[Flashcoders] EventDispatcher and JavaDoc

[Martin Klasson]

I have read through several JavaDocs-documents and am still not having
any clue about how to write down that a method uses dispatchEvent.

class A{

public function addToQueue(){
// code..
// dispatchEvent(...)
}
}


Is there any @anything for dealing with how to write down the
dispatchEvent.
Or I will write it down in description, not that nice -but will work of
course.

Is there also some as2-class files that has some good usage of the
JavaDoc anywhere? Would be fun to see how JavaDoc is used within the
flash-community.

/ martin
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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Helmut Granda]

Great work! By any chance Do you have a list of platforms you have 
tested this on? The main problem I have is with Linux.


Thanks

...helmut

Judah Frangipane wrote:


Hi Saunder,

It is possible. Until I send some example links you can look at these 
screenshots here:


http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot1.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot2.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/htmloverlay

I am thinking of making this open source if anyone is interested.

Best Regards,
Judah

Sander wrote:

Er... Linux issue only? How do you layer *any* content above flash?  
It's just not possible! Even a layer with plain text with a higher 
ID  will drop under flash...


Thanks for all your help, not only I learned how exactly indetify  
the problem but also how to post more accurate subjects to the  
list. I will try to get the source info for this problem and post  
it back to the list.



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Re: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?

[eric dolecki]

i had it clear my entire desktop. I didn't have it all in SVN at the
time. Pretty freaking scary when it happens.

On 10/31/05, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had Eclipse 3.1 delete an entire project directory when I removed a
> project, and said "No, please don't delete the project."
>
> It crashed, deleted everything.  I told it to f'off because I had just
> checked everything in via SVN, but close call.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "eric dolecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:27 PM
> Subject: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?
>
>
> Just curious if anyone else has lost data when using Eclipse with ASDT?
>
> e.dolecki
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Re: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?

[JesterXL]

I've had Eclipse 3.1 delete an entire project directory when I removed a 
project, and said "No, please don't delete the project."

It crashed, deleted everything.  I told it to f'off because I had just 
checked everything in via SVN, but close call.

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From: "eric dolecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:27 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?


Just curious if anyone else has lost data when using Eclipse with ASDT?

e.dolecki
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[Flashcoders] ASDT data loss?

[eric dolecki]

Just curious if anyone else has lost data when using Eclipse with ASDT?

e.dolecki
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Re: [Flashcoders] map GIS of italy

[Jason]

Hi, Douglas...  :)

I was wondering if it is possible to see that in action or perhaps some
screenshot if it is okay...  :)

Thanks...

Jason

- Original Message - 
From: "douglas morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] map GIS of italy


> you can go to teleatlas or esri, and a fewother vendors for spatial data
to
> load in your database. we started out using this method, but it became
large
> and expensive. we now use data from a webservice call to esri's
> arcwebservice (arcweb.esri.com ). it pulls back
the
> maps (we use italy street level addressing too) and the scale and i then
> place our POI in flash allowing users to "zoom" like in mappy...
>
> On 10/31/05, Marco Sottana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > where i can find a map of italy i wish coordinates in a database.. i
like
> > www.mappy.com  ...
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Re: [Flashcoders] Import Outlook contacts or MSN emails into Flash application

[Ryan Matsikas]

Im pretty sure outlook at export CSV file or something similiar..

Can't tell you for sure as I dont use either product..

On 10/31/05, Wouter Steidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to import Outlook contacts or people
> from
> your MSN or AOL list into a Flash application? I want to use this for a
> birthday calender I am building where you can send an email to a friend
> asking for his or her birthday. It would be nice if people could add a lot
> of emails at once without having to type them all in manually
>
> Wouter
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheng
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:32 PM
> To: Flashcoders mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Updating MS Outlook calendar from Flash app
>
> James Johnson wrote:
> > Is it possible to create a calendar application in Flash which allows
> > the user to click on an event and to have that event automatically added
> > to their MS Outlook calendar?
>
> You can, but it's rather tricky. Microsoft closely guards their
> proprietary ActiveSync protocol used for sync'ing external applications
> and devices with Exchange Server. While a number of large phone and
> device manufacturers have licensed the protocol recently, this probably
> out of reach to all but the largest of clients.
>
> Failing that, there's several other options available. The simplest way
> to go about this would be to create and e-mail a vCalendar meeting
> request to the recipient and depend on them to accept and add it onto
> their calendar. It's not quite automatic and doesn't sync in real-time,
> but is probably the easiest solution. As vCalendar is an open format
> (http://www.imc.org/pdi/), this shouldn't be very difficult to do with
> Flash and a little bit of server-side code.
>
> Alternatively, Novell had worked around the issue of licensing the
> ActiveSync protocol with Exchange Connector by reimplementing the RPC
> over HTTP calls used by the Outlook web application (OWA). This has
> been open-sourced into Gnome's Evolution mail/address/calendaring client
> (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/), so you could reuse their
> code to sync with Exchange Server that way.
>
> Lastly, you could always screen-scrape OWA yourself and add the event
> that way through HTTP, though I'd imagine this would probably be even
> more work then reusing the code from Evolution. In theory, you could
> probably do all of this from within the Flash client if you go this
> route, though this would probably involve lots of work. ;(
>
> Jim
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Re: [Flashcoders] Player 8.5 standalone on OSX?

[Michael Bianco]

I'd like the answer to this also...

On 10/28/05, Jon Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No answer from MM on their labs forums, or anywhere else for that
> matter.
>
> Anyone locate the standalone player for OS X yet? It aint in the
> FlexBuilder2 installer or in the plug-in installer.  Only the PC exe
> files are standalone.
>
> ??
>
> thanks...
>
> Jon
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Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

[Mike Britton]

Learning FlexBuilder 2 can coincide with your FAMES learning because it all
happens in the same IDE (Eclipse). I don't recommend switching entirely
unless you don't plan to release anything until Flex 2 comes out (Jan?).
Flex is simply another way to develop apps on the Flash Platform. (It's
really exciting to people like me who remember using the Flash IDE and
View->Actions to get to the scripting environment. I feel spoiled by all
this awesome new stuff.)

Mike
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Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

[JesterXL]

I used to use FAME because MTASC is extremely fast at compiling compared to 
Flash.

However, MTASC is apparently not going to support AS3, thus the whole point 
of using FAME, for me anyway, is dead.  While Flashout has some nicely 
formatted traces, and ASDT has some neat templates, it doesn't compare to 
FlexBuilder 2.

So, yeah, I'd dump FAME and go to FlexBuilder 2.

- Original Message - 
From: "Brent Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:17 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?


Here goes my first post to flashcoders.  I recently began experimenting
with the FAMES development setup.  So far the IDE is really awesome, but
is there anyway to debug?  I've played with the debug settings in
Eclipse but no luck.  Are there any additional plugins for this?  I
guess I need FAMEDS.  :P

As a related question, do any other FAMES users recommend switching to
Flex?  Since I've been using Fames it's been bothering me that I can't
write in AS3 (not to mention the many other benefits to Flex).  As it is
widely discussed in this forum, Flex seems to be bridging the gap from
Flash to a true programmer's IDE, but in my opinion it still has a ways
to go and I really like what Fames has to offer.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Best,
Brent G
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

[Amanda Kuek]

Thanks a heap Dominic and Richard!

You're right - that flash demo at
http://www.cybergrain.com/tech/demos/flashhtml/ was of extremely great
use.

It's always nice to do something for the first time in Flash, that you
didn't think was possible.

Cheers again.

On 01/11/05, Dominic Fee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Amanda
>
> This link may be of great use:
>
> Cheers
> Dom
>
> http://www.cybergrain.com/tech/demos/flashhtml/



On 31/10/05, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Amanda
>
> There's a reasonably simple javascript solution for you.
>
> Javascript
> 
>
> Add a hidden textfield to your form named XYlocation
>
>
> In Flash swf
> //
> var xStyle_fmt = new TextFormat();
> xStyle_fmt.font = "_sans";
> xStyle_fmt.bold = true;
> xStyle_fmt.size = 16;
> //--
> this.onMouseDown = function() {
> this.createEmptyMovieClip("x_mc", );
> with (this.x_mc) {
> this.createTextField("x_txt", 1200, _parent._xmouse-10,
> _parent._ymouse-10, 20, 20);
> //_xmouse-10 and _ymouse-10 places the centre of the
> text X at the mouse arrow point
> this.x_txt.setNewTextFormat(_parent.xStyle_fmt);
> this.x_txt.text = "X";
> this.x_txt.textColor = 0xFF;
> }
> };
> this.onMouseUp = function() {
> var XYpos = "X=" + this._xmouse + " Y+" + this._ymouse;
> trace("XY+" + XYpos);
> getURL("javascript:setFormText(XYpos)")
> };
> //--
> 
>
>
> HTH
>
> Richard
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

[Amanda Kuek]

Thanks James. It's a good idea, but I think for this project I'll go
with the "Javascript sets hidden form fields" idea. But thanks for
adding this idea to my spongey brain!

