[Flashcoders] Facebook - Flash Developers Group, Manchester, UK. ( just started )

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Matthews
There's a Facebook - Flash Developers Group, Manchester, UK just been started. This could be useful, especially for when you have to much work and need to find someone good in Manchester, UK. I am often asked - who do you know that's freelance in Manchester that are any good, and

[Flashcoders] Linked mcs Containing linked mcs

2007-04-16 Thread pedr browne
Hi there, Have found the following problem... Say I have an mc with a linkage ID (container_mc) and it contains an mc which subclasses MovieClip (child_mc). If I attach container_mc to the stage at runtime and immediately try to call a function in the class associated with child_mc, I cannot.

[Flashcoders] POST with FileReference

2007-04-16 Thread Gilles Roquefeuil
Hello, For an upload, i use FileReference with a comboBox listing the differents directories (ie. images, templates, files, etc.). I want to pass the chosen directory with the upload method. So, as the Flash Help mentions it, i can pass the url to the upload method using POST, which looks

Re: [Flashcoders] POST with FileReference

2007-04-16 Thread Muzak
That's not a POST, that's a GET ;-) So try: $_GET[myDir] The actual FileReference upload information is sent using POST, which, for security reasons, you have no access to. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Gilles Roquefeuil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
HI, It now transpires that the project I am quoting for needs much of it done in Arabic. As it is my first multi language project in Flash are there any issues with that in Flash (I could write an encyclopedia full about Director and its characater set issues) Just got back from

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
Thank you very much, Danny, Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will be sold in the Middle East. Do I remember seeing your name on Director forums a

Re: [Flashcoders] Linked mcs Containing linked mcs

2007-04-16 Thread R�kos Attila
Wait while the onLoad event of container_mc fires - it is called when all child movieclips are initialized. Attila pb Hi there, pb pb Have found the following problem... pb pb Say I have an mc with a linkage ID (container_mc) and it contains an mc pb which subclasses MovieClip (child_mc).

[Flashcoders] Re : memory issue

2007-04-16 Thread Parvaiz Patel
Hi Friends, I have developed the following script for scrolling dynamically loaded content in the movie clip. The script is working fine. I just wanted to know is it consuming lot of memory? Because when I load this movie onto another movie. The first movie become slower. Thanks, PP

RE: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
Thank you very much, Danny, Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will be sold in the Middle East. Do I remember seeing your name on

[Flashcoders] flash mass cpu benchmarking

2007-04-16 Thread Andreas R
Anyone know of a decent way to benchmark the CPU usage of websites heavy with flash advertising? - Andreas R ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-16 Thread Blumenthal, Peter
Thanks all for your responses (and apologies for my tardy reply!) Roy - that's a really interesting idea. I have a couple of follow up questions though please. Were you then loading those SWFs into Director, rather than using a loadMovie to load them into Flash? I assume so, because although I

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
same here, Nik On 4/16/07, Danny Kodicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much, Danny, Yes I thought that this post sank without a trace, lucky you saw it! Fro the moment I jsut needed to know if there were any issues, as I am tendering for an English course DVD that will be

RE: [Flashcoders] Re : memory issue

2007-04-16 Thread Danny Kodicek
Hi Friends, I have developed the following script for scrolling dynamically loaded content in the movie clip. The script is working fine. I just wanted to know is it consuming lot of memory? Because when I load this movie onto another movie. The first movie become slower. Yes:

[Flashcoders] attach an icon in a RSL-imported custom RButton implementation?

2007-04-16 Thread Stefan Thurnherr
Flashcoders, I have a custom radiobutton component (MyRButton.as) that resides in a runtime-shared library (RSL). The component consists of an image and a textlabel, and I'm having problems implementing the image part of the component: Whereas the MyRButton code resides in the RSL.swf, the image

[Flashcoders] scaling/positioning FLVPlayback

2007-04-16 Thread Jason Boyd
I'm new to the FLVPlayback component so sorry if these are trivial questions, but I'm confused about how to create a Flash Video player that doesn't scale the controls when resized. Do I need to explicitly do some 9-point scaling settings somewhere? It's ironic that Flash is based on vector

Re: [Flashcoders] scaling/positioning FLVPlayback

2007-04-16 Thread Muzak
FLVPlayback docs Components Language Reference FLVPlayback Component (Flash Professional Only) http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/3477.html FLVPlayback class Components Language Reference FLVPlayback Component (Flash Professional Only) FLVPlayback class

