Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Lee
By the way Dimitrios, Your Delegate Class wouldn't compile with MTASC. ...com/zefxis/utils/Delegate.as:18: characters 3-12 : type error Local variable redefinition : _func Tony ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

RE: [Flashcoders] flash synchronization

2006-10-20 Thread Wei Xiaobin
Hi, thank Pedro Furtado for your idea. But, what do you mean by local connection? Can I provide the synchronized flash videos via progressive downloading or flash streaming server? A deep discussion would be appreciated. As far as I know, SMIL file can be played by realplayer (and other

Re: [Flashcoders] simulating mouse clicks

2006-10-20 Thread David Rorex
Hi, I researched this extensivly in the past, there is just no good way which works well in all cases, such that it will even work on 3rd party code. If you control all of the code, you can make it foolproof by adding a line of code to each click handler, but this can be time consuming, and not

Re: [Flashcoders] flash synchronization

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Lee
Wei Xiaobin, I think you'd do well to start here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/cpvideo.html Tony ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] Webservices with Zinc and a certificate

2006-10-20 Thread David Rorex
I am pretty sure Zinc has nothing to do with SSL, it is all done by the flash plugin. So it may just work (why not try it to find out?). -David R On 10/19/06, Jim Kremens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting thanks for the reply! I'll look into it. Still, this thing is largely built

Re: [Flashcoders] fileUpload - suprise

2006-10-20 Thread David Rorex
Finally...that was a huge annoyance before, every time I would upload a file it made me mad. I will have to try with the new version when I get a chance. I don't know how they could have missed this the first time around. (Though it is a common windows problem, many dialog boxes are not

[Flashcoders] EmbedFonts = true

2006-10-20 Thread Lieven Cardoen
FlashCoders, If in ActionScript(2.0) I set the EmbedFonts property from a textField to true, I need to put the Font in the library with correct Export Linkage. Right? But how can I make sure that special characters are embedded? I mean, if you select a textField on stage, you can embed

Re: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance

2006-10-20 Thread Dimitrios Bendilas
Thanks for poitning that out Tony. I mostly do games with Flash and haven't used MTASC, so I didn't know it does not compile. Dimitrios - Original Message - From: Anthony Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, October 20,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload using .NET

2006-10-20 Thread postmaster
Hi, safe mode can have an effect on what chmod is allowed to do - you can't chmod a file if safe mode is on and your PHP script is not the owner... Shared hosting? I am not to sure about the mechanism behind FileReference so I don't know how it passes the data to the server, but if it is

[Flashcoders] onMouseup bug?

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Forslund|Lists
Hi all! I've stumbled upon something quite weird, and have searched for an explanation without any success. Consider the following Movieclip hiearchy: Contentclip (with a few images and text fields dynamically attached) - buttonclip I have created a class which when instanced will: -

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
So to get text into the PDF you would need to re-draw it somehow? Hmmm, might be a showstopper for me, but thanks anyway. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders-

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload using .NET

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
a file if safe mode is on and your PHP script is not the owner... This thread was never about PHP was it? Or was that a side question Carl asked? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions ___

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
I realized after I sent that my tone didn't appear to good - it looks like a great product Greg - just trying to figure out how I can use it for a project. How do most people handle text with it? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions

Re: [Flashcoders] onMouseup bug?

2006-10-20 Thread Muzak
onMouseUp is a global function If you have the following: class MyButton extends MovieClip { function onMouseUp() { trace(onMouseUp); } } And put 100 instances on stage. Each time you click and release *anywhere* in you application, you'll get 100 traces. If you want to use mouse events

[Flashcoders] Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Jon Bennett
hi, I'm building a Map application, for which I'm using Fuse to control the zooming etc. I have a series of moviecips, which trigger the zooming, and I need the map to zoom to exact co-ordinates, eg: // set basic map props map._x = 50; map._y = 50; map._xscale = map._yscale = 25; // works as

[Flashcoders] Re: Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Jon Bennett
I cross posted to the Fuse list and got an answer... Unless you quote the value it should be absolute not relative you are right. (btw you can use scale:90 to do both at once) AHH! well, that's probably it then, as these values are currently coming from an XML doc! I tried the values hard

[Flashcoders] Re: Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Jon Bennett
var intRegionX:Number = new Number (objRegionXml.attributes.X); var intRegionY:Number = new Number (objRegionXml.attributes.Y); var intRegionWidth:Number = new Number (objRegionXml.attributes.Width); var intRegionHeight:Number = new Number

[Flashcoders] Twin Cities freelance AS coder needed

2006-10-20 Thread Andrew Sinning
We're looking for a top notch AS coder for an 6+ week job. We'll need to meet face-to-face on a regular basis, so you should live in the TC metro, but you can do the work at your home office. The plan is to rebuild this product --

[Flashcoders] Using a font from a loaded movieclip

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Kodicek
I've got a movieclip loaded into another movie. The clip includes a textfield with an embedded font. I'd like to make use of that font in the parent movie. There doesn't seem to be any way to get the parent to recognise that the font is available: choosing embedFonts = true for the field in the

Re: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

2006-10-20 Thread Janis Radins
check out www.mediaverk.lv/asd it might give you just what you need 2006/10/20, Guntur N. Sarwohadi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello David, You can use flash drawing API. You might use just 2 drawing methods: moveTo(x,y) moves a pointer from where you want to start drawing from and curveTo(cpx,

Re: [Flashcoders] onMouseup bug?