On 31/10/05, JOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't hit the server until the location was considered final by the
> user.  Maybe have a "lock hole" or "finalize hole" button in the flash
> movie that triggers the POST.  It wouldn't work to put the POST on
> something like a mouseMove event and I'd be hesitant about using mouseUp
> either for the exact reason you mention.  You don't want the user to
> keep hitting the server over and over for nothing.
>
> The advantage to using the session object would be for two different ASP
> pages... A) The one your Flash movie POSTs to behind the scenes and B)
> the one your HTML form POSTs to when the form is complete.  In order for
> the two ASP pages to share data you need to store the X and Y locations
> somewhere they both can access.  Session seemed like a logical place but
> you have other options like a database or even cookies.  It's up to you
> what makes the most sense for your needs.
>
> JOR
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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Muzak]

You might find the answer here:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm

Furthermore, in Flash 4, a colon was used to get/set a variable in a certain 
timeline.
If I remember correcty, it looked something like this:

phrases/introduction:String = "blah";

Where 'String' would be a variable and 'introduction' a MovieClip inside 
'phrases', also a MovieClip.

regards,
Muzak

- Original Message - 
From: "Jason Lutes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I also find it strange that you can't do this:
>
> var phrases:Object = new Object();
> phrases.introduction:String = 'Bem vindo a todos.';
>
> - or even -
>
> var phrases:Array = new Array();
> phrases[0]:String = 'Bem vindo a todos.';
>
> Should dynamically created properties/elements really be that bastardized
> in ActionScript? One of the advantages of strict data typing is the
> disambiguation of the code. I miss the ability to completely disambiguate
> in certain situations. For example, I occasionally use loops to generate
> objects or populate arrays, and would like to be able to strictly identify
> (for the sake of readability) any new properties/elements added within
> that loop.
>
> I can get around the limitation by directly passing a value to a _simple_
> datatype's constructor during assignment. This identifies the expected
> value's type for me in many situations, but other constructors don't
> accept a direct value this way.
>
> I'm not encouraging/perpetuating bad programming practices here. There's
> legitimate reason to wonder about this.
>


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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[ryanm]

The reason why all of this is of any concern to me is that I am attempting
to write solid AS2.0 today that has the potential to be migrated to AS3.0
tommorow. The reason why I havn't gone head first into AS3.0 is that my
present target audience is Flash Player 7.


   Easy to migrate (for the mentioned functions) in a single line of code:

import flash.util.*

   Then your trace() calls will work just like the do now.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

[Ron Wheeler]

Flashout is the debugging part of Eclipse


Brent Gore wrote:


Here goes my first post to flashcoders.  I recently began experimenting
with the FAMES development setup.  So far the IDE is really awesome, but
is there anyway to debug?  I've played with the debug settings in
Eclipse but no luck.  Are there any additional plugins for this?  I
guess I need FAMEDS.  :P

As a related question, do any other FAMES users recommend switching to
Flex?  Since I've been using Fames it's been bothering me that I can't
write in AS3 (not to mention the many other benefits to Flex).  As it is
widely discussed in this forum, Flex seems to be bridging the gap from
Flash to a true programmer's IDE, but in my opinion it still has a ways
to go and I really like what Fames has to offer.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Best,
Brent G
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RE: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Scott Hyndman]

Really neat...but may I suggest that you change the name?

Scott

-Original Message-
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Judah Frangipane
Sent:   Mon 10/31/2005 3:14 PM
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Cc: 
Subject:Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed
Hi Saunder,

It is possible. Until I send some example links you can look at these 
screenshots here:

http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot1.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot2.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/htmloverlay

I am thinking of making this open source if anyone is interested.

Best Regards,
Judah

Sander wrote:

> Er... Linux issue only? How do you layer *any* content above flash?  
> It's just not possible! Even a layer with plain text with a higher ID  
> will drop under flash...
>
>> Thanks for all your help, not only I learned how exactly indetify  
>> the problem but also how to post more accurate subjects to the  list. 
>> I will try to get the source info for this problem and post  it back 
>> to the list.
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[Flashcoders] Debugging wih FAMES?

[Brent Gore]

Here goes my first post to flashcoders.  I recently began experimenting
with the FAMES development setup.  So far the IDE is really awesome, but
is there anyway to debug?  I've played with the debug settings in
Eclipse but no luck.  Are there any additional plugins for this?  I
guess I need FAMEDS.  :P

As a related question, do any other FAMES users recommend switching to
Flex?  Since I've been using Fames it's been bothering me that I can't
write in AS3 (not to mention the many other benefits to Flex).  As it is
widely discussed in this forum, Flex seems to be bridging the gap from
Flash to a true programmer's IDE, but in my opinion it still has a ways
to go and I really like what Fames has to offer.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Best,
Brent G
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[Flashcoders] Import Outlook contacts or MSN emails into Flash application

[Wouter Steidl]

Hi there,

Does anyone know if it is possible to import Outlook contacts or people from
your MSN or AOL list into a Flash application? I want to use this for a
birthday calender I am building where you can send an email to a friend
asking for his or her birthday. It would be nice if people could add a lot
of emails at once without having to type them all in manually

Wouter


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheng
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:32 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Updating MS Outlook calendar from Flash app

James Johnson wrote:
> Is it possible to create a calendar application in Flash which allows 
> the user to click on an event and to have that event automatically added 
> to their MS Outlook calendar?

You can, but it's rather tricky.  Microsoft closely guards their 
proprietary ActiveSync protocol used for sync'ing external applications 
and devices with Exchange Server.  While a number of large phone and 
device manufacturers have licensed the protocol recently, this probably 
out of reach to all but the largest of clients.

Failing that, there's several other options available.  The simplest way 
to go about this would be to create and e-mail a vCalendar meeting 
request to the recipient and depend on them to accept and add it onto 
their calendar.  It's not quite automatic and doesn't sync in real-time, 
but is probably the easiest solution.  As vCalendar is an open format 
(http://www.imc.org/pdi/), this shouldn't be very difficult to do with 
Flash and a little bit of server-side code.

Alternatively, Novell had worked around the issue of licensing the 
ActiveSync protocol with Exchange Connector by reimplementing the RPC 
over HTTP calls used by the Outlook web application (OWA).  This has 
been open-sourced into Gnome's Evolution mail/address/calendaring client 
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/), so you could reuse their 
code to sync with Exchange Server that way.

Lastly, you could always screen-scrape OWA yourself and add the event 
that way through HTTP, though I'd imagine this would probably be even 
more work then reusing the code from Evolution.  In theory, you could 
probably do all of this from within the Flash client if you go this 
route, though this would probably involve lots of work.  ;(

Jim
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RE: [Flashcoders] Making a function var global

[Kris Hadlock]

If you are looking to get the value of this [mediaNode.nodeName] only you could 
use it as the return value for you method:


this[mediaNode.nodeName] = mediaNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
return this[mediaNode.nodeName];




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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DP
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:53 PM
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Importance: High


Hey man.

You could create a variable outside of the function, declare it to be  
global, and then assign it like you have below.

DP

On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, jleonard wrote:

>
>I'm using the line below inside a function to create a var using  
> the xml's node name tag.
>
>But outside the function, it's tracing "undefined". I understand  
> that in AS2 this has something to do with public/private calls. How  
> do I get this to be seen globally?
>
>
>   this [mediaNode.nodeName] = mediaNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
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[Flashcoders] Fwd: casting to a boolean -- SOLVED.

[Matt Ganz]

apparently the problem was with the encoding of the text file. it was
originally encoded as Western Roman and as soon as i encoded it as
utf-8 it worked just fine.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Matt Ganz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Oct 31, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: casting to a boolean
To: Flashcoders mailing list 


hi.

i had a similar problem casting a string to a boolean last week but
someone showed me the correct way to do it. unfortunately, it's not
working in my latest exercise. when i trace out the value i always get
"false" even when i change it to "true". what happened to my
conditional? ( i'm publishing to fp7 )

loadVariablesNum( "text.txt", 2 );

function checkParamsLoaded()
{
if ( _level2 == undefined )
{
trace( "not yet." );
}
else
{
trace( "finished loading. killing interval." );
trace( "-" );

for ( i in _level2 )
{
trace( i + ": " + _level2[i] );
}

var temp:Boolean = ( _level2.textloaded == "true" ); //
'textloaded' is the var specified in the text file
trace( "temp: " + temp ); // PROBLEM -- always outputs to
'false', even when var is set to 'true'
trace( "typeof(temp): " + typeof(temp) ); // outputs to
"Boolean" = GOOD.
trace("-");
clearInterval( param_interval );
}
}
var param_interval = setInterval(checkParamsLoaded, 100);

i know that loadVariablesNum changed its behavior in fp7 but i'm not
sure if that has anything to do with it. does anyone spot anything
wrong in there?

thanks for any tips. -- matt.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Making a function var global

[DP]

Hey man.

You could create a variable outside of the function, declare it to be  
global, and then assign it like you have below.


DP

On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:26 PM, jleonard wrote:



   I'm using the line below inside a function to create a var using  
the xml's node name tag.


   But outside the function, it's tracing "undefined". I understand  
that in AS2 this has something to do with public/private calls. How  
do I get this to be seen globally?



  this [mediaNode.nodeName] = mediaNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
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[Flashcoders] Making a function var global

[jleonard]

   I'm using the line below inside a function to create a var using the  
xml's node name tag.


   But outside the function, it's tracing "undefined". I understand that  
in AS2 this has something to do with public/private calls. How do I get  
this to be seen globally?