Re: [Flashcoders] scaling/positioning FLVPlayback

2007-04-16 Thread aaron smith
from the way things are scaling, it sounds like you're opening the swf in the standalone player. Are you using this as a standalone thing, or embedded in a web page.. you can also try: Stage.scaleMode = 'noscale'; On 4/16/07, Muzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FLVPlayback docs Components

[Flashcoders] remoting with as3 (not flex)

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Walters
Is there any class that you know of like RecordSet or ArrayCollection for AS3 only projects (not flex)? I'm looking for a class to handle database query results a little easier. -- Mark Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://digitalflipbook.com ___

[Flashcoders] OT: Salary Questions

2007-04-16 Thread Jordan Snyder
Hello, I'm in Oklahoma City, so it's a bit harder sometimes for me to gauge how much compensation I should receive. If anyone has any comments on the following information, please let me know. I won't disclose my exact salary, but you can email me offlist if you're curious. My title is

[Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Caleb E. Brown
I am experiencing a bug in IE7 with a textfield and anchor tags. This doesn’t seem to be a problem with IE 6 and everything appears fine in firefox, safari, etc. When I set the textfield’s html text to something, give it a stylesheet, and call “autosize,” the rollover no longer works.

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread James Tu
We tried the following: (we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't have require any input fields...we're just displaying Arabic) -Copied Arabic text into a static text field...flash actually reverses the characters. So we copied reversed text a static field. Then when we

Re: [Flashcoders] Scaling Up an Image in Proportion to width or height

2007-04-16 Thread James Tu
I found some code online which I turned into a function... This should give you the scale whether you are scaling up or down. You tell it the area you want your mc to fit into and it will give you a number back...all you have to do is then use that number...example: mc._xscale =

Re: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Muzak
What happens if you take .autoSize out of the onLoad handler? Don't have IE7, so haven't tried it. import mx.utils.Delegate; import TextField.StyleSheet; var path:String = test.css; var tf:TextField; var format:StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet(); function

[Flashcoders] Loading a SWF and calling the caller from that SWF

2007-04-16 Thread John laPlante
I am cross-movie scripting and want to call a method on the loading SWF from the loaded SWF. That is, I have a.swf and I load b.swf into it. I then want to call a.methodX. The other way around is pretty easy. I'm not sure how to get a handle on the calling swf. I've considered calling a

RE: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Caleb E. Brown
it works correctly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:23 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug What happens if you take .autoSize out of the onLoad

Re: [Flashcoders] remoting with as3 (not flex)

2007-04-16 Thread Muzak
DataProvider AS2: mx.controls.listclasses.DataProvider AS3: fl.data.DataProvider In AS2 the DataProvider is a decorator (mixin) for the Array class. mx.controls.listclasses.DataProvider.Initialize(Array); var dp:Array = new Array(hello, world); trace(dp.getItemAt(0)); In AS3 it's

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading a SWF and calling the caller from that SWF

2007-04-16 Thread John laPlante
I find that I am able to refer to the loading swf using _level0[instanceName] if I open the loading swf from a web server. From localHost, that doesn't work. I thought I would have overcome this problem when I added System.security.allowDomain(*) to the loaded swf (i.e., b.swf). I wonder if I

RE: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Caleb E. Brown
Changing it to the onLoad handler doesn't change it. Thanks though. -c -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:23 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug What

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading a SWF and calling the caller from that SWF

2007-04-16 Thread Muzak
Have b.swf dispatch an event and a.swf listen for that event. regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: John laPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Loading a SWF and calling the caller from that SWF

RE: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Caleb E. Brown
Hi matthew, Thanks for helping me look into this. I tried uninstalling and installing as that article suggests but to no avail. Can you tell me, do you see the bug here http://sandboxwin.blenderbox.com/flashplayerbug/ with your version of the flash player in IE7? Thanks for your help.

