[Flashcoders] Help with shared library fonts

2006-03-11 Thread Hypno Joe
*I am using Flash8* Is there a way to keep fonts in an external movie and load them dynamically into a movie when needed? The flash movie I am currently working on is a text editor that is all generated dynamically. A text box is generated on the main movie like this: this.createTextField("mess

[Flashcoders] Mailing List Subscribe

2006-03-11 Thread stone larsen
Sorry for the heading, it's acually just a newsletter sign-up. Please can Someone take a look at this code and see where I've gone wrong. I've used this in Flash 6 a million times, ported it to 7 and am having no luck. Ok I'm loading a send to friend MC into a _blank MC on the main stage for the

Re: [Flashcoders] Send to friend....Doesn't make sense.

2006-03-11 Thread stacey
I'm not going to check your email verification but you could do somethign like this for loadvars rather than using loadvariables. Also have your php write back a response so that flash knows whether it worked or not. Some tidbits of advice - your submit mail button should call a validation proces

[Flashcoders] Send to friend....Doesn't make sense.

2006-03-11 Thread stone larsen
Please can Someone take a look at this code and see where I've gone wrong. I've used this in Flash 6 a million times, ported it to 7 and am having no luck. Ok I'm loading a send to friend MC into a _blank MC on the main stage for the actions on this would be, vemail is the variable, email is the

[Flashcoders] storing embedded font data in local shared objects(LSOs)?

2006-03-11 Thread Ken Fine
Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there's a manageable way to embed font data in an LSO (Flash local shared object) such that it can be stored on the user's machine and used by a movie? Or, perhaps someone can propose an alternate scheme so that embedded font data can be externalized and cach

Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Jonathan Berry
Rich, that sounds like something that I could use. Mastery and not just introductory stuff. The books I have read just go over the basic components, like list or scrollpane, not things like the datagrid or learning how to use a cellrenderer. Thanks again. On 3/11/06, Rich Rodecker <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
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Re: [Flashcoders] Stop the stream!

2006-03-11 Thread John Giotta
Is this in IE only? I've had the same thing, but only in IE. There still seems to be a audio "artifact" on some IE installs on 1 or 2 PCs in my office running Windows. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the

[Flashcoders] Some Computers Won't Stream MP3 in Flash/I.E.

2006-03-11 Thread Marc Hoffman
This is a follow-up on a previous post. I'm still having the problem, but now have more details. Really need help with this, so please read the following and let me know if you have ideas or solutions. Problem in brief: Where Flash uses a sound object to load and stream an MP3 file, no sound i

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread murder design
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Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
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Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
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Re: [Flashcoders] best flash actionscript book/reference

2006-03-11 Thread Alejandro Diaz
I second the recommendation to the Safari bookshelf service to get these. So far it has paid itself back multiple times. I pretty much keep Moock's Actionscript for Flash MX there constantly (although this one book takes up 2 of my 10 slots) for quick reference. So far the most useful bit is being

Re: [Flashcoders] advanced flash AS 2.0/3.0 book?

2006-03-11 Thread Jonathan Berry
Thanks for the reply, Karthik. I checked the archives and came up with 136 prior messages in relation to "advanced books" but none that were current, as in the last year or so. I noticed someone else just posted in relation to a book recommendation and got some good responses, so it would be great

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath problems with single character value nodes

2006-03-11 Thread Wade Arnold
Thanks Adrian for following up on this. We are having issues with parsing the content feed from the weather.com api. http://www.t8design.com/personal/chaitu/Weather/weather_proxy.php?id=USIA088 5 On 3/11/06 10:58 AM, "Adrian Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done some investigation on

RE: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Sacks
> New Media Designer Either you missed the memo or you're being funny. Let's hope it's the latter. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoder

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Karthik
> how does that help? i do that and just get spam to my gmailstill > have to deal with it. a) gmail's spam filters are excellent. b) You don't get it in your primary mailbox. -K ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription optio

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Rich Rodecker
> This list is archived online. I suggest that you use a gmail account > for all your lists. > how does that help? i do that and just get spam to my gmailstill have to deal with it. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription o

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading several images with one progressbar?

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian Park
Say you have 3 images loading, use something like this: var bytesLoaded:Number = 0; var bytesTotal:Number = 0; bytesLoaded += image1.getBytesLoaded(); bytesTotal += image1.getBytesTotal(); bytesLoaded += image2.getBytesLoaded(); bytesTotal += image2.getBytesTotal(); bytesLoaded += image3.getBytes

[Flashcoders] Loading several images with one progressbar?

