I am not sure if this has been mentioned.
The definitive particle effect site for Flash.
http://www.horsefish.net/ElementalFX/what.html
FYI, ElementalFX uses the one particle per movieclip method.
ryanm
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buggy. you should ask them. they know best.
I wouldn't call it buggy, I would call it an incomplete implementation.
Do yourself a favor and don't tell your customers that linux is supported.
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hi micha,
thanks! its working.
but where did you get this trick from? lowlevelevents? never heard
before. great!
eugen
Am 19.10.2005 um 16:48 schrieb Michael Stuhr:
eugen pflüger schrieb:
and also no onRollOver events or something like this. mouseMove
is not working either.
i
eugen pflüger schrieb:
hi micha,
thanks! its working.
but where did you get this trick from? lowlevelevents? never heard
before. great!
eugen
reading manuals sometimes. :-)
micha
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Another option: use my LineGeneralization class
www.motiondraw.com/md/as_samples/drawing/lineGeneralizationDemo/demo.html
An excellent explanation/visualisation of the implemented algos - Lang
Simplification and McMaster's Slide Averaging Algorithm - is found at
Hi all!
Pardon my complete ignorance about the current status on XML loading in
Flash,
but can anyone tell me why the Flash Player *freezes* (some
milliseconds) when loading XML ?
I knew there was an issue with Flash 5 (hence Branden's (and friends)
FLEM), but I thought it was resolved with
Has this something to do with threads ? and Flash not being
multi-threaded ??
Thanks,
Cedric
Hi all!
Pardon my complete ignorance about the current status on XML loading
in Flash,
but can anyone tell me why the Flash Player *freezes* (some
milliseconds) when loading XML ?
I knew there was
hi guys and gals, i haven't all the much experience working with
components so I might be missing something very obvious (I hope!)
my combo box drops down fine in the IDE, but not in the browser
(safari firefox tested), it just shows the first item and refuses
to drop...?
i've tried
My JSFL script appears to be unaccountably dying half-way through. It's a
pretty hard-working script, but there's nothing to make it stop where it
does (just half-way through a perfectly ordinary loop it's already traversed
successfully several times). Is there some limit on the amount of code
I have been creating a flash which includes alot of text loaded from
xml (in CDATA chunks).
I have been inserting 'br' between the p's to create some
vertical spacing like so
public function addBRtoPs(string:String):String
{
while(string.indexOf('/pp',0)!=-1){
Stan Vassilev schrieb:
Trust me the MM engineers are definitely interested in fixing crash bugs.
If you can provide files where they see this happen it'll help a lot.
i'd like to trust you, no problem, but i have no will to spend my time on
bug-fixing. i should say, that i believe the bug is
Hello,
I was wondering if it's possible to move a comboBox component on-the-fly
without closing it.
This is the scenario:
I populate a combo with values from amfphp, format it, and when the user
open it, i want to slide it (move it) to another x position and change it's
width.
I have 2 event
Stan Vassilev schrieb:
If you strongly complain about the bug but don't want to help with material
to get it reproduced and fixed, should I consider this post a rant :)?
Anyway, up to you, of course.
no offense mate, but if i'd say this to my customers, i'd get fired. point.
micha
micha,
How about reporting reproducible steps of the bug here and someone
will get it to the engineers to look at? If its a crashing bug, like
you have said, and it is reproducible, then please post it up.
Otherwise, like Stan said, this indeed comes across like a rant.
Eric Dolecki
On
I didn't read that far down. So one of us will try to reproduce your
bug and send it in to MM. Thanks.
Eric
On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Michael Stuhr wrote:
Eric E. Dolecki schrieb:
micha,
How about reporting reproducible steps of the bug here and
someone will get it to the
Thanks !
J-C
On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Alisdair Mills wrote:
have done a quick guide to getting the flex2 framework and as3
compiler working on OS X, for anyone interested.
http://www.mook.co.uk/~alisdair.mills/mxmlc_compiler_osx.html
cheers, Alisdair
On 19 Oct 2005, at 14:38, eric
I'm running Flash 8 on a 15 Powerbook 1.5 GHZ with 1.5 GB no
problem. I'm also running Flash 8 on a 5 (almost 6) year old G4
tower dual 450GHZ with 2GB of ram.
Are you being nice to your mac? De-fragmenting the hard-drive,
running cron, fixing permissions... does your hard drive have
How about reporting reproducible steps of the bug here and someone
will get it to the engineers to look at? If its a crashing bug, like
you have said, and it is reproducible, then please post it up.
Otherwise, like Stan said, this indeed comes across like a rant.
didn't you read the
I've read that Flashcomm was able to communicate with serverside
applications.
something's still wrong in my mind...
I got sending data between my .swf and may .class using openamf but it's
webservices, only pull.
I got sending data from the server to my .swf (push) using flashcom
but I still
Stan, Michael, Jester and Weyert, thank you guys very very much for your
responses. I can't say all my uncertainty has evaporated; just my nature i
guess, but I'm on my way to feeling a little less anxious and a little more
enthusiastic.
Probably in about a year this will all seem manageable
I think it's ideal to embed the data into the FLV itself.
Less maintenance in file management.
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What do you want to know? Basically, if you write some mxml and/or some
actionscript, then you hit the run button, it will publish the 8.5
player .swf file in your workspace. Here is a script that will create
some a pie chart filled with the data from actionscript (nothing
specifically
Here's an article that should explain it all:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/improving_ria.html
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Thanks for the advice, Alias. I just ordered the book and joined the Flash
Game Coders list.
Thanks,
Mike
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Dude, it will SOOO not take a year. I really don't think you are giving
yourself enough credit. Flash Developers have an opportunity that the .NET
Java people do not; the ability to quickly get into Flex development.