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[Flashcoders] casting to a boolean

[Matt Ganz]

hi.

i had a similar problem casting a string to a boolean last week but
someone showed me the correct way to do it. unfortunately, it's not
working in my latest exercise. when i trace out the value i always get
"false" even when i change it to "true". what happened to my
conditional? ( i'm publishing to fp7 )

loadVariablesNum( "text.txt", 2 );

function checkParamsLoaded()
{
if ( _level2 == undefined )
{
trace( "not yet." );
}
else
{
trace( "finished loading. killing interval." );
trace( "-" );

for ( i in _level2 )
{
trace( i + ": " + _level2[i] );
}

var temp:Boolean = ( _level2.textloaded == "true" ); //
'textloaded' is the var specified in the text file
trace( "temp: " + temp ); // PROBLEM -- always outputs to
'false', even when var is set to 'true'
trace( "typeof(temp): " + typeof(temp) ); // outputs to
"Boolean" = GOOD.
trace("-");
clearInterval( param_interval );
}
}
var param_interval = setInterval(checkParamsLoaded, 100);

i know that loadVariablesNum changed its behavior in fp7 but i'm not
sure if that has anything to do with it. does anyone spot anything
wrong in there?

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RE: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[Mark Lapasa]

:/

Something like trace should be globalized (but somehow could be overrided).
I guess I can't have everything. In MM's anti-method-globalization approach,
it seems like a whole bunch of handy methods like...

trace()
fscommand()
getTimer()
LoadVars.send()

...got kicked out of the global house and have no class of their own to call
their home. So it seems they've been squished in with package definitions.
Better than accessing static methods like DebugUtils.log() I guess.

The reason why all of this is of any concern to me is that I am attempting
to write solid AS2.0 today that has the potential to be migrated to AS3.0
tommorow. The reason why I havn't gone head first into AS3.0 is that my
present target audience is Flash Player 7.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vassilev
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?


Well that's one thing I always wanted to do in AS2 so if it stays like this
it'd be great.
There are many functions that just perfectly without class in front of them
(after you import the package).

For example those you mentioned. When I was implementing my trace utils I
was forced to import fmethod.debug.* and still having to type every time
DebugUtils.log();

now I could just make it package method and type log();  ... it's great to
have that

Regards, Stan Vassilev

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:49 PM
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It's a method of the package.

When you create an AS 3 class you can put methods inside the package {}
block, but outside any class definitions.

I'm not sure why it works that way, but that's the way it works.

Spike

On 10/31/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i think its just a function declared with package scope.
>
>
> Mark Lapasa wrote:
> > flash.util.trace()
> >
> >
> >
> > Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[JesterXL]

Embedding a font works, but for smaller fonts, even in Flash Player 7, it's 
all blurry.  Flash Player 8 looks pretty good.

Both solutions, however, add a ton of CPU & RAM overhead because embedded 
fonts use anti-aliasing to make them look nice so slow down animations and 
use more ram.  However, setting a mask via code isn't always preferrable for 
some designs.  Pick the solution that's best.

- Original Message - 
From: "Éric Thibault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


Or like said: embed the font in your loaded swf

Noyes, Jeff wrote:

>So you have to set the mask through actionscript - that's the only way?
>
>-Original Message-
>From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:54 PM
>To: Flashcoders mailing list
>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?
>
>
>Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask
>device
>fonts using the setMask function.
>
>- Original Message - 
>From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?
>
>
>You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to
>show through a mask.
>
>At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
>
>
>>>I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask
>>>
>>>
>>is removing all dynamic text - why?
>>
>>
>>1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
>>with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
>>2. Why did you reply to a completly unrelated message?
>>
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Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[Éric Thibault]

Or like said: embed the font in your loaded swf

Noyes, Jeff wrote:


So you have to set the mask through actionscript - that's the only way?

-Original Message-
From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:54 PM

To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask
device 
fonts using the setMask function.


- Original Message - 
From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to
show through a mask.

At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
 


I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask
 


is removing all dynamic text - why?
   


1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
2. Why did you reply to a completly unrelated message?
   




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[Flashcoders] Flash Org Chart: Anyone seen an example?

[Noyes, Jeff]

I need to find an example of a Flash Org Chart - preferably one that's
built off of an XML file. Has anyone seen anything like this?

-Original Message-
From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask
device 
fonts using the setMask function.

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From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to
show through a mask.

At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
> > I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask
> is removing all dynamic text - why?
> >
>
>1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
>with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
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RE: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[Noyes, Jeff]

So you have to set the mask through actionscript - that's the only way?

-Original Message-
From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:54 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask
device 
fonts using the setMask function.

- Original Message - 
From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?


You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to
show through a mask.

At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
> > I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask
> is removing all dynamic text - why?
> >
>
>1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
>with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
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Re: [Flashcoders] Metadata injection

[Alex McCabe]

Hi Simon,

I think you'll need to look into the file format specification for this. Try
the H263VideoPacket tag near the end. I'd suggest using a tool that can
convert an existing tagged FLV into a XML document so you can have a look at
what's going on. You might be able to alter the XML and convert it back into
an FLV - but for better performance you'd need to be editing the binary
directly.

HTH,

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> *how* to do it myself.
>
> The idea is to pass a directory of jpgs to FFMPEG to create an flv
> movie. The idea would be to configure FFMPEG to add metadata to the
> flv as it's being generated. In order to do this I need to discover/
> learn how exactly we go about writing metadata (what's it look like
> etc) and how or where or when to inject it into the flv.
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[Flashcoders] How to get value of passed array element

[Miles Thompson]

I have a text field of references, like so ...

 
BULLETIN:SPECULATION HOUNDS SEAMARK
 HEADLINES 
OCTOBER 31, 2005
 FORBES SEES/>FUTURE IN THE TUBE
 KEATING SEES/>FUTURE IN WIRELESS INTERNET


and clicking on any of them triggers addStory(). If I click on "FORBES SEES 
..." the text area which is supposed to display the story,

displays this instead:

 _root.arrStorys[2]

At least it's displaying something!! I really need the contents of the 
array, however.


I know that asfunction passes the parameter as a string, how do I convert 
it so the contents of that array element display? In other words, so that 
it's a pointer rather than a label, to put it another way.


Here's what I have for the function:

function addStory(stryElement:Array):Void{
// assign contents of passed array element to text control.
txtNews.html = True;
txtNews.text = stryElement;
txtNews.refresh;
}

I also tried passing just the number of the desired array element, 
assembling it like so:

txtNews.text = "_root.arrStorys[" + stryElement + "]";
but all it displayed was the name of the element, eg  _root.arrStorys[2], 
not what that element contains.


String, Array and Object have all been tried for the type of stryElement.

FoxPro had a macro command, so that you could, in a situation like this 
where the name of the variable rather than its contents displays, force the 
contents, like so:   &stryElement.


Guidance and suggestions will be most welcome.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[Alias]

Yeah - if I had £1 for every time I said - hmmm, I wish I could redirect all
the traces to a different function (like a screen logger) without changing
my code too much... I have at least £10. :)

Alias

On 10/31/05, Stan Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well that's one thing I always wanted to do in AS2 so if it stays like
> this
> it'd be great.
> There are many functions that just perfectly without class in front of
> them
> (after you import the package).
>
> For example those you mentioned. When I was implementing my trace utils I
> was forced to import fmethod.debug.* and still having to type every time
> DebugUtils.log();
>
> now I could just make it package method and type log(); ... it's great to
> have that
>
> Regards, Stan Vassilev
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Spike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?
>
>
> It's a method of the package.
>
> When you create an AS 3 class you can put methods inside the package {}
> block, but outside any class definitions.
>
> I'm not sure why it works that way, but that's the way it works.
>
> Spike
>
> On 10/31/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > i think its just a function declared with package scope.
> >
> >
> > Mark Lapasa wrote:
> > > flash.util.trace()
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?
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Re: [Flashcoders] map GIS of italy

[Liam Morley]

Is this flash- or actionscript-related? The only thing I can recommend as
far as flash and maps is http://www.neave.com/lab/flash_earth/

Liam


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> where i can find a map of italy i wish coordinates in a database.. i like
> www.mappy.com  ...
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Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as

[ryanm]

maybe a silly question, but here i go anyway:
how would you write something like this in actionscript:

int matrix[3][3];
for(i=0;i<3;i++)
  for(j=0;j<3;j++)
matrix[i][j]=0;

i've done something like this in my code, mtasc doesnt complained, but
the program doesnt work, and i have a feeling that something wrong.

   This has been answered twice, but without explaining *why* it works this 
way. The fact is, there are no multidimensional arrays in AS (ECMA). What 
you have instead is an array of arrays. As such, the child arrays must be 
declared before they can have elements assigned to them.


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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Judah Frangipane]

Hi Saunder,

It is possible. Until I send some example links you can look at these 
screenshots here:


http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot1.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/system/files?file=screenshot2.jpg
http://drumbeatinsight.com/htmloverlay

I am thinking of making this open source if anyone is interested.

Best Regards,
Judah

Sander wrote:

Er... Linux issue only? How do you layer *any* content above flash?  
It's just not possible! Even a layer with plain text with a higher ID  
will drop under flash...


