Thread Dominic Fee
Its just a drag function with easing, physics going on Anyone Help? Cheers, Dom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Reinfeld Sent: 08 December 2005 17:34 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] targeting

Re: [Flashcoders] Even odds

2005-12-09 Thread Mattias Johansson
Geeks ;) 2005/12/9, Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, I ran some tests of my own. After repeating it a couple of times, with various outcomes, the trend seems to be that a) the cast is about 10% faster than the equality, and b) the bitwise and is about 10% faster than the modulo. I

Re: [Flashcoders] JM Events Calendar v1.2.0

2005-12-09 Thread Matt Ganz
hi ryan. i have an events calendar component i built in as2 that is xml-driven. i haven't done any fancy skinning or the like but i definitely can hook you up with the script. email me offlist. matt. On 12/9/05, Ryan Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just double checking if anyone knows of a

RE: [Flashcoders] External text from XML file including superscriptanditalic

2005-12-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Italics are easy, just with a i/i tags if you set your textfield to accept HTML and enclose the text in the XML with CDATA tags. Trademark in HTML is usually trade; or #8482- don't know if there is a spec for service mark yet. But I don't think Flash's HTML DOM supports those symbols

[Flashcoders] RE: 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread Adrian Showater
A possible example of the functionality that you are talking about is by IKEA on http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/dreamkitchen/site/default.html They use the Matrix like 3D spinning views for different kitchen designs. If you were to combine FLVs of each hotel room like this, with short transitional FLVs

RE: [Flashcoders] interfaceof

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Hyndman
I know you can do this. var implementsInterface:Boolean = ISomeInterface(objectToTest) != null; You may also be able to use instanceof, but I haven't tried. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of erixtekila Sent: December 9, 2005 10:38

Re: [Flashcoders] interfaceof

2005-12-09 Thread Johannes Nel
instanceof will work at runtime On 12/9/05, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you can do this. var implementsInterface:Boolean = ISomeInterface(objectToTest) != null; You may also be able to use instanceof, but I haven't tried. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Lightweight List Component

2005-12-09 Thread John Giotta
I've seen some List Components that claim to be lightweight, but are they are still too large after compile. I'm looking for more component resources, can everyone help? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] help

2005-12-09 Thread A.J. Simon
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[Flashcoders] List Component --- Multiline

2005-12-09 Thread azsl1326-email
Hello All --- Can someone tell me how I might be able to have the List Component use more than one line (i.e. multiline / wordwrap) for a single entry. I have a limited amount of horizontal space and thus can not have it scroll horizontally indefinitely. Thanks for the assistance.

Re: [Flashcoders] License rules when distributing Flash exe files?

2005-12-09 Thread Derek Vadneau
I would definitely contact Adobe/Macromedia about that. Don't rely on anyone else to tell you what you can and can't do with someone else's product. The Flash player is also included with Flash 8 but you can't simply distribute it how you wish. The EXE you produce with Flash 8 contains the

Re: [Flashcoders] interfaceof

2005-12-09 Thread erixtekila
instanceof will work at runtime Thanks. I should have tested by myself. You're true, instanceof works for extends and inplements. On 12/9/05, Scott Hyndman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you can do this. var implementsInterface:Boolean = ISomeInterface(objectToTest) != null; This was

Re: [Flashcoders] Xpath and HTML tags inside XML bug?

2005-12-09 Thread grant
yes doing that, when I do a trace when I have a CDATA section with hello and bold tags around it (not typing it as it won't be displayed in the flashlist) I see in the text field the hello with the html tags and the same in the trace, if I set a string to hello with bold tags around it and

Re: [Flashcoders] List Component --- Multiline

2005-12-09 Thread John Giotta
You will have to use a Custom Cell Renderer. Here is a simple tutorial: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=B4AED ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] Lightweight List Component

2005-12-09 Thread chall3ng3r
hi, download this chat application (src included), in it i've used ultra fast fully customized list component. i guess MM also picked the trick from it when i submitted it to Flash Exchange. http://www.orison.biz/products/chatmx_web.aspx best, // chall3ng3r // On 12/9/05, John Giotta [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] MovieClipLoader

2005-12-09 Thread dancedrummer
I'm running into a problem that only occurs with Flash8. I have a swf that loads additions swf's with a MovieClipLoader object. The first time I hit the page it works fine. On subsequent tries when the external swf's have been cached in the browser they are not getting recognized as being

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-09 Thread Gabe Varela
There aren't any links to the standard edition on their site anymore. -Original Message- From: hank williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:30 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET I am not a user so I am not an

