Re: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Hey Steven, Thanks for your reaction.. we found out the same by now.. and are looking into .NET :S :-D - Original Message - From: Steven Sacks | BLITZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:26 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] [OT] Intermediate level Actionscript developer needed at Singapore

2007-01-05 Thread Arul Prasad M L
Hi, There is a requirement for an intermediate level Actionscript developer ( 2 - 3 yrs of development exp) in our team at my current work place. Skillset expected: - AS2.0 development experience - Good knowledge of OO development methodologies - Experience in XML parsing, Flash V2

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Hey Weyert, It's for a projecter.. It will be shown on a computer of my own.. on a presentation location. At the location users have to have the possibility to switch between boxes and a headphone.. preferable by flash instead of a hardware switch. The only thing running is flash.. so that

[Flashcoders] JOB POSTING: freelance game developer (game engines required)

2007-01-05 Thread Dominic Fee
Hi All Due to the amount of workload we have got on at the moment we are looking for a freelance game developer, to produce / provide existing game engines for a high profile site we are about to start work on. As the games are more 'extras' to the site we are looking an using existing /

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Dennis, This sounds like you won't able to do a Flash only trick. But when it's a project you can indeed make use of .NET you might want to look at the Mixer or SoundMapper functionality which comes with the Multimedia API [1,2, 3, 4] of Windows. This makes it possible to tell to which

[Flashcoders] create drop caps text ...

2007-01-05 Thread kamal Priyashantha
i want to create dynamic text with drop caps, pls anyone can help me ... Thanks. ex: http://www.yearbooks.biz/images/gal_ID-drop-cap.gif Kamal. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] create drop caps text ...

2007-01-05 Thread eka
Hello :) you can begin to read this article : http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000526.php This example explain full justified with flash but you can show a drag tool ... EKA+ :) 2007/1/5, kamal Priyashantha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i want to create dynamic text with drop caps, pls anyone can

Re: [Flashcoders] create drop caps text ...

2007-01-05 Thread kamal Priyashantha
HI EKA, i want to create textfield with drop caps not this one... Thanks On 1/5/07, eka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello :) you can begin to read this article : http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000526.php This example explain full justified with flash but you can show a drag tool ... EKA+

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Hey Weyert, Thanks for taking the time to look into this. We across the same thing.. although it's a b*tch to get .NET running.. We had an old cd laying here.. but that didn't have all the elements.. os you have to download for 24 hours to get a gig of new .net files :-D Again many thanks for

[Flashcoders] Runtime sharing

2007-01-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... This should be a simple question about runtime sharing, but I've never done it before, so I'd like to be sure. Say I make 2 files: source.fla and dest.fla, where source contains the assets I'd like to bring into dest (the fla actually being viewed). In source, I have a bitmap

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Dennis - I Sioux wrote: Hey Weyert, Thanks for taking the time to look into this. We across the same thing.. although it's a b*tch to get .NET running.. We had an old cd laying here.. but that didn't have all the elements.. os you have to download for 24 hours to get a gig of new .net files

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime sharing

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Thomas
Sounds like you've done all the normal things. I believe that the .fla does increase in size (it copies the assets for editing purposes, I think) - but the important thing is that the resulting .swf shouldn't. Have you checked the published .swf sizes? That should set your mind at rest, I hope.

RE: [Flashcoders] Runtime sharing

2007-01-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Yes, just did the test. My mind is now resting. Thanks! Sounds like you've done all the normal things. I believe that the .fla does increase in size (it copies the assets for editing purposes, I think) - but the important thing is that the resulting .swf shouldn't. Have you checked the

RE: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
that ain't that big. Maybe your internet sucks, though. There's only one internet. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

RE: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Mountain
There's only one internet. :) I just the other day got... an Internet...It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Merrill, Jason wrote: that ain't that big. Maybe your internet sucks, though. There's only one internet. :) Details my friend! ;-) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Tor.Kristensen
Oh come now! We all know the interwebs are all online in the pipes of cyberspace that are full of trucks on the information superhighway. And besides, isn't it all just AOL? ;) t ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription

Re: Fw: [Flashcoders] Switching sound between boxes and headphones

2007-01-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Trucks? I thought it were robots? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe

[Flashcoders] XML.onLoad peculiarity

2007-01-05 Thread Miles Thompson
How or why can I have an XML Status Code of 0, but XML.onLoad is not succeeding? My XML.onLoad has a success section, like so .. xmlReceiver.onLoad = function( success:Boolean ) and if there is no success, the else part looks like this: // Otherwise tell the user the vars

[Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread eric dolecki
Greetings algebra hounds, I am looking for a way of dragging clips on a set angle(constrain) (angle as a parameter in a method). I've been looking around for a nice method but haven't found one yet. Does anyone have a system to allow for this? - e.

