[Flashcoders] is it still broken?

2007-02-23 Thread JRego { IPP }
Maye not ^ (. .) ___ 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 Consulting and

[Flashcoders] Small text in components

2007-02-23 Thread Adrian Lynch
Can anyone suggest a reason for this: http://www.adrianlynch.co.uk/temp/smalltext.jpg The text is super tiny in all teh components. As far as I know, all I did was drag the components onto the stage. I used the resize tool on the buttons and text area but not the drop downs. A stumped Adrian.

[Flashcoders] AS2 Developers wanted - Ipswich UK

2007-02-23 Thread Stu Powell
Hi all, I work as a developer for an established but expanding software house with an impressive client list. We are currently looking for 2 more permanent full time AS2 developers in the Ipswich area (UK). If you are interested in working on fun flash projects for top clients, please get in

[Flashcoders] Rearrange Fields between DataSet and DataGrid

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Kirkham
I have a WebServiceConnector, a DataSet and a DataGrid. I wish to display in the DataGrid only some of the fields that are read in by the WebServiceConnector, and I want the names displayed at the top of the columns to be different from the names used internally within the data. I have just

[Flashcoders] Fwd: use of Flash IDE (or: workflow)

2007-02-23 Thread Andrei Thomaz
(sending again, because I guess that message was lost) hello list, I would like to ask you how much do you work with Flash IDE? How much do the designers you work with can work with it, and how much can you use this work? For example, I can imagine two scenarios, and some others between them:

[Flashcoders] Flash chat and Smiley

2007-02-23 Thread Amandeep Singh
Hi All, Can anyone help me in adding the Smiley feature in a Flash Chat application? Or give me a link where I can find the same. Thanks in advance. Regards, Amandeep Singh ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash chat and Smiley

2007-02-23 Thread Arul Prasad M L
*Jolan SmileyTextField v1.3 *http://flashcomponents.net/components/preview/preview.php?id=372 (http://flashcomponents.net/components/preview/preview.php?id=372) Its in AS1 though. Haven't seen anything better yet. I had to tweak it a lil to get it to work for FP 7+ ... -- Arul Prasad

[Flashcoders] flash games network

2007-02-23 Thread Arseniy Shklyaev
I suggest to every developer of games or other things which are use to be posted on other sites to create their networks. 1. Create a directory on your domain to be used to load files into games - mydomain.com/mynetwork/ 2. Make so each game load different file into it like - mygame.swf loadmovie

[Flashcoders] Which components are used at spiegel.de?

2007-02-23 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, does anybody please know, which Flash components are used at http://www.spiegel.de/static/flash/flashvideo-420-7.swf I've recognized the toolbars and a v2 DataGrid with custom cells, but what are the rest (some tabs)? Are they available anywhere? Regards Alex -- http://preferans.de

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash chat and Smiley

2007-02-23 Thread johann martinache
Hi You could replace the smiley text by an image by using the img tag (only working with htmltext) Example: var sTxt:String = 'HelloWorld :-) !!!'; sTxt = sTxt.split(':-)').join('img src=yoursmileyimagepath.jpg/') trace('sTxt '+sTxt) shoe[box] On 2/23/07, Amandeep Singh [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Collision detection NOT using hitTest()

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff Fox
Hey gang, I have a map movie that needs to test whether two near objects will overlap one another BEFORE I actually instantiate and draw the movie clip, so I need a good object collision test that does not use hitTest(). I have a set of x and y and size properties for each object that I use to

[Flashcoders] can't login to switch back to digest?

2007-02-23 Thread aklist_flash
dunno if it's just me, but after the list was restarted, my digest-mode sub changed to individual emails. I went to http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders but can't log in with my subscribed address and old password. Is there any way to send a command to the list to switch

[Flashcoders] still the click to activate this ActiveX.

2007-02-23 Thread Rodrigo Augusto Guerra
Hi all, I was having some problems with the ActiveX block in IE. Then I used the Adobe's soluiton: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/before_after.html, it worked but I have to do it manually for EACH flash that i have in the screen. but, if I have 15 swf's then I'll have to

[Flashcoders] (no subject)

2007-02-23 Thread Gustavo Duenas
test1 I don't know why this sent me a welcome to the mailing list I'm already on it..am I? Gustavo Duenas ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] MOUSE_DOWN CLICK are not firing on the first mouse click (Flash 9)

2007-02-23 Thread Kalani Bright
*I Dont need help I was writing this and I figured it out so I'm posting it so that other people don't run into the same issue * The error was caused because I had a bunch of text on the stage evidently causing some sort of memory issue probably due to anti-aliasing or something .. though flash 8

[Flashcoders] TEST

2007-02-23 Thread Tom Haschenburger
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[Flashcoders] Do You Need to Clear Intervals in this Case?

