RE: [Flashcoders] Junior Developer Flash/Flex Salary?

2006-06-22 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
Commercial experience is totally different to working experience. I've 7 years professional commercial experience in Flash, 3 years commercial experience in .NET, 7 years in SQL Server, 2 years in Oracle, have been director twice plus have a huge list of other abilities, and all I can get is

[Flashcoders] Muting a flash video stream

2006-06-22 Thread Elvin Tan
Hi Guys, Adding mute buttons to some of my applications, got it working fine for mp3/sound objects. I've a simple video streaming solution from FMS - Flash Client. Here's the code snippet. nc1.showVideo = function(video) { ns1= new NetStream(nc1);

RE: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Mike Mountain
OK this sounds really daft and I'm sure you've probably checked - but your text field isn't set to single line is it? Or no wrapping? M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Sent: 21 June 2006 19:04 To: Flashcoders mailing list

[Flashcoders] the Function class and messing with it

2006-06-22 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
Hi folks, In common javascript it's possible to alert a function and 'see' the function as it is. function test(){ alert(A); } Prints out in javascript excactly as it is, in actionscript you get '[Type Function]'. Is there any way to somehow to see the internals of a function in

Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Mick G
The Bold and Italic versions of the fonts will need to be embedded. This is usually the problem I forget :) On 6/22/06, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK this sounds really daft and I'm sure you've probably checked - but your text field isn't set to single line is it? Or no wrapping?

Re: [Flashcoders] [Ann] The world's largest Flex Application

2006-06-22 Thread Arul Prasad M L
thanks Chris. ~Arul Prasad On 6/22/06, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FlexDaddy ( http://www.flexdaddy.info/2006/06/19/afr-access-one-of-the-largest-public-flex-apps-to-date/ ) ttalks about it. Unfortunately, no recording will be made. On 6/21/06, Arul Prasad M L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Importing JPG into flash using JSFL

2006-06-22 Thread Aron Woost
The importing you can do with this tool: http://blog.springworks.de/?p=5 http://blog.springworks.de/?p=3 On 6/22/06, hidayath q [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to import a jpg files into flash files.since its a repeated work which i want to do this for more than 100 files.i opt

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread stacey
Depends on your knowledge level too CF is dead easy to pick up - you can easily learn to create a CFC in no time. The class based structure of PHP when creating a service throws a couple people off in terms of scope resolution So depending on your background if you know neither language,

Re: [Flashcoders] the Function class and messing with it

2006-06-22 Thread janosch
Hello, in AS2 this is not possible, Functions are compiled, local variable names get lost, so in the final flash movie, the function does not exist the way, you coded it. Don't know about AS3 ... Janosch Meinte van't Kruis schrieb: Hi folks, In common javascript it's possible to

Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
I have a htmlText field that won't seem to recognize breaks or paragraph tags, however renders b, i, etc. Any Idea what I could be doing wrong? If you do: htmlText = pLine 1/ppLine 2/ppLine 3/p; The TextField will render like this: Line 1Line 2Line 3 And the actual htmlText would be: P

RE: [Flashcoders] the Function class and messing with it

2006-06-22 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
AS3 will have the same result... It's compiled also. Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of janosch Sent: 22 June 2006 11:30 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] the Function class and messing with it Hello, in AS2

RE: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
Why not use br/ tags to keep things consistent? Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Kawamoto Sent: 22 June 2006 11:47 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render I have a htmlText field

Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Mick G
My answer was so very off subject ;) sorry. The only way I can replicate that problem is if the textfield is single line instead of double - otherwise your first code works fine for me. On 6/22/06, Lee McColl-Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use br/ tags to keep things consistent?

Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
Why not use br/ tags to keep things consistent? Lee It's the same. If you do: htmlText = Line 1br /Line 2br /Line 3; It renders like: Line 1Line 2Line 3 To the original poster; the other way to get it work is: multiline = true; htmlText = Line 1br /Line 2br /Line 3; // or htmlText =

RE: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Lee McColl-Sylvester
I agree, but consistency is king imho :-D Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Kawamoto Sent: 22 June 2006 12:13 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render Why not use br/ tags to keep

Re: [Flashcoders] the Function class and messing with it

2006-06-22 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
ok, thx! sounds pretty logical, come to think of it :) Somewhere I hoped the Function class would be some kind of help, but alas. On 6/22/06, Lee McColl-Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS3 will have the same result... It's compiled also. Lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] brp won't render

2006-06-22 Thread Sam
Yes, that was the problem. thanks On Jun 22, 2006, at 5:01 AM, Mike Mountain wrote: OK this sounds really daft and I'm sure you've probably checked - but your text field isn't set to single line is it? Or no wrapping? M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Muting a flash video stream

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Neave
I think attachAudio(false) is wrong syntax, you should pass in a movieclip... check out the help for an example: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/2438.html Paul. On 22/06/06, Elvin Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, Adding mute buttons to some of my applications, got it

Re: [Flashcoders] Sample PHP script for handling XML from Flash

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Allen
On 6/21/06, matt stuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, with most of our work, we develop an RIA for a client, who handles the back-end themselves. So, we develop our apps so that they send and receive XML, which means the client can use whatever they want in the backend: asp, asp.net,

AW: [Flashcoders] Communication between two swfs?

2006-06-22 Thread Peter Oliver Geller
Hi Jobe, your Server works and my application too :] I think i will contact you next time to buy a 50 or 100 user license. Thanks Peter :: Peter Oliver Geller virtual effects artist interactive design development Ricarda-Huch-Str. 7 50858

[Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-22 Thread Danny Kodicek
I've noticed a post about this in the archives, but it was described as a Mac issue and I'm getting it on a PC. I'm trying to use TextFormat.getTextExtent() to do some image calculations, but I'm getting enormous values. I suspect it's because my text includes newline characters, but that's

Re: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-22 Thread Danny Kodicek
I've noticed a post about this in the archives, but it was described as a Mac issue and I'm getting it on a PC. I'm trying to use TextFormat.getTextExtent() to do some image calculations, but I'm getting enormous values. I suspect it's because my text includes newline characters, but that's

Re: [Flashcoders] help

2006-06-22 Thread Gustavo Duenas
well Richard as far as I know, the code involved in the flash site you've mentioned before is kind of regular code not too brainy, I guess your very brave challenge to faced into is the animations and the quality of the photos, and also the kind of design involved. I hope to be helpful for

Re: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-22 Thread janosch
Hello, i always use textfield.autoSize, and it works fine. But you have to be carefull, to set the correct styles to the textfield, before measuring. Janosch Danny Kodicek schrieb: I've noticed a post about this in the archives, but it was described as a Mac issue and I'm getting it

[Flashcoders] Physics Engine?

2006-06-22 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi folks, Does anyone know if there's an Actionscript (preferably AS2) physics engine out there other than Flade? Thanks, Ian ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
But unless I am totally wrong, AMFPHP wasn't out of beta until recently. And it isn't officially supported by Adobe/MM, or if it is, it wasn't until recently. CF is. Macromedia doesn't support free technologies that are in direct competition with their technologies. Why would they? If you

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Watts
ColdFusion is a way for inexperienced coders to code middleware. CF is nowhere near as good as .NET, PHP, Java or Ruby. If you know how to code, don't waste your time with CF and dive right in to one of the far better middleware solutions (Ruby on Rails anyone?). I would take issue

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Mick G
Macromedia doesn't support free technologies that are in direct competition with their technologies. Why would they? I always wondered why MM support PHP in Dreamweaver but refuse to do so for Flash with a PHP remoting. You can build a fully blown database driven site in Dreamweaver (allbeit