[Flashcoders] Runtime sharing: best practice

2007-01-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... For a swf, dest.swf posted online, what is the best way to make available all of assets it uses that are imported as runtime sharing from a source.swf? Should I do a loadMovie(source.swf) from within dest.swf? Thanks, - Michael M. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Runtime sharing: best practice

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Michael, If you're using shared assets through the method you described in your earlier email, the Flash runtime should automatically load the shared library without you having to do anything. However, you can only be sure they'll have loaded by frame 2 of dest.swf. You do need to make

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
We investigated this recently. We found the easiest thing to do was create the drag interaction on a clip which has the standard horizontal orientation, and then rotate that clip. Constraining it to a sloped line was possible, but very tough to get smooth. Jason Merrill Bank of America

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Mountain
So y=mx+c doesn't give good results? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 05 January 2007 15:42 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle We investigated this recently.

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
mx+c? Probably should explain yourself. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Mountain Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:04 AM To: Flashcoders mailing

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread eric dolecki
Mike - can you elaborate? On 1/5/07, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So y=mx+c doesn't give good results? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: 05 January 2007 15:42 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread orangeflower
Much like y = mx + b when determining the slope of a line. I think that was algebra... :) - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:11 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on

RE: [Flashcoders] Runtime sharing: best practice

2007-01-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Sounds great, Ian. But, I also want to make a loading progress bar, so what should the progress bar be looking at to measure percentage loaded? Is it just simply getBytesLoaded + total, or do I have to take into consideration in that calculation the assets.swf? - MM Hi Michael, If you're

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Winterhalder
it's not AS notation, 'mx' is actually 'm * x', and the m stands for the slope (i.e., the higher the m the steeper the angle). c is an offset, you won't need it. So, you take the mouse's x position, multiply by your slope, and get the y you want to set the dragged clip to. HTH, Mark On

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
But he's talking about constraining a movie clip to be dragged along a sloped line. Figuring out the actual slope isn't the hard part. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Mountain
Much like y = mx + b when determining the slope of a line. I think that was algebra... :) Exactly - except we always did mx+c at school To put it in laymens terms on a standard graph the eqn for a slope of line is: y=mx+c where y=y value m=gradient of line x=x value c=intersect of line on

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread orangeflower
Very well said... and I was wrong about calculating the slope. m IS the slope. Sorry for that... - Original Message - From: Mark Winterhalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: Re:

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Mountain
OK this is untested but: [as] function limitToSlope(mc, grad, start, end) { if(_xmousestart.x _xmouseend.x){ mc._y = grad*_xmouse+start.y; mc._x=_xmouse } } function drag(){ start=new Object() start.x=point1._x start.y=point1._y;

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
You can project a perpendicular line from the mouse to the target line and then find the intersection. uh huh. Still waiting for someone to explain how to do the constrain part. Mike did say, Using this basic principle you could limit an MC to a slope based on the _xmouse value. - sounds cool,

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Mountain
Tested, slight change: [as] function limitToSlope(mc, grad, start, end) { if(_xmousestart.x _xmouseend.x){ mc._y = (grad*(_xmouse-start.x))+start.y; mc._x=_xmouse } } function drag(){ start=new Object() start.x=point1._x start.y=point1._y;

Re: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Wood-Mitrovski
Merrill, Jason wrote: You can project a perpendicular line from the mouse to the target line and then find the intersection. uh huh. Still waiting for someone to explain how to do the constrain part. Mike did say, Using this basic principle you could limit an MC to a slope based on the

Re: [Flashcoders] create drop caps text ...

2007-01-05 Thread Gregory N
Well, I can't find any existing code for this... So the possible way to go is: 1) create new textfield above the existing one 2) Fill it with one big initial letter 3) Strip the first letter from the main text 4) Place some IMG tag below the cap OR use indents... 5) fix all issues and enjoy ;-)

Re: [Flashcoders] duplicate movieclip with loading image

2007-01-05 Thread R�kos Attila
No, you cannot duplicate anything that was changed/loaded at runtime (including images, child movieclips, variables, etc). The result of the duplication is always an exact copy of the original movieclip symbol (as it presented in the library). You have two options: - you can load your image

Re: [Flashcoders] duplicate movieclip with loading image

2007-01-05 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Tell me please do images always in browser cache? I found today that my browser doesn't do that and it loads the same image as a new. I checked the folder with Temporary files and did not found any swf or images from pages that I visited. How it possible? 2007/1/5, Rákos Attila [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] real time flash interface.