Thanks for all your help, not only I learned how exactly indetify  
the problem but also how to post more accurate subjects to the  list. 
I will try to get the source info for this problem and post  it back 
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Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[Rob Maurizi]

We've done several sites using WordPress strictly as the CMS and  
bypassing a lot of the "blog" features of the front end (comments,  
etc.).


It shouldn't be too difficult to wrangle WP's template tags in your  
own PHP scripts to output to your Flash interface. This goes along  
with Judah's point about the site being sort of a hybrid with Flash  
as the visitor's UI, but using HTML as the CMS UI.


Examples of the HTML sites we've done with WP as the CMS include:
• http://www.uvm.edu/webct/
• http://www.uvm.edu/blogging/
• http://www.uvm.edu/~bio1and2/

These all allow for the site admin/owner to update the content using  
WP's administrator tools and simply make use of the template tags to  
generate an entirely different interface for the visitor.


HTH.
-Rob



On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Judah Frangipane wrote:


Hi dc,

I started a Flash UI for drupal project a while ago. After my  
research I

figured you could do a Flash front end to display data but it would be
difficult to do the data entry. So the option would be a mixed site  
with
Flash to display content and HTML to create it. I came to the  
conclusion

that Drupal needed an xml api to pull in straight from the index.php
page otherwise I would have had to write my own xml api or parse the
html in an xml object. At the time (~Feb, 05) someone said they had  
made

an xml api but it was not ready to be released to the public. My
conclusion is that you can easily enough use Flash for sections of the
site template but not the whole thing. Looking at it now it may take
just as much time to setup flash remoting and pull in data from the
drupal database or a custom database. The only advantage of drupal at
this point is using the editors and login system already built into  
it.
I still have the design documents (rough drafts) if you are  
interested. HTH


Judah

dc wrote:


I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to  
use a

blogging system to manage the content updates.

seems like wordpress has well documented DB apis etc to pull the post
content out of;
has anyone seen other blogging systems that someone has written a  
flash
presentation layer on top of? are there any open source projects  
in this

direction?

I like Drupal's UI as a way to input content, but the API is a  
little much

to pull data out of ...
I havent looked at mambo, but it may work.

I could also use a wiki, as the site content is not really -timeline-
oriented, but most wiki systems seem a little too free-form with  
the data.


Thanks!

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[Flashcoders] Metadata injection

[Simon Lord]

Hi all, let me preface my question by stating that I am *not* looking  
for a tool to perform metadata injection, I'm interested in learning  
*how* to do it myself.


The idea is to pass a directory of jpgs to FFMPEG to create an flv  
movie.  The idea would be to configure FFMPEG to add metadata to the  
flv as it's being generated.  In order to do this I need to discover/ 
learn how exactly we go about writing metadata (what's it look like  
etc) and how or where or when to inject it into the flv.


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Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[Judah Frangipane]

Hi dc,

I started a Flash UI for drupal project a while ago. After my research I
figured you could do a Flash front end to display data but it would be
difficult to do the data entry. So the option would be a mixed site with
Flash to display content and HTML to create it. I came to the conclusion
that Drupal needed an xml api to pull in straight from the index.php
page otherwise I would have had to write my own xml api or parse the
html in an xml object. At the time (~Feb, 05) someone said they had made
an xml api but it was not ready to be released to the public. My
conclusion is that you can easily enough use Flash for sections of the
site template but not the whole thing. Looking at it now it may take
just as much time to setup flash remoting and pull in data from the
drupal database or a custom database. The only advantage of drupal at
this point is using the editors and login system already built into it.
I still have the design documents (rough drafts) if you are interested. HTH

Judah

dc wrote:

>I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to use a
>blogging system to manage the content updates.
>
>seems like wordpress has well documented DB apis etc to pull the post
>content out of; 
>has anyone seen other blogging systems that someone has written a flash
>presentation layer on top of? are there any open source projects in this
>direction?
>
>I like Drupal's UI as a way to input content, but the API is a little much
>to pull data out of ...
>I havent looked at mambo, but it may work.
>
>I could also use a wiki, as the site content is not really -timeline-
>oriented, but most wiki systems seem a little too free-form with the data.
>
>Thanks!
>
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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Sander]

Er... Linux issue only? How do you layer *any* content above flash?  
It's just not possible! Even a layer with plain text with a higher ID  
will drop under flash...


Thanks for all your help, not only I learned how exactly indetify  
the problem but also how to post more accurate subjects to the  
list. I will try to get the source info for this problem and post  
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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[Stan Vassilev]

Well that's one thing I always wanted to do in AS2 so if it stays like this 
it'd be great.
There are many functions that just perfectly without class in front of them 
(after you import the package).


For example those you mentioned. When I was implementing my trace utils I 
was forced to import fmethod.debug.* and still having to type every time 
DebugUtils.log();


now I could just make it package method and type log();  ... it's great to 
have that


Regards, Stan Vassilev

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:49 PM
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It's a method of the package.

When you create an AS 3 class you can put methods inside the package {}
block, but outside any class definitions.

I'm not sure why it works that way, but that's the way it works.

Spike

On 10/31/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


i think its just a function declared with package scope.


Mark Lapasa wrote:
> flash.util.trace()
>
>
>
> Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?
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[Flashcoders] getting the html page

[Gerry Creighton]

Has anyone used code to detect what HTML page the SWF is embedded in?
Is this possible?
i.e

 if(page == about.html){
   //set certain corp logo
 }

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RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Pedro Furtado]

Most of my applications that are made in flash use some strange sensor that
comes from the serial port ;) that's y I recommended Zinc, I do it pretty
much all day, and plus I guess that for your need the lite version should be
enough. Plus no licensing ;) 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hyndman
Sent: segunda-feira, 31 de Outubro de 2005 15:39
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

This is a strange thing to want to do in Flash.

Is using Flash a requirement?

Scott

-Original Message-
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Sent:   Mon 10/31/2005 10:34 AM
To: 'Flashcoders mailing list'
Cc: 
Subject:RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application
Try Zinc v2 for PPC.
;)

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Kirkwood
Sent: segunda-feira, 31 de Outubro de 2005 14:50
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

> I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer
atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will
eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial
port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much
appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use
external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first &
import ?
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Danny
 
 
 


 

 
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Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[JesterXL]

Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask device 
fonts using the setMask function.

- Original Message - 
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM
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You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to
show through a mask.

At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
> > I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask
> is removing all dynamic text - why?
> >
>
>1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
>with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
>2. Why did you reply to a completly unrelated message?


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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[JesterXL]

Another one that looks even weird is flash.util.getTimer.  Adding camel case 
makes it weird, but in usage it's not so bad.  If you do:

import flash.util.trace;

You can then just do:

trace("normal");

In your classes.

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:18 PM
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i think its just a function declared with package scope.


Mark Lapasa wrote:
> flash.util.trace()
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> Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?
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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[Spike]

It's a method of the package.

When you create an AS 3 class you can put methods inside the package {}
block, but outside any class definitions.

I'm not sure why it works that way, but that's the way it works.

Spike

On 10/31/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> i think its just a function declared with package scope.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

[Martin Wood]

i think its just a function declared with package scope.


Mark Lapasa wrote:

flash.util.trace()



Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?

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Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[Marc Hoffman]

You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to 
show through a mask.


At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
> I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask 
is removing all dynamic text - why?

>

1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug
with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text
2. Why did you reply to a completly unrelated message?



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[Flashcoders] Bizare...AS3.0 packages have methods?

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flash.util.trace()



Is that a method of a package? Or a compiler directive?

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Re: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Ron Wheeler]

Try Google. I came up with this tutorial

http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/h.barragan/flashserialinterface.html

It does not describe how to write the server but that might come from 
the manufacturere of the device.


Ron


Danny Kirkwood wrote:


dosn`t have to be flash, but we have a shell & everything i need setup in flash 
& im not very good with other softwares- just thought there may be some backdoor 
way to read com ports to flash. what software would you reccomend scott ?

The application is for reading some kind of tag - displaying any information stored on the tag & maybe detailing the tag type. Just a standard serial reading software would do (although i`d much rather develop into a personalised program - obviously it would leave much more options for attaching data to pictures etc..) but there seems to be no standard software such as hyperterminal for PPC which dosn`t need a licence for each device (which wouldn`t be acceptable- ideally the solution would beable to be ran straight from an SSD card) 


I`ll have a look at Zinc V2 - looks very expensive though just to give me the 
possibility to read from a comm port, but i suppose if it gets the job done ;o)

Much appreciate you feedback & time
Danny

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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application


This is a strange thing to want to do in Flash.

Is using Flash a requirement?

Scott

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Sent:   Mon 10/31/2005 10:34 AM
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Cc: 
Subject:RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application
Try Zinc v2 for PPC.
;)

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

 


I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer
   


atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will
eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial
port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much
appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use
external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first &
import ?
 


Thanks for your interest,
Danny
   










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Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[David Rorex]

On 10/31/05, Noyes, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way around this?
>
> I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask is removing 
> all dynamic text - why?
>

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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Helmut Granda]

Thanks for all your help, not only I learned how exactly indetify the 
problem but also how to post more accurate subjects to the list. I will 
try to get the source info for this problem and post it back to the list.


...helmut

John Dowdell wrote:

So this becomes "Does anyone know of WMODE support in various browsers 
for Linux?" If so, then I just tried some quick searches with mixed 
results -- I found many incidental mentions, but no document which 
seems to answer "Which Linux browsers can buffer plugins offscreen?"