2006-03-11 Thread Sascha Balkau
Hi, this is probably an old hat but I can't get it right. I want to display the load progress of several images with one progress bar. How do I calculate the percentage of the bar? Thanks alot, Sascha ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change

Re: [Flashcoders] Accordion Component

2006-03-11 Thread Mike Britton
Here's some code I snipped out of one of my apps that uses the accordion. I'm sure it can be simplified. var childWidth:Number = 300; var childHeight:Number = 200; main_ac.setSize(300,400); main_ac.createChild("View","latest",{label:" Posts"}); main_ac.createChild("View","latestComments",{label

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Mennenoh
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Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Mennenoh
Is the applicator like a popsicle stick? :) Nah. I imagine it has a soft, rounded, end. LOL. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders B

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath problems with single character value nodes

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian Park
I've done some investigation on nthis issue and found this... If you modify your path like this (note the /text() at the end) you should get the value correctly... var e = XPath.selectNodesAsString (this,"/weather/dayf/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'4']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'d']/icon/text()"); Interestingly, if

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Anggie Bratadinata
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Re: [Flashcoders] Help with Flash Environment / Processes

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Winterhalder
On 3/11/06, Pataluch, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello flashers, > > I am looking to setup a development environment for a few flash developers > and need some assistance. > > 1. What is a good app to use as a supplement to Flash 8 for action script > debugging? Simply using trace is quite

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread richard carr
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[Flashcoders] Help with Flash Environment / Processes

2006-03-11 Thread Pataluch, Tom
Hello flashers, I am looking to setup a development environment for a few flash developers and need some assistance. 1. What is a good app to use as a supplement to Flash 8 for action script debugging? Simply using trace is quite cumbersome compared to other programming IDE's. And the Flas

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Weyert de Boer
Magician in Art > On 11/03/06, murder design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hopefully next month my job title will be "flash designer". until then >> its >> waiter :P ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Yotam Laufer
New Media Whore ;) On 11/03/06, murder design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hopefully next month my job title will be "flash designer". until then its > waiter :P > ___ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionStep, help compiling examples.

2006-03-11 Thread Scott Hyndman
Actually, I'm going to give a quick answer here (but you should join our list): The calculator sample needs you to have the ActionStepLib swf compiled, as well as calculator.asml in the test subdirectory. So for the pathing to be correct, here's how it needs to look: Calculator.swf <- (This could

RE: [Flashcoders] ActionStep, help compiling examples.

2006-03-11 Thread Scott Hyndman
Please post this on the ActionStep list and we'll help you out. http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=130597 Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Smith Sent: March 11, 2006 4:54 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: [Flashcoders

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread murder design
Hopefully next month my job title will be "flash designer". until then its waiter :P ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath problems with single character value nodes

2006-03-11 Thread erixtekila
Le 11 mars 06, à 11:27, Adrian Park a écrit : I encountered exactly the same issue on the project I'm currently working on. I got around the problem by using XPath.selectNodes rather than XPath.selectNodesAsString. Please send a mail to XPath author to get this fixed. --- erixtekila h

Re: [Flashcoders] XPath problems with single character value nodes

2006-03-11 Thread Adrian Park
I encountered exactly the same issue on the project I'm currently working on. I got around the problem by using XPath.selectNodes rather than XPath.selectNodesAsString. Then I just used something like (continuing from your example): e = String( e.firstChild.nodeValue ); Not ideal but it got the

[Flashcoders] ActionStep, help compiling examples.

2006-03-11 Thread Aaron Smith
i'm having some troubles compiling the examples in 'test/src' I downloaded alpha 1 from actionstep site. I then followed the quickstart guide on OSFlash. I had everything already. except the ruby debugger.. but i'm not worrying about that until I can at least get these examples and something o

Re: [Flashcoders] What's your job title?

2006-03-11 Thread Gaia-Tek
New Media Designer Kirk Roberts wrote: Hello everybody, Here's a non-technical question: what is your job title? For a long time I've been telling people "Flash Developer", although that shortchanges the consultation and on-the-fly design I do. Also, people outside the industry have no

Re: [Flashcoders] preloader issue

2006-03-11 Thread Karthik
> well, the preloader does display load status, then simply repeats, instead > of deleting itself, it just repeats the loading ... any ideas??? i just want > the swf it loads to not play or start until it is fully loaded, and the > label_txt is deleted etc ... It is probably also wise to never use

Re: [Flashcoders] preloader issue

2006-03-11 Thread Byron Canfield
Not sure if anyone has responded yet -- my thread sorting is all screwed up. You cannot delete or terminate an onClipEvent(enterFrame) unless you delete the movieclp to which you have applied it, either by terminating it's existence on the timeline with an empty keyframe, or by swapping it to a "d

Re: [Flashcoders] Contaminated list?

2006-03-11 Thread Karthik
> How does this happen? Already, at an email address that I use ONLY for > this list, to which I have subscribed for just the upside of 3 weeks now, > I've received the following garbage (message header at end, for anyone > interested). This list is archived online. I suggest that you use a gmail

Re: [Flashcoders] The almighty duplicateMovieClip?

2006-03-11 Thread Byron Canfield
Well, no, to the first statement. There IS an answer, and the answer is... That is correct; that cannot be done. Duplicates are always generated in the same timeline as the original from which the duplicate is made. To assign a movieclip to a specific timeline, use attachMovie() attaching a libra