Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address; This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error, but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly solution. If you could show more code on how you are sending the data, as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to be more legit than the solution above. / Martin 2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be named f#31 I have it written: var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address; Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this? I've tried escape sequences to no avail. Thanks! -Alex ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Klasson Flash Developer Parkgatan 9-11 S-411 24 Göteborg Sweden Office +46 (0) 31 711 54 50 Cell +46 (0) 730 964 561 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.kokokaka.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm targeting Flash Player 8.
Essentially, I am creating an HTML form in Flash, but I'm running
into trouble because the form refers to database field names with
symbols I can't place in a variable name and I need to pass the
variable name with the data.
The form in my FLA has input fields for First Name and Email address.
Each input field has a Var associated with it.
The First Name field's Var is f:1700253695
The Email field's Var is f:31
Then in Actionscript I have variables for the hidden fields that
would be used in an HTML version of the form (not sure if this is
necessary) and a submit button function to send the variable names
and their values to the sign-up form on the server.
var f#1700253695 = TEXT:First%20Name;
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
submitBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(http://www.topica.com/f/p.html;, ,GET);
}
The problem I'm having is that the database on the server requires
either the colon or the # sign in the field name, but I can't figure
out how to publish the SWF with them.
If there isn't a way, I think I will use the ExternalInterface API to
send my field values to a form in my HTML wrapper and send the data
from there. I'm not well versed in Javascript so I'm trying to avoid
that if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
-Alex
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Martin Klasson wrote:
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address;
This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error,
but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly
solution.
If you could show more code on how you are sending the data,
as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would
easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to
be more legit than the solution above.
/ Martin
2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi.
I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be
named f#31
I have it written:
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its
because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this?
I've tried escape sequences to no avail.
Thanks!
-Alex
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RE: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
How are you passing the variable to an email form? You typically never NEED to create a funky variable name if creative string solutions could do the job. How about something like f_31 until you have to package it up to send? And how does the end process know the variable name? var str:String = f#31; this [ str.split(#).join(_) ] = test; trace( this.f_31 ) // test - J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Klasson Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address; This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error, but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly solution. If you could show more code on how you are sending the data, as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to be more legit than the solution above. / Martin 2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be named f#31 I have it written: var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address; Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this? I've tried escape sequences to no avail. Thanks! -Alex ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Martin Klasson Flash Developer Parkgatan 9-11 S-411 24 Göteborg Sweden Office +46 (0) 31 711 54 50 Cell +46 (0) 730 964 561 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.kokokaka.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
What your database looks like and variable names in your Flash application,
have (and shouldn't have) no impact on each other.
Afterall, you'll be sending/loading data through some script/webserver/remoting, so you can *massage* your data before sending it to
Flash and vice versa.
So saying that you need to name variables:
var f#1700253695;
var f#31
is nonsense ;-)
var myReallyCoolFlashVariableForAnEmailAddress = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Send that to your server side script, which then stores it in the database (or
whatever).
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm targeting Flash Player 8.
Essentially, I am creating an HTML form in Flash, but I'm running
into trouble because the form refers to database field names with
symbols I can't place in a variable name and I need to pass the
variable name with the data.
The form in my FLA has input fields for First Name and Email address.
Each input field has a Var associated with it.
The First Name field's Var is f:1700253695
The Email field's Var is f:31
Then in Actionscript I have variables for the hidden fields that
would be used in an HTML version of the form (not sure if this is
necessary) and a submit button function to send the variable names
and their values to the sign-up form on the server.
var f#1700253695 = TEXT:First%20Name;
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
submitBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(http://www.topica.com/f/p.html;, ,GET);
}
The problem I'm having is that the database on the server requires
either the colon or the # sign in the field name, but I can't figure
out how to publish the SWF with them.
If there isn't a way, I think I will use the ExternalInterface API to
send my field values to a form in my HTML wrapper and send the data
from there. I'm not well versed in Javascript so I'm trying to avoid
that if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
-Alex
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Martin Klasson wrote:
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address;
This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error,
but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly solution.
If you could show more code on how you are sending the data,
as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would
easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to
be more legit than the solution above.