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Mennenoh
You don't need to use hitTest - you can just assign a function to the onRelease event within the constructor: class com.blurredistinction.Mtest extends MovieClip { function Mtest(){ this.onRelease = function(){ trace(this); } } } Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe

Re: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

2006-10-20 Thread Victor Gaudioso
okay, try this: make say this: this.email.sendAndLoad(http://www.yourwebsite.com/sendMail.php;, this.emailResponse, POST); and then run it locally of your hard drive. If it works then put it on the server and try it. Let me know what happens. V - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

2006-10-20 Thread Victor Gaudioso
Sorry, my last reply was in response to someone else's question. Early morning mistake, I apologize. Hope it didn't confuse anyone too bad. V - Original Message - From: Victor Gaudioso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday,

RE: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

2006-10-20 Thread Alain Rousseau
This has been talked about in the Archives I believe ... You could search it , but I remember that to be able to create a ring using the drawing API, you first need to draw the outer circle clockwise and then draw your innercircle counter-clockwise all that inside beginFill and endFill. That's

RE: [Flashcoders] newbie question - drawing a ring

2006-10-20 Thread Alain Rousseau
Speaking of wich, just found it in my inbox ... Here is a link : http://flash-creations.com/notes/dynamic_drawingapi.php#cutoutmask -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Rousseau Sent: 20 octobre 2006 11:49 To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'

[Flashcoders] [Flex] Drag Manager issues in Firefox

2006-10-20 Thread Mims Wright
Hi. I'm having an issue where the DragManager doesn't work in Firefox. Has anyone seen any strange behaviour with dragging components specifically in FF? The drag manager seems to not work when I run a particular flex app in firefox. it works fine in IE and works fine in the flash

[Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources

2006-10-20 Thread info dehash
Hi all I am looking for some AS3/SVG resources in general. In particular I am hoping for some guidlines for predicting how many kb embedding a svg will add to a swf ? I did a quick test just now here http://www.dehash.com/?p=35 and found it to be quite varied. Hope that makes sense -gary

Re: [Flashcoders] onMouseup bug?

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Forslund|Lists
Thanks for the replies! My apologies for not checking how the mouseup event is handled. Coming from many, many years of Director/Lingo work, I simply assumed mouseup to work in a similar manner :) Cheers, Dan On 20 okt 2006, at 17.02, Dave Mennenoh wrote: You don't need to use

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Mennenoh
63K for that monitor? And it's vector? That's useless. A bitmap would be way smaller... Why are svg's so bloated? And why the heck would you want to use them? Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
I've always been told parseInt() is better/more consistent to convert numbers than Number() - I've tried both and always had better results with parseInt(). Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From:

Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread g . wygonik
Hi Jason I didn't take any tone from your post - I try to read them as words and not infer things. If you had said that sucks!, I would have taken it badly ;-) From what I've gathered from users who have contacted me to tell me how they use it, there seems to be a lot of fill out this form

RE: [Flashcoders] Re: simulating mouse clicks

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Aebig
I'm assuming that you have something other than the pointer acting like it has control in the same way as the cursor. I've done this before for some specific circumstances and it required hit collision detection and checking for every possible scenario. - Check for onPress and onRelease and

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources

2006-10-20 Thread jaco - pixeldump
hi, I don't think final filesize is predictable, generally speaking swf tends to be smaller than the relevant svg, but it's not the rule. Smaller filesize is often obtained because of binary format in swf while svg is text format, even gzipped (svgz). For complex svg (e.g. many clipped path,

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
Cool, thanks Greg, that looks like TextFields could be workable (other than the HTML formatting). I'll check out your demo for sure. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
Actually, it seems if you could parse out the tags in the TextFormat of the text field, some HTML could be worked into text formatting in the PDF. inch over and 1 inch down from the top left); Does it have to be inches or could pixel positions be designated? I suppose they could be converted

[Flashcoders] Re: drawing a ring - can I use as motion path

2006-10-20 Thread Wendy Richardson
Here's a bit of a digression - can I draw a ring programatically and use it as a motion path for another MC? Like say I want a planet orbit (and I do) and I want the planet to ride round and round the ring, can I do that with all script? Thanks in advance. Wendy

[Flashcoders] OT: Flash based annual reports

2006-10-20 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Can anyone recommend some links to eye catching Flash based corporate annual reports? Thanks, - Michael M. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] zinc instability

2006-10-20 Thread Ammon Lauritzen
Ok, so I've finally upgraded from the trial to a full licensed version of Zinc. I have a swf that when compiled on this machine segfaults immediately. Other swf's compile just fine, it's only this one file. I uninstalled the trial, the full version, even the mProjector demo that was still

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload using .NET

2006-10-20 Thread Tony Trapp
Jason good point about .net and so easy to use with uploading. Tony... - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:44 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash File Upload using

RE: [Flashcoders] onMouseup bug?

