Re: [Flashcoders] FLASH+AIR+ASP

2008-03-27 Thread Sidney de Koning
Do you mean that you need to login through HTACCESS? (the browser dialog box) or through an ASP file? If its HTACCESS then, with AIR, you can get past it in AIR. Tell me which one is of use and i'll try to help. Cheers, Sid On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Helmut Granda wrote: I

Re: [Flashcoders] How to determine value of source code

2008-03-27 Thread Jiri Heitlager
Thank you all for replying. It really made things clearier and some of the points made I really didn't think of yet, for instance the code libs. I really didnt take the time to develop those into consideration. Seems like a hell of a job to value code, I prefer coding :0 Again thanks, Jiri

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Pedro Kostelec
Sorry, my fault, sometimes I forgot I am on an international list. You would cry if you see a paycheck of a programmer from a third-world country ;) I don't get it. I am not even in university so i am not employed and i have no idea what this international list means?? I am curious, Pedro On

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Pedro Kostelec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3 Sorry, my fault, sometimes I forgot I am on an international list. You would

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote: the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL. and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant. Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a different application to build an SWF file. It

Re: [Flashcoders] JSFL Add a new font

2008-03-27 Thread Leon
And no others way? Ex: A low-level extension for flash that extends JSFL ? 2008/3/25, Michael Randolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wish...no way to do this afaik -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leon Sent: Tuesday, March 25,

[Flashcoders] Image colorization / contrast adjusting

2008-03-27 Thread Alistair Colling
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for flash to process a regular photograph to produce a pop-arty image like this: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpo7028+pop-art-andy-warhol-1962-che- guevara-poster.jpg The user would upload their photograph, I guess I would then need flash to

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Cutter (FlashRelated)
You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex, plus the scalability of ColdFusion, with it's clustering

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Omar Fouad
Try this: for(var i:int; i10; i++) { //some crap here } On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jonathan howe wrote: Hmm... it is within a class... and that's when I'm getting the warnings. Or did you mean just in general to reiterate that

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Omar Fouad
I mean inserting var i:int instead of declaring it outside the loop. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Omar Fouad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: for(var i:int; i10; i++) { //some crap here } On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jonathan

Re: [Flashcoders] Image colorization / contrast adjusting

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Alistair Colling wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible for flash to process a regular photograph to produce a pop-arty image like this: http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpo7028+pop-art-andy-warhol-1962-che- guevara-poster.jpg A little Warhol-style

Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers

2008-03-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Cutter (FlashRelated) wrote: You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex,

[Flashcoders] AMFPHP vs RubyAMF

2008-03-27 Thread artur
is there a major difference in terms of performance, stability, and flexibility? im about to built an RIA using Flex MySQL.. but havent decided on the middleware yet. whats the verdict? also whats the learning curve on it for devs who have experience with Java, JSP, ASP, PHP -- *artur

Re: [Flashcoders] world clock - revisited

2008-03-27 Thread Corban Baxter
thats great! Marcelo! sorry about the code confusion. :) do you have any examples of how you are implementing this? I think i have put my clocks together ok... i'd kinda like to see how you are using it. do you mind? On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Marcelo Volmaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [Flashcoders] FLASH+AIR+ASP

2008-03-27 Thread Helmut Granda
You have to login through a aspx form(no httaccess). basically the application lives in the extranet so you have to login to access any documents on that specific area. It works well on the browser because before accessing the application you have to login and once you are in the process

Re: [Flashcoders] world clock - revisited

2008-03-27 Thread Marcelo Volmaro
I can't send code if that's what you need (because it belongs to a client app) but on each clock (that are a kind of widget you can place into a dashboard) you can select the timezone you want to display in that clock. The time is simply calculated by performing some math on the Date object:

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread laurent
sick. If you want to know for how little money projects are proposed and how fast programmer people on earth can work for go there: http://www.getacoder.com L Paul Andrews a écrit : - Original Message - From: Pedro Kostelec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flash Coders List