/ Martin
2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi.
I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be
named f#31
I have it written:
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its
because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this?
I've tried escape sequences to no avail.
Thanks!
-Alex
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[Flashcoders] 8-Bit Grayscale Bitmap as AlphaBitMap
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Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
Thanks everyone.
I couldn't get it to work in Flash, so I hid a form in my HTML
wrapper, passed the user input data to it with a Javascript function
and then sent it to the server through another Javascript call.
Probably could be cleaned up, but it works.
Thanks again.
-A
function flashTxt(txt1, txt2, txt3, txt4, txt5) {
document.getElementById('txt1').value = txt1;
document.getElementById('txt2').value = txt2;
document.getElementById('txt3').value = txt3;
document.getElementById('txt4').value = txt4;
document.getElementById('txt5').value = txt5;
}
/script
script
function submitform()
{
document.myform.submit();
}
/script
On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Muzak wrote:
What your database looks like and variable names in your Flash
application, have (and shouldn't have) no impact on each other.
Afterall, you'll be sending/loading data through some script/
webserver/remoting, so you can *massage* your data before sending
it to Flash and vice versa.
So saying that you need to name variables:
var f#1700253695;
var f#31
is nonsense ;-)
var myReallyCoolFlashVariableForAnEmailAddress = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Send that to your server side script, which then stores it in the
database (or whatever).
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm targeting Flash Player 8.
Essentially, I am creating an HTML form in Flash, but I'm running
into trouble because the form refers to database field names with
symbols I can't place in a variable name and I need to pass the
variable name with the data.
The form in my FLA has input fields for First Name and Email address.
Each input field has a Var associated with it.
The First Name field's Var is f:1700253695
The Email field's Var is f:31
Then in Actionscript I have variables for the hidden fields that
would be used in an HTML version of the form (not sure if this is
necessary) and a submit button function to send the variable names
and their values to the sign-up form on the server.
var f#1700253695 = TEXT:First%20Name;
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
submitBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(http://www.topica.com/f/p.html;, ,GET);
}
The problem I'm having is that the database on the server requires
either the colon or the # sign in the field name, but I can't figure
out how to publish the SWF with them.
If there isn't a way, I think I will use the ExternalInterface API to
send my field values to a form in my HTML wrapper and send the data
from there. I'm not well versed in Javascript so I'm trying to avoid
that if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
-Alex
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Martin Klasson wrote:
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address;
This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error,
but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly
solution.
If you could show more code on how you are sending the data,
as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would
easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to
be more legit than the solution above.
/ Martin
2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi.
I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be
named f#31
I have it written:
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its
because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this?
I've tried escape sequences to no avail.
Thanks!
-Alex
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[Flashcoders] Erasing part of a mask
I am trying to create a simulation of shaving off a beard with an electric razor and could do with some advice. My current solution is to have a movie clip with the clean face on top of the one with the beard and use a mask to allow me to reveal parts of the clean face. So initially none of the clean face is visible, but moving the mouse over it draws onto the mask and reveals it. Now I would like to do the opposite effect i.e have a mask that reveals the entire beard initially and remove parts of this mask to hide parts of the beard and therefore reveal a clean face that sites on a layer below the beard movie clip. My question is, how can I erase bits of a mask? I am using Flash 8 AS2. Thanks in advance Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
Hi Alex, I'm very confused by this. A variable name in Flash is not what you would necessarily push to the database anyway. You would push a string, number, or other primative, not the internal variable name itself. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
It sounds like your server side code is putting stuff straight into the
database from your form.
If you are doing this, then please stop - THIS IS BAD...
1, you are maybe not checking your data from the form for dodgy stuff.
2, you are probably allowing the form to specify what fields in the
database you are filling in.
3. why does your database not let you create your own tables with
sensible field names?
It may be good from a lazy programming perspective, but this is a
security nightmare.
You should always have your server side code check validate your data,
then decide where each bit of data goes. The client should not specify
where the data goes - otherwise your database ends up hacked. This also
applies to contact forms that specify the recipient in the form itself.
