I'd suggest to use a wrapper movie clip and apply
_yscale = -100
to it instead of textfield itself.
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- Pieter Snoeck wrote:
Hey Ron...what I want to do is generate content in client side flash,
pass it to the server (php or whatever) print this content to an eps,
and return the eps to the client.
thanks
Ron Wheeler wrote:
What exactly do you want to do?
Ron
Gabriel wrote:
Hi everybody...
anybody knows a
I generate the content of the swf on the client app, let's say a free
drawing, then I want to print it to the *server printer* (?).
The point is...I need an eps from a generated content with origin in the
client machine.
You was talking about many free printer drivers, can you point me to
is this suitable?
http://www.franto.com/blog2/as3-cloth-simulation-verlet-algorithm
On 4/3/06, Benjamin Dobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey,
can someone hook me up with some math, ideas or code on how to create the
famous natzke/yugop ribbon effect?
Something like:
I have tried that too ... no luck.
copyOne_mc.textfield_txt.text = something;
copyTwo_mc.textfield_txt.text = something;
copyTwo_mc._yscale = -100;
same result as without wrapping the textfield in a mc
thanks,
pieter
On 4/3/06, GregoryN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd suggest to use a wrapper
Hi! Have you tried SQLXML?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_sqlxml.asp
It allows you to send SQL queries with XML messages, or through normal URLs.
(The latter is probably not very secure.)
hey,
might be a bit of a shot in the dark as i havenìt tried out your code
but i would suggest finding out the .textHeight of your actual text as
the textfield will undoubtedly be bigger than your text, then make any
adjustments based on the difference between textHeight and the ._height
of
Not exactly.
I am looking for a script that simulates sheet of papper movment over
table with good physics and math.
startDrag() is not realy nice looking.
All need is to press and drag the papper with rotation according to
mouse X Y position and a distance. Like real sheet of papper on
polishing
Looks like i'm sticking with using dreamweaver ftp.
Dont want to use 3rd party ftp because its another window i have to use.
Using dreamweaver is ok I suppose, and Dave, I do it the same way you
do currently.
Its a shame studio doesnt have project management that combines
flash/dreamweaver etc,
There's a windows XP setting that auto shuts down when a crash is
detected, it's in system, advanced, startup and recovery, untick
'Automatically restart' - then you'll get to see your blue screen. Lucky
you :D
M
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Okay, I have found the solution!
the font has to be embedded as Anti-alias for animation + auto kern must
be activated.
Greetings,
Pieter
On 4/3/06, Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey,
might be a bit of a shot in the dark as i havenìt tried out your code
but i would suggest finding out
Thanks guys, the flashout spaces issue was the problem.
Right now I've abandoned eclipse/mtasc anyway, deadlines and all.
But now I know how to get it working, I'll look into using it
properly after this project, and explore Ant a bit more too.
On 2 Apr 2006, at 03:06AM, Chris Allen wrote:
Dont want to use 3rd party ftp because its another window i have to use.
If you can somehow launch a script on publish, then using scp with a
pgp/rsa key-pair authentication would be an option because you
wouldn't have to enter a password:
http://google.com/search?q=ssh+authentication
Your
have you tried this one?
http://laco.wz.cz/tween/
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Well.. I am not talking here about Movieclip twening engines.
The basic idea is: press and drag the sheet of papper with _rotation
based in the movement direction
doing some Math with angles sin/ cos..
I am not good at trigonometric functions.
So maybe someone did something like that before.
Hi List,
I've been using xfactor studio's XPath class for AS 2.0 but have been
experiencing some problems with a specific path.
I've got this XML:
?xml version=1.0?
RetrieveContent xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; xmlns:xsi=
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
Hi!
I have a customer who wants falling leafs or herbs (small jpg:s ) to
fall in the foreground of a larger picture. Anyone who has done this,
and fells like sharing a few lines?
I don't really need advice on how to solve the problems involved, think
I could figure something out, but i feel
I need to produce a spider diagram (a 360 deg personnel chart) dynamically
from an XML file in Flash 8. I have built most of it but hitting problems,
mainly with the layout and how to figure out if nodes are going to bump into
other nodes. Has anyone produced this kind of thing before and be up
I've seen a lot of apps like this, very popular in christmas time
(with falling snow) I'm sure Robert Penner has an example somewhere.
You can also try Ultrashock.com.
On 4/3/06, Eskil Janson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I have a customer who wants falling leafs or herbs (small jpg:s ) to
is this ok?
http://www.franto.com/particle/
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What happens if you put the value in a CDATA?
Ron
Yotam Laufer wrote:
Hi List,
I've been using xfactor studio's XPath class for AS 2.0 but have been
experiencing some problems with a specific path.
I've got this XML:
?xml version=1.0?
RetrieveContent
You could probably adapt the page drag mathematics from this article...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/09/03/flashhacks.html
A good book to learn about trigonometry is the Complete Idiot's Guide to
Algebra by W. Michael Kelly - it's very well written and mathematical
Have you looked at SVG as an alternative? You may be able generate this
on the client without the server.
What about PDF.
Have a look at Apache's FOP as a server tool for converting input to
various output formats.
Let me know what you think of these. There may be more ways to skin this
Thanks Franto!
Looks nice. It's a really nice start, and I like the falling motion.
Some wind, a little sqewing, and a little more random rotation,
and you could start feel the smell of autumn...
/Eskil
franto skrev:
is this ok?
http://www.franto.com/particle/
If you just want something simple you can find examples of snow done
with a scrolling image. Not very realistic.
You want to look at particle generators for a more realistic effect.
Ron
Daniel Cascais wrote:
I've seen a lot of apps like this, very popular in christmas time
(with falling snow)
Hi Ron,
I don't see how that should change anything, but in any case I don't
have the option to do so. Even if I omit the value and search only for
//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'ThumbnailFilename'] it will still hang.
Thanks, Yotam.
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GraphViz does this from some very simple input.
I am not sure how easy it would be to take their code and turn it into
Actionscript
You could use it on the server side.
Ron
Kevin Boyd (MMCR) wrote:
I need to produce a spider diagram (a 360 deg personnel chart) dynamically
from an XML file in
i guess you are looking for something like this:
http://www.intentionallies.co.jp
this site is from yugo nakamura. very well scripted.
someday i tried it by myself but unfortunaly didnt get it to work.
my thoughts were this:
on click on a sheet find the distance from the middle and set it to
Yes great stuff on GraphViz, though I do need something more Flash based
because, as usual, only have a couple of days to get this out!
Kevin Boyd
Multimedia Creations Ltd.
www.mmcr.co.uk
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it's particle class, all depends on settings :)
On 4/3/06, Ron Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you just want something simple you can find examples of snow done
with a scrolling image. Not very realistic.
You want to look at particle generators for a more realistic effect.
Ron
Daniel
I've tested it and it just works like a charm. No hangup or anything.
I'm using Flash 8 AS2 by the way and the latest release of
xfactorstudio's XPath
import DepthManagerTest;
import nl.mediamonkey.xml.XMLLoader;
import mx.utils.Delegate;
import com.xfactorstudio.xml.xpath.XPath;
var test = new
yeah that's close...! What you need is a pendulum simulation, where
the clicked point is the pivot, and the centre point is the weight
(centre of gravity). I built something like this for
www.jak2renegade.com, except there was gravity involved too. (check
scene 2). Take out the effects of gravity
B-Line has some charting components and I believe they have a spider plot
one, or something similar
http://www.blinex.com/
MikeG
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I can't get it to work. Saved it as a file, new FLA, still hangs. MX2004, FP7.
On 03/04/06, Bart Wttewaall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've tested it and it just works like a charm. No hangup or anything.
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Another good article on something like that is this --
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.12/12.08/GXRigidBodyDragging/index.html
It's done for some kind of Apple scripting language, but of course the
important part (trigonometry) still holds. That's what I used as a guide
when I
This is probably what you want...
http://hosted.zeh.com.br/mctween/examples/leaves.swf
Gerry
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Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer
What I need is to import the drawing, that's why I choose eps (but the
only real need is that it must be vectorial), Not really to export the
image created by the user, but recreate it on the server side, based on
a few parameters.
I can live without the drawing part.
PDF would be a
This example definitely went straight up to number one on my list!
Thanks a lot,
/Eskil
Gerry Creighton skrev:
This is probably what you want...
http://hosted.zeh.com.br/mctween/examples/leaves.swf
Gerry
...
I do not fully understand what you mean by .net database?
if this is an online project with a budget and php is an option then I
recomend amfphp. or remoting for .net is good.
if this is an offline project then it is possible to connect to .net
facilities via the ExternalInterface.
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Brad,
I've got a lot of experience with both the Flash 8 encoder, as with the
SSqueeze (with the on2 plugin), and have not seen it push an entire
system into reset state.
Have you tried any other CPU intensive application lately ? A crash that
severe using 2 different applications would imply
looks great!
i thought that topic is dead for me. but maybe i give a triy again :)
zeh, would you share the code of your test swf?
thanks in advance.
e
Am 03.04.2006 um 16:11 schrieb Zeh Fernando:
Another good article on something like that is this --
Thanks in reply, guys!
This is exact as I need http://hosted.zeh.com.br/misc/novo2.swf
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Fernando
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I export reports in a excel file from flash writing
the headers like:
response.AddHeader Content-Type,application/xls
response.AddHeader
Content-Disposition,attachment;filename=reporteBitacora.xls
response.AddHeader
Content-Type,application/force-download
response.AddHeader
I have over 20 years of programming experience including at assembler
level, advanced Java, etc, but thanks for trying to put me in my place :-)
There is no error. There is no timeout. Not in the PrintDialog object.
I think the FlashCoders list in general has a silly habbit of saying
Not sure why you would want to use flash for an e-comm site, and this is coming
from a person that tries to use flash all the time even when it isn't
necessarily appropriate.
That being said, we used oscommerce and had a store up and running in less than
a week. I was pretty impressed with
Another good article on something like that is this --
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.12/12.08/
GXRigidBodyDragging/index.html
Here's one of my test SWFs by the way, so you can see what I'm talking
about:
http://hosted.zeh.com.br/misc/novo2.swf
looks great!
i thought that
I'm doing a class that manages a colors palette
I want to select a color and know 10 steps from the
color to White to the color
I have this code that make a gradient from white to
the color that I want and from this color to black
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createEmptyMovieClip(gradiente_mc, 10);
Off the top of my head, I'd say you would want to use it for an e-comm
site because it is rather well suited for that, imho. The persistent
state is perfect for this sort of thing, and allows for the entire
checkout process to happen without browser refresh. As far as security
goes, put it on an
Why do you not recommend using flash for e-commerce?
I'm finishing up a site based off of the book Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL
E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional and I'm am building a flash front
end for it. Why would I want to stick to html when I could have a flash
front end??
Kevin
Sorry if this is totally obvious, but I just want to confirm before I
go making some important and drastic decisions. If I set up FMS2 on a
server that's just connected to a T1 line (getting 1300 kbps each
direction), and I want to stream FLVs that are encoded at 300 kbps,
I'll likely only
Hi Juan,
I had a similar question last year and Andreas Weber provided a perfect
solution:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/htdig/flashcoders/2005-February/131505.html
Andreas Weber
motiondraw.com
hope this helps,
Dunc
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I'm doing a
FWIW
Here is one similar to flashcart, I have not used it.
http://www.flashkart.com/
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Hi,
A minor optimization, but you can drop the Math.sqrt(). I.e.
x^2 y^2 == x y
for all positive values of x and y.
Darren
That's what I actually ended up doing, and it worked out pretty good:
private function getClosest (red1:Number, green1:Number,
blue1:Number):Number {
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
Hi guys,
Unfortunately, this is old news. Flash's private/public modifiers are
compile-time only. Once actionscript is compiled down to bytecode,
everything's public.
If you want to call private methods, you can do it even more easily like so:
_global.com.yourclass.yourMethod()
or, possibly:
I'm having a problem creating an Alert window instance which renders
in a layer depth above all other stage elements.
The Alert window consistently renders behind some other
programatically instantiated movieClip elements. When creating the
Alert, I've tried setting the parent parameter
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
It may be too late, but typically Alert's are created on _root. This is
also how ComboBox's and other popups in the PopUpManager are created.
If you put 1 movieclip on _root, and put you're entire app in it, you should
have no problems. If you creating your own custom movieclips on _root,
Thanks everyone for all the help.
Ryan, I know Flash is still something to belive for many people and that
withouth it should be more reliable on security issues, but I believe it has
changed completely in last years and had developed so much on application
creation, and Rich Internet Application
Ok, let me get this straight:
You don't want to convert a .swf file into a .eps file. You want to export
data generated from within your .swf file into a .eps file?
If it is just vector images you want to export, than I would say go with
SVG, it's XML based, and most vector image tools will read
Except that only works in Flash 8, as the OP mentioned.
Unfortunately there is no way to do this in Flash 7, except for iframe
hacks or similar. I saw a link a year or so ago where someone placed a
transparent HTML iframe over the top of the flash SWF, so the HTML form
looked as though it
Can anyone tell my why the following icon/image appears momentarilyin the top
left of my browser screen when visiting my website: (click link to see
image)http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/CarlosBrems/image.gif Is this
something to do with the OBJECT tag or EMBED tag that Ihave
Assessability and EternalInterface both involve talking to the host
player, so i would not be shocked if these never work... no pun
As far as V2 components.. I have tested my own custom components and
they are working fine, so I'm not sure what the catching point is..
Maybe they will fix
Problem solved, thanks to you!
Alert.show() does return an instance (part 1 of the puzzle), which
can then be forced to the top via the DepthManager (part 2 of the
puzzle), a class I didn't know existed.
Thanks again JesterXL.
On Apr 3, 2006, at 6:05 PM, JesterXL wrote:
It may be too
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