RE: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Dwayne Neckles
Yea guys I I know we are off the issue topic. but its disgusting... i could be wrong but I feel getacoder and elance all i feel cheapen us as coders and flashers.. but this is a digression.. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:24:08 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Kerry Thompson
Laurent wrote: sick. If you want to know for how little money projects are proposed and how fast programmer people on earth can work for go there: http://www.getacoder.com I found the same thing when I registered with guru.com. There are hundreds of jobs with a budget of $500 or less, and

Re: [Flashcoders] FLASH+AIR+ASP

2008-03-27 Thread Sidney de Koning
Does you aspx login form have an API? I mean, can you POST of GET variables to it and you you get back a value of something to let you know you are logged in? If so, you can access it with AIR. in you example you say 'go to the app()' . Are we talking about AIR or a webapplication in the

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Bob Wohl
And that's why I took a steady. I contracted for about 6 years. Got a bit burnt out on people wanting something for nothing. Oh, and the we'll give you a project and see how well you do. Then we'll discus payment'... look at my @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ portfolio you piece of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Dwayne Neckles
My sentiments exactly.. it's frustrating...thats why I became full time in NY. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:05:38 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3) And that's why I took a steady. I

Re: [Flashcoders] JSFL Add a new font

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Sacks
You can do anything you want in C++. Read the JSFL docs on how to use C++ to do more complex JSFL stuff. Hopefully, the time and cost it takes to research it, write the C++, debug and deploy your solution will be less than the time and cost savings of importing a Font into a Flash library.

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Sacks
function doSomething { var i:int; for(i=0;i++;i10) { } } Is functionally identical to this: function doSomething { for(var i:int =0;i++;i10) { } } Wrong. It's not. In the latter example, i is not available after the loop. In the first example, it is. var i:int; for (i = 0;

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Sacks
If you want freelance work, here's how you do it. Make an account on LinkedIn. Get some recommendations. I get about 10 job offers each week from just that. Some full-time, some project-based. You're missing out if you're not making yourself known. :) Dwayne Neckles wrote: My

Re: [Flashcoders] FLASH+AIR+ASP

2008-03-27 Thread Helmut Granda
There is no a open API, everything is strictly controlled by IT so I think I need to find another way around. My logic was telling me that since the application was being only wrapped by AIR that still the longin calls were going to be implemented in the application. Meaning if the user wasn't

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP vs RubyAMF

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Sacks
AMFPHP has been around a long time. It's been optimized and optimized and optimized. RubyAMF is (relatively) new. However, I have not used it, so I don't know how it performs, but I'm going to take an educated guess that AMFPHP is faster, more stable and more flexible only because of its

[Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
hi guys i am trying to set up a class to handle my xml (will be instantiated for each xml file) but i'm running into a slight problem here is the class so far: CODE package { //package imports import flash.events.*; import flash.net.*; internal class

RE: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Have your XMLLoader class extend EventDispatcher and have your XMLLoader class dispatch an event when the load is complete. Wherever your instance of the class is declared, add an event listener to the instance and write a function handler. if you need assistance with setting that up, write back,

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
for (var i:int = 0; i 10; i++) { if (i == 5) break; } trace(i); Mmm, have you actually tested the example? Because it does trace 5, since, as it was explained earlier in this thread, there is no block level scoping in AS 3.0. In fact, and this was mentioned too, all var declarations are moved

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Thomas
AFAIK, in AS2 the Flash IDE didn't respect block level scoping, but MTASC did, which led to some confusion. That leads some people to think that AS2 as a language has block level scoping. AS3 definitely doesn't respect block scopes, and I curse every time I trip over that 'variable declared

Re: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
thanks jason - i've done this and it's working, i just wanted you to take a look to make sure i've not done it stupidly CODE package { //package imports import flash.events.*; import flash.net.*; internal class XMLLoader extends EventDispatcher

Re: [Flashcoders] Tweening Engines for AS3

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
i couldn't afford to pay my bills on those prices On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:15, Dwayne Neckles wrote: Yea guys I I know we are off the issue topic. but its disgusting... i could be wrong but I feel getacoder and elance all i feel cheapen us as coders and flashers.. but this is a digression..