DON'T DO IT, IT'S BAD, LEARN ABOUT SECURITY (please) :)
HTH
Glen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm targeting Flash Player 8.
Essentially, I am creating an HTML form in Flash, but I'm running into
trouble because the form refers to database field names with symbols I
can't place in a variable name and I need to pass the variable name
with the data.
The form in my FLA has input fields for First Name and Email address.
Each input field has a Var associated with it.
The First Name field's Var is f:1700253695
The Email field's Var is f:31
Then in Actionscript I have variables for the hidden fields that
would be used in an HTML version of the form (not sure if this is
necessary) and a submit button function to send the variable names and
their values to the sign-up form on the server.
var f#1700253695 = TEXT:First%20Name;
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
submitBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(http://www.topica.com/f/p.html;, ,GET);
}
The problem I'm having is that the database on the server requires
either the colon or the # sign in the field name, but I can't figure
out how to publish the SWF with them.
If there isn't a way, I think I will use the ExternalInterface API to
send my field values to a form in my HTML wrapper and send the data
from there. I'm not well versed in Javascript so I'm trying to avoid
that if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
-Alex
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Martin Klasson wrote:
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address;
This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error,
but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly
solution.
If you could show more code on how you are sending the data,
as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would
easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to
be more legit than the solution above.
/ Martin
2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi.
I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs to be
named f#31
I have it written:
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its
because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this?
I've tried escape sequences to no avail.
Thanks!
-Alex
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RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
Glen, You might want consider structuring the XML as a faux relational database... #1) full text #2) keyword index and frequency #3) titles, volume, number, etc. During search, you only have to trawl through #2, which would have cross-ref IDs for numbers 1 and 3. Then pull #1 for presentation purposes and possible search term highlighting. ...Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:25 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
So will the file be 500k and not more or do you mean it could grow to 6mb or 60 mb? If so, you definitely don't want to have all of this in one file, perhaps even with 500k. I had troubles in AS2/FP8 parsing 250k files occassionally, but FP9 may be better at handling larger XML files and parsing them. It would be really really easy to test even before they give you the actual file, just create dummy XML file and try to load it in a read data from it. With that much data though, you may want to try and split it up into separate XML files and load them either as needed, or preload them one at a time before doing a search. You could categorize by year, or alphabetical, or whatever makes sense based on the data they give you. And if you can easily clean the files to strip out uneeded data, even better. If you can get them to produce an even cleaner file for you, even better than that obviously. Lucky for you, since you said you can use AS3, searching using E4X syntax is going to be a whole lot easier and likely faster. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:25 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem
I let users download an image - using FileRef.download - it works fine, except that some users are not getting the .jpg appended to the file name. I've tried using issuing a default file name, and just letting FileRef make the name from the download URL and just the image name appears - minus the extension. I tested here (XP - IE and FireFox) and I see the .jpg on both browsers. My client does not see the extension - XP, IE - same version I have (she says). Odd. Anyone else seen this? I'm not sure what to tell her... published from CS3 as AS2/Player 8 Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem
Has she turned Hide extensions for known file types on? - Windows Explorer-Tools-FolderOptions [View] tab - in the list??? Glen Dave Mennenoh wrote: I let users download an image - using FileRef.download - it works fine, except that some users are not getting the .jpg appended to the file name. I've tried using issuing a default file name, and just letting FileRef make the name from the download URL and just the image name appears - minus the extension. I tested here (XP - IE and FireFox) and I see the .jpg on both browsers. My client does not see the extension - XP, IE - same version I have (she says). Odd. Anyone else seen this? I'm not sure what to tell her... published from CS3 as AS2/Player 8 Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem
Has she turned Hide extensions for known file types on? - Windows Explorer-Tools-FolderOptions [View] tab - in the list??? I feel silly. That almost has to be it... I didn't even think of that. Thank You! Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