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Andrews
Hi, I'm about to start a new project which will display the workings of a server based system that's manipulating data and passing it between servers. At each stage of the process a flat file is written that indicates a change in status/readiness of the data for the next stage in the process.

Re: [Flashcoders] real time flash interface.

2007-01-05 Thread George
Hi, I think you might could write a simple shell script on server(if unix) to check the update time of that status file, and if it was updated, increase serial number in another file which your Flash client could check (working like a flag), and create another easy read file such as XML

[Flashcoders] Capturing FMS video streams from multiple cameras

2007-01-05 Thread Tomas Lehuta
Hello, does anybody know if it is possible to capture and record video on Flash Media Server from multiple cameras on one system? Our client needs to capture one video at a time but would like to be able to select which camera will capture and record the live stream to FMS. Is Flash capable to

Re: [Flashcoders] duplicate movieclip with loading image

2007-01-05 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you! It can help. I nothing did with my browser and can not understand why it stops caches files. Any idea? 2007/1/5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, you can load your jpg into an mc, then copy pixel using BitmapData class see this:

RE: [Flashcoders] Drag on a specific angle

2007-01-05 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
I did something similar awhile back for a site with a diagonal scrollbar. First, I tried the clip rotation and then rotating a container clip to the inverse rotation method. This created some pretty ugly jaggies which were unacceptable. Second, I did some Flash trickery and created an invisible

Re: [Flashcoders] real time flash interface.

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Andrews
Good point Hans - I hadn't considered that - I've never seen that trick mentioned before. Thank you. Paul - Original Message - From: Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:39 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flashcoders] real time flash interface.

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Andrews
Good idea George. Thank you. Paul - Original Message - From: George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] real time flash interface. Hi, I think you might could write a

[Flashcoders] MultiLanguage Character support

2007-01-05 Thread Rey Peralta
I'm currently working on a mini application that will be importing all it's text from an XML source. It needs to work in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This combination of characters makes for an interesting

Re: [Flashcoders] MultiLanguage Character support

2007-01-05 Thread R�kos Attila
Arial Unicode MS font covers almost the whole Unicode 2.1 character ranges, but it is more than 20MB. It the size matters then use device fonts. Attila ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] attachMovie fails with runtime shared asset

2007-01-05 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... I'm trying to do _root.attachMovie(runtimeShared,runtimeShared,1); where runtimeShared is an asset from another swf that's exported for runtime sharing and dropped into this movie's library as import for runtime sharing. I have found that the attachMovie method *only* works if I

Re: [Flashcoders] MultiLanguage Character support

2007-01-05 Thread Joshua Sera
Tahoma works for Windows machines too. Again, you have to use device fonts, or else your swf is going to be HGE. --- Rey Peralta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently working on a mini application that will be importing all it's text from an XML source. It needs to work in multiple

[Flashcoders] Bug in IE using Scalemode

2007-01-05 Thread William Smith
Whenever I set the scalemode to no scale it messes up the position and covers half the clips in IE. Any ideas? I need to use scalemode since this is for a component that will be on several different sites in several different sizes. ___

[Flashcoders] Tutorial on the flash mx.* classes?

2007-01-05 Thread William Smith
I know the tween class is documented on actionscript.org, but is there much information on any of the other classes? I've been able to piece together a few of them, but there's a lot in there that seem useful but have no doco. ___

[Flashcoders] Problem with BitmapData

2007-01-05 Thread William Smith
Ok so I'm having problems with the bitmap data class. I am creating a marquee of images and duplicating them using the draw method. This works fine locally, but when uploaded it does nothing. I figure it has something to do with the fact the I have all my media on a separate server, but I thought

Re: [Flashcoders] MultiLanguage Character support

2007-01-05 Thread robert
On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Rey Peralta wrote: I'm currently working on a mini application that will be importing all it's text from an XML source. It needs to work in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with BitmapData

2007-01-05 Thread Zeh Fernando
Ok so I'm having problems with the bitmap data class. I am creating a marquee of images and duplicating them using the draw method. This works fine locally, but when uploaded it does nothing. I figure it has something to do with the fact the I have all my media on a separate server, but I thought

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem with BitmapData

2007-01-05 Thread William Smith
Thanks you very much. I think I'll just migrate the code to flash 9. On 1/5/07, Zeh Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so I'm having problems with the bitmap data class. I am creating a marquee of images and duplicating them using the draw method. This works fine locally, but when

[Flashcoders] Is UIEventDispatcher class functioning?

2007-01-05 Thread Fumio Nonaka
Is the UIEventDispatcher class functioning? [1] According to Flash 8 Component Language Reference, the UIEventDispatcher class is mixed in to the UIComponent class. But the main method, UIEventDispatcher.initialize(), does not seem to be called as I inserted a trace() statement in the method to