2007-02-23 Thread ChrisRM
I have an AS class that accepts a movieclip in the constructor and tells that mc to blink via setInterval(). Now, this movieclip is in an external SWF and loaded into another using MovieClipLoader. So the movieclip is loaded on stage and blinking. If I perform a removeMovieClip on that blinking mc

[Flashcoders] AS 3.0 - Typecast a new Obj instantiated from a library linked class to a 'displayObject'

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Geurts
Hello, So I have a movieClip in the library that is set to Export as a class with the Auto Create Class feature, with the name rotate_sphere. rotate_sphere basically contains a .png that I would like to copy as bitmapData to a new bitmap Object so that I can take advantage of the

[Flashcoders] xml content into flash

2007-02-23 Thread Gustavo Duenas
Hi guys, I was expecting to do somethings for a client but so far I did, it is basically wrong to do complex content in xml, using html. I mean a little html pages with images and description, so far, there is some odd problem with the parser and the image isn't appear as good it should or

[Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Gustavo Duenas
hi, do you kbnow if any browser can see a .flv file without the need of being embeded into a html or flash ? it appears to not. regards Gustavo Duenas ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

[Flashcoders] List changes- Help!!

2007-02-23 Thread JLNCollies
Not sure what happened but I was on the digest version of this list and now I am getting separate messages and my email box is full! How do I change back to digest?? Joan BRBRBR**BR AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's

[Flashcoders] REMOVE

2007-02-23 Thread KAI.HOLLAND
Please get me off this list. UNSUBSCRIBE Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arseniy Shklyaev Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:49 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] flash games network

Re: [Flashcoders] Collision detection NOT using hitTest()

2007-02-23 Thread T. Michael Keesey
Look into flash.geom.Rectangle, specifically the intersects(Rectangle) method. On 2/23/07, Jeff Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey gang, I have a map movie that needs to test whether two near objects will overlap one another BEFORE I actually instantiate and draw the movie clip, so I need a good

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash chat and Smiley

2007-02-23 Thread T. Michael Keesey
Inline images were mentioned, and that's probably the best idea, but these can have weird behavior sometimes. Another option would be to find an emoticon font and use that on special characters, e.g., 'font face=smileyFontx/font'. (Be sure the font is embedded in a TextField somewhere.) The only

Re: [Flashcoders] still the click to activate this ActiveX.

2007-02-23 Thread Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo
I used the javascript available at http://blog.deconcept.com/ swfobject/ and it worked like a charm! xx C. On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Rodrigo Augusto Guerra wrote: Hi all, I was having some problems with the ActiveX block in IE. Then I used the Adobe's soluiton:

[Flashcoders] This is really really really annoying

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Styles
I've reset the password, i've logged in and changed my options to reflect the fact that I WANT A DIGEST (AGAIN) It _seemed_ to accept my request, yet i'm still getting individual messages from the mailing list... this is NOT A DIGEST! I DONT WANT individual messages... I like being part of the

[Flashcoders] Admin - list update

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Watts
Hi, everyone! Per the message I sent out yesterday, the list server had a serious hiccup. The list user database, and all its settings, were corrupted. I was able to reimport the list users, but not their settings. So, if you were on digest, you aren't any more - you'll have to set that

RE: [Flashcoders] List changes- Help!!

2007-02-23 Thread Cindy Ball
Likewise, I am experiencing the same problem. I'd also like to be in the digest version. Thanks, -Cindy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:02 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

Re: [Flashcoders] List changes- Help!!

2007-02-23 Thread Jack H
Same problem here.I checked my settings and I'm suppose to get these emails by digest, not individually. Can the administrator of this email list look into this problem? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday,

Re: [Flashcoders] List changes- Help!!

2007-02-23 Thread Edward Mansouri
Yes this is happening to me too. - Ed Mansouri Ucompass - http://www.ucompass.com Improving the Experience of Online Education Phone: (850) 297 1800 x 706 FAX: (850) 553-9252 On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure

Re: [Flashcoders] This is really really really annoying

2007-02-23 Thread aklist_flash
yeah, me too :( - Original Message - From: Dan Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:33 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] This is really really really annoying I've reset the password, i've logged in and changed my options to

Re: [Flashcoders] List changes- Help!!