Rob: Relational databases sound like a good plan, thanks I will think about that. Jason: A magazine produces around 500k of data, so a year would be 6MB and a decade around 60MB. Your tip about keeping the files separate is handy though. Looking on the web, some people seemed to recommend using Director or other wrappers to allow access to the file system. Anyone know if this might be something to consider? Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem
It could just be windows set to not show file extentions for recognised file types - personally one of my most hated features, but that's the default and most people don't change it. Just a possibility ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Mennenoh Sent: 21 February 2008 16:29 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] FileReference.download problem I let users download an image - using FileRef.download - it works fine, except that some users are not getting the .jpg appended to the file name. I've tried using issuing a default file name, and just letting FileRef make the name from the download URL and just the image name appears - minus the extension. I tested here (XP - IE and FireFox) and I see the .jpg on both browsers. My client does not see the extension - XP, IE - same version I have (she says). Odd. Anyone else seen this? I'm not sure what to tell her... published from CS3 as AS2/Player 8 Dave - Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
Since it's a CD-ROM, you can get away with a lot of preprocessing on the data. Do all the really heavy lifting before you deliver the project, so that the live Flash app doesn't have to. One straightforward thing you can do is parse the entire collection XML, keeping every article every word appears in, and dumping this list (sorted) as a plaintext file. Something like: aardvark: i302a27, i322a41, i412a2 anchovy: i210a9, i289a31 bezier: i123a4 Where the list format is iissueNumaarticleNum. Then, at run time, your Flash app can (relatively) quickly load your index file into a huge sorted list. Finally, when a search term is entered, you can do a quick binary search on the search term and find all relevant articles. You'll probably need to write your preprocessor in another language, since Flash can't write to local files. You could conceivably write your preprocessor using AIR and Actionscript. Also note that I'm not guaranteeing that a simple list index is best -- I'm just providing one implementation idea off the top of my head that demonstrates the use of preprocessing the data, which I think you must do regardless of your final indexing strategy. On 2/21/08, Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system can use AS3 - as it is a CDROM. I asked about the data size - at the moment, a sample XML file, generated by an automatic tool is about 500k, gulp. That means, 6MB per year, 60MB per decade at the moment. I have asked to see the file, because there may be a lot of rubbish that can be eliminated - I hope so.. Glen Merrill, Jason wrote: First questions to get out of the way is which version of Actionscript and potentially how much data (in k)? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal GTO Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search Hi, I have been asked to look at a search facility for a CDROM project. The customer is archiving magazines, 1 a month, for a decade per CD and wants a simple search engine. The magazines will be archived as scanned images plus XML data containing page text content. Loading in an XML file and searching / filtering is pretty easy in principle, but I am guessing I may run into performance issues as the amount of data is scaled up. Google is proving fairly useless today, so has anyone had much experience of this and have any recommendations. Thanks Glen -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01736 759321 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Cory Petosky : Lead Developer : PUNY 1618 Central Ave NE Suite 130 Minneapolis, MN 55413 Office: 612.216.3924 Mobile: 240.422.9652 Fax: 612.605.9216 http://www.punyentertainment.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
Is it possible to over-ride the trace() function to put the text to a field. I'm trying to debug a browser problem in AS2, and I simply don't have the patience for the AS2 debugger. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] variable with # sign
I hear you Glen.
I'm connecting to Topica, a fairly popular online email marketing
application. And I'm probably making it sound like something it isn't
out of my own ignorance.
Essentially, I'm trying to recreate the sign-up from that Topica's
system generates for its clients in HTML into Flash. The HTML form
has input text fields like NAME=f:1700253685 and I don't know how
to re-create the form function in Flash to send the user input data
entered into the corresponding field. I think I get tripped up by the
: in the NAME but that could be way wrong.
The workaround I came up with was to send the data to a hidden form
in my HTML wrapper and then submit it through a Javascript function
called from Flash. That way the form is essentially the same one the
Topica system gave me and I'm using Flash to populate it. Nothing
elegant about it, but I don't know enough and Topica doesn't provide
any support for sending the user input data directly from Flash.
And I can only trust the sign-up form they give all their users has
the safeguards you are describing below.
-A
On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:57 AM, Glen Pike wrote:
It sounds like your server side code is putting stuff straight into
the database from your form.
If you are doing this, then please stop - THIS IS BAD... 1, you are
maybe not checking your data from the form for dodgy stuff.
2, you are probably allowing the form to specify what fields in the
database you are filling in.