RE: [Flashcoders] world clock - revisited

2008-03-27 Thread Keith Reinfeld
Hi Corban, Marcelo, Marcelo Volmaro wrote: I did that code :) Absolutely! And thank you again. Awesome! (Corban and I corresponded on the topic, offlist, back when the Flashcoders list was down for so very long.) check if I'm in DST And that, Corban, is the trick. At least for me. My

[Flashcoders] AS3 Programmer is needed in Paris

2008-03-27 Thread laurent
A sweet agency call http://www.grouek.com is looking for some talented AS3 programmer urgently. If you're the man ...or the woman contact me offlist I will forward your contact. Send me a cv if possible or some references to your last pieces of art. Thank you L

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle)
it's bad enough to try to understand someone elses code when you speak the same language - it must be damn near impossible if everything's in chinese On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:45, Kerry Thompson wrote: Laurent wrote: sick. If you want to know for how little money projects are proposed and

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing

2008-03-27 Thread Helmut Granda
You forgot the And create a Framework that is easy to use and 100s of people can use. and a blg around it to get exposure. now that is the easy part :) On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Steven Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want freelance work, here's how you do it. Make an account on

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread jonathan howe
I wish it did. Maybe at least one person saying that was what I was looking for... Thanks for the discussion! On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, in AS2 the Flash IDE didn't respect block level scoping, but MTASC did, which led to some confusion. That

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Matt S.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's bad enough to try to understand someone elses code when you speak the same language - it must be damn near impossible if everything's in chinese I've had to deal with that when working with an

Re: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Elia Morling
Yes, there are caveats with outsourcing, but the problems are often on the buyer end. If you learn how to specifiy and run your outsourcing projects you can do it successfuly. Don't hire someone that doesn't speak english or has any experience with projects abroad. I am running multiple indie

RE: [Flashcoders] using a class to load data

2008-03-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
Yeah, I mean that's basically how I described it and would do it - there might be a better way, but that way should work fine for you. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO and Risk LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you

RE: [Flashcoders] Outsourcing (was: Tweening Engines for AS3)

2008-03-27 Thread Kerry Thompson
Allandt Bik-Elliott wrote: it's bad enough to try to understand someone elses code when you speak the same language - it must be damn near impossible if everything's in Chinese Well, as it happens, I speak Chinese--I used to live in Beijing. But communication isn't the issue. It's time zones,

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Cory Petosky
I guess I should have provided an example when I mentioned no block level scoping. Try this on for size: for (i = 0; i 10; ++i); // Do nothing but increment i var i:int; trace(i); This is totally valid code and will trace 10! ALL variable declarations in a function, regardless of the block the

RE: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusingiteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Francis Cheng
Ian, help is on the way, the ECMAScript 4th edition draft specification contains a new keyword, let, that can be used in place of var to provide block-level scoping. Details for the curious: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:block_expressions Francis Cheng | Senior Technical

Re: [Flashcoders] Variable scope within for loops: reusing iteratorvariables

2008-03-27 Thread Steven Sacks
Valid where? If that's in a class function and i is not a class variable, then the compiler will complain that you're using an undeclared variable. Cory Petosky wrote: I guess I should have provided an example when I mentioned no block level scoping. Try this on for size: for (i = 0; i 10;

[Flashcoders] query string

2008-03-27 Thread Laert Jansen
Hello folks! I have to link one button to this link: home.php?location=boston How do I do this? getURL ? Thanks a lot -- Laert Jansen www.laertjansen.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com

[Flashcoders] AIR write to PowerPoint

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Van Cleave
I am currently doing some research for a project that is asking for output to a ppt/pps file. The original version of this project used Director and some Xtras to accomplish this. In hopes of doing the newer version in Adobe AIR I am wondering if anyone has seen any AIR apps that have this