RE: [Flashcoders] setChildIndex
Doing addChild() in the right order is the easiest way, but to control depths specifically, see this: http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/disp lay/DisplayObjectContainer.html#setChildIndex() Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect Bank of America Global Learning Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our Instructional Technology Design Blog (Note: these resources are only available for Bank of America associates) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Lehr, Theodore Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:05 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] setChildIndex How can I change depths of a movie - I found setChildIndex - but they are not children of anything... ___ 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] setChildIndex
They would be a child of the DisplayList, no? ie. stage (this) potentially. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Lehr, Theodore wrote: > How can I change depths of a movie - I found setChildIndex - but they are > not children of anything... > > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] setChildIndex
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[Flashcoders] as/papervision3D question
I have a 3D portfolio built with papervision that works great. It opens with a
category image (cube). On mouseOVER, a matrix of thumbnail images
(categoryClicked) opens.
I would like to have the gallery of thumbnails open automatically without a
mouseEvent. I've tried using a TimerEvent and EnterFrame with no luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
code section:
env.scene.addChild(cube);
// interactive
cube.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_OVER, categoryClicked,
false, 0, true);
// loaded complete
if (++count == totalCategory)
{
// hide preloader
loadText0.visible = false;
// fade in viewport and move camera
dLayer.activate(true);
//addChild(goFull);
TweenMax.to(env.viewport, 2, { alpha:1,
startAt: { alpha:0 } });
TweenMax.to(env.camera, 2, {x:0,
y:0, z: -env.camera.zoom * env.camera.focus, ease:Quint.easeOut});
TweenMax.to(this, 0, {
delay:1,
onComplete:function():void
{
// start looking around
PV3DShortcut.startLookAroundStyle2(env,
configObject.lookAroundDelta);
dLayer.deactivate();
}
});
env.startRendering();
}
}
}
// Category Interactive
private function categoryClicked(e:InteractiveScene3DEvent):void
{
if (gridMode) return;
env.keepRendering = true;
cCategory = Cube(e.target);
// fade out other cube
var i:Number;
var c:Cube;
for (i = 0; i < totalCategory; i++)
{
c = Cube(env.scene.getChildByName("category" +
i));
if (i != e.target.extra.index)
{
TweenMax.to(c, 0.75, { scale:0,
ease:Quint.easeOut, visible:false } );
}
}
// move selected cube to center
TweenMax.to(e.target, 1, { x:0, ease:Quint.easeOut } );
// rotate cube - start load or display asset
rotateCube = new TweenMax(e.target, 5, { delay:0.5,
rotationY:360, loop:0, ease:Linear.easeNone } );
currentCategory = e.target.extra.index;
dLayer.activate(true);
//addChild(goFull);
// load asset or display
if (!category[currentCategory].assetLoaded)
loadCategoryAsset();
else
{
maxPage =
Math.floor(category[currentCategory].TOTAL /
category[currentCategory].matrix.num) + (category[currentCategory].TOTAL %
category[currentCategory].matrix.num != 0);
displayCategoryAsset();
}
}
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RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
On the stage, give them instance names in the property inspector and
then put those names into the array.
Jason Merrill
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Lehr,
Theodore
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
These are mcs that are created on the stage - not in code How would
I refer to them in this:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
??
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Easy:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
for each (var mc:MovieClip in myMovieClips) {
mc.addEventListener(WhateverEvent.WHATEVER, onWhateverEvent); }
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Lehr,
Theodore
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Is it possible to add a listener to a multitude of mcs through a loop?
so instead of
mc1.addEventListener
mc2.add
mc3.add
...
...
..
maybe I have an array with each mc name and then loop through it to add
the event listeners?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
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RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
nevermind - user error
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Easy:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
for each (var mc:MovieClip in myMovieClips)
{
mc.addEventListener(WhateverEvent.WHATEVER, onWhateverEvent);
}
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-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Lehr,
Theodore
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Is it possible to add a listener to a multitude of mcs through a loop?
so instead of
mc1.addEventListener
mc2.add
mc3.add
...
...
..
maybe I have an array with each mc name and then loop through it to add
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RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
These are mcs that are created on the stage - not in code How would I refer
to them in this:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
??
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason
[jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com]
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Easy:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
for each (var mc:MovieClip in myMovieClips)
{
mc.addEventListener(WhateverEvent.WHATEVER, onWhateverEvent);
}
Jason Merrill
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-Original Message-
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Theodore
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To: Flash Coders List
Subject: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Is it possible to add a listener to a multitude of mcs through a loop?
so instead of
mc1.addEventListener
mc2.add
mc3.add
...
...
..
maybe I have an array with each mc name and then loop through it to add
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RE: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Easy:
var myMovieClips:Array = [mc1, mc2, mc3, mc4];
for each (var mc:MovieClip in myMovieClips)
{
mc.addEventListener(WhateverEvent.WHATEVER, onWhateverEvent);
}
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-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Lehr,
Theodore
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:36 AM
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: [Flashcoders] Adding listener
Is it possible to add a listener to a multitude of mcs through a loop?
so instead of
mc1.addEventListener
mc2.add
mc3.add
...
...