2007-02-23 Thread mwmeagher
Ditto... Edward Mansouri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes this is happening to me too. - Ed Mansouri Ucompass - http://www.ucompass.com Improving the Experience of Online Education Phone: (850) 297 1800 x 706 FAX: (850)

[Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Jay Bibby
Hi, I'm at my wits end on this and I don't know where to turn for help. Numerous Google searches have turned up little in the way of anyone encountering a similar issue. I have an interface shell swf that handles the selection, loading and display of various external game swfs within it. All

Re: [Flashcoders] AS 3.0 - Typecast a new Obj instantiated from a library linked class to a 'displayObject'

2007-02-23 Thread Rob Romanek
Hi Dave, I'm not sure you need to be accessing your bitmap via a movieClip. I'm doing something similar but I use the bitmap directly from the library. I se the bitmap up an auto generated class using 'Linkage' i.e. 'myBitmap' then if I need the bitmapData in yourscript simply say: var

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing a Function as Parameter and callfunctionlater

2007-02-23 Thread Andy Herrman
Hmm, I didn't know about that scope chaining stuff, thanks for the link. One question, does the chaining (specifically, the activation object stuff when using inner functions) still apply to AS2 code? I use functions like that for listeners in a *lot* of places, and now I'm worried it's wasting

[Flashcoders] Text Rendering in 9

2007-02-23 Thread Kevin Walker
I've seen instances where text is getting cutoff in Flash Player 9. Is this a 9 player issue or something else? Anyone else witness this? Solutions...? I've seen it on IE6, 7, and Firefox... Kevin Have a

RE: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Harris, Mike
What happens if you put ? and a random number after the name of the swf when you load it? Like, mymovie.swf?343423 Mike This Message (including attachments) is intended only for the identified Recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential or subject to copyright, trade

re: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread johnteal
Sorry, no browser can view an FLV file on its own. However, here's a link to download a free desktop player. You can then drag-n-drop the file onto the player and view your FLV. Hope this helps. http://www.vitalstream.com/tools/player-web.asp John Teal

Re: [Flashcoders] FLV issue within IE7?

2007-02-23 Thread John Dowdell
Charles Parcell wrote: Pathing should not even be an issue. As I stated in my post it works perfectly well via IE6. Caching might also possibly explain the difference...? But in the line of thought... I am building an absolute path to the FLV. As part of this, I make a call to a JS function

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, i had a similar problem last week. In my case, even though _lockroot was on, the second time I loaded a clip, the reference to _root suddenly pointed to the main _root again and not the subroot as it had to. Trace (_root) from the subclip to see whats happening. In my case I lost the

Re: [Flashcoders] Passing a Function as Parameter andcallfunctionlater

2007-02-23 Thread Muzak
AS2 is nothing more than AS1 looking differently ;-) If you're using/relying on inner functions alot, you're doing something wrong. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Andy Herrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Hans Wichman
ps what also might be the case is that you are using static classes, singletons etc and that the whole mumbojumbo is not correctly initialized (or already 'used') the second time around. On 2/23/07, Hans Wichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i had a similar problem last week. In my case, even

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Jay Bibby
Thanks, Mike for the reply. Problem with doing that is the loader then can't seem to find the file... Error opening URL file:///.../puzzle3.swf?487 It was worth a try, though. On 2/23/07, Harris, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you put ? and a random number after the name of

[Flashcoders] XPathAPI recursive XML search

2007-02-23 Thread Tom Klepl
Hi.. I am working on a project currently and I'm using Macromedia's XPathAPI. However, I need to recursively search one of my XML files which is 4 or 5 levels deep. The search I want to perform should return all nodes with a specified name, no matter where they are in the hierarchy.