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
. I've worked with ASP.NET and Java, and for most web applications, I think CF has significant advantages over both of them. And as hot as RoR is right now, it's a hard sell in the enterprise and CF isn't. I can't speak for Ruby, but unfortunately I've found CF is a much harder sell over .NET

[Flashcoders] Alternate row color (Modulo Operator)

2006-06-22 Thread Sajid Saiyed
Hi, I have a question about using Modulo Operator. I can easily do an Odd / Even using i%2 !=0 Where i can be any supllied number. My question is, I have a list of movieclips (arranged one below another). I want to use 4 different colours to differentiate them. So, list items 1, 5, 9, ...

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Watts
I can't speak for Ruby, but unfortunately I've found CF is a much harder sell over .NET only because of the cost, whereas a lot of enterprises already have the infrastructure set up to handle .NET applications so they've essentially already paid for it. Plus, cost aside, convincing the

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Weyert de Boer
It's even hard to convince my dad to install Ruby on our webservers. Don't that I really /care/ about Ruby either,I don't really like the syntax of it. I would prefer Python over Ruby for sure. But I would use .NET anytime where possible. The problem I mainly have with CF is that it needs a

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Watts
I thought Bank of America was a flagship CF environment! http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestud ydetailcasestudyid=98723loc=en_us http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/proven/ But anyway, at this point I'm pretty much off-topic, so this'll be my last response

RE: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
I thought Bank of America was a flagship CF environment! Bank of America has over 172,000 employees - so you can imagine we have more than one server and more than one server admin. :) I haven't heard CF mentioned once, but I've only been here 2 months. You sent those Adobe links - that doesn't

RE: [Flashcoders] getTextExtent weirdness

2006-06-22 Thread Ville Walveranta
I was recently working on a project where .getTextExtent() would have come handy, but like for others, it did not work for me. I dropped the issue at that time, but have been thinking of trying to create an auto-size field off the stage with the same text style parameters as the textInput

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Sajid Saiyed
I prefer PHP with Flash. I find many PHP functions very easy to do the job that could take a while doing within Flash. I also feel PHP has a much larger support community. -- Sajid On 6/22/06, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Bank of America was a flagship CF environment!

[Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Stuhr
i don't know much about https:// but does anyone know a way to connect flash to this ? preffered a php way. much more preffered a native way ? micha ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread Weyert de Boer
Michael Stuhr wrote: i don't know much about https:// but does anyone know a way to connect flash to this ? I think this hsould just work fine, because the browser does all the heavy lifting, downloading wise. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

Re: [Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Stuhr
Weyert de Boer schrieb: Michael Stuhr wrote: i don't know much about https:// but does anyone know a way to connect flash to this ? I think this hsould just work fine, because the browser does all the heavy lifting, downloading wise. ___

Re: [Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread David Rorex
What problem are you having with connections over SSL? I've used it many times, (for loadvars, for loadmovie, etc), and never had to do anything extra, it just works. You might have some trouble, if you load some files from http:// and some files from https://, there are a bunch of security

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternate row color (Modulo Operator)

2006-06-22 Thread André Goliath
You are in modulo 4 here: 4 Categories - 0, 1, 2, or 3 as possible modulo results -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sajid Saiyed Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:54 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Alternate

RE: [Flashcoders] Alternate row color (Modulo Operator)

2006-06-22 Thread Mike
In a class, like so: public static var ITEM_COLORS:Array = [0xFF, 0x00FF00, 0xFF, 0xFF]; // (or whichever colors) // assuming property countItem is the number of items // and the method getItem retrieves an item with a color property private function colorItems():Void { for (var

Re: [Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Stuhr
David Rorex schrieb: What problem are you having with connections over SSL? I've used it many times, (for loadvars, for loadmovie, etc), and never had to do anything extra, it just works. the flash part resits outside of https. You might have some trouble, if you load some files from http://

[Flashcoders] Mask over XML Text Flash 8

2006-06-22 Thread Matt Mc
Hello All, Can someone point me to a tutorial regarding masking XML in flash8 I am trying to make it look like the text box is closing. But when using masks the xml does not draw at all. I have looked at many great tutorials regarding masking in 8 using embeded text and so on.