The Flash Release Notes usually all mention "linux" and "wmode", but 
not always together -- it's hard to find an appropriate citation in 
the Flash docs, either.


If your private correspondent included a link to his source info we 
might be able to search faster.


We do know that *some* of the overall audience will usually fail with 
such browser-specific features, but in this case I'm not able to 
quickly research how the minorities in various Linux configurations do.


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Re: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[Ron Wheeler]

Doxygen and the eclox plug-in.

Ron

Doug Miller wrote:


http://www.as2doc.com/

I believe there are other applications out there that will do it
as well.  Anyone know if there are any eclipse plugins that will
generate docs for as2, that would be nice!





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 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, JOR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Doug Miller wrote:
   


http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/



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Hi People.

I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really
   


what
 


I will

 


implement into my documentation-routine.

But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know
   


what
 


is a

 


general good way to use for params and how to really
   


actually
 


turn

 


javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.

Is there any good basics out on some simple sites? I cant
   


really find it

 


myself though googling and searching.

Thanks.
   


What are you running to produce the HTML documentation, the
   

JavaDoc app 
 


itself?  It will work with .AS classes and packages?

I've already added all the documentation comments to my .AS
   

files but 
 


that's as far as I got.  I was looking for a way to then
   

transform those 
 


comments into actual HTML documentation but haven't tried
   

JavaDoc yet. 
 


I didn't think it would read AS packages.


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[Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text?

[Noyes, Jeff]

Is there a way around this?

I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask is removing 
all dynamic text - why?

-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:28 AM
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this
http://windows.com/
zoom effect on characters

Fredrik Lantz wrote:

>I Havent read this thread from the begining, is there a url to the effect or
>what?
>
>//Fredik 
>
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>
>and i'd venture a little scale = focal length / focal length + z.
>
>
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>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:04 PM
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>
>
>  
>
>>That's 100% actionscript.
>>
>>regards,
>>Muzak
>>
>>- Original Message - 
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>>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:23 PM
>>Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Zoom effect
>>
>>
>>Yup, I think he's right, it's a bunch of tweens, nothing smart or 3d
>>going on there (perhaps a little maths to get the circular type motion).
>>
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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[John Dowdell]

So this becomes "Does anyone know of WMODE support in various browsers 
for Linux?" If so, then I just tried some quick searches with mixed 
results -- I found many incidental mentions, but no document which seems 
to answer "Which Linux browsers can buffer plugins offscreen?"


The Flash Release Notes usually all mention "linux" and "wmode", but not 
always together -- it's hard to find an appropriate citation in the 
Flash docs, either.


If your private correspondent included a link to his source info we 
might be able to search faster.


We do know that *some* of the overall audience will usually fail with 
such browser-specific features, but in this case I'm not able to quickly 
research how the minorities in various Linux configurations do.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Updating MS Outlook calendar from Flash app

[Jim Cheng]

James Johnson wrote:
Is it possible to create a calendar application in Flash which allows 
the user to click on an event and to have that event automatically added 
to their MS Outlook calendar?


You can, but it's rather tricky.  Microsoft closely guards their 
proprietary ActiveSync protocol used for sync'ing external applications 
and devices with Exchange Server.  While a number of large phone and 
device manufacturers have licensed the protocol recently, this probably 
out of reach to all but the largest of clients.


Failing that, there's several other options available.  The simplest way 
to go about this would be to create and e-mail a vCalendar meeting 
request to the recipient and depend on them to accept and add it onto 
their calendar.  It's not quite automatic and doesn't sync in real-time, 
but is probably the easiest solution.  As vCalendar is an open format 
(http://www.imc.org/pdi/), this shouldn't be very difficult to do with 
Flash and a little bit of server-side code.


Alternatively, Novell had worked around the issue of licensing the 
ActiveSync protocol with Exchange Connector by reimplementing the RPC 
over HTTP calls used by the Outlook web application (OWA).  This has 
been open-sourced into Gnome's Evolution mail/address/calendaring client 
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/), so you could reuse their 
code to sync with Exchange Server that way.


Lastly, you could always screen-scrape OWA yourself and add the event 
that way through HTTP, though I'd imagine this would probably be even 
more work then reusing the code from Evolution.  In theory, you could 
probably do all of this from within the Flash client if you go this 
route, though this would probably involve lots of work.  ;(


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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[JesterXL]

The source for the frustration was AS2 was implemented in a frame-script 
based landscape.  So, using class only formats for _root timelines didn't 
mesh.

You can't do private var cow:String; on _root, so when many of us went:

cow:String = "moo";

Many of us thought that was a bug.  In reality, it's shoe-horning good 
coding practices & features into a timeline.  In short, a subtle message of 
"stop coding on frames."

- Original Message - 
From: "Ian Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question


Matt,

See all the previous mails. It's not a bug, so won't have been fixed. It's
the way that the language is supposed to work.

Ian

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> Has the bug been fixed in 8?
>
>
> Matt
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RE: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[dc]

Hi John -

> > I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but 
> want to use 
> > a blogging system to manage the content updates.
> 
> Do you need to update just text? or also images? or also 
> display structure (columns, layout etc)? or also database 
> structure (new catalog items, etc)?

Mainly I want to pull out item categories, sub-cats, and body content, and
related images (URLs of them).

I thnk the structure could be defined in advnace, eg categories can only go
X layers deep...

promoting articles to the front page, ratings, other features the CMS-back
end provides, hopefully could be accessed.

I expect to produce some server-side PHP to work as an "adapter" that flash
would talk to.
Tho doing everything straight from flash clientside to call the blog APIs
directly i guess this would be possible with XML-RPC APIs that some blog
tools have. (tho my drupal install recently got hacked due to this).

tx,

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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[JesterXL]

Apparently I've been corrected and it's not a bug.

- Original Message - 
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To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question


Has the bug been fixed in 8?


Matt

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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

To clarify, it changes to the type as far as the compiler is concerned,
but at runtime, yes, it's just a MovieClip.

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To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question


On 10/31/05, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
> - Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class


Actually, skip that - it only works later in your code if you call
methods
of MyCustomForm because it's a dynamic class. The assignment you make is
perfectly legal - but still doesn't change the type.
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Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[Mike Britton]

I've done a presentation layer for Movable Type that hits an AMFPHP
service class.  Email me offlist if you want the class.  I'm not sure
if it works with the latest Movable Type though.  It's really easy to
work with using Flash remoting, methods like getEntries,
getCommentsForEntry, getCategories, etc.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Ian Thomas]

Matt,

See all the previous mails. It's not a bug, so won't have been fixed. It's
the way that the language is supposed to work.

Ian

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Re: [Flashcoders] How do I make a new post?

[DP]

John,

I really feel like an idiot, but this is not the first time.
Thank you for you instructions and patience, and your reply.
I also can't cook rice to save my life!

David

On Oct 31, 2005, at 10:02 AM, John Dowdell wrote:

Summary: The "New" button in your emailer helps get attention for a  
new thread better than the "Reply" button does.



DP wrote:
> How do I make a new topic in this group?
> I've tried posting a new topic twice.

You just did so here... you can check it in the archive too:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-October/ 
thread.html


First post was "Looping Loaded Sound", which you actually sent as a  
reply to a message in a "Flash in Firefox" in conversation, which  
in turn had hijacked a thread titled "tracking inactivity".


Then there was a thread you tried to start titled simply "ming",  
but this was hidden within a discussion about cancelling a loading  
process.


A later request on right-clicking was shoved into a "Flash vs Flex"  
discussion, which many people may have deleted as a group.


The cause of all this was hitting "Reply" in your emailer and  
changing the title -- this doesn't change the instructions in the  
email header, and so you get lost in the archives, and don't get  
seen by those of us who use a threaded email reader.


Just hit "New" for a new message, paste in the address, and you'll  
get better visibility. Use a good thread title (like the one you  
have above), and clearly ask something that others can answer, and  
you'll usually get good results on mailing lists!  :)



... but in this latest case, I haven't tested for ways to keep  
rendering during a held right-click, and so don't have a good way  
to reply to the other thread, sorry.





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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Helmut Granda]

Thanks for John Dowdell for his feedback on the issue (and email etiquete).

Just to point out, this issue is mainly in Linux. I dont know where the 
person who gave me the information got his from. Another problem is that 
I cant really prove that his theory is wrong until the flash plug-in v8 
is released for Linux.


Has anyone found a work around on the order in which the content is 
displayed specifically in Linux?


The items to display is a Drop down menu created with DHTML on top of 
Flash. Again everything works on Mac PC and different browsers but fails 
in every browser in Linux.


...helmut.

Helmut Granda wrote:


I believe I hickjaked a thread. Sorry about that here is the new thread:

Hello all,

I received an email stating that the Layering problem between Flash 
Content and DHTML (for example drop down menues) has been fixed in 
flash player 8. And that this is a bug in flash player 7.


I dont know if this is true, so I was trying to get some insight from 
some one that can point me out to verify that this information is 
accurate.


IMHO I dont think that the flash player can fix a layering issue that 
is being handled with HTML/CSS/JS/DHTML. I believe that this is more 
of a browser issue but I might be totally wrong.


Any thoughts?

TIA.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Adams, Matt]

Has the bug been fixed in 8? 