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Jay Bibby
So I uploaded the same files (with the random query string attached to the filename for loading) to a server and tried it remotely, and the swfs were loaded, and reloaded again -- it did not appear to have fetched it from cache the second time. However, the same problem persists: recursion

RE: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Harris, Mike
Here is another player, that doesn't ask you to fill out a form before downloading. http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated Mike This Message (including attachments) is intended only for the identified Recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential or

[Flashcoders] Admin - list update, part deux

2007-02-23 Thread Dave Watts
It appears that you can now get password reminders and set list status options, such as digest and disabled delivery. If you were having trouble doing this, please try again at your convenience. I apologize for the inconvenience. Again, the URL for this is:

RE: [Flashcoders] This is really really really annoying

2007-02-23 Thread Devine, Rich (Techlink Resources)
Not to state the obvious, but everyone that is replying to the list with a Me Too is just adding to the traffic. I don't think we need to keep responding that we are all having the same issue. Judging by the email sent by the admins earlier, I'm pretty sure, that they know of the problem and are

Re: [Flashcoders] Problem when loading swf a second time

2007-02-23 Thread Jay Bibby
Thanks Hans, _root._name is exactly what I expect in both circumstances. However, yes, the shell uses a GameManager, and a LoadManager, both of which are singletons. Funny thing is, this is my 2nd time around with this shell. I had previously created one for 21 games that worked flawlessly.

RE: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Mango, Connie
I downloaded the fill out the form version and it doesn't work. It looks great, but it doesn't play any .flv's Connie Mango Lead Designer Newsday.com 631-843-3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harris, Mike Sent:

Re: [Flashcoders] XPathAPI recursive XML search

2007-02-23 Thread LMSpam
I believe: XPathAPI.selectNodeList(node,/*/nameOfNode); will return an array of all child nodes with nameOfNode as their nodeName On Feb 23, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Tom Klepl wrote: Hi.. I am working on a project currently and I'm using Macromedia's XPathAPI. However, I need to recursively

Re: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Muzak
Here's mine: http://muzakdeezign.com/flex2/flvplayer9.zip Flex2 + Zinc (win only) Right click to browse for flv or just drag and drop flv on app. I usually just drop flv's on the executable (which is sitting on my desktop) regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Harris, Mike [EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Read a website in a projector file

2007-02-23 Thread Claudio M. E. Bastos Iorio
Is there any form that I could read a webpage in a projector flash file? I tried this in a textarea control: mytextarea.text = getURL(http://www.somesite.com;, _self); But a security message pop ups. The idea is distribute a file that browse only www.somesite.com. Any other idea? Thanks in

RE: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Stephen Smith
Can we get all the emails to stop today? Stephen W. Smith VP Corporate Development RichFX, Inc. 512 7th Avenue, 16th Floor New York, NY 10018 p: (646) 274-3908 f: (646) 274-7302 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] email www.richfx.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Flashcoders] Internet Explorer and CTRL keyboard trapping

2007-02-23 Thread Matt Samet
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knew anything about how to get this to work in IE 6 or 7 (Windows XP or Vista; Flash Player 9): var listener = {}; listener.onKeyDown = function() { var lastKey = Key.getCode(); if(Key.isDown(Key.CONTROL) lastKey == 65) //65 == A {

RE: [Flashcoders] Admin - list update, part deux

2007-02-23 Thread Chanda Dharap
Hi Dave, I hate to do a reply to the whole list! But I've tried to reset my digest setting twice, its not working ! I'm afraid my mailbox is going to get very full over the next day or so.. Maybe I can be taken off the list and put back on when the issues is fixed ? Good luck. -chanda

Re: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Jay Bibby
Stephen, Just go to http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Enter your email address at the bottom next to the button Unsubscribe or edit options On the next page (you may have to enter your password first) scroll down until you see... *Set Digest Mode Make sure that is

[Flashcoders] Help - Are keyboard shortcuts possible for MenuBarcomponent?

2007-02-23 Thread Gareth Hudson
Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem with the MenuBar component in Flash. Using Flash 8 Pro. I've set up a MenuBar as scripted below using XML as the source. The menu works fine apart from the fact that I cannot Tab to it as I can other items in my system. I've removed Flash's built in

Re: [Flashcoders] flv question

2007-02-23 Thread Muzak
Maybe learning how to configure your mail client is not a bad idea ;) - Original Message - From: Stephen Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:51 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] flv

[Flashcoders] [AS3] Timers behaving erratically

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Thompson
I have a class that I instantiate. At some point in the running of my application, I destroy almost every display list object (to disable the application). Later, the user can enable the application, and I recreate all classes. The second time this class is instantiated, the timers don't fire. Any

RE: [Flashcoders] [AS3] Timers behaving erratically

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Thompson
I recreate all classes. To be very clear, I recreate an instance... the classes are the same ;o) ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] [AS3] Timers behaving erratically

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Thompson
classes. The second time this class is instantiated, the timers don't fire. Any reason why this is happening? Actually, nowhere in the application they aren't firing. Here's the code that disables the application: public static function disable(message:String):void { with