Re: [Flashcoders] Mask over XML Text Flash 8

2006-06-22 Thread Brett Wagner
Are you embedding the fonts properly for you dynamic text field. That is often the culprit. Matt Mc wrote: Hello All, Can someone point me to a tutorial regarding masking XML in flash8 I am trying to make it look like the text box is closing. But when using masks the xml does not

Re: [Flashcoders] Good component sets? (was: Re: XP Components gonebad)

2006-06-22 Thread judah
While not trying to pimp my own stuff I'd like to add http://drumbeatinsight.com to the list. It is a small set of components that covers what I think were missing most from the V2 components. They work with all the V2 components, extend them and fixes what I considered were the main problems

[Flashcoders] XMLSocket: load policy file and connect to port 80

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Nisi
Hi, we have socket server running port 80, I need get a policy file through: System.security.loadPolicyFile(xmlsocket://213.32.122.227:80); The following class does work offline, but not online. How am I supposed to debug this, as the System method to load the policy file has no callback. Has

Re: [Flashcoders] Alternate row color (Modulo Operator)

2006-06-22 Thread Sajid Saiyed
Perfect, Mike this worked. Thanks a lot. On 6/23/06, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a class, like so: public static var ITEM_COLORS:Array = [0xFF, 0x00FF00, 0xFF, 0xFF]; // (or whichever colors) // assuming property countItem is the number of items // and the method getItem

Re: [Flashcoders] Best Flash data access way opinions

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Nisi
Rails and JSON (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/JSON+Webservice+Plugin) -- because it's fun and your backend isn't bound to flash. Regards, Michael On 6/22/06, Sajid Saiyed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer PHP with Flash. I find many PHP functions very easy to do the job that could

Re: [Flashcoders] XMLSocket: load policy file and connect to port 80

2006-06-22 Thread Jobe Makar
Hi Michael, I have experience with this. Below I show you how to test via telnet. It looks like you aren't serving up the policy file. You can test this via telnet. For instance, on Windows: 1) Click Start Run , enter 'cmd' and hit ENTER 2) type the following and hit ENTER telnet

[Flashcoders] Export frame option disabled

2006-06-22 Thread Mike Boutin
Hey everyone, Im creating a preloader and I notice that it doesnt start until about 90% done loading the file. I believe this is because my ui components are exported to the first frame. I tried unchecking export to first frame with no difference. I also tried changing the actionscript

Re: [Flashcoders] Sample PHP script for handling XML from Flash

2006-06-22 Thread matt stuehler
All, I don't know if anyone's following this thread or would find this useful, but thanks to the pointers I received from Jim, I've been able to cobble together a few PHP scripts that do what I need them to. If anyone wants to see them, send me an email to let me know. I can't promise that

RE: [Flashcoders] webservice - https and flash

2006-06-22 Thread Tom Lee
I share the opinion that it's best to test web service connectivity outside the IDE. HTTPS problems are also one of the reasons why I don't use the Web Service components that ship with Flash. The safest bet is to do your testing from a development server in the same network environment as your

RE: [Flashcoders] Export frame option disabled

2006-06-22 Thread Mike
Are you basing the percentage on the frames loaded (100 * _framesloaded / _totalframes) or bytes loaded (100 * getBytesLoaded() / getBytesTotal())? You should be doing the latter. If you are then ... um *tags someone else* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Muting a flash video stream

2006-06-22 Thread Josh Santangelo
This is in the initial setup of a video player I've made: __video = __videoHolder.__video; __nc = new NetConnection(); __nc.connect(null); __ns = new NetStream(__nc); __video.attachVideo(__ns);