Matt 

-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

To clarify, it changes to the type as far as the compiler is concerned,
but at runtime, yes, it's just a MovieClip.

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To: "Flashcoders mailing list" 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question


On 10/31/05, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
> - Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class


Actually, skip that - it only works later in your code if you call
methods
of MyCustomForm because it's a dynamic class. The assignment you make is
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do I make a new post?

[John Dowdell]

Summary: The "New" button in your emailer helps get attention for a new 
thread better than the "Reply" button does.



DP wrote:
> How do I make a new topic in this group?
> I've tried posting a new topic twice.

You just did so here... you can check it in the archive too:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-October/thread.html

First post was "Looping Loaded Sound", which you actually sent as a 
reply to a message in a "Flash in Firefox" in conversation, which in 
turn had hijacked a thread titled "tracking inactivity".


Then there was a thread you tried to start titled simply "ming", but 
this was hidden within a discussion about cancelling a loading process.


A later request on right-clicking was shoved into a "Flash vs Flex" 
discussion, which many people may have deleted as a group.


The cause of all this was hitting "Reply" in your emailer and changing 
the title -- this doesn't change the instructions in the email header, 
and so you get lost in the archives, and don't get seen by those of us 
who use a threaded email reader.


Just hit "New" for a new message, paste in the address, and you'll get 
better visibility. Use a good thread title (like the one you have 
above), and clearly ask something that others can answer, and you'll 
usually get good results on mailing lists!  :)



... but in this latest case, I haven't tested for ways to keep rendering 
during a held right-click, and so don't have a good way to reply to the 
other thread, sorry.





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[Flashcoders] Disable Pause when right-clicked

[DP]

Hey Gang!
I've got a time dependent Flash file. When the user right-clicks on  
the movie, the movie pauses.
Just to clarify, I do not want to uncheck the play item, I want to  
ensure that the flash movie keeps playing when a right-click is  
registered.
I do understand it is possible to disable the menu, however , does  
anyone know if it is possible for the Flash movie not to pause?

Thanks!

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[Flashcoders] Updating MS Outlook calendar from Flash app

[James Johnson]

Is it possible to create a calendar application in Flash which allows 
the user to click on an event and to have that event automatically added 
to their MS Outlook calendar?


I know that Microsoft has done a lot to tighten up security in Outlook, 
and a lot of things that used to be possible are not any more. I expect 
this is one of them.


If it is not possible, is there any way anyone knows of to make it 
easier for someone to get the event info. out of the Flash app and into 
the Outlook calendar - for instance cutting and pasting the info. in an 
appropriate format?


Cheers for any help you can give.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Ian Thomas]

No - it _doesn't_ change the type of the variable from the compiler's PoV,
that's my point. :-)

I've probably been explaining really badly.

The statement:

var my_var:A;

defines a thing which can point to objects of type A.

This thing can only _ever_ hold references to objects of type A and objects
derived from A; never anything else.

So, assuming class C extends class B which extends class A:

var b1:B = new A(); // Compiler chokes, as it can't guarantee that all the
methods B defines
are available in A. Compilation would stop here.
var b2:B = new B(); // no problem
var b3:B = new C(); // again, no problem, because C inherits from B and the
compiler is
happy that C can do everything B can.

b2.doAMethodDefinedInA(); // Fine - compiler knows that B extends A
b2.doAMethodDefinedInB(); // Again, fine.

b3.doAMethodDefinedInA(); // Still fine
b3.doAMethodDefinedInB(); // Yup.
b3.doAMethodDefinedInC(); // Nope. The compiler thinks that b3 is of object
type B - it knows nothing of C, because 'b3' was defined as being of type B
in it's declaration.

Note that the last line would compile fine if class B were defined as
'dynamic' - because it's dynamic, the compiler throws out all type-checking
on B. There go the safety-nets... which is what was happening in your
MovieClip example.

Now, if the _programmer_ was happy that b3 was _actually_ a C, he could
always type:

var c:C=C(b3); // Downcasting is perfectly legal...
c.doAMethodDefinedInC(); // And now the compiler is happy

I hope that's clearer. :-D But now I'm probably waaay off the original
topic, whatever it was... sorry, it's been a helluva weekend. ;-)

Ian


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> To clarify, it changes to the type as far as the compiler is concerned,
> but
> at runtime, yes, it's just a MovieClip.
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Re: [Flashcoders] DHTML and Flash Player 8 Bugs Fixed?

[John Dowdell]

EMAIL TIP: Try hitting "New Message" in your emailer when starting a new 
discussion, rather than hitting "Reply", to avoid becoming invisible in 
emailers which thread conversations. (Right now your post is found in 
the archive as a reply to "Right-Click Pauses Movie"!) The "references" 
field in your message header will show what happened.



For "What's the status on layering HTML and non-HTML?" then you're 
right, it's more of a browser issue -- the Macromedia Flash Player has 
hooked into WMODE compositing for many years now, and browsers still 
vary in their offscreen buffering support. Websearches on "wmode 
dowdell" focus closely on this area.


(That private email you paraphrased sounds strange to me, for the same 
reasons you listed.)


Summary: You can layer JavaScript atop Flash if the browser supports it, 
and more browsers support it now than did five, eight years ago.


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Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[Mike Duguid]

probably worth checking out mosxml, a version of mambo that outputs xml and
has a basic flash
skin in the download
http://www.ciadd.co.uk/mosxml/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=41

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> I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to use a
> blogging system to manage the content updates.
>
> seems like wordpress has well documented DB apis etc to pull the post
> content out of;
> has anyone seen other blogging systems that someone has written a flash
> presentation layer on top of? are there any open source projects in this
> direction?
>
> I like Drupal's UI as a way to input content, but the API is a little much
> to pull data out of ...
> I havent looked at mambo, but it may work.
>
> I could also use a wiki, as the site content is not really -timeline-
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>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Jason Lutes]

> Why it is illegal to combine both a path declaration and a datatype
> declaration  in the same expression" i.e.:

I also find it strange that you can't do this:

var phrases:Object = new Object();
phrases.introduction:String = 'Bem vindo a todos.';

- or even -

var phrases:Array = new Array();
phrases[0]:String = 'Bem vindo a todos.';

Should dynamically created properties/elements really be that bastardized
in ActionScript? One of the advantages of strict data typing is the
disambiguation of the code. I miss the ability to completely disambiguate
in certain situations. For example, I occasionally use loops to generate
objects or populate arrays, and would like to be able to strictly identify
(for the sake of readability) any new properties/elements added within
that loop.

I can get around the limitation by directly passing a value to a _simple_
datatype's constructor during assignment. This identifies the expected
value's type for me in many situations, but other constructors don't
accept a direct value this way.

I'm not encouraging/perpetuating bad programming practices here. There's
legitimate reason to wonder about this.


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Re: [Flashcoders] How do I make a new post?

[DP]

Hahahah.
Thanks man! Now I know I am a complete idiot.
Thanks for your patience.

On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Helmut Granda wrote:


You just did.

DP wrote:



Hey!

I think I might be really dumb by asking this
How do I make a new topic in this group?
I've tried posting a new topic twice. Maybe it is over my head!

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[Flashcoders] Right-Click Pauses Movie

[DP]

Hey Gang!
I've got a time dependent Flash file. When the user right-clicks on  
the movie, the movie pauses.
Just to clarify, I do not want to uncheck the play item, I want to  
ensure that the flash movie keeps playing when a right-click is  
registered.
I do understand it is possible to disable the menu, however , does  
anyone know if it is possible for the Flash movie not to pause?

Thanks!

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[Flashcoders] DHTML and FLash Player 8 Bugs Fixed

[Helmut Granda]

I believe I hickjaked a thread. Sorry about that here is the new thread:

Hello all,

I received an email stating that the Layering problem between Flash 
Content and DHTML (for example drop down menues) has been fixed in flash 
player 8. And that this is a bug in flash player 7.


I dont know if this is true, so I was trying to get some insight from 
some one that can point me out to verify that this information is accurate.


IMHO I dont think that the flash player can fix a layering issue that is 
being handled with HTML/CSS/JS/DHTML. I believe that this is more of a 
browser issue but I might be totally wrong.


Any thoughts?

TIA.
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Re: [Flashcoders] How do I make a new post?

[Helmut Granda]

You just did.

DP wrote:


Hey!

I think I might be really dumb by asking this
How do I make a new topic in this group?
I've tried posting a new topic twice. Maybe it is over my head!

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Re: [Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[John Dowdell]

dc wrote:
> I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to use a
> blogging system to manage the content updates.

Do you need to update just text? or also images? or also display
structure (columns, layout etc)? or also database structure (new catalog
items, etc)?

Knowing the media types in the updates, and then knowing how deeply the
changes will update the presentation, can help distinguish between "ftp
an xml file" and "grab the rss" types of solutions.

(Towards the end you ask about a blog with a Flash front-end, which
seems another thing... it's usually easy to add SWF to a weblog, and
I've seen some weblogs constructed entirely out of SWF, but "swf site
with easy updates" seems different.)

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Re: Re: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[Doug Miller]

http://www.as2doc.com/

I believe there are other applications out there that will do it
as well.  Anyone know if there are any eclipse plugins that will
generate docs for as2, that would be nice!