We already know ActionScript, components, and how the Flash Player works;
What about just creating and instance of them and then changing the
width/height to be 1/8th of the original width/height?
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com
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I played with Flex Builder 2 a bit and I think I see where this is
going. Is it safe to say that this Alpha is just to get used to what MM
is working on just make example projects? Is it recommended we can start
creating apps that may be deployable a year from now (to coincide with
the final
dont have 8 pro? tsk - tsk ;)
e.d.
On 10/20/05, John Giotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or you don't have 8 professional
On 10/20/05, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the FLV Encoder that comes with F8... unless of course you are given
FLVs already without those cue points
Hi,
Its more than enough to use br to split the Text, don't use /br (No such
command in HTML) . U can split the Text with br
var str_array = myString_str.split(br);
and proceed with that resulting array
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Hello boys its glad to have everyone back. I
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Thanks, but nope - still gives the same error:
Open quote is expected for attribute title. test1.mxmltest1
line 36
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The second go works like a charm, I had already tried to extend the mxml
file but without creationComplete event thats why it didnt work in my
previous attemps.
Thanks a million Geoffrey
Cheers
Tiago Janz
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It doesn't seem to do it randomly just does the entire text box at once.
Corban Baxter | rich media designer | www.funimation.com
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Hi Danny,
It's hard to say without being able to look at your loop code. The times
that my JSFL scripts have stopped were usually due to trying to access a
locked or hidden layer. I don't think I got an error (but I don't
remember for sure). So check that thats not the case. Also, you might
Yeah, I thought of that and tried that too, and I get a Flash player 8.5
error:
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property myXML not found on test1 and there
is no default value
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Oh I did that, years ago. I uploaded it to FlashKit I think.. do a
search for 3d there and maybe you'll get to the file. Otherwise it
might take me a while to dig it up or maybe you could decompile a swf
or something.. anyway if you can't get it write me offlist.
MG/MosesSupposes
On Oct
Have anyone tried to access flashvars in AS3.0 yet?
The docs only detail the Flex App how-to.
_level0 doesn't float.
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Make var:myXML public.
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Help with Flexbuilder 2 and XML loading
Yeah, I thought of that and
?xml version=1.0?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml;
creationComplete=init();
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.formatters.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.trace;
Yes you can :-)
But in this case, a warning (not an error) kept showing up that changes to the
value that was bound to the title of the panel would
not be 'spotted'.
I think this means that in order to do some kind of dynamic binding, a data
source is required that emits (modelChanged?) events
I realize its still in Alpha, but has anyone noticed that highlighting
long lines of code in the Flexbuilder 2 IDE is sometimes problematic, as
the highlighting is sometimes delayed behind the cursor for as long as a
few seconds? For example, if I try and click and drag my cursor across
the
I'm confused by a difference in the F7 and F8 compiler. When casting a
dynamically attached MovieClip, my code runs fine in F7 but not in F8. This
code compiles fine in F7 and F8 but when compiled from F8 (even when
targetting the F7 player) I cannot access the methods of the dynamically
attached
if a feature is sometimes working and sometimes not, what shall we call it
in your opinion ? Lazy ?
When I'm feeling generous, I would call the linux Flash player a
prematurely released beta. That's about it.
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Hmmm, can't say I've noticed that.
Only thing that annoys the hell out of me is the 'rebuilding workspace' dialog
each time I hit CTRL+S.
I tend to hit that after every word or so.
I wasn't really aware of the fact I save my document *that* much... up to now.
I'm using the standalone version by
Yeah, no dice Mike. No compiler or player errors, but no text in the
panel title either.
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You can turn this off with:
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Muzak wrote:
Hmmm, can't say I've noticed that.
Only thing that annoys the hell out of me is the 'rebuilding workspace' dialog each time
I hit CTRL+S.
I tend to hit that after every word or so.
I wasn't
I'm looking to create a text effect similar to the effect of the movie
reviews found on the website for The Squid and the Whale
(http://www.squidandthewhalemovie.com/). I'm not looking for source code
(although that would be nice), but more the overall approach.
I assume the words that make
Really? That is working for me.
Make sure that you are compiling the project before debugging.
mike chambers
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Yeah, no dice Mike. No compiler or player errors, but no text in the
panel title either.
Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions |
Actually, yeah, so doing this in a mx:Script tag:
panelTitle0 = myXML.day[0].name;
panelTitle1 = myXML.day[1].name;
panelTitle2 = myXML.day[2].name;
Just to get it from XML into my mxml component via
mx:Panel title={panelTitle1} /
mx:Panel
If you put the following frame labels inside 4 frames of a movie clip:
_up, _over, _down, _hit
and put a stop action in each of those frames,
when you assign behaviors to the movie clip instance (i.e.
myMC.onRelease = function() ) the movie clip will act exactly like a
button. Is this what
Muzak are you just playing with flex 2 or are you trying to build some real
applications. Reason I ask is I have a 400 hour project that I think would be
better suited to flex than normal flash as its an online app and I'm trying to
make my decision right now as to which way I'm going to go
Yeah, I don't think there is any way to do what you're describing... I
could be wrong, but I've never heard of that kind of capability. I
mean, I'm pretty sure there is no way to automatically add framelabels
for example.
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Thank you
I looked your site also :)
Jan
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Hey eric,
I didnt try it like that instead I have an icon class which part of its
contructor or functions branching off was to duplicate the icon and
create an bmp copy with tranformation matrix(flipped) and apply a
gradient(alpha) bmp as a mask. then the class just has an interface to
move the
please stop sending me emails, unsubscribe me
Mick Gow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There are issues with components if you load
them into a target movieclip if
you are doing that (try loading it not into a MC and view in your browser).
MM has a technote on the topic if this is your problem.
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