[Flashcoders] These [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flash 8 Linkage Publish Errors

2005-12-09 Thread varfoo
What the *^%$ is this? **Warning** The linkage identifier 'BoundingBox' was already assigned to the symbol 'com/yellowjacketsoftware/ui/components/Flash UI Components 2/Component Assets/BoundingBox', and cannot be assigned to the symbol 'Flash UI Components 2/Component Assets/BoundingBox',

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading Image _width _height

2005-12-09 Thread Radley Marx
You're loading an outside jpg into Flash. The player needs a moment not only to load the entire image, but also to parse/convert/love the file and display it in Flash. It shouldn't take a full second for this happen, but can take anywhere from one to a few frames (depends on image

RE: [Flashcoders] Loading Image _width _height

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Hyndman
Doesn't MovieClipLoader remove the necessity of this approach if you hook into onLoadInit()? I believe that onLoadInit() is only fired when the loaded image/swf's properties are available. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Radley

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading Image _width _height

2005-12-09 Thread Josh Buhler
Right. you should be able to just use MovieClipLoader.onLoadInit(), which will fire when whatever you loaded is ready to actually be used. - Josh On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Scott Hyndman wrote: Doesn't MovieClipLoader remove the necessity of this approach if you hook into onLoadInit()? I

Re: [Flashcoders] These [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flash 8 Linkage Publish Errors

2005-12-09 Thread Judah Frangipane
Hi Varfoo, Somewhere in your library there is another symbol using the linkage id of BoundingBox. Best Regards, Judah varfoo wrote: What the *^%$ is this? **Warning** The linkage identifier 'BoundingBox' was already assigned to the symbol 'com/yellowjacketsoftware/ui/components/Flash UI

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading Image _width _height

2005-12-09 Thread Radley Marx
just FYI: According to the MM livedoc discussion, MovieClipLoader.onLoadInit() can often be called before the content is loaded. The discussion in based on loading movies instead of images, so I'm not sure if it's relevant to your solution. -radley On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Josh

Re: [Flashcoders] 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread Radley Marx
The simplest approach would be to shoot a series of photos within the space and splice them together so they're seamless. This will allow for x-axis y-axis movement (look left, right, up, down). As for z- axis you could fake it by making hot regions that you can click on, and then

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and ASP.NET

2005-12-09 Thread Dan Thomas
I've taken a look and was pretty impressed but what they say to be offering, however was also a little confused, i downloaded the free edition that supposedly supports remoting with asp.net but it didn't seem to include all the files it said it would. I've joined their yahoo mailing list and

Re: [Flashcoders] These [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flash 8 Linkage Publish Errors

2005-12-09 Thread David Rorex
not just 'somewhere in your library', but it tells you exactly which symbols they are: com/yellowjacketsoftware/ui/components/Flash UI Components 2/Component Assets/BoundingBox is the first one Flash UI Components 2/Component Assets/BoundingBox is the second one. The error seems pretty

[Flashcoders] Re: 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread A.Cicak
If it doesnt have to be flash chose Shockwave nik crosina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys I am trying to find the best way forward here... We have to create a 3D looking hotel lobby from which the suer can move into the kitchen, bar, hotel room, etc. Has

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread Ralph Caraveo
We've done some working merging Flash and Viewpoint. This is a gangsta approach beware...there's quite a huge learning curve but we have a fantastic product...to be released in January. -Ralph -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A.Cicak

[Flashcoders] And these [EMAIL PROTECTED] paths

2005-12-09 Thread Latcho
Now guys, If you make time to answer these questions 2 times, could you point me out of this in a way. My 2nd post since no one seems te hear me. see down. Regards, Latcho aka Stijn A COPY PASTE: / / /Hi their, pretty a newbee but trying hard to go FAMES on 'NIX have ANT working, even executing

[Flashcoders] scrollPane: text spill in IE - remind me??

2005-12-09 Thread Radley Marx
I know this was recently discussed here on the list but can't find it in my archive. Can anyone recall the solution for text spill in the scrollPane component when viewing in Internet Explorer?? thnx =) -radley

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread Jason
If you use Viewpoint, don't you need to install that player on top of the Flash player??? CyanBlue - Original Message - From: Ralph Caraveo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 8:30 PM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders]

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: 3D in Flash

2005-12-09 Thread JesterXL
Aye. But gangsta's don't mind installing multitudes of plugins. It's how we roll, b-otch~! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: 3D in