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> > 
> > 
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> > 
> >>Hi People.
> >>
> >>I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really
what
> > 
> > I will
> > 
> >>implement into my documentation-routine.
> >>
> >>But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know
what
> > 
> > is a
> > 
> >>general good way to use for params and how to really
actually
> > 
> > turn
> > 
> >>javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.
> >>
> >>Is there any good basics out on some simple sites? I cant
> > 
> > really find it
> > 
> >>myself though googling and searching.
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> 
> 
> What are you running to produce the HTML documentation, the
JavaDoc app 
> itself?  It will work with .AS classes and packages?
> 
> I've already added all the documentation comments to my .AS
files but 
> that's as far as I got.  I was looking for a way to then
transform those 
> comments into actual HTML documentation but haven't tried
JavaDoc yet. 
> I didn't think it would read AS packages.
> 
> 
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RE: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[Shaw, Matt]

http://www.google.com/search?q=actionscript+doc+generator
 

-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JOR
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

Doug Miller wrote:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/
> 
> 
> 
>  On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Martin Klasson
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi People.
>>
>>I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really what
> 
> I will
> 
>>implement into my documentation-routine.
>>
>>But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know what
> 
> is a
> 
>>general good way to use for params and how to really actually
> 
> turn
> 
>>javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.
>>
>>Is there any good basics out on some simple sites? I cant
> 
> really find it
> 
>>myself though googling and searching.
>>
>>Thanks.


What are you running to produce the HTML documentation, the JavaDoc app
itself?  It will work with .AS classes and packages?

I've already added all the documentation comments to my .AS files but
that's as far as I got.  I was looking for a way to then transform those
comments into actual HTML documentation but haven't tried JavaDoc yet. 
I didn't think it would read AS packages.


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RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Danny Kirkwood]

dosn`t have to be flash, but we have a shell & everything i need setup in flash 
& im not very good with other softwares- just thought there may be some 
backdoor way to read com ports to flash. what software would you reccomend 
scott ?

The application is for reading some kind of tag - displaying any information 
stored on the tag & maybe detailing the tag type. Just a standard serial 
reading software would do (although i`d much rather develop into a personalised 
program - obviously it would leave much more options for attaching data to 
pictures etc..) but there seems to be no standard software such as 
hyperterminal for PPC which dosn`t need a licence for each device (which 
wouldn`t be acceptable- ideally the solution would beable to be ran straight 
from an SSD card) 

I`ll have a look at Zinc V2 - looks very expensive though just to give me the 
possibility to read from a comm port, but i suppose if it gets the job done ;o)

Much appreciate you feedback & time
Danny

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This is a strange thing to want to do in Flash.

Is using Flash a requirement?

Scott

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> I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer
atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will
eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial
port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much
appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use
external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first &
import ?
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Danny
 
 
 


 

 
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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[JesterXL]

To clarify, it changes to the type as far as the compiler is concerned, but 
at runtime, yes, it's just a MovieClip.

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On 10/31/05, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
> - Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class


Actually, skip that - it only works later in your code if you call methods
of MyCustomForm because it's a dynamic class. The assignment you make is
perfectly legal - but still doesn't change the type.
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[Flashcoders] blog presentation > flash

[dc]

I need to do a product site which is viewed in flash, but want to use a
blogging system to manage the content updates.

seems like wordpress has well documented DB apis etc to pull the post
content out of; 
has anyone seen other blogging systems that someone has written a flash
presentation layer on top of? are there any open source projects in this
direction?

I like Drupal's UI as a way to input content, but the API is a little much
to pull data out of ...
I havent looked at mambo, but it may work.

I could also use a wiki, as the site content is not really -timeline-
oriented, but most wiki systems seem a little too free-form with the data.

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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[JesterXL]

You don't ever actually change anything in AS2 though; you can't.  My 
example is just showing you are telling the compiler that you are changing 
it's type; I know full well it's type never changes.  You can use Number, 
int, String, parseInt, and parseFloat; but only 2 of those can be used as 
datatyping, but no coercion.

- Original Message - 
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question


Nope.

my_win, the variable, is still declared (to the compiler) as a MovieClip. It
only knows about it as type MovieClip.

The object it 'points to' happens to be of type MyCustomForm, which is an
object that inherits from MovieClip. It does all the things that MovieClip
does, just does more stuff too.

>From a compiler perspective, you can get away with calling methods of
MyCustomForm on your my_win _only because_ MovieClip is a dynamic class, and
so the compiler throws away all type-checking for my_win. It does mean that
anything you call on my_win will not be properly type checked.

If you had used a non-dyamic class in your example, the problem would have
become a lot more obvious. For example:

class A
{
public function doSomething() {trace("Do Something");}
}

class B extends A
{
public function doSomethingElse() {trace("Do Something Else");}
}

var my_a:A;

my_a=B(createBSomeHow()); // The compiler will choke on this line

my_a.doSomething(); // Compiler will be fine with this
my_a.doSomethingElse(); // Compiler would choke on this

or if it was:
var my_a:A;
my_a = A(createBSomeHow()); // Perfectly legal 'cos B inherits from A

my_a.doSomething(); // No problems
my_a.doSomethingElse(); // Compiler chokes, because it only knows that 'a'
is an A.


So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
- Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class
- You're skipping compiler type-checking because MovieClip is a dynamic
class (so any type-signatures of methods of MyCustomForm you call will be
unchecked - which might be an issue if you, for example, went back and
redefined them later)
- You aren't actually changing the type of my_win. It's still a MovieClip,
as far as the compiler can see.

Cheers,
Ian

On 10/31/05, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>You can't change the type of a variable during an assignment
>
> Yes you can.
>
> var my_win:MovieClip;
>
> my_win = MyCustomForm(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, MyCustomForm,
> false));
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[Flashcoders] How do I make a new post?

[DP]

Hey!

I think I might be really dumb by asking this
How do I make a new topic in this group?
I've tried posting a new topic twice. Maybe it is over my head!

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Re: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[JOR]

Doug Miller wrote:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/



 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Martin Klasson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:



Hi People.

I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really what


I will


implement into my documentation-routine.

But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know what


is a


general good way to use for params and how to really actually


turn


javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.

Is there any good basics out on some simple sites? I cant


really find it


myself though googling and searching.

Thanks.



What are you running to produce the HTML documentation, the JavaDoc app 
itself?  It will work with .AS classes and packages?


I've already added all the documentation comments to my .AS files but 
that's as far as I got.  I was looking for a way to then transform those 
comments into actual HTML documentation but haven't tried JavaDoc yet. 
I didn't think it would read AS packages.



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[Flashcoders] DHTML and Flash Player 8 Bugs Fixed?

[Helmut Granda]

Hello all,

I received an email stating that the Layering problem between Flash 
Content and DHTML (for example drop down menues) has been fixed in flash 
player 8. And that this is a bug in flash player 7.


I dont know if this is true, so I was trying to get some insight from 
some one that can point me out to verify that this information is accurate.


IMHO I dont think that the flash player can fix a layering issue that is 
being handled with HTML/CSS/JS/DHTML. I believe that this is more of a 
browser issue but I might be totally wrong.


Any thoughts?

TIA.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex

[Kevin Aebig]

Amen brother... Testify!

!K

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Admittingly, something needs to be done.  Hopefully either Blaze (Flash 9) 
can be made to have integration extensions with FlexBuilder2, made to be 
basically a glorified library asset manager, or somethihng.

The current alternatives really suck.  A Singleton classe that holds all 
linkageID's, an images folder that contains both production graphics and 
source graphics... while I love having all of this open and accessible 
instead of buried deep in a binary FLA, at least Flash was damn good at 
managing it.

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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash vs Flex


> you can create an ActionScript 3 project in Flex Builder that never goes
anywhere near the Flex Framework.

That's the reason I was soothsaying about FlexBuilder 2 becoming the defacto
development environment and the Flash IDE evolving into a tool for design.
Eclipse will "eclipse" the Flash IDE (rim shot).

> I have spent a good portion of the last 2 years writing plugins for
Eclipse

I wonder if one could be written to manage the Library. Then I'd never have
to open the Flash IDE.


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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Ian Thomas]

On 10/31/05, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
> - Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class


Actually, skip that - it only works later in your code if you call methods
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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[Ian Thomas]

Nope.

my_win, the variable, is still declared (to the compiler) as a MovieClip. It
only knows about it as type MovieClip.

The object it 'points to' happens to be of type MyCustomForm, which is an
object that inherits from MovieClip. It does all the things that MovieClip
does, just does more stuff too.

>From a compiler perspective, you can get away with calling methods of
MyCustomForm on your my_win _only because_ MovieClip is a dynamic class, and
so the compiler throws away all type-checking for my_win. It does mean that
anything you call on my_win will not be properly type checked.

If you had used a non-dyamic class in your example, the problem would have
become a lot more obvious. For example:

class A
{
public function doSomething() {trace("Do Something");}
}

class B extends A
{
public function doSomethingElse() {trace("Do Something Else");}
}

var my_a:A;

my_a=B(createBSomeHow()); // The compiler will choke on this line

my_a.doSomething(); // Compiler will be fine with this
my_a.doSomethingElse(); // Compiler would choke on this

or if it was:
var my_a:A;
my_a = A(createBSomeHow()); // Perfectly legal 'cos B inherits from A

my_a.doSomething(); // No problems
my_a.doSomethingElse(); // Compiler chokes, because it only knows that 'a'
is an A.