3. why does your database not let you create your own tables with
sensible field names?
It may be good from a lazy programming perspective, but this is a
security nightmare.
You should always have your server side code check validate your
data, then decide where each bit of data goes. The client should
not specify where the data goes - otherwise your database ends up
hacked. This also applies to contact forms that specify the
recipient in the form itself. DON'T DO IT, IT'S BAD, LEARN ABOUT
SECURITY (please) :)
HTH
Glen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me.
I'm targeting Flash Player 8.
Essentially, I am creating an HTML form in Flash, but I'm running
into trouble because the form refers to database field names with
symbols I can't place in a variable name and I need to pass the
variable name with the data.
The form in my FLA has input fields for First Name and Email
address. Each input field has a Var associated with it.
The First Name field's Var is f:1700253695
The Email field's Var is f:31
Then in Actionscript I have variables for the hidden fields that
would be used in an HTML version of the form (not sure if this is
necessary) and a submit button function to send the variable names
and their values to the sign-up form on the server.
var f#1700253695 = TEXT:First%20Name;
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
submitBtn.onRelease = function(){
getURL(http://www.topica.com/f/p.html;, ,GET); }
The problem I'm having is that the database on the server requires
either the colon or the # sign in the field name, but I can't
figure out how to publish the SWF with them.
If there isn't a way, I think I will use the ExternalInterface API
to send my field values to a form in my HTML wrapper and send the
data from there. I'm not well versed in Javascript so I'm trying
to avoid that if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
-Alex
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Martin Klasson wrote:
this[f#31] = TEXT:Email%20Address;
This could work for you I guess, it wont give you a compiler error,
but I would revise the code since I wouldnt suggest this ugly
solution.
If you could show more code on how you are sending the data,
as well as what Flash Player version you are targeting there would
easier to give you a more helpful hand if you want the solution to
be more legit than the solution above.
/ Martin
2008/2/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi.
I need to pass a variable to a email sign-up form and it needs
to be
named f#31
I have it written:
var f#31 = TEXT:Email%20Address;
Flash gives me an error when I try to publish this and I assume its
because the variable name has the # sign. How do I get around this?
I've tried escape sequences to no avail.
Thanks!
-Alex
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Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
Hi Andrew, We already tried that on Mediabox, but it seems there is no way to override this function :( You should just use a Debug class that uses a TextField for the output... Regards, Cedric On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to over-ride the trace() function to put the text to a field. I'm trying to debug a browser problem in AS2, and I simply don't have the patience for the AS2 debugger. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] CDROM XML search
Looking on the web, some people seemed to recommend using Director or other wrappers to allow access to the file system. Anyone know if this might be something to consider? Yes. If you go this route there are several commercial database engines that are available to you. However, the Flash Xtra for Director is not current with the web Flash Player. Specifically it does not currently support AS3 or certain components, and Flex is WAY OUT OF THE QUESTION. If you are coding in AS2, then Director coupled with a database Xtra (Valentina, Vizion, Arca, ADO, Datagrip, etc.) is what I would recommend. ...Rob ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
Just create a text field and use it for your output. my_txt.text+= myVar: +myVar+\n there was a way to set up a tail log to see your traces while in the browser. http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2005/07/trace_from_the.php hth B. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to over-ride the trace() function to put the text to a field. I'm trying to debug a browser problem in AS2, and I simply don't have the patience for the AS2 debugger. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
You also can just take a look to this firefox plugin : FlashTracerhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3469! Regards, Cedric On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Bob Wohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just create a text field and use it for your output. my_txt.text+= myVar: +myVar+\n there was a way to set up a tail log to see your traces while in the browser. http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2005/07/trace_from_the.php hth B. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to over-ride the trace() function to put the text to a field. I'm trying to debug a browser problem in AS2, and I simply don't have the patience for the AS2 debugger. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