..
maybe I have an array with each mc name and then loop through it to add
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash - Django interaction
On 30/06/2010 11:50, David Hunter wrote: Hi there,I work with guys who build all their CMS using python and django and their preferred method is to send everything as JSON format. There is a JSON decoder in the AS3 core lib ( http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ ) to help extract the data which I use. Its always me receiving data from them although we are looking at a project where I would send them data, but we haven't discussed the technicalities much. Hope that is of some help, David Thanks david, though it looks like the traditional http service URL is going to be OK after all. Paul Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:20:05 +0100 From: p...@ipauland.com To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash - Django interaction I'm working on a project where my flash UI needs to interact with a server running django. I'm not going to do the django work and normally i'd just suggest a simple http service endpoint using a single URL with a command pattern returning XML results. Apparently this isn't the usual django interaction. Any pointers? Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ 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] Flash - Django interaction
Hi there,I work with guys who build all their CMS using python and django and their preferred method is to send everything as JSON format. There is a JSON decoder in the AS3 core lib ( http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ ) to help extract the data which I use. Its always me receiving data from them although we are looking at a project where I would send them data, but we haven't discussed the technicalities much. Hope that is of some help, David > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:20:05 +0100 > From: p...@ipauland.com > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash - Django interaction > > I'm working on a project where my flash UI needs to interact with a > server running django. I'm not going to do the django work and normally > i'd just suggest a simple http service endpoint using a single URL with > a command pattern returning XML results. Apparently this isn't the usual > django interaction. > > Any pointers? > > Paul > ___ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Flash - Django interaction
I'm working on a project where my flash UI needs to interact with a server running django. I'm not going to do the django work and normally i'd just suggest a simple http service endpoint using a single URL with a command pattern returning XML results. Apparently this isn't the usual django interaction. Any pointers? Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Text area focus
Just an update, I found that Safari has a nice resource tracking
feature on it that helps with evaluating performance of your website
and all the elements in it. separately even.
You can right click on a site and in the menu you should have
"inspect element". A bottom window will raise up with all the info
you need. Well.. almost all.
You can track load times, view scripts and css and many other things.
Hope that helps someone like it did me.
Best,
Karl
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote:
Karl, I'm not sure how to benchmark memory in AS 2. I think that
what you
might want to benchmark here is cpu performance, anyway.
In this particular case, I don't think you can benchmark much, though.
Basically, all performance benchmarks I've seen are based on
getTimer (two
simple calls to getTimer, one before running the code you're
interested in,
and one after; the difference is very roughly how much your code
took to
run; there are more sophisticated suites (like Grant Skinner's),
but to my
knowledge, all are based on the same principle).
The problem here is that what seems to be taking too long is an
internal
mechanism of the player (managing and dispatching onChanged, for
instance).
Can't think of a way of timing that off the top of my head.
If one the methods runs your fan wild and the other one doesn't,
though, you
have a clear winner already!
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2010/6/16 Karl DeSaulniers
On that note, what would be a good way to get a benchmark for this?
Any pointers?
Karl
On Jun 16, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Ahh.. let me try that.
I am sure you are correct.
That way it only checks to see if that textField is changing when
focus is
on it.
And being that onChanged was less memory intensive than onEnterFrame
that makes sense. But my tests are not finite.
I do not have a benchmark result or anything stating
how much memory my swf is using while in the browser.
But it would seem the onSetFocus/onKillFocus keeps any extra
memory from
being used in either case.
Thanks again Juan.
Karl
On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote:
Not really. In theory, onChanged should be less intensive, I
think. But,
from your description it seems it isn't, so go figure...
I'd go with the onSetFocus / onKillFocus then, but I'd do
another test,
just
out of curiosity. Instead of setting an enterframe when you get
focus and
nulling it when focus is lost, what happens is you use the
onChanged
event
instead?
I mean, something like:
textbox.onSetFocus = function() {
textbox.onChanged = etc...;
};
textbox.onKillFocus = function() {
textbox.onChanged = null;
}
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2010/6/16 Karl DeSaulniers
Hi Juan,
Interesting enough, it seems your solution also runs my fan a
bit wild
too.
Not as bad, I'd say about half as much.
I know its the form because I have tested many times. Every
time I close
the browser window that has the form, my fan slows to a stop
almost
immediately.
I chose the onFocus mainly because I knew that it was the
onEnterFrame
that
was taking up memory, so I wanted it to fire only when someone was
typing.
It looks like my suggestion does just that. The fan never kicks
on.
My purpose for this is to set up a flash site that takes little
to no
memory usage.
Am I right in assuming that this is memory usage by the code
that makes
my
fan kick in.
I've been nulling any onEnterFrames, removing listeners, etc.
Any thoughts as to why the onChanged eats memory too?
TIA
Karl
On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Juan Pablo Califano wrote:
It seems like you don't really need to bother about gaining or
losing
focus
here. Just listening to the change event will do the job and
you could
remove the enter_frame.
commentxt_mc.onChanged = function(tf:TextField):Void {
var numChar:Number = 650 - tf.length;
if (numChar == 0) {
maxChar = "Max Characters Reached";
} else {
maxChar = "Max Char: " + numChar.toString(); //Have
another
text box with the var maxChar to display the results while
typing.
}
};
The equivalent in AS 3.0 is very similar, though a bit more
verbose (as
usual!):
commentxt_mc.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,handleTextChange);
function handleTextChange(e:Event):void {
var tf:TextField = e.target as TextField;
if(!tf) {
return;
}
var numChar:Number = 650 - tf.length;
var maxChar:String = "";
if (numChar == 0) {
maxChar = "Max Characters Reached";
} else {
maxChar = "Max Char: " + numChar.toString(); //Have another
text box
with
the var maxChar to display the results while typing.
}
}
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2010/6/15 Karl DeSaulniers
PERFECTO!
Thanks Amol,
For anyone who might want this. I have made a script that
will read
the
length of a text field and display the number of characters
left while
someone was typing.
The reason for the code I was seeking with this request was
because
th