Re: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Matthew Ganz
what i see is a result of the eolas patent. in IE7, i have to click on your flash movie first and then the rollOver works just fine. implement the eolas fix and you should be fine. i have flash player 8,0,22,0 - Original Message - From: Caleb E. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [Flashcoders] IE7 flash player bug

2007-04-16 Thread Caleb E. Brown
Actually, for me it doesn't work fine once I click on it. The problem persists when clicked on (I have a site I'm working on that is embedded with js where I'm having the problem as well. I just didn't want that to be part of the equation when looking into this bug). It is not the eola

Re: [Flashcoders] Ten Year Flash website

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Carolin
Hi Weyert, So, The 10 year anniversary site was made very closely to the way you have imagined. After lots of consideration, we went for the best looking combination. The earth itself was two .flv's... one going forward and one going in reverse. There was one transition to the higher

[Flashcoders] Printing problem with F player 9.0.45

2007-04-16 Thread jgl
This is what I am talking about: http://thankyouforhelping.com/test/ All I did was simply import a BMP (png) with no effects OR filters. Added a print button with code: on (release) { printNum(0, bmovie); } and no beuno. :( Anyone have any suggestions. People are dying. Apps are

Re: [Flashcoders] flash and Arabic

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
So Adobe Director is not alone in behaving oddly with fonts, char sets and languages ... ... that makes me really look forward to that project now ;) Thanks, Nik Crosina On 4/16/07, James Tu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tried the following: (we're embedding fonts in all cases, also we don't

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing problem with F player 9.0.45

2007-04-16 Thread Hans Wichman
Hi, check http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31573rl=1 and specifically: *CAUTION* The print and printNum actions do not print alpha channels, bitmaps, or color effects. There was a post a couple weeks ago about printing a movieclip, check it out. I have some printing code on my

Re: [Flashcoders] Printing problem with F player 9.0.45

2007-04-16 Thread jgl
Hey JC, Thanks :) The hard time I am having about this is that it has alway worked before 9.0.45 which came out on the 14th. It works fine with all previous versions. Too many apps to correct. Maybe I'll get lucky and MM will have this new feature that breaks my old code removed. I really

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-16 Thread nik crosina
Hi, Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for their projects? I am currently testing out HASP from Aladdin, and does the job so far (have not come very far yet in testing though). It does offer to build calls to the

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Nik, I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort $$$ wise. Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for their projects? I am currently testing out HASP

Re: [Flashcoders] [semi-OT] - Preventing Software Piracy

2007-04-16 Thread Иван Дембицкий
Hello Peter, I think a problem in business idea. You can compare Microsoft and Google business idea. And? Do you like Microsoft direction? Everybody understand: it's yesterday's business principles. You need to change your mind for correlation with today's realities. Problem not in protection

[Flashcoders] Microsoft Silverlight ...

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Ford
What do you make of Microsoft's Silverlight:http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default_01.aspxTheir site sucks for starters, but anyone have any thoughts on what impact this will have on Flash ?___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your

Re: [Flashcoders] Microsoft Silverlight ...

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
I think not everyone wants to install because you would have to reinstall MacOSX. Because it ain't working for on 10.4.9. Beside of that it's quite nice. It has the coolness of Apollo but then inside a browser window... What do you make of Microsoft's

[Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS 3 Components

2007-04-16 Thread Austin Kottke
There is some mention that in order for the flash 9 cs3 components to work version .45 needs to be downloaded. However on adobe's site there are examples using these new components in the examples. Anyone have an idea how this works? Also, flash 9 is shipping now. Does this mean the adobe web

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS 3 Components

2007-04-16 Thread John Grden
I'd been working on the pv3d components with 9.0.38 just fine it seemed. On 4/16/07, Austin Kottke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is some mention that in order for the flash 9 cs3 components to work version .45 needs to be downloaded. However on adobe's site there are examples using these new

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 CS 3 Components

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yeah, everything is shipping. Design Premium, Web Premium etc. Not the Production Suite or Master Edition Suite, though. There is some mention that in order for the flash 9 cs3 components to work version .45 needs to be downloaded. However on adobe's site there are examples using these new

[Flashcoders] Reasons of failing onLoad of LoadVars

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello! I happen to have some issues with the onLoad event of the LoadVars object in ActionScript. I am curious if anyone here could tell what could be the possible reasons why the onLoad event don't get triggered. The problem I have is that the event don't get triggered while the other to

Re: [Flashcoders] Reasons of failing onLoad of LoadVars

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
It works. onLoad don't get triggered when you using onData g Yours, Weyert de Boer ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to

Re: [Flashcoders] Reasons of failing onLoad of LoadVars

2007-04-16 Thread R�kos Attila
In a LoadVars object onLoad is invoked by the default onData handler. If you assign a custom onData handler, onLoad will not be triggered anymore, unless you call it explicitely (preferably after calling the decode() method) or invoke the original onData handler. Attila

Re: [Flashcoders] Reasons of failing onLoad of LoadVars

2007-04-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
I still think it's some dodgy way of triggering events. If it works this way g Yours, Weyert ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders