RE: [Flashcoders] Copy Paste into Firefox

2006-07-17 Thread Anthony Lee
Hi Jim, All, No worries, If it works in one version and not in another - it's up to you/theclient/company to decide which browsers you support. I'm the client, the end users are my clients, and I say not being able to copy and paste into Firefox bites!! This is obviously very important to my

[Flashcoders] Does your next RIA work in Firefox?

2006-07-17 Thread Anthony Lee
Hi, Sorry for starting a new thread on this but it seems important. Rich Internet Application development review 1) Get information for the punters 2) Do something sexy with it in Flash It's not all pushing buttons and typing. There's the clipboard... If your not building something to get data

RE: [Flashcoders] Output to Text File

2006-07-17 Thread Nick Weekes
Kelly, Did you decide on an approach to this? Id be interested to hear it. Cheers, Nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kelly snyder Sent: 11 July 2006 17:51 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Output to Text

[Flashcoders] Flex2 application HorizontalList with varying mx:text width

2006-07-17 Thread franto
Hi all, I know, this is Flash coders list, but many of you are working or jsut trying with new Flex2. i got 2 problems: 1) higer priority: I got HorizontalList with dataProvider which contains some Strings which can have varying length and I need to create itemRenderer (mx:Text, mx:Laberl,

[Flashcoders] FW: Flash Remoting on Flash 8

2006-07-17 Thread Rui Duarte Silva
Hi, I'm having a problem regarding Flash Remoting on Flash8. I've already posted a question before on this group, but received no answer that solved the problem (I'm hoping there is one that does :) ). Is there a way to isolate connection level errors and determine its type (HTTP10, HTTP500,

[Flashcoders] FLVPlayBack Component in Flash 8

2006-07-17 Thread vipin chandran
Hello All, I am using FLVPlayBack Component for my project. I have a doubt here. The fastforward and rewind button just takes the playhead to end and start of the movie respectively. I want the real ffwd and rwnd function for my video player. I am streaming from Flash Meda Server. Help me out

Re: [Flashcoders] as3: weird package problem

2006-07-17 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
The weird thing is: In the flash 9 as3 preview IDE, I tried it and it does work! I imported the Test class, set c:\classes\ as the root within the IDE, and the constructor simply traces 'jay'. So I guess the problem is the source-path setting in the XML.. Which is: source-path

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading issue: Downloading just stops without reason!

2006-07-17 Thread Éric Thibault
I've visited your site last week (or two) and it worked like a charm! But now, it just stops loading... Have you done any modifications in the loading sequence since then? Good luck! Éric. Marcelo de Moraes Serpa a écrit : Hi Keith. Have you looked at the site? Did it load ok for you?

[Flashcoders] mirror effect using bitmapdata and matrix

2006-07-17 Thread Peter O'Brien
Hi coders, I am trying to get a mirror effect to work. The effect has a number of x and y reflections in a set sized mc (this case a 240x180), which is intended to result in a tiled effect (the more reflections the smaller the tile) Senoculars tutorial on the matrix is pretty comprehensive but

[Flashcoders] Multiplayer and LAG!

2006-07-17 Thread iestyn lloyd
Hey all, I might be working on a multiplayer game at some point in the future, and i'm wondering how you guys have dealt with lag? Obviously its not just the users net connection, but also the fact that flash can run rather slowly on some machines.. Anyone here dealt with this problem before?

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiplayer and LAG!

2006-07-17 Thread Jobe Makar
Hi iestyn, How you deal with lag can depend on the type of game you're creating. What, in a nutshell, are you going to be creating? Turn-based versust real-time is the first big question to be answered. I've programmed over 50 multiplayer games and would be happy to provide some insight

RE: [Flashcoders] Multiplayer and LAG!

2006-07-17 Thread dan
I built some multiplayer game swith flash com And the best thing I can say Build you game ona turn base instead of realtime Tun base'd games the lag dosent matter :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of iestyn lloyd Sent: Monday, July 17,

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiplayer and LAG!

2006-07-17 Thread iestyn lloyd
On 7/17/06, Jobe Makar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi iestyn, How you deal with lag can depend on the type of game you're creating. What, in a nutshell, are you going to be creating? Turn-based versust real-time is the first big question to be answered. I've programmed over 50 multiplayer games

Re: [Flashcoders] Loading issue: Downloading just stops without reason!

2006-07-17 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Hi Éric.. that´s what I wanna find out... I don´t remember having done any modifications since then, at least not on the preloader... however, what I would really love to know is why the preloading **just stops** as you said :( Marcelo. On 7/17/06, Éric Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

[Flashcoders] the height of a dynamic textfield

2006-07-17 Thread MetaArt
How can I retrieve the height of a dynamic textfield, created runtime, with 'autoSize' set to true ('left')? I need this value dynamically, to assign it as variable for other actions, and the textfield can load text with different lenght... * Enrico Tomaselli * web designer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] as3: weird package problem

2006-07-17 Thread John Giotta
This same problem had me puzzled too. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized

[Flashcoders] problem displaying text in dynamic text box with embeded fonts in flash 8

2006-07-17 Thread Jeanna Lievsasy
This is frustrating... I've got several dynamic text boxes that pull in text from my .txt file just fine until i embed the font. Anyone know what is up with that and how to fix the problem. I've found several threads talking about the same problem but no solutions that i understand. I would

Re: [Flashcoders] the height of a dynamic textfield

2006-07-17 Thread Matthias Dittgen
Hi Enrico, the best working solution I know, is to encapsulate the textfield into a MovieClip. Then you insert your text into the textfield and afterwards you determine the height of the MovieClip. Have fun, Matthias remark: I think, this is one of the questions that is asked all the time and

Re: [Flashcoders] problem displaying text in dynamic text box with embeded fonts in flash 8

2006-07-17 Thread Marc Hoffman
Are you using html text? If so, are you embedding the font for each face (regular, bold, and italic)? A simple way to do that is to create a dummy text field for each font face required, embed the necessary characters, and check the text field for bold or italic as needed. If that's not the

RE: [Flashcoders] the height of a dynamic textfield

2006-07-17 Thread Palmer, Jim
I found this bit http://www.overset.com/?p=1 from the stock mx.controls.gridclasses code that finds the height rather well. -- Jim Palmer ! Mammoth Web Operations -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Sacks | BLITZ Sent: Monday, July

[Flashcoders] AMFPHP: CrossDomain

2006-07-17 Thread Ashwan Wadhwa
Hello, I am working on a project where the data is read/written to another web server for which AMFPHP is being deployed, everything works perfectly when running off the local machine. However when I host this on a separate server I keep getting Macromedia Flash Security Sandbox warning. I did go

RE: [Flashcoders] In the List Component how to add more than one iconin one item (eg. Yahoo Messenger's Address Book)

2006-07-17 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
Write your own, don't use the component. BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santhakumar K Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:25 PM To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] the height of a dynamic textfield

2006-07-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
Wait for it to load first. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organization Effectiveness - Technology Solutions -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MetaArt Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 2:12 PM To: Flashcoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Copy Paste into Firefox

2006-07-17 Thread Palmer, Jim
Tony, This still seems odd, the http://dozo.jp/paste_test.php example works fine on my XP+FF1.5.0.4 I'll test this on more machines here. -- Jim Palmer ! Mammoth Web Operations (work) 760.934.2571 x3233 ! (cell) 518.331.2688 ! (home) 760.709.0119 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Flashcoders] Multiplayer and LAG!

2006-07-17 Thread Jeremy Rodgers
I came across this article a while ago, still relevant although not specific to Flash/FMS: http://mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html On 7/17/06, iestyn lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/17/06, Jobe Makar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi iestyn, How you deal with lag can depend on

[Flashcoders] Flash Query String More Problems

2006-07-17 Thread Sunnrunner
Hello, I'm having a problem with my menu item labels showing up. Here is my code below the link. I tried url encoding it but, no luck. The problem is random but, consistently on the same buttons if that makes sense. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, passing parameters into flash should not be

RE: [Flashcoders] First attempts at wirting code in AS2

2006-07-17 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
You need to declare your class variables before you use them: class GameObject extends MovieClip { var little_stars_mc:MovieClip; var game_number:Number; function GameObject() { game_number = 1; little_stars_mc.gotoAndStop(game +

Re: [Flashcoders] call JS-Method from SWF in hidden div on IE

2006-07-17 Thread David Fischer
Hi Kevin, after several test i can confirm your previously mentioned behaviour, but haven't found a workaround though. Thanks for your information! David Kevin Newman wrote: In my experience with trying to work out a magic fix for the eolas patent

Re: [Flashcoders] In the List Component how to add more than one icon in one item (eg. Yahoo Messenger's Address Book)

2006-07-17 Thread eric dolecki
Use a custom cellRenderer. You can find oodles of information on that in the archives of this list, google, and flash developer sites. I assume you mean something like this: http://www.ericd.net/new_css/ on the right side, the middle list box and its various icons shown there. On 7/14/06,

[Flashcoders] Wierd animated text trailing effect issue

2006-07-17 Thread Geoffrey Holland
Hello, I am working on a dynamic presentation generator which allows for user generated SWF content authored by a console, external XML files, and compiled by using swfmill and mtasc. The user can define animations on textfields, along with changing fonts, sizes, etc. The problem I'm

[Flashcoders] JumpEye Accordian Tree Pro - Anyone know what options are available?

2006-07-17 Thread Mendizabal
Hey All, So I have a project that I am using Jumpeye's Accordion Tree Menu component to display the menu. I have knocked it around a bit, but the set doesn't come with much instruction to speak of and if it does it's in broken English. Does anyone know what options are available? Or if there is a

Re: [Flashcoders] Output to Text File

2006-07-17 Thread Adrian Park
Nick, I know you asked Kelly but, in case it's interesting to you, I have completed the project I was working on using Zinc. It is a kiosk application in which I needed to capture user data from a form in Flash and append it to a text file for collection later. Zinc made this an absolute breeze!

RE: [Flashcoders] call JS-Method from SWF in hidden div on IE

2006-07-17 Thread Bernard Visscher
You could try a width and height of 0px and the overflow set to hidden. I don't know if all browsers will accept 0px for the width or height, therefor I made a simple js example: script language=javascript type=text/javascript function hideDiv(divId) { var d =

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP: CrossDomain

2006-07-17 Thread Count Schemula
crossdomain.xml goes in the webserver root of the server with the flash file. I had problems with it recently as well, it was not easy to troubleshoot, so, I can offer no other hints. On 7/17/06, Ashwan Wadhwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am working on a project where the data is

Re: [Flashcoders] AMFPHP: CrossDomain

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Britton
To skirt this issue, I use AMFPHP proxy classes on my swf's host server to talk to other servers or snap up RSS files. Not sure about filesystem stuff though. It seems like that would be a security issue on the backend as well as the front! Feel free to mail me offlist if you want to check out

RE: [Flashcoders] Output to Text File

2006-07-17 Thread Nick Weekes
Adrian/Eric, Thanks for the info. I need to build quite a large RIA soon (it will be a flex app, but for the purposes of this discussion the gui will be a series of swf's) that requires extensive local machine/local network access (and this needs to be released prior to Apollo). I understand

RE: [Flashcoders] Output to Text File

2006-07-17 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
And I feel happy using mProjector from Binary Noise, a wrapper written with a Flash developer in mind from the ground up. The API is second to none and the performance and stability is unmatched, IMO. BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] Output to Text File

2006-07-17 Thread eric dolecki
Zinc looks awesome on the outside. The app is nice looking, the APIs look to be really deep extensive. However I have found it to be quite buggy On 7/17/06, Nick Weekes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian/Eric, Thanks for the info. I need to build quite a large RIA soon (it will be a flex app,

Re: [Flashcoders] Yahoo! Maps api

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin Newman
This is a known problem with the current version of the mxp file (3.02). You can work around the problem by using the whole classname. so instead of: import com.yahoo.maps.widgets.NavigatorWidget; var foo:NavigatorWidget = new NavigatorWidget('closed'); use: var

Re: [Flashcoders] amf-php, AS2, mysql, and multilanguage website

2006-07-17 Thread Anthony Lee
Hi all, can someone put a step by step guide about what are the correct steps to have a front(in flash) that connects to a MySql with AMFPHP Lots of good information at: http://www.sephiroth.it http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/ http://amfphp.org Flash player uses UTF-8 so you shouldn't have

Re: [Flashcoders] as3: weird package problem

2006-07-17 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
haha, ok well at least I'm not the only one. Question is: What is the solution?? I can't imagine beeing the only one wondering bout this.. On 7/17/06, John Giotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This same problem had me puzzled too. ___

[Flashcoders] Scrollpane and masking

2006-07-17 Thread Haikal Saadh
Hi all. Having some problems with the v2 scrollpane. I'm trying to pick up where this post: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/htdig/flashcoders/2005-January/128299.html leaves off. Basically, the content 'outside' my scroll pane is not being masked off, and by reading the post above,

RE: [Flashcoders] Scrollpane and masking

2006-07-17 Thread Steven Sacks | BLITZ
How is your movie built? Is the scrollpane component in a loaded in swf? If so, you must have the scrollpane component in the library of the root/loading swf. Do you have the scrollpane embedded in another component? Do you have the scrollpane masked?