could you extend trace to output to your textfield as well? On 21 Feb 2008, at 17:46, Cédric Tabin wrote: Hi Andrew, We already tried that on Mediabox, but it seems there is no way to override this function :( You should just use a Debug class that uses a TextField for the output... Regards, Cedric On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to over-ride the trace() function to put the text to a field. I'm trying to debug a browser problem in AS2, and I simply don't have the patience for the AS2 debugger. Thanks! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] UILoader Component Movement problem
Hi All In my program I am allowing user to drag and drop Video thumbnails on the main stage. The UIComponent is loading external SWF as soon as user drops video on the main screen. Also the user can successfully drag and drop the opened video pane (which is UILoader Component) wherever he wants on the screen. My problem is that when user drop the UIComponent on the main screen, the dropped UIComponenet moves little bit from the mouse position. I used the code that *on stopDrag,UILoader.move(MouseX,MouseY)*. But it did not work because the stage is taking UILoader's top left corner as MouseX and MouseY and move UILoader's top left corner to the cursor position. I came up with tricky solution in which I use on *stopDrag,UILoader.move (MouseX-200,MouseY-200)*. This solution was little better in my case but that's not exactly what i want because this solution is giving inconsistent and inaccurate results. Does anyone has better solution? *I just need that if user stops dragging the UILoader Component , the Component should be placed on the coordinates wherever he/she left the mouse cursor.* I will appreciate any kind of help Thanks a lot. Anuj ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
Cédric Tabin wrote: You also can just take a look to this firefox plugin : FlashTracerhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3469! Ha! That'd be great except that the problem is only in Explorer! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Looking for Expaning menu along a curved path
Hi Flashcoders, Does anybody know of a component, like Jumpeye Accordion menu tree, that can create a vertical expanding menu along a curved path? (Ok, mostly vertical with a touch of horizontal ;) (I don't think the Jumpeye component can do this.) Thanks, Norm C _ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
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[Flashcoders] IE problem loading swf into mc
Thanks to the folks who told me about FlashTracer! I ended up solving my problem by examinging the access logs on my server, but I'm wondering if anybody has any insight. The problem was related to the fact that I was trying to load the same external swf at the same url into two different MCs. Because I've recently change the architecture of my project so now I only need one instance of the MC, I solved the problem by simply dropping the second instance. However, it'd be really nice to understand this problem. I figured out the problem by observing that FireFox only makes one request to the server for the same swf, but IE makes two different calls to the server. For some reason this makes it choke. Under IE, I could get the external swf to load by refreshing the browser, in which case the browser would make a check if new request to the server and then load the cached files. Does this make sense? Any idea what's up? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace()
Ha! That'd be great except that the problem is only in Explorer! Shouldn't be a problem. FlashTracer will still see trace statements from a swf running in IE... - Install the ActiveX debug Flash Player in IE (and configure it) - Open Firefox and FlashTracer - Launch your swf in IE - trace() Andrew Sinning [EMAIL PROTECTED] are.com To Sent by: Flash Coders List flashcoders-bounc flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc eaf.com Subject Re: [Flashcoders] over-ride trace() 2008-02-21 01:58 PM Please respond to Flash Coders List [EMAIL PROTECTED] tyfig.figleaf.com Cédric Tabin wrote: You also can just take a look to this firefox plugin : FlashTracerhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3469! Ha! That'd be great except that the problem is only in Explorer! ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] saving image locally
Hi everyone, I have a bitmapData object that is storing some image info. I want the user to be able to save it locally as a jpeg/bitmap/etc. Is there a way to do this? This is a web application, running through a browser. Anyone know if this is even possible? I tried storing it locally as a sharedobject, but I need a usable format for the user. TIA ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] saving image locally
Yes, basically you need to send the bits up to a server side script as POST data. Instead of having your server side script save it to the server, you'd have the server side script pop up a Save as: dialog - which you could then use the dialog to save the file. The details are a bit tricky when you first try it, but I've done it with PHP. The only drawback is that it needs to go up to the server and come back down again - you can't just do everything client side as far as I know. Cary Ho wrote: Hi everyone, I have a bitmapData object that is storing some image info. I want the user to be able to save it locally as a jpeg/bitmap/etc. Is there a way to do this? This is a web application, running through a browser. Anyone know if this is even possible? I tried storing it locally as a sharedobject, but I need a usable format for the user. TIA ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