2006-10-20 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Also, you don't need to say this.onRelease inside another function. Just put the following in your class: class MyClass extends MovieClip { function MyClass() {} function onRelease():Void { // do something } }

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: Fuse kit: tweening xscale / yscale += not =

2006-10-20 Thread Jon Bennett
I've always been told parseInt() is better/more consistent to convert numbers than Number() - I've tried both and always had better results with parseInt(). ok mate, looks like parseInt() it is! cheers, jon -- jon bennett t: +44 (0) 1225 341 039 w: http://www.jben.net/ iChat (AIM):

RE: [FlashCoders] Delegates and performance

2006-10-20 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You should look into using MTASC via FLASC to compile your games. Since games are mostly code, you'll save yourself a ton of time by using MTASC. The difference in compile time is astounding. MTASC compiles in about one second when the IDE can take much longer.

RE: [Flashcoders] Converting a comma delimitted list to an array fromMySql

2006-10-20 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
It used to be bad but as of Flash MX 2004, it was improved a bit. Most of the Array methods are slow, though, when compared to other languages. For instance, it's faster to use myArray[x] = val than myArray.push(val). Shift and Unshift are extremely slow. If you need speed for an array that

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Mennenoh
Thanks for the additional info. Using the those four example images just threw me off then, as any one of those images done in swf would be tiny compared to the svg counterpart. Dave - Head Developer www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

[Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

2006-10-20 Thread CL Smoothest
The Web Developer develops, implements, and maintains web applications for a government agency in Washington DC using Cold Fusion. Work will include development of new modules, conversion of conventional database applications and troubleshooting active modules on the internet and intranet.

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: drawing a ring - can I use as motion path

2006-10-20 Thread Muzak
you should look into one of the animation engines/packages available out there: http://www.mosessupposes.com/Fuse/ http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/animationpackage/ Here's an example of a movieclip animated along a curve:

Re: [Flashcoders] zinc instability

2006-10-20 Thread Muzak
http://www.mdmforum.com/forum/index.php or mail them: [EMAIL PROTECTED] regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Ammon Lauritzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:50 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] zinc instability Ok, so

[Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

2006-10-20 Thread CL Smoothest
UPDATED: The Web Developer develops, implements, and maintains web applications for a government agency in Washington DC using Cold Fusion. Work will include development of new modules, conversion of conventional database applications and troubleshooting active modules on the internet and

RE: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Watts
Subject: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed Hi, this is the list admin. This is the wrong list for non-Flash programming job announcements. You might want to use the WAMMO Jobs list instead: http://wammo.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

Re: [Flashcoders] OT: Flash based annual reports

2006-10-20 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
http://www.xcelsius.com/ -- anggie On 10/21/06, Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list... Can anyone recommend some links to eye catching Flash based corporate annual reports? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 SVG embedding resources

2006-10-20 Thread Claus Wahlers
63K for that monitor? And it's vector? That's useless. A bitmap would be way smaller... Why are svg's so bloated? And why the heck would you want to use them? Most likely the authoring tool is to blame. That SVG contains loads of gradient definitions (dunno if they are all absolutely

RE: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion Developer Needed

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Aebig
Of you could try the CF-Jobs list over at houseoffusion.com !k -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CL Smoothest Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:05 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Washington DC Cold Fusion

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Filters - Progressive enhancement for those with the 8+ player?

2006-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
Kevin Cannon wrote: Is it possible to publish a movie as Flash 6, but use the flash filters to add things like drop shadows for those with the Flash 8 or greater plugin? Cedric had a good tip on how to do this in a single file, and Peter discussed the split-file technique as well. But a

Re: [Flashcoders] Exporting from flash to vector format

2006-10-20 Thread g . wygonik
Inches was just what i used in that example. Check out the setNumberFormat() command. You can use all the standards - in,mm,px,pt,cm, etc. :-) This will apply to all drawing commands (even the Flash drawing API commands i override) until you change it again. g. On 10/20/06, Merrill, Jason

Re: [Flashcoders] Boolean question

2006-10-20 Thread Fumio Nonaka
Because a Boolean instance is evaluated as an object. Boolean(object) should return true. var myBool:Boolean = new Boolean(false); var myObject:Object = new Object(); trace([myBool, Boolean(myBool), !myBool, typeof myBool]); // Output: false,true,false,object trace([myObject,

[Flashcoders] Flash player 8 vs. 9 spanish characters

2006-10-20 Thread Howard Nager
Hey there - I have a site which was recently translated in to spanish and now I am having odd character display issues. Accented vowels are showing up (in some cases) as a string of garbage but only in flash player 9, it looks fine when viewed in 8. Before I go nuts trying to debug it - I'm