So in short - you can do exactly what you wrote down, but:
- Only because MovieClip is a dynamic class
- You're skipping compiler type-checking because MovieClip is a dynamic
class (so any type-signatures of methods of MyCustomForm you call will be
unchecked - which might be an issue if you, for example, went back and
redefined them later)
- You aren't actually changing the type of my_win. It's still a MovieClip,
as far as the compiler can see.

Cheers,
Ian

On 10/31/05, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>You can't change the type of a variable during an assignment
>
> Yes you can.
>
> var my_win:MovieClip;
>
> my_win = MyCustomForm(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, MyCustomForm,
> false));
>
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RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Scott Hyndman]

This is a strange thing to want to do in Flash.

Is using Flash a requirement?

Scott

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Try Zinc v2 for PPC.
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Subject: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

> I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer
atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will
eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial
port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much
appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use
external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first &
import ?
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Danny
 
 
 


 

 
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[Flashcoders] Right-Click Pauses Movie

[DP]

Hey Gang!

I've got a time dependent Flash file. When the user right-clicks on  
the movie, the movie pauses.
I do understand it is possible to disable the menu, however , does  
anyone know if it is possible for the Flash movie not to pause when  
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Thanks!

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Re: [Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[Doug Miller]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/



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> Hi People.
> 
> I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really what
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> 
> But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know what
is a
> general good way to use for params and how to really actually
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> javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.
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RE: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Pedro Furtado]

Try Zinc v2 for PPC.
;)

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

> I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer
atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will
eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial
port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much
appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use
external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first &
import ?
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Danny
 
 
 


 

 
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[Flashcoders] Right-Click Pauses Movie

[DP]

Hey Gang!

I've got a time dependent Flash file. When the user right-clicks on  
the movie, the movie pauses.
I do understand it is possible to disable the menu, however , does  
anyone know if it is possible for the Flash movie not to pause when a  
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Thanks!

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Re: [Flashcoders] map GIS of italy

[douglas morrison]

you can go to teleatlas or esri, and a fewother vendors for spatial data to
load in your database. we started out using this method, but it became large
and expensive. we now use data from a webservice call to esri's
arcwebservice (arcweb.esri.com ). it pulls back the
maps (we use italy street level addressing too) and the scale and i then
place our POI in flash allowing users to "zoom" like in mappy...

On 10/31/05, Marco Sottana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> where i can find a map of italy i wish coordinates in a database.. i like
> www.mappy.com  ...
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Re: [Flashcoders] Strict Datatyping Question

[JesterXL]

>>>You can't change the type of a variable during an assignment

Yes you can.

var my_win:MovieClip;

my_win = MyCustomForm(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, MyCustomForm, false));

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Jester, that's not a bug. The two statements ' var ' and
'=' are totally different things.

'var ' is a declaration. Which you can tack a handy assignment on
to the end of ( = something), because it's always good to initialise your
variables when you declare them. But the main purpose of the statement is to
declare the variable.

'myVar = ' is different - it's an assignment of a new value to a
variable which has already been declared. You can't change the type of a
variable during an assignment, so putting ':' after the variable
name is meaningless.

HTH,
Ian

On 10/31/05, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Finally, there is a bug in Flash MX 2004 & 8; you can't datatype like
> this:
>
> myVar:Number = 42;
>
> but you can do this:
>
> var myVar:Number = 42;
>
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[Flashcoders] JavaDoc in as2

[Martin Klasson]

Hi People.

I have been reading about the JavaDoc, and that is really what I will
implement into my documentation-routine.

But now when I know all the tags and so on, I don't know what is a
general good way to use for params and how to really actually turn
javadoc into a good use within the AS-class.

Is there any good basics out on some simple sites? I cant really find it
myself though googling and searching.

Thanks.
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[Flashcoders] Simple serial reading application

[Danny Kirkwood]

> I am a beginner & although quick to learn not yet a very good programmer 
> atall. I am currently trying to create a small flash application which will 
> eventually be uploaded to a PDA, I need it to read 192 Bytes from a serial 
> port & display this in ascii code. Any help / links / info would be much 
> appeciated as I`ve been searching forums with no avail :o( do i need to use 
> external programming / software etc... to read the serial data first & import 
> ?
> 
> Thanks for your interest,
> Danny
 
 
 


 

 
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[Flashcoders] Database based flash application

[Danny Kirkwood]

> My other basic issue is for an application which displays approx 50 boxes 
> each of which i currently have formed using movie symbols, can be fully 
> rotated in 45 degree increments & have 6 options of contents (this would 
> leave each box having 2 varients (8 for position, 6 for content), or 48 total 
> varients) 
> The arrangement / setup of the 50 boxes makes up a group (basicaly a list of 
> each box content) These are stored in the form of a database.
> The function i want to give to the program is that a user can select a group 
> & the relevant contents of each box will be shown, also to beable to change 
> each box & enter a name producing a new group.
> This is basically simple Microsoft Access functionality, but each peice of 
> stored data relating to a movie clip / frame / action within the program.
> This maybe a simple / complicated question, but any help / pointing in the 
> right direction would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks again for any help,
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Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as

[Jon Bradley]

On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Gregory wrote:



You must create empty arrays first, like this:

// bidimensional array in AS
var matrix2:Array = [];
for(i=0;i<3;i++){
matrix2[i] = [];
for(j=0;j<3;j++){
matrix2[i][j]=0;
}
}
trace(matrix2);



Yea, I'm a dufus. I think I was in AS3 mode when i posted that - then 
again, I didn't test it either...


i'll be quiet now. :)

Jon

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Re: [Flashcoders] bidimensional array in as

[Gregory]

You must create empty arrays first, like this:

// bidimensional array in AS
var matrix2:Array = [];
for(i=0;i<3;i++){
matrix2[i] = [];
for(j=0;j<3;j++){
matrix2[i][j]=0;
}
}
trace(matrix2);

-- original message --
>On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:22 AM, cornel wrote:

>> hi
>> maybe a silly question, but here i go anyway:
>> how would you write something like this in actionscript:
>>
>> int matrix[3][3];
>> for(i=0;i<3;i++)
>>   for(j=0;j<3;j++)
>> matrix[i][j]=0;
>>
>> i've done something like this in my code, mtasc doesnt complained, but
>> the program doesnt work, and i have a feeling that something wrong.
>>
>> i would appreciate any help
>> cornel

>Unlike C, Actionscript can't create a two-dimensional array like that.

>var matrix = [];
>for (;i<3;i++) matrix[i] = [0];


>That's the super shorthand way of doing it.

>cheers,

>Jon

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RE: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

[Dominic Fee]

Hi Amanda

This link may be of great use:

Cheers
Dom

http://www.cybergrain.com/tech/demos/flashhtml/

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Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash and ASP/MSSQL

Hello everyone,

This is a question about Flash in an ASP form which communicates with an
MSSQL db. I'm not really sure how to phrase the question, so I'm afraid that
I'll just have to explain the story.

Imagine an ASP page about faulty garments. Let's just say that if you had a
hole in your T-shirt, you could visit this page to report it. The page would
have normal HTML fields for name and email, and it would also have a SWF
with a picture of a T-shirt. The disgruntled hole-y user clicks on the
T-shirt to leave an X representing where the hole is. The form information
(including that of the hole location, in the SWF) is then submitted using a
normal HTML submit button and stored in the MSSQL db.

I spose my question is, is this scenario possible? Is it only possible to
store user-submitted information (in this case, the X,Y coordinates of the
hole) by clicking on a "Send" button WITHIN flash, or is there another way?
I'd like to avoid making a user explicitly submit the SWF information AS
WELL AS the form information.

Any ideas and comments much appreciated,

Thanks muchly,

Amanda.
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AW: [Flashcoders] Profiling the clients CPU

[Lars Heinrich]

I used this in my last projects... 

var result : Number = 0;
for(var i : Number = 0; i < 3; i++) {
var t : Number = getTimer();
while(getTimer() - t < 50) {
var r : Number = random(10);
mc._x = r;
mc._y = r;
mc._xscale = r;
mc._yscale = r;
mc._alpha= r;
result++;

}

} 

Works for me. Of course you need a mc on stage. Result is the performance. But 
with this test you only get the performance of the system. We set up a little 
benchmark on http://bench.powerflasher.de/ maybee you find some usefull stuff 
there.

regards
Lars Heinrich

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Tel: +49 (0)241 91880-230
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Betreff: [Flashcoders] Profiling the clients CPU

Hi guys,

I'm working on a project which involves reducing the amount of work done, based 
on the client's CPU speed.

I'm wondering - does anyone have a tried & tested method of doing this? I'm 
thinking something along the lines of:


startTime = getTimer();

//do something timeconsuming - loop 100 times, for example speed = 
doSomethingTimeconsuming()

if (speed < 5){

doSomethingEasy();

} else{

doSomethingHard();

}


What I'm wondering is the doing something timeconsuming part - I need a simple 
operation that will be reasonably consistent across player types - is there any 
operation that *hasn't* been improved or that has always been fast? The target 
player is FP6 (pre 6.65), so I need an operation that will be consistently slow 
or fast on every player since then

Has anyone done this much?


Thanks in advance,
Alias
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